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1. The New Heights podcast (Winner of Sports Illustrated’s Best New Podcast award in 2022), hosted a live show Wednesday night in Kansas City, where the NFL draft will take place Thursday.
The Kelce brothers did their thing and entertained as always.
Bad day to be a beer! 🍺 @newheightshow pic.twitter.com/8UegNuKcMs
— Sports Radio 810 WHB (@SportsRadio810) April 27, 2023
However, in a shocking twist, it was NFL commissioner Roger Goodell who may have had the show’s best moment.
Jimmy Butler and the Heat are moving on to the second round of the NBA playoffs after beating the Bucks 4–1 in their first-round series, which ended in dramatic fashion Wednesday after Butler sent the game to overtime with one of the greatest buzzer-beaters of all time.
Butler is back to being a force in the playoffs for the Heat. He had 56 points in Miami’s Game 4 win and 42 in Game 5, including that buzzer-beater that should be in NBA highlight videos for the rest of time.
The St. Louis Cardinals fell to the San Fransico Giants on Thursday for what was their fifth loss in their last six games. With the team sitting at 9-16 on the year and struggling to find wins, studio host Al Hrabosky decided to react to the team’s slow start by joking about suicide.
During the postgame show on Wednesday night, Hrabosky offered up a “suggestion” for St. Louis’ broadcast team which was to change their hotel room to the bottom floor because they “might jump” if they’re staying on a higher floor.
He told you this was coming, he even put it on YouTube so everyone could see. Deion Sanders took the Colorado job knowing he was about to turn the roster over in a manner never seen before.
I know this might come as a shock to the Colorado fans who have never seen such a brash coach leading the program. But coming off a 1-11 season, the football team needed an overhaul and Deion was ready to bring in his type of players. Whether you want to call some of his tactics a bit much, that’s fair.
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It is draft day, but there is still time for the rumor mill
We have reached Draft Day.
I hope you remembered to put milk and cookies out for Kevin Costner.
A reminder to leave milk and cookies out for Kevin Costner tonight
— Tampa Bay Buccaneers (@Buccaneers) April 27, 2023
However, we still have some time to pass before everything gets underway, which means a final spin around the league to look at the latest NFL Draft rumors.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, the time has almost come. After all the speculation and conjecture, the NFL Draft begins tonight. If you’ve been following along with my mock draft coverage since January, you’ll notice some big changes. Even from the most recent version.
If you want more information on any of the players below, check out my latest NFL Draft Big Board.
Reminder — the Miami Dolphins forfeited their first-round pick as punishment from the league for tampering with Tom Brady and Sean Payton, which is why there are 31 picks and not 32.
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There’s no denying the growth of Formula 1 over the past few seasons. Although much of that can be pinned down to the hit Netflix series Drive to Survive, the championship has undergone a huge face-lift in recent years. Liberty Media bought Formula 1 back in 2017, and since then, it has continued to shake up the DNA of the sport and completely change how it delivers content to fans.
One significant addition is the rise of content creators, and in Formula 1, Lissie Mackintosh has emerged as one of the rising stars in this space.
Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Bucks had their season come to an abrupt end Wednesday night in a Game 5 loss to the Heat. It moved Miami into the second round of the NBA playoffs and left Milwaukee wondering what could have been after it entered the postseason as the favorite to win the title.
Antetokounmpo, who led the Bucks to the championship in 2021, missed two games of this series with a back injury. His return wasn’t enough, though, mostly because Jimmy Butler was back doing Jimmy Butler things in the playoffs yet again.
There have been relatively few surprises in how MLB’s new rules have invigorated the running game: The bigger bases and limitations on pickoff moves were designed to boost stolen bases, and so far, they’ve done just that. MLB averaged 0.48 stolen bases per team game from 2019 to ‘22. That number is now all the way up to 0.69, a near 44% increase. Teams are attempting more stolen bases than they have in years, and they’re more successful than ever, too.
Mike Sweeney is homeless and was recently living out of his car until it stopped running. While his living situation isn’t by choice, it is part of the journey of chasing his dream of one day playing on the PGA Tour, and after Monday qualifying into this week’s Korn Ferry Tour event he’s a step closer to making that dream a reality.
Sweeney shot 7-under on Monday before earning a spot in this week’s HomeTown Lenders Championship in Huntsville, Alabama via a playoff.