The NFL Draft is on Thursday. Only 68 more mocks to go!

Let’s hit it!

 

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The roundup:

The Phillies have won four games in a row, hit back to back to back home runs yesterday, and swept the Braves. Is this the time of the season where we dip our toes into the water only to get frustrated two weeks later when after they go 6-8 and lose two games by 10 runs?* WELL I THINK IT IS:

*I’m not rooting for this outcome. At all. I’d give me left testicle, and a portion of my right, for the Phillies to be good and “in the mix” this season. To have an entire summer where we can actually care about a sport? SIGN ME UP! But I fell for this little April surge last year and it just left me chafed and bruised.

 

My wife and I watched Split over the weekend. Highly recommended. A tad simplistic, and M. Night crams the Philly references so far down your throat that it feels contrived. But, highly enjoyable and great acting.

 

This Steve Kerr thing is really hard to watch.

 

Episode 1 of Game of Zones was quite good:

 

Here are your NFL Draft road closures.

 

Sean Hannity is now being accused of sexual harassment is the least surprising news ever. And I look forward to his pissing contest with Katie Nolan. I bet Donald Trump does, too.

 

The slow drum beat to “Ben’s not one of us” begins:

https://twitter.com/aREALphillyFAN/status/856453861342621697

Wait until he’s actually hanging out with Bieber. In a Kings hat. At a Yankees game. The night before a Sixers playoff game. At home.

 

The NFL signed a deal with WHOOP:

The NFL Players Association has reached an exclusive agreement to deliver continuous biometric monitors to its members, the next step in an escalating marketplace for wearable technology. The deal with WHOOP, a company that also provides CBMs to Major League Baseball players, was announced Monday morning.

Distribution to interested NFL players began earlier this offseason and will accelerate this week in Philadelphia, site of the 2017 draft. The wrist-worn device, known as the WHOOP Strap 2.0, will transmit physiological data on sleep and recovery, among other data sets. The information is different from what is generated by the NFL-owned chips worn in games and practices, which largely measure location and exertion.

The agreement with WHOOP also gives players the right to sell their data as the market intensifies for elite athletic training methods.

There it is.

 

E-sports fixing!

xThe coach and manager of Korean Overwatch team Luminous Solar have been charged with fixing the wildcard qualifier match for OGN APEX Challengers Season 3, according to a report from Inven.

In a translation from ESPN Esports, Luminous Solar manager Jin Seok-hoon and coach Baek Min-jeh were booked without detention by police after OGN, the tournament organizer, revealed a large amount of circumstantial evidence pointing to match fixing. The match in question was against UnLimited, who allegedly threw the match in return for sponsorship. The two staff members also allegedly used a fraudulent doctor’s certificate to add a last-minute substitute for Luminous Solar’s match.

I was just at an event at Villanova’s School of Law where an Activision Blizzard – makers of Overwatch – exec was bragging about not having match fixing issues.

 

A roundup of all the mock drafts. Only three people have the Eagles taking a defensive end, and no one has them taking Charles Harris. What if they TRADE BACK and draft Harris? There seems to be a lot of rumblings about them taking Mixon in the second round, including in Jimmy Kempski’s mock.

 

THAT IS NOT A CHEESESTEAK!

 

Amazon might dump the postal service soon.

 

April 26.