Month: July 2018

We started a foundation and really wanted to focus it on kids, particularly underprivileged kids underserved communities.On Sunday, the words Achilles’ injury took on a whole new meaning when TV cameras captured exactly what was happening inside the leg of .And if you’re a Minnesota Vikings fan, you’ve had pretty good reasons to watch the Pro Bowl the past few decades.

And the Ravens can’t afford another draft mistake at safety, after regrettably using a first-round pick on Elam, and a third-round pick on Terrance .He’s gone from averaging eight points a game his freshman to more than 25 points per game as a senior.Arik Armstead, DL, Oregon 2 .He made 30 of his 35 field goal tries including five of seven from 50 yards or longer.he gets the first two guys out and now comes up.Pence was recently forced to slow his workouts after receiving treatment on his side, Schulman of the San Chronicle reports.

09 16 – was released by the Indianapolis Colts on Tuesday.The who heaved a cross-body touchdown to Sharpe the 1993 wild card.When he signed his 10-year, $157 million contract November 2010, the organization was determined not to give out any more no-trade clauses, still feeling stung by no-trade deals given to and Todd Helton.

The 6-foot-9 Durant has become a rim protector, averaging a career-best 1 blocks per game.He started most of the and made the All-Rookie team compiled by the Pro Football Writers of .But fundamentally, they lost their way.

Hechavarria injured his right shoulder and was replaced by Solano at shortstop Saturday’s wild 9 victory which Solano delivered a two-run double the second.

Indians fans, who haven’t enjoyed a World Series title since 1948, leap as well.We’ll find out the coming weeks.Along with committing to dedicate his time to the U15 program, is also dedicating much of his time to helping other athletes transition into life after their playing careers are over, by creating the non-profit Chapter 5 .Our goal with every piece is to surprise and entertain the viewer.

Hodges has beast athleticism but I’m guessing he’s missing assignments left and right.plays everywhere for us.But he’s solid on groundballs up the middle and the Mariners believe that consistent work with Cano this offseason and a comfort level help him.Learning how to walk again was a process for me.For Hull, a five-time All- himself back the days of five-figure salaries for professional athletes, cashing out halfway through a with $2 million his pocket would have been enough.

Raanta isn’t the biggest netminder the NHL.

Seriously, do your research.

There are a select few guys that have done that over their career – I was playing on the same team with one of them, Pedroia.Pine Forest High alum also scored 15 for UNCP.They don’t need him.also commented on his and other’s rolls the big game, I think we just do what we’ve been doing all year and Cam does a good job making sure whatever Shula calls up for the offensive play going into the series and what not, he does a good job putting us situations to win when it comes to the running game, dissecting defenses and seeing the rotations, or whatever it is.

It culminated at the Nike Hoops Summit , where Maker looked overwhelmed against the best players the 2015 class, scoring only two points.• Participated the 2002 and 2003 Area Code .It’s the last Monday , roughly one week before Ekblad reported to Montreal and joined the talent- under-23 squad.

Media outlets have gathered all-star lineup of former Alabama and Clemson football players to provide analysis of the Crimson Tide-Tigers showdown Monday night’s College Football Playoff title game.Hoyer was a locker-room fit and arguably the best option not only as a veteran starter, but also a quality mentor teammate for quarterbacks with the organization’s goal of replacing him.At first glance, extra 13 yards seems like it should still be automatic for a professional kicker.He made it back for the Eagles’ third preseason game, but suffered a concussion the second quarter.

He’s a poor ball-handler and a worse shooter, but he caught the hot hand on Friday and rode it to a win.two , Inman reeled 12 catches for 158 yards.That’s partially good for the Astros — after all, they were down 5 when it started to pour — but that also means this great double play really did happen alternate reality, and no amount of can bring it back.I expect to him lining up on the outside more as the stretch run of camp begins.Megatron averaged 86 receiving yards per game, which is the highest mark NFL history.

order for them to get to the Super Bowl, they have to beat us, and we’re not gonna let that happen once we get that close.We’re happy.nhpats says: Apr 13 4 PM Mr.Instead the point, which followed his opening victory over last week, sees him move level on three points with , , Gerwen and .Open, and he cut me a check for five grand, and I blew that.

Reddit user jimmybob479 announced on the popular message board that he had filed a lawsuit against Elio Motors his home state.Let go by the Canadiens and picked up by the Chicago Black Hawks the interleague draft, Esposito had one of the greatest seasons goaltending history.As a Mets fan, I have seen some BAD baseball.His presence the Wildcat formation was a big reason why Tyreek Hill was able to run for a 70 yard touchdown, as Ware deftly sold option fakes when lining up with Hill as his backfield mate.Pip said…

You’d like for that to happen and get a to win.

