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The tournament was slated to start at 8 a.m. with a matchup between Wyandotte Roosevelt and Wayne Memorial.A power outage in downtown Detroit that affected Ford Field has postponed the start of Saturday’s Michigan Girls High School Flag Football League state championship tournament.An official on site said crews are working to restore power. The hope is games can begin as early as 10 a.m., though an even later start remains possible.Security is not allowing fans, teams or referees into the stadium until power is restored.Wyandotte Roosevelt and Wayne Memorial were scheduled to open the tournament at 8 a.m., followed by…
If the Clippers need some convincing that Wagler is worth the No. 5 pick—and they might not; he has a chance to be special—a process of elimination might get them there. They probably don’t have the appetite for another small guard after adding Darius Garland at the trade deadline, and they might question the value of reaching for a center in this spot. So, maybe Wagler is something of a by-default choice here. Or, again, maybe he’s someone they just really like. It could easily be the latter, as his positional size (6’6″), lights-out shooting, penchant for passing and turnover…
There was time when Tennessee cornerback was viewed as the No. 1 cornerback in the 2026 NFL Draft. Despite missing the 2025 season with an ACL tear, McCoy was still ranked 11th overall on the Bleacher Report NFL Scouting Department’s final big board. However, reports surfaced the week of the draft that McCoy might need another surgery on his knee, and the 6’1″ 188-pounder’s stock plummeted—McCoy fell all the way to Round 4 before the las Vegas Raiders selected him 101st overall. McCoy was out there for the beginning of OTAs, and while appearing on the JT the Brick Show,…
Teenagers are smashing it in sport right now.Luke Littler (19) is ruling darts. Joao Fonseca (19) has just dumped all-time tennis great Novak Djokovic out of the French Open. Kimi Antonelli (19) leads the F1 world championship. Max Dowman (16) played his part in Arsenal’s Premier League win. And at the IPL, a 15-year-old is running riot.Vaibhav Sooryavanshi is literally smashing it. In 16 innings, he has smoked a record 72 sixes. That’s an average of 4.5 a game. Sooryavanshi’s six haul – the previous record in a single IPL was the 59 struck by Chris Gayle in 2012 -…
There are many questions around Slot’s transfer dealings, although owners Fenway Sports Group’s CEO of football Michael Edwards and sporting director Richard Hughes must also take responsibility.Liverpool’s key pair of power brokers were showered with bouquets in the summer. Now they must take the brickbats.Liverpool appeared so committed to the Isak deal, the player so exiled at Newcastle after his one-man strike to get a move, that it felt like they could not turn away, even after signing Ekitike.Did they really need Isak? The more you watched Liverpool before he broke a leg while scoring a goal in a victory…
After weeks of wondering whether Liverpool FC would in fact conduct a review of head coach Arne Slot following an incredibly difficult 2025-26 season season or not, it seems that, yes, a review has indeed been conducted.Following a series of rumours to that effect, Liverpool have now officially confirmed that the club and Arne Slot have parted ways with immediate effect. Slot ends his tenure with one Premier League title in his two season with the club.More details will come out in the coming hours, I’m sure, but Andoni Iraola is freshly unemployed, having left Bournemouth and used to work…
The Philadelphia 76ers are heading into the 2026 NBA draft armed with a first-round pick they acquired from the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Jared McCain deal. The pick, via the Houston Rockets, landed at No. 22 and the Sixers have a number of options they can look at in order to really improve and add another young piece to the roster and move forward.The Sixers have some holes to fill. While they were able to make the playoffs and pull off a shocking upset over the Boston Celtics in Round 1 despite trailing the series 3-1, they were brought…
Last season, Dillon Gabriel took over the Cleveland Browns’ starting job in Week 5, a difficult matchup against the Minnesota Vikings in London. Yet he threw for 190 yards and two touchdowns. Gabriel made six consecutive starts before he ceded the position to fellow 2025 draftee Shedeur Sanders. The former third-rounder finished the previous campaign with 937 passing yards, seven touchdown passes and two interceptions with a 59.5 percent completion rate. The Browns have an open quarterback competition. However, according to The Athletic’s , Gabriel has fallen behind Deshaun Watson and Sanders in the pecking order. “Gabriel’s only three competitive…
Cricket Shropshire has issued an update warning clubs after the incident at Oswestry Cricket Club on Thursday (May 28). The club said a thief stole phones, cash and car keys from the changing rooms during the club’s game against Frankton. The post then claims the thief escaped in one of the Frankton players’ cars – a silver/grey BMW. It claims the thief snuck into both changing rooms during the game to take the items, which included a number of other sets of car keys. Police were called and CCTV footage has been recovered which Cricket Shopshire says highlights a man…
Shamrock Rovers teenager Josh O’Dwyer has been added to the Republic of Ireland squad for their friendly against Canada in Montreal.The 16-year-old joins club team-mate Matt Healy and St Patrick’s Athletic’s Kian Leavy in receiving first call-ups to the senior side.O’Dwyer, who has represented Republic of Ireland at under-15 and under-17 level and will join Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg in July for an undisclosed fee, has been invited to join Heimir Hallgrimsson’s squad as a “training player”.The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) said “O’Dwyer will gain valuable experience with the senior squad in Montreal before linking up with the…