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Life in 2026 has everyone asking this question at various points throughout the week, if not the day.
“What the hell did I just watch?”
Whether it is the latest streaming sensation, an off-the-rails speech from a political leader, the newest viral trend, or a celebrity story that has us feeling like the main character in the infamous “curtains for Zoosha” tweet, life is strange these days.
That brings us to what we saw from the Buffalo Bills on Wednesday.

Michael Zheng beat Sebastian Korda to advance to the second round of the Australian Open. (Photo by IZHAR KHAN / AFP via Getty Images)IZHAR KHAN via Getty Images

When it’s all said and done for Michael Zheng’s tennis career, he probably won’t lose much sleep over the $150,000 he isn’t allowed to bring home from the 2026 Australian Open.
Barring some type of catastrophic injury or other life-altering event, the 21-year old American who has won back-to-back NCAA singles titles for Columbia University is going to make millions over the next decade playing on the ATP Tour.

The Los Angeles Lakers returned to notoriety when the team signed superstar LeBron James in free agency ahead of the 2018-19 NBA season. While that partnership turned out well initially — with James leading the team to a championship in his second season — Lakers owner Jeanie Buss reportedly began to sour on James, per ESPN’s Baxter Holmes. 
That tidbit was revealed as part of a much larger piece on the Buss’ family drama and how it led to the team being sold to Mark Walter.

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The Porsche 963 is the fastest LMDh car in the field before any Balance of Performance changes Throughout the 2025 World Endurance Championship, the only Hypercar based on a Multimatic chassis had the least favorable power-to-weight ratio in the critical range below 250kph among all LMDh prototypes.
This alone demonstrates that Porsche Penske Motorsport has pushed the LMDh concept to its absolute limit like no other manufacturer, which is also reflected in their success in the IMSA SportsCar Championship.
The subsequent WEC exit is all the more regrettable.

Hopefully not the highest accolade Santana will have received. | Scott A. Schneider / Getty Images
The Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2026 was finalized yesterday with the election(s) of Carlos Beltrán and Andruw Jones. While so much has been said about the electees, I’m curious about the players who didn’t get in.
Of the 11 first-time nominees who fell off the ballot yesterday, none were Twins; of returning players, Torii Hunter came closest, getting 37 votes (8.4 percent).

Charles Barkley has been employed by ESPN for just more than a year, but would want nothing more than the four-letter network to fire him, and he isn’t afraid to admit it.
Throughout his media career, Barkley has been open and honest about his job situations and contracts. After ‘Inside The NBA’ made the jump to ESPN, one may have assumed that Chuck would be a bit more buttoned up about those details, given the network’s reach across various sports and, frankly, its large number of employees making a wide-range of salaries.
That hasn’t been the case at all.

Mark Jones replaced Toby Booth as Ospreys head coach [Huw Evans Picture Agency]
Ospreys head coach Mark Jones says the squad have been told that owners Y11 Sport & Media are in talks to buy rivals Cardiff and confirmed players walked out of a meeting.
Uncertainty has arisen after the Ospreys owners emerged as the preferred bidders from the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) to purchase the Arms Park side.

The future of the Ryder Cup is a bit unclear.
To be specific, the future that is unknown is on the participant level. Professional golf is still in a place with cloudy details in terms of what players who are a part of LIV Golf are going to be eligible to do. Brooks Koepka recently left the league to return to the PGA Tour and perhaps he will be a part of the United States Ryder Cup team in 2027, but it is the European front that is in a bit of a bind.
In case you are unaware, this issue centers around Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton (both members of LIV Golf and its Legion XIII).

Rangers head coach Danny Rohl has been speaking to the media as his side prepare to face Ludogorets in the Europa League at Ibrox on Thursday night.
Here are the main points:

John Souttar will miss the Ludogorets and Dundee games because of an unspecified short-term injury. Rohl expects him back in the fold from Monday.
All three new signings are ineligible for Thursday night but Andreas Skov Olsen is likely to feature against Dundee on Sunday.

With a president of football and head coach in place, the Falcons are moving on to General Manager interviews.
According to multiple reports, Atlanta has put in requests to interview Bears assistant G.M. Ian Cunningham, Texans assistant G.M. James Liipfert, and 49ers director of scouting and football operations Josh Williams.
The Falcons previously interviewed Cunningham for the club’s president of football role, that ultimately went the franchise’s former quarterback, Matt Ryan.