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Kevin Porter, Jr.’s latest stint of terrible judgment proved to be the final straw for the Houston Rockets.
After his arrest on Monday on allegations he beat his girlfriend, the Rockets are officially fielding trade offers for the ascending NBA player. Reports note that Houston contacted several teams concerning a Porter trade.
Aside from his talent on the field, KPJ has built a reputation for volatile behavior.
After years of tormenting different NBA organizations, Porter, Jr.’s action finally crossed the line when he was arrested on Monday.

It was a WGN postgame Bears show fuming with so much anger, you can hear Dan Hampton catching his breath into the microphone after an elongated rant. Hampton and Ed O’Bradovich, a Bears player from 1962-71, recorded a postgame radio show on WGN radio following the Bears 38-20 loss to the Packers at Soldier Field.

Former Georgia quarterback Stetson Bennett was placed on the NFL’s non-football injury list Wednesday by the Los Angeles Rams.
Putting him on the list is not related to the previous shoulder injury that had him on the NFL’s first injury report of the season. According to head coach Sean McVay, this is not related to the shoulder injury he was dealing with last week that forced him to not dress for the season opener.
But, when addressing the media Wednesday afternoon, McVay would not go into detail about what Stetson Bennett is dealing with.

Silver has to walk a very fine line as commissioner; he has to propose as much as demand. And players will still get injured and be careful about their rehab and returns — balancing the obligation to their teams and the league at large.

NBA players’ willingness to play a full 82-game season has been a point of contention for the league.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver rightly stated that fans are getting screwed over by NBA stars’ increasingly popular load management routine — used to curb playing back-to-back games to rest stars.
Silver took another stance against the uptick in load management ‘rest’ days and presented new rules for each NBA team to mitigate its effect on the product and fans. He shared the new rules to curb load management with the NBA Board of Governors during a meeting on Wednesday.

Los Angeles Chargers running back Austin Ekeler is a fantasy football star. Chances are if he’s on your team, you drafted him early in the first round. Maybe you also have his backup, Joshua Kelley, on your team. If you don’t, you should.
And that’s according to Austin Ekeler, himself.
Ekeler is not only a star for other fantasy football players, but he’s an avid player himself. He even hosts a podcast for Yahoo Sports that focuses on fantasy football.
This week, Ekeler implored fantasy football managers to add Joshua Kelley to their teams.

An assistant athletic director at James Madison University had to have his contact information scrubbed from the school’s website. Two other administrators at different schools locked their accounts on X (formerly Twitter). For those who have kept their contact info public, the bombardment has been ceaseless, vitriolic, often alarmingly specific and occasionally threatening.

Following Team USA’s disappointing showing at the 2023 FIBA World Cup, basketball fans are hopeful more of the NBA’s premier talent will volunteer their services to play for the U.S. at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
While most fans likely hadn’t considered Dwight Howard as a likely candidate for the Olympic squad, the 37-year-old threw his own hat in the ring, and even made a hilarious threat about what he’d do if not selected to the team.

The A’ja Wilson-Breanna Stewart dominance over the top two spots continues as we enter the playoffs.

When Aaron Rodgers ran onto the field for his Jets debut on Monday night, fans loved seeing his unique handshake with cornerback Sauce Gardner.
But, now with the quarterback out for the remainder of the 2023 season with a torn Achilles, Gardner seems to be pretty upset about not being able to show off their handshake again this season.
Gardner left a funny, but sentimental comment below the Instagram picture Rodgers posted to break his silence about the injury on Wednesday. Despite the nearly 17-year age gap between the two players, they’ve seemed to become good friends already.