Author: Michael

The seemingly unkillable Arena League is coming back for another go in 2024 after a five-year hiatus.
The AFL, which originally formed in 1986, filed for bankruptcy in 2019 and hasn’t played a season since. In 2022, however, F1 Sports & Entertainment — no, not that F1; it stands for Force1 — bought the league and is reviving it next year.
“Our objective when we acquired the AFL was to bring back a storied brand that deserved to be revived and showcased again, globally,” AFL president Anthony Rossi said in a statement.

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Jordan Spieth pulled off one of the scariest shots in the history of golf a year ago during the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Thanks to his heroics, some golfers who have since played the course have tried re-creating the shot, but the resort has made changes in hopes of keeping guests from doing so.
Gary Young, the PGA Tour’s chief referee for this week’s event at Pebble Beach, told ESPN that course representatives have strategically made changes to the hole to make things safer.

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Can the superstar bring the Liberty their first WNBA title?
When rapper and producer Jay-Z released The Blueprint 3, which included the hit single “Empire State of Mind,” on Oct. 20, 2009, Breanna Stewart was a towering, 15-year-old athlete who had already been shattering the competition with her elite basketball skills at Cicero–North Syracuse High School.
As Alicia Keys performed the chorus with the perfect blend of voice and harmony of the popular song, New York is what Stewart’s hoops dream was made of. But she couldn’t limit herself to central New York.

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Brady is supposed to take Olsen’s spot at Fox, but it’s not that simple.
1. I laid out the dilemma Fox faces now that Tom Brady has retired from the NFL in yesterday’s Traina Thoughts. Brady signed a contract last year with Fox to become its lead NFL analyst when he retires, but Greg Olsen, who he would replace in Fox’s No. 1 booth, has emerged as a fan favorite who has excellent chemistry with play-by-play man Kevin Burkhardt.
The plan was for Olsen to go back to the No.

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Former NFL running back Arian Foster made some headlines earlier this week when he joked that the NFL is literally scripted. He said, sarcastically, that there was a script in his locker for the entire season when he and his teammates arrived for training camp.
He continued the ruse by saying they don’t even practice football, but rather just practice the NFL’s defined script. Essentially, NFL practice is a rehearsal more than a practice.

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