Offseason programs are underway, and we’re rolling toward the draft, so let’s get to a few takeaways from this past week …
There’s a lot on Bill O’Brien in Foxborough in his return to the NFL. Yes, he’s coming back as an offensive coordinator, and not a head coach. Sure, he’s working for the greatest head coach of all time in Bill Belichick. But in returning to his first home in pro football, and his actual hometown, he’s inheriting a situation that comes with a lot of strings attached, evidenced by last week’s Mac Jones news from ProFootballTalk.
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1. The single-best thing from the weekend was last night’s Succession episode. The second-best thing from the weekend was West Michigan Whitecaps play-by-play man Dan Hasty calling an at bat as if it was taking place at the Masters.
With the soft Masters music playing in the background, Hasty channeled his inner Jim Nantz and started the at bat during Saturday’s game with a, “Hello, friends.”
Then, in a hushed, calm tone, Hasty went into full play-by-play mode while mixing in all the lines you heard all weekend on CBS from Augusta.
Assistant referee Constantine Hatzidakis has been stood down from matches while he is investigated by the Football Association over his suspected elbow on Liverpool’s Andy Robertson during their Premier League draw with Arsenal.
The regular season is over, and ballots have been submitted for the league’s top awards. These are the players and coaches that got our vote, and the reasons behind it.
San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey proposed to his girlfriend, former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo, on April 2, the couple announced over the weekend in an Instagram post.
McCaffrey and Culpo have been a couple since 2019, during his third pro season with the Panthers. Culpo noted in their three-year anniversary Instagram post last June that they were set up by mutual friends.
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit model posted a few photos of the proposal, which appear to feature a rocky backdrop.
In a passionate nine-minute monologue, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich ripped politicians for not taking action to stop school shootings Sunday ahead of his team’s regular-season finale in Dallas. The soon-to-be Hall of Fame coach started his commentary by asking reporters if any of them were carrying a firearm.
“I just wondered because we have a governor [Greg Abbott] and lieutenant governor [Dan Patrick] and an attorney general [Ken Paxton] that made it easier to have more guns,” Popovich said in reference to three prominent Texas politicians, per ESPN.
A group of 40 professional, Olympic and Paralympic athletes signed a letter regarding recent anti-trans sports bans sent to House of Representatives legislative directors on Monday.
The athletes include USWNT star Megan Rapinoe, recently retired WNBA star Sue Bird and USWNT star Becky Sauerbrunn. The remaining athletes who signed the letter, organized by the LGBTQ advocacy group Athlete Ally, compete in various sports, such as soccer, hockey and rugby.
Teams are going into their last sets of draft meetings this week, there’s a week and a half left for all of them to host prospects on in-house 30 visits, and offseason programs are getting underway (for teams with new coaches) this week and (for everyone else) next.
Seventeen days left until the draft. We’re in the home stretch.
So I figured with my calls around set to ramp up in the coming days, now would be a good time to start setting the table for what’s brewing at the top of the draft order.
We started our NASCAR Easter Sunday with a dirty bunny picture, ended it with a dirty middle finger and then wreck, and mixed in a Tim Tebow sermon along the way.
I dare you to find a sport that covered that much ground yesterday! Ain’t happening.
Judging by the stands at Bristol, not that many folks saw what was a pretty compelling automobile race Sunday night.
Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. I’m excited to be going to Madison Square Garden tonight for the first time since the start of the pandemic as the Rangers gear up for the playoffs.
In today’s SI:AM:
🏌️♂️ Jon Rahm’s statement win
⛹️♀️ Why Aliyah Boston is the perfect No. 1 pick
😬 Two ugly NBA altercations
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