Month: September 2022

Veteran defensive back Antonio Hamilton was expected to start at cornerback for Arizona.

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The Cardinals placed cornerback Antonio Hamilton on the reserve/non-football injury list following a cooking accident in his home, according to a report from NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Mike Garafolo.

Hamilton is expected to miss the first four games of the season.

Hamilton confirmed the accident with a picture on Twitter of severe burns on his legs.

“Had the greatest camp of my career and last Monday I had an accident that could’ve ended up deadly for me and my family,” Hamilton wrote.

“But instead I got the short end of it by having my feet severely burned (2nd degree). It was literally a freak accident and God spared me to only have these injuries,” Hamilton continued.

Hamilton was expected to begin the season as a starter for the Cardinals.

“It’s disappointing for him,” coach Kliff Kingsbury said. “He had earned a starting role.”

Hamilton is entering his second season with the Cardinals after playing in all 17 games last season. He previously played for the Raiders, Giants and Chiefs.

Hamilton has made 88 tackles over 74 games in his NFL career. He is still expected to be an important piece to the secondary this season once he gets healthy and returns to the field.

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This is the third big fine the Australian has earned this year at a tournament.

Tennis’s “bad boy” Nick Kyrgios earned a $7,500 fine for unsportsmanlike conduct during his round two U.S. Open match on Wednesday.

Although the Australian beat France’s Benjamin Bonzi’s in four sets, he showed some frustration on the court during the match. He used a profanity towards someone in the audience at one point. Later in the match, Kyrgios yelled at someone in his player’s box, telling the person to be more supportive or leave.

During the second set, Kyrgios argued with the chair umpire, Jaume Campistol, complaining that he could smell marijuana smoke in the stadium, even dropping an explicative picked up by the broadcast. It was not confirmed whether a fan was smoking marijuana at the match or not.

“You don’t want to remind anyone not to do it or anything?” Kyrgios asked Campistol during a changeover.

The umpire said the smell could be from the kitchen at Louis Armstrong Stadium. The Australian disagreed with that, though.

“Obviously, I’m not going to complain about food smells,” Kyrgios said. “Obviously, not.”

Kyrgios later told the media that the smell bothered him because he is asthmatic.

“When I’m running side to side, I’m struggling to breathe,” Kyrgios said, via The Associated Press. “Probably not something I want to be breathing in in between points.”

Earning fines is nothing new for Kyrgios. Just this year, he earned a $35,000 fine at the Miami Open for four different offenses, then he earned a $4,000 at Wimbledon for an audible obscenity.

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Carolina is adding quarterback depth to combat multiple injuries.

With multiple quarterbacks having gone down to injury, the Panthers are adding to their depth chart. ESPN’s David Newton reports that Carolina is signing quarterback Jacob Eason to their practice squad.

After attending Georgia and Washington in college, Eason was drafted by the Colts in the fourth round of the 2021 NFL draft. He spent the first half of last season with Indianapolis, only appearing in one game and completing two passes for 25 yards.

The Colts waived Eason in October 2021, leading to the Seahawks claiming him. The quarterback spent all offseason with Seattle, but he failed to make the team in training camp and was waived earlier in the week.

Carolina needs quarterback depth help, as Sam Darnold is out several weeks with an ankle injury and rookie quarterback Matt Corral is out for the season with a foot injury. 

For now, the only two quarterbacks on the Panthers roster are Baker Mayfield and P.J. Walker, putting Eason third on the team’s depth chart. If anything happens to either of the first two early in the season, Eason will likely be elevated to Carolina’s 53-man roster.

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