- Ukraine’s push into Russian-occupied territory was bold — but a breakthrough is far from guaranteed CNBC
- Ukrainian forces closing in on key highway in Kherson Oblast, ex-commander says Yahoo News
- Ukraine has advanced across the Dnipro River, its biggest achievement on the front in 12 months EL PAÍS USA
- The Dnipro River, a new key front line for Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia FRANCE 24 English
- Ukraine’s Defence Forces hold positions on Dnipro’s left bank in Kherson Oblast – General Staff report Yahoo News
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Chicago police confirm shooting at White Sox game at Guaranteed Rate Field; post-game Vanilla Ice concert canceled – WLS-TV
- Chicago police confirm shooting at White Sox game at Guaranteed Rate Field; post-game Vanilla Ice concert canceled WLS-TV
- Report: Multiple fans shot inside Guaranteed Rate Field during Friday’s White Sox game Sox On 35th
- Shooting reported at Guaranteed Rate Field during White Sox game as ’90s-themed concert canceled NBC Chicago
- Shooting investigation underway at Guaranteed Rate Field WGN TV Chicago
- White Sox shooting: two people are shot at Guaranteed Rate Field as Chicago officials are forced to cancel post-game Vanilla Ice concert Daily Mail
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Why Messi’s arrival doesn’t mean guaranteed sellouts at Inter Miami’s stadium – The Athletic
- Why Messi’s arrival doesn’t mean guaranteed sellouts at Inter Miami’s stadium The Athletic
- Lionel Messi sells out a stadium in 10 minutes! All tickets for Argentine’s first away game for Inter Miami against FC Dallas snapped up immediately Goal.com
- FC Dallas players talk about playing Messi, Inter Miami in next round of Leagues Cup WFAA
- What’s Messi’s favorite dish? This Dallas Argentinian restaurant will have it on special The Dallas Morning News
- Know before you go: Plan your trip to the FC Dallas v. Inter Miami match CBS TEXAS
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Euclid Space Telescope To Shed Light on the Dark Universe – “A Revolution in Physics Is Almost Guaranteed” – SciTechDaily
- Euclid Space Telescope To Shed Light on the Dark Universe – “A Revolution in Physics Is Almost Guaranteed” SciTechDaily
- Euclid telescope, sent to illuminate the universe’s biggest mysteries, shares first test photos CNN
- We Just Got The First Test Images From Europe’s Dark Matter Telescope And We’re Psyched ScienceAlert
- ESA on Euclid’s first space image success..Tech & Science Daily Podcast Evening Standard
- Dark Universe Explorer: Euclid’s Large Halo Orbit Around Infinitesimal Point SciTechDaily
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Man without license drove through crowd outside Guaranteed Rate Field – Chicago Tribune
- Man without license drove through crowd outside Guaranteed Rate Field Chicago Tribune
- Chicago man faces multiple charges in hit-and-run that injured 4 outside ballpark Yahoo News
- After Driver Mows Down Pedestrians Outside Sox Game, Witness Says 35th Street Should Close During Games Block Club Chicago
- Chicago hit and run: Bond set for man charged in hit-and-run near Guaranteed Rate Field where one victim ended up in car’s sunroof WLS-TV
- Sox park hit-and-run victims got help from stranger with emergency medical training Chicago Sun-Times
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Chicago hit and run: Son describes how victim ended up in car’s sunroof outside of Guaranteed Rate Field before White Sox game – WLS-TV
- Chicago hit and run: Son describes how victim ended up in car’s sunroof outside of Guaranteed Rate Field before White Sox game WLS-TV
- After Driver Mows Down Pedestrians Outside Sox Game, Witness Says 35th Street Should Close During Games Block Club Chicago
- ‘God’s calling.’ Man uses medical emergency training to help those hurt in hit-and-run outside Sox park Chicago Sun-Times
- 4 in custody after hit-and-run near Guaranteed Rate Field leaves 4 pedestrians hospitalized NBC Chicago
- Chicago hit and run: 1 charged after 4 injured, 2 critically, outside Guaranteed Rate Field before White Sox game, police say WLS-TV
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Browns owner Jimmy Haslam: Deshaun Watson’s fully guaranteed deal was in team’s ‘best interest’ – NFL.com
- Browns owner Jimmy Haslam: Deshaun Watson’s fully guaranteed deal was in team’s ‘best interest’ NFL.com
- Chiefs News 3/28: Richard Sherman calls Patrick Mahomes contract ‘BS’ Arrowhead Pride
- Ravens ‘Deshaun Problem’? Browns Owner Responds on Lamar Sports Illustrated
- Why Jimmy Haslam doesn’t feel the need to defend Deshaun Watson’s contract in the wake of Lamar Jackson’s tra cleveland.com
- Lamar Jackson being hurt by Patrick Mahomes’ ‘B.S. contract,’ according to former NFL star CBS Sports
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Celtics, Blake Griffin agree to one-year, fully guaranteed deal, per report
Veteran forward Blake Griffin has agreed to a one-year, fully guaranteed deal with the Boston Celtics, according to Adrian Wojnarowski. The 33-year-old Griffin, who had spent the last season-and-a-half with the Brooklyn Nets, was still a free agent as training camps opened across the league.
