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LSU is stepping up security around its gymnastics meets following an incident involving disruptive fans of Tigers star Olivia Dunne last Friday.

Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom is a wanted terrorist in his home country of Turkey. And the Turkish government appears to be serious about capturing him as an official bounty has been put on his head.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is offering up to 10 million Turkish Lira, which comes out to roughly $500,000, for information leading to the capture of Freedom. The 30-year-old’s name is also on Turkey’s 2023 most-wanted terrorists list.
“That makes it so dangerous,” Freedom told The New York Post.

Michigan star Mazi Smith didn’t get in much trouble in his gun case.
The talented defensive player for the Wolverines was arrested on a gun charge in October 2022 when an officer stopped his vehicle while he was armed without the proper permit. However, the judge didn’t drop the hammer at all.
Mazi Smith was sentenced to a year of probation on the charge. If he gets through the first six months without any issues, he can request to have it shortened.
Mazi Smith sentenced in gun case. He got probation and community service.

The constant question I get every year about the Pro Football Hall of Fame is not so much a question as it is an incredulous rhetorical statement.
“How can so-and-so not be in already?”
It’s usually followed by some statement about my lack of intelligence (I can confirm that), the overall lack of intelligence among the group of 49 selectors (yes, I weigh them down), or even some assertion that I hate so-and-so’s team that he played for (which just makes me chuckle).

It’s award season, and Michael Fabiano presents his list of honorees.
The 2022 fantasy football season was the most difficult and challenging campaign that fantasy managers have ever endured, even following a season disrupted due to a pandemic. We saw the statistical fall of several big-name quarterbacks, a tight end position that was about as predictable as the weather in New England, and a terrible tragedy that caused some issues in our fantasy football championships.

The Las Vegas Raiders will enter the 2023 season with a new starting quarterback.

The ingredients that make the man known as (among other things) “Pancake Pat” the Ravens’ do-it-all secret weapon.
Patrick Ricard has received many locker room nicknames over his six seasons with the Ravens, all of them strictly alliterative, none of them especially creative. “Some guys used to call me Party Pat, just to be funny,” the 28-year-old fullback says. “Then I signed my extension, so I was Paid Pat. Then I made the Pro Bowl, so I was Pro Bowl Pat. People like to play around with it. There’s just so many P-words out there.

We will see how legitimate Brooklyn is in the coming weeks without its best player.
The Nets played a game without Kevin Durant on Thursday—the first of what will be many in the weeks to come—and it went about the way you’d expect.
Kyrie Irving scored a bunch (but not enough). Ben Simmons made many beautiful passes (but did not score at all). And the Nets lost at home to the Celtics, a team that has routinely tortured and taunted them for the last two seasons. Final score: 109–98.

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What changed in New York to put the Giants in the playoffs, and Jones on the brink of a new contract
Prior to the start of the 2022 NFL regular season Joe Schoen, the new general manager of the New York Giants, shared his outlook for the season with the media.
It was a somewhat brutal assessment.
Speaking about the upcoming year, Schoen said rather matter-of-factly “[w]e’re just trying to get through today. The situation we’re in is the situation. It’s the hand we were dealt. We’re going to do the best we can.

Our writers and editors pick a winner in all six games on the opening weekend of the playoffs.
The playoffs have arrived, and with them come six games on a jam-packed wild-card weekend. Our staff has already filled out brackets all the way through Super Bowl LVII, but here are our wild-card picks for those of you who have been following our picks competition all season.
Our staff is unanimous on three heavy favorites: the 49ers, Bills and Bengals.