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San Antonio Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama enjoyed a tremendous first season in the NBA after being selected with the No. 1 pick back in June’s NBA draft.
Now, the 20-year-old has been awarded for his standout play, taking home this year’s NBA Rookie of the Year honors.
Wembanyama received all 99 first-place votes for the award, making him a unanimous selection for the Rookie of the Year. The Frenchman becomes the first unanimous Rookie of the Year winner since Karl-Anthony Towns in 2015-16, and the sixth all-time.

UAB will have some extra depth along their interior defensive line in 2024 with the addition of former Ole Miss tackle Demarcus Smith. Smith announced his commitment to UAB via social media on Monday afternoon.
Smith is a Birmingham native and a former standout at A.H. Parker High School. He was a three-star recruit in the class of 2021.
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Smith spent the previous three seasons with the Rebels, making his first appearance in a game in 2023. He appeared in two games with one tackle last season.

After a couple of weeks of less-than-exciting PGA Tour events, we’re about to enter a stretch of must-watch golf, starting with this week’s Wells Fargo Championship.
Quail Hollow is set to host the sixth signature event and the majority of the best golfers on Tour are set to compete in it. With that being said, there’s one notable absentee this week, Scottie Scheffler. The No. 1-ranked golfer in the world is awaiting the birth of his first child so he’ll be taking the week off before heading to Valhalla for next week’s PGA Championship.

Fans accused the WNBA of racism because the league did not broadcast Angel Reese’s Chicago Sky preseason debut on Friday. The league’s streaming app offered subscribers a viewing of Caitlin Clark’s debut with the Indiana Fever, instead.
Predictably, Black Twitter and several media publications want to prove that the WNBA made the wrong decision. They are trying to do so by citing dubious view counts on social media.
On Friday, a fan in attendance in Minneapolis live-streamed Reese’s debut from his cellphone to X. The view count for the stream sits at 2.

Brooklyn Nets guard Ben Simmons wowed attendees and media on the Met Gala carpet on Monday night, but NBA fans instantly began making the same joke about the player’s outfit.
Simmons wore a Thom Browne piece, which appeared to be a black suit with sequins and plaid design near the top. He wore an overcoat mimicking the same pattern as the suit.
But the part of the look that fans joked about was Simmons’s bag, which was a briefcase with a giant clock shown on it.

The window for Philadelphia is now, and it’s up to Morey this offseason to maximize it.

Plenty of the golfers on the LIV Golf tour complain about being excluded from major championships. But no one whines more than Talor Gooch. He got his wish this week, as the PGA Championship extended him a special invitation to participate, along with fellow LIV Golf player David Puig.
Before bolting to LIV Golf for a huge payday, Gooch competed in over 130 PGA Tour events. He won one time and had 11 Top 10 finishes. He earned invitations to all four majors in 2022 and three of the four last year. 
However, he didn’t receive an invitation for last year’s U.S.

The 2024 Kentucky Derby was as thrilling as it gets. The 150th Run for the Roses finished in breathtaking fashion in a three-way photo finish in the closes race the event has seen since 1996. Many are still buzzing about the result, including some controversy involving jockey Tyler Gaffalione, who was riding runner-up Sierra Leone.
Gaffalione has been ordered to do a film review of the race with stewards on Thursday. Gaffalione could face discipline after the review.

The San Francisco Giants called up pitcher Mason Black from Triple-A ahead of Monday’s game vs. the Philadelphia Phillies, giving Black the opportunity to make his MLB debut in his home state of Pennsylvania.
Black, who’s originally from Scranton, Penn., made the start on Monday for the Giants. He recorded his first career strikeout in MLB, and his parents were fortunately in attendance to see this milestone happen in person.

The New York Knicks are preparing for an Eastern Conference semifinals tilt against the Indiana Pacers, with the series getting underway on Monday. Ahead of Game 1, a new Nike billboard featuring star guard Jalen Brunson was plastered in the middle of New York City.
The billboard, which pictured Brunson from behind with one arm in the air, had a short but sweet message written above the Nike logo.
“Don’t sleep.”
It’s a fitting message for the once underrated guard who has found an NBA home in “The City That Never Sleeps.