Mike Sullivan, who led the Pittsburgh Penguins to back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2016 and 2017, is out as the team’s head coach, it was announced Monday.

The Commanders agreed to a deal with the District of Columbia to build a new $4 billion stadium at the RFK site, which was the team’s home from 1961 to 1996.

Bills general manager Brandon Beane began a Monday morning radio appearance with a strong response to criticism against the team’s approach to the wide receiver position.

California transfer Andrej Stojakovic, the son of former NBA star Peja Stojakovic and one of the best available players in the portal, has committed to Illinois over Stanford and North Carolina.

Comparing Liverpool’s Title Squads Under Slot and Klopp
Slot v Klopp: Comparing Liverpool’s Title-Winning Squads
When Arne Slot walked through the door at Liverpool, the questions were loud and relentless. How could a relatively unknown manager from the Eredivisie replace Jurgen Klopp, the man who had built a dynasty on Merseyside?
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Well, those fears have been buried deep under a pile of joyous celebrations. In his first season, Slot delivered what matters most — Liverpool back on top of English football.

Jalen Hurts has made his choice about a White House visit and he is not attending Monday’s celebration of the Phildelphia Eagles Super Bowl victory.
This comes from a reporter covering the White House. NBC News was the first to report this.
The reason the White House gave about Hurts not attending is he had “scheduling conflicts.”
Interesting.
What commitments, one has to wonder, supersede being with teammates at the White House? 
Like, world leaders come to the White House when it beckons to conduct important business.

JAIPUR, India (AP) — The 14-year-old batter Vaibhav Suryavanshi has hit a breathtaking century and one of the greatest innings in not just the Indian Premier League but in men’s Twenty20 cricket anywhere.
Just nine days after becoming the youngest debutant in IPL history, Suryavanshi surpassed all expectations again on Monday by hitting a century in his third match and, to boot, the second fastest in the tournament’s 18 years.
He got there in just 35 balls by pulling Gujarat Titans spinner Rashid Khan — also the captain of Afghanistan — for a six over the midwicket boundary.

NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Curry picked up another NBA award Monday, being voted the Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year by his peers in the league.
Already a two-time NBA MVP and the league’s career leader in 3-pointers, Curry was honored this time for his “selfless play, on- and off-court leadership as a mentor and role model to other NBA players, and commitment and dedication to team.”
Curry has spent his entire 16-year career with the Golden State Warriors, helping them win four championships, and is one of the league’s most popular players.

Walnut Hills High School has named former University of Cincinnati men’s basketball player Cashmere Wright as its boys basketball coach.
Wright moves over from Clark Montessori, a fellow school in the Cincinnati Public Schools district, where he was the head coach for four seasons. Wright led the team to a 17-9 record and its first regional final in team history, losing to rival Summit Country Day in the Division V regional finals.

ESPN analyst Ryan Clark stirred controversy with his comments suggesting that New Orleans Saints head coach Kellen Moore isn’t fit for his job after selecting quarterback Tyler Shough in the second round of the NFL Draft instead of Shedeur Sanders, who eventually fell to the fifth round.
Clark’s comments came after ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky questioned whether Moore could handle Sanders’ personality, prompting Clark to declare on social media:
“The Saints just drafted Tyler Shough. He can absolutely spin it.

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Mao Saigo won the 2025 Chevron Championship in a remarkable five-person playoff!
The LPGA Tour saw its first major of the year take place over the weekend in the Chevron Championship at The Woodlands in Texas and it finished with quite the bang. Just like The Masters two weeks earlier it went to a playoff, but this one had five players vying for a major title as opposed to two. Five!

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Dozens of former three-star prospects heard their names called during last week’s NFL Draft. Who might be some of the next prospects to outplay their high school ranking? Rivals national recruiting analyst Greg Smith looks at four candidates from the Midwest.

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The New York Giants, by all accounts, had a strong 2025 NFL Draft, headlined by selecting Penn State defensive end Abdul Carter at No. 3 overall and trading back into the first round to take Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart at No. 25. Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Charles McDonald gave the Giants a B in his NFL Draft grades.
But oddsmakers weren’t as impressed.
Coming out of the draft, the Giants are one of only three teams with a 2025 win total of 5.5 at BetMGM — along with the New York Jets and Tennessee Titans — and only the Cleveland Browns (4.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 27: Chandler Simpson #14 of the Tampa Bay Rays slides home to score a run on a wild pitch during the fifth inning against the San Diego Padres at Petco Park on April 27, 2025 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images)Orlando Ramirez via Getty Images

The 2025 MLB campaign has barely left the starting gate, but the trading card market is already buzzing with electricity as several overlooked talents are delivering breakout performances.

