Welcome to a Labor Day edition of MMPS — where all is right with the world. Kyle Larson is back on top of NASCAR, Bubba Wallace is mentally weak and Ryan Blaney is angry as all get-out.
After months of Chris Buescher weirdly winning every other week and Chase Elliott being a bum, order is somewhat restored in the NASCAR world. And right in time for the playoffs, too!
OK, fine. I’m being a bit dramatic. Bubba Wallace actually ran a good race last night, but he was called out pretty viciously this past week.
Author: Michael
The stage is set. A week after Zach Johnson made his six captain’s picks for the U.S. Ryder Cup team, European captain Luke Donald followed suit on Monday morning to round out his 12-man squad ahead of this year’s event at Marco Simone in Rome, Italy.
The European team’s automatic qualifiers are as follows: Rory McIlroy, Jon Rahm, Viktor Hovland, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Tyrrell Hatton, and Robert MacIntyre. It’s an incredibly strong group of six that should make for some epic battles with the American top six later this month.
It’s always enticing when the idea of two or three NBA superstars teaming up gets tossed around. But more often than not, it’s either unrealistic, nearly impossible, or highly improbable. Prior to the Celtics signing Jaylen Brown to a record five-year, $304 million contract extension, they could have been a potential landing spot for Damian Lillard.
But after Brown’s new contract? The outlook on a possible Lillard trade went from very unlikely to almost impossible.
Deion Sanders is anything but conventional. And apparently, the new Colorado coach got rid of an age-old football tradition and replaced it with something much more fitting for “Prime Time.”
Sanders doesn’t have any captains on his team, so no players don the coveted “C” on their jerseys. Instead, players were seen with a “D” or an “L” where the captain insignia would usually go during the team’s 45–42 upset win over TCU on Saturday. Apparently, Sanders has named certain players to be “Dawgs” or “Leaders,” Buffaloes assistant athletic director Curtis Snyder said.
Kyle Larson’s win at Darlington aside, several other past NASCAR Cup champs are playing the unfamiliar role of underdog in the playoffs.
The chatter about Colorado’s roster turnover under Deion Sanders has overshadowed the job he and his coaching staff have done going into their Week 2 matchup with Nebraska.
The last question I had for Jalen Hurts elicited the shortest, and maybe most interesting, answer he’d give me. For a few minutes, after the Eagles’ joint practice with the Colts, the quarterback and I had talked about his progress, his background, and where he and Philadelphia are headed, coming off an NFC championship and Super Bowl loss in 2022.
Last year, Russell Wilson and the Broncos were the offseason darlings. We know how that went. Be careful with these teams, which could follow in those ugly footsteps.
Which team will be much worse than we expect this season?
The video of the Lions’ war room before drafting Jahmyr Gibbs with the No. 12 pick went viral this offseason and fans immediately began to read into what this meant for Detroit. The franchise landed the Alabama tailback after a 2022 season where its offense was one of the best in the NFL, leading the sports world to speculate just how much better the team would be.
And on Sunday, Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson hinted that the team would be getting a bit creative with their new weapon.