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LAS VEGAS — The third day of of the Las Vegas Summer League started out with a bang as two top-five draft picks squared off. It was the Paolo Banchero (No. 1 pick) and Keegan Murray (No. 4 pick) show, and it lived up to every expectation and then some. The game needed sudden-death double overtime and Banchero’s Orlando Magic secured the win, 94-92, over the Sacramento Kings in the main gym at the Thomas & Mack Center. The Magic had a comfortable 18-point lead with 5:26 left in the game…. Source link

Just about everyone in college football spent their Fourth of July weekend talking, texting and sitting through meetings about what will happen next in conference realignment and what, if anything, each school and league can do to either protect or maximize itself going forward. The move revealed Thursday that USC and UCLA will join the Big Ten and thus decimate the Pac-12 has led to panic and confusion. What six months ago was a Power Five with a lucrative, fair playoff plan on the table is… Source link

Michael Vick isn’t coming out of retirement after all. The former Atlanta Falcons star shut down rumors of a return in the Fan Controlled Football league on Sunday, saying that he’s going to stay retired. “I hung ‘em up in 2015 never to return again,” Vick wrote on Twitter. “Had an amazing time and accomplished so much. I say that to say, they’re going to stay hung up and I will not be coming out of retirement. I appreciate the opportunity to play but I’d rather put on my… Source link

Saudi Arabia apparently made a very, very strong play to make Jack Nicklaus the face of the LIV Golf Invitational Series. According to a story published on the Fire Pit Collective on Monday, Nicklaus said he repeatedly turned down massive offers from the Saudi-backed golf venture to lead the LIV Golf series — something Hall of Famer Greg Norman eventually accepted. “I was offered something in excess of $100 million by the Saudis, to do the job probably similar to the one that Greg [Norman]… Source link

HOUSTON — Deshaun Watson will meet with NFL investigators this week as the league moves closer to concluding its probe into sexual misconduct and assault allegations against the Cleveland Browns quarterback, two sources confirmed to Yahoo Sports. “It is safe to assume that the NFL will be interviewing Deshaun at great length in the near future,” one source said. The NFL has repeatedly declined comment on its Watson investigation. Both sources said the league still hasn’t indicated a… Source link

The Greg Norman-led, Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series, a rival to the PGA Tour, is preparing to announce a roster of players that includes several notable names, according to a new report in the Telegraph. Norman is pressing forward with the venture despite the intense public criticism of Phil Mickelson’s connections to the endeavor, and indicated to the Telegraph that he will be formally announcing “marquee names” that will join the tour in the coming weeks. The Telegraph… Source link

Dalton Del Don looks into his crystal ball and reveals his fantasy baseball takes for every American League team. Stay tuned for the National League! AL East 1. New York Yankees 2. Toronto Blue Jays (Wild Card) 3. Boston Red Sox 4. Tampa Bay Rays 5. Baltimore Orioles Comments/Fantasy Predictions: Yankees: Anthony Rizzo scores 110+ runs from the leadoff spot, while Gleyber Torres bounces back with a big season … Josh Donaldson finishes with more fantasy value than Nolan Arenado and Austin Riley,… Source link

Immediately after the details of Deshaun Watson’s trade to the Cleveland Browns came together on Friday, the long-term ramifications on the NFL began to buzz through front offices and the league’s agent community. The reworked contract? Far richer and more alarming in structure than anyone expected. The trade package netted by the Houston Texans for Watson? Definitely smaller than anticipated. But the legacy of it all? There was little doubt in anyone’s mind: This was a moment of… Source link

Colin Kaepernick, it seems, is still ready for another shot in the NFL. The former San Francisco 49ers quarterback shared a video on social media of him working out on a field on Thursday. The post is the first of its kind in a while from Kaepernick, who has essentially been backballed by the league after he first started taking a knee during the national anthem in protest. Clearly, Kaepernick still hasn’t given up on a return to the league. Kaepernick, 34, hasn’t played in the NFL since… Source link

After all that, there will be a 2022 baseball season. And while some things will look different — more on that in a minute — the most important things will look the same. Three outs, 30 teams, one trophy, six months and — this is the big one — 162 games. Nine days after commissioner Rob Manfred canceled opening day and over three months into an owner-implemented lockout, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association agreed to a new labor contract Thursday afternoon in New York… Source link