Kyler Murray can’t seem to let go of baseball
NY Post
Kyler Murray is still considering patrolling the outfield, as well as the football field.
The Arizona Cardinals franchise quarterback is about to enter his third NFL season and Murray can’t seem to go all-in for football. Before he was drafted No. 1 overall by the Cardinals in 2019, Murray already was a big baseball prospect — to date, he is the only athlete to ever be selected in the first round of both a NFL and a MLB draft. Murray was slated to report to the Oakland Athletics’ spring training in 2019, but after winning the Heisman Trophy, he moved his focus over to football.It was only a three-second glimpse, but Matt Rempe, finally, showcased offensive strides. The ones he started talking about in the preseason — after a summer’s worth of work — and kept doubling down on, even when he fluctuated in and out of the Rangers lineup and shuttled back and forth to AHL Hartford.
In a different time, in a season to come, we may be inclined to wax poetic about the way this one played out. In a different time, in a season to come, the Nets will be seeking to stack wins and not losses, will be fighting for playoff seeding and not for a few extra ping-pong balls in the draft lottery this spring.
The NBA has an All-Star Game problem. Despite Adam Silver’s efforts to inject juice into the February showcase — including a format alteration to the 2025 game that is too confusing to attempt to understand before it’s inevitably changed again — there’s little interest in watching teams eschew defense for a series of layup line highlights. That also means the most entertaining part of the NBA All-Star Game is just like the Pro Bowl — debating over who should get a spot.