The Celtics suffered two major frontcourt injuries prior to the season. Danilo Gallinari tore his ACL while playing for Italy in a FIBA World Cup qualifier and will likely miss the entire season, while Robert Williams III underwent surgery on his troublesome knee and is expected to miss at least 8-12 weeks.
Heading into camp, Al Horford and Grant Williams were the Celtics’ only true frontcourt options who saw significant time last season. Luke Kornet is expected to play a bigger role in Williams’ absence, but he only appeared in 12 games last season and it’s unclear whether he can step into a bigger role. Former first-round pick Mfiondu Kabengele signed a two-way contract with the team in the summer, while Noah Vonleh and Luka Samanic were invited to training camp; Kabengele showed flashes in the summer but is a question mark, while Vonleh and Samanic may not even be on the team.
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All of which meant the Celtics needed some help in the frontcourt. Even more so considering they signed Gallinari in free agency in large part because they wanted to ease Horford’s burden. The 36-year-old was tremendous last season, but he played 92 games and 2,820 minutes between the regular season and playoffs. They need to ease him through the regular season in order to have him at his best in the playoffs again, and that became a much tougher task after the injuries to Gallinari and Williams.
Griffin, even at this stage of his career, will offer new head coach Joe Mazzulla a veteran option who can eat up minutes in the regular season and help spare Horford. How effective he’ll be remains to be seen, however. The six-time All-Star averaged 6.4 points. 4.1 rebounds and 1.9 assists on 42.5 percent shooting from the field and 26.2 percent from 3-point land over 56 games last season. At one point he was struggling so much that Nets head coach Steve Nash not only took him out of the starting lineup but stopped playing him entirely.
But even if he may be bordering on washed status (or is perhaps already there), the benefit of an experienced player like Griffin is that you can count on a high baseline of competance. He’ll work hard, compete on the boards, keep the ball moving and maybe help space the floor if he can find his shot again. Plus, adding another veteran presence to the locker room cannot hurt given everything this team has gone through in the past few weeks.
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Report: Lamar Jackson rejected $133 million fully guaranteed
It previously had been impossible to assess whether Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson should have taken the best offer the team made on a long-term contract, in lieu of playing in the final year of his rookie contract for $23 million. There is now a firm data point regarding the deal he rejected.
Chris Mortensen of ESPN.com reports that Jackson passed on a six-year deal (i.e., a five-year extension) that would have paid him $133 million fully-guaranteed at signing. That’s more than Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray ($103.3 million) and Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson ($124 million) received in full guarantees on longer contracts (seven years each) signed in recent weeks.
Jackson “could have earned” more than $290 million over six years. The new-money average would have exceeded, per Mortensen, the $48.5 million paid by the Broncos to Wilson. (Wilson’s deal was reported as having a new-money average of $49 million; as explained here, the failure to include the value of the 17th-game checks for 2022 and 2023 in the old/new-money comparison drove the average down to $48.5 million.)
