The Cincinnati Bengals dodged a serious disaster to start training camp when Shemar Stewart went down with a scary-looking injury.
Since, it's been nothing but good news on that injury front. Word broke that the 2025 first-round pick would not, in fact, miss the season. Even better, the rumblings suggested that Week 1 might be on the table.
About that.
Wednesday practice footage from Local 12's Yanni Tragellis revealed that Stewart had officially returned to practice for the first time since July 29.
After, Stewart himself told Laurel Pfahler of the Dayton Daily News that he thought he heard something pop at the time of injury, so he's just happy to be back out there after a hyperextension.

#stewart #since #practice

Gentlemen from Connecticut, start your engines. The Nutmeg State just doubled its chances in "The Chase."
Berlin native Ryan Preece, with an overtime victory Saturday night at Daytona in the ***** e Zero Sugar 400, the final regular-season race in the NASCAR Cup Series, secured the 16th and final berth in the postseason.
Preece will join Middletown native and former Cup champion Joey Logano in the 16-driver playoff series, which opens Sunday at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina.
On Saturday night at Daytona, Preece triumphed at a track at which he knew mostly trauma. He twice flipped cars at NASCAR's iconic home track, last year during the Daytona 500 and in 2023 at the ***** e Zero Sugar 400.
This time around, Preece dodged mayhem on the final lap when leader Zane Smith got ***** ped and spun into other cars. Preece safely navigated his No. 60 car to the front and took the checkered flag under caution.

#daytona #series #night

WOODROW — Frenship opened the 2026 high school football season with a dominant 50-17 win over rival Lubbock-Cooper on Friday. Here's a look at the key takeaways.
It shouldn't come as a surprise another quarterback is thriving at Frenship.
James "Bear" Ordonez completed his first 10 passes in his debut, throwing five touchdowns in the first half as Frenship led 34-10. He finished 17 of 22 for 281 yards and no interceptions.
"He and I had a lot of conversations about the old frying pan," Tigers coach Jay Northcutt said, alluding to his metaphor of an inexperienced QB's struggles. "I know it'll come at some point. A lot of times it is the first game, but he seemed to have dodged it. Just a good performance by him and his teammates as well."
Frenship raced out to a 27-0 lead, and things got worse for Cooper late in the opening half.

#frenship #cooper #woodrow #james

Everyone ***** ociated with the New York Jets collectively held their breath at Monday's training camp practice. Superstar running back Breece Hall suffered a non-contact injury. It was eventually revealed that Hall suffered a minor groin injury, and will be sidelined for weeks, per multiple reports.
The Jets dodged a major concern. A non-contact injury could have carried a multi-month timeline, or even worse. With the crisis totally averted, the Jets must place Hall in bubble wrap for the remainder of training camp and the preseason.
There are less than two weeks remaining in training camp. The Jets have two preseason games left, with the finale scheduled for August 28th against the New York Giants. It goes without saying that Hall shouldn't see any preseason action.
Once the Jets reduce their roster to 53 by August 30th's deadline, focus will immediately shift to preparing for Week 1 versus the Tennessee ***** ans on September 13th. Early September is when the Jets should target for Hall's full-go return. Hopefully he's healthy enough to participate when practice shifts to a regular-season schedule.
The Jets escaped disaster at Monday's practice when Hall went down untouched. Now, Aaron Glenn and staff must exercise maximum caution. Hall's focus needs to solely be centered around getting healthy for the ***** ans game.

#Titans

The New York Jets are breathing a sign of relief after running back Breece Hall went down with a non-contact injury at practice on Monday.
Hall was running after a catch when he went down to the ground without taking any contact.
Any time a player suffers a non-contact injury like that, the worst is feared. However, at least initially, it appears the Jets dodged a bullet.
According to head coach Aaron Glenn, Hall suffered a strained groin and the belief is that he isn't dealing with anything significant.
MORE: Jets star blasts team for NFL free agency spending

