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Apparently, there are rumors in Houston that Texans GM Nick Caserio is planning to desert the team following the NFL Draft and return to New England.
Veteran Houston reporter John McClain said he heard these rumors from someone in the league but did not believe them.

On Sports Radio 610 this morning, John McClain (@McClain_on_NFL) says of Texans GM Nick Caserio
“I had someone tell me at the NFL Combine that Caserio is going to return to New England after the draft.”
Follows with he doesn’t believe it & that the McNairs are happy with him.

Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts became the highest-paid player in NFL history on Monday, prompting a classy response from Chiefs superstar Patrick Mahomes.
Hurts is due to earn $255 million over the next five seasons in Philadelphia, giving him an average annual value of $51 million per season. That ranks ahead of Mahomes, who, on his 10-year, $450 million contract, earns $45 million per year. 
Via James Palmer of NFL Network, Mahomes weighed in on Hurts’s new deal and congratulated the Eagles’ star on his big payday.

As Zay Flowers heads off to the NFL and hopes to hear his name called in the first round of this month’s draft, Mike Tomlin’s son is hoping to fill the void that he left at Boston College. Dino Tomlin, son of the Pittsburgh Steelers head coach, is making a strong push for playing time but left his dad with some mixed feelings Saturday.
Tomlin was a three-star recruit out of high school with 15 offers from Iowa State, Toledo, Howard, Duquesne and Albany, among others.

Fixed events in China? You don’t say…
Chinese basketball is riding a wave of controversy this week after an announcement by the Chinese Basketball Association found two teams deliberately fixed the results of a first-round playoff series.

Eight teams in the past 36 seasons have gone on to win the ultimate prize after having the best regular-season record. Here’s the case for — and against — Boston becoming No. 9.

The Kings and Oilers are set to meet in the first round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, and already tensions are beginning to boil over.
Los Angeles’ veteran defenseman Drew Doughty made clear on Monday that he’s not forgotten what went down during the Kings’ most recent matchup against Edmonton, during which Oilers superstar Connor McDavid was penalized for boarding Mikey Anderson. 
Ahead of Game 1 of their playoff showdown, Doughty made clear that McDavid could be in for a long and physical series.

At halftime of the Suns–Clippers game on Sunday night, Los Angeles guard Russell Westbrook got into an altercation with a Phoenix fan. Westbrook was walking through club-level seating when he heard a fan say something to him, and instead of letting it slide, he decided to yell back at the fan.
On twitter, FanDuel’s Eddie Gonzalez said he was near the interaction and claims the fan called Westbrook “Westbrick.” The nickname is a reference to Westbrook’s shooting percentage, as the guard shot 43.6% from the field and 31.1% from three-point range on the season.

With the stakes of the Warriors‘ first-round playoff series against the Kings heightened after a contentious Game 1, Golden State turned to a familiar face for background music before Game 2.
The Warriors were recorded shooting around to the music of rapper E-40 Monday afternoon before Game 2, two days after Golden 1 Center security removed him from his courtside seat in Game 1 due to “excessive standing.”
E-40, 55, is a native of East Bay, Calif., as well as an avid Golden State fan and season ticket holder.

A 33-year-old accountant from Australia etched his name into the Guinness World Records book by completing the most push-ups in one hour.
Lucas Helmke, who did the push-ups in his local gym in Brisbane, finished with 3,206 in just one hour, which comes out to an average of around 53 push-ups per minute.
He broke the previous record by 24 push-ups, which was set just last April by another Australian man. This is the fourth time the record has been broken in the last three years.

Riverton, Utah, is a growing town in the southern part of Salt Lake County that is surrounded by gorgeous mountain ranges. And fresh air.
And freedom.
“Freedom has a home in Riverton,” mayor Trent Staggs told OutKick on Monday morning.
That applies both literally and figuratively.
Staggs recently inaugurated the Mayor’s Freedom Award and decided the first one should rightly go to former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom.