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The Athletics hired Marc Badain as their new President If you are getting deja vu, it is because Badain was the President of the Raiders when they moved from LA to Oakland Oh and he is also remembered for this

Dan Wetzel has officially joined ESPN

Im not starting an offseason thread yet so this is going here Utah is hiring Dallas Mavericks assistant Alex Jensen to be HC

Per his family via his Twitter account - Andy passed away this morning

Dak reworked his deal with the Cowboys freeing up - checks notes - $36.6 million!!!! in cap space (The converted $45.75 million of his base salary into a signing bonus)

The fact that Bosa has already been in the league 9 years floored me We are all so fucking old

The Hall of Fame has tweaked eligibility requirements again for the Eras committee Now if a player made the ballot but failed to received 5 or more votes - they will be ineligible for the next ballot (the era committees are currently on a three year rotation) If the player fails to gets 4 or fewer votes twice - they are "permanently ineligible" As all the stories have pointed out - this is basically the HOFs way to getting rid of roid guys Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Rafael Palmeiro and Albert Belle each got 4 or less votes on the last ballot

And speaking of Seahawk receivers... DK Metcalf has requested a trade The team has reportedly agreed to at least see what trade options they can get

The Seahawks are releasing Tyler Lockett He has already posted his goodbye to Seattle message on social media He was set to make $17 million this season with a $5.3 million roster bonus that was due on March 16

They are giving up a 4th rounder in next year's draft

Pete Engel - best known (for at least my generation) as the Executive Producer on Saved By the Bell - passed away at the age of 88 https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/peter-engel-dead-saved-by-the-bell-1236327276/

Rams trade Jonah Jackson to the Bears The Bears are giving up a 6th rounder in this year's draft Similar to the Deebo trade - the Bears are taking on the entire remainder of Jackson's contract hence why they didn't have to give up as much

Cowboys and Osa Odighizuwa agree to a new deal 4 years, $80 million ($58 million is guaranteed)

CBS has cancelled FBI: International and FBI: Most Wanted but is still planning on proceeding with FBI: CIA That might be the dumbest sentence I have ever written

My beloved George Mason University set the NCAA record for most runs in an inning - 23 They dropped that number in the third inning against Holy Cross And they did it without hitting a triple or HR. In the inning, they had 11 hits, 8 walks, FIVE HBP Final was 26-6

Per Shams - Kyrie tore his ACL

Speaking of retiring Mike Moustakas is signing a one day contract with the Royals and retiring The club will hold a ceremony on May 31 to honor him

Final trailer for The Electric State

The Woman in the Yard Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (House of Wax, Orphan) Danielle Deadwyler, Okwui Okpokwasili Trailer goes a little too long and starts to give away too much

The Jets will be releasing Davante Adams If you believe reports - a condition for signing Aaron Rodgers is also bringing in Davante Adams Though other reports say - Adams prefers to go back to the West Coast

It appears the Vikings will not be placing the franchise tag on Sam Darnold

Gil has a lat strain and is being shut down for 6 weeks. So at a minimum he is out till June (if not longer)

To be fair - the Nats have been trying to sell the naming rights to the stadium for awhile Issue is basically the Lerners won't settle for anything less than what they think they should get so if they think the deal should be for a trillion dollars (making numbers up here) than unless they get a trillion dollars, the deal won't happen. It is the same reason they didn't sell the club. Now on that topic - the TV deal was the biggest obstacle in selling. With that being settled - I full expect Ted Leonsis to own the team within the next 18 months

Eagles are releasing Darius Slay Bengals released Alex Cappa