Author: Michael

When we think about defining games and seasons in the NFL, it is almost always tied to the quarterbacks.
Nobody impacts the game more than the Patrick Mahomeses and Joe Burrows of the world. Yet the defensive side of the ball can also swing Sunday afternoons and seasons, either because it’s disrupting the sport’s paramount players or covering those who are its targets.
For this piece, we aren’t naming the 10 best defensive players in the league. If that were the case, T.J. Watt, Micah Parsons, Nick Bosa, Myles Garrett, Sauce Gardner and Aaron Donald would all be atop the list.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Paige Spiranac attends the TAO x Maxim Big Game Party at Southwest Jet Center on February 11, 2023. | Photo by Marcus Ingram/Getty Images
Spiranac, one of golf’s most prominent social media personalities, dropped a shocking revelation following the U.S. Open.
Paige Spiranac continues to have a significant presence within golf media.
After Wyndham Clark captured his first major championship at the 123rd U.S. Open at the Los Angeles Country Club, Spiranac revealed something spectacular yet surprising.

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Here are the top-60 players in the 2023 NBA Draft, ranked.
The 2023 NBA Draft will go down in history as the year Victor Wembanyama entered the league regardless of whether he lives up to the enormous hype. Wembanyama is conservatively being called the ‘best prospect since LeBron James,’ and that might be underselling him. Wembanyama is in a stratosphere all by himself in this draft class, and he’s going to change both the present and future of the San Antonio Spurs once his name is called at No. 1 overall.

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The Texas Rangers suffered a brutal loss to the White Sox on Tuesday night after a mind-boggling overturned call led to a go-ahead run for Chicago in the bottom of the eighth. That overturned call also led to lots of fans rightfully ripping Major League Baseball because it made no sense at all.
The Rangers appeared to get the third out of the eighth inning after catcher Jonah Heim tagged Elvis Andrus at the plate. The play, however, went to review where MLB officials ruled that Heim had blocked the plate and therefore Andrus was ruled safe and the run scored.

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The Athlon Sports 2023 Fantasy Football Annual magazine reached out to team insiders at all 32 NFL clubs to ask them three key fantasy questions heading into the season. As we count down to training camp, Sports Illustrated will publish their answers here. Today’s team: Denver Broncos 
To order your Athlon Sports 2023 Fantasy Football, click here.

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KANSAS CITY — Tom Watson looks on during the third round of the AdventHealth Championship at Blue Hills Country Club on May 20, 2023. | Photo by Jeff Curry/Getty Images
Watson, who won eight major titles, has many questions about the PGA Tour’s agreement with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund.
With the U.S. Open now in the rearview mirror, the golfing world returns its focus to the pending agreement between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund (PIF).

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Welcome to 32 teams in 32 days. To get us through the offseason, we’ll be taking a closer look at every team in the league, in order of projected 2023 win totals. Up next: the Broncos.
To put it bluntly, Year 1 of the Russell Wilson experience in Denver was a disaster.
But the Broncos had 85 million reasons as to why they needed to continue it—that’s how much the team would have been penalized against the salary cap had they chosen to move on from Wilson this offseason.

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The rumor mill is heating up with the 2023 NBA Draft just days away. Here’s the latest from around the league.
The 2023 NBA Draft is almost here, and that means trade rumor season is already in full swing. There’s reason to believe this could be an especially chaotic summer of player movement across the league. A new CBA goes into affect on July 1 with more punitive luxury tax penalties seemingly meant to cement the parity seen this season.

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Former WVU men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins faced several waves of criticism leading up to his resignation on Saturday (June 17). Huggins was forced to leave the University after his arrest Friday night, cited for driving under the influence in Pittsburgh.
Coming to Huggins’ defense in a fiery response to WVU is the Hall of Fame coach’s daughter, Jacque Huggins.
The social media post from Bob Huggins’ daughter clearly expressed her frustrations against the Mountaineers’ university and president over their contempt for Huggins and shaming him into leaving the team.

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