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Baker Mayfield showed up to Buccaneers training camp without a new deal, and he is not hiding how he feels about it. The quarterback set a deadline, Tampa Bay missed it, and now Mayfield says he feels disrespected and undervalued. Negotiations are done, he says, and the ball is squarely in the Buccaneers' court.
Across the Atlantic, European football is drawing a hard line against FIFA. UEFA is threatening a full boycott of both the men's and women's World Cup in direct response to Gianni Infantino's plan to commercialize and sell off core assets of the game. It is the strongest pushback the proposal has faced yet, and the stakes could not be higher for the sport's global future.
And the LeBron James documentary machine is spinning up. ESPN is reportedly developing a Last Dance-style film around the forty-one-year-old legend, who is now with the Philadelphia seventy-sixers. With a player option still on the table for a second season, the question of whether this is truly the final chapter makes this project appointment viewing before a single frame is shot.
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