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Bob Huggins casually threw out a gay slur not once but twice during a radio interview. He’s paying the price, but he’s not the one who’s suffering.

This is why you can’t take a single playoff game for granted.
After a thorough defeat at the hands of the Sixers in Game 5, the Celtics now trail in their second-round series 3–2, a series that started with Joel Embiid injured and Boston unable to capitalize at home in his absence.
There were a few reasons the Celtics lost Tuesday—a lack of outside shooting and Embiid’s greatness among them—but their defense was perhaps the most troubling.

1. The full, 272-game NFL schedule will get released Thursday, but the league has already started to reveal some of the big games for the upcoming season.
Before we get to that, let me tell you some things you need to know about this year’s schedule.
• ESPN will get three Monday night doubleheaders this season. Technically, they’re not “doubleheaders,” because they will overlap with games starting, for example at 7 p.m. ET and 8:30 p.m. ET, but you get the idea.

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Bo nose porcupine butt.
It’s been a surprisingly rough year for Bo Jackson, and none of us knew. The mythic athlete has been dealing with a legendary case of hiccups, and since July of 2022 he’s been hiccuping non-stop.
Talking to a local radio show on Wednesday, Jackson revealed that he’s been doing everything to try and get rid of these hiccups — including getting a live porcupine and getting a big ‘ol whiff of its butt.

“I have done everything — scare me, drink water upside down, smell the ass of a porcupine, it doesn’t work.

Things got heated during Tuesday’s game between North Carolina and Gardner-Webb and it led both benches to clear. In the end, though, it was the Tar Heels that got the last laugh on account of a bases loaded balk.
UNC, at 30-17, sits just outside of the Top 25 as the only unranked school with Carolina in its name, but is slated to make a regional as a two seed. It hosted the Runnin’ Bulldogs for a midweek matchup in Chapel Hill and fell behind 3-4 in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Former Raiders tight end Foster Moreau, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in March, is planning to play for the Saints in 2023, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Jeremy Fowler.
Moreau’s diagnosis was discovered during a routine physical after signing an earlier contract with New Orleans and he initially planned to step away from football. However, he was informed by doctors that he has a good chance of making a full recovery, and as a result is planning to play football next season.

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I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.
Professional ball players can be superstitious at the best of times, but Mookie Betts went a step further by choosing not to mess with the spirts when the Dodgers embarked on their road trip to Milwaukee this week.
The Dodgers decided to use the historic Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee as the team hotel for the stay, but Betts isn’t having any of it. The Pfister was built in 1893, and regarded as one of the most haunted hotels in the country.

Former Duke coach and Naismith Hall of Famer Mike Krzyzewski will serve as the NBA’s special adviser to basketball operations, the league announced on Wednesday.
In this consulting role, Krzyzewski will be responsible for giving counsel to team executives and front offices across the league, as well as leaders who serve in other capacities within the NBA. The 76-year-old will begin his new role next week when he attends the league’s general managers meeting in Chicago.

The best story in the NHL is here, of all the places and all the times. It’s unfolding inside Climate Pledge Arena, where stuffed tentacles attach to hundreds of arms and players skate atop a rink formed, in part, by recycled rainwater. Most of the narrative is delightfully city-specific, from the team name (sea monster, naturally) to the sustainability focus to the bandwagoners tripping over each other to overpay for playoff tickets.
The Kraken are that story.

College football is not an amateur sport, and Garrett Nussmeier is the latest of many examples. Although amateurism within college sports has always been a blurred line, any semblance of that model was thrown out of the door when the NCAA allowed athletes to profit from their Name, Image and Likeness in 2021.
Lane Kiffin is among the many coaches who have expressed similar notions since the introduction of NIL. He is certainly not alone in that thinking.