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Justin Tucker is now (rightfully) the NFL’s highest-paid kicker. The Baltimore Ravens gave Tucker a four-year, $24 million extension, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. The team officially announced the deal as well without disclosing the contract terms. Tucker’s new contract also comes with $17.5 million in guaranteed money, which puts him, at worst, second in the NFL in career earnings for a kicker at $51.07 million — behind Sebastian Janikowski’s $53.28 million career earnings, per Source link

Justin Lower was all set to not only make it into the FedExCup Playoffs on Sunday afternoon, but also secure his PGA Tour card for the second straight year. Yet on the 72nd green at the Wyndham Championship, Lower slipped. Lower, after reaching the par-4 18th green in regulation, three-putted from 61 feet for a bogey — which officially knocked him outside of the top 125 in the FedExCup standings and took his Tour card away. Lower’s face walking off the 18th green said it all. “I don’t… Source link

Rafael Fiziev is a lightweight going places. He picked up the biggest win over his career on Saturday knocking out former champion Rafael dos Anjos in the UFC Vegas 58 main event. Fiziev entered the bout ranked No. 10 in the UFC 155-pound rankings while dos Anjos was ranked No. 7. With the win over the former titleholder, Fiziev wants to take on a Top 5 ranked opponent in his next outing and has one in mind. Fiziev is eyeing a fight against No. 5 ranked Justin Gaethje. “I want a fight with… Source link

There’s a move Justin Thomas makes when he’s feeling it on the green. It’s a wide sidestep, his left leg striding toward the hole as a long putt rolls true. He did it Friday afternoon to close out his second straight 67 at the PGA Championship, and he’s halfway to his second major. “Very pleased,” he said of his round. “Although I played solid [Thursday], I played really, really well [Friday]. The conditions were obviously very difficult. I stayed very patient, tried to get in my own little… Source link

Charles Oliveira entered the Octagon on Saturday as the lightweight champion. He left it without a belt, but also with the recognition that he is clearly the best 155-pounder on the planet. In a wild, spectacular fight, Oliveira submitted Justin Gaethje with a rear naked choke at 3:22 of the first round in the main event of UFC 274 at the Footprint Center in Phoenix, Arizona. Because Oliveira missed weight at Friday’s weigh-in by a half-pound, he was stripped of the title when the bell rang…. Source link

You won’t find many athletes in the elite levels of American sports with a more financially fraught situation than UFC fighters. Especially when they end up fighting for free. UFC featherweight Justin Jaynes raised eyebrows this week when he announced plans to literally bet on himself at Saturday’s UFC Vegas 30. Specifically, Jaynes said he and his corner were betting their entire fight purse on him for his bout against Charles Rosa. Jaynes estimated his total bet to be worth nearly $25,000,… Source link

Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app. He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app. “Justin is a phenomenal engineering leader and one of the original inventors of WebRTC, on top of which Clubhouse is built,” Clubhouse co-founder and CTO Rohan Seth said in a statement…. Source link

Pittsburgh Steelers cornerback Justin Layne was arrested on multiple charges near his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, Willoughby Hill Police said via multiple outlets. Layne, 23, faces charges of speeding, driving with a suspended license and improper handling of a firearm.  The third-year cornerback was pulled over at around 3 a.m. for speeding on Interstate 90 about 15 miles from the city, Melinda Roeder at KDKA Radio reported. Willoughby Hill Police Chief Matthew A. Naegele said… Source link

When my brothers Travis and Griffin and I started an advice podcast in 2010, we only had one major problem. No, no, it wasn’t finding the confidence to tell people how to live their lives—we’re straight white men, that comes naturally. Our problem was this: Without an established audience, who would we advise? We had a few followers from our work in game journalism, but nowhere near enough people to create a sustainable flow of lost souls that only we could cobble back into… Source link

Justin Thomas has lost one of his oldest sponsors. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack) Justin Thomas will no longer have Ralph Lauren as a sponsor after a microphone picked up a muttered anti-gay slur from the golfer after he missed a putt at the Sentry Tournament of champions. The company announced it was discontinuing its partnership with Thomas, currently ranked third in the world, in a statement released Friday: At the Ralph Lauren Corporation, we believe in the dignity of all people, regardless… Source link