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New Orleans Saints quarterback Derek Carr is weighing in on the discourse around his shoulder injury. On Monday, the veteran QB confirmed news of his shoulder injury in a speech delivered at Church LV, a church in Las Vegas, and criticized the idea that his injury was not real.
Earlier this month, reports circulated that Carr was dealing with a significant shoulder injury and might require surgery, putting availability for next season in doubt.
But during Monday’s address, Carr dispelled rumors that his injury was meant to force the Saints into a trade.

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Daniel Dubois rematches Oleksandr Usyk for the undisputed heavyweight title on July 19 at London’s Wembley Stadium. (Richard Pelham/Getty Images)Richard Pelham via Getty Images

Oleksandr Usyk was barely known outside hardcore boxing circles when longtime promoter Kalle Sauerland and I first spoke about his venture, the World Boxing Super Series (WBSS), back in 2017.

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Final grades for the 2025 NFL Draft for every team, with only one A+
When you write about the NFL Draft you’ve heard it all before: “Grading a draft is dumb,” We don’t know how these guys will be for three years,” and “Y’all were so wrong about [insert player here].” We get it. The draft in an imprecise science at best, and so much of evaluating a class is taking the information we have about a player from college and trying to envision their play in the NFL.

North Carolina’s women’s lacrosse team celebrates a goal against Boston College on Sunday, April 27, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. | Mitchell Northam / SB Nation
After beating Boston College in the ACC title game behind the play of Chloe Humphrey, North Carolina is the last undefeated team in NCAA women’s lacrosse.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Surrounded by her teammates in celebration, Chloe Humphrey just shrugged. She didn’t need to score the game’s final goal with 4.

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A’ja Wilson recorded the best individual season in WNBA history last year. Will she top that in 2025?
A’ja Wilson is a two-time WNBA Champion, three-time MVP, 2023 Finals MVP, two-time Defensive Player of the Year, six-time All-Star, four-time All-WNBA First Team member, WNBA Rookie of the Year, two-time Olympic Champion, one-time Olympic MVP, two-time World Cup Champion, one-time World Cup MVP, NCAA Champion, Naismith Women’s College Player of the year — and those are just the big awards.

Just like Nike itself, many major organizations and athletes with ties to the global sports juggernaut are unresponsive when it comes to evidence suggesting that the company is allegedly funding a child transgender athlete study.
A week ago, the New York Times published a story about former San Jose State volleyball player Blaire Fleming, a biological male who identifies as a woman and competed on the women’s team last season.

Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider likes his defense. That’s the only explanation for why only two of Seattle’s 11 selections in the 2025 NFL draft were utilized on the defensive side of the ball. Schneider and head coach Mike Macdonald shifted their attention to the struggling offense, giving new offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak the ingredients required to craft a successful unit.
Despite only having two picks to thoroughly assess, we’ve assigned a letter grade to the two prospect selections Schneider made on defense.

Jimmer Fredette’s hopes for an Olympic medal were dashed last year by injury. He’ll try again to lead USA Basketball to a medal at the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
Only this time, he won’t be playing.
Fredette was announced Monday as the first managing director of USA Basketball’s 3×3 men’s national team, the same role that Grant Hill has with the senior men’s national team.

The New York Giants made a big splash at the 2025 NFL draft on Thursday night when they traded back into the first round to nab Ole Miss quarterback Jaxson Dart with the 25th overall pick.
That’s the good news. Now, Giants fans will have to temper their expectations when it comes to when Dart will play and how the team plans to bring him along. Head coach Brian Daboll has already done some of that by announcing that Russell Wilson will be the team’s starter come June’s mandatory minicamp.

COLUMBIA — The season has come to a close for South Carolina women’s basketball, but for many of coach Dawn Staley’s former players, their season is just beginning.
The WNBA draft took place on April 14, when Sania Feagin, Bree Hall and Te-Hina Paopao were selected by respective professional teams. Staley has had at former player selected in nine of the past 11 WNBA Drafts, including 11 first-round selections. This year also marked the fourth time in the past nine drafts that South Carolina has had multiple selections in a season.

Grizzlies star guard Ja Morant had some interesting thoughts when asked to reflect on what happened during his postseason loss against the Thunder.
Memphis was swept, 4-0, by Oklahoma City in the opening round of the playoffs in the Western Conference. The series was not particularly competitive as the Thunder won the first game dominantly, 131-80. The second game was a bit closer, 118-99, but still advantageous for Oklahoma City.
When the series went to Memphis, it finally started to look promising for the Grizzlies. At one point, Memphis had a 29-point lead over Oklahoma City.

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Andrew Novak pulled off an incredible coincidence with his win alongside Ben Griffin at the Zurich Classic.
The world of sports is incredibly busy here in the final days of April. Consider that the NBA and NHL are both in the middle of their playoffs, the NFL Draft just took place, MLB has been in play for a month now, the LPGA Tour had its first major of the season in the Chevron Championship… it is almost a full-time job keeping up with it all.

