Author: Michael

The College Football Playoff might be gearing up to make more major changes.
The CFP is currently slated to expand to 12 teams in 2024 with a very simple formatting change. As things stand as of today, there will be six automatic bids for the six highest-ranked conference champs and then six at-large bids for the next highest-ranked teams.
However, that format was devised and created when the PAC-12 was still a power conference. Those days are over.
There’s been a mass exodus and the PAC-12 is now just left with four teams remaining as of 2024.

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Bushmills Irish Whiskey
PGA Tour fan favorite, Dahmen keeps golf fun. Now he’s partnering with Bushmills Irish Whiskey as a whiskey caddie to create ‘Joel’s Juicy Lie.’
Golf is all about having fun for PGA Tour pro Joel Dahmen.
It’s essential to keep golf light and fun for him. He has dealt with his fair share of adversities. From having cancer early on to battling through his struggles as a professional golfer, he makes it a point not to take life too seriously.
“I think it’s a balance,” Dahmen said in an exclusive with SB Nation’s Playing Through.

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Sage Steele has announced that she is officially leaving ESPN after settling her free speech lawsuit with the network and its parent company, Disney. The 50-year-old leaves ESPN after spending the last 16 years with ‘the worldwide leader in sports.’

Life update. Having successfully settled my case with ESPN/Disney, I have decided to leave so I can exercise my first amendment rights more freely.

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Entering the bottom of the ninth in their game against the Mariners Monday night, the Royals had already weathered a strange series opener.
Kansas City got 6 2/3 no-hit innings from pitcher Brady Singer, his third career no-hit bid of five innings or more, only to watch Seattle explode for six runs in the eighth and ninth. Meanwhile, Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. hit a controversial inside-the-park home run—his 22nd homer of the season.
Those quirks, however, were nothing compared to the game’s ending. With Kansas City trailing 6–5, Witt Jr.

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It’s been a few seasons now since Danny Ainge has run the Celtics. The team’s former president is now an executive in the Jazz organization, but he still speaks very fondly of his time in Boston.
After all, Ainge was an important player on Boston’s championship teams in the ’80s, and ended up being the man running the franchise for 18 years.
So as Ainge reflected on his time in Boston, he was asked about some of his best trades. His answer was quite revealing in terms of what it would have taken to land one current Eastern Conference franchise player.

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As fans and media outside of the 49ers facility wondered whether or not Brock Purdy would be the starting quarterback after his emergence late last season, those in and around the franchise have never had a doubt.
In fact, San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan’s only concern was with Purdy’s recovery from his offseason elbow surgery. Assuming Purdy would come back healthy (he has), he was without a doubt the team’s starting quarterback heading into this season.

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Raiders coach Josh McDaniels and I were discussing the rights and wrongs of his first year in Las Vegas, and, at one point, in explaining how they’d fixed the latter, he pointed to a ceiling-to-floor whiteboard facing his desk.
On it was his remedy, in the form of characteristics he’s loading his locker room with.
“Smart, tough, mature, explosive,” he said, reading off the wall. “Eliminate distractions, and then tough, smart, mature, explosive. Right below that, love football, work hard, put the team first.

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