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NFL owners have apparently been supportive of a potential Commanders sale for years, and now that appears close to a reality. However, some owners are still upset with the process.
Nicki Jhabvala and Mark Maske of The Washington Post report that some people within the NFL are “disappointed” that Snyder is selling the team for just $6.05 billion, a. In fact, one person said that they thought the franchise was worth closer to $7 billion.

Archie Griffin racked up 26 touchdowns on the ground for Ohio State from 1972-75, winning two Heisman Trophies in one of college football’s most distinguished careers.
On Saturday, 48 years after leaving Columbus, the College Football Hall of Famer added one more.
The Buckeyes gave Griffin a token carry in the third quarter of their spring game, and he responded by ripping off a 25-yard touchdown run to an ovation from 75,122 attendees.

5:23 left in Q3: Gray 34, Scarlet 17.#Buckeyes legendary RB Archie Griffin — a two-time Heisman Trophy winner — runs in a TD.

Former NBA star Shawn Kemp has been charged with first-degree assault in a parking lot shooting in March, with prosecutors in Washington state saying that Kemp showed his intent in a text message he sent just before the shooting.

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Former NBA champion Harrison Barnes providing leadership for the surging Kings as they head into the NBA playoffs for the first time in nearly two decades.
The news of Harrison Barnes being traded came in the middle of a game, trickling down from Twitter to the bench in a real-time game of telephone.

For 40 years now, the 76ers have been waiting on a championship. They’ve watched the Eagles and Phillies end lengthy title droughts, and a parade of NBA teams hoist the crown as the league’s popularity has exploded.
Philadelphia has put quality teams on the court for the last six years, but none of those squads have advanced past the Eastern Conference semifinals. 76ers guard Tyrese Maxey is bent on changing that.
“Title or bust,” Maxey said on his podcast, Maxey on the Mic. “I think it is title or bust for us, honestly.

Darren McFadden was one of the best running backs in college football during the mid-2000s. Now, his son is looking to make his mark.
Diesel McFadden, a high school football player who is coming off his freshman season, announced on twitter that he will visit Illinois. The running back and linebacker still has three years until he graduates from William Taft High School in Chicago in 2026, but he seems ready to take college visits, starting with a local Big Ten program.

The significant Major League Baseball rule changes for the 2023 season, largely aimed to speed up the game, have been broadly popular so far this year. The pitch clock is probably the most significant in shaving down dead time in the game, and for that, fans are usually quite thankful.
However, there are some moments that baseball should still let breathe. Cody Bellinger’s return to Dodger Stadium was certainly one of them. The former Dodgers star, now with the Cubs, got a pretty touching standing ovation from the L.A.

ESPN will be keeping a familiar face on its NFL team for the foreseeable future.
The network has agreed to a four-year extension with NFL analyst Marcus Spears, according to a Friday evening report from Andrew Marchand of The New York Post.
Spears, 40, played defensive end for the Cowboys from 2005-12 and the Ravens in 2013. He was named to the NFL’s All-Rookie team in ’05 after Dallas drafted him 20th overall out of LSU.
ESPN initially brought Spears on board in April 2014 to join the then-nascent SEC Network.

In stoppage time of the second half vs. VfB Stuttgart, Borussia Dortmund midfielder Gio Reyna scored a huge goal to put his team up 3–2.
The goal, a strike off a rebound inside the box, was Reyna’s first goal since February 4 for Dortmund and his sixth of the season overall. The score snapped a five-game goal-less streak, Reyna’s longest since the World Cup, when he went 11 straight games without a goal for both Dortmund and the USMNT in Bundesliga matches, Champions League games and international friendlies.

The Dalvin Cook-Minnesota Vikings situation doesn’t seem to be firing on all cylinders right now.
And by that, I mean Cook’s agent, Zach Hiller, joined the Caps Off podcast and called the franchise mediocre while also saying the star running back has basically been playing on one healthy shoulder for years now.
So, yeah … not great!
“People are starting to realize, Dalvin averages 107 yards per game, he has Hall of Fame numbers, but he’s been in Minnesota, they’ve been mediocre, and, like, he actually has incredible statistics,” Hiller says in one clip.