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The SB Nation debates the newest entry into the MCU.
We can’t stop talking about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. It’s been a major talking point in our Slack, there are numerous spoiler-free threads where we discuss the movie without ruining it for our coworkers, and we all want to talk about just how good this movie was.
It would be a sad, pathetic existence if the only movies we could ever talk about are about sports. One can only watch Draft Day so many times. So, in an effort to free us from our endless discussion cycle today we debate if GoG Vol.

Travis and Jason Kelce’s mother Donna, one of the stars of Super Bowl week, is in the news again after apparently breaking some major NFL scheduling news on her Facebook page.
The NFL’s schedule reveal isn’t until Thursday night, but plenty of fans are doing digging for early clues. The Twitter account @NerdingOnNFL uncovered a Facebook comment from Donna Kelce made earlier this month reporting that the Chiefs and Eagles will face off in a rematch of Super Bowl LVII during Week 2 of the new NFL season.

Securing Bronny James gives Andy Enfield arguably the most talented roster he’s had with the Trojans, but it is a guard-heavy unit. How it plays out is the big question.

ESPN’s John Anderson apologized for a comment about Vegas Golden Knights player Zach Whitecloud.
Anderson was breaking down the Vegas Golden Knights crushing the Edmonton Oilers 5-1 Monday night when he chose to make a very unfortunate joke about Whitecloud, who is the first indigenous NHL player of Sioux Valley Dakota Nation.
“Zach Whitecloud? What kind of name is Whitecloud? Great name if you’re a brand of toilet paper. His first goal of the playoffs as well,” Anderson said Monday night while breaking down highlights of the game.

The Yankees left St. Petersburg on Sunday with a series loss to the Rays, but also a reason for optimism: Aaron Judge was on the plane.
Last season’s MVP has not played since April 27, a day after he strained his right hip trying to steal third base, but he said Monday that he will be activated off the injured list Tuesday. He spent the weekend rehabbing at the team’s facility in Tampa while his teammates played three one-run games against the Rays. When the Yankees returned to New York, so did Judge—and just in time.
“I don’t like sitting out,” Judge said.

ESPN’s John Anderson issued an apology Tuesday for an insensitive comment he made regarding Golden Knights defenseman Zach Whitecloud. 
While speaking on SportsCenter and doing a play-by-play of Monday night’s highlights of the playoff game between the Golden Knights and Oilers, Anderson said, “What kind of name is Whitecloud? Great name if you’re a toilet paper,” when talking about the 26-year-old’s goal. 
Whitecloud is of Indigenous descent and his family is from the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, a reserve west of Manitoba, Canada.

There’s no worse feeling for a pitcher than making a perfect pitch and still giving up a hit. Astros starter Hunter Brown knows all about that. 
In the third inning of Monday night’s game against the Angels, Brown had a 1–2 count on Shohei Ohtani and threw him an excellent backdoor curveball that barely caught the outside part of the strike zone. Ohtani, protecting the plate with two strikes, offered at the tough pitch. 
He stuck his butt way out and extended his arms as far as they would go to reach the outside pitch. Baseball fans have seen swings like that plenty of times.

The tides are changing for the Chicago Blackhawks, and they are changing in a hurry after the team won the NHL Draft Lottery on Monday night. That news came with a massive spike in season-ticket sales.
Chicago came out on top in the lottery — or as it should’ve been called “The Connor Bedard Sweepstakes” — disappointing the Anaheim Ducks, who had the worst record in the league, but will pick second.

Denny Crum, the former hall of fame Louisville men’s basketball coach, has died at the age of 86, the school announced on Monday.
Crum spent 30 years coaching Louisville, leading the Cardinals to two NCAA championships in 1980 and ’86, making him one of 14 coaches with at least two titles. He finished his coaching career with a 675–295 record in 970 games, all of which are most in school history, and six Final Four appearances.

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Jordan Poole’s struggles have turned into frustration for the entire team
Coming into the 2023 NBA Playoffs, there was reason to believe the Golden State Warriors were going to get the same Jordan Poole who was the breakout star of the 2022 playoffs.
Poole averaged 17 points per game on 39.1 shooting from three-point range, providing the Warriors with much-needed offense off the bench during their championship run.