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Sean Payton roasts Broncos tryout QB Ben DiNucci

Sean Payton jokingly told Ben DiNucci he might be able to get a job at Walmart after the quarterback threw an interception at minicamp.

Story update: The Broncos are signing Ben DiNucci. Clearly, Sean Payton’s good-natured ribbing was all in good fun. See our original post below.

Sean Payton’s got jokes.

The Denver Broncos held a rookie minicamp practice on Saturday featuring their draft picks, undrafted free agent signings, last year’s practice squad players and more than a dozen tryout players.

One of the players that tried out over the weekend was quarterback Ben DiNucci, who spent time with the Dallas Cowboys from 2020-2022 before starring in the XFL this spring.

One of DiNucci’s passes during Saturday’s practice was intercepted by linebacker Drew Sanders, who was a third-round pick in April. After practice, Payton teased the QB publicly for the interception by retelling a comment he made to DiNucci.

“Unfortunately for Ben DiNucci, it was his first interception and there was more to that interception if you looked at it,” Payton said. “It was good play by Sanders and it was right in front of Greg Penner. I was telling Greg before practice how this Ben DiNucci was doing well.

“I told Ben — I said, ‘You know, he owns Walmart. If it doesn’t work out here, I’m sure there’s a greeting opportunity somewhere at one of his local stores.’ It was good play by Drew.”

Boom, roasted.

Penner, of course, is the son-in-law of Broncos majority owner Rob Walton, the billionaire heir of Walton. Penner is now a co-owner of the club and he acts as the day-to-day owner as chief executive officer.

The fact that Payton would make such a comment about DiNucci in a playful manner might actually be a good sign for the QB’s chances of getting an invite to training camp. It seems like the kind of joking comment Payton would make to a player he likes rather than a cutting criticism of a camp arm.

If Denver does plan to sign DiNucci, the team will have to wait until Monday — that’s when XFL players become eligible to sign with NFL teams for 2023.

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Living out of his car in a Walmart parking lot and rapping on Spotify, this player just Monday qualified for this week’s Korn Ferry Tour event

Sweeney is doing whatever he can to pursue his dream.

(Editor’s note: This story originally ran on Aug. 2, 2022, but was updated after Sweeney qualified for a Korn Ferry Tour event on April 24.)

Playing great golf is only half the battle when trying to make it to the PGA Tour. Every tournament comes with a steep entry fee, airfare, rental cars, food, hotels, equipment and more.

If you don’t have a steady sponsor or some type of financial aid, it is very difficult to pay your way to the Tour on your own.

Michael Sweeney, an aspiring PGA Tour player, has been fighting to live out his dream. Sweeney doesn’t have a traditional background in collegiate golf, but hasn’t let that stop him from grinding to the top.

To save up for tournaments and travel expenses, Sweeney decided to not rent an apartment but live out of his car.

“I was originally parking in a little rest stop off of 95 and then I got the boot from one of the security guards,” said Sweeney. “So, I ended up sleeping in the Walmart parking lot most nights … which you know is a classy spot to be.”

Photo of Michael Sweeney
Photo of Michael Sweeney. (Michael Sweeney)

Sweeney attempted to qualify for the 2022 U.S. Open and lost his spot in a playoff in Purchase, New York.

“I ended up shooting back-to-back rounds of 69 in the 36 holes and that got me into an eight-way playoff for three spots,” said Sweeney. “Unfortunately, I went par-par in the playoff, but it was an awesome day.”

He finally broke through this week, and will get a start in the Korn Ferry Tour’s Huntsville Open. We go to well-respected scribe Monday Q to pick up the story.

This week Sweeney again spent most of his savings to pay the $500 entry fee for Korn Ferry Monday at the Huntsville Open. He drove up from Florida with another pro. This was Sweeney’s 12th Monday qualifier between the PGA and KFT tours, but he had never made it through. He came to the par-4 18th hole at Huntsville Country Club at 5 under par and thought he needed at least a birdie. Most players lay up on the 366-yard dogleg-right, but Sweeney figured he needed to be aggressive, so he hit a big slice around the corner. His ball ended up in the front bunker about 35 yards short of the green. Thinking he had to get up and down, Sweeney did one better, holing the shot for an eagle. Come to find out, he needed to make that deuce.

