Next two years
QB
1. Maye
2. Williams
3. Young
4. Stroud
5. Levis
RB (10 deep here, all NFL producers)
1. Bijan
2. Henderson
3. Gibbs
4. Evans
5. Braelon Allen
6. Corum
7. Shipley
8. Rocket Sanders
9. Bigsby
10. Achane
Dansby Swanson's season line on June 16:
.175/.281/.306 (68 wRC+), 7 HR, 28 RBI
Dansby Swanson's season line now:
.210/.300/.431 (102 wRC+), 16 HR, 57 RBI
There is strong evidence that MLB either changed the baseballs or introduced a new batch of baseballs (while still cycling out the old) in late May / early June
Almost every contact-quality-controlled Statcast metric has seen an outlier uptick in recent weeks
Barrel distance increased by +10.2 ft from April 2026 to present, the biggest in-season April to June jump of the Statcast era (avg is +4.6 ft as weather improves)
The additional ~6 ft this June aligns with the ~0.016 point drop in the drag data
Compiling additional findings 💉⚾️🚨
Keith Mitchell went out in 41-29 today for a round of 70
He is the first player in U.S. Open history to shoot 40 or worse on one nine and break 30 on the other nine within the same round.
Over the past 20 years, only two MLB lefty hitters have produced
.865 OPS or better
With 7 or less walks
Through team’s first 55 season games (min. 150 PAs)
Yordan Alvarez in 2021
Michael Harris II in 2026
Spurs are rolling out the youngest starting lineup in the all-time history of the NBA Conference Finals.
Harper (20)
Castle (21)
Vassell (25)
Champagnie (24)
Wembanyama (22)
Average age: 22 years, 346 days.
Bam Adebayo has 81 points on 41 free throw attempts against the Wizards.
Still couldn't handle Kennedy Meeks and Luke Maye in the 2017 NCAA tournament.
The PLAYERS Championship trends:
-14 of the last 16 winners have had a Top 5 prior to their win in the same calendar year
-The last 18 winners have had a Top 25 at Sawgrass before their win.
-The last 10 winners have had a Top 33 in the prior Tour start before their win.
-10 of the last 12 winners have won a major. Rickie and Si woo are the outliers. Cam Smith the only Major winner to win after Players win.
This will never not be my favorite Akshay Bhatia story:
Before his PGA Tour debut as a 17-year-old at the 2019 Valspar Championship, a reporter asked him how he handles adversity. Akshay then politely asked the reporter to explain what the word adversity means.
Of @ESPNLunardi's last seven at-large teams and his first five teams out of the field, nine were in action today.
All nine lost.
Missouri
Texas
SMU
Indiana
New Mexico
Auburn
Virginia Tech
Cincinnati
California
0-9 today.
Updating a popular tweet from a few years ago...
Can we put "Pistol" Pete Maravich's NCAA Division I men's scoring record in perspective?
He scored 3,667 points in 83 games over 3 years.
If you took the nation's top 83 Division I men's basketball single-game scoring performances in the last 3 years (2023-24, 2024-25 & 2025-26), you'd have a combined 3,529 total points.
Texas Tech (JT Toppin) and UNC (Caleb Wilson) have now lost All-American forwards for the season due to injury.
Such a strange/odd/fluke/(insert adjective) twist that Texas Tech and UNC are the lone teams to beat Duke this season.