Jaguars release veteran defensive lineman Jared Odrick (Yahoo Sports)

Jacksonville Jaguar defensive lineman Jared Odrick (75) between drills during NFL football minicamp practice on Tuesday, June 14, 2016 in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)

The Jacksonville Jaguars have released veteran defensive lineman Jared Odrick, saving $8.5 million against the salary cap. It surely didn’t help that Odrick wanted to spend the offseason training away from Jacksonville. The 29-year-old Odrick signed a five-year deal worth $42.5 million with Jacksonville as an unrestricted free agent in 2015.


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Kings GM Vlade Divac: "I'm The Dumbest Shithead In The NBA," More Or Less

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Dexter Fowler Isn't Sweating The "Stick To Sports" Crowd

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Barcelona Are Miserable

If there’s been one consistent attribute of Barcelona’s play over the past decade or so that has seduced fans and neutrals and even ostensible enemies to buy a ticket to the Camp Nou or to flick on the TV to whichever obscure channel wound up with the La Liga broadcasting rights or to trawl sketchy video sites for the…

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Good Soccer Man Embarrasses A Quartet Of Defenders

Jonathan Mejía and his UCAM Murcia squad lost to Real Valladolid on Saturday in some hot second-division Spanish soccer action, but really, who cares, for young Mejía scored the goal of his life. Look at the Honduran international turn these four dudes into jelly.

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The Sacramento Kings Deserve All The Failures To Come

Being a Kings fan is an exercise in managing constant, crushing disappointment. Aside from one anomalous stretch in the early 2000’s, the team has never been worth a damn, and even then, their high water mark was getting owned in humiliating fashion by the Lakers. Last night’s disastrous DeMarcus Cousins trade is just…

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How To Keep A Healthy Distance From Your Terrible Co-Workers

One look at the way I operate around my co-workers and you’d think I’m anti-social and evil. I don’t talk to these people, I don’t let them talk to me, and I keep all group participation levels to an absolute minimum. Simply put, if I don’t have to interact with them, I don’t. I’m not evil, though. I have my reasons:

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Who Else Could Have Made A Play For DeMarcus Cousins?

As you surely know by now, last night the Sacramento Kings traded DeMarcus Cousins (and Omri Casspi) to the New Orleans Pelicans for rookie Buddy Hield, veterans Tyreke Evans and Langston Galloway, a protected 2017 first-round draft choice, and a 2017 second-round pick. Now that we know what type of return the…

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