'I'm gonna miss all of her': Sister opens up on late sports reporter
New year, new you, right? Yeah, good luck with all that. And while sticking to that pesky New Year's resolution can be a challenge (hopefully Patrick Cantlay's wasn't to use fewer F-bombs), we're here to help make the first Monday of 2020 a good one.
Off we go:
QUICK HITS
- Robert Kraft's hopes and prayers are with...the Patriots, it seems.
- Could Tom Brady do the unthinkable? It would sure DEFLATE the whole of New England!
- Ed Orgeron is sick and it's all because of Travis Etienne.
- Mad Saints fans 2.0.
- Ja Morant makes NBA players look absolutely foolish.
- Georgia won the Sugar Bowl and then its coach said the school had "a disease."
- Whoops!
- Tell us how you really feel, Bruce.
- The apple, the tree, like father, like daughter, etc.
- Be better, LSU fans.
- Who were the 10 best college football players of the 2010s?
- Don Larsen, who threw the World Series' only perfect game in 1956, has died at 90.
- Sam Wyche, who guided the Bengals to Super Bowl XXIII, has died at 74.
- Mitch Trubisky memes will still be able to be made in 2020.
- AB is calling out people on social media again
- Tacko Fall is getting a lot of fan support for the All-Star Game.
- Former heavyweight champ Leon Spinks is suffering from prostate cancer that has spread to his bladder.
- Three weeks after the Stars fired him for "unprofessional conduct," former coach Jim Montgomery will enter an inpatient residential program for alcohol abuse.
LATE SPORTS REPORTER'S SISTER OPENS UP: 'I'M GONNA MISS ALL OF HER'
Carley McCord was killed when a small plane bound for the Peach Bowl in Atlanta crashed. On Saturday, her family and friends gathered for a private burial. Prior to that, however, McCord's family shared some heart-wrenching memories.
"I’m gonna miss her silly laugh," her sister said. "I'm going to miss her showing up randomly at my house. I'm going to miss her sporadic stuff and that goofy laugh and her loving my kids. I'm gonna miss her. I'm gonna miss all of her."
On Sunday, the Saints reserved a spot in the press box for McCord with a bouquet of flowers.
THE MICS. THEY ARE HOT.
Patrick Cantlay: Budding PGA Tour star, POTTY MOUTH. As mere sports fans, it's often thrilling to hear the conversations athletes have with one another during competition. Some friendly banter between baserunner and first baseman. Some unfriendly banter between D-lineman and quarterbacks. Or, in Cantlay's case, dropping an F-bomb before tempting his caddie with post-round Mai Tais in Hawaii.
Pro golfers: They're just like us!
DAVID STERN DIES AT 77 AFTER LIFETIME CHANGING NBA
David Stern, who spent 30 years serving as revolutionary commissioner of the NBA, died on Jan. 1 at the age of 77.
The ways he changed the game are probably incalculable, but our Jeff Zillgitt looks at the five biggest as well as the late commissioner's greatest act.
FAUX JOE BURROW
This mostly goes without saying, but defending a Heisman Trophy winner is never a necessarily easy task. (ASK OKLAHOMA.) However, few teams have at its disposal a player like DJ Uiagalelei, a 6-foot-4 incoming freshman quarterback who was the national high school player of the year. As a junior.
Uiagalelei will enroll early at Clemson and immediately play a huge role for the Tigers: mimicking Joe Burrow in practice.
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