Things couldn’t have been any stranger in 2020. The Philadelphia Eagles entered the NFL Draft on the heels of a 9-7 season. A win-loss total that barely exceeded .500 was good enough to give the Birds the NFC East’s crown.
Four straight wins had catapulted them into the playoffs, but things ended with a thud during the Wild Card Round. Carson Wentz would be injured early. He left the game with a concussion. A 17-9 loss would follow about three hours later. It was a bitter end to a season that was beginning to feel like Philadelphia had possibly caught fire at the appropriate time.
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LSU baseball continued to build its transfer portal class on Thursday. Hours after the Tigers picked up North Dakota State’s Danny Lachenmayer, former Tennessee pitcher Ryler Smart joined the group.
Smart, a 6-foot-4 lefty from Texas, redshirted with the Vols in 2025, meaning he comes to LSU with four years of eligibility remaining. Smart was ranked as the No. 25 left-handed pitcher in the class of 2024, according to Perfect Game.
While Smart is talented enough to have a future in the starting rotation, expect Smart to be a part of LSU’s bullpen in 2026.
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McLaren development driver Alex Dunne shined during his FP1 session at the Austrian Grand Prix
The first practice session at the Austrian Grand Prix is in the books, with Mercedes driver George Russell topping the timing sheets ahead of Max Verstappen. But the driver that perhaps impressed the most will not be in the car for the rest of the weekend.
That is Alex Dunne, who made his Formula 1 debut in FP1, driving for McLaren in place of Lando Norris.
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The Seattle Seahawksofficially reunited with veteran cornerback Shaquill Griffin earlier this week, signing him to a one-year contract. One Seahawks legend was particularly happy to see it come to fruition after months of negotiation. Quandre Diggs took to social media to publicize his reaction, claiming he was thrilled to see Griffin “go home.”
Yeahhh Shaq!! Gone head back home! 🤞🏾 https://t.co/HkOtnTsRhw
— Nino (@qdiggs6) June 25, 2025
The Seahawks selected Griffin during the third round of the 2017 NFL draft.
Across both Wednesday and Thursday, the Alabama Crimson Tide did not see a player hear their name called in the first-or-second rounds of the 2025 NBA draft.
With the Crimson Tide entering the draft with four eligible players to be selected, each of those names now enters undrafted free agency where they are set to sign with a team to begin their professional career’s.
Those players were Mark Sears, Grant Nelson, Clifford Omoruyi, and Chris Youngblood, each of which were out of eligibility at the collegiate level.
The Boston Celtics have had players suiting up in a total of 68 different jersey numbers (and have three others not part of any numerical series) since their founding at the dawn of the Basketball Association of America (BAA — the league that would become today’s NBA), worn by well over 500 players in the course of Celtics history.
To commemorate the players who wore those numbers, Celtics Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team.
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“The Ariel Helwani Show” is LIVE from the The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas this week, on both Uncrowned and YouTube at 2:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. PT/7:30 p.m. UK time. Heading into Saturday’s UFC 317 fight card, Ariel Helwani and the Boys In The Back take over “The Fight Capital of the World” for International Fight Week!
Friday’s lineup of guests on “The Ariel Helwani Show” is below.
11:30 a.m. ET: Flyweight GOAT Demetrious Johnson stops by the studio.
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On Get Up, Brian Windhorst, Bobby Marks and Tim