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Joel Pohjanpalo, a Finnish national playing soccer in Italy, has been known to enjoy a postgame pint. However, instead of waiting until he gets home or takes a shower and hits the pub, the 28-year-old prefers to drink a brewski on the sideline during (or immediately after) the game.
The whole thing got started in February.
Pohjanpalo was subbed out after two assists, left the sideline, walked over to the stadium bar and grabbed himself a cold one. He even stopped to take a few selfies with fans before heading back to the bench. The game was still going on.

Just weeks after taking full ownership of the franchise, the arena football team owned by Antonio Brown is in disarray, with the former NFL star having to take to Twitter to hunt down new players midseason.
Brown purchased a stake in the Empire, a National Arena League team, in March alongside his father Eddie, who played arena football in Albany when the franchise was the Albany Firebirds. According to the Albany Times Union, Brown took full control of the team in April after what former co-owner Mike Kwarta called a “power struggle.

Tiger Woods’ future in golf is up in the air yet again after recently sharing that he has undergone a subtalar fusion procedure. With Woods being sidelined for the foreseeable future, his caddie, Joe LaCava, has joined forces with Patrick Cantlay.
While initial reports suggested that LaCava’s move to Cantlay’s bag was a one-off situation for this week’s Wells Fargo Championship, Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis is reporting that this is a “permanent” move.

After a tumultuous season with the Grizzlies, Dillon Brooks’s time in Memphis is coming to an end as the team decided he will not return “under any circumstances,” according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
Brooks made headlines for all the wrong reasons, as his trash talk towards LeBron James and the Lakers backfired when Los Angeles defeated Memphis in six games. That, combined with Brooks’s antics over the years, has the Grizzlies ready to move on when Brooks becomes a free agent.

Recently retired NFL defensive end JJ Watt is swapping football for football. He’s investing in Burnley F.C. of the English Premier League.
Watt and his wife, Kealia, posted a video that explained their plans to become minority investors in the EPL club.

I’m officially retiring from retirement.
Kind of…
Just watch. @BurnleyOfficial
UTC! pic.twitter.com/LGW2H9x90C
— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) May 1, 2023

“Look, I’ve only been retired for about four months,” Watt said. “But I really need something to do.

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The Grizzlies told Dillon Brooks he isn’t worth the headache
There is no reason Dillon Brooks should be one of the biggest names in the NBA. The 27-year-old forward wasn’t a first round draft pick, he’s never been anywhere close to an All-Star, and he’s never been part of a championship team. Still, Brooks became one of the most recognizable players in the league this season by running his mouth off the floor and blurring the line between clean and dirty plays on it.
The Memphis Grizzlies have seen enough. Days after the No.

When a game gets out of hand, the Phillies are the only team that can put a position player on the mound and have that guy be the son of a Hall of Fame-caliber pitcher. 
But that doesn’t mean that he’ll pitch like his dad. 
Kody Clemens is an infielder with the Phillies. His dad is Roger Clemens, the seven-time Cy Young winner who’d be in the Hall of Fame if not for the whole steroid thing. Roger was known for having one of the most electric fastballs of his era. But when Kody took the mound at the end of a Phillies blowout on Monday night, he wasn’t exactly throwing gas.

I mean, how did he actually beat Gehrig’s record?
The perfect attendance award isn’t necessarily the most-applauded award in school. That’s probably “valedictorian,” or maybe “best couple”? But things get a little different when you get older. And play professional baseball. For 13.5 years without taking a day off. Like Cal Ripken Jr did.
And on Sept 6 1995, Cal Ripken Jr played in his 2131st game, thus breaking Lou Gehrig’s previously-believed-unbreakable record for most consecutive games ever. And we all applauded like crazy.

There were 18 running backs selected in the 2023 NFL draft. Not all of them will make their mark in the league and even fewer will have an impact when it comes to fantasy. Still, now is the time to begin preparing for the 2023 fantasy season and beyond.
We’ll certainly learn more when we see these rookies perform in minicamps and then once the preseason gets going.

Dillon Brooks will not be a member of the Memphis Grizzlies next season. And after what transpired this postseason, it’s not hard to understand why.
The Athletic’s Shams Charania was the first to report the news that Brooks will not be returning to the Grizz “under any circumstances.” Brooks was told about the Grizzlies’ decision to move on in exit meetings with team officials in recent days, sources told the NBA insider.