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In Detroit Wednesday night, Tarik Skubal reached one thousand career strikeouts and the crowd at Comerica gave him everything they had. With this potentially his final start in a Tigers uniform, the standing ovation felt like a proper send-off for a pitcher who's given this city something real to believe in.
Meanwhile, the NCAA is doing what the NCAA does, and Tennessee linebacker Arion Carter is paying for it. Carter has been suspended for the first two games of the season after accepting a four hundred twenty seven dollar flight from an agent following his NFL draft declaration. Four hundred twenty seven dollars. That's the price of two games in a college career.
And in Cleveland, the Browns are locking up safety Grant Delpit on a three-year extension, per Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. Delpit has been one of the more underrated pieces of that Cleveland defense, and getting him signed before camp gets too deep tells you the front office sees him as a cornerstone of what they're building in the secondary.
That's your play-by-play. Sports Desk, back to the booth.
