Author: Michael

Starter or benched? Spain boss De la Fuente confirms Lamine Yamal’s status for Cabo Verde

Spanish national team head coach Luis de la Fuente has provided an update on the status of star man Lamine Yamal for the country’s World Cup opener.

La Roja are primed to kick their campaign at world football’s grandest international tournament into gear on Monday, in a meeting with minnows Cabo Verde.

The aforementioned Lamine had long been considered a doubt for the fixture, owing to a late-season injury suffered with Barcelona.

Read More

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jackson Chourio and Blake Perkins homered, Kyle Harrison pitched three-hit ball for six innings and the Milwaukee Brewers tagged Philadelphia Phillies ace Cristopher Sánchez for all their runs Sunday in a 4-0 victory.
Chourio led off the first with a 412-foot homer to center. It was his fifth homer in five games, ninth of the season and his MLB-leading seventh in June.
Perkins, who entered the game hitting .113, hit a two-out, three-run homer — his first of the season — in the fourth inning to extend Milwaukee’s lead to 4-0.

Read More

Let’s make one thing clear. Even though he just lost his first career NBA Finals appearance, Victor Wembanyama’s greatness remains inevitable. How many 22-year-old franchise players come three wins short of the Larry O’Brien Trophy? The answer is not many. This season and subsequent San Antonio Spurs playoff run will likely be the worst Wembanyama will be as a player for a long time. He will be back. Full stop.
But Wembanyama’s talent and immense capacity for improvement are not what’s in question for me regarding his NBA future.

Read More

A new advanced efficiency metric highlights a challenging environment for the San Francisco 49ers’ passing game during the 2025 regular season. According to Next Gen Stats data compiled by @NutshellSportz, San Francisco’s skill players finished well below league average in generating separation.
The metric measures team separation adjusted for average route depth (ADOT), isolating a team’s ability to get open relative to where targets are expected to land. The 49ers finished the year at -0.17 yards below expectation, placing them in the bottom third of the NFL.

Read More

Jets backup RB crossing his fingers he’s not returning kicks this year originally appeared on The Sporting News.
Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
The New York Jets are entering the 2026 NFL season with a new-look defense and new-look offense after plenty of offseason moves.
Looking across the entire offense, the only position group that’s the same as last season is the running back room. Breece Hall signed a big extension, Brealon Allen, and Isaiah Davis are back as backups, too.

Read More