The Bengals are being really thoughtful about how they’re handling their offseason program. Last year, coming out of the Super Bowl against the Rams, and facing the shortest offseason in NFL history, Zac Taylor made the decision to lop two weeks off the team’s program to give his players extra rest. It worked so well for everyone last year that Taylor decided to do something not identical, but awfully similar this year.
The details …
• Teams are allowed 10 OTA practices, which include the three that are generally allotted for a mandatory full-squad minicamp.
Author: Michael
NBA fans don’t seem to be fans of the NBA’s new in-season tournament, and they made their feelings clear on Twitter on Sunday night. NBA commissioner Adam Silver made an appearance on NBA TV on Sunday night ahead of Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Heat and Nuggets to discuss how the tournament will work with Charles Barkley, Shaquille O’Neal and Grant Hill.
Silver explained the tournament was inspired by soccer leagues that stage in-season competitions.
No baseball is worth faceplanting while holding your child.
Hey dads of the world: Don’t do this.
What NOT to do as a dad #ncaabaseball #ncstate #campbell #ColumbiaRegional #espn #foulball #ouch #poorkid pic.twitter.com/QxNhybqGBq
— Avi (@MrDargies) June 4, 2023
Now look, I’m sure baseball dad meant well. I’m sure he thought “I’ll grab a baseball for my son,” but when you’re holding a child you have one specific job: Don’t hurt the child. There are no other priorities at that point.
The term “sleeper” has different meanings for different people in the world of fantasy football. Some folks believe it’s simply a player who will outperform his draft position. Others think it’s a relatively unknown or once-forgotten player who unexpectedly emerges or re-emerges into a useful fantasy option.
In my opinion, both definitions are true but with a caveat. I don’t see a player as a sleeper if he’s already been a valuable fantasy asset during his career. For example, Aaron Rodgers and D’Andre Swift aren’t “sleepers” to me.
The Bills’ four-year, $68 million deal with DT Ed Oliver provides all of us with a great lesson on positional value in today’s NFL. The contract itself isn’t dissimilar from the one that Oliver’s fellow former Buffalo first-rounder Tremaine Edmunds just did in Chicago (he signed for $72 million over four years) and that, on Saturday, raised obvious questions, since Edmunds has been the splashier, more visible player over the past few years.
The answer is sitting on the Bills’ cap table.
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“People think that because you live in Florida, like you just down with the [expletive]. We’re not.”
Udonis Haslem is the quiet rock of Miami, as he’s been for 20 years — but the Heat forward is ready to get loud about Ron DeSantis ruining Florida’s reputation with culture wars and book banning.
Haslem was asked ahead of Game 2 of the NBA Finals what it’s like to be a Florida native in the current political and social climate.
When they were together as pass rush ends in 2021, Von Miller and Leonard Floyd combined for 14 1/2 sacks in 24 games. And they helped the Los Angeles Rams win the Super Bowl.
Now, the Buffalo Bills are hoping for similar as they’ve agreed to terms on a one-year deal with Floyd, a source confirmed.
The move reunites Floyd with his former Rams teammate Von Miller as their new pass rush tandem — at times, anyway.
Eventually.
The Denver Broncos have committed one of the few unforgivable mistakes:
The mistake of going full cringe.
Denver was already humiliated last season thanks to Russell Wilson’s disappointing play on the field and his bizarre “Let’s ride” promo off the field.
It was so awkward and terrible it was legitimately uncomfortable to watch.
#BroncosCountry , LET’S RIDE! pic.twitter.com/7rTOZ1uIhx
— Denver Broncos (@Broncos) June 2, 2022
The Broncos love going cringe.
Kyle Busch won and NASCAR fans … cheered? I don’t know if they were clapping just because Sunday’s marathon race mercifully ended or if they actually like Rowdy now, but it was still weird either way.
Whew. What a day in St. Louis. We had power outages all over the place, random lightning strikes, billion-hour rain delays, Ross Chastain doing Ross Chastain things and hey, even another hooking!
That’s becoming a weekly tradition this year. We’ll see if NASCAR bends the knee and suspends yet another driver this time around.
What looked like a sweep by the Denver Nuggets or maybe just five games for the title just last week, suddenly looks like a real NBA Finals series.
The No. 8 seed Miami Heat continued to defy the odds and overachieve as it refused to die in Game 2 Sunday night in Denver in coming back for an 111-108 victory.
Shaquille O’Neal before Game 1 of the NBA Finals in Denver last Thursday. (Photo by Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post)
“Denver may be in trouble,” NBA television analyst and former Lakers’ superstar Shaquille O’Neal said after the game.