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The Associated Press
The Jacksonville Jaguars and cornerback Darqueze Dennard have parted ways nine days after agreeing to a three-year, $13.5 million contract in free agency. The Jaguars said Thursday ”the two sides could not come to an agreement on the final contract terms. Dennard agreed to the deal March 17, the night before the official start of the new league year.
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Yahoo Sports
When the 2020 NFL season begins, Arians be coaching the best quarterback of all time. It’s quite the change for the 67-year-old Arians, who “retired” following the 2017 season. To go from retirement to Brady in that span is pretty unbelievable.
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NBC Sports Washington
The first week of NFL free agency is in the books, and several clubs’ draft boards look a lot different than they did seven days ago. Arguably no draft board has changed more than the San Francisco 49ers’. The reigning NFC champions traded All-Pro defensive tackle DeForest Buckner to the Indianapolis Colts in exchange for the No. 13 overall pick.
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Golf Digest
If Brandel Chamblee was looking for an outlet to relieve some of his virus-induced social isolation this week, he found it. The Golf Channel commentator used a two-part Golfweek interview to light golf coaches on fire, claiming (among other things) that “teachers are being exposed for their idiocy,” and that the flawed teaching philosophies permeating PGA Tour practice areas are ending more careers than they help.
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Yahoo Sports
Eric Ebron may have hauled in 13 touchdowns in 2018, but the Indianapolis Colts had no problem letting him walk in free agency this offseason. While Ebron flashed plenty of ability with the Colts, the team couldn’t overlook Ebron’s performance in 2019, when the team reportedly believes Ebron quit on the Colts. During a radio interview, Kravitz said the Colts had no interest in bringing Ebron back in 2020 because the Colts “felt he quit on them this season.”
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NBC Sports Northwest
For those of you who know Marcus Mariota, you know that he is very close to his family. The Hawaiian native chose the University of Oregon for his athletic and academic career “because it felt like home.” Fast forward four years, three bowl wins, a National Championship appearance and a Heisman Trophy winner later, and Mariota heard his named No. 2 overall in the 2015 NFL Draft to the Tennessee Titans.
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LA Times
The Dodgers’ trade for Mookie Betts was a win-now move, acquiring one of baseball’s great players for one chance to win the World Series. The Dodgers were guaranteed nothing beyond the 2020 season because Betts could leave as a free agent after the season. Now, because of the coronavirus crisis, the Dodgers are not even guaranteed a 2020 season.
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Yahoo Sports
One fair question in the wake of the baffling DeAndre Hopkins-David Johnson deal was why no other team made a better offer to the Houston Texans to get Hopkins. It turns out, the Texans did shop around to at least one other team. It seems they simply valued Johnson highly enough to make that deal, which was Hopkins and a fourth-round pick to the Arizona Cardinals for Johnson, a second- and fourth-round pick.
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ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
In cutting quarterback Cam Newton on Tuesday, eight days after the free-agent market opened, the Panthers were acting fully within their rights. The Panthers squatted on Newton in a failed effort to trade him. Of course, there likely weren’t many teams that would have lined up for Newton if he’d been available last Monday.
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Yahoo Sports
Redskins vice president of player personnel Kyle Smith will be running his first draft, and we suspect new head coach Ron Rivera took the job knowing he’d have a lot of influence over who that top pick will be. That might have been one of the concessions team owner Daniel Snyder had to make to land Rivera. Let’s roll through all the big changes in our post-free agency mock.
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NBC Sports Boston
Tom Brady’s decision to leave the New England Patriots and sign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in NFL free agency has left Jameis Winston without a job. Winston was selected No. 1 overall by the Buccaneers in the 2015 NFL Draft, and he was the team’s starting quarterback for most of the last five seasons. The 26-year-old veteran did put up plenty of nice stats with the Bucs, and in 2019 he led the league with 5,109 passing yards and ranked second with 33 passing touchdowns.
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ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
Trent Williams’ agent Vince Taylor released a statement this week asking that Washington trade or release his client, which comes after protracted acrimony between the two sides and amid reports that Williams is looking for $20 million a season in a new contract. A contract demand of that size would limit the bidders for the left tackle, but Taylor said on Thursday that his client isn’t looking for that kind of payout. Taylor called that demand “totally false” during an appearance on 106.7 The Fan and said “the contract has never been the holdup” when asked if Williams would hypothetically accept a deal paying him $16 million a year.
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NFL Highlights
NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport discusses the two teams that pursued Ndamukong Suh before he re-signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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NBC Sports Boston
Tom Brady is all in on Tampa Bay — and so are his loved ones, it appears. The 42-year-old quarterback will relocate his family to Tampa Bay this offseason after leaving the New England Patriots to sign with the Buccaneers, head coach Bruce Arians confirmed Wednesday on The Dan Patrick Show. “They’ll have plenty of options,” Arians said of the Brady clan.
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NBC Sports
After the Lakers beat the Heat in December, LeBron James posted a photo of himself in the game on Instagram. Ryan Naumann of The Blast: According to court documents obtained by The Blast, photographer Steven Mitchell is suing Lebron James and his companies Uninterrupted Digital Ventures and LRMR Ventures, LLC. Mitchell explains, “This is an action for copyright infringement under Section 501 of the Copyright Act.
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TheWolverine.com
Michigan moved past teams like Florida State, LSU, Nebraska, Texas A&M and Tennessee and now has a total score of 498. Every team ranked ahead of Michigan nationally holds more commits at this time. Here is a look at The Big Ten rankings: 1.
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NBC Sports Boston
Do you miss the old “Pat Patriot” helmets? Well, a potential NFL rule change in 2021 could allow the New England Patriots to wear their throwback helmets again. Current league rules force teams to only use one helmet, which makes it pretty tough to wear classic jerseys.
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NBC Sports BayArea
Whenever things do return to normal, however, the Warriors are expected to show some interest in current Knicks shooting guard Damyean Dotson, NBA sources told Marc Berman of The New York Post. One question at this point is will Dotson be a restricted free agent or unrestricted free agent? As Berman wrote a month ago: Sources indicate the Knicks were fully prepared to extend Dotson a $2 million qualifying offer to keep him a restricted free agent and try to keep him by matching a reasonable offer.
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NBC Sports Northwest
If such a rule were implemented, NFL teams would like to use an alternate uniform with an alternate helmet to do it. Russell Wilson made it clear he firmly approves of this idea. In a post on Twitter Wednesday night, the Seattle Seahawks franchise quarterback shared a photoshopped version of himself rocking the Cortez Kennedy-Curt Warner era throwback threads.
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NBC Sports BayArea
But they lost Andre Iguodala for the rest of the series — plus the first two games of the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers — because of a leg injury. People were surprised the “left lateral leg contusion/bone cruise” kept the 2015 NBA Finals MVP sidelined for so long. In September 2018, Iguodala revealed he sustained a “spider fracture,” with a recovery timeline of three to five weeks (more on that later).