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In college basketball, Purdue just landed a landmark commitment. Seven-foot junior Isaiah Hill, a top-ten national prospect, has pledged to the Boilermakers — and this is historic territory. He's the highest-ranked recruit to choose Purdue since ESPN's recruiting database launched back in two thousand seven. Matt Painter has been building something in West Lafayette, and this is the exclamation point.
Shifting to the NFL, the twenty twenty-six schedule is out, and Christmas Day is already circling the calendar hard. The Seattle Seahawks, defending champions, host a prime-time showdown against the Los Angeles Rams on FOX. These two teams are sitting at the very top of nearly every power ranking right now, so putting them on Christmas Day is appointment television. The league knew exactly what it was doing.
And on a more personal note, Deion Sanders spoke candidly about what his son Shedeur went through during the draft process and into his rookie year with Cleveland. Deion called it flat-out hell — criticism, what he described as false reporting, and the weight of an entire media cycle bearing down. He says Shedeur came out the other side spiritually stronger. That's a story still very much unfolding.
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