Author: Michael

The Golden State Warriors’ visit to the White House on Tuesday wasn’t as routine as past champion’s visits to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Not only did President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamal Harris make things incredibly awkward, but a handful of Warriors were actually invited to attend a roundtable about gun control in the United States.
According to Deadline, the gun control roundtable was attended by head coach Steve Kerr along with senior White House staffers, and Warriors players Klay Thompson, Moses Moody, and Steph Curry.

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The Giants quarterback is in a good situation heading into the offseason, regardless of what happens Saturday night in Philadelphia.
Super Wild-Card Weekend is in the books and now we’re on to the best NFL weekend of the year with the divisional round. Let’s dive into your mailbag questions, some related to future landing spots for quarterbacks, coaching developments, some touching on other topics … 
From Ryen Russillo (@ryenarussillo): Has there ever been a fifth-year option declined and then QB gets extended with same team?
Ryen, yes, there’s been one—Blake Bortles.

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We have our next installment of #crypticoffseasonsocialmediaposts, this time courtesy of San Francisco 49ers QB Trey Lance.
Lance apparently tried to sneak a fast one by us when he posted a picture of new Tennessee Titans GM Ran Carthon to his Instagram story with three ‘fingers crossed’ emojis underneath, but the crack OutKick research department wasn’t having it!
We spotted it, screenshotted it, and are now in the middle of analyzing it like the Zapruder film.
Trey Lance is a big fan of Ran Carthon.
Trey Lance (maybe) wants to follow Ran Carthon to Tennessee Titans
Good try, Trey.

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Also in this week’s mailbag: Is Naomi Osaka already a Hall of Famer? And who will be the next American man to win a major?
As it is written, Wednesday is Mailbag Day.
Your good soldiering reminder: Lindsay, Steve, Prakash and I are doing the Tennis Channel pregame shows, which starts 5p ET every night.

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HIS FACE IS PUTTY NOW!
Up to this point I’ve been very much in favor of the concept of slap fighting. Then I saw what happened to Sorin Comsa at a tournament in Las Vegas over the weekend and I think I’m over it.

This guy’s face swelled like crazy and he’s bleeding but he’s still going, can’t be too healthy pic.twitter.com/jSIae09dt2
— Matysek (@Matysek88) January 16, 2023

Comsa was competing in the RXF Slap event this past weekend and during the final he was disfigured to ridiculous proportions by his opponent.

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