The 65 earned him a spot in the playoff, and he advanced with a par on the second hole. On Thursday, Sweeney will tee it up in his first event on any of the tours under the PGA Tour umbrella.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that money for the rest of the week is tight. Sweeney has almost reached the $800 limit on his credit card, so he can’t book a rental car. As of Monday night he still wasn’t sure how he was going to get around for the week. His dad paid for his hotel room, which has the kind of amenities you’d expect for a place with a weekly rate of $500. The Google reviews are littered with complaints of bed bugs, customers being charged for nights they didn’t stay there and drug dealers and sex workers frequenting the parking lot.

In addition to his love for golf, Sweeney raps in his free time. He doesn’t advertise it, but his beats and rap lines are almost as impressive as his golf game. You can find him on Spotify here.

Listen to a full interview with Sweeney and Averee here.

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Walmart requires masks, trying to save college football in 2020

The major retail store is one of the latest to require masks to be worn while shopping in its premises.

(This was originally published by Matt Zemek on Trojans Wire.)

It’s not a joke, and it’s definitely not an anti-Southerners thing, either. This REALLY is serious business: Walmart, America’s largest retailer, has decided to require all customers to wear masks. The news broke early on Wednesday:

Let’s be very clear about this: Walmart executives and administrators didn’t have extensive meetings and say, “Darnit, we have to save college football for 2020.” This is — first and foremost — a move meant to promote public health and safety, to get the coronavirus under control. Walmart’s reach in and through American life and the nation’s economy made it important to commit to this plan, which could ripple throughout the country and affect tens of millions of citizens for the better. The domino effect on positive cases, hospitalizations, uses of ventilators, and deaths could be notable.

(You will note that I used the word “could,” as opposed to “will.” I am not a scientist and don’t want to project scientific certainty.)

At the very least, even if you are unconvinced about mask-wearing (and there are plenty of Americans who fall in that camp, a result partly brought about by Anthony Fauci’s own lies and the lies from other public health officials about the effectiveness of mask-wearing in the past winter), this much is clear:

Walmart OBVIOUSLY felt it had to pull the trigger on mask requirements. The company’s cost-benefit and public health analyses led it to the conclusion that it had to put this rule in place, to reduce spread of COVID-19. Yes, in an immediate sense, this was not and is not primarily a college football-related move.

But: Walmart is a company with a substantial presence in the South; more precisely, it has a substantial presence in the less urbanized areas of the South, with fewer alternative or upscale shopping options for large numbers of citizens. Walmart is often — by necessity, as a geographical reality — the main grocery outlet for a lot of Southerners to an extent not matched in some of the other regions of the country, especially the more populous regions.

The idea that college football is completely irrelevant to Walmart’s decision is — I would think — inaccurate. There is definitely increased anxiety in the South about college football not happening in the fall, which would be a massive psychic blow to the region if it happened.

Unconvinced about this last point?

I give you this, from earlier in the week:

College football is such a part of the bloodstream of Southern culture — part of the DNA of the fabric of life in the South — that Walmart executives have surely become more aware of the enormity of what could happen in the coming months. It isn’t — and hasn’t been — the job of Walmart executives to save college football, but I’m sure they either hear about it or talk about it once every few days.

The Southeastern Conference and its coaches have become more aggressive in promoting the need to wear a mask:

You can generally see Southern public figures and entities who carry enormous influence mobilizing to try to save college football. Walmart’s decision on Wednesday — while not primarily motivated by the need to save college football in 2020 — surely INCLUDES the salvation of college football as one of its many goals. It’s all part of a region beginning to realize what’s at stake.