It’s unclear how much of the $290 million would have counted as Jackson’s base deal. Including the 17th-game check, he’ll make $24.35 million this year. Subtracting that from $290 million and dividing by five results in an average of $53.13 million. Thus, Jackson apparently would have had to hit certain triggers to earn the kind of money that would have catapulted him to $290 million.
Mortensen also reports that the deal included massive de-escalators ($2.5 million per year) tied to Jackson participating in most of the offseason program. Jackson skipped the team’s voluntary April-to-June sessions and practices in 2022, after being mostly if not completely present in his first four seasons.
The reporting has some gaps that make a full assessment of the offer impossible. What would the first-year cash flow have been? How much of the contract would have been guaranteed for injury? How much of the injury guarantee would have converted to a full guarantee in March 2023, since there’s no way they would have cut him after only one year, given whatever they would have been paying him in 2022?
None of that apparently matters, since Mortensen makes it clear that Jackson wanted a fully-guaranteed, Deshaun Watson-style contract. And, as surmised here, Mortensen reports that Jackson received “active counsel from the NFLPA at the highest levels.” Mortensen also adds that the union told Jackson “based on performance and age (25) he was justified to demand a fully guaranteed contract if that’s what he wanted.”
He’s justified to demand it, but the Ravens are justified to refuse to do it, just as the Cardinals and Broncos were. Remember, the union has made its position clear that it wants more fully-guaranteed contracts. It’s therefore fair to ask whether the NFLPA’s agenda in this regard clouded the advice Jackson received, causing him to roll the dice on a potential Kirk Cousins-style, year-to-year strategy that entails playing in 2023 and 2024 under the franchise tag, becoming an unrestricted free agent in 2025, and trying to get a fully-guaranteed contract on the open market.
Jackson could make more than $125 million (factoring in the seventeenth game check) if he remains sufficiently healthy and effective to get tagged twice. But, per the report, would have $133 million fully-guaranteed right now if he had taken the Ravens offer, plus an unknown amount on top of that in injury guarantees that likely would have flipped to full guarantees at some point in the next year or two.
Perhaps most importantly, he also would have made much more than $24.35 million in 2022. The specific amount still isn’t known. It’s a key factor for evaluating the deal.
What if he walked away from more than $50 million, cash in hand, for 2022? More than $70 million? More than $100 million? At some point, the quest for a fully-guaranteed contract must yield to the size of the bird in the hand.
We’ve said all along that Jackson needs someone who can fully and objectively evaluate the team’s best offer in comparison to a three-year quest for unrestricted free agency, which may — or may not — lead to the white whale of a fully-guaranteed deal. The union, frankly, isn’t objective; it wants players to hold firm for fully-guaranteed contracts, so that the dynamic will become a trend and, in time, standard practice. Jackson needs advice from someone with no agenda or bias whatsoever.
And if Jackson suffers a serious injury or if his play declines over the next three years for any reason (including an accumulation of minor injuries based on his physical playing style that leaves him not the player he was when he won the MVP award three years ago), Jackson will have only himself — and his union — to blame for betting on himself and losing.
Should Baker Mayfield offer to reduce his guaranteed salary to secure his release?
The bridge between Browns and Baker Mayfield has been obliterated. Thursday’s report from Jake Trotter of ESPN.com shows just how bad it has gotten. Even if the Browns need Mayfield due to a lengthy Deshaun Watson suspension, Mayfield seems to be dead set against it.
So what happens next? The Browns hold his rights for 2022. Mayfield holds a ticket to $18.8 million in guaranteed pay. The Browns have nothing to lose by waiting. Mayfield has nothing to gain by delaying the inevitable.
Here’s a simple solution. It’s the same one the Browns and receiver Odell Beckham Jr. reached in November. Mayfield reduces his guaranteed pay, and the Browns let him go.
It’s unclear what it would take to strike a deal, if Mayfield would be willing to reduce his salary — and if the Browns would be willing to release him in exchange for taking less.
But it’s worth exploring. Mayfield could make back the difference with another team this year. If he doesn’t, he’ll nevertheless be in position to set himself up for a strong payday in 2023.
It may be far too late for the Browns and Mayfield to agree on anything. The sooner they’d work out a deal like this, the sooner Mayfield could find a new landing spot, with more than enough time to get ready to have a great season in 2022.