Have a ratings problem? Bring back your most popular driver AND go to the wildest, most unpredictable track on your schedule. NASCAR did both in back-to-back weeks and I have a feeling the payoff will be worth it.
Hell, did anyone see that Talladega crowd on Sunday? What is this, 1998? Unlike Bud Light’s sales, I think NASCAR should be in the green when the numbers come out. Just a hunch.
And hey — it doesn’t hurt to have arguably the two biggest villains in the sport battling it out on the final lap.
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🐻 The Grizzlies’ embarrassing Game 3
🗽 The Knicks’ home court advantage
🏈 Every team’s biggest needs in the NFL draft
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After cruising to a comfortable victory Saturday, the Lakers have a chance to push the Grizzlies to the brink of elimination tonight in Los Angeles.
After a big spring game Saturday, Colorado wide receiver Montana Lemonious-Craig announced Sunday that he intends to enter the transfer portal as a junior.
“I am truly grateful for each and every person who has contributed to my college experience,” Lemonious-Craig wrote on Twitter. “I am particularly thankful for the sincere people I have had the pleasure of meeting during my time at the University of Colorado.
While it’s certainly not the same as being without a star scorer for a key playoff game, Tom Thibodeau’s reality late Sunday morning—that he was going to be without injured Knicks wing stopper Quentin Grimes—was a tough one. Despite Grimes’s youth, he was the guy Thibodeau planned to have take on the assignment of guarding superstar scorer Donovan Mitchell.
So without Grimes, Thibodeau turned to Josh Hart—a skilled wing himself, but also a player who’s been on four teams in six years and has only been with New York since early February.
Shohei Ohtani continues to be the coolest player in Major League Baseball, and what he did over the weekend only backed up that assessment even more.
What was wild about this moment from the Angels’ game against the Royals on Sunday was that he didn’t need to hit a ridiculous home run or throw pitches that looked like frisbees bending in the wind.
All he did on this play was hit a grounder to the right side of the infield that should have been an out. It wasn’t, though, because Ohtani showed off impressive speed down the basepath and got an infield single.
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Trey Lance attended North Dakota State’s final spring practice Saturday, and questions about a possible trade followed him to Fargo.
But the signal-caller didn’t have much to say when asked directly about a potential trade—perhaps to his home state of Minnesota.
“I got no comment on that,” Lance said, per inforum.com. “I have no information.”
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Wednesday that San Francisco was fielding calls from teams that were interested in trading for Lance. The interest in the No.
The Ravens have the 22nd pick in the first round of the 2023 NFL draft. Though it remains a guessing game as to who general manager Eric DeCosta and his team of scouts and player personnel evaluators will select, the oddsmakers predict it will be a cornerback. If they’re right, it will be the second consecutive draft Baltimore looks to bolster their secondary with a first-round selection. The Ravens drafted safety Kyle Hamilton with the 14th overall pick in 2022 and have gone with a defensive player in the first round in two of the last three years.
If you’re going to hit the transfer portal, make sure you make a splash on the way out. This is exactly what Colorado wide receiver Montana Lemonious-Craig did on Sunday night after Deion Sanders’ Colorado television debut on Saturday.
One day after making every highlight reel from the Colorado Spring game, the wideout had his name in the transfer portal. In front of a sold-out crowd in Boulder on Saturday, Montana Lemonious-Craig hauled in 154 yards and 2 touchdowns, driving up his value on national television.
Montana started twelve of the 25 games he played at Colorado.
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Cleveland has six selections in the three middle rounds of this year’s NFL draft.
Despite their limited selections at the top, the Cleveland Browns can control the middle of the 2023 NFL Draft. The Browns currently have six selections combined between the third, fourth, and fifth rounds. Those selections span from pick 74 to pick 142.
Six selections within 68 picks of each other in the middle three rounds of the draft gives general manager Andrew Berry a lot of options.
For Leonard Ellerbe, CEO of Mayweather Promotions, the hours after Gervonta “Tank” Davis’s knockout win over Ryan Garcia amounted to a victory lap. For years Ellerbe had declared Davis one of boxing’s top pound-for-pound fighters. After a dominant performance against Garcia, Ellerbe had the receipts to back it up.
“You guys have not seen what a terrific boxer Tank is,” Ellerbe told a group of reporters. “He’s a complete fighter. That’s the makeup of a complete fighter.