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PGA Tour veteran Patrick Cantlay has been in the news the past few weeks not for winning tournaments, but for being very slow while playing in them. 
This all started when Brooks Koepka voiced his frustrations with Cantlay’s pace of play in the final round of the Masters. Then, last week, Cantlay was seen playing at his dreadfully slow pace during the RBC Heritage. He received some heckles from the crowd before finishing in third place late Sunday afternoon. 
One fan’s video of Cantlay is going viral because it shows just how painfully slow he can play during a tournament.

Manny Machado and the San Diego Padres are not off to the start most around the league had imagined.
The Padres came into the 2023 MLB season with sky high expectations after a number of major acquisitions and signings.
Juan Soto came over via trade at the 2022 deadline, as did closer Josh Hader. Xander Bogaerts was signed to a massive, $280 million contract.
They extended Yu Darvish, Jake Cronenworth, resigned key reliever Robert Suarez and starter Joe Musgrove. And then committed to another massive deal; extending superstar third baseman Manny Machado for 11-years and $350 million.

‘If you want to pick the top five, put what they did on a piece of paper. People don’t want to do that. Not how long they hit. No ifs.

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts inked a five-year, $255 million contract giving him the highest average annual salary of any player in NFL history and it took Shannon Sharpe less than one day to make the situation about race.
Some individuals in the media believe every action – whether it be in sports, politics, or the way someone walks down the sidewalk – has a racist connotation to it.

Bills safety Damar Hamlin announced his intention to return to the NFL this upcoming season on Tuesday following his more than three month recovery journey after suffering cardiac arrest during a game on Jan. 2.
During his speech to the media on Tuesday, Hamlin detailed that the exact diagnosis doctors gave him is commotio cordis, which is when something hitting an athlete’s chest directly over the heart can cause cardiac arrest and ventricular fibrillation.
Hamlin noted that commotio cordis is the leading cause of death of youth athletes across all sports.

In current society, pandering is all the rage. Bud Light panders to the transgender community. NHL teams pander to the LGBTQ movement. Even an English soccer league panders to Black Lives Matter. But the New York Mets officially took pandering too far.
They sent out tweets rooting for ALL of the New York teams currently in the playoffs, including the Rangers, Islanders, Knicks and Nets.

Let’s go @NYRangers! #NoQuitInNY pic.twitter.com/Yiqea55TzM
— New York Mets (@Mets) April 18, 2023

Best of luck in the playoffs, @NYIslanders! pic.twitter.

Money, more than ever before, has a direct correlation to success in collegiate athletics and Marc D’Amelio is putting his wallet to work. The 54-year-old entrepreneur and local politician is the father to social media personalities Charli and Dixie D’Amelio.
Charli, the younger sister, has more than 45 million followers on Instagram and 150 million followers on TikTok. Dixie, the elder of the two, has nearly 25 million followers on Instagram and 57 million followers on TikTok.

Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts woke up Tuesday morning as a placeholder.
For however long it takes Joe Burrow to sign his new deal with the Bengals or Justin Herbert with the Chargers, Hurts stands alone with the biggest contract in NFL history. Hurts signed a five-year extension Monday with the Eagles worth $255 million, including $179.3 million guaranteed. The annual figure is the most ever given to a player.
At least for now.
But what about the other positions? Here’s a rundown of the financial king for each, based on annual average value. All financial information is courtesy Spotrac.

New Patriots offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien said Tuesday that quarterback Mac Jones and the rest of the offense have a clean slate this season.

The Chiefs will reportedly have a new face backing up quarterback Patrick Mahomes in 2023.
Kansas City is signing longtime backup quarterback Blaine Gabbert, according to a Tuesday afternoon report from Pat McAfee. McAfee broke the news on Tuesday’s episode of his eponymous show.and the report was later confirmed by NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.
Gabbert, 33, has spent 12 years in the NFL with the Jaguars, 49ers, Cardinals, Titans and Buccaneers.