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After 11 seasons, four Pro Bowl nods and 61.5 sacks with the Dallas Cowboys, DeMarcus Lawrence left the team in free agency on Wednesday for a three-year, $42 million deal with the Seattle Seahawks.
The veteran defensive end had some interesting things to say on his way out.
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Speaking with the “Hawk Blogger” channel in Seattle on Thursday, Lawrence was asked about how it will feel to spend time in Seattle compared to Dallas, where he made his full-time home.

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The New England Patriots introduced their first wave of free agent signings with an introductory press conference on Thursday.
Owner Robert Kraft, Patriots coach Mike Vrabel and lead personnel executive Eliot Wolf all addressed the media on a day that felt like the dawn of a new era in New England.
On one end, there was the sadness of saying goodbye to longtime Patriots players—David Andrews, Jonathan Jones and Deatrich Wise Jr. However, on the other end, it also felt like a sense of redirection and newness for a team that has finished 4-13 in their last two seasons.

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GolfChannel.com senior writers Rex Hoggard and Ryan Lavner are on site in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, for The Players Championship. They are providing daily “mini-pods” recapping each round at TPC Sawgrass on the Golf Channel Podcast with Rex & Lav.
Day 1
There were some high and lows, some smoke and mirrors, and some grumpiness from the super group of Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Xander Schauffele Thursday.

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LANCASTER—The Lancaster boys’ and girls’ basketball teams ended their seasons a few weeks ago, but several players earned All-Ohio Capital Conference-Buckeye Division awards for their play this year.
The Lancaster boys finished with an 11-12 overall record and were Central District Division I district runners-up. The Gales went 5-9 in league play, marking the fifth consecutive year the Gales have recorded double-digit wins in a season.

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Will Michigan State basketball take care of business and advance to the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament? Graham Couch of the Lansing State Journal is here to provide his thoughts on this big-time matchup on Friday.
Michigan State will battle Oregon on Friday afternoon with a trip to the Big Ten Tournament semifinals on the line. The Spartans received a double-bye in the conference tournament, while Oregon needed a win over Indiana on Thursday to advance to this matchup.
Michigan State knocked off Oregon in the lone regular season meeting between these two teams.

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Rory McIlroy plays his second shot from the pine straw on the 18th hole. | Photo by Brian Spurlock/Getty Images
Rory McIlroy looked destined for trouble, but then made one heck of an escape on the final hole.
If you watched how Rory McIlroy birdied the 18th hole on Thursday at The Players, you will likely remember his closing three for quite some time.
After missing the short grass again off the tee, McIlroy’s ball settled down in the pine straw to the right of the fairway.

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No, not that AI. Artificial Intelligence, not Allen Iverson. | Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images
The Sixers giving computers a vote on their personnel moves actually sort of explains their cursed season.
There have been a lot of memorable AIs in Philadelphia 76ers history, from Allen Iverson, to Andre Iguodala, to Al Horford if you used an uppercase “I” in a typo instead of a lowercase “l.

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Allisha Gray, Dearica Hamby, and the other Unrivaled standouts who weren’t named to the All-Univaled teams.
Unrivaled announced the league’s All-Unrivaled First and Second Teams on Thursday — and the results were largely unsurprising.
Napheesa Collier, who has been the league’s most dominant player on both ends, was named to the first team, along with Kayla McBride (Laces Club) and Chelsea Gray (Rose Club).

Introducing the Inaugural First Team All-Unrivaled pic.twitter.

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