ESPN believes one of the top remaining free agents still available on the market would be a fit for the Buffalo Bills.
While the Bills have their No. 1 cornerback in Christian Benford secured for the 2025 season, Rasul Douglas remains a free agent. Buffalo has a hole in the other starting spot
ESPN suggests Asante Samuel Jr. for the job.
The outlet went through the top remaining free agents in the NFL still available and picked ideal landing spots for them. When it comes to Samuel, the Bills were called a fit.

The Tennessee Titans added to their wide receivers room during free agency when they signed former Pittsburgh Steelers wideout Van Jefferson. Jefferson is no stranger to Nashville, having attended Ravenswood High School when his dad was the wide receivers coach for the team he now plays for.
“Tennessee, it provided a lot of firsts for me,” Jefferson said on Thursday from Pittsburgh. “I got my first exposure there, got my first (college) offer. I met some of my best friends to this day there.
“Being back, it’s a full circle moment.

The Carolina Panthers still have some work to do in their secondary, and they could bring back a familiar face to help them along.
According to Joe Person of The Athletic, the Panthers are interested in re-signing safety Nick Scott. Scott, who will be entering his seventh NFL campaign in 2025, appeared in 10 games for Carolina this past season.
Those 10 outings, which included four starts, saw Scott compile 30 combined tackles and two passes defensed.

When longtime star James Harden forced a trade away from the Rockets in January 2021, a multi-year franchise rebuild was officially underway. In the early stages, veteran point guard John Wall was the floor general for an extremely young team.
It didn’t come without challenges. In the ensuing 2021-22 season, the Rockets and Wall couldn’t come to terms on a playing role that made sense for both sides, with Houston preferring to give more on-ball opportunities to younger guards — such as Kevin Porter Jr. and Jalen Green.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Virginia athletic director Carla Williams is hoping the obvious choice was the right one.
Williams named VCU coach Ryan Odom — whose father was a Cavaliers assistant and who handed the program its most historic and crushing defeat in the 2018 NCAA Tournament — as the full-time replacement to Tony Bennett on Saturday.
Odom’s season ended Thursday with a first-round NCAA Tournament loss to BYU. The Rams are the third team he’s taken into March Madness, leading UMBC and Utah State there in his previous coaching stops.

Chuck is gonna Chuck.
In one of the funniest clips I’ve seen in quite some time, apparently no one told Charles Barkley which March Madness game he was supposed to be watching and covering Friday night. Or if they did, Barkley purposely ignored it – incorrectly assuming that TNT analyst Ernie Johnson would never go to him first to talk about the Illinois vs Xavier game.

The Arizona Wildcats baseball team evidently needs a crash course on how the new double first base rule works.
Before the season began, the NCAA implemented a “safety bag” rule at first base. This means that the defender would have the rights to one half of the bag – colored white – and any batter sprinting through the bag would tap his foot on the other half – colored green or orange.
The thought was that it would help prevent collisions between runners and defenders, and its worked great so far.

I’ll be sitting ringside with President Trump tonight for the NCAA wrestling championships in Philadelphia, but in the meantime, I really have to step up my gambling game here in the NCAA Tourney.
None of the top 16 seeds have lost so far and the SEC and Big Ten have 16 of the remaining 32 teams in the tourney.
Saturday and Sunday, as always, are a crapshoot. Just about every game is a single digit spread and with a quick turnaround anything can happen.
With that in mind, eight winners for you:
McNeese +6.5 vs Purdue
Will Wade keeps the magic going and keeps it inside the number.

The United States men’s national team have a high-stakes, low-stakes affair set for Sunday in California, where they’ll take on Canada in the CONCACAF Nations League third-place game.
On one hand, this is a good test for depth players against a decent opponent. There are rivalry bragging rights at play but in the big picture it’s a chance for a handful of players to seize a moment on a national team missing more than a few key pieces. The opportunity may not come again.

George Foreman, one of boxing’s most iconic figures and a man of many talents, died Friday night at the age of 76.
Foreman’s family confirmed the news of his passing on social media, writing in a post they made the announcement with “profound sadness.”
The family also included a brief but heartfelt tribute dedicated to the “extraordinary life” led by a man they were blessed to call their own.
“With profound sorrow, we announce the passing of our beloved George Edward Foreman Sr.

