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Hulk Hogan made a pretty astounding claim during an appearance on The 700 Club in which he discussed his faith and his relationship with fellow former wrestler, the late Roddy Piper.
In the interview, Hogan — whose real name is Terry Bollea, but you probably knew that — says he got a voice message from Piper in 2015 two days after his death at the age of 61.
Hogan talked about how he and Piper legitimately hated each other at the peak of their in-ring rivalry, but eventually, the two became close and exchanged text messages and spoke to each other a lot, often about spirituality.

Just 12—12!—short years ago, an NFL team was sold for under a billion dollars. Shahid Khan bought the Jacksonville Jaguars in Jan. 2012 for a mere $770 million.
How times have changed.
According to a Wednesday morning report from Safid Deen of USA Today, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross recently turned down an offer for the team and other assets worth an astounding $10 billion.
The offer made to Ross, 83, included the sale of Hard Rock Stadium and control of Formula One’s Miami Grand Prix, which will be run Sunday at the Miami International Autodrome.

Deion Sanders apparently thinks arguing online is a good use of his time.
Sanders and his star QB son Shedeur are taking a bit of fire after the latter called his former teammate Xavier Smith “mid” (slang for not very good) in a now-viral tweet.
The tweet was in response to Smith claiming Deion never really attempted to get to know him prior to him entering the portal. All things considered, it’s a pretty petty and stupid situation.
Yet, that didn’t stop Deion from escalating.

Wyoming offensive tackle Frank Crum may not have been drafted over the weekend, but the third-generation Cowboy was one of four former Wyoming players to receive contracts as undrafted free agents this week.
Crum appeared on Wyoming News Now with his family to discuss his chance to play at the next level.
“[Broncos’ head coach Sean Payton and o-line coach Zach Strief expressed that they really needed a tackle and that I was their first guy that they wanted. We ended up working out a deal that was that great. I’m excited as heck to be going down to Denver.

The first Formula 1 race of the season on American soil is this weekend, and Ferrari is trotting out a special livery for the occasion with hints of a color not seen on modern Ferraris, but one that still plays a role in the team’s history: blue.
Now, the typical Ferrari red — Rosso Corsa — livery is so iconic I get a little nervous every time they say they’re going to do something different.
That’s how I felt when Ferrari spent about a week and a half teasing a new blue livery for the Miami Grand Prix, but I think they did a nice job pulling it off.

Even non-Bills fans love Keon Coleman.
The Bills were widely panned after Day 1 of the NFL Draft for trading back twice, while enabling the Kansas City Chiefs to get their guy in Xavier Worthy. That all washed away pretty quickly on Day 2, when Buffalo picked Keon Coleman and we learned what an utter delight he is.
Coleman is from small-town central Louisiana, and it became impossible not to love his attitude as soon as he entered the building. Each Keon Coleman moment was better than the last, as he just relished in the moment.

What were the chances that the NCAA Transfer Portal period from the winter and spring would end up breaking the previous record set during the 2022-23 academic year? 
Well, when you add in the new rules surrounding NIL and the NCAA allowing players to have unlimited transfers as long as they are in good academic standing, the chances were pretty high that this record was going to be smashed. 
You guessed it, the portal record was broken during the spring period, with over 3,800 players entering the infamous route to a new school since the first portal period opened in the winter.

1. For those of you who have been with me since back in the Hot Clicks days, you’ll remember that I often did giveaways in the column.
I learned very quickly that people LOVED free stuff. It didn’t matter what it was, either. I could be giving away the most useless item and there would still be a frenzy for it.
But what really makes people lose their minds more than anything else when it comes to getting something for free or dirt cheap is food.
This leads me to Tuesday night’s Cubs-Mets game at Citi Field. It was $1 hot dog night at the ballpark. And it was quite an event.

For some time now, the Atlanta Braves have gone as their young superstar, Ronald Acuña Jr. has gone. But to start 2024, Acuña has slumped while the Braves have continued to win, leading the NL East by a half-game going into Wednesday’s game.
Acuña, meanwhile, has hit statistical marks that resemble some previous slumps, while achieving personal records of the wrong kind.
David O’Brien pointed out on Tuesday night that Acuña’s two strikeouts to start the game officially gave him more multi-strikeout games than he had in all of last season. April has just finished.

Tiger Woods is making the rounds promoting his new clothing line this week. On Tuesday he appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. After explaining why his clothing line is called Sun Day Red (He wears red on Sunday. Get it?), Woods and Fallon looked at some tree memes.
Tiger was back on NBC on Wednesday morning for an interview with Carson Daly on TODAY. It turns out that Woods and Daly are old golf buddies. If you didn’t know that then Daly leading off the interview saying “we have so much history together,” must have been surprising to hear.