The Sweep, November 3 — Draymond Tackles Khaman Maluach and Dillon Brooks Plays Peacemaker, Durant Asks Why It Matters, Scarborough Has Had Enough of McAfee, and Matt Rhule Speaks About His Daughter

Monday, November 2. Early in the second half of Warriors-Suns, Khaman Maluach went up and Draymond Green took him down. Maluach scored anyway on the and-one. Green then grabbed him and threw him to the floor, Dillon Brooks came over to object, and the two scuffled until Green had his second technical and his 31st career ejection, CBS Sports reported. Golden State won 116-113 behind 34 from Stephen Curry. Green has three technicals this season, tied for the league lead, and 16 means an automatic suspension. Maluach shrugged: "I think it's just a basketball play. Just out there playing basketball. Nothing against Draymond." Brooks said, with what we are prepared to believe was a straight face, "I was just trying to de-escalate it." A season in which Dillon Brooks is the voice of calm in a fight is a season worth watching. We found no confirmed league discipline by publication.

Monday, November 2. Rockets 109, Celtics 93, and Kevin Durant had 12 points on six shots in 33 minutes. Varun Shankar of the Houston Chronicle asked about his offensive impact, and Durant's answer was a question: "Why does that matter to you?" Then: "We won the basketball game, bro." Durant went on to explain that his presence pulls double-teams and shades defenders toward him without the ball, which is a true thing. Shankar's own post noted this was only the second time in Durant's career he has played 30-plus minutes and taken six or fewer shots, Awful Announcing reported. So it was a good question, and also a fair answer from a player whose team was 7-1. Durant gets to be short with reporters when he is winning. He may want to remember it took a reporter to tell us how rare the night was.

Published Tuesday, November 3. Jim Mora's Colorado State lost 31-14 to Utah State and fell to 3-5, and the coach who took the blame first then delivered the rest of the message. "That was awful. An awful performance by all of us, starting with me not getting the team getting ready to go," he said. And: "I will tell you right now, the hammer is coming down." And, for anyone who dislikes his approach this week: "there's a door and they can walk their ass right out." His father gave football "Playoffs?" The family's talent for a press conference has clearly survived. Whether it produces a fourth win is another matter, and threats made at 3-5 tend to have a short shelf life.

Tuesday, November 3. On Election Day, with the country's politics presumably available as a topic, Joe Scarborough opened up on Morning Joe about something else. "I've just had enough of this Pat McAfee ruining College GameDay," he said, adding that the rest of the crew are "all being eclipsed by ESPN's insatiable desire to give this guy more time." Awful Announcing says ESPN is reportedly signing McAfee to a $65 million-a-year extension, and that figure is only reported. Scarborough isn't the first to make the complaint. If the contract figure is right, ESPN has heard it, priced it and decided otherwise.

Published Monday, November 2. After Florida State fired Mike Norvell at 3-5, CBS Sports' Brandon Marcello named possible replacements, and CBS posted them in a graphic: Eli Drinkwitz, Kenny Dillingham, Rhett Lashlee, Jimbo Fisher. Connor Stalions, the former Michigan staffer from the sign-stealing scandal, altered the graphic with a joke list. Marcello objected: "You really doctoring images from news outlets now? These names were never reported by me or my colleagues." Stalions: "God forbid we exercise a little humor on this app!" Marcello's point holds, and it isn't humorless. Coaching searches are exactly where a fake list travels furthest, and it carried a reporter's name. Jokes are fine, but this one needed its own graphic.

Monday, November 2. Nebraska's Matt Rhule said at his Monday press conference that a fan verbally attacked his 13-year-old daughter after Saturday's 17-10 loss to Washington, the team's third straight. This is Rhule's account; the fan has not been identified in anything we read. "I'm not going to keep coaching if it means my kids grow up screwed up," he said, and later, "I'm not leaving, I'm not quitting." He said his 10-year-old texted him, in part, "Please don't quit." Nobody buying a ticket to a game buys a right to a coach's child. Nebraska plays at Illinois on Friday.

Monday, November 2. Michael Wilbon, 67, is taking an indefinite leave from Pardon the Interruption and his NBA work at ESPN and ABC for health reasons he did not specify, saying only that they are unrelated to alcohol or gambling. "This isn't retirement, but it is a trip to the injured list," he wrote on X. Pablo Torre and Frank Isola are guest hosting this week. ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro said Wilbon and his family have the network's full support. It comes less than two weeks after the show's 25th anniversary. We hope he is back at that desk soon.

Saturday, October 31, into Monday. Police records released by the Hobart/Lawrence department show that other women contacted police with their own allegations of past abuse by Packers running back Josh Jacobs, the Associated Press reported. The allegations are unproven. His attorneys said the Brown County District Attorney's office "had these uncorroborated, old, and previously unreported allegations for months," and ESPN's Rob Demovsky reported they denied each of the three newly disclosed claims. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the league would review them as part of an investigation that "has remained open." Jacobs pleaded no contest on September 10 to misdemeanor battery and criminal damage to property. Asked Monday, coach Matt LaFleur said, "I would anticipate him being a member of us moving forward." We wrote about his touchdown celebration on Saturday. This is the part of the story that counts, and the next fact worth reporting is what the league does with its open file.

What we are not running, and why

• Michael Strahan replacing Troy Aikman at Fox (Front Office Sports). Recycled. The page header reads November 3, 2026, because that's the date the site shows every reader. The byline underneath is March 11, 2022.
• "Kalshi can keep operating in Nevada" (Front Office Sports). Same trap, different desk. It appeared in search as a November 2, 2026 story. The article dates from April 2025.
• The Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson breakup. TMZ's October 30 report relies on sourcing we can't check, and a WRAL item on the dispute relies on unnamed sources. Nothing on the record confirms it.
• "NBA to punish Draymond Green" (Athlon). The page would not load for us, and we found no announcement of discipline from the league.
• Wosny Lambre on Victor Wembanyama. A podcast host calling Wembanyama arrogant over a 60 Minutes remark about American social interactions being "more shallow here." One host's outrage over one sentence isn't a feud.
• Lions linebacker Jack Campbell's injury. He was hospitalized on November 1 after going motionless following a tackle, and the team said "preliminary indications are positive." That belongs on the news pages, not in a column with Dillon Brooks jokes.