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For a second time, Rob Gronkowski is calling it quits. The five-time Pro Bowl and four-time All-Pro tight end known as much for his big personality as his proficiency on the football field announced his retirement from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. In college, I was asked to write about a dream job opportunity that I wanted to pursue and where the location would be. Every time I had to write about my future, no matter what, I picked being a professional football player. For that assignment though,… Source link

While subscription gaming services have been on the rise for the past few years, thanks largely to the growth of Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass platform, the shift in consumer spending and consumption hasn’t followed. Instead, subscription platforms and the smaller cloud gaming services often bolted onto them make up a tiny slice of the overall global games market. It may take years or perhaps even decades, alongside major advances in internet speeds and coverage as well as streaming… Source link

When asked about Oklahoma City Thunder rookie guard Josh Giddey during All-Star weekend pressers, Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James unpromptedly started to praise Thunder GM Sam Presti. “The MVP over there is Sam Presti. He the MVP. I mean, Josh Giddey is great, but Sam Presti — I don’t understand this guy’s eye for talent,” said James. “He drafted KD, Russ, Jeff Green, Serge Ibaka, Reggie Jackson, Josh Giddey and the list goes on and on and on. This guy’s pretty damn… Source link

We haven’t seen the last of Tom Brady in the NFL … according to one of his favorite targets. Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski believes Brady will return to the NFL, but that comes with a caveat. [Join Yahoo’s free Big Game prop quiz for a chance to win up to $10K] Gronkowski expects Brady to take a few years off before he returns to action, telling USA Today Brady will be back “in a couple of years.” No, really. “The guy can play at any age,’’ Gronkowski told USA TODAY… Source link

With Tom Brady retired, Rob Gronkowski‘s widely expected to follow suit. The four-time Super Bowl champion tight end has played his entire 11-season career catching passes from Brady and already called it quits once. The only thing that could lure him out of retirement in 2020? The chance to play with Brady again in Tampa Bay. But it turns out Gronkowski’s not strictly married to playing with Brady — now that Brady’s retired, of course. And he’s got his eyes on one quarterback in particular… Source link

Rob Gronkowski came out of retirement to reunite on the field with Tom Brady in Tampa Bay Buccaneers uniforms. That doesn’t mean he’s committing to staying in step with his longtime quarterback.  Gronkowski told reporters Monday following the Buccaneers’ 30-27 NFC divisional-round loss to the Los Angeles Rams that he could see a scenario in which Brady retired, but he decided to keep playing.  “There could be a scenario like that,” Gronkowski told reporters, via 95.3 WDAE in St. Petersburg.… Source link

Thanks to a huge performance on Sunday afternoon, Rob Gronkowski will get to cash in a $1 million bonus check. The Buccaneers tight end had seven receptions for 137 yards in Tampa Bay’s 41-17 win over the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, which earned him a pair of $500,000 contract incentives. The 32-year-old entered their regular season finale in Tampa with 48 catches and 665 receiving yards on the season. He was seven catches shy of 55, which triggered an automatic $500,000 bonus, and 85… Source link

One of the biggest reporters in baseball is no longer welcome on MLB Network. The league-owned network has cut ties with Ken Rosenthal, and it is believed that Rosenthal’s past criticism of MLB commissioner Rob Manfred in columns written for The Athletic played a part in the decision, according to Andrew Marchand of the New York Post. Rosenthal was reportedly kept off the air for three months in 2020 after he wrote columns analyzing Manfred’s handling of negotiations over a season threatened,… Source link

Google has partnered with Stanford University on a new Autism Career Program for neurodiverse job … [+] seekers. Google Images Google on Monday announced in a blog post the launch of what it calls the Google Cloud Autism Career Program. The Bay Area-based tech titan said it’s designed to “hire and support more autistic talent in the rapidly growing cloud industry.” This effort by Google is the latest in an ever-growing trend, spearheaded by organizations big and small, to… Source link

Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski spent at least a portion of the offseason watching his brothers get beat up by a YouTuber. Gronkowski served as a referee as four of his brothers boxed against YouTube personality-turned-boxer Logan Paul. Paul — who will box Floyd Mayweather in June — completely outclassed each of the four Gronkowski brothers during the bout.  Paul took on a different Gronkowski brother in each round. He faced Glenn in the first, Chris in the second, Dan in… Source link