Seems fairly likely that this will be the opening night roster, even if I think the lines will get tweaked again when JVR is ready.

I’ve generally felt the college football doomerism has been overblown for awhile. This is the first bit of news that gives me serious pause.

You could feel that one coming from a mile away

Against all known laws of math and human reason, the Detroit Tigers are losing 1-1 right now.

Todd McLellan said today that if not for Nate Danielson's injury, he had a really strong chance of making the team, and added they'd like to get him healthy because he thinks he can play in Detroit this year.

sweaty win, we count those

Having Lucas Raymond locked up for approximately .5 Kaprizovs seems like a great deal to me

Marc-Andre Fleury should absolutely just stay in shape and rest for a few months. Then he could join the Oilers around the deadline for the playoff run. That way I can watch him absolutely blow it in the playoffs one more time. Would really bring me a lot of joy.

McDonald's Monopoly is returning. Finally we get some news that is undeniably great.

Goalie valuations are so weird. This is a career .918 goalie coming off a vezina-caliber season and the cap is exploding, and he’s gonna be like the 20th highest paid goalie in the league? Why?

Howler of a pick from Flacco there

Penn state’s kickoff guy being like 300 pounds rules. All hail the thiccer kicker

This is a drubbing

One day penn state fans will reluctantly admit the truth - which is that Sean Clifford was an excellent college qb and Drew Allar is extremely not.

Between this and Tkachuk missing at least half the season, I can’t help but wonder if the Panthers are at some mild risk of missing the playoffs given the competitiveness of the Atlantic.

I am just now learning the Barkov news. Absolutely brutal.

YO IS THIS BAD

It’s uncanny the degree to which the Tigers have literally just inversed their season from last year

After watching most of that game, the Emmitt Finnie hype looks very much real. Not for this year. But for a 7th rounder that just turned 20 to look like this already is eye opening.

“The Detroit Lions” - many are saying this

Insane drive for the Lions right now

I watched a lot of football this weekend and this is easily the most impressive thing I saw

Miami RT just got away with the most holding you can possibly do

3 receivers at 3 yards of depth on 3rd and 12 down 17 in the 4th quarter. Wisconsin fans are in the bad place right now.

Almost exactly on track for this

I wonder when is the last time Iowa played an entire half of football without forcing a single punt or turnover

Rutgers is 100% going to outgain Iowa by around 200 yards and lose by a FG.

Helene: how good do you think the Red Wings will be this year Yzerman: *stares into the abyss for 5 full seconds before beginning to answer* Red Wings hockey is back

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaWm... Yzerman presser is about to go live

Steve Yzerman will address the media in about 20 minutes for his annual training camp availability

Kaprizov has played a 70 game NHL season two times in his life. He’s 28. I think the kind of numbers out there for him are totally reasonable in the rising cap era if you look at his 82-game adjusted numbers, but I’m not sure you can do that with him. Missing time is part of the package.

This seems mean

Kaprizov apparently looked at all the sub-market deals from this past offseason and decided to be the change he wanted to see in the world. Respect.

So I guess the bizarre JJ McCarthy grave dancing all over the timeline was a tad premature

Rich Eisen being gobsmacked at every LAC pass has been hilarious all game, but you have to understand the guy is a Michigan fan. He knows the more common Harbaugh experience way too well.

Feels like Silksong surely must be the most hyped indie video game release of all time. I can't think of anything even close?

NHL has the simplest salary cap of any of the salary caps, and it's also the only league where the GMs constantly whine about how hard it is to make trades and blame stuff like this. Truth is far simpler - NHL GMs are universally overly conservative and notoriously overvalue their own assets.

Targeting for being too big

Underwood dropping in a floater and then bullet on back to back throws has me fanning myself

ESPN really ought to have Joe Tessitore give hockey commentary a try. Could totally see him being good at it.

Strong meme potential here

One hour into this game, Arch Manning has had more commercials than completions.

Deion clock management masterclass

Sports are good

Think we can fit one more washed-up defenseman on this team if we really try.

Better late than never on Fedorov retirement. My first ever favorite player as a very young kid in the 90s. I thought his name was cool, I thought the number 91 on his jersey was cool, and I thought the goals were cool.

Was going to guess someone got access to the account and had some fun, but the 7am on-the-dot posting looks more like a scheduled tweet.

Bluey is this generation’s Calvin and Hobbes

The PDOcast is always great, but this series is I think the best they’ve ever done. Highly recommended. If you have time for just a couple, the Tocchet and Dillon interviews are especially great.