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Philadelphia Phillies announcer Kevin Stocker had a bit of a slip-up while trying to navigate a live read to promote the team’s upcoming Dick Allen bobblehead promotion.
The Phillies will give out bobbleheads to celebrate the late franchise great who died in 2020. So, to get people to come out, buy a ticket, and take home a sweet, sweet Dick Allen bobblehead some promotion was in order.
It happened during Monday’s Phillies-Dodgers game when Stocker attempted to get through the rather wordy live read. It didn’t help that his script featured a veritable minefield of phallic synonyms.

• We had a request for a French Open Guide column, as we’ve done for the U.S. Open. Anyone has tips, hacks, etc., fire away …
• Here’s the Aussie Rules Football piece …
Onward …

Jon, the Super Bowl was weeks ago and what’s everyone talking about? The NFL Draft. It got me thinking: tennis can’t obviously do a draft. But what else can it do to capture attention of fans, apart from the matches themselves. You seem like the kind of person who might have thoughts.
Thanks, Chas
We should all be looking for pro tennis brand extensions. Both tours. Networks. Players.

Former world heavyweight champion boxer Deontay Wilder was arrested early Tuesday morning in Los Angeles for possession of a concealed weapon. He was taken into custody around 1:15 a.m. and released on $35,000 bond about five hours later.
Los Angeles Police Department officers stopped Wilder’s Rolls-Royce because the vehicle’s front windows were tinted too dark and it had an obstructed license plate, according to Richard Wilton of the Los Angeles Times. When officers smelled marijuana, they opted to search the vehicle, finding a 9-millimeter handgun and some marijuana.

Aaron Rodgers’s move to New York has excited the Jets fan base, as the team has a high level quarterback for the first time in a long time. That excitement has manifested itself in ticket sales, as fans have flocked to secure tickets for the upcoming season.
According to Eric Jackson of Sportico, the Jets have received a 400% increase in season tickets and suite sales compared to last year, when the team was coming off a 4-13 season in 2021 season. Of that number, 250% came in between Rodgers’s appearance on The Pat McAfee Show in March and the official trade announcement last week.

The San Francisco Giants announced Tuesday that they have released catcher Gary Sánchez after the former All-Star requested to exercise the May 1 opt-out of his minor league deal with the club.
Sánchez, who signed a minor-league deal with the Giants on March 31, failed to earn a call up to the team’s major league roster after batting a dismal .164 with no home runs, eight RBIs and 19 strikeouts in 16 games at Triple A Sacramento.
The contract allowed the former Yankees All-Star to opt out of the deal if he wasn’t promoted to the major league roster by May 1.

Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus share a special bond as the two greatest golfers of all-time. It is hard to imagine that anyone, ever, will be as prominent of a figure in the sport as the Big Cat or the Golden Bear. (Except for the Little Cat, Charlie Woods, but I digress.)
Woods and Nicklaus talk quite a bit. Especially as the former continues to deal with his recovery from a major, near-fatal car accident.
Most recently, Woods was forced to withdraw from The Masters. He was hurting.

A member of the New Jersey Devils “Woo Crew” was on the receiving end of a nasty sucker punch from an angry New York Rangers fan.
It happened during Monday night’s Game 7 between the two teams. It was a heated series seeing as the teams are separated by about 14 miles and the Hudson River. The seven-game series went the distance, only for the Blueshirts to not show up in the deciding game which the Devils won 4-0.
One Rangers fan appeared to be unhappy with some combination of his team’s performance and the brave men and women encouraging Devils fans to woo after a goal.

Police searching for two missing teenagers in rural Oklahoma say they have found seven dead bodies.

Bo Nix has settled in at Oregon, ready for a better outcome in his final year with the Ducks. The senior quarterback was getting Heisman buzz for a time last season before he got injured and the Ducks derailed. Nix is among a large group of experienced returning quarterbacks in the Pac-12, joining Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams of USC, Washington’s Michael Penix Jr., Washington State’s Cameron Ward and Arizona’s Jayden de Laura.

Welcome to the Las Vegas Aces’ brand-new maximum security training facility, where even team members have trouble gaining access.
One Aces player had herself a Jamal Adams-type hiccup as she tried getting into the facility in Henderson, Nevada, on Monday several times without any luck.
History Repeats Itself With Las Vegas Aces’ Sydney Colson
Caught in the hilarious moment was 33-year-old Aces point guard Sydney Colson.
Spritely walking up to the new facility, Colson was ready to put in a day’s work but kept getting denied access at the door.