LINKS: Jordan McRae an NBA Champion (with video!)

• Morning gang! Jordan McRae's path to the NBA has been winding, with a draft-night trade, stops in Australia and the D-League, and multiple 10-day contracts, but it's tough to argue with where he's ended up: besides being one of the most entertaining games in memory, the Cavs' historic comeback Sunday night made McRae an NBA Champion. And there was another familiar face in the crowd:
  

  This is what it's all about right here! I'm so proud of this dude @jordymac52!!!#Game7 #nbafinals pic.twitter.com/bRhrhQeUnL

  — Nicodemus C. (@nicodemus_c) June 20, 2016

  Congrats Jordan!
  
  
• Another noted Vol World Champion, Peyton Manning, was in town Monday, to honor the winners of the annual Peyton Manning Scholarships, and meet with members of the Vols football program. Sounds like he's taking this retirement thing seriously though- this year, for the first time, he won't be working out with the team, and he also said yesterday's appearance in the Children's Hospital Peyton Manning Golf Classic would be his last (Which brings up some questions, really. Are they going just call it off? Change the name? Is it even legal to not attend a golf tournament named after you if you're not actively dead?) 
  
  In any case, per Jimmy Hyams, he's headed to at least three Vols games next year (Bristol, Alabama, and aTm).
  
  
• As Will noted on Saturday, Butch Jones' massive eight-commitment bonanza during the Orange Carpet Event Day Thing shot Tennessee's class into the top ten nationally, and 247 has a man-by-man breakdown of the incoming recruits.
  
  
• Allison Maurer, the Vols' sports nutritionist since 2008, is leaving the program to "pursue another opportunity," per a Tennessee spokesperson.  
  
  
• So, we're not going to link to Clay Travis, much less Clay Travis talking with Derek Dooley, but here's some choice quotes from the interview from CoachingSearch [NSFRTT- lotta cussing], if you're interested. Really though, there's nothing in there you don't already know, at some level.
  
  
• Some people from CBS compared college football teams to Bachelorette contestants, and the results for Tennessee are savage. HOTTAEK: HE'S SO MUCH WORSE THAN CHAD.
  
  
• If it's TUESDAY, it's POSSUM NEWS
  
  • Here are some people talking about last POSSUM NEWS' focus, insane British people calling things the wrong thing. It is also wrong. Nobody says "Opossum," that's insane. We will not yield on this.
    
    
  • Here is a posso cutting line to try to get a pastry or a cronut or whatever in New York. It did not end well for said posso. Manners: important.
    
    
  • Don't click this, it's gross. But maybe heartwarming? But mostly gross.
    
    
  • In honor of Jordan McRae and the Cavs, here's Tracy Morgan talking about missing the '05 Finals due to a possum-related situation [mild cussing].
  This has been your possum news.

Happy Tuesday!