LSU may have won the 2023 College World Series title on Monday night, but Tigers fans also won an important contest this week in Omaha, Neb.: the CWS Jell-O Shot Challenge.
LSU fans dominated the competition against seven other schools at Omaha’s Rocco’s Pizza, the bar and restaurant where the contest is annually held. The Tigers purchased a record-shattering 68,888 Jell-O shots during the span of the College World Series.
The next closest amount purchased by a specific team’s fandom was 7,622 bought by Wake Forest supporters.
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New York Mets billionaire owner Steve Cohen has had enough of his team’s trainwreck of a season and will now address the fans on what he plans to do about it.
In a tweet, Cohen alerted fans that Wednesday he would be holding a press conference and telling fans that they will ‘get it’ from him. Not sure exactly what ‘it’ means but it sounds like Cohen, who Mets fans admirably call Uncle Steve, is pretty pissed.
I will be doing a press conference tomorrow before the game. You will get it from me straight.
ESPN and Disney discriminated against Sage Steele.
The corporation admitted so in offering her $501,000 to settle her lawsuit against the company for violating her First Amendment and Connecticut free-speech rights.
Front Office Sports reported the figure on Monday in an obvious leak from Disney to frame Steele as a greedy wicked witch.
ESPN/Disney took the same approach last summer in a leak to the Washington Post by telling the outlet that Steele receives $3 million a year, the most of any woman at the company.
Many an elite athlete has drawn scorn for the use, or suspected use, of performance-enhancing drugs in recent decades: Barry Bonds in baseball, Lance Armstrong in cycling, Marion Jones in track and field and so on.
The NBA’s attention now turns to the offseason with a few notable names at the top of an otherwise lackluster class of impactful free agent players.
When the Rangers signed Jacob deGrom, they expected him to carry the staff. After an unfortunate injury, other signings have stepped up to lead.
No. 88 will be prohibited for use among soccer players in Italy due to a new initiative aimed at combatting antisemitism.
The rule, which was coordinated by the Italian government and the Italian soccer federation, was announced Tuesday and includes the addition of a code of ethics in accordance with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, according to the Associated Press. Additionally, in the case of fans singing antisemitic chants, the initiative calls for games to be suspended.
No. 88 has been used by extremist groups as a numerical code for “Heil Hitler.
Russell Wilson is the Broncos’ leading returning rusher.
Once a dynamic threat to take off and run, the veteran quarterback has dialed things back in recent years. The fact that his 277 yards from 2022 — a career-low — is the highest rushing total of any returning player is illustrative of the situation in Denver.
Latavius Murray left for the Bills in free agency while Melvin Gordon, who was released in November and picked up by the Chiefs, remains unsigned. Chase Edmonds and Mike Boone both found new homes after the season and Marlon Mack is still a free agent.
As most college students do after their school wins a national championship, some UConn students hit the streets following the Huskies’ win over San Diego State in April for the basketball championship. Some students went way overboard, however, and caused close to $123,000 worth of damage.
Some fans/students went as far as ripping lampposts out of the ground and scaling campus buildings, cars were flipped, and fires were started around Storrs. Police have charged 22 people in connection with the rioting, 16 of which were UConn students.
Alex Graham, a highly touted British hockey player has died at just 20-years-old, according to a statement from his team.
Graham played in the Elite Ice Hockey Hockey League, the top level of hockey in the United Kingdom.
On Monday, his team, the Sheffield Steelers announced that he had died over the weekend. The team did not reveal a cause of death.