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After blazing a trail in cannabis advocacy, NFL legends Kyle Turley, Jim McMahon, Ricky Williams, and Eben Britton team up in new nationwide brand venture Revenant MJ.
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- Kyle Turley
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San Francisco 49ers
Offer: No. 12 pick in the 2021 draft, 2021 third-round pick, 2022 first-round pick, 2022 third-round pick, WR Deebo Samuel
Why it makes sense for the 49ers: It would automatically make the 49ers a favorite, if not the favorite, in the NFC. Watson would give the 49ers a playmaking element they simply haven’t had with Jimmy Garoppolo. For example, the 49ers didn’t have a single rushing touchdown by a quarterback in 2020 and their three passers combined for 61 rushing yards. Watson has rushed for nearly 1,700 yards in four seasons (one of them cut short by injury), has scored 17 touchdowns with his legs and picked up 111 first downs.
He’s versatile, he’s young and he’s a leader. As one league insider put it, “(Watson) makes a bad team good, and a good team great.” When they’re healthy, the 49ers are at minimum a good team. They aspire to be a team like the Patriots, Saints or Seahawks — one that’s a perennial contender. The common element among those squads is that they have (or had) a great quarterback. Watson gives the 49ers a true shot at that type of sustainability.
Watson also would offer quite a bit in cap relief in 2021. He’d count $10.5 million against the 49ers’ cap as his contract’s written now vs. nearly $27 million for Garoppolo. That’s the reason why throwing Garoppolo into the trade-compensation mix — he was drafted by Texans GM Nick Caserio in New England — doesn’t make a lot of sense. He’d be worse for Houston’s already-cramped salary cap. Samuel would be a young, talented and cheaper option since he has two years remaining on his rookie deal.
Why Watson should be interested: Watson’s big gripe in Houston appears to revolve around the team culture and the way upper management does business. This is an area in which the 49ers excel. For the past few years, veterans from Joe Staley to Richard Sherman have raved about the culture the 49ers have built. That culture is personified by players like George Kittle and Fred Warner. They’re smart, dedicated and in the primes of their careers. That has to be appealing to Watson.
The 49ers also were in the Super Bowl — in fact, they had a late-game lead in the Super Bowl — less than a year ago. Watson wouldn’t be part of a rebuilding process like he would if he joined the Jets. The 49ers are ready to win now. There’s also no team in the NFC that dominates the way the Chiefs do in the AFC. With Watson, the 49ers might become the closest thing in the NFC to what the Chiefs are in their conference.
— Matt Barrows
How the Texans should feel about this offer: You’re right that the 49ers might become the NFC’s version of the Chiefs if they acquire Watson, which is why just two first-round picks won’t cut it. That 2022 first probably won’t be very high, and the No. 12 overall pick in this year’s draft doesn’t put the Texans in position to acquire someone like BYU’s Zach Wilson or Ohio State’s Justin Fields (though the latter is repped by Watson’s agent, David Mulugheta). Samuel, who has two seasons left on his rookie contract, would be a nice addition to a receiving corps that could lose Will Fuller to free agency this offseason, but the Texans need more help on defense than offense. If San Francisco won’t throw in a third first-round pick, what about edge rusher Nick Bosa instead of Samuel?
barber who recently cut the hair of two Chiefs players received a positive test result for COVID-19 on Sunday, per sources, leading to receiver Demarcus Robinsonand center Daniel Kilgore landing on the reserve/COVID-19 list Monday, six days before Super Bowl LV.
Neither Robinson nor Kilgore has tested positive and all parties were masked during the encounters, lowering the chance of transmission, sources say. But given the duration and proximity, both were deemed high-risk close contacts of the barber and had to be placed on the reserve/COVID-19 list.
If Robinson and Kilgore continue to test negative, both will be eligible to return to the Chiefs' active roster in time to face the Buccaneers prior to Sunday, though they won't be able to practice before the weekend because of the mandatory five-day isolation period. The Chiefs aren't traveling to Tampa until Saturday.
Sources say the barber tested negative five consecutive days before he was allowed to enter the Chiefs' facility -- including a Saturday PCR test that came back negative Sunday. The barber took an additional rapid test as a precaution before entering the facility Sunday, but the results were delayed briefly because of a line of friends and family also getting tested. He was wearing double PPE and was still cutting Kilgore's hair -- the first in a line of players waiting for haircuts -- when the positive result came back. The barber was immediately removed; in a follow-up interview with NFL officials, the barber said he'd also cut Robinson's hair the previous day away from the facility.
On Dec. 18, the NFL sent a memo with several updates to COVID protocols, noting that "non-club service providers such as barbers, personal chefs, chiropractors, masseuses and stretching assistants who are employed by individual players" frequently contribute to positive cases and strongly encouraged clubs to have them tested prior to performing services.
