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The Grizzlies have told Dillon Brooks, who is set to become an unrestricted free agent this offseason, that he will not return to Memphis “under any circumstances,” The Athletic’s Shams Charania reports. According to Charania, both sides agreed at the exit interviews that it is best for both to move on.
Brooks has spent his entire career in Memphis, joining the Grizzlies as a second-round pick out of Oregon in 2017. He quickly established himself on the team, playing in 82 games as a rookie and averaging at least 14 points per game in each of the last four seasons.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Fiesta and Cotton bowls drew the two New Year’s Eve kickoff slots as quarterfinals in the expanded College Football Playoff, while the Rose and Sugar are retaining their traditional kickoff times on New Year’s Day.
The CFP released its finalized schedule for the 2024 and ’25 12-team playoff on Tuesday, revealing bowl time slots and dates. CFP leaders agreed to the dates last week, something executive director Bill Hancock shared with reporters. But they did not unveil the bowl assignments for the first two years until Tuesday.

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Toto Wolff is taking his F1 experience to Harvard Business School
You can call Mercedes Team Principal Toto Wolff a lot of things.
Including Adjunct Professor.
Wolff and Mercedes announced on Tuesday that the team boss was appointed an Executive Fellow at the Harvard Business School. Wolff will serve as a guest lecturer alongside Professor Anita Elberse. Beginning in January the two will team up to teach a course titled “Mercedes F1: Leading a High-Performance Team.”
The announcement follows Wolff’s previous experience with Professor Elberse.

Will Levis is no longer a college football quarterback. He is an NFL quarterback.
Levis was drafted No. 33 overall by the Titans, two picks into the second round, after a tough-to-watch slide out of the first round. Although it was an undeniably disappointing day in the moment, it may have been a blessing in disguise that he ended up in Tennessee on Day 2.
Regardless of how things play out long term, Levis had his lifelong dream come true by hearing his name called.

Warriors forward Draymond Green had an eventful first-round series against the Kings. So eventful, in fact, that he continued to generate headlines even after the series was over.
After a fiercely contested seven-game battle that saw Green ejected from Game 2 for stomping on the chest of Sacramento forward Domantas Sabonis, Green assailed Sabonis on his podcast for failing to shake his hand after Game 7. However, a video from 2018 shows Green espousing a different perspective on postgame handshakes.