Cooper Flagg: the 17-year-old ‘cold-ass white boy’ breaking the basketball discourse

Cooper Flagg leads Duke in scoring and rebounding as the No 5-ranked Blue Devils have zoomed to a 9-2 season start.Photograph: Lance King/Getty Images Five months ago USA Basketball convened an inter-squad scrimmage in Las Vegas before the Paris Olympics, and the standout player was a gawky teenager from Maine. Related: NCAA basketball 2024-25 predictions: … Read more

First look: TGL’s indoor golf facility, SoFi Center, melds technology and golf for upcoming league

The massive, 64-foot-high TGL screen. (Yahoo Sports) PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — The first thing you notice when you walk into the SoFi Center, the site of the soon-to-debut TGL indoor golf league, is the screen that covers one side of the arena is huge. Like, five-stories-high huge. Big enough that even you could probably … Read more

Yankees trade for Bellinger, MLB’s report on injury epidemic, Arenado blocks Astros deal | Baseball Bar-B-Cast

Subscribe to Baseball Bar-B-Cast Brian Cashman and the New York Yankees struck again in their post-Juan Soto pivot, this time acquiring former MVP Cody Bellinger from the Chicago Cubs. While pitching has been at the forefront for the Bronx Bombers so far this offseason, acquiring the two-time All-Star slugger is the first move in trying … Read more

Diego Pavia court ruling another massive blow for NCAA — ‘It’s not going to end until we collectively bargain’

This past season, at Vanderbilt, Diego Pavia slayed Alabama. Last year, while at New Mexico State, he beat Auburn. The brash, playmaking quarterback appears to have a new victim: the NCAA. On Wednesday, a Tennessee judge granted Pavia’s request for a temporary injunction against the NCAA and its rules related to seasons of eligibility. Pavia, … Read more

QB Room: Kirk Cousins is the Cleveland Browns’ best bridge out of the Deshaun Watson era

A little over a month ago, when Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry was addressing the status of quarterback Deshaun Watson, he focused his assessment through the health of his player. Watson had been lost for the season to a torn Achilles, and the first priority was the quarterback’s health and recovery. After that? “Everything … Read more