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Dallas Stars forward Joe Pavelski — one of the best American-born players of his generation — has announced that he is calling it a career after his Stars fell to the Edmonton Oilers in the Western Conference Final.
Pavelski just wrapped up his fifth season with the Stars (appearing in all 82 regular season games) after playing the first 13 seasons of his NHL career with the San Jose Sharks.
However, Pavelski said he doesn’t plan to suit up next season and has had that plan for a while.
Pavelski will turn 40 over the summer and has 1332 regular season games under his belt.

At UFC 302 on Saturday, the new gloves finally made their fighting debut. Any hope that they would lower the frequency of eye pokes seemed to get dashed during the very first fight of the night.

Dozens of PGA Tour players gathered Tuesday ahead of this week’s Memorial Tournament for a celebration of life for Grayson Murray, who took his life not long after withdrawing from the Charles Schwab Challenge two weeks ago. Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world, was among those who spoke during the gathering.
According to ESPN, Scheffler got to know Murray better earlier this season as Murray was trying to get his fiancée more involved with some of the players’ wives and girlfriends.

We’ve heard players talking about trying to be their best selves and competing against themselves. Well, Christian McCaffrey is taking that approach to a different level.
We’re not talking about rushing yards or yards from scrimmage here.
We’re talking money. Pay.
McCaffrey on Tuesday agreed to a two-year contract extension worth $38 million that raises his annual average salary to $19 million per season and makes him the highest paid running back in the NFL.
ESPN was first to report the new deal.

NBA players LOVE LEGOs, they’re just like us
With a week in between the last game of the conference finals and the first game of the 2024 NBA Finals, there’s a lot of free time for players to get into stuff. As the Dallas Mavericks prepare to take on the Boston Celtics, Mavs rookie big man Dereck Lively II spent the week at home, doing what everyone secretly wishes they could do: play with LEGOs.
On Monday before the NBA Finals, Lively posted the following video to TikTok about his love of LEGOs, and it’s so cool.

Dozens of PGA Tour pros and commissioner Jay Monahan held a solemn celebration of life at the site of the Memorial for Grayson Murray, who died by suicide on May 25.

MLB has permanently banned Tucupita Marcano after determining that the infielder placed hundreds of bets on baseball, including wagers on games involving the Pirates when he was with the team last season.

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CMC is getting PAID.
It was a matter of “when” not “if” the San Francisco 49ers would work out a contract extension for Christian McCaffrey, and on Tuesday the news finally came down. CMC has reset the running back market with a mammoth boost in his already league-leading salary, which will now pay him an average of $19M per year on the new deal.

Reigning Offensive Player of the Year Christian McCaffrey once again has reset the RB market, signing a two-year extension with the 49ers, averaging $19 million per year, per sources.

Why don’t they just put Caitlin Clark’s image on the WNBA logo?
What would all the haters think of that?
Whenever she moves on national television, it becomes ratings gold, according to WNBA standards. And Clark, the first pick of the 2024 WNBA Draft, doesn’t even play for a decent team. Her Indiana Fever are 2-9 this season.
But everyone basically just wants to watch her, despite some over-the-horizon comments by “rival” Angel Reese of the Chicago Sky … with the rival part mainly coming from Reese’s perspective.

McCaffrey will see his annual salary rise by $8 million.