Jill Levine took the call a few weeks ago, not quite believing what she was hearing.

Here is your weekend mailbag.

The NFL turned its back on him because of business decisions. Now the NFL is welcoming him back as a business decision. So there's that.

The indomitable force of nature known as Makayla Scott continues to sweep across the country, plowing all obstacles out of the way.

Tuesday was a big day for a couple of notable Hall of Fames around the sports world.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred must, at least this once, focus on the fans and what they've been through and are continuing to go through.

Baseball is going to completely botch this, aren't they?

Befitting someone who has always encouraged folks to live in their hopes instead of their fears, University of Tennessee athletic director Phillip Fulmer sounded like a man whose cup runneth over with hope for the upcoming college football season during an interview last week with the Knoxville News-Sentinel.

Welcome back sports. Tournament was entertaining — yes, we all would have liked Rory, and say, Jordan in the playoff rather than Berger and Morikawa — and finished in a playoff.

Full disclosure: I've never been much of a NASCAR fan.

From George Floyd's horrible death, something has come to life in this country that we've never previously witnessed on such a grand scale regarding the desperate need to end systemic racism.

Here are a few takes on pop culture and the sports world for your weekend.

And, like that, sports are back.

OK, the draft is about to happen. Some teams will take some future stars. Some teams will take some future insurance agents. That's how the baseball draft — the most unpredictable draft anywhere — works.

They're back.

The MLB draft is today. I love the draft you know this.

When it comes to this ongoing battle between Major League Baseball's greedy owners and greedy players, three words are beginning to come to mind more and more: Enough. Of. This.

While the NFL is in the crosshairs — and considering its recent history with Colin Kaepernick and the dominoes of that — the NBA should be facing some very pointed questions right now too.

There stood Jeremy Pruitt, wearing a CDC-recommended mask and a University of Tennessee football shirt as he delivered the kind of message head coaches of major college programs rarely deliver.

Senior day. Wherever it happens, that last home game is quite often the emotional highlight of any student-athlete's college career.

If baseball can't get out of its own way and lets money keep it from playing this year — and makes fans turn to the NBA, the NHL and of course football when the time comes — it will be a generational mistake that will cost the game countless fans and likely billions of dollars.

After a spring in which nothing involving high school sports went as scheduled, the TSSAA has determined the two-week summer dead period will remain business as usual.

How crazy has the last 24 hours been for Drew Brees?