Latest / The Sports Hangover Daily / Sorsby's 9,000-Bet Scandal Forces Supplemental Draft | Jun 16, 2026
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- Welcome to The Sports Hangover Daily, I'm Michael Benatar. Today on the show: Brendan Sorsby's gambling mess sends him to the supplemental draft, Lamar Jackson's extension is going nowhere, and the World Cup just had its wildest day yet. Let's get into it. Brendan Sorsby is heading to the NFL supplemental draft, and honestly, this story is wild from top to bottom. The Texas Tech quarterback got caught placing over nine thousand bets totaling at least ninety grand on professional and college sports while he was enrolled at Indiana, Cincinnati, and Texas Tech. At least forty of those wagers involved Indiana football. His own team. The NCAA ruled him ineligible, he won a temporary injunction to keep playing, and then yesterday the Big 12 filed a lawsuit in Dallas federal court basically saying they'd sanction Texas Tech if Sorsby ever took the field. So Sorsby did the math and declared for the supplemental draft. The kid can play, though. He threw for twenty-eight hundred yards with twenty-seven touchdowns and just five picks at Cincinnati in twenty twenty-five. CBS Sports' Ryan Wilson sees first-round talent in there. But the character concerns are massive, and they should be. This isn't a guy who placed a couple bets on the Super Bowl with his buddies. Nine thousand bets. That's not recreational gambling, that's a lifestyle. The NFL hasn't even had a supplemental draft since twenty twenty-three, and the last quarterback to enter one was Terrelle Pryor back in twenty eleven. The league still has to approve his application, and some team is gonna have to decide whether the arm talent is worth the baggage. I think someone takes a shot in the second or third round. But if I'm that GM, I'm building the most aggressive monitoring program in league history before he walks through the door. Lamar Jackson and the Ravens still aren't close on an extension. Jason La Canfora reported Friday that Lamar left minicamp without any real progress on a new deal. He's got two years left on his current contract, and this is starting to feel like one of those situations where both sides think they have leverage and neither side blinks. Lamar is the reigning MVP runner-up. The Ravens know what he is. But Baltimore has a new coaching staff settling in, and paying a quarterback north of sixty million a year when the cap just hit three oh one point two million is still a massive commitment. The AFC North is brutal. You can't afford to let this drag into the season. George Pickens and the Cowboys are stuck too. Stephen Jones basically said Dallas isn't even gonna discuss a long-term deal. Pickens is playing on the franchise tag this year after a monster season in Pittsburgh — ninety-three catches, fourteen twenty-nine yards, nine touchdowns, first Pro Bowl. And the Cowboys' plan is just to ride the tag and figure it out later. That's a bold strategy when your receiver wants long-term security and has zero emotional attachment to Dallas. Cameron Jordan is meeting with the Saints, per Terron Armstead's podcast. Jordan's been in New Orleans forever, and at this point the two sides just need to figure out if there's a graceful ending here or one more run. Either way, respect to the man. Brandon Aiyuk is still stuck in San Francisco. He wants Washington to reunite with Jayden Daniels, but the Commanders have said publicly they're not interested. Aiyuk hasn't played since twenty twenty-four after tearing his ACL, MCL, and meniscus, and the Niners voided almost twenty-seven million in guarantees after he refused to participate in rehab. This one's getting ugly. The World Cup had one of those days yesterday where every favorite looked at the script, crumpled it up, and threw it away. All four matches on June fifteenth ended in draws. Every single one. That hasn't happened in sixty-eight years — the last time four games all drew on the same day at a World Cup was also June fifteenth, back in nineteen fifty-eight. Cape Verde held Spain to a scoreless draw in Atlanta. Spain had seven hundred thirty-four passes and twenty-seven shots. Cape Verde had two hundred five passes and a forty-year-old goalkeeper named Vozinha who was just unreal. Belgium needed an own goal in the sixty-sixth minute to salvage a one to one draw with Egypt. Uruguay got equalized by Saudi Arabia in the eightieth minute. And Iran and New Zealand played out a two to two thriller at SoFi in LA — Elijah Just scored twice for New Zealand. It was chaos. Beautiful, unpredictable chaos. And that's what makes this tournament feel different already. The Knicks parade is Thursday. Jalen Brunson is gonna ride down the Canyon of Heroes with a Finals MVP trophy after dropping forty-five in the clincher. And I want to talk about what this means for the rest of the league. Every team that passed on building around a six-one guard because he wasn't big enough or athletic enough or flashy enough just watched that guy lead the biggest comeback in Finals history in Game four and then close the series with forty-five in Game five. The Brunson blueprint is real. Toughness, shot-making, and a flat-out refusal to lose. Every front office in the league is gonna spend this summer trying to find their version of him. They won't. There's only one. That's your hangover. Go hydrate. I'll see you tomorrow.