Author: Michael

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Follow along live as Max Verstappen seeks his fifth-straight Grand Prix win
Can Max Verstappen power to his fifth-straight grand prix victory? Or will someone — anyone — deny the Championship leader a win at the Austrian Grand Prix.
The Red Bull driver has won four-straight races, dating back to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, and is coming off a win in Saturday’s F1 Sprint race.

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The Kings and star center Domantas Sabonis has reportedly reached an agreement on a lucrative contract renegotiation and extension, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Sabonis’s new deal runs for five years, and he’s due to earn a whopping $217 million throughout its course. Of that, $195 million is reportedly new money.
The 27-year-old was set to enter the final year of his contract in 2023-24 and was due to earn $19.4 million. He had previously been under a four-year, $74 million deal in Sacramento, which he had originally signed with the Pacers in 2020.

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The Twitter world was hit with a harsh reality on Saturday after owner Elon Musk announced that the platform would have a view limit because, as Musk put it, “we are all Twitter addicts and need to go outside.”
The change initially restricted non-paying users to view a maximum of 600 tweets per day (300 for new accounts), and Twitter Blue members to 6,000. Those limits were later bumped up twice. 
After users reached their view limit, they would receive an error message which read, “Rate limit exceeded.

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Talk of the New York Knicks becoming the “Nova Knicks” is going viral after the club’s agreement with Donte DiVincenzo on a four-year deal on Saturday.
The latest signing by the Knicks reunites former Villanova teammates Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart with their national champion teammate. Hart, who was part of the Wildcats’ 2016 title team, agreed to a contract extension to remain with New York on Thursday. Brunson and DiVincenzo were freshman on the ’16 team and major contributors to Villanova’s championship squad in 2018 as well.

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INDIANAPOLIS — While spotlights circled and music blared at the IUPUI Natatorium, Caeleb Dressel stood on the other side of a huge blue curtain—the quieter, darker side, away from the competition pool—and smiled. He stood where he’s never been as an adult Saturday night: on the periphery of swimming, after being a non-factor all week at the USA Swimming National Championships. The U.S. team for the biggest international meet of the year, the world championships, would be announced in a few hours. For the first time since 2015, Dressel wouldn’t be part of it.
And he was O.K. with it.

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The Knicks made their first major move of free agency on Saturday, inking former Warriors guard Donte DiVincenzo to a four-year, $50 million contract, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
DiVincenzo, who declined his $4.7 million player option with Golden State, makes the move to New York to join former Villanova teammates Jalen Brunson and Josh Hart.
After trading away former first-round pick Obi Toppin on Saturday, the Knicks now add a solid three-point shooter and a solid on-ball defender to their backcourt.

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Antonio Brown hasn’t had enough attention lately, so today he decided to capitalize on the ESPN layoffs.
“Excited to announce my new partnership @espn,” the former NFL wide receiver tweeted Saturday.

Excited to announce my new partnership @espn
— AB (@AB84) July 1, 2023

ESPN announced a massive wave of layoffs Friday, including some of the network’s biggest names. Todd McShay, Suzy Kolber, Jeff Van Gundy, Jalen Rose, David Pollack and several others were cut by the Worldwide Leader in Sports as it attempts to slash $30 million in salaries.

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