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Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards wants LSU fans to keep their grills off this upcoming weekend.
LSU opens the season Sunday night against Florida State, and the battle between the top two teams should be the best game of the weekend. Generally speaking, opening weekend is a time when the grills are polished off, there’s plenty of cold beer to go around and it’s a party for everyone. That’s especially true for fans of major programs.
Tigers fans like to get down and have a good time. However, Edwards wants people to limit the grilling due to wildfires.

We are just one week away from the first game of the 2023 NFL season, and Las Vegas has released a large menu of player props for us to choose from. For those who have fantasy drafts this weekend, those props can be used as valuable research. Generally, when we look at player props we are looking for ways in which we think we have an edge and try to bet that side. However, for this exercise we instead are looking to compare what Vegas is expecting with how we have valued our players in fantasy drafts.

Wendi Nix, a 17-year media veteran at ESPN, has departed the network, marking another prominent longtime figure to exit the sports mogul.
“Exactly 17 years ago, I walked into ESPN wide-eyed and excited. This week, I walk out the same way. Grateful, but equally excited about the next chapter. To be continued… #ESPN” Nix wrote on Instagram.
Ryan Glasspiegel of the New York Post noted that while ESPN laid off a cast of about 20 individuals on the air earlier this summer, the situation with Nix was different. Her contract was up with the network, and it simply was not renewed.

Lewis Hamilton, the career leader in Formula One victories, is staying with his longtime team for the foreseeable future.
Hamilton has signed a two-year contract extension with Mercedes which ties him to the team through the 2025 season, the team announced Thursday. The 38-year-old driver is currently in his 11th season with Mercedes. His 103 career Formula One wins is the most all time.
Mercedes also has extended its deal with driver George Russell through 2025.

Week 0 was the appetizer, and we’ve got the main course ahead. There will be no handicapping of Cal, Stanford, and SMU’s potential invite to the ACC (but if there was, things are looking optimistic). We’re covering five games and giving picks against the spread from a Week 1 that spreads its wings from Thursday to Monday night as the real football season takes flight.
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The long and cold NFL offseason, the seven-month grind that is the longest time between (real) games of any major professional sport, is finally over. But as the season approaches, a few vestiges of the offseason remain.
I have always referred to the offseason as “me time” in sports, when players are concerned about their situations, their contracts and what’s best for them. Come September, however, it is “we time,” when everything is about the team and what’s best for the collective.

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SGA is doing it all for Canada in the World Cup.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is coming off a career year in the NBA. Now he’s putting on a show on the international stage at the FIBA World Cup.
When he finished last season with an absurd 31.4 points per game for the Oklahoma City Thunder, SGA finished atop the All-NBA voting among guards, edging past four-time 1st-teamer Luka Doncic. The two guards joined Steph Curry (2021) as the only players since 2017 to make All-NBA First Team without also making the NBA Playoffs.

The quarterback carousel is never really dormant because upgrading at that position is the ultimate goal for NFL franchises. You may have just broken an epic, yearslong playoff drought with one player, for example, and yet you are hiring a private investigator to decide just how bad it would be to sign a better player who is under investigation for more than 20 separate accounts of harassment and assault. You know how it goes.
It is a cutthroat business out there, which is why it may surprise you to see some of the names on this list. But it shouldn’t.

Michigan leads a host of stacked contenders who are aiming to deny Georgia a historic three-peat.
What other teams start atop the sport this season? SI’s college football crew offers its preseason outlook.
More College Football Preview Coverage:• The Georgia Effect: Why Everyone’s Playing Catch Up With the Dawgs• Team Previews: Thoughts on Every Non-Top 25 Team• College Football’s Inevitable Conclusion? Two 20-Team Megaconferences

1. Georgia
Since the Associated Press began crowning national champions in 1936, no school has ever gone back to back to back.

The NFL likes to brag about yearly parity in the league, but inside the NFC West, there appears to be a sizable gap between the two teams that made the playoffs last year and two teams that didn’t.
The 49ers have advanced to three NFC championship games in the past four seasons, but this might be their best team yet, at least on paper. All that’s missing during this successful run for the 49ers is a Lombardi Trophy.