NBA offseason movement has ground to a halt, the Paris Olympics are about to kick off, and every team just got a first look at its rookies in Las Vegas Summer League. It feels like there will be a second wave of deals coming soon before training camps officially open around the league, but for now the league’s wheeling and dealing season is on pause.

NBA’s 10 best free agents still unsigned on the open market

LeBron James is a special kind of talent. Whenever he decides to retire, there’s no doubt he’ll be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, leaving his imprint on the game. With his skill set, it’s tough for opponents to match up with him one-on-one, but that hasn’t stopped many of his rivals throughout his career from reverting to bothersome tactics. The King attracts pests and on the court that’s brought a ton of beef.

Everybody has beef with LeBron

Newcastle CEO Darren Eales provided an update on the club’s transfer strategy, the situation involving Eddie Howe's potential exit to manage the Three Lions, and the club goals ahead of next season, and The Athletic’s Chris Waugh reported on it adding a few intel nuggets of his own.

Newcastle CEO Darren Eales discusses Eddie Howe, transfers, club goals

Philadelphia, PA

In the first half of the 2023 NFL season, it looked for all the world that the Philadelphia Eagles were headed back to another deep playoff run, and perhaps another Super Bowl. The sting of losing Super Bowl LVII to the Kansas City Chiefs in an agonizingly close fashion (38-35, with the winning field goal coming with eight seconds left in the game) was supposed to push this impressively talented team over the top.

5 things the Eagles need to do to unleash Jalen Hurts again

Tampa, FL

The combat sports world is abuzz with anticipation as the highly-anticipated showdown between social media sensation-turned boxer, Jake Paul, and former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) standout — and current Bareknuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) superstar — Mike Perry, goes down tonight (Sat., July 20, 2024) from inside Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla., streaming live on DAZN pay-per-view (PPV).

Jake Paul vs. Mike Perry: Tale of the Tape

Taking on Premier League opposition should always be seen as a good opportunity, but playing against Nottingham Forest also brings into focus the need for Sunderland’s summer recruitment to be well planned and executed. From the outside, it can feel as if our opponents’ transfer policy is a little bit scattergun, and the points deduction they received last season for breaching Profitability and Sustainability Rules could have cost them dear, so it is important that we don’t go down the same road of splashing the cash indiscriminately as they seem to have done.

Talking Points: Lads put the graft in during summer camp

The Japanese Olympic Team announced a bombshell one week before the opening ceremony of the Paris games. Shoko Miyata, captain of the women’s gymnastics team and the No. 1 gymnast in the country is being sent home for smoking ... cigarettes. Miyata accepted the punishment. Her coach, Mutsumi Hirada...

Japan’s Olympic gymnastics captain sent home from Paris for smoking cigarettes

Chicago, IL

Caleb Williams has finally signed his rookie contract with the Chicago Bears. What took so long? Williams’ representatives were reportedly making some unprecedented requests for his contract before he put his name on the dotted line. Williams was still participating in rookie and team activities, but he hadn’t signed...

Caleb Williams asked Bears to pay him as an LLC

You mentioned Pembele has defensive weaknesses; could not a run in the team (be it the under-21s) strengthen this frailty? With Alan Browne in the team as a box-to-box midfielder, would it be possible to play with Mundle and Myenda as potential forwards?. If these young lads get good service...

Fan Letters: Is it worth stressing about online rumours of Sunderland player sales?

Round One of The Open Championship saw a wide variety of scores. Shane Lowry carded a masterful 5-under 66 in brutal conditions. Justin Thomas shot 3-under, but plenty of others shot in the high 70s. The afternoon wave had much better weather than the morning groups. However, American golf fans...

Eye-opening carnage at The Open leaves players struggling, fans drooling during 1st round

Jack Milko Jack Milko has been playing golf since he was five years old. He has yet to record a hole-in-one, but he did secure an M.A. in Sports Journalism from St. Bonaventure University. Two-time major champion John Daly has withdrawn from The Open Championship at Royal Troon. He cited...