#Jets #injury #Monday

CHICAGO — Kyle Whittingham is a tone-setter. At Michigan, he also has to be a stain remover. The 66-year-old former Utah frontman is tasked with ameliorating a program tainted by scandal.
Whittingham was hired by Warde Manuel, an athletic director who's now stepping down at the end of the calendar year after being implicated in an internal investigation "into the circumstances surrounding the conduct" of fired Wolverines football head coach Sherrone Moore. Manuel, according to an FAQ the school put out earlier this month about the investigation and its corresponding culture review, demonstrated "failures to quickly and effectively act on allegations of wrongdoing by Athletic Department employees."
Moore, notably, was arrested by police and fired by Michigan in December for what the university described as an "inappropriate relationship" with a staff member. He faced a collection of charges, including a charge of felony home invasion, although he dodged jail time by reaching a plea deal earlier this year.
The nefarious web extends further, of course, as Moore's two-season stint at the helm began when he officially took over for Jim Harbaugh, who was in charge of the Wolverines when they were marred by their infamous sign-stealing scheme. That ploy resulted in some casting a perverse shadow over the national ******* le Michigan won during the 2023 season. Even before that saga began, Harbaugh got caught up in recruiting violations at Michigan.
For years, Wolverines players have found themselves in a vacuum of controversy and uncertainty. Whittingham, after a 21-season tenure piloting the Utes, yearns to bring stability to Ann Arbor.

#moore #harbaugh #Athletic

Tom Holland confirmed his marriage to Zendaya in June after months of speculation
Holland recently dodged a second grader's question about his marriage during his guest appearance on Celebrity Substitute
The couple has previously expressed their desire to preserve privacy in their relationship
Tom Holland may be referring to Zendaya as his "wife" now, but he's not quite ready to answer any direct questions about their marriage.
Holland, 30, confirmed his marriage to his Spider-Man and The Odyssey costar, 29, in June, following months of speculation. Since then, he's began publicly calling Zendaya his "wife," first on the July 21 episode of the Dish podcast, and, most recently, during his July 28 appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Despite this, he recently dodged a kid's question about his marriage.

#holland #july #confirmed #dodged

Massimiliano Allegri insists he was never in talks for the Italy job before accepting the Napoli offer, refuses to reply to Milan owner Gerry Cardinale, but notes: ‘I’m happy to coach Rasmus Hojlund.” Last season, I dodged him…’
New Napoli coach Allegri was unveiled at a big event at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on Tuesday.
The Tuscan tactician has signed a three-year contract at the Stadio Maradona.
Allegri was joined by President Aurelio De Laurentiis and directors Giovanni Manna and Andrea Chiavelli, answering questions from reporters.
“For me, this unveiling is too much. It’s the first time it has happened to me, and I thank the president,” Allegri said, smiling (via TuttoNapoli).

Milwaukee Brewers slugger Jake Bauers leads the team in home runs, but he's usually not known for his agility.
However, when he creatively dodged Jose Fermin's tag at a play at third base, that helped set up a pair of runs in the second inning of the Brewers-St. Louis Cardinals game Thursday night, July 9, his ability to avoid being called out had play-by-play announcer Jeff Levering comparing Bauers' slide to the deft moves in the science fiction movie "The Matrix."
While Bauers' approach was about as graceful as an action in a bar league softball game, it did have a certain now-you-see-him, now-you-don't type of illusion that is often seen in the movie.
Bauers didn't have to elude anybody in slow motion on the bases in his next at-bat. He socked his 17th home run of the season, a three-run shot, to put the Brewers up 6-0 after three innings.
Here's a bit of social media reaction to Bauers' early heroics:

Milwaukee Brewers slugger Jake Bauers leads the team in home runs, but he's usually not known for his agility.
However, when he creatively dodged Jose Fermin's tag at a play at third base, that helped set up a pair of runs in the second inning of the Brewers-St. Louis Cardinals game Thursday night, July 9, his ability to avoid being called out had play-by-play announcer Jeff Levering comparing Bauers' slide to the deft moves in the science fiction movie "The Matrix."
While Bauers' approach was about as graceful as an action in a bar league softball game, it did have a certain now-you-see-him, now-you-don't type of illusion that is often seen in the movie.
Bauers didn't have to elude anybody in slow motion on the bases in his next at-bat. He socked his 17th home run of the season, a three-run shot, to put the Brewers up 6-0 after three innings.
Here's a bit of social media reaction to Bauers' early heroics:

