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ESPN’s SEC Network had quite the accidental welcome for Oklahoma on Wednesday.
The conference announced its football schedule for 2024, which will be the first season that the conference expands to 16 teams with the introduction of Texas and Oklahoma. While the schedules were being announced, SEC Network aired a special show to unveil the highly anticipated slate.
But when showing a graphic listing eight teams and their top nonconference opponents for ’24, SEC Network goofed on Oklahoma’s logo.

Ten quick takeaways from the 2024 Southeastern Conference football schedule, which was revealed Wednesday night:
1. This should have been a nine-game schedule with a 16-team league. But the league nailed the eight-game slate as best it could.
As previously stated here, the big, bad SEC has no business only playing eight league games with a league of this size and caliber. That was decided a couple of weeks ago, though, and the direction was set for an eight-team schedule that will essentially be a one-off creation. (The league may well go to nine in 2025, stay tuned.

The NBA Finals ratings suffered because of the league’s woke politics.
NBA Ratings Suffer From Woke Streak
The 2022-23 NBA Finals averaged 11.6 million viewers — the league’s fourth-lowest total in the last 30 years.
Denver and Miami’s five-game series underperformed against last year’s Golden State vs. Boston matchup (12.4 million) and barely passed 2021’s Bucks versus Suns Finals (10.8 million).

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At the height of the NBA’s woke activism in 2020, amid the George Floyd riots and BLM uprisings, the Finals recorded its lowest viewership, averaging 9.

They are both unlikely Northern California success stories—one a nomadic baseball team turned world champion four times over, one a hardscrabble punk band turned Rock & Roll Hall of Fame act.
Given their shared underdog origins, it only makes sense that Green Day would oppose the Athletics‘ expected departure for Las Vegas. In attendance as Oakland fans staged a “reverse boycott” at Oakland Coliseum on Tuesday night, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong made his feelings on the subject abundantly clear.
“Oakland forever. Vegas never.

It’s hard to forget Marshawn Lynch’s iconic line back in 2015 at media day before Super Bowl XLIX: “I’m just here so I won’t get fined.”
Colts rookie quarterback Anthony Richardson paid homage to the retired running back Tuesday during his press conference after the team’s first day of mandatory minicamp.
Unlike Lynch, though, Richardson meant it solely as a prank to the reporters in the room. The former Florida star said he promised his mom that he would say it during his press conference.

Los Angeles’ star running back requested a trade earlier this offseason, but he’s back — with perhaps an inventive new offense awaiting his skill set.

With the NBA offseason upon us, ESPN’s Kendrick Perkins outlined a series of bold moves he’s forecasting for this summer.
Amid the madness yet to ensue, Perkins predicted an eye-opening destination for Sixers star James Harden in free agency.
Harden is expected to opt out of the final year of his contract with Philadelphia and hit the open market, at which point Perkins indicates the Lakers could be a suitable destination for the veteran guard.
If the move comes to fruition, it would mark a homecoming for Harden, a Los Angeles native who attended Artesia High in nearby Lakewood.

The alleged incidents reportedly occurred in December 2020.

The Guangdong Tigers and Shanghai Sharks are not picking up the phone anytime soon to sign Spencer Dinwiddie.
Appearing in China for a trip this week, the Brooklyn Nets guard managed to go viral by getting cooked by a no-name player in China — a major slap in the face to the United States of America.
We’ve seen in the past that even the most tired and unskillful players in the NBA turn into phenoms when they play ball in China.
So for Spencer Dinwiddie, who’s quite the smack-talker, to get put in a blender with Rucker Park-level handles is a bit of an embarrassment.

For the first time in 65 years, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will play football in different conferences in 2024.
The Sooners and Cowboys will bid farewell to one of college football’s most spirited in-state rivalries for the foreseeable future on Nov. 4, before Oklahoma moves on to the SEC. It’s a series that dates back to 1904 — three years before the state of Oklahoma was admitted to the Union.
However, according to Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione, the door might not be closed on a Bedlam renaissance in football.