Sports-talk radio host Brent Axe was fired amid shady circumstances.
1. Last week, following a home game, newly retired Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim went on a bizarre rant about people who show up to games and people who call sports-talk radio shows.
“The fans here, they’re not the ones calling the radio show,” Boeheim told reporters. “Not one fan that was here tonight calls any radio show. The people that call the radio shows do not come to games. They don’t have season tickets. The only way they come is if someone gives them a ticket.
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The linebacker completed six tackles during Super Bowl LVII.
The Bears are expected to sign inside linebacker T.J. Edwards to a three-year, $19.5 million deal, NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reports. He will also get $12 million guaranteed in the deal.
Edwards was drafted by the Eagles in 2019 out of Wisconsin and has spent the past four seasons in Philadelphia. Over the past three years, he has started 43 games, including all 17 in 2022, and has totaled at least 130 tackles in each of the last two seasons.
Talks about a contract extension reportedly did not progress.
Chargers running back Austin Ekeler is requesting permission to speak with other teams in order to work out a potential trade, his agent told ESPN on Monday. The decision comes after talks around an extension with the team did not progress.
Ekeler is one of the most dynamic backs in the NFL due to his ability in both the run and passing game. Just this past season, he rushed for 915 yards and had 722 receiving yards. He tallied 18 total touchdowns.
This is a developing story. Come back for more updates.
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Tracking every move made as NFL free agency opens
NFL free agency has begun.
Kind of.
The league’s legal tampering window is open, which means starting at noon on Monday teams can begin negotiating with free agents. Technological advances have apparently made those negotiations rather expedient, as every year there is a flurry of activity right as the window opens.
Certainly it is technology, and not the fact that the entire NFL world was in Indianapolis just a week ago.
But we digress.
There’s a strange trend going on in media these days. Many media members have simply become cheerleaders. Apparently, ESPN Radio Syracuse doesn’t even hide their intentions.
According to Syracuse.com, radio host Brent Axe got the axe (see what I did there?) because the company president “believes the content of Axe’s show had become too negative toward Syracuse University sports.”
The station is owned by Galaxy Media Partners and the company’s CEO is Ed Levine.
The former 49ers quarterback is expected to have a market at the start of Monday’s negotiating period.
Free agent quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo is expected to be pursued by the Raiders and Texans when the negotiating window for free agency begins on Monday, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Schefter also notes that the Jets could get involved as well, but they’re in wait-and-see mode with Aaron Rodgers.
He’d never agree with this characterization, in part because Aaron Rodgers likely would never agree with anything I’d ever have to say. But with the NFL’s annual free-agency negotiating window open, this is not a subject for fair debate. Rodgers officially is holding the Packers and Jets hostage.
One of the best things about the magic of the NCAA Tournament is it usually delivers the greatest Thursday in all of sports.
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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy was just as upset as every other Rutgers fan on Monday as the Scarlet Knights were left out of the field of 68 for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Despite being ranked 35th in college basketball analyst Ken Pom’s rankings, having a NET ranking of 40 and picking up victories over Purdue, Northwestern and Penn State, Rutgers was out of the tournament even as teams with lower NET rankings made it into the Big Dance.
Murphy tweeted his displeasure with the NCAA Selection Committee.
The reported move frees up cap space for New England ahead of free agency.
The Patriots are trading tight end Jonnu Smith to the Falcons, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. New England gets a seventh-round pick in return and the team clears some cap space ahead of free agency.
Smith was the No. 2 tight end for the Patriots behind Hunter Henry and he appeared in 14 games this past season, starting in eight of them. He caught 27 passes for 245 yards but failed to score a touchdown. Now with the Falcons, he’ll likely be behind former first-round pick Kyle Pitts.