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Texans gift Uvalde High School football team new uniforms, equipment
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The Uvalde Excessive College Coyotes are going to have a brand new look this season due to their hometown NFL staff.
The Houston Texans donated new uniforms and gear to Uvalde Excessive College Friday morning.
Head coach Lovie Smith and linebackers Christian Kirksey and Kamu Grugier-Hill shocked the staff with the presents at a pregame dinner Thursday night time earlier than the Coyotes’ house opener.
It will likely be their first house recreation since a gunman killed 21 individuals — 19 of them college students — at Robb Elementary College Might 24, about 2 ½ miles from the highschool.
Roland Ramirez, a Texans athletic coach, is a local of Uvalde and urged the Texans to go to the Coyotes.
“It has been powerful. Some actually shut associates have misplaced loves ones … so it hits house for me,” Ramirez stated, by way of Yahoo! Sports activities.
“Each time you’ve got the chance to be of assist, to be of inspiration or simply to be an individual that may get, you understand, issues of those younger males’s minds — you possibly can discuss ball with, or discuss life with — you simply need to be there,” Kirksey informed ABC Information. “I feel that we’ve got a job not simply taking part in soccer however to be function fashions and to be a serving to hand.”
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Senior linebacker Justyn Rendon, whose brother was on the faculty in the course of the taking pictures, was given the No. 21 in recognition of the variety of lives misplaced. The staff unanimously determined to present the quantity to a senior who “embodies the common-or-garden and hardworking spirit of the staff and the neighborhood” reasonably than retire it.
The Texans additionally might be sporting “Uvalde Robust” decals on their helmets of their season opener Sept. 11. Uvalde takes on Winn Excessive College Friday.
Uvalde gained its first recreation final week, 21-13.
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Travis Kelce spotted dancing in star-studded group at Taylor Swift's Paris show
The “City of Love” was the latest sighting of Travis Kelce at a Taylor Swift concert, and he had some A-list celebrities dancing alongside him to his significant other’s chart-topping hits.
The Kansas City Chiefs superstar tight end was seen at Paris La Défense Arena in Paris where Bradley Cooper and Gigi Hadid were next to him to enjoy Swift’s 87th Eras Tour show.
Coincidence on the number, anyone?
Videos have circulated on social media of Kelce dancing to Swift songs, including “… Ready for It?” “Lover” and the classic “You Belong with Me.”
It’s significant that Kelce has been spotted at this show as he hasn’t been seen since she went back on tour. Swift has been in Paris for three nights prior to this fourth and final show, where Kelce was spotted.
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Of course, this isn’t the first time Kelce has reciprocated the love and support Swift showed during the Chiefs’ Super Bowl-winning season last year. During the Chiefs’ bye week, Kelce was seen in Buenos Aires for one of Swift’s Eras Tour dates.
They will clearly go the extra mile to support each other; Swift famously flew from Japan to Las Vegas for the Super Bowl after a tour date across the Pacific.
And fans, whether it was of Kelce first or Swift, have fallen in love with the couple throughout the process as they continue to be one of the world’s power couples.
While love isn’t something to rush, many are clamoring to know if Kelce has any thoughts of proposing to Swift to take their relationship to the next level.
Recently, Chiefs long snapper James Winchester said on the “Like a Farmer” podcast that he thinks his teammate will be engaged at some point because he sees “they’re very similar in a lot of ways.”
“Being around Trav for the last nine years, I mean, I think they’re more similar than you would think. I wish the best for them,” he added.
Other than supporting Swift, Kelce has had a great offseason thus far. The Chiefs made him the highest-paid tight end in the game with a new contract extension that’s worth $34.25 million over two years, with $17 million fully guaranteed for the upcoming 2024 campaign.
So, personally and professionally, Kelce had a lot of things to dance about in Paris with some of his friends while watching Swift kill it onstage.
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Column: Dave Roberts does his job: Protecting Shohei Ohtani from himself
Shohei Ohtani thought he could have played on Sunday. He was looking forward to facing Japanese compatriot Yu Darvish.
Dave Roberts didn’t let him.
Ohtani was never able to plead his case. On the morning of the Dodgers’ series finale against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park, Roberts told interpreter Will Ireton that Ohtani wouldn’t be in the lineup, and that was that.
A day after he was forced out of a game early by a stiff back, Ohtani didn’t play in the 4-0 loss to the Padres.
Ohtani is expected to return on Monday for the start of a three-game series in San Francisco, Roberts said.
The way Roberts managed Ohtani marked a promising start to one of the most important relationships in the organization — a relationship that figures to grow in importance when Ohtani resumes pitching next season.
