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Victor Wembanyama, the potential No. 1 pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, has a new height that has the basketball spectrum in awe.

Dan Wetzel and SI’s Pat Forde & Ross Dellenger kick off the podcast discussing the latest college football proposal to shorten the duration of games after NCAA officials met earlier this week on the topic.

Jimmy Winkfield is just one of five men to win the prestigious race back-to-back in 1901 and ’02, but shortly after his triumph, U.S. horse racing turned its back him—and everyone who looked like him.
Kendrick Carmouche grew up the son of a jockey deep in Cajun country, in south Louisiana, where kids climbed on racehorses at an early age to find out whether they had what it takes to be a rider.
His first time on a fast horse, Kendrick was about 8 years old. His father, Sylvester, tied a rope around Kendrick’s thighs and around the horse’s underbelly to keep the kid onboard.

Do the New York Mets hate old people?
That’s what former player-turned-pitching coach Phil Regan thinks as the 85-year-old is suing the team for alleged age discrimination.
According to TMZ, Regan’s lawsuit claims that the Mets let go of him after the 2019 season because of his age, despite Regan saying that he delivered when it came to his job performance.
Phil Regan is claiming the Mets fired him because he was getting too old.

Brandon Miller, the leading scorer for Alabama basketball, brought the gun used in the murder of 23-year-old Jamea Jonae Harris in Tuscaloosa earlier this year, according to police testimony on Tuesday.
Miller’s former teammate, Darius Miles, and Michael ‘Buzz’ Davis are facing capital murder charges over their alleged involvement in the killing.
When Miller got to the scene, Miles told Davis, “The heat is in the hat,” according to police testimony. Det. Branden Culpepper said that meant a gun was present, according to AL.com.
Miles added, “There’s one in the head.

The title of “biggest underachiever” is now held solely by North Carolina. The Tar Heels carry the burden of an 0-9 Quadrant 1 record.

Howdy, y’all.
If you’re anything like me, you are extremely ready for the NBA season to resume. But if I’m being real, I’m not sure if that’s because the All-Star Game felt so uncompetitive that I really just need something else to erase it from my mind, or that I’m just that hungry for basketball.
Either way: I was prepared to write something on the most noteworthy story lines throughout the entire league for the final two months of play. Then I realized: Just about all the stuff I’m most curious to watch stems from Western Conference clubs.

Georgia defensive lineman Jalen Carter has the opportunity to be selected in the top five of the 2023 NFL Draft. But it was recently discussed by Todd McShay that Carter might have a few “character issues” that could turn off NFL teams. Well, according to a new report this certainly doesn’t seem to be the case.
I know you all remember when Todd McShay made it a point to say that Jalen Carter would have some hurdles to get past before the draft. The main problem that McShay mentioned was perceived character issues while at Georgia.

The Dolphins star came to the defense of his former OC.
LeSean McCoy raised eyebrows with his bold Eric Bieniemy prediction after the former Chiefs offensive coordinator agreed to join the Commanders, saying that he believes Bieniemy will struggle with a new team and doesn’t deserve credit for Kansas City’s passing game. The comments from McCoy prompted Dolphins star Tyreek Hill to chime in with his own two cents, and he took a shot at “Shady” in the process.

When the Tennessee Titans traded wide receiver AJ Brown to Philadelphia in the middle of last April’s NFL Draft, it sent shockwaves across the league. One of the top pass-catchers in the AFC was headed to the NFC in exchange for the No. 18 overall pick and a third-round pick.
It seemed like the Eagles got the better end of the deal, but it came with a caveat. Brown needed to get paid.
The fourth-year receiver was asking for a contract that Tennessee was unwilling to pay, so it shipped him north, where he signed a a four-year, $100 million contract, with $57 million guaranteed.