Thursday’s Mashup: Olivia Culpo confirms Danny Amendola split

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THURSDAY’S BROADCAST HIGHLIGHTS:

MLB: Chicago Cubs at Miami, 12:40 p.m. (ESPN)MLB: Houston at Texas, 3:35 p.m. (ESPN)MLB: Boston at Tampa Bay, 4:10 p.m. (NESN, WEEI 93.7)MLB: San Francisco at LA Dodgers, 7:10 p.m. (ESPN)MLB: Cleveland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m. (ESPN)NBA: Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 8 p.m. (TNT)NBA: Milwaukee at Golden State, 10:30 p.m. (TNT)NHL: Tampa Bay at Boston, 7 p.m. (NESN)NHL: Dallas at Minnesota , 8 p.m. (NBCSN)

AROUND THE WEB:

-- Olivia Culpo confirmed her split from Danny Amendola on Wednesday during an appearance Access Live.

“We are broken up and it’s just so fresh for me. I don’t feel comfortable talking about it,” Culpo said. “Everyone goes through breakups in life. Everybody has their own way of handling it and it’s something that I definitely am not going to get into at this moment. But I am sure everyone can relate to heartbreak.”

It was rumored the two had split last week after Amendola signed with the Dolphins and wiped all traces of Culpo from his Instagram account.

Culpo just launched a new fashion line, while Amendola has been busy spending time with Julian Edelman and FaceTiming Tom Brady.

A post shared by Julian Edelman (@edelman11) on Mar 25, 2018 at 10:34am PDT

-- Dan Patrick is out as the host of ABC’s Football Night in America.

Patrick said he turned down a new five-year contract to continue with the broadcast in December.

“I didn’t want to do it and not love doing it,” he said.

Patrick hosted the show for the past nine years and co-hosted Super Bowl coverage four times.

“As always, changes to our NFL on-air team, if any, will be announced sometime closer to the start of the 2018 season,” NBC Sports said in a statement.

A replacement for Patrick has yet to be named.

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "It was awesome. I've never been on a team that the whole travel group was in one sitting … Whatever happens throughout the season we can go back to that day. We've been talking about connecting and all of that, and having fun. At the end of the day it's what they do. It's a good group. They care about each other. It was eye-opening. It was pretty cool to be with them." -- Alex Cora, on the Red Sox team dinner on Tuesday