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Qualifying in Monaco is everything, and it might come down to ‘risk assessment’ from each driver
On many Formula 1 race weekends, the matter of which drivers reach the podium, or win outright, can come down to the machinery in their hands.
In the Monaco Grand Prix, however, it could come down to their hands themselves.

Before the start of the April NFL draft, the New York Giants decided they’d like to add Drake Maye in the first round. He was their guy.
The Giants knew they weren’t getting Caleb Williams, who ended up going No. 1 overall to the Chicago Bears. And the consensus on Jayden Daniels was he needed some work, but the Washington Commanders were likely going to pick him No. 2, anyway.
But Maye? He could be within reach. And Giants’ evaluators loved his prototype size (6-4, 224 pounds), smarts, arm talent, competitiveness and, ultimately, his potential.

As the battle in the NL continues between three powerhouses, one club makes its debut at the top spot.

When you hear the name Drew Brees, you probably think of an undersized quarterback with a rocket launcher attached to his right shoulder and just an overall all-time great signal caller. You wouldn’t think of him being the most athletic quarterback to play in the NFL, but you certainly wouldn’t make the claim he wasn’t athletic.
Unless if you’re Michael Robinson of the NFL Network.

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Women’s softball, like all NCAA sports, relies on transfers to get teams over the top. Here are the top transfers in 2024.
It doesn’t matter which sport, these days college coaches have to recruit three areas: high school, their own rosters, and the transfer portal. For the teams at the top of the sport, the portal can be the most important recruiting area to fill needs that are keeping those teams from reaching their goals.

Paul Skenes made his third career start for the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday afternoon, following up his remarkably dominant performance last week against the Chicago Cubs.
READ: Paul Skenes Throws Six No-Hit Innings In Second Start, Strikes Out Seven Straight
Skenes in that start was almost unbelievably unhittable; 11 strikeouts, with 22 swings and misses and a 35 percent called strike/whiff rate. Out of 100 pitches, Skenes allowed just one hard hit ball to be put in play. Thursday’s performance, while still excellent, was nowhere near that level.

Woke All-Star Mike Florio says Harrison Butker is kicking for his job this season.
Florio says Butker must continue to prove he’s one of the best kickers in the NFL to make up for his commencement address at Benedictine College last week – which bad-faith actors dishonestly depicted as sexist, transphobic, and antisemitic. 
“The Chiefs are treating the [Butker] issue as no big deal because they don’t want Butker to be a big deal when football season rolls around,” Florio wrote. “They want the situation to be forgotten.

Guys, if you haven’t already gotten yourself some popcorn for the ongoing saga surrounding Andretti Global and Formula 1, go pop a bag of your preferred brand — Orville Redenbacher, Pop Secret, even Jiffy Pop; we don’t judge — because Mario Andretti has made one heck of a claim about a conversation he said he had with Liberty Maffei CEO Greg Maffei earlier this month at the Miami Grand Prix.

Scottie Scheffler before the third round of the 2024 PGA Championship. | Photo by Andrew Redington/Getty Images
The Mayor of Louisville and the Chief of Police held a press conference, but provided no congruent updates related to Scheffler.
A waste of time.
That is how I would summarize the press conference on Thursday, which featured Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg and Louisville Metro Police Chief Jacquelyn Gwinn-Villaroel.
It lasted roughly 12 minutes, and the Mayor and the Chief took zero questions.

The Louisville Metro Police Department released two new videos from the site of Scottie Scheffler’s arrest at the site of last week’s PGA Championship. One nearly hour-long dash cam video shows Scheffler walking with officers in handcuffs, while the other, captured from a nearby light pole, shows an officer chasing down the golfer’s vehicle.
The video from the light pole shows Scheffler’s car turning into an entrance of Valhalla Golf Club, which the dash cam video shows dozens of other vehicles using before Scheffler turns into it.