Author: Michael

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Shane Lowry made his second European Ryder Cup team, while Adrian Meronk was left out. Still, Lowry believes the top 12 guys made the team.
Shane Lowry was one of six captain’s picks for the European Ryder Cup team, as he will make his second appearance.
Not everyone believed he deserved that spot because of his recent poor stretch. Adrian Meronk got left out, and many thought he should have taken Lowry’s place.
Ahead of the Horizon Irish Open, however, Lowry did not seem bothered by it.

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A season of Hard Knocks with Jets new QB Aaron Rodgers as the star wouldn’t have been complete without an off-the-rails story from the quarterback, and we finally got one in the season finale.
The show gives Rodgers the floor to talk about… UFOs. Rodgers claims he, along with some friends, once witnessed a UFO flying overhead in the middle of the night after hearing an alarm going off in the distance.
“Up in the clouds, we heard this sound and saw this tremendously large object moving through the sky,” Rodgers said.

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1. The football season is here. Finally. We get our appetizer Thursday night with Lions-Chiefs on NBC before the main course Sunday.
From now until Super Bowl Sunday, we will be bombarded with NFL content from all forms of media: TV, radio, podcasts, streaming, social media and on and on. It can be overwhelming to wade through it all and figure out what is worth your time.
So, I’m here to help. Here are 10 shows/segments/pieces of content that I love to consume during the NFL season. These are the things I go out of my way to check out whenever they occur.

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Free agent defensive end Carl Nassib announced his NFL retirement on Wednesday morning after seven seasons.
Nassib, who played for the Browns, Buccaneers twice and the Raiders, shared a heartfelt post on Instagram post, saying that he could “hang up his helmet for the last time” knowing that he gave the sport everything he had.
“This is a bittersweet moment for me,” Nassib wrote. … Growing up I loved how fun football was. I loved the pursuit of perfection. I loved the small window where every player has to chase their dreams.

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Sports fans aren’t the only ones growing frustrated with Spectrum’s ongoing dispute with Disney. Athletes are, too. 
Nearly 15 million Spectrum cable subscribers lost access to Disney-owned channels including ABC and ESPN last week due to a dispute between Disney and Charter Communications, which operates Spectrum. Until Disney and Charter can come to an agreement, ESPN and ABC will remain blacked out for Spectrum subscribers. 
One interesting wrinkle in the saga is that players competing in the U.S. Open have Spectrum cable at their hotels.

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Contract holdouts are threatening to take three of the NFL’s best defensive players off the field in Week 1.
Holdouts are common in NFL training camps, but they are typically resolved by Week 1. When three team-defining players, the most important defensive centerpieces on their respective teams are all poised to sit out the opening week — it’s surreal.

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Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football, where one FCS game simply came down to who wanted it less (audio up for this one):
Third Quarter: Pac-12 Football Picked Terrible Time for Hot Start | Second Quarter: Dabo Swinney and Clemson Look Outdated | First Quarter: Colorado Seizes Moment
Fourth Quarter: A brief history of erroneous “TEXAS IS BACK” declarations
You might have heard that Texas plays Alabama on Saturday in Tuscaloosa.

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