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After last week’s NFL Draft, Charles McDonald examines which defensive players will see their careers get off to a flying start thanks to their surroundings.

LAS VEGAS – In 2010, Oscar De La Hoya, then a 30-something ex-fighter early in his new career as a full-time promoter, stood in a ballroom at the MGM Grand and declared a then 19-year old Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez to be the future of boxing. 
On Wednesday, some fourteen years later, De La Hoya and Álvarez stood in the same room on the same dais, only this time it was De La Hoya addressing stinging remarks at Álvarez and Canelo leaping out of his seat to confront him.

Bernhard Langer will hit the links at the PGA Tour Champions Insperity Invitational this weekend. And he might just have Aaron Rodgers to thank.
Langer ruptured his Achilles tendon while playing pickleball in February. Just 20 hours after the injury, the 66-year-old golfer underwent the same “SpeedBridge” procedure that Rodgers did when he tore his Achilles in September. And, like Rodgers, Langer is all healed just three short months later.

From his blue-collar upbringing to his love of local sports talk radio, Harper has made a connection with his chosen city like few others ever have.

The great thing about a seven-game series is the way the momentum can shift one way or another on a dime, and that’s precisely what has happened between the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs. Now B’s head coach Jim Montgomery is letting one of his top dogs — David Pastrnak — know that he needs to step it up and play like a top dog.

In 478 fewer total career NBA games, Joel Embiid has more flagrant fouls than Warriors star Draymond Green.

With U.S. Open qualifying well underway around the country, the topic of LIV Golf players competing in the major championship has, once again, come to the forefront. The USGA is getting ahead of things by saying that LIV players will be welcomed to the tournament “with open arms” if they’re able to earn their spot into the field.
LIV players, and anyone else good enough to play their way into tournament, should be welcomed with open arms. After all, it is called the U.S. Open for a reason, as any elite player can earn their way into the year’s third major.

Stephen A. Smith ripped Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverley’s behavior with ESPN producer Malinda Adams during postgame media availability in the wake of the Bucks’ season-ending 120-98 loss to the Indiana Pacers.
Beverley asked Adams if she subscribed to his podcast when she asked him a question during the locker room media scrum. After she admitted she did not subscribe to his podcast, he asked her to remove her microphone and leave the circle of reporters.
Smith believes a big fine could be coming for Beverley’s unwarranted actions.

1. “The sea was angry that day, my friends. Like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli.”
That famous Seinfeld line, of course, was delivered by George Costanza, to his friends, Jerry, Kramer and Elaine, as he told the story of saving a beached whale’s life by removing a golf ball from its blowhole.

The Yahoo Fantasy football analysts reveal their first defense rankings for the 2024 NFL season.