John Daly withdraws from The Open, citing injury after another brutal round

Chelsea’s restructuring efforts (on the football side) over the past couple years have seen the introduction of a much more stringent and far less extravagant wage structure than we’ve gotten used to under Roman Abramovich. Younger players on longer contracts will generally require lower wages, and that’s precisely what’s been happening. The only exceptions at this point are the holdovers from the previous way of doing things, such as Raheem Sterling.

Chelsea to reward high performers like Cole Palmer with ‘incremental’ wage increases — report

Newcastle United striker Callum Wilson is set to miss the start of the 2024-25 Premier League season with a back injury, according to Chris Waugh of The Athletic. Wilson’s injury could also have an impact on Newcastle’s transfer plans, as the Magpies were thinking about adding a new forward... but only if they could complete the sale of Callum. With his fitness questionable and this injury in place, it’s going to be hard to sell him for any sizable amount of money, let alone the fact that he’s entering the final season under contract giving even more leverage to the potential suitors to offer even less money.

Callum Wilson set to miss start of season with back injury

It’s taken a minute, but after guiding RC Strasbourg to just 13th place in the 18-team Ligue 1, head coach Patrick Vieira has now left our BlueCo multiclub brethren. Their official statement claims this to be a mutual decision, thanking Vieira for his guidance and work with their young team. If this sounds familiar, that’s because, at least on the surface, it’s a very similar situation to Mauricio Pochettino’s at Chelsea earlier this summer, including the part where Vieira apparently also wanted some more experienced additions to the team.

Official: Patrick Vieira leaves RC Strasbourg by mutual consent

If you woke up to your Microsoft devices doing the blue screen of death cycle and thought that was the worst part of your day, Everton have once again delivered even more crushing news. A statement released by the club indicates that The Friedkin Group, who had been negotiating to...

Disaster: Friedkin declines Everton purchase

Jack Milko Jack Milko has been playing golf since he was five years old. He has yet to record a hole-in-one, but he did secure an M.A. in Sports Journalism from St. Bonaventure University. Shane Lowry’s second round at The Open almost went off the rails. On Royal Troon’s...

Shane Lowry rallies from Railway disaster, remains level-headed to take 36-hole Open lead

A major computer outage is impacting the entire planet this Friday, as Microsoft systems crashed due to a failed content update from security platform CrowdStrike. The crash led to flight cancellations, bank systems going down, and even impacted ESPN’s morning broadcasts of “SportsCenter” and “Get Up.”

Mercedes F1 forced to fix computer systems at Hungarian GP after CrowdStrike outage

Sunderland AFC and Hummel have absolutely nailed it and for the first time in a long time, it appears that we have a fan base united in approval for something our club has done. The way they’ve listened to the fans deserves credit and bodes well for the future, not...

What do we think of Sunderland’s new Hummel away shirt?

Belgium national team goalkeeper Nicky Evrard has left Chelsea just one year into a three-year contract, signing with PSV Eindhoven in the Netherlands yesterday. The 29-year-old, who seemed like a somewhat random signing last summer, leaves the club without ever having played for us. She went on loan to Brighton & Hove Albion soon after arriving last summer, featured just one time for them, then picked up a hamstring injury in January that would end up ruling her out fro the pretty much the rest of the season.

Official: PSV Eindhoven sign Nicky Evrard from Chelsea FC Women

Jack Milko Jack Milko has been playing golf since he was five years old. He has yet to record a hole-in-one, but he did secure an M.A. in Sports Journalism from St. Bonaventure University. Tyrrell Hatton is never one to shy away from voicing his opinion, no matter how strong...

Tyrrell Hatton gets his wish: Open organizers make subtle change to Royal Troon on Day 2

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Live NBA free agent signings 2024 for every deal and trade this summer

The Boston Celtics are NBA champions, the 2024 draft class has come and gone, and now it’s time for the free agent frenzy. The league has...

Live NBA free agent signings 2024 for every deal and trade this summer

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