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1. If you’re like me and you don’t have one college football team you root for and you adopt different teams each year, I have your squad for the 2023 season.
The Charlotte 49ers of the AAC.
Charlotte’s coach, Biff Poggi (right off the bat, that’s a great name, so I’m already partial to Poggi), seems to be quite a character based on his media interactions this week.
On Tuesday, Poggi didn’t hide his disgust at AAC media day when the journalists in attendance could muster up only three questions for him.

Paula Scanlan, a teammate of Lia Thomas‘ on the Penn women’s swim team, testified in front of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Thursday. She not only described how ludicrous and uncomfortable it was having to share a locker room with a biological male, but also explained she was forced to do so as a sexual assault survivor herself.
Scanlan was one of six witnesses to speak in Washington D.C. in the House-titled discussion ‘The Dangers and Due Process Violations of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Children.

Terence Crawford and Errol Spence Jr. will fight for the undisputed welterweight title Saturday in Las Vegas in boxing’s biggest fight in several years.

Garbage time.
It’s the scenario in which a game has become a blowout and the final result has been determined, but there’s still time left on the clock. The defense for the winning team starts playing more conservatively, which can lead to “garbage time points” for the trailing offense. Those points are meaningless as it pertains to the game’s final outcome … but they still count just like “regular points” in our fantasy matchups.

It’s been six months since Sean Payton took over as head coach of the Denver Broncos. And he’s wasted no time going scorched earth on the former regime.
“Everything I heard about last season, we’re doing the opposite,” Payton said.
In an interview with USA Today, the outspoken coach described everything that went wrong in the Broncos’ disappointing 2022 campaign.
“It doesn’t happen often where an NFL team or organization gets embarrassed,” Payton said. “And that happened here.

Lakers star LeBron James thanked fans for the outpouring support regarding his eldest son, Bronny James, after the USC freshman was rushed to the hospital following a cardiac arrest in practice on Monday.
“I want to thank the countless people sending my family love and prayers. We feel you and I’m so grateful. Everyone doing great. We have our family together, safe and healthy, and we feel your love. Will have more to say when we’re ready but I wanted to tell everyone how much your support has meant to all of us! #JamesGang👑,” James tweeted.

Rivals in your league may mock you for reaching, but do you want to wait and end up with an average signal-caller? There are pros and cons to each approach.

Getting hit with a major league fastball hurts. That’s why pitchers do it on purpose sometimes. If you want to retaliate against a player, planting a pitch in their back or butt is going to hurt, and hurting a guy can sound like a good way to revenge. But players get hit by pitches by accident all the time, too. And those hurt just as much as intentional beanballs. Just ask Mets utilityman Jeff McNeil. 
In the fourth inning of Wednesday night’s game against the Yankees, McNeil got drilled squarely in the center of his back by a 96 mph fastball from Carlos Rodón.

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There’s plenty to love and hate about NFL training camps.
Everyone is in the best shape of their life, and every player who started the summer on the physically unable to perform list is on track to play Week 1.
There’s also plenty of optimism this time of year, and the overreactions are out of control. For example, it seems every Chiefs wide receiver is destined to be a star No. 1 target.
And don’t get me started on reporters keeping track of quarterbacks’ completion percentages and interceptions in seven-on-seven drills with players sporting shorts.