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[Dave McMenamin @mcten]

Two players on the court after shootaround before the Sixers play the Knicks tonight: Jaylen Brown and Anfernee Simons

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Chiefs RB Kenneth Walker III now has won 14 straight games and has not lost a game since last November.

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

I’ve watched football for decades

today has been the MOST EMBARRASSING day I can ever remember for NFL refs

absolutely trash in so many games across the board

complete joke from the refs today

[Jordan Schultz @Schultz_Report]

NFL referee Adrian Hill flipped out at #Vikings LB Eric Wilson for an unintentional collision. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Watch closely and you can even see Wilson trying to help Hill up after he lost his footing.

[Josh Chambers @JoshChambers]

Lane Johnson says Bob Stoops told him he would become a 1st round nfl draft pick after just one week of playing offensive tackle, and explains how a single coach’s belief changed the trajectory of a backup who didn’t think he belonged at Oklahoma

“The pivot for me happened when I got to OU. I had that small-town mentality, and it was like, ‘Okay, I’m here.’ But I didn’t feel like I belonged until, like, the craziest story.”

“So I never played tackle. I played there for like a week. Bob Stoops comes up to me. He’s like, ‘You’re going to be a first-round draft pick.’”

“And so I was like, ‘I’m a third-, second-team D-end.’ He was like, ‘You’re going to be a first-round draft pick,’ after just a couple practices. I was like, ‘Okay, that’s all I need.’ That was my turning point as a guy who didn’t play much, was a backup.”

“That gave me the confidence to be like, ‘Hey, this man sees something in me that I don’t see in myself at the time.’ All those guys gave me my confidence that I needed at that time, which I didn’t have at the time.”

[West Virginia Football @WVUfootball]

Michael Hawkins Jr. has been named Walter Camp National Offensive Player of the Week ⭐️

@mikehawkinsj x @WalterCampFF

[John Frascella (Football) @NFLFrascella]

If you ask around the league enough, you’ll find that Drew Mestemaker is the 2027 NFL Draft QB1 for a lot of people, not Arch Manning…

[Schuyler Callihan @Callihan_]

The top-graded QBs this season, per PFF

1. Mike Hawkins Jr. (#WVU) - 93.5
2. Anthony Colandrea (NEB) - 93.1
3. Gunner Stockton (UGA) - 92.8
4. CJ Carr (ND) - 92.8
5. Kalieb Osborne (UConn) - 92.5

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

When the Detroit Lions drafted Ryan Broyles in the second round in 2012, he signed a contract worth more than $3.6 million, with over $1.4 million guaranteed and a signing bonus north of a million on top of it. He'd left Oklahoma as the all-time leading receiver in the history of major college football.

For a lot of young players, that's the moment the spending starts. The cars, the jewelry, the house that's twice as big as anyone needs.

Broyles did the opposite. He decided to live like he was broke.

He'd read the statistics that haunt every locker room, the ones about NFL players who earn millions and end up bankrupt within a few years of their last game. He didn't want to be a cautionary tale. So he sat down with a financial adviser and got a piece of advice that reshaped how he saw his money: figure out what you actually need, set a budget, live inside it, and invest the rest.

He and his wife Mary Beth spent a few months tracking exactly what a comfortable life cost them. The number they landed on was about $60,000 a year. Everything above that, the overwhelming majority of his NFL income, went straight into savings and investments.

"When I come to work, I don't think about the money," Broyles said during his career. "My wife has no worries. My child has no worries. I got the mindset of a businessman off the field."

A college mentor had once talked to him about where to put money if he ever made it big, and one idea stuck: real estate. So that's where he went. His first rental property came in 2012, in Tulsa. Then another. Then another. He'd find them, buy them, and manage them, sometimes closing deals over the phone. He described it almost like an addiction, the constant urge to do one more.

His NFL career, meanwhile, never got off the ground. Injuries wrecked all three of his seasons in Detroit, and the Lions released him during the 2015 preseason. He spent a year training and waiting for a call that never came, then walked away rather than hang on just to hang on.

Here's the difference. When football ended for Ryan Broyles, it wasn't a crisis. It was a transition he'd been preparing for the entire time.

Today he runs a company managing around 40 rental properties. He invested in a restaurant overlooking the University of Oklahoma campus where he became a legend, and he doesn't just cut checks, he shows up in work clothes and demos tile and installs toilets alongside his crews. One of his business partners called him "a Renaissance man."

Most players spend their careers praying the money lasts. Ryan Broyles guaranteed it, by spending years pretending he barely had any.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

Within the span of five days, Junior Caminero has hit two walk-off homers, including one to clinch a playoff berth. He leads the AL with 41 homers and has done his best to mount a late run at stealing the AL MVP award away from the favored Yordan Alvarez.

[San Diego Padres @Padres]

Welcome back, Nick 💛

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

Caitlin Clark has more 30 PTS | 10 AST games than the rest of WNBA history combined 🤯

[Joe Orrico @JoeOrrico]

He moves just like him

[Stephen A Smith @stephenasmith]

I'm not backing down from this one.

You can support people's rights AND believe biological men shouldn't compete in women's sports. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

My issue isn't hate. It's protecting women, protecting girls, and asking why a WNBA coach chose to inject herself into a controversy that could hurt the very league she's supposed to represent.

Common sense still matters. That's where I stand.

My full remarks are on YouTube.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

Important announcement: I am upping my offer, $10 million dollars for a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces and a boy's high school state title team of my choice. If the Aces beat my team, I will give them $10 million.

[The Sporting News @sportingnews]

Aaron Rodgers called out ESPN for not covering the Dianna Russini scandal.

"And there was another scandal this offseason too, involving a voter for MVP and Coach of the Year. How much time did your network spend on that?"

(via @PatMcAfeeShow)

[Dan Hurley @dhurley15]

Somebody please come and fix College Sports. It’s a complete 💩 show.

[TodayInSports @TodayInSportsCo]

I used to wake up early for this.

[MLB Walk Offs @MLBWalk_Offs]

Here is how Karl Ravech’s last baseball game and assignment for ESPN ended last night.

No indication that he was leaving, no farewell, nothing.

The most low class way to treat someone I’ve ever seen.

ESPN should be embarrassed.