It’s always a spectacle when Argentina and Brazil meet and this 2026 World Cup qualifier in Buenos Aires on Tuesday will be just as intense as always.
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Reigning World Cup champs Argentina need one more point from their final five games of qualifying to book their ticket to the 2026 World Cup. Lionel Scaloni’s side beat Uruguay 1-0 on Friday and even with Lionel Messi missing from their squad this international window, Argentina have so many superstars.

Kirsty Coventry will become the first woman to hold the most powerful role in sport, having been elected the 10th International Olympic Committee (IOC) president at a meeting in Greece.
The Zimbabwean sports minister and double Olympic swimming champion is also the first African and, at the age of 41, the youngest person to take up the position. But her victory is controversial as well as groundbreaking.
BBC Sport looks at why.

USC recruiting has experienced a surge over the past couple of months. Since hiring general manager Chad Bowden away from archrival Notre Dame, the Trojans have experienced a surge on the recruiting trail, currently holding the No. 1 class in the country for the 2026 cycle. Last week, Bowden appeared on the Victory Podcast with Keely Eure of USC Athletics to discuss his recruiting philosophy for the program.
“Going into the future of the new era of college athletics, we are going to be blazing the trail, [as] opposed to just being a part of it,” Bowden said.

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We’re keeping track of the results for the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament.
Update: Day 3 of the 2025 men’s NCAA tournament is here, and our first Sweet 16 berths are on the line. Eight spots in the Sweet 16 are up for grabs today with the first game — a clash in the Midwest Region between No. 12 McNeese vs. No. 4 Purdue — tipping off just after noon on the East Coast.

Day 1 is in the books, and Day 2 is underway.

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Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu won the second

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The first round of the NCAA Tournament is in the books. There was some madness. No. 12 McNeese won their first game in NCAA Tournament history when they shocked No. 5 Clemson. No. 12 Colorado State also completed the upset in their victory over No. 5 Memphis. No. 11 Drake looked like they could make a run to the second weekend. Other than those three upsets, the first round went as expected.
Here’s the secret to March Madness. If the top seeds advance, the likelihood of having better games in the later rounds is high.

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It isn’t yet clear if the Rockets will have trade interest during the upcoming offseason in a 36-year-old Kevin Durant. But it does seem the 15-time NBA All-Star, former Most Valuable Player (MVP), and future Hall of Famer could have interest in Houston.
With a split between Durant and the middling Phoenix Suns (34-37) appearing increasingly likely, longtime league insider Chris Mannix says he believes Houston will be the most appealing trade destination to Durant himself.

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West Virginia is likely to face major roster turnover once again, as Darian DeVries left for Indiana and two from this year’s team have already entered the transfer portal.
The Mountaineers will also lose five seniors to eligibility, making only three scholarship players who saw the court this season as well as two others who redshirted.

Sencire Harris

Sencire Harris is one of the mainstays from this year’s team, starting all 32 games for the Mountaineers.

How’s your bracket looking after the first two days and 32 games of the tournament? The top sixteen teams — seeds 1 through 4 in each region — survived the first round, so hopefully your Final Four picks are still intact. The biggest upsets so far involved a pair of No. 12 seeds, with McNeese State knocking out Clemson and Colorado St. getting past Memphis. No. 11 Drake also pulled off an upset against Missouri, and No. 10 New Mexico took out Marquette.
College basketball fans have a weekend full of games to look forward to, and the games start soon.

Florida State offered 2026 tight end prospect Julius Miles while the Freeport (Fla.) High product was on an unofficial visit with the Seminoles. On Friday, the three-star prospect announced his will be taking an official visit to Florida State on the weekend of June 20.

The Seminoles also learned more about who they will be competing with for Miles’ signature on national signing day later this year. Miles also announced that he will take official visits to Colorado, Syracuse, Louisville and Vanderbilt prior to his FSU visit.

Grant Holloway won his third-straight World Ind

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Here is how the field will line up for the 2025 Chinese Grand Prix
The grid is set for the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix.
Oscar Piastri, thanks to the “hairpin of [his] life,” stormed to the front of the field to capture his first Grand Prix pole position. He nipped George Russell for P1 in a thrilling qualifying session and will start right in front of his McLaren teammate Lando Norris, who will start third.
Max Verstappen is of course lurking, as the defending F1 Drivers’ Champion will start alongside Norris in P4.

