Author: Michael

If not for the coverage of the Athletics and their proposed move to Las Vegas, the Royals’ ineptitude this season would garner more attention. With its worst 73-game mark in franchise history, Kansas City (20–53) is on pace for 118 losses, which would blow away its previous high of 106 in 2005.
Oakland’s steep decline from 86 wins just two years ago seems an intentional lack of commitment toward getting either the city of Oakland or Las Vegas to pony up money for a ballpark.

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Memphis men’s basketball coach Penny Hardaway will serve a three-game suspension at the start of the 2023–24 basketball season due to compliance issues, including recruiting violations, within the program during the 2021-22 academic year, the NCAA announced on Wednesday.
Hardaway and one of his assistants committed the violations when they took part in two illegal in-home recruiting visits with a highly touted prospect during his junior year of high school, according to the Division I Committee on Infractions.

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The U.S. Senate issued letters asking Jay Monahan, PIF Governor Yasir al-Rumayyan and LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman to testify at upcoming hearing.
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan, PIF Governor Yasir al-Rumayyan and LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman have all been invited to testify at a U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee hearing on July 11, per Brendan Quinn of the Athletic on Twitter.

The U.S.

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Alabama forward Brandon Miller, a surefire top three prospect in Thursday’s NBA draft, met with reporters and made a baffling choice for his greatest player of all-time.
Forget the Michael Jordan-LeBron James debate, Miller has a pick that he believes trumps both players.
Paul George.
Yep, you read that right.
“I actually don’t think LeBron is the GOAT of basketball,” Miller began. “My GOAT of basketball is Paul George. I grew up watching him. It was never just LeBron.”

“I actually don’t think LeBron is the GOAT of basketball… My GOAT of basketball is Paul George.

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Let’s rank Victor Wembanyama’s 35 most mind-blowing plays in France ahead of the NBA Draft.
The NBA has never seen a prospect like Victor Wembanyama before. The 19-year-old born in suburban Paris will be both the tallest and longest player in the league next year. No one with his size has ever moved so gracefully on a basketball court. No one has ever been this skilled with the ball in their hands while also being this big, this fluid, and this young.
Wembanyama will be the No.

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