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Editor’s Note: Welcome to the second annual installment of “The Replacements,” an SI fantasy football series focused on vacated volume and projecting how teams will replace production year-to-year. This offseason, we’re looking at the six teams with the highest percentage of available targets and the six teams with the highest percentage of available carries heading into 2023.

The Replacements: Houston Texans | Carolina Panthers | Detroit Lions | Green Bay Packers

Only two teams attempted fewer passes than the Titans last season.

Former LSU men’s basketball coach Will Wade received a 10-game suspension and a two-year show cause until 2025 for his involvement in the program’s reported recruiting violations, according to the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP).
In addition to Wade’s suspension, his show-cause mandate prohibits him from off-campus recruiting during any applicable April or summer evaluation, reduces his official visits by four over the next two academic years and bans recruiting discussions and unofficial visits between Sept. 1 and Oct. 15 of this year and next year.

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Phil Mickelson set aside the LIV Golf drama and took to social media to give the secret to chipping to help improve golfers’ short game.
Phil Mickelson decided to set aside all the drama and provide some golf tips on Twitter to help the average golfer with their chipping. He hilariously went with a casual look, wearing some workout shorts and flip-flops.
“Like me or not, your short game wants some help,” Mickelson said. “It needs some help, so let’s prioritize your short game and see if we can improve it today.

As the Padres continue to sputter, they’re going to need every break to go their way if they’re going to get back in the NL West race. But Manny Machado’s attempt to take an extra base in Wednesday night’s game against the Giants went poorly. 
San Diego lost the first two games in San Francisco in walk-off fashion, so runs have been at a premium in the series. With the game still scoreless in the top of the fourth on Wednesday, Machado thought he saw an opportunity to put himself 90 feet from home with some aggressive baserunning. 
He thought wrong.

In recent years, Yankees fans have been arguing with other baseball fans over the back of their jerseys.
The issue revolves around the fact that the Yankees are one of only two teams — along with the Dodgers — that don’t have names on the back of their jerseys, and for some reason this is bothering baseball fans (especially younger ones) across the league. The argument has taken to social media so much that now it’s starting to turn Yankees fans against one another.

BATON ROUGE, La. – The NCAA’s four-year dragnet of the LSU basketball program and former coach Will Wade’s voluminous recruiting violations – with a side look at the football program – is done.
And LSU got off light.
The NCAA slapped Wade – now the head coach at McNeese State in Lake Charles, La. – with a two-year show cause, according to the NCAA. The NCAA also limited him to on-campus recruiting only. The show cause ruling means the off campus recruiting ban will follow him to McNeese for two years. The NCAA also suspended Wade for 10 games.

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — Stacy Lewis speaks with the media during a practice round prior to the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club on June 21, 2023. | Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images
The women’s PGA Championship is being held this week at historic Baltusrol, where Jack Nicklaus had one of the most famous moments in history.
Baltusrol Golf Club has a long history of professional golf.
Jack Nicklaus won two U.S. Opens at Baltusrol and Phil Mickelson won his first PGA Championship there.

Sports fans drove to work, rode to school, ate breakfast, and started their day with Mike & Mike for 17 years.
It was the biggest show on sports radio for much of the nearly two decades it aired. As it was the most lucrative.
Mike & Mike also found a presence on ESPN2, in its latter years as the anchor to First Take. Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic appeared on David Letterman. They were more famous than some of the athletes they covered.
The program ended in 2017. Greenberg moved on to front a television show called Get Up. Greenberg established himself as one of the faces of the network.

Deion Sanders is set to undergo emergency surgery on Friday, according to Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones. The 55-year-old Pro Football Hall of Famer and head coach of Colorado has been dealing with blood clot issues over the course of the last few years.
Doctors recently discovered a blood clot in his groin, which will require immediate medical attention.
Details of the surgery are unclear, but Jones spoke to Sanders on Thursday morning and provided all of the information that he can to the Pat McAfee show.

Just hours ahead of Thursday’s NBA draft, there’s been a bit of a shift at the top. The Hornets, who hold the No. 2 pick in the draft, have been torn between Alabama’s Brandon Miller or the G League Ignite’s Scoot Henderson and it appears there’s momentum towards Charlotte selecting Henderson, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania. 
The team has final meetings today and will decide who will be selected. Hornets general manager Mitch Kupchak told reporters Wednesday that owner Michael Jordan will have the final say on who the team selects.