LAST WORDS

I want to congratulate you. You've become famous.”

President Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Ohio to two high school football players who carried thin blue line and thin red line flags onto a field supporting police and firefighters. Trump introduced the two students, cornerback Brady Williams and linebacker Jared Bentley, by talking about the need to support police officers, according to a C-SPAN video of the Monday rally. Williams and Bentley were initially suspended from the team for carrying the flags after being told not to do so. They are the sons of a police officer and firefighter. The suspension was lifted the next day, after backlash.

Surprisingly but true and factual enough, if I do what I am supposed to do, as I am expecting to, that will not be a topic of discussion here moving forward.”

QB Cam Newton on WEEI radio in Boston when asked about his Patriots contract, which has a base salary of $1.05 million and could be worth up to $7.5 million if he hits all his incentives. That base salary ties the free-agent signee for 32nd among NFL QBs.