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Russell Wilson is nothing if not awkward, and we have to file this latest tweet under the ‘extremely awkward’ category, even for Mr. Unlimited.
Wilson took to Twitter on Friday to congratulate Geno Smith – the QB who replaced him, and excelled, in Seattle this season – for being voted the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year by NFL on FOX fans.
Congrats, 7!

Congrats 7! https://t.co/xt9RgY4yDL
— Russell Wilson (@DangeRussWilson) February 3, 2023

Russell Wilson reaches out to Geno Smith for no reason at all
Wooooooooof.

Three former U.S. snowboarders have sued their former coach, Peter Foley, the national federation, its former CEO and the USOPC for sex trafficking, harassment, and enabling and covering up repeated acts of sexual assault and misconduct.

After weeks of negotiations failed to find an agreement on an early move, Texas and Oklahoma are slated to join the SEC in 2025, sources told ESPN.

According to data released by the NFL, there were 149 concussions during the 2022 regular season — an increase of 18% from the 2021 season.

Both the Longhorns and Sooners have made it clear they want to leave for the SEC a year early, but a lot of other moving parts make the situation messy.
On July 21, 2021, news broke that Texas and Oklahoma were planning to leave the Big 12 and join the SEC starting in ’25.
After the college football universe overcame the shock and awe of the news, it collectively cast doubt on the timing of the move: No way they’ll stay in the Big 12 for four more years, right?
A year and a half later, that question remains unanswered.

ESPN has spent the better part of 24 hours dragging poor Dan Orlovsky through the mud over his pretty awful list of top-5 NFL QBs of all time.
Seriously, Dan’s been trampled on by just about everyone, from Keyshawn Johnson to Stephen A. Smith.
And here he was thinking that running out of the back of the end zone was going to be the worst moment of his career.
Nope. It was, until Orlovsky put together this lightning rod of a list! Behold:

.@danorlovsky7‘s top five QBs of all time pic.twitter.com/wa5mwwTJMI
— First Take (@FirstTake) February 2, 2023

Oh dear god.

Dillon Brooks’s flagrant foul on Donovan Mitchell was another step in the wrong direction for Memphis.
It brings me truly no pleasure to say the Grizzlies are teetering on the edge between lovable challenger and incredibly annoying. And they are increasingly tipping toward the wrong direction.
I’ve had an appreciation for the Grizz going back to the Grit and Grind days of Mike Conley, Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph and Tony Allen. The current group has been a worthy successor to those franchise legends.

The Lakers star would need a career-best to topple the all-time mark.
LeBron James pulled another step closer to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in his chase to become the NBA’s all-time leading scorer on Thursday when he scored 26 points in a 112–111 win over the Pacers. The performance left him exactly 62 points off of tying historic mark heading into a weekend matchup against the Pelicans.
Though James theoretically has a chance to catch Abdul-Jabbar in New Orleans on Saturday, the task will be easier said than done.

More than half of last year’s all-league picks are now on two teams — the Las Vegas Aces and New York Liberty.

Tyrese Haliburton is an NBA All-Star after Wally Szczerbiak’s weird rant against him earlier this season.
One of the strangest media moments of this NBA season came when former player Wally Szczerbiak, now an analyst with the Knicks, went on a rant against Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton. After the Knicks beat the Pacers, Szczerbiak called Haliburton a “wannabe, fake All-Star” in an apparent attempt to boost the All-Star candidacy of New York’s Julius Randle and Jalen Brunson.