The San Francisco 49ers backed themselves into an uncomfortable corner with Brandon Aiyuk and having to listen to the updates about that situation every day has become exhausting for every NFL fan on the planet. It’s a situation that the Los Angeles Rams would avoided long ago, according to Colin Cowherd.
The outspoken sports talk show host went on The Herd this week and compared the Niners’ situation to how the Rams have handled similar cases, cutting bait with players—regardless of talent—before it becomes toxic.
“I’ve been saying this on the Niners for years— cut bait, move on. The Rams moved on from great players like Jalen Ramsey, Todd Gurley and Cooper Kupp. The Rams do a much better job at moving on from injured players or players with drama. The Niners either coddle or keep them in-house. That’s why the 49ers roster has become old, dramatic, brittle, and expensive. Brandon Aiyuk goes on Instagram and basically blows up any opportunity to play for a tremendous young quarterback, Jayden Daniels. The Commanders dodged and bullet here. That stuff is just bad and I wish the Niners would have moved on years ago.”
Watch the clip here:
The 49ers are unlikely to cut Aiyuk any time soon, unless he forces their hand by showing up for work. Aiyuk has consistently made it clear that he won’t do that. If Aiyuk comes to training camp, the 49ers may have to cut him. But if they don’t cut him, they’ll save millions in cap ****** e.

This week, news came out that St. John’s incoming transfer Donnie Freeman will miss the entire 2026-27 season with an Achilles tear.
It is absolutely gut-wrenching for a young man who has already spent so much time on the trainer’s table. Seeing a player’s season end in July just sucks, man.
Freeman played in just 37 games over two seasons at Syracuse, battling foot/toe issues, before becoming one of the most prized recruits in the portal this spring. Heading down the stretch of his recruitment in April, the recruiting battle came down to Kentucky and St. John’s, and a rising price. Mark Pope, fresh off dealing with an oft-injured, big-time transfer of his own, decided to bow out.
It was a risk for Pope at the time. There were fewer frontcourt options available in the portal, and Freeman clearly fit a need for the Wildcats. But the price tag kept going up, the durability concerns lingered, and Rick Pitino ultimately won out.
Since the injury news broke, I’ve seen the argument floating around that Freeman’s Achilles tear justifies Pope’s decision to pass on him. Folks are treating it like Kentucky dodged a bullet.

According to a report from Bild (as captured by iMiaSanMia), Germany had trouble figuring out who would take the next penalties when the count was at 3-3 after Manuel Neuer’s big save.
Many of the players hesitated to step up until Jonathan Tah said he would take the shot. Of course, Tah missed badly:
At 3-3 in the penalty shootout after Manuel Neuer’s save, there were difficulties to find a sixth taker. Leon Goretzka, Waldemar Anton, Nathaniel Brown and Malick Thiaw hesitated and dodged the challenge due to the immense pressure. Jonathan Tah, who had never taken a penalty in his career before, stepped up and missed.
The report did go deeper as Joshua Kimmich was rumored to approach Goretzka twice to take it, but the midfielder declined:
Joshua Kimmich asked Goretzka twice whether he wanted to take the sixth penalty, the latter refused. Jonathan Tah stepped up after that.

The biggest trade of the NBA summer and one of the biggest in recent memory went right about midnight on Monday going into Tuesday. Giannis Antetokounmpo, the two-time MVP, one-time Finals MVP and champion, 10-time All-Star and nine-time All-NBA pick, was traded from the Bucks to the Heat along with Bobby Portis for Tyler Herro, Jamie Jaquez, former IU center Kel'El Ware, Kasparas Jakucionis, three first-round picks, one pick swap and a second-rounder. Among the first-rounders is the Heat's No. 13 pick in the 2026 draft according to the report from ESPN's Shams Charania.
Charania reported that the Celtics tried for Antetokounmpo with a package that included All-NBA wing Jaylen Brown and two first-round draft picks, but Miami ultimately had more draft capital it could move as the Bucks commit to a full rebuild.
Considering the options, the Pacers couldn't have asked for a much better outcome. It would have been better for Indiana if the Bucks were able to ship Antetokounmpo to the Western Conference but that wasn't on the table. Given that, it helps the Pacers that he's out of their division, that one of their division rivals is entering a full-rebuild, and that Antetokounmpo didn't go to Boston to build a Death Star with Jayson Tatum as the Celtics might have been able to claim the top two players in the Eastern Conference.
Miami immediately becomes a contender with Antetokounmpo and Bam Adebayo as the center pieces, but they're not necessarily a complete team and there's a lot they have to do to build around those two. At some point, the Heat probably win a ***** le with those two, but there's still a window for the Pacers and they can compete with that group with the players they have. In a sense, they dodged a bullet in a trade discussion they weren't involved in.
Dustin Dopirak covers the Pacers all season. Get more coverage on IndyStarTV and with the Pacers Insider newsletter.

