* The Rays will play next season at Steinbrenner Field. Too bad it’s a post-hurricane scenario that ripped off the Trop roof. So this, now, is as close as the franchise will come to relocating to Tampa, the hub of the Tampa Bay market, where it has always belonged.
* BTW, the minimum MLB salary is $760,000. Not everybody hates the economy.
* The school with the most Number 1 NFL draft picks: University of Southern California, 6. Among those with a number one pick: University of Tampa, 1: John Matuzak, 1973.
* Mike Tyson, 58, who hasn’t been heavyweight champion since 1990, recently lost to Jake Paul, 27, a former social media influencer. The bout attracted a huge live audience, including Trump and Elon Musk, and drew some 60 million households on Netflix. That’s where we are now.
* College football and basketball were in a far better place when references were only made to “recruiting”–not “acquisitions.”