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With the withdrawal date passing, the 2026 NBA draft field is set, and every team’s draft board is being finalized. We also locked in our top 75 prospects and created rankings if we were evaluating each prospect in a vacuum. Just as every team thinks differently, so do we, so the following rankings differ from our mock draft projections. Differences between rankings mean more at the top of the board, when you’re really focused on drafting the best player available. Depending on team fit and who’s on the clock, it’s possible we’d select a lower-ranked player over a high-ranked one.…

Lance Pugmire has been a full-time boxing writer for nearly 20 years, serving now as BoxingScene’s U.S. Senior Writer and assistant producer for ProBoxTV’s “BoxingScene Today.” Pugmire capped a near 20-year career at the Los Angeles Times (sports investigations, NHL/MLB beat work, law enforcement/courts and boxing/UFC) to join The Athletic, and then USA Today. Pugmire’s stint at The Times started with the first Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez fight and the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather Jnr then-record pay-per-view, leading through a slew of ringside assignments at major bouts, including Mayweather-Pacquiao, Mayweather-Canelo and the Canelo-Golovkin trilogy. Lance’s appreciation for boxing is rooted…

Picture by Ashley Allen/Getty Images. James Wharton was exceptional for 64, his second fifty in three Blast matches this season. SCORECARD  Durham v Yorkshire  Vitality Blast  Friday May 29, 2026, 6.30pm Banks Homes Riverside, Chester-le-Street  Toss: Durham won it and elected to bowl  Teams: Durham – Graham Clark, Alex Lees c, David Bedingham, Colin Ackermann, Ollie Robinson w, Will Rhodes, Kasey Aldridge, Ben Raine, Matthew Potts, Callum Parkinson, Nathan Sowter. Yorkshire – Jonny Bairstow c/w, Adam Lyth, Will Luxton, James Wharton, Moeen Ali, Matthew Revis, Faheem Ashraf, Dom Bess, AJ Tye, Hassan Ali, Jafer Chohan. Match summary: Yorkshire are on…

Manchester United interested in AC Milan’s Rafael Leao, while Manchester City face a fight to keep both Josko Gvardiol and Tijjani Reijnders, with ex-City midfielder Bernardo Silva wanting a move to Barcelona.AC Milan and Portugal winger Rafael Leao, 26, is on Manchester United’s shortlist of targets and will be available for a cheaper fee after the Italian side failed to qualify for the Champions League. (Football Insider), externalPortugal midfielder Bernardo Silva, 31, is available on a free transfer when he leaves Manchester City this summer and has been offered deals by Atletico Madrid and Benfica but prefers a move to…

When you surround yourself with college football and make it part of your livelihood, you will no doubt hear and read every narrative under the sun with regard to the world’s greatest sport.Most of them don’t even deserve a second look and are baseless conspiracy theories, but a few exist in that uncanny realm between fact and fiction.One that has caught my eye comes from the perpetrators of the “SEC is washed” crowd, more specifically those who call out the program that has ruled the conference for the first half of this decade, the Georgia Bulldogs.I can’t tell you how…

Following the 2026 NBA Draft early entry deadline , we now know exactly which prospects are turning pro and which players decided to return to college.A total of 75 players participated during the NBA draft combine n Chicago and others in the G League Combine. Following the events, a dozen players (including Amari Allen, Tyler Tanner, Tounde Yessoufou, Milan Momcilovic and Malachi Moreno) opted to return to college.Based on the intel following the combine and pre-draft workouts, and key decisions on players opting to return to the NCAA, here is an updated look at the first round projections for the…

The New York Giants found themselves involved in a bit of non-football-related drama last week, when quarterback Jaxson Dart introduced President Donald Trump at a rally for Republican Rep. Mike Lawler. Teammate Abdul Carter was taken aback by Dart’s polarizing decision, and took to social media to criticize his quarterback. “Thought this (expletive) was AI,” Carter wrote in a since-deleted post. “What we doing, man?”This led the Giants to have a team meeting on Wednesday, where players could discuss the situation. NFL Media reported that notable figures such as Brian Burns, Kayvon Thibodeaux and Jameis Winston spoke, with the Giants looking to “move…

Kent Spitfires took on Essex under the lights at the St Lawrence Ground in the first Battle of the Bridge of the Summer in the Vitality Blast.NEXT HOME MATCHThe first ever Vitality Blast meeting at the St Lawrence Ground between Kent Spitfires & Notts Outlaws is a part of the 174th Canterbury Cricket Week!Support your Spitfires under the lights on Friday 26 June:Get your tickets hereEntry is INCLUDED in all Kent Memberships, White Ball Passes & Youth/Junior Season Tickets!Match report supplied by Fred Atkins, ECB Reporters Network, supported by RothesayYou can hear more from Fred Atkins at The Spitfire, an independent…

On Friday, both of the men involved in last Saturday’s social-media dustup regarding President Trump spoke to reporters. Quarterback Jaxson Dart, who introduced Trump at a rally last Friday, met with the media. So did linebacker Abdul Carter, who expressed objection to Dart’s gesture.“So first off, I want to say that some things are bigger than football, and this is one of those things,” Carter said, via SNY. “Jaxson is one of our leaders. He’s the face of our franchise. He not only represents himself in what he does but he represents all of us. And that goes for anybody…

Cleveland Cavaliers president of basketball operations Koby Altman backed star guard Donovan Mitchell after the team was swept by the New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals.Altman called Mitchell “uniquely our own” and “our guy” on Friday, via Joe Vardon of The Athletic.”He’s still playing the best basketball of his career, right? Look, Donovan is our guy,” Altman told reporters. “He loves it here. I think he’s professed how much he loves it here emphatically.”Mitchell will be eligible for an extension during the summer.He’s current set to earn $50.1 million for the 2026-27 season and holds a $53.8 million…