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On an Olympic team loaded with all-time talent, Jackie Young has emerged as a breakout star. She finished with 14 points, 5 assists, and 2 steals in her third consecutive start.
On a team inundated with so much talent, how does one stand out? It’s a tall task, and on this U.S. women’s basketball team, the reality is that several all-time scorers are buried on the bench and attempting just a handful of shots per game. But one two-way guard has found a way to separate herself from the pack and dominate the game on both ends: Jackie Young.

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Second-year running back Eric Gray made a big statement for the Giants against the Lions Thursday night
One of the biggest questions facing the New York Giants as the 2024 NFL season beckons is straightforward. How will they replace the production from departed running back Saquon Barkley?
With Barkley having made the quick trip down I-95 to Philadelphia, the Giants have several options in their running back room to try and pick up the slack.

Led by Breanna Stewart, the Americans snuffed out an early Australia rally to extend a 60-game Olympic win streak and advance to the gold medal game.

Journalist James Medlock likened presumptive Democrat nominee Kamala Harris to a baseball prospect finally receiving their chance at the plate in the majors.
“Kamala Harris is like a high ceiling prospect that just never really put the results together and then languished on the bench for years, but an injury replacement puts them in the lineup and sudden they’re hitting .330 and you wonder why you weren’t playing them all this time,” Medlock posted on X.

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As the SEC goes into a transformation year with Oklahoma and Texas joining the conference, and Kalen DeBoer roaming the sidelines for Alabama, the backdrop of the conference will obviously look different for the upcoming 2024 season. 
So, what does this mean when it comes to teams achieving their goals of playing for an SEC title under new rules that has the two best teams off winning percentage battling in Atlanta? It means we’re most likely going to see a decent amount of chaos in the league, if all goes according to plan.

One of the biggest stories of the Summer Olympics in Paris has been the saga of the XY boxers tearing through the women’s competition. While this appears to be a gray area in some respects, the difference between males and females is a pretty cut-and-dry topic.
Unless you’re International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach.
The IOC boss told the media that we still need a scientific way to identify men and women.

The 2024 CrossFit Games will continue as scheduled, despite the death of Serbian competitor Lazar Dukic during the first event on Thursday.
Dukic drowned in Marine Creek Lake during the swimming portion of event No. 1 in Fort Worth, Texas. He had completed a 3.5-mile run with a pack of competitors and was nearing the end of an 800-meter open water swim when he went underwater.
Emergency and law enforcement personnel recovered the 28-year-old’s body about an hour later, according to Forth Worth Fire Department spokesperson Craig Trojacek.

Team USA center Joel Embiid, who also has French citizenship, says he plans to keep going at the crowd even as the U.S. faces France in the gold medal game.

Raygun might be a meme, but she’s also cool as hell.
Friday marked the Olympic debut of “breaking” with the women’s b-girl competition. The field was stacked with teenage phenoms, world champions, breakdancing pioneers getting to show their craft on the world stage — and also Raygun, a 36-year-old Australian professor who was just there to get funky.

‘raygun’ from australia is my olympic hero actually pic.twitter.