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DeAndre Hopkins has yet to latch on with a new team following his release from the Cardinals earlier this offseason. The star wide receiver has been linked to a handful of destinations, including the Patriots and Titans, though no deal has materialized yet.
During an episode of ESPN’s Keyshawn, JWill & Max, NFL reporter Sal Paolantonio indicated that there are two other teams “lurking” in the mix for Hopkins.

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“Carolina is lurking, Cleveland is lurking, for sure,” said Paolantonio of the market for Hopkins.

The 2023 NBA draft, and the hype associated with its top prospects, like Victor Wembanyama, is officially in the rearview mirror. Now NBA teams can begin shifting their focus toward the 2024 class. Expanded scouting opportunities at events like Nike’s Peach Jam tournament and the spring all-star circuit means teams have already begun their scouting work on the top prospects for next year. This year’s high school graduating class is regarded as one of the weaker in recent years, so early on there appears to be more parity and room for upward movement than there has been in past drafts.

Following the 2022-23 NFL season, Andrew Siciliano signed off NFL RedZone seemingly for the final time. He hosted DirecTV’s version of the show since its inception in 2005. But after YouTube TV acquired NFL Sunday Ticket, the league announced the Scott Hanson-led RedZone would be the only version moving forward.
That makes sense, since the league itself produces that version of NFL RedZone as its part of the NFL Network. Clearly, the NFL wants to control as much of its own content as possible.

Our NFL reporters identify under-the-radar players who turned heads during offseason workouts.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — PGA TOUR Commissioner Jay Monahan addresses the media and employees during the PGA TOUR Global Home press conference at TPC Sawgrass on January 19, 2018. | Photo by Tracy Wilcox/PGA TOUR
The PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund executed their framework agreement on May 30, 2023. It was made public Monday.
The framework agreement between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF) was made public Monday, per a report from The Athletic.

The Bills are set to open their brand new stadium in 2026 after a lengthy negotiation to reach an agreement that their new home would stay in western New York. However, Erie County exec Mark Poloncarz believes that the team would have relocated if the organization had to build the stadium itself.
The Buffalo franchise is co-owned by husband and wife Terry and Kim Pegula and Poloncarz broke down how negotiations went. 
“The NFL is a business,” Poloncarz told Sports Business Journal.  “You’re negotiating with one of 32 of the owners of the business.

The WNBA’s two superteams will go head to head for the first time this regular season when the Liberty travel to Las Vegas to take on the Aces. Thursday’s matchup will feature this year’s two All-Star captains, the Aces’ A’ja Wilson and the Liberty’s Breanna Stewart, in a game many predict could preview the WNBA Finals.

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Seats at the Michelob Ultra Arena are available for as little as $14, with the average ticket price for the event being $52, per SI Tickets.

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.

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.