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Former Vikings quarterback and California football coach Joe Kapp died at the age of 85, his son J.J. Kapp confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle on Monday. Kapp had dealt with dementia over the last 15 years.
Kapp played three seasons with the Vikings, from 1967 to ’69. In his third season, he led the team to capture the NFL championship but lost to the Chiefs in Super Bowl IV, the final Super Bowl played before the NFL and AFL merger.

Two balls, one strike.
Poise under pressure and the ability to quickly diagnose a play are hallmarks of a great MLB catcher. On Monday night Mike Zunino helped record the most legendary out of the season by firing a pinpoint accurate throw to second — right into the nuts of Akil Baddoo.

We don’t know what to say. Just watch. pic.twitter.com/rOUxKpIA4F
— Cleveland Guardians (@CleGuardians) May 8, 2023

Whether this was “right place, right time” or “wrong place, wrong time” is all a matter of perspective.

Halfway through the conference semifinals, it’s time to take stock in which teams are feeling comfortable, and which teams can’t relax at all.

Two playoff series that are tied 2–2 have potentially pivotal Game 5s taking place Tuesday night.
The 76ers are back at TD Garden to battle the Celtics after they eked out an overtime win in Game 4. And out West, the Nuggets return to the Mile High City after they dropped both road games to the Suns.
Below are a few key betting trends and a pick involving each team in this postseason doubleheader. Philadelphia-Boston begins at 7:30 p.m. ET on TNT and Phoenix-Denver is next at 10.
Philadelphia 76ers vs.

We’re now closing on the start of real, actual football practices with full rosters—those get underway two weeks from Monday. For now …
• Bears offensive coordinator Luke Getsy said Monday that QB Justin Fields is “light-years ahead” of where he was a year ago, so I went looking for a little context on where Fields has taken those big steps. Tangibly, it should show up with the mental work he’s done to improve his command at the line of scrimmage—in changing protections and making adjustments within the offense.

These players have a chance to back their teams into a financial corner by flipping a declined 5th-year option into a lucrative payday.

Tensions are heightened as Oklahoma high school baseball nears the state playoff bracket. That was evident over the weekend as mullet-on-mullet violence proceeded to unfold during the handshake line.
Oklahoma Christian School, a private, faith-based K-12 school, is located in Edmond, Okla., a town of about 100,000 just north of Oklahoma City. The Saints, as they are known, played two OSSAA 3A Regional Tournament games over the weekend.
Both games were against the Bethel High School Wildcats. Bethel, serving approximately 400 students, is a 9-12 school located in Bethel Acres, Okla.

Tigers left fielder Akil Baddoo will probably never forget the time he tried to steal a base against the Guardians, only to fail in a spectacularly painful way. 
This brutal moment happened in Monday’s night game in Cleveland when he took off for second base. Guardians catcher Mike Zunino fired a ball to the bag but it got away from him a little bit and hit Baddoo right in the groin. Making matters even worse for Baddoo, Guardians second baseman, Andrés Giménez, was somehow able to secure the ball in his glove and get the out.

The Warriors decided to shake things up in the prelude to Game 4 of their Western Conference semifinal series against the Lakers, inserting guard Gary Payton II into their starting lineup.
Payton II, however, made headlines by briefly leaving the court in the middle of a play. He returned and eventually finished with 15 points, three rebounds and two assists in Golden State’s 104–101 loss.
His exit invited speculation from fans that quickly coalesced into a disgusting theory: Payton II may have left the court to throw up.