League meetings here in Minneapolis are winding down and, as such, we’ve got a lot to get to …
• I’d respect the NFL’s heavy hand on the state of Thursday Night Football if the league would just be honest about it. Call it what is, and tell the people who’s being taken care of.
It was never about the fans. It’s about the higher power the NFL answers to.
That higher power is the broadcast partners who cut the checks that make the league one of the world’s most powerful money-making sports entities.
Author: Michael
Rutgers basketball saw its leading scorer from 2022/23 hit the portal as a graduate transfer earlier this week. The exact reason for his departure is unclear, but financial opportunity was, and is, a factor.
Cam Spencer played his first three years at Loyola-Maryland before transferring to play in Piscataway. The 6-foot-4 guard averaged a team-high 13.2 points per game with 3.8 boards, 3.1 assists and 2.0 steals last season.
Now, even though he was not considered a flight risk after just one year in New Jersey, Spencer is in the portal once again.
New York Jets coach Robert Saleh believes this time of year there are 32 NFL coaches telling their teams they have a chance to win a championship. But, with the exception of a few teams, most coaches are lying or deluding themselves.
And Saleh believes he and his team are among the exceptions this season.
“I think 32 coaches stand in front of their teams every year and talk about winning a championship,” Saleh told reporters on Tuesday. “And realistically there’s maybe six or eight teams that have an actual chance to do it.
“And I do think we are one of those teams.
Miami is one win away from the Heat and Panthers playing in their respective finals.
The old saying goes that shortstop is the hardest position to play in all of sports. Just ask Bobby Witt Jr.
In Monday night’s game against the Tigers, the Royals shortstop allowed Riley Greene to pick up a key eighth-inning hit with a bizarre mistake you rarely see in a big league game.
Greene fought off a tough slider from Kansas City reliever Aroldis Chapman and hit a weak groundball toward Witt at short. It should have been a routine play for Witt, except he took his first step in the complete opposite direction of the ball.
1. From everything I’ve seen and heard, there is quite a backlash to NFL owners approving flex scheduling for Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime.
The flex can happen in Week 13 to 17, the flex can be used only twice over that span and 28 days notice has to be given if/when the flex happens. This is also, as of now, just in place for the 2023 season.
One reason people have given for not liking flex on Thursdays is player safety. I’m not that intelligent, so I can’t figure out how player safety is affected here.
Panthers quarterback Matt Corral denied Monday morning that his cryptic Instagram post during the NFL draft related to Carolina’s selection of quarterback Bryce Young, telling reporters it had “nothing to do with football.”
Corral, drafted in the third round of the 2022 draft out of Mississippi, also noted he does not want to be traded away from the team. The 24-year-old posted a screenshot on April 27 that included the quote, “If you are not appreciated, do not be angry. That means you are in the wrong place. Don’t stay in a place where no one sees your value.
I don’t know how serial killers celebrate. I’ve never seen one clapping or experiencing joy. That said, I have to imagine it looks exactly like Brooks Koepka did on Monday night as he watched Hurricanes vs. Panthers.
TFW playoff hockey is on and you get to watch the playoff hockey pic.twitter.com/Ehhpv8WZzy
— Michael Hurley (@michaelFhurley) May 23, 2023
There’s something deeply, viscerally unsettling about man clapping endlessly, without blinking, wearing only a blank star of psychotic fascination.
Ready-made contenders are looking for new coaches, and the Celtics’ implosion in the East finals raises questions about Joe Mazzulla’s security.
LeBron James told reporters after the game on Monday night that he will need to take some time to think about his NBA future, sparking early intrigue to the offseason for one of the greatest franchises in sports.
James played in 55 games for the Lakers this season thanks to a foot injury that leaves him awaiting an MRI this week to determine what’s next. James previously said he spoke to the “LeBron James of feet” who said that he would not need surgery on the injured tendon in his foot, but an MRI this week will confirm next steps.