He concluded his college career having scored double-figures 112 consecutive , NCAA record at that time.is a homebody.But he did seem excited at the way the play worked.they are crying because he is gone.Watched some YouTube videos and I can tell that he is a baller, he just has it.

Above all, Favre wants to emotion.second resolution for 2014 was to stop sharing with friends, family and strangers information about the weather.He’s could be value as a a deeper league, but he is not going to standout anywhere that make him someone you should think of as your starting SS outside of NL-only leagues.Gipson signed with Jacksonville February.Well, is back his favorite city for the 2017 , and New is more than happy to have him.

‘s on Monday: – Cain reached double-figures for the 30th time his career.Pitching coaches are working closely with to fine-tine his mechanics, and Monday was his first game action of 2016.According to neighbors, Steen was only child and his grandfather’s only grandchild.The thing is not true, either.His best year was 2015 when he caught 52 balls for 840 yards.Meanwhile, the identity of the right tackle remains a mystery .

If you want some flavour of that alternative vision it is worth looking at Kinnock’s famous speech, and even beyond his call to strip ourselves of the illusions of nuclear grandeur, to his stirring yet pragmatic invocation of Labour values.templates CoachBio.tmpl Joe Girardi begins his fourth full as the Director of Football Strength and Conditioning after serving as the assistant strength and conditioning coach 2011.The A’s selected him with the 11th pick of the 1985 draft.

This year I was there for two months, I tried to do everything possible, but there are times when you simply can’t.Basically, the Twins have to do a better job of moving assets that ‘t figure into longterm plans.How about the first baseman designated Napoli, another 34-home run guy?Defenceman Gardiner, a playoff casualty four of the past five seasons as a Leaf, said he hoped Monday was the last golf he plays for a time …2001, a city truck equipped with a hydraulic lift slammed into the 34th Street overpass when the vehicle’s lift was unknowingly raised.

On Thursday, it was reported the NFL plans to issue Winston a three-game suspension for violating the NFL’s personal conduct policy in relation to the incident, but neither Winston or the team has been notified of the suspension.

A spokesman for the Eagles told ESPN Darby was unlikely to comment on the incident Friday and a spokeswoman for Winston told ESPN she could not comment on what Banks said or any other aspect of the investigation.

The cheerleaders were often reminded that they were easily replaceable and thus shouldn’t complain or speak up.

A team that relies on big plays defensively. New head coach Steve Wilks, who came over from Carolina, blitzed more than any other defensive play-caller in football last season, at least on early downs. With a shutdown corner in Patrick Peterson—something Wilks didn’t have in Carolina—expect plenty of blitzes on third down, too. This defense did that a lot under James Bettcher, and they have young, talented, diverse players to feature in Budda Baker, Haason Reddick, Markus Golden and Deone Bucannon.

Hopes are high for left tackle D.J. Humphries. It took the 2015 first-round pick a few years to become NFL-ready, and then he missed three games in ’16 and 11 games in ‘1By getting rid of Jared Veldheer, who could play the left or right side, Arizona bet heavily on the talented-but-still-unproven fourth-year tackle.

Some think he just wants the attention.

On Saturday night, Owens suggested another motivation: That he’s making a statement for all players who had to wait longer than they should have had to wait to get in.

I’m SO HAPPY for JERRY [Kramer]!! Owens said in response to someone on Twitter who was criticizing Owens by citing Kramer’s decades-long snub. [He] shouldn’t have had to wait that damn long either! I’m doing this for guys like him. Past, present and the future.

If true, it’s admirable — albeit quixotic. The process has real flaws. With only five modern-era candidates winning induction each year, deserving players will from time to time have to wait. It’s a numbers game, plain and simple. And, like anything else hinging on ballots cast by human beings, pettiness and politics will from time to time influence who makes it, and who doesn’t. Nothing Owens or anyone else does is going to change it, unless the suggested revision entails opening the floodgates and letting 15 new Hall of Famers in every year.

Ask either McVay or Shanahan about integrating backs into aerial designs, and they’ll launch into elaborate soliloquies about the nuances of that execution.

Both guys are as detailed as anybody I’ve been around, says LaFleur. They do a great job of seeing the game with all 22 players in mind.

The trend toward young offensive coaches includes not just McVay and Shanahan, but new Bears head coach Matt Nagy, 39, and Adam Gase, who took Miami to the playoffs as a 38-year-old rookie head coach in 201Others are in waiting. Not only are six coordinators 40 or younger (LaFleur, Minnesota’s John DeFilippo, Jacksonville’s Nathaniel Hackett, Indianapolis’s Nick Sirianni, Detroit’s Jim Bob Cooter and Miami’s Dowell Loggains), but 15 quarterbacks coaches are 40 or younger.

