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Suns forward Kevin Durant has moved firmly into the elder statesman phase of his career.
Once one of the league’s brightest young stars, the future Hall of Famer will be 35 when Phoenix opens its 2023-24 season. He has spanned nearly a generation of players, bridging the league’s defensive-minded mid-2000s with its high-octane present.
With all that experience under his belt, you would think it would be difficult to impress Durant on the court. However, he makes an exception for two players, past and present, as he indicated via Twitter on Wednesday evening.

Pat McAfee was among the presenters at the 2023 ESPYs on Wednesday night, and he had plenty of jokes during his time on stage at the awards show in Los Angeles.
During his monologue, McAfee took the opportunity to have a laugh at the expense of Fox Sports personality Skip Bayless. 
After shouting out Bills safety Damar Hamlin, who was in attendance, McAfee proceeded to roast Bayless for his insensitivity in regard to Hamlin’s cardiac arrest in Week 17 of the regular season.

Longtime ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale announced Wednesday that he is once again facing a bout with cancer.
The 84-year-old former coach, who’s been calling games for the network for over four decades, wrote in a statement that he has vocal cord cancer and will undergo six weeks of radiation treatment. Surgery is not expected, and he shared that his doctor told him that his condition has an “extremely high cure rate.”
“I plan to fight like hell to be ready to call games when the college hoops season tips off in the fall.

Larry Nassar’s attacker may have been motivated to stab the disgraced sports doctor over comments he made while watching women’s tennis.
The former MSU and Olympian doctor was involved in a prison stabbing on Sunday at a Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. Larry Nassar was stabbed 10 times: six hits to the chest, two to the neck and two more to the back.
For a guy with a history of sex crimes, Nassar surely could’ve watched his words.

ARLINGTON, Texas — In his second Big 12 football media days address, commissioner Brett Yormark was slightly more understated on the podium. But rest assured, the aggressive commish has no expansionist chill behind the scenes. The lean, cocksure 56-year-old is pursuing deals the way he attacks the Peloton leaderboard every morning.
That should keep conferences on both coasts nervous.
The Pac-12, still meandering toward a media-rights agreement? Keep your members close, especially Colorado.

One the best running backs in NFL history is upset with the way players at the position are being viewed in regard to salary.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Marcus Allen is aware of the ongoing contract disputes regarding Raiders tailback Josh Jacobs and Saquon Barkley of the Giants.
During a Wednesday interview with Silver and Black Pride at the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament at South Lake Tahoe, the former Raiders and Chiefs star said investing in top running backs is vital to a franchise’s success.

Vitale was diagnosed with melanoma and lymphoma in 2021 and announced he was cancer free in 2022.

Lakers head coach Darvin Ham offered a strong statement to make it clear how he feels about all the teams that didn’t hire him last offseason.
“They f—ed up royally,” Ham told NBA reporters Marc Stein and Chris Haynes on the #thisleague UNCUT podcast this week.
The Lakers hired Ham in May 2022, and the move worked out well for Los Angeles, as Ham guided the team to a Western Conference finals appearance after a slow start. The Lakers finished with a 43–39 record despite winning just two of their first 12 games.

The last year that Oklahoma and Oklahoma State didn’t meet on a football field was 1909.

Following Northwestern’s decision to fire head football coach Pat Fitzgerald after an investigation into allegations of hazing, the Wildcats are seeking a new head coach. 
According to a report from InsideNU, former LSU head coach Ed Orgeron would be interested in the recently vacated role. The report clarifies, however, that the former national championship winning coach has not been contacted by Northwestern.
“According to a source, Orgeron ‘would have interest’ in Northwestern’s opening,” reported Bradley Locker of InsideNU.