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Damar Hamlin is in the building for the Philadelphia 76ers’ homestand Thursday against the Boston Celtics.
The celebrated Bills safety, who survived an on-field cardiac arrest on Jan. 2. and has spread heart health awareness, is at Wells Fargo Center for Thursday’s highly-anticipated Game 6 tiebreaker.
“Game 6 tonight in Philly; y’all know I’m rocking with the Sixers,” Hamlin said. Hamlin posted a picture of a hat from his foundation, the Chasing M’s Foundation Charitable Fund, which provides development and health resources for youth sports.

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Did the San Diego Padres broadcast take a subtle dig at Fernando Tatis Jr.?
That’s the implication of hilarious video that showed an incredibly poorly timed ad playing over Tatis’s at bat during Thursday’s game.
Tatis, of course, famously missed the majority of the 2022 season with a fractured wrist suffered during a motorcycle crash.
He then hilariously suggested that it wasn’t the first time he’d crashed his motorcycle.
READ: PADRES’ STAR FERNANDO TATIS JR.

LeBron James fans could potentially expect a docuseries in the coming years about the Lakers star produced by Andy Thompson, who worked on ESPN’s Michael Jordan docuseries The Last Dance.
Lakers radio voice John Ireland spoke with Awful Announcing this week and shared that Thompson, who is the younger brother of Lakers commentator Mychal Thompson and the uncle of Warriors forward Klay Thompson, has been hanging around the Lakers this year and possibly collecting footage of James for a future project.

Hall of Fame horse trainer Todd Pletcher denies any wrongdoing after receiving a 10-day suspension from the New York State Gaming Commission. The ruling comes after Forte was disqualified from a victory in 2022 for testing positive for a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medication.
New York-based sports/turf writer Bob Ehalt of BloodHorse was first to report the news.
Forte, last year’s champion two-year-old Thoroughbred male, won the Hopeful Stakes at the Saratoga Race Course on Sept. 5, 2022.

The sports community continues to rally around the victims of a tragic mass shooting in Allen, Texas, over the weekend.

(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Arizona Cardinals QB Kyler Murray pledged $15,000 to a victim who lost both his parents and brother in the incident.
Dallas Stars, Seattle Kraken Pay Tribute
On Thursday, the Seattle Kraken and Dallas Stars are honoring the eight lives lost and seven people injured from the Allen Premium Outlets shooting with special decals that will pay tribute to the victims.

Are Devin Booker and KD enough? Are the 76ers the real deal? Our experts go inside the topics as the postseason continues.

With the thrilling result in Super Bowl LVII still fresh in the minds of fans everywhere, the Chiefs and Eagles are set for a rematch in 2023—this time in a historic primetime slot.
The two teams are set to square off on Monday Night Football in Week 11, marking just the second time ever that a Super Bowl rematch has taken center stage on Monday. The only other time in league history it’s happened was in 1997, when the Packers and Patriots met in a rematch of Super Bowl XXXI, per ESPN’s Field Yates.

New York Yankees vs. Tampa Bay Rays is a budding Major League Baseball rivalry. Both teams have been largely successful over the last few years, creating great AL East showdowns. That rivalry has spilled over onto the radio airwaves.
A few days back, OutKick reported the accusations made by WFAN’s Evan Roberts.
“I was very skeptical with what I saw this weekend,” Roberts said. “I know who [the Rays are and] they’re not good. They’re 19-3 at home? HELLO!
“Sometimes you don’t need evidence. Sometimes you gotta say ‘what I’m watching doesn’t make sense.

It appears that Ryan Reynolds’ hopes of becoming an owner of the National Hockey League’s Ottawa Senators have been dashed.
ESPN’s Emily Kaplan is reporting that the actor and entrepreneur’s bid for the team as part of the Remington Group with a Toronto-based real-estate mogul will not move forward.
According to Kaplan, multiple sources confirmed that the Remington Group’s bid for the team had reached the end of the road. The NHL did not provide comment on the matter.
Reynold’s group reportedly asked for a window of exclusivity in which to cut a deal for the team.

Increasingly, the NFL schedule release is evidence that the league itself knows what you like. And with each year, the folks in charge are going to be guessing less and less.
On Thursday, through my half-hour conversation with NFL VP of broadcast planning Mike North and VP of broadcasting Onnie Bose, that much became increasingly clear in how they talked about their audience, how they broke down their partners and how they reach their conclusion in solving a giant Rubik’s Cube with 272 little boxes on its sides.