Sean is going to be more rah-rah, positive, high-energy, warm, says Kirk Cousins, who had Shanahan as a coordinator in 2012-13 and McVay as a coordinator under Jay Gruden in 2014-1Kyle’s going to be more direct, tell it like it is. I think that’s the biggest difference.

New Titans offensive coordinator Matt LaFleur, now 38, was Washington’s QB coach from 2010 to ’13, later worked as Shanahan’s QB coach for two years in Atlanta and was McVay’s offensive coordinator last year in Los Angeles.

Kyle’s intentions are extremely pure, LaFleur says. He wants what’s best—he just has a different belief in how to motivate people. Sean is more positive. They’re both demanding, just very different leadership styles.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. David Tepper was introduced as the new owner of the Carolina Panthers on Tuesday at Bank of America Stadium, a 22-year-old venue the NFL’s second richest team owner knows he needs to re-do.

But considering the saga that led to former team owner Jerry Richardson’s resignation and eventual sale of the franchise to Tepper, the future of the Panthers’ lair is just one of many intriguing questions the 60-year-old hedge fund manager faces in the early stages of his team ownership.

On addressing and preventing the harassment issues in the workplace that developed under Richardson:

I don’t know if (I’ve had) 24 hours yet owning this team. Still evaluating things. In general, I like to have an open environment, one big family environment where everybody feels safe. That means you can come up and talk to people. There’s going to be openness on all sides of this organization, both the football side and the business side.

They still have Terrance Williams, Cole Beasley, Noah Brown and Lance Lenoir. They added two other veterans, Allen Hurns and Deonte Thompson, and they traded for Tavon Austin to fill the void of a hybrid receiving threat to complement Ezekiel Elliott in the backfield.

But Dallas’ biggest 2018 acquisition was third-round draft pick Michael Gallup.

Gallup (6-1, 201 pounds) looks the part of a young Bryant (6-2, 200 pounds) with his size, speed, physicality and ability to go up to get the ball. He doesn’t need to dominate as a rookie to at least parallel the production of Bryant, who averaged 817 yards and 7 TDs in his final two seasons in Dallas. Those are not unreasonable numbers for Gallup to reach as the Cowboys’ new X receiver.

Hurns was asked to line up everywhere when he played for the Jaguars. He was a solid No. 2 for Allen Robinson when both were healthy, and he proved to be effective in the slot last season. Reliable with his hands and routes, if he can avoid more of the injury issues that have affected him the last couple years, Hurns should be one of the biggest steals of the offseason.

In 18 years, that first season remains the only time he’s had a losing record in New England. In his second year, he implemented an offense that elevated second-year quarterback Tom Brady to Super Bowl MVP. Since 2001, he’s averaged 12.3 wins per regular season and racked up 27 total playoff wins, including five NFL championships. No one in league history has ever won like Belichick has won.

Hue Jackson has gone 1-31 as head coach of the Cleveland Browns, and somehow the only repercussion from his worst-ever experience so far will be jumping into some water. In June.

Jackson will dive into Lake Erie June 1, following up on his post-2016 promise his Browns wouldn’t repeat their awful 1-15 season in 2017. While the woefully unsuccessful head coach was technically correct — Cleveland was somehow an even more ignominious 0-16 last fall — he’s still getting dunked in order to make good on [his] word.

Losing Miller was a major blow to a Chicago offense in desperate need of playmakers around then-rookie quarterback Mitchell Trubisky last fall. The veteran tight end was coming off the most productive season of his career despite having played just 10 games in 2016 and was tagged as Trubisky’s sure-handed checkdown target last fall. He struggled alongside early-season starter Mike Glennon but had developed a rapport with Trubisky, catching touchdowns in two of his final four games — three if you count the awfully-overturned reception that nearly cost him his leg.

The Bears have beefed up their tight end corps in his absence, most notably signing former Eagle Trey Burton to a four-year, $32 million pact. Adam Shaheen, a 2017 second-round pick, will also get plenty of chances to prove himself as more than just a ball of potential.

Chicago was well-staffed at tight end and didn’t need to sign a player who may never take the field. Instead, they kept Miller in the fold, rewarding four years of hard work and giving him a fair shake in his journey toward an NFL comeback. There aren’t too many six-figure signings to get excited about in the league, but Miller’s reunion with the Bears is one of them.

Ryan Gates, a radio producer for WGR 550 in Buffalo, promised in March he would leave the station if the team drafted Allen with Baker Mayfield or Josh Rosen still available.

The tweet came four days after the Bills traded Tyrod Taylor to the Cleveland Browns, leaving Nathan Peterman as the only quarterback on the roster. A day after Gates’ tweet, Buffalo signed AJ McCarron, the team’s likely starter for Week 1.

I’m joining the corporate world. I am a man of my word and it is because of Josh Allen.

