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How can we love something in the fall that we hate in the spring?
Monday night’s Clemson vs. Duke football game in Week 1 felt like a fever dream. The whole world was united to support … Duke? It was a perfect storm of attention, schadenfreude, and fascination which turned the Blue Devils into Loki for a night, the villain that’s impossible to hate.
The cognitive whiplash was still so wild. Duke basketball is universally reviled in March — so why is Duke football suddenly the people’s champ?
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Name tags, crab rangoon, things of that nature.
It always takes a little time to remember a new coworker’s name, but Shannon Sharpe is having a more difficult time than normal. Thankfully Stephen A. Smith is here to help him out.
.@stephenasmith brought a name tag so @ShannonSharpe could remember his name pic.twitter.com/rPFlRpt0lQ
— First Take (@FirstTake) September 5, 2023
Sharpe is the new part-time host of First Take on Monday and Tuesday, where he’ll scream at a different man after seven years of hosting Undisputed with Skip Bayless on FS1.
The Stephen A. Smith vs. Shannon Sharpe duels on ESPN’s First Take have begun, and Smith won the first in hilarious fashion.
Sharpe accidentally called Smith “Skip” during a debate on Monday’s show, the first time the two had appeared together since the new partnership was announced in August. Smith had the perfect response Tuesday, busting out a nametag during the show’s open with Sharpe as a reminder.
Sharpe, who sat besides Skip Bayless for years on FS1’s ‘Undisputed,’ took it well, bursting out into laughter before seemingly ribbing Stephen A.
In his first year of retirement, Tom Brady is taking the year off instead of beginning his broadcasting career with Fox. The 46-year-old agreed to a 10-year deal to join Fox’s top broadcasting pair when he retired, but decided against starting that deal immediately.
On his Let’s Go podcast with Jim Gray, Brady said he is on track to join Fox after taking this year off, and he is excited for the new challenge.
“I was very blessed to play for as long as I did, and I loved it,” Brady said. “Now I get to see other guys do it, and I also get to see football from a different perspective.
The United States pulled off a come-from-behind victory over Great Britain & Ireland in the Walker Cup on Sunday. As teams do, especially those digging themselves out of a hole, they celebrated, but that rubbed at least one European golf writer the wrong way.
The Americans were the heavy favorites heading into this year’s Walker Cup at St. Andrews but didn’t have their best stuff early on while finding themselves down three points heading into Sunday’s final sessions. The U.S.
ESPN writers rank the best teams in college football after Week 1 of the 2023 season.
Smilla Tarning Soenderby won the Women’s Irish Open on Sunday with a masterful final-round 62, but it’s an unfortunate accident involving one of her competitors that’s making headlines in the wake of the tournament.
Soenderby began the final round in a tie for 21st place, nine shots off the lead, but was the leader in the clubhouse at 16-under after her 10-under round. Anne Van Dam and Lisa Petterson later tied Soenderby’s lead, setting up a sudden-death playoff to decide the tournament.
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Dabo’s pride has set back Clemson’s offense to a potential point of no return
It’s often said that getting to the top is difficult, but staying there is even harder. Becoming the hunted instead of the hunter means you constantly have to keep finding more ways to improve and win, or you will end up back at the bottom.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where fields have already been stormed in Laramie and Durham:
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It’s been an epic run for the Clemson Tigers (11) since 2015: two national championships, six College Football Playoff berths, seven Atlantic Coast Conference championships. It is also now showing every sign of being over.
Fiona Crawley’s stay at the 2023 U.S. Open was short, but fruitful.
First, Crawley topped Réka Luca Jani of Hungary, Timea Babos of Hungary, and Kimberly Birrell of Australia in a qualifying tournament to reach the main draw. The 21-year-old North Carolina senior lost in the first round in both singles and doubles, but was awarded significant financial compensation just for making the tournament.
However, NCAA rules prevented her from accepting her award, forcing Crawley to give up $81,000 in earnings—a forfeiture that did not sit right with the Tar Heels star.