Following the injury to Aaron Rodgers on the opening drive of the 2023 NFL season for the Jets, many of the questions on the quarterback’s status have now been answered. The topic of the team’s long-term plan for this season under center is something coach Robert Saleh also addressed, and did so while making sure to drive his point home.
After first confirming that Rodgers does have a torn Achilles, Saleh was asked about potentially adding another quarterback and left no room for debate or controversy when it came to Zach Wilson.
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Fifteen years ago, a 23-year-old Mets fan showed up for his first day as an intern with his hometown team. He was a year out of Harvard and already had two summers’ worth of experience in the Pirates’ baseball operations department, plus a stint as the assistant director of baseball operations for the Arizona Fall League. He so impressed his bosses, among them general manager Omar Minaya, that they stumped for the team to make his role permanent. They believed he had the potential to become one of the best young executives in the game.
The Jets defense forced four turnovers against Josh Allen and the Bills on Monday night. Of those four turnovers, three were interceptions by safety Jordan Whitehead, who was a nuisance in the secondary against Buffalo.
With his three picks in the season opener, Whitehead not only set his career high tally for interceptions in a single season, but also cashed out on one of his season-long contract incentives.
According to Field Yates, Whitehead unlocked $250,000 worth of incentives in his contract on Monday after recording his third interception of the game.
Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. is alleged to have inflicted serious injuries upon his girlfriend in an attack early Monday, prosecutors said at his Tuesday arraignment.
Prosecutors alleged that Porter Jr. left former WNBA player Kysre Gondrezick with “a fractured neck vertebra and a deep cut above her right eye,” according to a report of the arraignment from the Associated Press.
Porter, 23, is facing charges of felony assault and strangulation in Manhattan after being apprehended Monday.
While Shannon Sharpe has moved from UNDISPUTED to First Take, he still has an issue with mixing up his co-hosts. Despite now working with Stephen A. Smith, Sharpe has called his partner “Skip” multiple times in the last week—alluding to Fox’s Skip Bayless.
That slip-up happened once again on Tuesday, as Sharpe got upset with himself by calling Smith the wrong name during the show. However, Smith was extremely sympathetic over the mistake.
“Will folks calm the F*** down please.
Rory McIlroy and Viktor Hovland at the 2023 BMW Championship. | Photo by Keyur Khamar/PGA TOUR via Getty Images
The DP World Tour paired each of the European Ryder Cuppers together as all 12 Euros are playing in this week’s BMW PGA Championship.
Rory McIlroy, Viktor Hovland, and Jon Rahm lead the European Ryder Cup team into England this week as the DP World Tour’s biggest tournament, the BMW PGA Championship, takes center stage at Wentworth Golf Club.
This story is part of Sports Illustrated’s exploration of the ways sports and finance intertwine—from the NIL revolution to online betting, business-minded athletes and more. For more on sports and money, see SI’s October 2023 Money Issue.
As a Northwestern defensive lineman from 2017 to ’21, Joe Spivak always dreamed of making it to the pros one day. But he also envisioned another postcollege path, one that combined the chaos, violence and competition of the gridiron with his “love of being in front of people.
The New York Mets are making major changes to their front office after a disastrous 2023.
In a long-rumored move, the Mets have reportedly come to an agreement with Dave Stearns, the former president of baseball operations with the Milwaukee Brewers. The 38-year-old Stearns has a lengthy track record of success with the small market Brewers, helping turn them into a perennial contender in the National League Central.
Stearns started his career mainly with the Houston Astros in 2012, before moving to Milwaukee as general manager in 2015.
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Jim Trotter, a former reporter at NFL Network, filed a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit this week against the NFL and NFL Media, saying that his contract was not renewed this year because he repeatedly spoke out about pro football’s lack of diversity at the league office, among its coaches and within its media coverage. The lawsuit, obtained by both ESPN and CBS, included several moments of racist comments that Trotter said he heard from those within the NFL, including Bills owner Terry Pegula and Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.
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