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This is the best use of a newborn photographer.
Sometimes you conceive your first NFL touchdown immediately, sometimes you really need to work at it. For Colts TE Kylen Granson he’s been trying for three years, and finally got to bring his baby home.

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A fourth round pick in 2021, Granson had been without a touchdown catch over his first two years in the league, and was beginning to doubt if he’d ever get a baby ball to bring home.

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People can’t get enough of Coach Prime.
Deion Sanders has turned the Colorado Buffalos into must-see TV, bringing in a growing celebrity fanbase and massive TV ratings with every game. Colorado football was a dormant program a year ago, finishing with a 1-11 record and failing to exceed five wins in every season since 2016. That all changed with the arrival of Coach Prime from Jackson State, who remade the roster in the transfer portal and quickly turned the Buffalos into the most exciting team in the country.

Former Major League pitcher and World Series champion David Wells joined Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo on Mornings With Maria, and took aim at Nike for some of the company’s marketing decisions in recent years.
Wells’ feelings on the Swoosh came front and center at the New York Yankees’ Old Timers Day earlier this month. There, the left-handed pitcher — who played for the Bronx Bombers from 1997 to 1998 and again from 2002 to 2003 — took a piece of tape and placed it over the company’s logo on his jersey.

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ESPN’s iconic College GameDay was in Boulder, Col., last Saturday for a monster show. Buffaloes coach Deion Sanders joined the show for an interview, The Rock was the guest picker, and Lee Corso was celebrating his 400th headgear pick.
ESPN spent the morning giving that night’s Colorado State–Colorado a big-game feel. But for some reason, the network had its No.

The biggest storyline heading into this month’s Ryder Cup is the U.S. team traveling to Europe in looking to return across the pond with the cup in hand for the first time since 1993. The American’s 30-year drought in Ryder Cups played on foreign soil will be talked about ad nauseam, but as Justin Thomas recently alluded to, it’s impossible to ignore.
To put the U.S. drought in European Ryder Cups into perspective, of the 12 Americans on this year’s team, only six were alive when the U.S. last hoisted the cup in Europe.

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Bryce Young is showing ludicrous potential, even if it’s not converting.
It wasn’t long ago that the NFL adage was “you need three years to judge a quarterback.” More recently, that accelerated to one year, as passers enter the league more prepared than at any point in history. Now it’s down to two games, at least according to the league’s harshest critics.
The predominant discourse following the Carolina Panthers 20-17 loss to the Saints on Monday Night Football was Bryce Young, and more specifically whether the No.

Deshaun Watson stinks.
And the Cleveland Browns front office doesn’t smell much better.
In March of 2022 Cleveland mortgaged their future, and some would say their dignity, to land Watson in a trade with Houston. Watson and a 2024 6th-round draft pick were shipped to Cleveland in exchange for three consecutive first-round draft picks, a third-round pick and two fourths. 
Cleveland then handed Watson a five-year, $230 million guaranteed contract. At the time, the guaranteed money was the most-ever handed to an NFL player.
18 months later, the trade looks historically bad for the Browns.

The Phillies were knocking the cover off the ball on Monday night in Atlanta. Five Philadelphia batters hit home runs in the team’s 7–1 win over the Braves—but none of them hit a ball as far as Kyle Schwarber did. 
In the sixth inning, Schwarber demolished a high fastball from Michael Tonkin, hitting it 483 feet into the bar area beyond the right field stands. It was the kind of homer that you have to see to believe, but it’s also the kind of homer that you need to hear.

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Deshaun Watson’s tape looks nothing like the $230 million QB he was supposed to be
Deshaun Watson was supposed to be the final piece to the puzzle. The answer at quarterback for an organization that has been seeking that solution for generations.
But while the Cleveland Browns are 1-1 this season, it would be difficult to find a Browns fan with any confidence in the team this morning.
Certainly, some of that has to do with the brutal injury suffered by running back Nick Chubb.

As the 2023–24 NBA season approaches with training camps just around the corner, there are a few high-profile situations that still have no timeline or clarity on how they’ll play out. Among them is the ongoing discussion over a potential Damian Lillard trade, which has linked the Trail Blazers and Heat for months now.
While Portland and Miami don’t appear to have taken significant steps forward in discussions thus far, the Heat remains the favorite to acquire Lillard via trade, though the timeline is very much up in the air.