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In Arizona, Cardinals offensive lineman Isaiah Adams was on the practice field Thursday for the team's first training camp session, just days after facing four weapons charges stemming from an arrest in Canada. Head coach Mike LaFleur acknowledged the situation but shut down questions fast, making clear he wasn't going there. Adams practiced. The rest is pending.
Shifting to the hardwood, Caitlin Clark dropped twenty seven points and eleven assists in Indiana's one hundred twenty three to eighty eight blowout of the Connecticut Sun, but the bigger headline is what it might cost her. Clark picked up her seventh technical foul of the season after jawing with Sun guard Saniya Rivers near midcourt. Under league rules, one more technical triggers an automatic one-game suspension. She's playing elite basketball right now, and that's the last thing the Fever or the WNBA wants to see happen.
And in college football, Texas head coach Steve Sarkisian dropped a phrase at SEC Media Days that turned heads — he said the Longhorns had to create quote cap space unquote this offseason, letting go of quality players to manage roster costs. It's another signal that the NIL era has fully reshaped how programs are built from the ground up.
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