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By making a donation by the team, and not the owners the Magic crossed a line.
The Orlando Magic have been under fire this week, and it’s a mess entirely of their owners’ making. On Tuesday news emerged that the Magic had donated $50,000 to the Super PAC for Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign.
Team owners supporting presidential candidates is nothing new, however it’s exceedingly rare to see a team use its money to support a candidate.
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There’s. a rumor floating that a high school kid managed to get Phoenix Suns shooting guard Bradley Beal’s goat.
Former NBA player Brian Scalabrine was on SiriusXM’s NBA Radio and talked about hearing that Beal went toe-to-toe with 16-year-old hoops phenom Cooper Flagg.
“I heard a rumor that my boy Cooper Flagg was at Jayson Tatum’s camp and he was busting Brad Beal 1-on-1, and Brad Beal got mad at him. Started cussing him out,” Scalabrine explained, per The Sporting News.
While Flagg is a highly-touted prospect, the 6-foot-8 teenager is known to be one fierce competitor.
There have been as many 1,500-yard receiving seasons in the last two years as there were in the previous five combined.
Cooper Kupp and Tyreek Hill each hit that milestone once; Justin Jefferson and Davante Adams both did so twice. Those four pass-catchers account for the six 1,500-yard receiving seasons since the NFL schedule expanded to 17 games in 2021. Only six players hit that mark in the five years prior (Stefon Diggs, Michael Thomas, Julio Jones, DeAndre Hopkins, Mike Evans and Antonio Brown) and none of them did so in back-to-back seasons like Jefferson and Adams.
If given a million tries, no one could guess what Rudy Gobert said after hitting his first-ever three-pointer at the professional level. While playing for the French national team on Wednesday against Montenegro, Gobert hit the career milestone and after the game he had quite the quote.
The team’s official Twitter account posted the quote in French and when you hit translate, it’s nothing short of hilarious.
“Tonight, I feel like I lost my virginity,” he said after the 80–69 win.
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Matt Wallace, the 33-year-old PGA Tour pro, didn’t hold back his distaste for the Sedgefield Country Club at the Wyndham Championship.
Matt Wallace didn’t have a terrible first round at the Wyndham Championship Thursday.
He carded a 3-under 67, placing him T5 just two shots back of leader Adam Scott. Wallace made a bogey on three of his last five holes though. That poor finish provided quite the reaction from the Englishman.
“A bit pissed off, actually, with the finish… Yeah, just frustrated,” Wallace said.
The Lions have made history ahead of the 2023 football season, as the team announced that it has sold out its season tickets for the home games at Ford Field. It is the first time in the history of the stadium that the Lions have sold out the season ticket allotment.
Detroit enters 2023 as the odds-on favorite to win the NFC North after nearly making a playoff appearance a year ago. After going just 3-13-1 in 2021, the Lions barely missed the playoffs with a 9–8 record a season ago.
Francis Ngannou won his last professional fight by unanimous decision to retain the UFC heavyweight championship, so he would seem to be the last person to need extra assistance to prepare for a bout.
But his next fight—a boxing match between undefeated world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury—is no ordinary fight. So it only makes sense that Ngannou would call in the big guns by hiring Mike Tyson to be in his corner.
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How the Big Ten and Big 12 are putting the Pac-12 as we know it on life support
So…let’s talk about the Pac-12 and realignment, shall we?
(/pulls up chair Captain America style)
Well, it’s not looking great, doc. With the Big Ten presidents authorizing the conference to explore adding Oregon and Washington in the coming months, the Pac-12 is essentially on life support.
The incident that led to the Yankees placing pitcher Domingo German on the restricted list on Wednesday occurred at Yankee Stadium and was not a domestic situation, clubhouse sources say.
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The FedEx Cup playoffs and Adam Scott go hand in hand as the veteran golfer came out on fire at the Wyndham Championship.
Adam Scott is fighting for one of the top 70 spots that get to play in the FedEx Cup playoffs. The fan favorite is on a heater to begin his Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Scott finished his round with a share of the lead after posting a 5-under 65 Thursday.
Before the tournament started, he sat at No. 81 in the playoff standings. Now, he is projected to jump 44 spots to No. 37.