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Boxer Devin Haney was arrested Thursday morning in Hollywood.
The undefeated 30-0 boxer was arrested on a felony possession of a concealed weapon charge after a gun was found in his vehicle during a Thursday morning traffic stop shortly after midnight, according to TMZ.
Haney was driving, but the person who was informed police of the weapon. The cops allegedly found it after getting everyone out of the vehicle.
Haney was ultimately charged because the vehicle is registered to him, and nobody else claimed the weapon, according to the same TMZ report.

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Sleepers. They are among the biggest keys to success in fantasy football. If you can identify a “sleeper” — a player that most fantasy managers are sleeping on but is actually ready to have a big season — then your roster immediately gets a boost.

2023 Fantasy Football Draft Kit

In most cases, a sleeper is a mid- to late-round pick that puts up numbers more worthy of players with a much higher average draft position (ADP). We surveyed members of the SI Fantasy and SI NFL teams to provide their picks for top sleeper in 2023.

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BYU football played its inaugural season in 1922, more than a century ago. Since then, the Cougars have won 612 games with 437 losses and 27 ties — a 58.1% winning percentage. Not bad.
Over the course of that 101-year span, BYU has been a member of five different conferences.

Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference

1922-1937

Skyline Conference

1938-1961

Western Athletic Conference

1962-1998

Mountain West

1999-2010

After leaving the Mountain West in 2011, the Cougars competed as an FBS Independent. They were not affiliated with an NCAA conference— until September 10, 2021.

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LeBron James officially announced his return for his 21st NBA season Wednesday night at the ESPYs in hopes of winning a fifth NBA championship. But on ESPN’s First Take on Thursday, Kendrick Perkins argued that at 39 years old by midway through next season, James is too old to lead the Lakers to to a title in 2023–24.
“When it comes down to putting expectations on a guy that’s going to be 39 years old in December, I just can’t do that,” Perkins said.
That doesn’t mean Perkins thinks the Lakers’ title hopes are dead already.

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One of the great things about soccer is that a beautiful goal can be scored by a player at any level. And the great thing about social media is that even goals in the most obscure leagues can be circulated widely. 
Jeremy Rafanello plays for the Philadelphia Union’s developmental team, Union II, in MLS Next Pro. In Wednesday night’s game against Toronto FC II, he scored one of the best goals you’ll ever see. 
Early in the second half, Philadelphia had a corner kick. The ball was curled into the box and subsequently cleared by the Toronto defense.

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Hint: It does not involve Ryan Reynolds, at least directly
Things are never dull in Formula 1.
This was supposed to be a quiet week off, following a back-to-back in Austria and Britain, and ahead of another back-to-back in Hungary and the Netherlands. But a thunderbolt from the clouds came down on Monday, with the shocking news that Daniel Ricciardo was coming back to the grid.
After just ten races, AlphaTauri and Red Bull had seen enough from Nyck de Vries.

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If there was ever a comment that points to an NBA coach going all-in with a big prediction, Lakers coach Darvin Ham just made it. During an appearance on Marc Stein and Chris Haynes’s podcast #thisleague UNCUT, Ham spoke about Austin Reaves and dropped the hammer by putting his bold prediction for both the guard and his team “on record.”
The second-year coach began by talking about Reaves and his potential, stating Reaves will be an All-Star, via SBNation’s Harrison Faigen.

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Here’s the latest from the world of boxing:
10. This week’s announcement that Tyson Fury would face ex-UFC heavyweight champ Francis Ngannou on Oct. 28 in Saudi Arabia stirred a lot of strong feelings on social media, mostly from boxing fans irritated that Fury, the lineal heavyweight champion, was going to devote his one fight this year to what will be a one-sided event with a mixed marital artist.
I get that. Fury is boxing’s top heavyweight. Ngannou, a heavy-handed MMA star, has no chance of beating him. I repeat: No chance.

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Coming off a strong performance at Silverstone, what can we make of Williams?
Things are never dull in Formula 1.
This was supposed to be a quiet week off, following a back-to-back in Austria and Britain, and ahead of another back-to-back in Hungary and the Netherlands. But a thunderbolt from the clouds came down on Monday, with the shocking news that Daniel Ricciardo was coming back to the grid.
After just ten races, AlphaTauri and Red Bull had seen enough from Nyck de Vries.

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