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Kyle Shanahan is heading into training camp with the San Francisco forty-niners, but he won't be at full strength. The head coach suffered a severe concussion and significant additional injuries in a car crash on July fourteenth, and the team says he'll be operating in a limited capacity as camp opens. It's a serious situation for a franchise with championship expectations.
Shifting to the NBA, LeBron James has made his move, and it's sending shockwaves through the league. The King is heading to Philadelphia, and oddsmakers are already adjusting, pushing the seventy-sixers up the board. But Oklahoma City and San Antonio still sit as the favorites, and with eight different franchises winning titles in the last eight seasons, nobody's handing the trophy to anyone just yet.
And we pause this broadcast to remember Hannah Rapp, a Yorktown native, former Purdue track athlete, and rising professional boxer whose life was cut tragically short. She was twenty-six years old, working a career she loved at Texas A and M, with so much road still ahead of her. The boxing world has lost a real one.
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