Author: Michael

MILWAUKEE — The Detroit Pistons ended their 2024-25 season Sunday with a loss. Now, they can prepare for the New York Knicks in the NBA playoffs.
The Pistons fell to the Milwaukee Bucks on the road in overtime, 140-133, at Fiserv Forum. Both teams were shorthanded, resting starters and veterans with the postseason set to begin next Saturday.
The Pistons finished 44-38, tying their mark in 2015-16, and as the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference will face the Knicks (51-31) at Madison Square Garden in a week. The Pistons won three of four in the regular season.

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Manchester United boss Marc Skinner says his side want “revenge” against Chelsea when the two sides meet in next month’s FA Cup final.
United beat rivals Manchester City in Sunday’s semi-final to secure a trip to Wembley for the third successive year.
While they go into the game as holders, United tasted defeat by Chelsea in their maiden FA Cup final appearance in 2023, before making a triumphant return to Wembley 11 months ago, beating Tottenham 4-0 to claim their first major piece of silverware.

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With their Women’s Champions League qualification hopes hanging by a thread, an interim manager in charge and no silverware – what has gone wrong for Manchester City this season?
It is not the way they pictured things after pushing Chelsea all the way in a pulsating Women’s Super League title race last year, coming second only on goal difference.

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The 2025 NFL draft will commence soon, on Thursday, April 24 with the first round. Rounds 2 and 3 will follow on Friday with the remaining four rounds on Saturday the 26th.
The Arizona Cardinals have selections in the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh rounds.
Let’s look at the last several years of picks and see how those picks have worked out.
Below are the last 10 years of first-round picks for the Cardinals.
The last 10 years of Cardinals first-round draft picks

2024: WR Marvin Harrison Jr., DL Darius Robinson
2023: OL Paris Johnson Jr.

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Alfie Barbeary on his way to scoring Bath’s fifth try – PA/David Davies
Bath 61 Gloucester 26
Alfie Barbeary’s double helped to seal an emphatic victory in a battle between two West Country bomb squads as Bath booked their trip north for an Challenge Cup semi-final against Edinburgh and kept alive their hopes of a treble.
Barbeary scored once in either half as the hosts careered to a convincing result. The first was an opportunistic effort, the second a bulldozing run that inspired familiar curiosity about his potential to be a weapon at international level.

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