The manager was the manager. The player was the player.
This simple division of labor can be complicated when a player of Ohtani’s caliber is involved, but the Dodgers were able to do what the Angels often failed to do last year: They protected Ohtani from himself.
“I think he understands that it’s for his benefit and the team’s benefit,” Roberts said.
When Ohtani played for the Angels last year, what was most beneficial to the team was for him to play almost every game.
So he did.
The Angels were in no position to stop him, or even persuade him to undergo a MRI examination after he was removed from a start after only four innings because of a finger cramp.
The result?
A torn ulnar collateral ligament and a second Tommy John surgery.
The Angels couldn’t ask Ohtani to look at the bigger picture because there was none. October wasn’t guaranteed for them, as it is for the Dodgers, who entered Sunday with a 6½-game lead in the National League West.
The Dodgers have a talented roster.
They have a track record.
They have realistic championship ambitions.
Asked if the promise of playing in October made it easier for him to accept Roberts’ decision, Ohtani wouldn’t say.
“Regardless” of the condition of his back, Ohtani said in Japanese, “there was thought of a day off.”
The Dodgers just started a 13-day stretch in which they will play 13 games. Ohtani described the injury as minor — he said he initially felt discomfort in his back working out before the game on Saturday — but Roberts wasn’t inclined to take any chances at this stage of the season, even for a game against a division rival.
“He obviously knows his body really well,” Robert said. “Right now, with the 13 in a row, I just wanted to make sure we were a little more cautious.”
Taking the decision out of Ohtani’s hands was a small but critical move by Roberts. As the Angels learned last year, once the terms of a relationship are established, they are difficult to undo.
How Dodgers management communicates with their star player will be more consequential later in the season and even more so next year when Ohtani makes his anticipated return to the mound. Ohtani will be coming back from a second elbow reconstruction.
Of course, the team entered its relationship with Ohtani with more leverage than the Angels ever had.
In retrospect, it looks as if Ohtani chose to break into the major leagues with the Angels because of how powerless they were. As a non-contending club, they didn’t have any competitive reasons to deny him the opportunity to be a two-way player.
That’s not to say the Dodgers aren’t being rewarded for having Ohtani on their team. Of course they are. As a one-way player this season, he’s still the best player in the game. He sells merchandise.
Yet Ohtani needs the Dodgers as much as they need him. They’re offering him something he desperately wants that few other organizations can: A legitimate chance to win.
Roberts said he will ask Ohtani for input in the future when figuring out his playing schedule. Roberts should. Ohtani deserves that much. However, the Dodgers can’t afford for their relationship with Ohtani to be as lopsided as that of the Angels. Sunday was a sign that it might not be.
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Deontay Wilder scared for Mike Tyson's well-being in Jake Paul fight: 'He’s too old for this'
From one former heavyweight title winner to another, Deontay Wilder fears 57-year-old Mike Tyson might end up in a coma after fighting Jake Paul.
Tyson shocked everyone when he agreed to fight Paul, which was commissioned by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations as a professional fight, on July 20.
What was initially an exhibition match has turned into a highly anticipated bout, but Wilder doesn’t think anyone truly cares about Tyson’s well-being.
“I think it’s bad the commission has licensed Mike Tyson because he hasn’t been active in 20 years, so they should not just license him because of who he is, that’s how people get hurt – God forbid he gets hurt,” Wilder said to Sportsbook Review.
“People can get hit in the wrong place and at the wrong time, there’s lots of examples where guys have been hit into a coma. It’s easy to do. He’s too old for this.
“At the end of the day, no one gives a f— about Mike.”
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Wilder continued by saying he doesn’t care that Tyson underwent tests to deem this a professional fight.
“As long as you’re willing to suffer the consequences if something bad goes wrong,” Wilder said.
After the fight was sanctioned, Paul recently said he is “super respectful” of Tyson, but “All is fair in love and war.”
“I love the guy, but as soon as it turned into a pro fight, one of us has to die,” the YouTube star-turned-boxer said.
Videos of Tyson working out for the fight have shocked many with how fast and powerful he still looks at his age. But Wilder, again, doesn’t care what videos show or what Tyson even says about his well-being.
“His power may not have left completely, but you still need to set it up, your stamina needs to be a certain way, or it’s going to look like a clown show. I don’t want to see it to be honest,” he explained.
“I don’t want the last thing I remember of him is him getting knocked out by a YouTuber. The last thing you do, that’s what people remember you by.”
While Paul and Tyson prepare for their fight, Wilder will be fighting Zhilei Zhang on June 1.
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