Portland may have come out best in this trade.

Colts rookie Dayo Odeyingbo is progressing through his Achilles recovery.

So Rachel Nichols is done at ESPN, and this was an inevitable ending since that day in early July that the New York Times reported the contents of a year-old secretly recorded conversation between Nichols and an associate — one in which she attributed the color of Maria Taylor’s skin to Taylor snagging the NBA Finals studio host job that Nichols coveted.

“Our amateur gov body keeps trying to make (golf) less fun.”

Alabama has won five of the last seven SEC championships, but Georgia and Texas A&M are primed to give them a run during the 2021 season.

Starting quarterback battles are heating up as the start of the NFL season gets closer. Rookie Trevor Lawrence will start in Jacksonville, Teddy Bridgewater gets the nod over Drew Lock in Dever and Mac Jones is closing in on Cam Newton in New England. Plus, Bruce Arians reveals special COVID protocols he has put in place to protect the Bucs during the season.