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The old saying goes that shortstop is the hardest position to play in all of sports. Just ask Bobby Witt Jr. 
In Monday night’s game against the Tigers, the Royals shortstop allowed Riley Greene to pick up a key eighth-inning hit with a bizarre mistake you rarely see in a big league game. 
Greene fought off a tough slider from Kansas City reliever Aroldis Chapman and hit a weak groundball toward Witt at short. It should have been a routine play for Witt, except he took his first step in the complete opposite direction of the ball.

1. From everything I’ve seen and heard, there is quite a backlash to NFL owners approving flex scheduling for Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime.
The flex can happen in Week 13 to 17, the flex can be used only twice over that span and 28 days notice has to be given if/when the flex happens. This is also, as of now, just in place for the 2023 season.
One reason people have given for not liking flex on Thursdays is player safety. I’m not that intelligent, so I can’t figure out how player safety is affected here.

Panthers quarterback Matt Corral denied Monday morning that his cryptic Instagram post during the NFL draft related to Carolina’s selection of quarterback Bryce Young, telling reporters it had “nothing to do with football.”
Corral, drafted in the third round of the 2022 draft out of Mississippi, also noted he does not want to be traded away from the team. The 24-year-old posted a screenshot on April 27 that included the quote, “If you are not appreciated, do not be angry. That means you are in the wrong place. Don’t stay in a place where no one sees your value.

I don’t know how serial killers celebrate. I’ve never seen one clapping or experiencing joy. That said, I have to imagine it looks exactly like Brooks Koepka did on Monday night as he watched Hurricanes vs. Panthers.

TFW playoff hockey is on and you get to watch the playoff hockey pic.twitter.com/Ehhpv8WZzy
— Michael Hurley (@michaelFhurley) May 23, 2023

There’s something deeply, viscerally unsettling about man clapping endlessly, without blinking, wearing only a blank star of psychotic fascination.

Ready-made contenders are looking for new coaches, and the Celtics’ implosion in the East finals raises questions about Joe Mazzulla’s security.

LeBron James told reporters after the game on Monday night that he will need to take some time to think about his NBA future, sparking early intrigue to the offseason for one of the greatest franchises in sports.
James played in 55 games for the Lakers this season thanks to a foot injury that leaves him awaiting an MRI this week to determine what’s next. James previously said he spoke to the “LeBron James of feet” who said that he would not need surgery on the injured tendon in his foot, but an MRI this week will confirm next steps.

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Sergei Bobrovsky is the soul-destroying centerpiece of the Panthers run to the Cup.
Sergei Bobrovsky hasn’t simply been a goalie, a shot-blocker, or a last-line of defense. He’s become an all-encompassing black hole that swallows all light and hope, swatting away dreams with his pads or causing them to vanish in an instant, engulfed by the mystic qualities of his glove.
For all the pomp and circumstance when Matthew Tkachuk joined the Panthers, it’s Bob who has the Florida Panthers on the verge of the Stanley Cup Finals.

LeBron James has been adamant this entire NBA season that he plans to stay in the league at least long enough to play with his son Bronny James, who will be a freshman at USC in the fall.
However, during the Lakers’ Western Conference finals series vs. the Nuggets this past week, James seemed more open to the idea of not playing with Bronny in the future.
“I’ve done what I’ve had to do in this league, and my son is going to take his journey,” James said after Game 3, via ESPN’s Dave McMenamin.

Keep pace with all the action down at the Brickyard during the 2023 Indy 500.

After 76ers star Joel Embiid won league MVP, denying Nikola Jokić his third-consecutive award, the Nuggets star believed that voters made the right decision.
“I don’t think about MVPs anymore,” Jokić said on Monday night. “I mean, I think it’s—people are just mean in saying Embiid shouldn’t have won it. I think he should have won it. I think he was playing, if you watch it, extremely, extremely tough basketball through the whole season. … He was really amazing in 82 games or how many games he played.