The NFL's Committee on L.A. Opportunities today will kick off two days of meetings outside Chicago that "will help shape a road map for the league moving forward and a clearer indication of just where it will end up by the start" of the '16 season. A San Diego group backing a proposed $1B Mission Valley stadium today will meet with the six-owner committee in "what could be the group's last best chance to convince the NFL that they have viable stadium plans." The Rams tomorrow will make a presentation on a proposed Inglewood venue, while Carmen Policy will make a "similar presentation" on the Chargers- and Raiders-backed stadium in Carson (ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, 8/9).

Twitter signed a two-year deal with the NFL that will see the social media site carry more league-branded content – a further sign of the growing importance social media companies are placing on sports content. The agreement, which will be announced this morning, follows two one-year deals the NFL signed with Twitter in '13 and '14 around Twitter’s Amplify advertising platform. The new pact will see the NFL provide more than 100 30- and 60-second clips per week to Twitter (up from the 30-40 it had been providing over the past two years). Another change will see Twitter take the lead in selling the league’s content; the NFL and Twitter jointly sold it over the past two years.

Like in the past two years, NFL content on Twitter will consist of in-game highlights and next-day recaps. Under the new deal, it also will include GIFs, infographics and NFL Network studio clips.

Under Armour today is announcing an eight-year deal with the NBA that includes "title sponsorship of the NBA draft combine and presenting sponsorship of the league’s expanding youth basketball program." The agreement calls for UA to supply uniforms for the combine beginning in '18, "coming off the season in which Nike takes over the on-court apparel position" held by adidas since '06. UA also will develop a retail line of NBA draft combine fan apparel. Other aspects include a "jointly presented Fit mobile app" (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 8/10 issue).

Chicago police yesterday afternoon evacuated Wrigley Field "after someone called in a bomb threat" following a Giants-Cubs game, "but investigators determined the threat was unfounded." Reporters covering the game said that they were "ordered out of the press box because of a 'safety issue' and made to leave" the ballpark around 6:00pm CT. Police finished their investigation just after 7:00pm, and reporters and staff were "allowed back in." The venue was "mostly empty of fans by the time police arrived" (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 8/10).

Falcons Owner Arthur Blank said team President Rich McKay "in a few weeks" is set to meet with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and other league officials about being reinstated to the NFL Competition Committee. McKay was suspended from the committee "as part of the team's penalty for pumping fake noise into the Georgia Dome" during the '13 and '14 seasons. He was suspended effective April 1 and eligible to apply for reinstatement after June 30 (ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION, 8/10).

Pro Football Focus and Scout will announce an exclusive distribution partnership today. Scout will pair fantasy sports and its Fantasy Football World Championships with PFF’s football analytics and statistics. This is the first such collaboration for PFF, which was purchased by former NFLer and current NBC broadcaster Cris Collinsworth last year. Scout is majority owned by Pilot Group, the investment fund run by media exec Bob Pittman.

Pro Football HOFer and former “MNF” announcer Frank Gifford is being remembered today after he died yesterday at 84 from natural causes at his Connecticut home. NBC’s Willie Geist noted Gifford was the “biggest thing going when he was a player for the Giants” and was a “massive star whose power went over generations because of ‘Monday Night Football’” (“Today,” NBC, 8/10).

Gifford called “MNF” from ’71-97, and became “as much a part of the country's Monday night routine as the game itself” (L.A. TIMES, 8/10). He was part of a legendary broadcast team with Howard Cosell and Don Meredith, a group that "became bigger than the game" and are "responsible for helping to make the league what it is today" (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 8/10).

For more remembrances of Gifford, see today’s issue of THE DAILY.

The PGA of America announced a sellout of daily grounds tickets for Saturday and Sunday at this week's PGA Championship at Whistling Straits. Limited daily tickets remain available for Thursday and Friday, as well as Monday-Wednesday's practice rounds (PGA of America).

NASCAR driver-turned-SiriusXM Radio announcer Buddy Baker died early this morning after a "brief battle with lung cancer" at the age of 74 (AP, 8/10).

