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University of Houston basketball coach Kelvin Sampson has interviewed for the Bucks’ head coach vacancy, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Sampson, who recently completed his ninth season at Houston, spent six seasons in the NBA as an assistant coach with the Bucks and Rockets before building the Cougars into an elite program within the college basketball landscape. In Milwaukee, Sampson was an assistant on Scott Skiles’s coaching staff from 2008 to ’11.

On Wednesday, Pat McAfee took time to address the reaction to his recently announced deal with ESPN.
McAfee is one of the biggest names in sports media, and on Tuesday it was announced that he had inked a deal with ESPN that would see him earning a reported $10 million. The move means that The Pat McAfee Show will appear on ESPN, ESPN+, as well as the company’s YouTube channel.
However, this left some fans concerned that ESPN would assume some degree of creative control over McAfee’s show. His irreverent style doesn’t seem like it would mesh with the current state of ESPN.

Fantasy baseball analyst Dalton Del Don exposes four key misleading numbers as we head through Week 7.

The Cowboys have four star players who are expected to seek significant contract extensions, which potentially could lead to a salary cap dilemma.
The players include quarterback Dak Prescott, wide receiver CeeDee Lamb, cornerback Trevon Diggs and linebacker Micah Parsons, although Parsons isn’t eligible to sign an extension until after the 2023 season.
Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones spoke about the matter Wednesday, and he seems unbothered by the prospect of a salary cap logjam.

Two familiar opponents meet in a rematch of last year’s Eastern Conference finals.

Florida State head basketball coach Leonard Hamilton wouldn’t mind seeing March Madness get even more mad. He wants to see the NCAA Tournament field expanded, big time.
The NCAA Tournament’s current field size is 68 teams, and while there have been discussions and rumors about that number increasing in the near future, Hamilton doesn’t want to the NCAA add another dozen or so teams, he wants to double the bracket size.

After substantial public outcry, the Los Angeles Dodgers will follow common sense on giving an award to an anti-Catholic drag group.
The drag group, called The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, was set to receive an award from the team as part of their Pride Night celebration.
The “sisters” use “go and sin some more” as their motto, and frequently dress as Jesus and Mary.
Senator Marco Rubio helped bring the Dodgers’ absurd plans to light in a letter earlier this week. Rubio sent the letter directly to Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred expressing his concerns.

Could this at last be the year? Since Sheikh Mansour took over Manchester City in 2008, the Champions League has been his target. Now, only Inter stands in City’s way in next month’s final. City also beat Real Madrid in the semifinal two years ago but, convincing as that win was, it was nothing compared to this. The final score may have been 4–0 for a 5–1 aggregate, but the gulf between the sides was far greater even than that. City’s main opponent in June may be its own neuroses.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone provided fans with a positive update on Luis Severino’s injury recovery, as the 29-year-old right-hander prepares to return to the rotation and make his 2023 season debut.
Severino, who has not pitched this year, is expected to take the mound for his first start of the campaign on Sunday against the Reds, Boone announced Wednesday, via Bryan Hoch of MLB.com. 
It will be the final game of a three-game set in Cincinnati, though the starters have not been named for Friday’s or Saturday’s tilts at the Great American Ball Park.

A day after he fired head coach Doc Rivers following his team’s Game 7 loss to the Celtics, 76ers team president Daryl Morey told reporters that the decision “shocked” star center and league MVP Joel Embiid.
Morey fired Rivers after his third season with the team. The veteran coach still had two years remaining on his contract, but saw his Philadelphia tenure end after a third straight defeat in the conference semifinals.
“I have to make tough calls all the time with trades,” Morey said, per James Herbert of CBS Sports.