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The Lakers made their first significant move of the offseason by hiring Rohan Ramadas as an assistant GM under president and GM Rob Pelinka, sources told ESPN.
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George Russell was left wondering quite which deity he had offended as he despairingly contemplated his retirement from the Canadian Grand Prix with a mechanical failure. Fortune, for good or ill, will always play a part but what also became clear in Montreal is that Russell’s teammate and championship leader Kimi Antonelli is going to be fearsomely hard to beat this season, whatever the circumstances.Russell ground to a halt on the circuit Gilles Villeneuve on lap 30 after a thrilling battle with his Mercedes teammate Antonelli that had ebbed and flowed. The British driver deserved better, the two had been…
England’s World Cup-winning captain Zoe Stratford has agreed to join Sale Sharks.The 29-year-old, who led England to their third World Cup triumph last year, is set to leave three-time reigning Premiership Women’s Rugby champions Gloucester-Hartpury at the end of the season.Stratford joined Gloucester-Hartpury in 2017 and played a key role in their rise to become the dominant force in the women’s domestic game.She is currently pregnant with her first child, due in September, and will join up with her husband Luke, who is Sale’s women’s scrum coach, when she returns to rugby.”I feel ready to take the next step in…
Mexico is prepared to host the Iranian football team during this summer’s World Cup, solving at least one of the team’s problems ahead of a politically tense tour through North America for the summer competition.At a daily press conference on Monday, President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her government has “no reason to deny them the possibility of staying in Mexico”.Over the weekend, with less than a month to go till the start of the tournament, the Iranian team announced it was moving its World Cup camp from the US state of Arizona to Tijuana to avoid visa complications.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementHowever, the team’s…
New York Knicks governor James Dolan made it clear in January he expects the team to make the NBA Finals, and Josh Hart got the chance to joke about those comments with the team one win away from accomplishing that goal thanks to a 3-0 lead over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference Finals.”Better get to the Finals or we’re going to get traded,” Hart said.He also explained the remarks don’t add pressure “because that’s the goal that we all have. Obviously, it hits a little bit different when the big dog says it.”Dolan made those comments during an…
Howie Roseman earned the No. 1 spot in new NFL general manager rankings after helping build two Super Bowl-winning Eagles teams.Some NFL debates are worth having, and they’re absolutely entertaining. Who’s the league’s best general manager in 2026 probably isn’t one of those debatable discussions. At least, that’s how things work in the City of Brotherly Love. Howie Roseman’s stock is so high among Philadelphia Eagles fans that it may never come down, and national pundits seem to share their admiration.NBC Sports’ Patrick Daugherty recently released his NFL general manager rankings. Unsurprisingly, Roseman claimed the top spot. Honestly, anything else…
Tottenham say “football success had not been driving our decisions” as non-executive chairman Peter Charrington admitted failings and vowed to rebuild in an open letter to the club’s supporters.Spurs narrowly avoided relegation with a 1-0 win against Everton on the final day of the Premier League season, finishing 17th for the second season in a row after a difficult campaign that Charrington said fell “well short” of expectations.”Last September, we recognised that something seismic had to change at Spurs,” wrote Charrington, who was appointed to the Spurs board in March 2025. “The Lewis family stepped in and authorised a full…