Author: Michael

Running backs have never bees less valuable within the NFL.
From cheap contracts to limited commitment from teams, the best players at the position stand on a drastically low evaluation. One guy speaking up on being a running back in today’s NFL is former Pro Bowl player Melvin Gordon.
Gordon is coming off a Super Bowl win with the Kansas City Chiefs. He is now a free agent, thus dreading what the market holds for him as a 30-year-old running back.

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Vermont native, Keegan Bradley practically ran away with the Travelers Championship in Connecticut, Sunday.
27 birdies. That’s how many Keegan Bradley made this week at the Travelers Championship. That led him to a 23-under total score and a three-shot victory, instantly becoming a New England hero after winning his hometown event.
“This is for all the kids that grew up in New England who had to sit through the winters and watch other people play golf,” Bradley said to Amanda Renner of CBS Sports.

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Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson was out of the lineup for the third consecutive game on Sunday. 
Prior to New York’s matchup against the Rangers, manager Aaron Boone was late to his pregame media address. As it turns out, Boone and Donaldson were in what the Yankees skipper described as an “important” meeting.
Following the win over Texas, Donaldson was asked about the meeting with Boone, which he downplayed as being “a lot of ball talk.

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Padraig Harrington made PGA Tour Champions history by becoming the first player to win back-to-back Dick’s Sporting Goods Opens.
Padraig Harrington came home in 28 strokes to post a 9-under 63 and defend his Dick’s Sporting Goods Open title. He posted an 18-under total score in the tournament. Harrington defeated Joe Durant by one stroke and Ernie Els by two shots.
Els held the lead entering Sunday.
Harrington went 69-66-63 on the event, and that burst came at the right time, giving him just enough momentum to secure the victory.

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Rose Zhang may not have won her first major at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, but a top-10 finish is still quite the accomplishment.
Rose Zhang gave it a strong shot at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship but did not win her first major as a professional golfer. She went 70-74-68-67 in her first major, finishing 5-under par. That resulted in a T8 finish for the 20-year-old.
Zhang battled, going out in 31 strokes, but two costly bogeys down the stretch ultimately kept her from taking home another trophy.

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Bidding for its seventh title, LSU has had a downright swell time this NCAA baseball tournament. The Tigers have dropped just one game in their entire run—a narrow loss to Wake Forest in the Men’s College World Series—and stand on the verge of their first national crown since 2009.
LSU’s fans, however, may have exceeded the fun had by the team.
Tigers enthusiasts have purchased 46,269 Jell-O shots at Rocco’s Pizza in Omaha, an all-time record in the establishment’s annual Men’s College World Series-centric contest.

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No running back in the NFL is built like Derrick Henry. Period.
The 6-foot-3, 247-pound 29-year-old is not only a mammoth human being, every single pound on his body is muscle. He may as well be chiseled out of a boulder.
Derrick Henry is a beast. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images)
Henry’s raw strength leaves football fans everywhere in awe when he’s stiff-arming defensive backs into the shadow realm on the field, but his offseason workouts are what really turn heads. This year is no different!
Although much of Henry’s size is God-given, The King works hard to stay in top physical form.

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