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Mmmm hamburger so good. Hamburger so good.
It’s unclear what the price will be for a James Harden trade this offseason, but a James Harden promo has a going rate of four hamburgers.

James Harden really posted a promotion in exchange for 4 Hamburgers.. pic.twitter.com/znNewLPf6d
— CBain☀️ (@cbain100) July 23, 2023

Legendary Houston rapper Bun B was at the club over the weekend promoting his restaurant Trill Burgers, when none other than Harden stepped into frame a grabbed a stack.

I absolutely get this in my soul.

For the first time in 18 months, Odell Beckham Jr. is set to play professional football as the Ravens open training camp this week. The veteran wide receiver tore his ACL during the Super Bowl in 2022, and he missed all of last season recovering from the injury.
Following a long and winding free agency saga, Beckham said he is thrilled to finally return to the field.
“I’m excited. I’m excited. It’s been a long time having to sit out and watch other people and not get to play,” Beckham said, via the Ravens team website. “I’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time.

First, it was Lionel Messi joining the MLS, and now it’s a reported record-breaking offer for French soccer star Kylian Mbappé that’s set the sports world on fire. According to Front Office Sports, Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal has made a world-record offer to acquire the 24-year-old star from Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain.
Per the report, the package is worth a total of $1.

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Josh Harris has long eyed NFL ownership. It’s obviously a big part of why he followed the path Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and Panthers owner David Tepper blazed, in buying a minority share of the Steelers in 2020 before becoming a controlling owner elsewhere. So it’d be pretty hard to characterize his swing-and-miss on the Broncos in ’22 as a win.
But a year later, it sure feels that way for the 58-year-old titan of private equity.

Brian Harman lifted the Claret Jug and now we get to wait 262 days until the next major championship. Great, awesome.
The year’s final major championship wasn’t exactly thrilling, but the idea that it was a completely boring snoozefest isn’t accurate, plus, it’s a bit disrespectful toward Harman’s dominance at Hoylake.
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Speaking of major championships, there is one clear-cut favorite that stood above the rest from both an entertainment and historical standpoint.

The Detroit Lions are a trendy team heading into the 2023-24 NFL season. After starting last year 1-6, the Lions won eight of their last ten games and narrowly missed the playoffs. Thanks to that hot finish, expectations are high for the team this year. Head coach Dan Campbell is concerned those expectations are little TOO high.
“I think it’s always the thing that’s going to worry you is the hype train,” Campbell said. “This thing is just taking off and is out-of-control right now.

1. I love the smell of hypocrisy first thing in the morning.
New York Post columnist Phil Mushnick ripped WFAN’s morning show, Boomer and Gio, over the weekend, but there was one teeny, tiny problem.
It seems Mushnick was upset that Gregg Giannotti and Jerry Recco, filling in for Boomer Esiason that day, picked up on it and had some laughs about a ridiculous story regarding men in the Hamptons getting penis injections so they’d look better in shorts and bathing suits.

Umpires aren’t the only ones in baseball whose difficult judgement calls have a big impact on the game. Official scorers hold a lot of power over players’ stats by deciding the difference between hits and errors, singles and doubles and so on. It’s an inexact science, so it’s always bound to spark arguments. 
In Sunday’s game against the Pirates, Angels shortstop Andrew Velazquez failed to field a ball hit to him. It was ruled a hit, but it sure looked like an error. 
Pirates second baseman Nick Gonzales hit a line drive right at Velazquez, who couldn’t field it cleanly.

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Where is the French superstar headed next after PSG?
UPDATE: Paris Saint-Germain have accepted Al-Hilal’s $330 million bid for Kylian Mbappe, and given him permission to speak to Mbappe.
The Kylian Mbappe era at French club Paris Saint-Germain is pretty much over.

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Jordan’s reign of mediocrity with the Hornets is finally over.
Michael Jordan is no longer the governor of the Charlotte Hornets. On Sunday night the NBA Board of Governors owners approved the sale of the Hornets to a group led by Rick Schnall and Gabe Plotkin — a venture capitalist and hedge fund manager, who will now take ownership of the team with a surreal group of investors which includes country music star Eric Church and rapper J. Cole, both of whom are from North Carolina.