In her new memoir published this week, former first lady Jill Biden detailed an awkward car ride on Inauguration Day 2025 with incoming first lady Melania Trump
Melania dodged questions about her son, Barron, in favor of small talk about the weather, according to Jill
Jill wrote in the second-to-last chapter of A View from the East Wing that Melania and her had spent very little time together prior to their mandatory interaction
In her new memoir published this week, former first lady Jill Biden detailed an awkward car ride on Inauguration Day 2025, claiming that incoming first lady Melania Trump ducked a range of questions asked in the vehicle and instead tried limiting conversation to small talk about the weather.
While first ladies and presidents have previously shared private moments with their successors and predecessors in spite of political animosity, Jill wrote in the second-to-last chapter of A View from the East Wing that Melania and her had spent very little time together over the years.

President Donald Trump reportedly is reconsidering the $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" described in his May 18 settlement agreement with the IRS, which was designed to compensate people who claim they were targeted by the Biden administration for "improper and unlawful political, personal, and/or ideological reasons." That brazenly corrupt scheme, which provoked vigorous objections from Republican legislators and ran into two judicial roadblocks last week, "has become a distraction," an unnamed administration official told Axios.
Although "the president believes government was weaponized against people," that official added, "this isn't the time and vehicle" for addressing those grievances. In other words, doling out taxpayer money to Trump's allies under the pretext of a lawsuit that pitted the president against agencies he oversees turned out to be unexpectedly controversial. It's a mystery why Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche ever thought that plan was a good idea.
Trump sued the IRS and the Treasury Department in January, preposterously alleging that an IRS contractor's illegal leaking of his tax returns had caused "at least" $10 billion in damages. In addition to offering an improbable estimate of the injury he had suffered, Trump missed the statutory deadline for filing such claims. And although he argued that the IRS had failed to properly oversee its contractors, it was not clear whether the agency could be held liable for the crimes of someone it did not employ. But the Justice Department, which was charged with representing the IRS in court, never bothered to mount a defense.
That failure underlined the blatant conflicts of interest created by the case, both sides of which were represented by lawyers who work for Trump. "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself," Trump acknowledged a few days after filing the lawsuit.
That bizarre situation prompted Kathleen Williams, the federal judge overseeing the case in the Southern District of Florida, to question whether it involved a genuine controversy between adverse parties, as required for the lawsuit to proceed. Williams ordered briefing on that issue by May 20. The Justice Department dodged that order by announcing the settlement, which Williams never had a chance to review, two days before the deadline.

President Donald Trump reportedly is reconsidering the $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" described in his May 18 settlement agreement with the IRS, which was designed to compensate people who claim they were targeted by the Biden administration for "improper and unlawful political, personal, and/or ideological reasons." That brazenly corrupt scheme, which provoked vigorous objections from Republican legislators and ran into two judicial roadblocks last week, "has become a distraction," an unnamed administration official told Axios.
Although "the president believes government was weaponized against people," that official added, "this isn't the time and vehicle" for addressing those grievances. In other words, doling out taxpayer money to Trump's allies under the pretext of a lawsuit that pitted the president against agencies he oversees turned out to be unexpectedly controversial. It's a mystery why Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche ever thought that plan was a good idea.
Trump sued the IRS and the Treasury Department in January, preposterously alleging that an IRS contractor's illegal leaking of his tax returns had caused "at least" $10 billion in damages. In addition to offering an improbable estimate of the injury he had suffered, Trump missed the statutory deadline for filing such claims. And although he argued that the IRS had failed to properly oversee its contractors, it was not clear whether the agency could be held liable for the crimes of someone it did not employ. But the Justice Department, which was charged with representing the IRS in court, never bothered to mount a defense.
That failure underlined the blatant conflicts of interest created by the case, both sides of which were represented by lawyers who work for Trump. "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself," Trump acknowledged a few days after filing the lawsuit.
That bizarre situation prompted Kathleen Williams, the federal judge overseeing the case in the Southern District of Florida, to question whether it involved a genuine controversy between adverse parties, as required for the lawsuit to proceed. Williams ordered briefing on that issue by May 20. The Justice Department dodged that order by announcing the settlement, which Williams never had a chance to review, two days before the deadline.

“Isn’t that how it always works out? There’s a miscue and that guy wins the game or whatever,” Oregon State HC Mitch Canham said.

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