Kirk Cousins was at the Atlanta Falcons draft party the night of the first round until inclement weather forced the event’s cancelation. So Cousins was driving home when he got the call.
It was the Falcons brain trust – general manager Terry Fontenot and head coach Raheem Morris – calling to tell Cousins they were on the clock and planned to select a quarterback.
Soon the Falcons picked Michael Penix Jr. in that first round. A month after signing Cousins as their starting quarterback.
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Four-time PGA Championship winner Tiger Woods will tee off at 8:04 a.m. at Valhalla Country Club on Thursday, while defending champion Brooks Koepka tees off just 33 minutes later.
The NBA has fined Timberwolves center Rudy Gobert $75,000 for making the money-sign gesture toward officials during Minnesota’s Game 4 loss to the Denver Nuggets.
Falcons QB Kirk Cousins said it’s not constructive to have hard feelings over his new team drafting Michael Penix Jr. in the first round.
With half of the second round complete, here’s what we’ve learned about the remaining teams, and what it means for the conference finals and beyond.
The veteran goalie has the Panthers in a prime position — although his postseason numbers aren’t looking too great.
University of North Carolina board of trustees have a problem with the revenue stream from the ACC, and things don’t sound too well for athletic director Bubba Cunningham.
As members of the ACC congregate this week in Florida for their annual spring meetings, the UNC board of trustees decided the perfect time to agree to an audit of the athletic department was when AD Bubba Cunningham arrived for his talks with other conference leaders.
Major League Baseball is trying to make its games accessible to more fans, including their stated hope to end local blackouts for most teams.
But it doesn’t seem like those efforts are going particularly well. MLB’s attempt to start a blackout free streaming package may already be dead on arrival.
READ: MLB’s New Blackout-Free Streaming Service May Already Be Dead
And for a relatively small, but still important package of nationally televised games on Sunday mornings, the league officially announced on Monday that it had agreed to a deal with streaming device company Roku.
Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice, 24, was recently arrested on eight felony charges concerning a hit-and-run accident while drag-racing his Lamborghini at 119 mph on a Dallas highway.
Multiple outlets, including The Athletic, then reported on an undisclosed incident in which Rice and/or one of his friends allegedly fired multiple bullets into an empty vehicle while attending SMU.
Police are currently investigating Rice for allegedly punching a photographer at the Lit Kitchen nightclub in Dallas last week.
Other than that, Rice is enjoying a quiet offseason.
While the number of NHL teams in the Stanley Cup Playoffs is dwindling, there’s a big crop of NHLers who decided to keep playing by jetting across the Atlantic to play in the IIHF World Championship.
The tournament happens every year — this year it’s being held in Czechia — and you’ll see a bunch of players whose NHL clubs either failed to make the postseason or were bounced early head over for the tournament.