The USWNT will host Brazil at the Citrus Bowl on Oct. 25 “as part of a 10-week victory tour.” The game will be played the “same day as Orlando City’s final MLS regular season game” (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 8/10).

Three-day attendance at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for this past weekend's MotoGP Red Bull Indianapolis GP was 145,558, up from 132,817 for last year's event and the "highest since 2009" (ROADRACINGWORLD.com, 8/9).

An Eagles training camp-record crowd of 43,000 on Sunday attended the team’s open practice at Lincoln Financial Field (NJ.com, 8/9).

A sellout crowd of 2,500 attended last night’s Phillips 66 National Championships at Northside Swim Center in San Antonio. The session featured Michael Phelps competing in the 200 IM (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS, 8/10).

“We can’t depend on fans to sit down in front of the TV on Sunday at 4pm, though we’d love that. We have to develop content for our fans based on when and where they want it” – PGA Tour CMO Ty Votaw, on the need to embrace social media (USA TODAY, 8/10).

“People don’t have as much time as before to play golf with so much on their plates. How can we make golf valuable to them so as to fit it in their lives?” – PGA of America Secretary Suzy Whaley, talking about efforts to grow the game of golf (HARTFORD COURANT, 8/9).

“I was thinking, 'Soon as we learn to win here, they tear it up. Figures!'” – NASCAR driver Joey Logano, who won yesterday’s Sprint Cup Series Cheez-It 355 at Watkins Glen Int’l, on being offered the honor of making the first dig in the planned repaving of the road course (THATSRACIN.com, 8/9).

“We said no. But it’s not us who decides. It’s an IOC event and we have to respect it. We have to adapt….Television is very important for everybody” – FINA Exec Dir Cornel Marculescu, on swimming events being held later at night at next year’s Rio de Janeiro Games (AP, 8/10).

“I like it here at Iowa and I promised Gary I would be here for a couple of years” – Iowa Deputy AD Gene Taylor, saying he is not interested in the vacant Minnesota AD position because of a promise he made to Iowa AD Gary Barta (INFORUM.com, 8/7).

The Minneapolis STAR TRIBUNE's Amelia Rayno writes when Norwood Teague "abruptly resigned" as Univ. of Minnesota AD on Friday "amid sexual harassment complaints, some wondered if other shiver-inducing tales would emerge. I knew of one more: mine."

The BOSTON GLOBE on preparations for the '16 Rio Games: "After five years of dawdling and dithering and a frantic year of catch-up, the Olympic essentials are finally coming together just as the first group of required test events are beginning."

Also:

• Could Brazil one day serve as a pipeline for MLB talent?
• An inside look at the filming of HBO’s “Hard Knocks.”
• Fight for Jim Thorpe’s remains rages on 62 years after his death.
• The Greenbrier helping Saints grow fan base in West Virginia.
• Course designer Pete Dye's fingerprints all over Whistling Straits.

Just read @AmeliaRayno account of harassment by Teague. I am shaking with anger. Brings back awful memories of Norm Green.

— Rachel Blount (@BlountStrib) August 10, 2015

With Frank Gifford’s passing, the iconic Monday Night Football booth of my youth—along with Cosell & Meredith—is gone. RIP, Giffer.

— David Aldridge (@daldridgetnt) August 9, 2015

Not sure I’ve ver had a 9500-word column in august. So much happening. May have to bleed over into Tues with all the stuff I don’t use here.

— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) August 10, 2015

STRAIGHT OUTTA NO ONE CARES STOP

— Kami Mattioli (@kmattio) August 10, 2015

Step away from my office for one minute and @UWBuckyBadger moves in! #PGAChamp @UWBadgers pic.twitter.com/1pDVNtJFmz

— JasonMengelPGA (@JasonMengelPGA) August 9, 2015

Friday night’s “Final Jeopardy!” category was “Opera Characters.”

“In an 1893 opera that was its composer’s greatest success, Peter and Gertrud are the parents of these two characters.”

“Who are Hansel and Gretel?”