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NFL running backs are teaming up (over text) to comfort each other as the RB market crashes.
Players have reportedly been “commiserating” the state of the RB market in a group chat, per NFL reporter Mike Florio.
No names from the GC have been released, but several outspoken players on Monday lead us to believe it includes guys like Saquon Barkley, Austin Ekeler, Derrick Henry, Josh Jacobs and others.

Hugh Freeze is back in the SEC and the landscape of college football looks completely different than it did while he was at Ole Miss from 2012 to 2016. Name, Image and Likeness exists.
NIL came to be on July 1, 2021 when Freeze was at Liberty. He got a taste of how money factors into the new era, but a private Baptist school on the Group of Five level is a completely different animal than a Power Five program in the best conference in football.

The Jacksonville Jaguars posted a video across social media unveiling a brand-new practice facility. That comes at a good time because players recently voted them as one of the worst in the NFL.
Back in March, The NFL Players Association conducted a survey of players. They rated their current teams based on eight categories. The eight categories: treatment of families, nutrition, weight room, strength staff, training staff, training room, locker room and travel.
The Jaguars ranked among the worst in the league in several categories.

Northwestern president Michael Schill said the two external reviews are needed to ensure “appropriate accountability for the athletic department.

Patrick Mahomes says the Kansas City Chiefs are motivated to become the first team to win back-to-back Super Bowl championships since the Patriots in 2003 and 2004.

HOYLAKE, England — Royal Liverpool and Open flags flutter in the breeze in front of the clubhouse ahead of The 151st Open Championship on July 16, 2023. | Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images
Holes 15 through 18 at Royal Liverpool feature a pair of par-5s and a brand new par-3 as The Open will be decided within this stretch.
The Open Championship returns to Royal Liverpool in England this week, a course situated on subtle sandhills that overlook the Irish Sea.

NASHVILLE—If Kirby Smart were as serious about discouraging dangerous driving as he is eradicating complacency, Georgia’s football offseason would have been more pleasant and less newsworthy.
The coach of the two-time national champion Bulldogs used the word “complacency” six times on the podium at Southeastern Conference media days Tuesday. He sounded as concerned about it as Joseph McCarthy was communism. Scary stuff.
“The threat for us is complacency,” Smart said. “The first thing you have to do is acknowledge that it’s a threat.

The news that Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson was headed to the 10-day injured list with a calf strain last weekend felt almost merciful.
Such has been the nature of Donaldson’s season—a dreadful few months, interrupted in the spring by a hamstring injury, making for easily the worst stretch of his career. The numbers speak for themselves. The veteran is hitting .142. (The Mendoza Line is but a hazy glimmer on the horizon.) While he’s shown his typical power—10 home runs in 34 games—he’s offered almost nothing else.

A Division-III college in New York unveiled its first new stadium playing surface since 2006 on Tuesday. It is going to make the players’ lives absolute hell during the summer and into the fall.
The turf is black!
Not just the end-zones. Not just the hashmarks. No.
Just like the Smurf Turf at Boise State is entirely blue, SUNY Morrisville’s new field is entirely black.

In Miles Bridges’s first public comments since signing a one-year deal to return to the Hornets, the NBA veteran apologized to fans and teammates for the “pain” and “embarrassment” he caused due to an domestic violence incident.
Bridges, who was selected in the first round of the 2018 NBA draft, thanked the Hornets for giving him a “second chance,” and said he plans to be someone that his “family and everyone can be proud of” going forward.