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The Hawks are investigating an incident during which four fans allegedly yelled obscenities at LeBron James while sitting courtside in Atlanta during Monday night’s game against the Lakers, CEO Steve Koonin told The Athletic.
Juliana Carlos, one of the people who was escorted out of State Farm Arena, posted video of the incident on her Instagram page and said that she and her group were kicked out after her husband, Chris Carlos, was cursed out by James during the game. She then stood up and said, “Don’t fucking talk to my husband. Talk to my husband one more time and I will fuck you up.”
“Oh, well my guy tonight, I don’t want to say he went overboard, but he went a little bit out of bounds,” James said after the Lakers’ 107-99 win. “Too close to comfort for me. And I said my piece, and we could’ve moved on. But I think it was so close to the officials, I think the official heard it as well, what he had said, and it kind of got blown out of proportion. It’s just like sometimes on the floor when two guys get into a scuffle or get into a little jostling, the refs kind of come in and try to break it up really fast, and it looks like it’s bigger than what it really is. That’s what it pretty much was tonight. But the difference is we’re on the court, and we’re not having any alcoholic beverages.
“So they might’ve had some alcoholic beverages on the side, so it made them feel a little tougher than what they really are, I would say.”
Mickey Callaway, the former New York Mets manager and current pitching coach for the Los Angeles Angels, aggressively pursued at least five women who work in sports media, sending three of them inappropriate photographs and asking one of them to send nude photos in return. He sent them unsolicited electronic messages and regularly commented on their appearance in a manner that made them uncomfortable. In one instance, he thrust his crotch near the face of a reporter as she interviewed him. In another, he told one of the women that if she got drunk with him he’d share information about the Mets.
The five women, who spoke to The Athletic on the condition that they not be identified, said that the actions by the now 45-year-old Callaway spanned at least five years, multiple cities and three teams. Two of the women said they were warned about his behavior – from fellow media members and others who worked in baseball. An additional seven women who worked in various MLB markets said that, although they had not been approached by Callaway, they had been cautioned about him.
“It was the worst-kept secret in sports,” said one of the women.
The five women pursued by Callaway described a pattern in which he regularly contacted them via email, text messages or on social media, and often a combination of the three. His pursuit put them in a difficult position at work given what they perceived as a stark power imbalance. The women were forced to weigh the professional ramifications of rebuffing him.
In response to an email from The Athletic, Callaway wrote: “Rather than rush to respond to these general allegations of which I have just been made aware, I look forward to an opportunity to provide more specific responses. Any relationship in which I was engaged has been consensual, and my conduct was in no way intended to be disrespectful to any women involved. I am married and my wife has been made aware of these general allegations.”
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Camps scheduled to open Feb. 17.
Opening Day scheduled for April 1. 2/1/21, 7:48 PM
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Confirming: @MLB will have 26-man rosters in 2021, except for doubleheaders, when the limit expands to 27. @MLBNetwork 2/2/21, 5:22 AMSpring training will begin on time, and so will the regular season, unless COVID-19 dictates otherwise. This is what the players want, and the rest is noise, really. If a deal to delay the season was going to happen, it needed to happen long before early February, when spring-training camps were about to open. And now that Major League Baseball and the Players Association have struck out again, they must deal with the consequences of their inaction.
Both parties detest the “both sides” argument, believing their side is the only one that is right, and that the other side is unreasonable. Alas, neither the players nor owners can claim pure motives. The tortured, embittered relationship between the parties prevents a common-sense discussion from even taking place. But if positive tests for COVID-19 start piling up in Florida and Arizona, if camps are shut down and the season turns into a mess, remember that it was all so avoidable, all so unnecessary. As always, economics took precedence, even during a pandemic, with the health of so many at stake.
Yes, the NHL and NBA are playing through the pandemic. Yes, the Super Bowl will take place on Sunday. The MLB calendar, though, offers the flexibility to be creative. I suggested a one-month delay on Jan. 25, but by then the players already considered it too late for such a decision. If the league and union had been intent on putting health and safety first, they should have agreed to delay the season in December, and not subjected themselves to another last-minute negotiating breakdown.
The players will tell you the conversations needed to take place sooner, and the league’s overall proposal did not compel them to move. League officials will tell you the union never wanted to have a conversation in the first place. Well, the parties now have had two significant negotiations without reaching an agreement, the first that led to commissioner Rob Manfred imposing a 60-game season in 2020, the second that will lead to an on-time start in ’21 without expanded playoffs and a universal DH. The collective-bargaining talks are next, and in this sport, with these actors, it’s best to bet on strike three.
The players, after rejecting on Monday the league’s proposal to delay the season, are taking a risk they should have avoided not only for their own safety, but also for the safety of older coaches, managers, umpires and staffers who are more vulnerable to COVID-19. And while their rejection of the expanded postseason and universal DH might not affect the playoff shares players normally receive with fans in the stands, it likely will cost some of them money in other ways.
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