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The NFL Draft is a time to enjoy the chaos that is the 257 selections being made by the 32 teams around the league over three days. This year’s draft in Green Bay went seamlessly, and it proved to be one of the better hosts in recent years. As Kyle Yates of ESPN pointed out on social media, when the gates at the airport offer milkshakes and cheese curds at five in the morning, that’s hard to beat.
Outside of milkshakes and cheese curds, there is more to review when it comes to the NFL Draft.

Xavi responds to Barcelona’s Copa del Rey final victory over Real Madrid
Former Barcelona head coach Xavi Hernández has taken to social media, to provide his response to the club’s latest silverware haul.
Barcelona, of course, are fresh off keeping alive what has been a spectacular campaign to date.
Still in the running for a historic treble, the Blaugrana made the trip to Seville on Saturday night, for a Copa del Rey final showdown with arch rivals Real Madrid.

After selecting eight players during the three days of the 2025 NFL draft, the Green Bay Packers got mostly average grades overall and ranked in the bottom third of the NFL by consensus grade of analysts.
Every year, Rene Bugner compiles draft grades from over 20 different sources to help establish a consensus grade. This year, the Packers ranked 25th in overall grade among the 32 NFL teams.
Let’s say this right off the bat (and we say this every year): Instant draft grades are mostly meaningless little things.

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Which teams are showing up, and who needs to show us more?
The first round of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs is still underway with us having just over a week of games in the books. The first chance for series to be wrapped up is on Tuesday, with Toronto and Carolina having the opportunity to shut the door and move on.
Playoff hockey and the regular season are entirely different beasts. Hockey remains the one sport where postseason success rarely, if ever, aligns with what a team did ahead of the playoffs.

Based on my pre-draft positional need rankings, I expected that the Lions would take an offensive guard within the first three rounds. That happened when the Lions traded up to take Tate Ratledge in the 2nd.
What may have been a mild surprise is that the Lions traded up again to take another OG, Miles Frazier, in the 5th round.
Why does drafting 2 OG’s raise the concerns for the existing group?
I had pre-draft moderate medical concerns for the existing interior offensive line (recap below).

The Buffalo Bills were thrilled coming out of the 2025 draft thanks to their strategy if focusing on the defensive side of the ball. 
Of the nine picks made by the Bills, seven of them came on the defensive side of the ball. Quality stars like Kentucky’s Maxwell Hairston and Arkansas’ Landon Jackson have bolstered a defense that is looking for the finishing touches to finally beat Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. 
One of the more popular picks, though, came in the fourth round.

Aaron Gordon’s buzzer-beater dunk was made possible by new NBA technology changing reviews
The NBA signed an agreement with Hawk-Eye tracking technology in March of 2023 in an attempt to bring more accuracy to replay reviews. Hawk-Eye had already revolutionized soccer as the company behind VAR, with automated offside and goal line calls being adopted by FIFA, while also replacing line judges at major tournaments in tennis. The technology is now making a similar impact on the 2025 NBA Playoffs.

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Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek was not playing to the crowd last week when he released a statement on social media detailing how the Razorbacks collective will pursue money owed by players who breach their NIL contracts. Now, the ‘Edge’ collective has hired attorney Tom Mars to recoup money they say is owed by Madden Iamaleva, the younger brother of Nico Iamalaeva. 
All of this started when Nico decided to transfer from Tennessee.  That started a ripple-effect that led to his younger brother Madden, who played at Arkansas, to enter the transfer portal to follow him to UCLA.

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We try our best but every year there are going to be a few five-star prospects who slip through the cracks for various reasons. Rivals national recruiting director AdamGorney looks at the 11 five-stars from the 2019, 2020 and 2021 classes that weren’t taken in the NFL Draft.

When the Tennessee Titans used their number one overall pick in the 2025 NFL draft to select Miami quarterback Cam Ward, they had expected him and Will Levis to compete for the starting position. He demonstrated incredible leadership skills during his visit to Nashville, earning praise from Brian Callahan.
“He interacted with everyone in our building,” Callahan said ahead of the draft. “There wasn’t a person in the building that didn’t come away impressed. There’s an aura to him. He draws people to him.

The draft is over, but can the rookies make an impact? We answer lingering questions.

Lakers coach JJ Redick has done much right this season at the helm, his first as a coach at any level. But a decision he made in the team’s 116-114 Game 4 loss to the Timberwolves has come under fire, as it might very well be the clearest reason why the team flopped in the fourth quarter against the young, hungry Minnesotans. 
Redick said a decision was made at halftime by the Lakers to go full bore in the second half, which meant that the team would not sit stars LeBron James or Luka Doncic at all in the second half, keeping them on the floor for all 24 minutes.