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Steve Stricker sat down with Playing Through to talk about a wide variety of topics, including The PLAYERS Championship and the Ryder Cup.
Twelve-time PGA Tour winner Steve Stricker will make his 23rd start at The PLAYERS Championship this week. He last played at TPC Sawgrass in 2021, when he missed the cut thanks to a poor second round in which he shot a 5-over 77.
But Stricker hopes to improve upon that performance this week.

For six seasons, Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins gave his team consistently capable play at football’s most important position.
Now, the four-time Pro Bowler is ready for his next chapter.
Cousins, it was reported Monday, is set to sign a four-year, $180 million contract with the Atlanta Falcons in free agency.
On Wednesday morning, Cousins took to social media to share a parting message with Vikings fans.
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“I’ve gotta say goodbye to Minnesota, to the Minnesota Vikings,” Cousins said. “That’s what makes today tough.

It was just after 2 p.m. local time when the email hit:
Karl-Anthony Towns. Successful surgery. Reevaluated in four weeks.
Season’s over … right?
Eight hours later, the Minnesota Timberwolves strutted off the Crypto.com Arena floor after a come-from-behind, 118–100 win over the Los Angeles Clippers.
OK … season’s back on.
Injuries in sports are devastating. They are worse—considerably worse—when they happen late in a successful season, as Towns’s has in Minnesota.

Is Jason Kelce going to pull a Tom Brady and unretire?
That’s what many Philadelphia Eagles fans are hoping for, as the recently retired Pro Bowl center has expressed some regret – especially now that the Eagles made a major move by signing former Giants running back Saquon Barkley. 
If that wasn’t enough, Kelce was already back at the Eagles practice facility doing some weight training! Sheesh, at least give it a month my man! 
“I could not be more bullish. This is what I’m regretting.

Billy Horschel is a seven-time PGA Tour winner, former FedEx Cup champion, and very much an ambassador for the Tour itself. Given those three checked boxes, one would assume he wouldn’t want LIV Golf or its players to be associated with The Players – the flagship event on the PGA Tour – in any way which makes his recent admission of wanting players who defected for LIV added to the field very surprising. It’s also incredibly contradicting.

A group led by former hockey player Anson Carter announced Tuesday that it has formally requested that NHL grant it an expansion franchise to play in the Atlanta area. 
Carter played 10 seasons in the NHL with eight different teams. He was born and raised in Toronto but has lived in the Atlanta area since 2009 and is a co-owner of the Atlanta Gladiators of the ECHL.

1. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. confirmed to the New York Times on Tuesday that Aaron Rodgers (along with Jesse “The Body” Ventura) were at the top of his list of potential running mates.
The New York Jets quarterback has been open about his support of Kennedy, but who knows if he’d actually want to be vice president. 
Rodgers hasn’t confirmed nor denied Kennedy’s claim, which has added to the speculation about the quarterback’s future.

People hoping to attend the ACC Tournament can get in for the price of a cold domestic beer.
The ACC Tournament is underway at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., and the ticket prices are outrageously cheap.
Tickets for the early session (Florida State/Virginia Tech and Notre Dame and Wake Forest) and the late session (NC State/Syracuse and Boston College/Clemson) are as cheap as $4 on StubHub as of publication.
That’s comical for a conference that prides itself as being a basketball power.

Michigan–Ohio State remains one of college football’s most heated rivalries.
It isn’t every day that you see someone make the jump directly from the Buckeyes to the Wolverines, but new Michigan coach Sherrone Moore reportedly dipped into Ryan Day’s staff to fill an assistant opening and is expected to hire away running backs coach Tony Alford, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports. FootballScoop first reported that Alford was Michigan’s target for the job.

In the same month former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce called it quits on a legendary career, Philly nabbed top running back Saquon Barkley in free agency.
That made the newly-retired Kelce feel some type of way, and he shared his honest reaction to the Barkley signing on Wednesday’s episode of New Heights.
The Philadelphia legend told his brother, Travis Kelce, that everyone asked him the same question after the Barkley news broke—namely, whether he was sure he wanted to retire.