MLB took over San Diego Padres broadcasts Wednesday after Diamond Sports reportedly missed a payment.
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Who were our big winners and losers from season 3?
We said goodbye to AFC Richmond this week with Ted Lasso’s tearful, perfect finale. This was one of the greatest sports shows of all time, which was only really tangentially about sports.
Before season three began we took a company-wide poll to rank the characters from Ted Lasso. If you’d like to go back and read our justifications you can find that post here, but today we’re looking at who shocked us so much (for good and bad) that they no longer have a good fit in the overall rankings.
It’s good to be involved with San Diego State athletics these days. With the likes of UCF and Cincinnati bound for the Big 12, there are few programs left in the Group of 5 that seem like their trajectory is pointing in a more upward direction. They are the belle of the ball in this current realignment round, continuing with the Pac-12 and Big 12 in a cold war over the future of the sport.
As Big 12 leaders convened in West Virginia this week for their annual meetings, you can bet further expansion was at least discussed, and such talks likely involved the Aztecs.
Colorado Avalanche forward Valeri Nichushkin left the team for personal reasons during their opening-round loss to the Seattle Kraken. However, it soon emerged that there may have been more to the story.
The Avalanche were staying at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seattle and just ahead of Game 3 on April 22, police arrived onsite in response to a crisis call.
This came after team personnel reportedly discovered an intoxicated woman in Nichushkin’s room.
Being an NBA mascot is not a bad gig whatsoever. Not only are they practically beloved by every fan inside the arena, but they also get paid incredibly well, apparently.
A recent report from Sports Illustrated has laid out the details of the NBA’s highest-paid mascots and the money they pull in is quite staggering.
Rocky, the mascot of the Denver Nuggets, tops the list with an annual salary of $625,000. That’s not bad for a middle-of-the-pack market team that wasn’t exactly in the national spotlight until the playoffs began.
The Big 12 will look much different this time next year, but the conference is still raking in a junk of money for member schools. As Texas and Oklahoma prepare for its final season with the conference, the future continues to look bright for the conference. Will they add Deion Sanders and Colorado?
It was a bit strange seeing AD’s representing the Longhorns and Sooners at SEC meetings this week, but the Big 12 is still chugging along.
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Nine games would line the SEC’s pockets with more money while strengthening each teams’ cases for the new CFP. So why aren’t they doing it?
I never knew that the S and C in SEC stood for Scared Competition.
With powerhouses Texas and Oklahoma coming into the SEC next year, the annual coaches’ meeting in Destin was a chance to revise things such as the schedule and divisions for the season following this upcoming one. There were some small changes made, but otherwise, it was kind of slow. Except for this.
The Nuggets won — and covered — Game 1 of the NBA Finals against the Heat behind yet another Nikola Jokić triple double, his ninth of the postseason.
A fourth-quarter push by Miami made things interesting but Denver still prevailed, 103-94, to cover the 9-point spread in the series opener. The Nuggets are 8.5-point favorites for Sunday’s Game 2 at Ball Arena, where they are undefeated in the playoffs.
Nuggets star Nikola Jokić kicked off the NBA Finals with a smooth 27 point, 14 assist, 10 rebound triple-double as Denver beat Miami 104–93 to take a 1–0 series lead.
As he has done throughout the season and into the playoffs, Jokić was seen after the game pointing to his palm in a gesture to his young daughter Ognjena in the stands, a gesture that she gave back to him before he walked off the floor.
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Multitasking at 160 miles per hour…
We’ve talked a lot already this Formula 1 season about how Max Verstappen is, well, a little insane.
We’ve highlighted how he rarely blinks, something that Red Bull themselves have played up during the course of this early F1 season. We’ve also discussed his dominance on the track, something that Verstappen himself addressed at Thursday’s press conferences ahead of the 2023 Spanish Grand Prix.
But the next example, from Friday’s practice sessions in Barcelona, might be the best yet.