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Reggie Chaney, who started in the 2021 Final Four for Houston and was named the AAC’s Sixth Man of the Year in 2023, died Monday.

The NBPA said it will file a grievance over the NBA’s $100,000 fine for James Harden, saying Harden’s recent comments “do not violate the rule against public trade demands.

Vice president Ken Williams and senior vice president and general manager Rick Hahn were fired by the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday, the team announced in a social media post, with owner Jerry Reinsdorf saying “this is an incredibly difficult decision.

Justin Verlander had an issue with his PitchCom device during his start on Tuesday against the Red Sox, causing a brief delay in the game while the problems were sorted out.
The announcers indicated that Verlander was initially handed a Spanish version of the PitchCom device when he first requested a change, which he sent back to the dugout in exchange for one in English, further extending the delay.
That didn’t seem to sit well with Boston manager Alex Cora, who came out to discuss the situation with the umpires.

Sports media is embracing lazy coverage, spawning the eventual takeover of A.I.’s copy-and-paste material over real sports commentary.
More media companies are implementing Artificial Intelligence to soullessly crank out sports coverage, evidenced by Gannett and other papers’ open use of A.I.-constructed game recaps.
Mass audiences are settling for artificial commentary and it’s pure B.S.
OutKick Hot Mic’s Jonathan Hutton and Chad Withrow gave a fiery indictment on the ‘laziness’ of sports audiences that opened the doors for A.I. to start replacing human writers.

Rory McIlroy won the 2022 FedEx Cup at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta. | Photo by Ben Jared/PGA TOUR via Getty Images
The top 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings will battle for the FedEx Cup in Atlanta, as Playing Through’s staff has picked who will win it.
ATLANTA — The final tournament of the PGA Tour regular season is here. The top 30 players in the FedEx Cup standings have arrived at East Lake Golf Club and will battle for the FedEx Cup.
The Tour Championship is unlike any other tour event. It has a unique format predicated on where players sit in the standings.

The Celtics are meeting with free agent forwards T.J. Warren and Lamar Stevens in Boston later this week, according to a report from The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
Charania reports that both players will undergo workouts with Boston as the franchise considers how to fill its remaining open roster spots.
Warren, a 2014 lottery pick of the Suns, played his first five seasons in the NBA with Phoenix while enjoying brief stints with the Pacers and Nets. After missing the entire 2021–22 season due to a foot injury, the 29-year-old appeared in 42 games last year with Brooklyn and Phoenix.

The White Sox made a major organizational shakeup on Tuesday, parting ways with longtime executives Ken Williams and Rick Hahn.
Hahn had been in the organization since 2002 and was named the team’s general manager in ’12. On the same day, Williams, who had been the GM since ’00, was named the team’s executive vice president.
Since 2012, Chicago has made just two playoff appearances, never advancing past the American League Divisional Series.

On the heels of its Johnny Manziel-centric episode, Netflix has released a new entry in its Untold documentary series titled Swamp Kings, chronicling the Florida football program under Urban Meyer during the 2000s. 
On Tuesday, Meyer offered his initial thoughts on the doc after getting a chance to watch it himself.
“I watched that this morning, the first series and got chills just thinking about those great players,” Meyer said on Urban’s Take with Tim May.
Meyer coached the Gators from 2005 to ’10, arriving after a tumultuous three-year run for the program under Ron Zook.

Megan Rapinoe is very defensive about her brutal performance during the World Cup and her polarizing leadership.
After the USWNT’s disappointing exit, soccer commentator Alexi Lalas was one of many to criticize the team. Specifically, Lalas pointed out on X (formerly Twitter) that the team had become “unlikeable” and polarizing due to openly advocating for woke political priorities.