Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark claims he’s never pursued adding Memphis.
Yormark and the Big 12 are currently in the process of trying to add more teams amid realignment chaos.
The conference is definitely targeting teams from the PAC-12 as its top priority. If that fails, the Big 12 will then work its way down a list of options among G5 programs.
Brett Yormark responds to rumor the Big 12 might be interested in adding Memphis. (Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
It was recently reported the Tigers could be on that list, but Yormark says that’s simply not true.
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We made our annual trip to wine country over the weekend, which means NASCAR wives got tanked, drivers let loose in robes, and one even got called out for his manhood. True story.
Oh yeah — Sunday’s main event at Sonoma? That kind of sucked. We’re nothing if not honest here, and I have to call it fair. No stage breaks, no real cautions, like three leaders all day and zero drama.
Ain’t exactly my recipe for a road course race, but it is what it is. Can’t all be winners, you know.
Now, NASCAR takes a rare break before we leave FOX and head to NBC for the second half of the season.
The Pittsburgh Pirates have been the biggest surprise of the 2023 MLB season, as they’re currently in first place in the NL Central with a 34-30 record.
One of the biggest reasons for their success has been their star pitcher, Mitch Keller. The right-hander picked up his eighth win of the season on Sunday after giving up just two hits in seven innings of work at home against the New York Mets.
Keller has some really filthy stuff, which Mets center fielder Brandon Nimmo found out about firsthand on Sunday.
Most people mistakenly tackled by security in front of thousands of people would be furious, but not Adam Hadwin. The PGA Tour pro is taking the wild and hilarious moment in stride after being tackled by popping champagne with Nick Taylor.
In case you missed it, Taylor drained a 70-foot eagle putt on the fourth playoff hole on Sunday to win the RBC Canadian Open over Tommy Fleetwood. Taylor snapped a 69-year drought of a Canadian winning the country’s open championship.
As one would expect, pure mayhem ensued after his eagle putt dropped.
Megan Rapinoe boldly claimed Sue Bird might be the greatest athlete in the history of sports, and Twitter didn’t like that at all.
Rapinoe and Bird have been together for years and are currently engaged. It makes sense why she’d want to hype up her partner, but she took things a bit too far.
“Congratulations on, like, arguably the best career that anyone has ever had in the history of any sport ever,” Rapinoe said during a Sunday jersey retirement ceremony for Bird.
“Congratulations on like, arguably the best career that anyone has ever had in the history of any sport ever.
Phil Mickelson and LIV Golf have been hit with a federal trademark infringement lawsuit, accused of copying a logo of a skateboarding and lifestyle brand.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court on Thursday, comes from attorneys representing Cool Brand Supply. Cool Brand says it has sold footwear and apparel with a trademarked logo since 2003 that is very similar to the HyFlyers GC logo. Mickelson captains the HyFlyers team.
It wasn’t until after he had dashed 44 feet to his right, after he had slid and after he had backhanded the ball inches off the grass that Phillies right fielder Nick Castellanos realized it was a tough play, his best of the season. It was also not a play he would have made last year.
Seated at his locker a day after he snatched a double from the Mets’ Brandon Nimmo, Castellanos grins. “I was like, ‘Wow, good job, Nick!’” he says.
Clutch Casty Catch pic.twitter.com/gQMl8Uuad1
— Philadelphia Phillies (@Phillies) May 31, 2023
He has merited a lot of praise this year.
The term “breakout” has different meanings for different people in the world of fantasy football. Some folks believe it’s simply a player who will outperform his draft position. Others think it’s an established player who emerges into a regular fantasy starter after never having reached that sort of status in the past.
In my opinion, both definitions are true but with a caveat. I don’t see a player as a breakout candidate if he’s already reached his “statistical ceiling” during his career. For example, Justin Herbert or Najee Harris aren’t “breakouts” to me.
New Orleans Pelicans star Zion Williamson once again drew the ire of former adult film actress, and apparently former flame, Moriah Mills as she posted alleged texts between herself and the NBA player and continued to rant about him on Twitter.
Mills, who is now a hip-hop artist and calls herself Moriah M, made the initial claim she was in a relationship with Williamson after his girlfriend announced earlier in the week the two were expecting a baby.