A Pittsburgh Pirates prospect has revealed his wife’s startling battle with a blood disease after a rabid raccoon attacked her.
Travis Swaggerty is an outfielder in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. On Wednesday, he took to Twitter to discuss his wife Peyton’s battle with an “extremely rare, painful blood disease that has completely taken over her body.”
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Former college football and NFL head coach Urban Meyer is not a fan of NIL collectives having such an impact on college athletics. He made that stance clear during a chat Thursday with OutKick’s Dan Dakich.
The word ‘collective’ wasn’t mentioned in the world of college athletics a handful of years ago, but now, if your school doesn’t have a collective with plenty of funding then they’re falling behind.
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After the Celtics fell into a 3–0 hole against the Heat in the Eastern Conference finals, one that the team nearly dug itself out of, team governor Wyc Grousbeck issued a fiery challenge to the roster ahead of Game 4.
Per a report from Jared Weiss of The Athletic, Grousbeck went into the locker room and told the players they needed to “play with some balls” which left the players and coaching staff stunned.
Celtics veteran Blake Griffin confirmed the report, and told The Athletic that Grousbeck, who is widely respected by the players and coaches alike, was right.
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Eight years ago to the day, Kai Kara-France fought in a very unique venue.
The Andaman Sea.
Competing on a cruise ship for a pirate-themed MMA event—incredibly, called Mixed Martial A’rr—Kara-France knocked out Dindo Camansa. The bout was Kara-France’s flyweight debut, and he held true to his “Don’t Blink” nickname, needing only 12 seconds to land the walkoff blow.
Speaking of international waters.
Noah Syndergaard is down bad, real bad. The 30-year-old is pitching on his third team in two years after signing a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers during the offseason but hasn’t looked like his old self since joining the Dodgers.
The Dodgers were able to grab the lead multiple times against the Washington Nationals on Wednesday, but Syndergaard gave up five earned runs and seven hits in five innings of action before LA fell 10-6.
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Let’s make predictions for Heat vs. Nuggets in the 2023 NBA Finals.
No one could have predicted the Denver Nuggets and Miami Heat would be the last two teams standing in the 2023 NBA Finals when the playoffs began. Denver and Miami came from opposite ends of the bracket — the Nuggets as the No. 1 seed in the West, the Heat as the No. 8 and final seed in the East — but arrive in the championship round because of inspiring team-efforts that stunned their critics and cemented the mental and physical toughness of both rosters.
This should be easy to understand: Tom Brady is not coming back to the NFL to play quarterback for the Las Vegas Raiders or anyone else.
Tom Brady himself is saying so.
“I’m certain I’m not playing again,” Brady said on the SINow podcast that hosted him recently. “So, I’ve tried to make that clear. And I hate to continue to profess that because I’ve already told people that lots of times but I’m looking forward to my broadcasting job at FOX next year.
Will Levis had a 0.0% chance of hitting the net on a passing drill.
It’s that magic time of year where we get to see rookies for the first time during OTAs and when it comes to Will Levis and the Titans we had a gem of the moment.
Another look at #Titans QBs. Ryan Tannehill, Malik Willis and Will Levis. pic.twitter.com/zcJfjToTWA
— TURRON DAVENPORT (@TDavenport_NFL) May 31, 2023
Ryan Tannehill, Malik Willis, and Will Levis were operating in a footwork drill that requires the passers to move laterally, turn, and pass into a throwing net.
Nikola Jokić has averaged a triple-double so far in the playoffs vs. the Wolves, Suns and Lakers.
Tom Brady isn’t a fan of repeating himself, but he did just that when asked about the continued rumors of him coming out of retirement during the offseason. The former Patriots and Buccaneers quarterback says he doesn’t plan on playing in the NFL ever again amid several post-playing ventures he’s become involved with since calling it a career.
“I’m certain I’m not playing again,” Brady told Sports Illustrated’s Robin Lundberg Thursday.