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Oscar Piastri captured pole position at the Chinese Grand Prix with the hairpin of his life
When the Formula 1 grid arrived in Shanghai for the Chinese Grand Prix there was every expectation that a McLaren would be on pole position.
That is indeed the case as Oscar Piastri stormed to the front to secure the first Grand Prix pole position of his young career, ahead of George Russell and teammate Lando Norris.

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The Maryland Terrapins (26-8) will face the Colorado State Rams (26-9) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday in Seattle, WA.
The No. 4 seed in the West, Maryland rolled to a First-Round win over Grand Canyon, 81-49. Freshman Derik Queen, a 6-foot-10 center, paced the Terps’ attack with 12 points and 15 rebounds.
The Mountain West champs and the No. 12 seed in the West, Colorado State has won ten in a row on an 11-game winning streak. The Rams upset No. 5 seed Memphis, 78-70. Kyan Evans scored 23 points in the win.
This game boils down to Maryland’s offense vs.

There are no secrets in the NFL. Eventually it all comes to light on the football field. One truth that always remains self evident is that the best path to playoff success remains winning the division. For over two decades now, the NFC East titles have flip-flopped year after year, passing from one to another with no repeat winner. 2024 was no different, with the Philadelphia Eagles taking the crown from the Dallas Cowboys.
2024 also so the Eagles return to the Super Bowl for the third time in eight seasons, by virtue of winning the NFC Championship game over the Washington Commanders.

Here’s what happened in Mets Land on Friday, in case you missed it…

Brett Baty homered for a third time this spring and Clay Holmes struck out eight in the Mets’ 3-2 win over the St.

Amber Anning and Alexis Holmes battled until th

LEXINGTON, KY – They say everything in life happens for a reason, right? For Tennessee’s Rick Barnes, playing against UCLA on Saturday night for a spot in the sweet sixteen is a full-circle moment.  It is one of those moments where you ask ‘what if?’ when it comes to where his career is now, compared to where it might’ve been. 
Heading into tonight’s game against UCLA, the Tennessee head coach will lead his team against a school that was very close to stealing him just four seasons ago.

Ethiopia’s Freweyni Hailu won the second

Well, we can finally close the book on Hooters and NASCAR. Sad. One of the most beautiful, pure, symbiotic relationships in the history of time ends in flames – and a mountain of debt. 
It’s like seeing your parents call it quits. Like watching your dad drive away in the U-Haul. Yes, I know, a little dark for a Saturday, but I’m a child of two divorces, so I can say that. 
Anyway, Hooters has been in the dumper for about a year now – probably longer. They mulled filing for the dreaded Chapter 11 in February, but their problems really began last spring.

Berihu Aregawi gave Jakob Ingebrigtsen a run fo

With the first round of the 2025 men’s NCAA Tournament having now passed, the attention now shifts to what is set to be a loaded March Madness round of 32 in all four regions.
Before we look ahead to this weekend however, it’s also important to recap what we saw from the first round the last two days, as well as if the “madness” of March was truly brought.
Well, to answer that question, there were only a few big upsets that occurred during the first round, some of which included No. 12 seeds Colorado State and McNeese defeating Memphis and Clemson, respectively.

Lil’Jordan Humphrey has left the Denver Broncos, but he wasn’t shoved out the door.
The Broncos attempted to re-sign the veteran wide receiver, according to multiple reports, but Humphrey opted to join the New York Giants on a one-year deal instead.
Before he left for New York, LJH received an offer from Sean Payton, according to the Denver Post‘s Luca Evans.
“There’s a lot of love for Sean Payton,” Humphrey’s agent, Jimmy Gould, told Evans.

The Boston Celtics have had players suiting up in a total of 68 different jersey numbers (and have three others not part of any numerical series) since their founding at the dawn of the Basketball Association of America (BAA — the league that would become today’s NBA), worn by well over 500 players in the course of Celtics history.
To commemorate the players who wore those numbers, Celtics Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team.

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Brianna Turner will bolster a Fever roster that already boasts All-Stars like Caitlin Clark, Kelsey Mitchell, and Aliyah Boston.
The latest addition to the Fever, Brianna Turner, arrived in Indiana this past week and spoke candidly about what she thinks she can bring to the organization in their pursuit of a championship. While Caitlin Clark, Kelsey Mitchell, and Aliyah Boston will continue to spearhead the Fever, the rotation players around them could be what elevates Indiana to a title.