Tweeted Celtics star Paul Pierce (@paulpierce34) after Manny Pacquiao's loss: "Feel like time has stopped still stunneddddd over this fight."
MAKES YOU CRY We miss the print edition of the Onion. From the website Sunday: "Tim Tebow Puts Empty Gatorade Cups In Wildcat Formation On Jets Bench."
FOOTBALL'S FINEST The Bryan-College Station Eagle has a special section online celebrating Johnny Manziel's Heisman Trophy, at aggiesports.com/johnny_football.
The "Pitch to Contact" era, or at least the era in which the Twins had to rely too much on it, appears to be over. As noted on RandBall, if the philosophy didn't die during a 2012 draft in which they loaded up on power arms, it was finished off after dealing Denard Span and Ben Revere for flame-throwing prospects Alex Meyer and Trevor May, as well as Vance Worley, who has a career MLB strikeout rate of 7.7 per nine innings. Other web highlights:
AP Sports Week in Pictures: Pitcher Randy Vazquez, Olympic flame and Nelly Korda's pond splash
Vikings look good at linebacker, but there's one issue to solve
Towns finds joy trying to stop 'best of the best' in Durant
Police clear out a migrant camp in central Paris. Activists say it's a pre-Olympics sweep