Now, if only Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi would get on board with monthly checks to all Americans, paying them to stay home in a pandemic. Walmart’s decision will give college football a chance of being played, but monthly checks and the continuation of unemployment assistance remain the biggest things which can be done to enable college football to be played this fall.

Walmart requires masks, trying to save college football in 2020

This is not the full story, but it’s a big part of it.

It’s not a joke, and it’s definitely not an anti-Southerners thing, either. This REALLY is serious business: Walmart, America’s largest retailer, has decided to require all customers to wear masks. The news broke early on Wednesday:

Let’s be very clear about this: Walmart executives and administrators didn’t have extensive meetings and say, “Darnit, we have to save college football for 2020.” This is — first and foremost — a move meant to promote public health and safety, to get the coronavirus under control. Walmart’s reach in and through American life and the nation’s economy made it important to commit to this plan, which could ripple throughout the country and affect tens of millions of citizens for the better. The domino effect on positive cases, hospitalizations, uses of ventilators, and deaths could be notable.

(You will note that I used the word “could,” as opposed to “will.” I am not a scientist and don’t want to project scientific certainty.)

At the very least, even if you are unconvinced about mask-wearing (and there are plenty of Americans who fall in that camp, a result partly brought about by Anthony Fauci’s own lies and the lies from other public health officials about the effectiveness of mask-wearing in the past winter), this much is clear:

Walmart OBVIOUSLY felt it had to pull the trigger on mask requirements. The company’s cost-benefit and public health analyses led it to the conclusion that it had to put this rule in place, to reduce spread of COVID-19. Yes, in an immediate sense, this was not and is not primarily a college football-related move.

But: Walmart is a company with a substantial presence in the South; more precisely, it has a substantial presence in the less urbanized areas of the South, with fewer alternative or upscale shopping options for large numbers of citizens. Walmart is often — by necessity, as a geographical reality — the main grocery outlet for a lot of Southerners to an extent not matched in some of the other regions of the country, especially the more populous regions.

The idea that college football is completely irrelevant to Walmart’s decision is — I would think — inaccurate. There is definitely increased anxiety in the South about college football not happening in the fall, which would be a massive psychic blow to the region if it happened.

Unconvinced about this last point?

I give you this, from earlier in the week:

College football is such a part of the bloodstream of Southern culture — part of the DNA of the fabric of life in the South — that Walmart executives have surely become more aware of the enormity of what could happen in the coming months. It isn’t — and hasn’t been — the job of Walmart executives to save college football, but I’m sure they either hear about it or talk about it once every few days.

The Southeastern Conference and its coaches have become more aggressive in promoting the need to wear a mask:

You can generally see Southern public figures and entities who carry enormous influence mobilizing to try to save college football. Walmart’s decision on Wednesday — while not primarily motivated by the need to save college football in 2020 — surely INCLUDES the salvation of college football as one of its many goals. It’s all part of a region beginning to realize what’s at stake.

Now, if only Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi would get on board with monthly checks to all Americans, paying them to stay home in a pandemic. Walmart’s decision will give college football a chance of being played, but monthly checks and the continuation of unemployment assistance remain the biggest things which can be done to enable college football to be played this fall.

Walmart and Target join retailers pulling Washington gear from inventory

Both Walmart and Target joined Nike in move to pull Washington gear from their online inventory.

The major news was made last week when it became apparent that Nike had removed all Washington-related merchandise from their website, and now both Target and Walmart have followed suit.

The move has been made in protest of Washington’s team name, which is almost assuredly going to be changed in the near future. While decades of outcry for the ‘Redskins’ name to change have finally come to a boil, team owner Dan Snyder faces supreme pressure to change the controversial ways and appease fanbases and critics at the same time.

While it may have taken a while for Snyder to finally make the decision to change the name, it may have been the financial pressure in the end. While major sponsors like Fed Ex and Nike publicly requested a change, having merchandise sellers like Walmart and Target remove their inventory takes a hit as well. If the public perception is going to change anytime soon, the name will have to as well.

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