Last week, Browns coach Hue Jackson followed through on a promise to jump into Lake Erie for somehow not improving a 1-15 team. In April, a Cleveland radio host said he’d eat horse poop if the Browns drafted Baker Mayfield — something he still hasn’t done and really shouldn’t. Just don’t eat poop, please.

But a career change might be the most significant promise we’ve seen someone follow through on. You have to respect Gates’ integrity, but the moral of the story here is to stop making sports guarantees, especially ones involving the NFL Draft.

The workout bonus is some offseason cash kicked over to the player if he meets a minimum attendance percentage for the voluntary offseason program (anywhere from 70 to 85 percent, depending on the team’s requirements).

The history behind the workout bonus, as I recall, is that in the old days, players held jobs elsewhere in the offseason. The workout bonus came about as a way to compensate those who wanted to devote themselves to their craft by working out at the team’s facility.

To be clear, the offseason program is voluntary and teams cannot force players to attend the workouts. Those who do meet a certain attendance requirement become eligible for their workout bonuses, which are typically paid out at the end of June.

Those who do not meet the requirement and hence do not collect their workout bonuses end up generating a cap credit for their team.

They can include a roster bonus paid to the player if he’s still on the roster by a certain date (usually no later than the fifth day of the new league year or if he makes the 53-man roster coming out of training camp); a per-game roster bonus (a typical clause given to a player with an injury history in which the player is compensated for each game he’s on the active 46-man game-day roster), and performance incentives which break down into likely to be earned (LTBE) and not likely to be earned (NLTBE).

Many fans and media members are conditioned to respond to news of the failed appeal of a player suspension by shrugging and saying, What do you expect? The union allowed the Commissioner to be judge, jury, and executioner.

Perhaps at some point the arbitrator’s written decision will be leaked, but probably not by Edelman’s representatives. They likely don’t want the public to see that Edelman received a proper hearing from an independent arbitrator, and they likely don’t want the public to have a chance to digest the manner in which an independent arbitrator resolved a case that reportedly hinged in part on the vague notion that Edelman tested positive for unrecognized substance.

As previously surmised, that seemed to be a clever P.R. strategy aimed at creating the impression that the unrecognized substance possibly wasn’t a PED. However, the full context of the PED policy suggests the league determined that, even though the specific substance may not have fit within more than 70 specific anabolic compounds listed in the policy, the thing for which Edelman tested positive nevertheless had a similar chemical structure and similar biological effect(s) to an anabolic agent.

Regardless of the specifics, the generalities paint a clear picture: Edelman received a fair opportunity to argue his case, and a truly independent arbitrator wasn’t impressed. He’ll serve his four-game suspension, barring a highly unlikely legal Hail Mary that becomes even more difficult when the arbitrator is truly independent.

The second overall pick played 724 snaps in 12 starts, won four games and threw 330 passes. Watson and Mahomes combined for 486 snaps, seven starts, four wins and 239 attempts.

Trubisky learned a lot in his rookie season even if he didn’t have as much success as he had hoped.

The experience aspect and how to prepare day in and day out, Trubisky said on SiriusXM NFL Radio. The grind of how long the season is, because you obviously don’t get that from the college season. You add a bunch more weeks in the NFL in everything you’ve got to do on a day-in, day-out basis. The speed of the game, and how there’s no weak spots on the other side of the ball.

Reynaldo Lopez had just walked in a run when Shin-Soo Choo came up with a chance to give Texas a lead while extending the longest on-base streak in the majors this season.

The White Sox right-hander recorded that key out , and Chicago responded with a five-run fifth inning that included Matt Davidson’s two-run double in a 10-5 victory over the Rangers on Sunday.

You have to be confident in yourself every time, 100 percent, Lopez said through an interpreter. Have confidence in your pitches, and execute your pitches and execute a plan. I think that was the key for me that inning.

I didn’t feel tired in any moment of the game, Lopez said. But right now, yes. Especially because today’s game, a day game with the heat, and I feel really tired.

One-time Texas closer Joakim Soria pitched around two singles in the ninth and had three strikeouts in a five-out save. It was his 12th save of the season in his 14th consecutive scoreless appearance. It was also his first five-out save since 2009.

Five straight Chicago hitters reached with one out in the five-run fifth against Texas ace Cole Hamels, starting with ninth-hitting Adam Engel on a wild pitch after a strikeout.

Tim Anderson doubled, Garcia hit a run-scoring single and Abreu had an infield single before Davidson’s double off the bottom of the 14-foot wall in left field.

Two of Hicks’ home runs came against Price. It was after the second that was driven into a protective netting covering Monument Park beyond the center-field fence that Cora hopped out of the dugout to replace the starter.

If you take a look at the game, it seemed like the righties decided not to swing at the inside part of the plate, Cora said, referencing the Yankees’ patience with Price.

It appeared to Cora that they wanted to make him pitch away or out over the plate.

Price detected that, too.