Bucs' Russell Gage to miss 2023 season after suffering knee injury in practice: report

Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Russell Gage’s 2023 season is reportedly done before it got started as he suffered a non-contact knee injury during joint practice with the New York Jets on Wednesday.

Gage was seen carted off the field after being unable to put weight on his leg, per the Pewter Report. Gage will miss the season, according to ESPN.

While Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles didn’t definitively say that Gage would be missing the season, he didn’t sound confident a positive update was coming. 

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"We hear it’s going to be pretty serious," Bowles said after practice. "He’s been battling back for the last – obviously since he's been here, it seems like. We wish him the best. I can tell by the way he was sitting on the truck that it's probably something that happened pretty bad. Our hearts go out to him, and we'll see how it goes."

Injuries plagued Gage’s 2022 season despite having a career-high five touchdowns. While he did have a hamstring injury that forced him out for three games, a scary situation unfolded when he suffered a neck injury and concussion during the team’s playoff game against the Dallas Cowboys.

Gage was placed on a backboard and carted off the field as play stopped for quite some time. He tried to get up after a wicked hit from Cowboys safety Donovan Wilson, but he punched the ground in frustration when he realized he couldn’t get up.

The Bucs signed Gage to a new contract last year, but he took a pay cut to remain with the team this season.

With Gage sidelined, the Bucs need a new starting slot receiver. Deven Thompkins could step in there, but the passing game will continue to focus on Mike Evans and Chris Godwin.

In his first season with the Bucs last year, Gage had 426 yards on 51 receptions in 13 games. In his prior four seasons with the Atlanta Falcons, he had a total 2,065 yards with nine touchdowns.

Olivia Wilde, Jason Sudeikis score legal victory in former nanny's wrongful termination lawsuit

Actors Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis earned a legal victory Wednesday in an ongoing wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a former nanny.

A Los Angeles judge moved the filing made by Ericka Genaro to arbitration, an out-of-court alternative resolution method. Once an arbitration agreement is signed, a right to trial by jury is waived.

"We don’t agree with the decision, but it is what it is and now we’ll litigate it in arbitration and the case goes on," Ron Zambrano, a partner and Employment Litigation Chair at West Coast Employment Lawyers, said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital. "This does not terminate the lawsuit. It merely changes the venue."

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Genaro filed the suit earlier this year claiming she worked for the former couple for three years, and was employed by the pair when they split in 2020. Following their break-up, Genaro claimed she began suffering from anxiety and depression after Wilde "abruptly" left the home and Sudeikis began "leaning" on her for emotional support.

Wilde and Sudeikis' representatives did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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"As to the underlying facts, we’ve got text messages and testimony that she was driven to quit, then was summarily fired anyway," Zambrano added. "We feel extremely confident in the case so instead of taking this to trial, we’ll handle it in arbitration and we’re ready to move forward."

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