Tannehill would become the third quarterback taken in the top 10 of the 2012 NFL Draft to have his rookie contract extended to a fifth year. He would join Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, who went Nos. 1 and 2 to the Colts and Redskins, respectively. Tannehill was drafted eighth overall by Miami out of Texas A&M. MORE: Redskins add to rumor-filled chaos | Brady doesn’t want to help RGIII | Luck honest with students...
Erica Palmer, Walden’s ex, was arrested on numerous charges after being accused of slashing Walden and breaking a woman’s arm with a baseball bat, according to 11Alive in Georgia. Palmer allegedly went inside Walden’s home and waited for the NFL player and a woman who accompanied him. Walden and the woman returned to Palmer sitting on the couch with a gun and a baseball bat, according to the report....
Yahoo Sports’ Pat Forde reported the news. McElwain, who led Colorado State to a 10-2 record this season, is considered a front-runner for the vacant coaching job at Florida. He served as Alabama’s quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator from 2008-11. MORE: Florida coaching search | First-and-10: Where will Braxton Miller land? | Conference championship ranks
But 2013 saw his Missouri Tigers win the East Division, play in the SEC Championship Game and finish 12-2 with a win in the Cotton Bowl against Oklahoma State. Now it looks like Pinkel will have a new contract. MORE: SN’s top 25 players | Future first-rounders | Top 15 RBs | Spring sked According to PowerMizzou.com, Missouri and Pinkel have reached an agreement that will pay him more than $3 million per season — currently his base salary is $2....
Dragic’s representatives told the Suns in a Tuesday meeting that he has no plans to re-sign with the team once he becomes a free agent in the summer, according to USA Today sources. MORE: Biggest rises and falls in 2K15 | Aldridge talks free agency | No Lopez trade . . . yet Dragic’s message comes just two days before Thursday’s NBA trade deadline. The point guard has seen his role decrease dramatically during the 2014-15 season since the Suns acquired point guard Isaiah Thomas last summer....
Monroe will become an unrestricted free agent after playing out the final year of his rookie contract with the Pistons on a $5.479 million salary. At the moment, Monroe is an unrestricted free agent but he has not signed an offer sheet from another team or signed a long-term deal with the Pistons. Monroe reportedly turned down a deal worth $50 million over four years. He hit social media and squashed rumors that he did not accept an offer of $60 million over five years....
While the Indian Super League is gaining popularity, evident from the number of prominent players being signed up by the various franchises for the second season which starts in October, the I-League clubs have been suffering with hardly any revenue being generated. Pune FC, owned by Ashok Piramal group, is considered one of the best professionally managed football clubs in the country with special emphasis laid on top class facilities for players, youth development and connecting with their fans....
The Brazilian was replaced by Ecuadorian Antonio Valencia in the right-back position for a majority of last season and the arrival of Matteo Darmian from Torino FC this transfer window sees his chances of playing at the Theatre Of Dreams diminished. United are unlikely to demand a hefty price for the player, who has just a year left in his contract and Lyon are the frontrunners to land the 25-year old at the club....
Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota will not travel to Chicago to attend the draft next month, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. MORE: Latest mock draft | Winston says he’s ’the best’ available | Redskins plan for Mariota visit Mariota’s reported decision comes several weeks after Winston announced he would not be at the draft. Winston told reporters at his pro day Tuesday that he will not be attending because his grandmother has Type 2 diabetes and cannot travel with him for the draft....
The camp is being run by training guru Mike Barwis at the Mets’ complex in Port St. Lucie, Fla. According to ESPNNewYork.com, MLB players are being charged more than $4,000 while minor leaguers are being required to pay $1,000. The MLBPA’s investigation will likely determine whether or not the camp is mandatory as the organization demands that all offseason camps be voluntary. Barwis is the Mets’ senior advisor of strength and conditioning, according to his web site....
The Phenom, though, didn’t step in the ring, and only was at the Performance Center to give advice to the Superstars. He also reportedly reviewed this past week’s NXT show. The Undertaker was a part of the Royal Rumble back in 2017, where he was one of the last few remaining in the men’s Royal Rumble match, before being eliminated by Roman Reigns. The Deadman’s last match in WWE was back in July 2019, when he teamed with Roman Reigns to face and defeat Drew McIntyre and Shane McMahon....
When Liz Layug had a stroke two years ago, she thought she’d never walk normally again. Three weeks of rehab didn’t do much to change her mind. She went home from the hospital in a wheelchair, her left leg immobilized by a brace, her left hand immobilized by her brain’s inability to command it. She couldn’t drive, and even after she rose from the wheelchair on two legs again, she could barely cross the street in the time it took for WALK to click over to DON’T WALK....
These events confirmed what many of us have long known: true political power no longer resides in Washington, but in Silicon Valley. Big Tech now effectively decides who has the right to speak, who has the right to assemble online and who has the ability to build a business in the digital age. For many Americans, Twitter’s terms of service agreement now has more power over what they can and cannot say in the public square than the First Amendment does....
Instead, the issue with Judge Jackson is that she is a left-wing ideologue who, if successfully confirmed by the Senate, will devote the next few decades endeavoring to move the Supreme Court far to the left. All relevant indications are that she will approach her job not like her (slightly) more pragmatic former boss, but like a leftist activist—in the mode of her possible future colleague, the midwit partisan flack Justice Sonia Sotomayor....
Investigators say Mesa, a 20-year-old from Guam, confessed to killing both victims during robberies and that he targeted them because they lived alone and were weak. Police found a pair of blood-stained Nike cross-trainers in Mesa’s dorm room that they say matched shoe prints left near Varner’s body. According to the U.S. attorney’s office, Mesa used Plunkett’s debit card and was caught on videotape cashing a check for $650 that he wrote to himself from Varner’s checkbook....
For boys like Jimmy and Anton and me, war was sport, glory and romance, a wild adventure. In the closing months of World War II, when I was 14, I lied about my age and enlisted in the U.S. Merchant Marine. A year later I joined the army the same way. In those days they would take anyone capable of fitting into a uniform, counting cadence to four and hefting a rifle–no questions asked....
David Nalbandian issued a second apology for his sensational disqualification from Queen’s Club as the fiery Argentine faced a possible lengthy ban in the aftermath of a second spectacular meltdown this year. The 30-year-old was defaulted from the Queen’s final for angrily kicking an advertising board at a line judge which left the official suffering a gashed and bloodied leg. Nalbandian, who had won the first set 7-6 (7/3) against Croatia’s Marin Cilic, had just lost his serve to fall 4-3 down in the second when he reacted with a frustrated kick at the board, which was just in front of line judge Andrew McDougall....
According to a recent report by Bloomberg, Apple’s leadership has been actively looking to address criticism and demands from loyal Mac customers. Among the moves the company has in mind: bringing back the SD card memory slot to this year’s MacBook Pro. Considering this is Apple’s most powerful notebook catering to the most demanding users, reviving the SD card slot should appease professional photographers and video editors. No matter what they say, we’re not living in a future where everything is USB-C....
