When Devon Allen announced his intention to return to football, it signaled that a new challenger was arriving for the title of NFL’s fastest player. But if you ask the former national champion hurdler, the debate is not a close one.
Allen, who focused solely on track and field after his college career ended in 2016 and signed with the Eagles in ’22, said there’s no question he’s the fastest NFL player in a recent interview with TMZ, singling out Seattle’s DK Metcalf and Miami’s Tyreek Hill as potential competitors.
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The flame-thrower underwent Tommy John surgery in 2021.
Major League Baseball announced several additions to the 2023 All-Star Game on Tuesday, as replacements for injured players.
Among the additions was Tampa Bay shortstop Wander Franco, who was added to the American League All-Star roster in place of injured Yankees slugger Aaron Judge who will miss the July 11 Midsummer Classic in Seattle because of an injured toe.
Franco, who slugged his 10th home run of the season in the Rays’ 3-1 loss to the Phillies on Tuesday, is batting .286 with 43 RBIs and 26 stolen bases.
In what’s become essentially a holiday tradition, the Fourth of July once again belongs to Joey Chestnut. The 39-year-old competitive eater won his 16th Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest at New York’s Coney Island on Tuesday, consuming 62 hot dogs and buns, 13 clear of the next-closest competitor.
The victory was Chestnut’s eighth straight at the event and 16th in the past 17 years, cementing the most dominant run in competitive eating’s signature event.
After decades of being held in June—and while the college baseball season was still going on—the MLB draft was shifted to July to be held in conjunction with the All-Star break back in 2021. That timeline has persisted in ’23, with another strong crop of soon-to-be professional players lined up to have their baseball dreams realized.
The 2023 MLB draft will begin on Sunday, July 9 at Lumen Field in Seattle, with the first day covering the first two rounds. Rounds 3-10 will take place on Monday, July 10, and the draft will wrap up with rounds 11-20 on Tuesday, July 11.
As the first half of the season winds down, the Padres made the decision to designate veteran slugger Nelson Cruz for assignment, the team announced Tuesday. San Diego will have seven days to trade Cruz, who will then be put on waivers if a deal isn’t agreed to.
The move comes in the midst of a tough stretch for San Diego in which its lost seven of its past nine games, entering play on Tuesday 11 games out of first place in the National League West and seven games out of the NL’s third wild-card spot.
Stephen A. Smith tackled the difficult topic of the recent layoffs at ESPN while hosting his Stephen A. Smith Show on Monday.
While the sports media world reels from the news that ESPN has parted ways with approximately 20 on-air talents, the network is getting a measure of criticism from one of its own.
“ESPN laid off about 20 members of its on-air talent … friends of mine, actually, definitely respected colleagues who’d done a phenomenal job and deserved better,” said Smith.
Police are looking for two suspects in regard to a stabbing that took place during Qatar’s 1-0 win over Mexico in Group B of the CONCACAF Gold Cup on Sunday evening in Santa Clara, Calif.
At 8:47 p.m. that evening, around the close of the match, Santa Clara police responded to a brawl in the stands “involving multiple attendees,” according to a Tuesday morning report from KPIX-TV in San Francisco. A man eventually was located with a knife wound on his neck.
With Aaron Judge still not back in the Yankees lineup due to the sprained right big toe that he suffered on June 3, it’s possible that the slugger is considering an offseason solution.
“There’s talk of surgery, but I don’t think we’re at that [point],” Judge said Tuesday, via MLB.com. “I’m not a doctor. I have no idea. They throw around eight different things.”
If Judge does decide to undergo surgery, it won’t be until after the 2023 season ends. It’s unclear when Judge could return, but he clearly expects to return this season.
Brazil star Neymar was fined more than $3.3 million for violating environmental rules during renovations at his mansion in the city of Mangaratiba outside Rio de Janeiro.