High-end freshman talent teemed through the last two NBA draft classes with names like Cooper Flagg in 2025 or AJ Dybantsa at No. 1 this year. The 2027 class lacks that same lofty status. Paul Biancardi, ESPN’s national recruiting director for high school basketball, said it was long clear ...
INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The United States only wanted to get through its final World Cup group stage match Thursday night without an injury or a red card, while Turkey was playing for a face-saving victory to end a dismal tournament. Both teams got what they wanted most out of their meaningless ...
As group play winds down at the World Cup, the biggest intrigue might not be who finishes first in a four-team group. It’s who finishes third. Teams that are first and second in their groups move on automatically to the Round of 32. The United States, Canada and Mexico, co-hosts of the ...
TORONTO — Senegal needed to win and it needed to win big. Done and done. Senegal racked up the goals on 10-man Iraq in a 5-0 victory Friday that boosted its chances of reaching the World Cup knockout stages. “The job is done, but fate is no longer in our hands,” Senegal coach Pape Thiaw said. “We have to wait until the other matches are over.” Pape Gueye scored twice in a second-half flurry as the Senegalese — vying to advance from third place in Group I — took advantage of a first-half red card on Iraq defender Rebin Sulaka, who prevented Sadio Mane from going in on ...
NEW YORK — From the front office to the field, just about everything has gone wrong for the New York Mets over the past year. And on Friday, manager Carlos Mendoza took the fall. Halfway through a wretched season, Mendoza was fired as skipper of the underperforming Mets and was replaced by ...
THIBODAUX, La. — Mississippi quarterback Trinidad Chambliss on Friday took issue with first-year LSU coach Lane Kiffin’s recent comments that Ole Miss’ past embrace of Confederate symbols made recruiting Black players more difficult. “Me, personally, I don’t agree,” said ...
