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The Denver coach will reportedly be the second-highest-paid coach in the league.
The Broncos landed the biggest name of the NFL coaching cycle, hiring former Saints coach Sean Payton to take over the team. In order to land him, Denver’s new ownership group put up the money to seal the deal.
According to NBC Sports’ Peter King, Sean Payton’s contract with the Broncos is for five years and “in the neighborhood of” $18 million a year. That number would make Payton the second-highest-paid coach in not just the NFL, but in all of American sports.

A minor league hockey team had quite possibly the easiest win they will ever have after the home team didn’t show up to the rink to play them and forfeited.
It happened in the SPHL — the Southern Professional Hockey League — an independent minor league with teams across the southern and midwestern United States. Like something out of Slap Shot, the Quad City Storm dealt with one bizarre weekend.
The Storm were supposed to play a weekend series against the Vermilion County Bobcats who play out of Danville, Illinois. However, hours before the game, Vermilion County canceled.

Clemson, UCLA and Marquette are among the men’s programs leading their conferences.
Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in men’s college basketball, where those who witnessed Tennessee 46, Auburn 43, may never recover:
FIRST HALF: When College Coaches Become Emperors
Second half
First time in a long time
Across the land, there are teams at the top of conference standings who aren’t accustomed to being there—at least being there at the end of the season.

The current UAB coach made the comment during the ESPN documentary “Bullies of Baltimore.”
Trent Dilfer is a Super Bowl-winning quarterback who can thank most of his success to being a very good game manager. The fella knew what he was working with and didn’t try to do anything crazy. 
What is a crazy, though, is a take he recently shared about Tom Brady, the seven-time Super Bowl-winning GOAT, and Aaron Rodgers, who has only one Super Bowl ring but is right up there in the GOAT discussion.