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By Dave Hines, NFCA | April 29, 2021 2:26 pm LOUISVILLE, Ky. — There was some jostling in this week’s USA TODAY Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 poll, but not at the top, as perennial power Neshoba Central continued to win and remained No. 1 for a fourth-straight week. The (25-0) Rockets defeated West Lauderdale

9:30 PM ET Jacob deGrom tied Nolan Ryan’s record for most strikeouts through a pitcher’s first five starts of a season, finishing Tuesday’s start with nine strikeouts over six innings to run his five-game total to 59, matching Ryan’s achievement set in 1978. DeGrom departed with the Red Sox leading 1-0. It is his 33rd

Getty Images It’s not usually a story when a world champion boxer makes his way down to the track on a weekend, but Tyson Fury’s trip to Churchill Downs on Saturday is breaking that expectation. The lineal heavyweight champion of the world will be heading to the Kentucky Derby to see if a horse with

Match statistics: Paris Saint-Germain 1-2 Manchester City When Manchester City has been knocked out of the Champions League over the past four seasons, the blame has been laid squarely at Pep Guardiola’s door. Successive quarterfinal exits against Liverpool, Tottenham and Lyon have led to accusations that the Catalan “overthinks” the biggest games of City’s seasons, and

The debate for weeks has been whether the San Francisco 49ers will draft Alabama quarterback Mac Jones at No. 3. Long story short: Most 49ers fans really dislike the idea.  What hasn’t been talked about as much is what happens to Jones if the 49ers take Trey Lance or Justin Fields instead.  Most of the

Kirby Lee / USA TODAY Sports A former New York Giants player was arrested Saturday with seven kilograms of cocaine, according to federal prosecutors. Clyde “Peter” Hall, 82, is accused of arranging a drug deal with a confidential source in the Drug Enforcement Agency, per a report from the New York Daily News. The official

What does it take to win the Kentucky Derby? Speed, skill, preparation — and a little luck with your post position certainly doesn’t hurt. The 2021 Kentucky Derby post position draw took place Tuesday morning, giving participants their starting gates ahead of the annual event. The Kentucky Derby field is limited to 20 total horses, though others could

Image via Getty/Shareif Ziyadat/FilmMagic Imagine thinking LeBron James isn’t one of the top two small forwards in NBA history? Well, during a recent appearance on Posted Up with Chris Haynes, NBA Hall of Famer Julius “Dr. J” Erving made it clear that LeBron wouldn’t make his cut. Haynes asked Dr. J to put together his

By Tyler Calvaruso | April 27, 2021 8:00 am With the fall signing period long in the books and the spring signing period underway, it’s time to take a deeper look at the crop of prospects ascending to the college ranks in the coming weeks months. Home of the national champion Baylor Bears, the Big

4:02 PM ET Central Michigan quarterback John Keller was among two shooting victims at an off-campus party Saturday night, university officials said Sunday in a statement. Keller was in serious condition, according to CMU president Dr. Bob Davies, and another CMU student who was shot, Tyler Bunting, was in stable condition. According to police, a

Getty Images The Toronto Blue Jays already were dealing with a thin rotation, to the point that Tuesday’s starting pitcher is currently listed as “to be determined.” Those issues have worsened on Sunday when ace Hyun-Jin Ryu left the game early with an injury. The Blue Jays announced it was a minor right glute strain.

Match statistics: Manchester City 1-0 Tottenham Aymeric Laporte probably should not have been on the pitch at Wembley when Kevin De Bruyne curled a free kick across the Tottenham box in the 81st minute of the Carabao Cup final, but Manchester City will not care one bit. Laporte rose highest to nod De Bruyne’s cross past

Aaron Judge points after hitting home run vs. Orioles The Yankees and Los Angeles Angels spoke “very briefly” about an Aaron Judge trade this offseason, reports ESPN’s Buster Olney. Olney described it as “the lightest of flirtations” and nothing really came of it. One would think Judge, arguably the face of the franchise, is off

By Tyler Calvaruso | April 25, 2021 1:07 pm MADE Hoops hosted a loaded day of AAU basketball at Midwest Mania in Indianapolis on Saturday, with a matchup of the top two recruits in the class of 2022 stealing the show. Emoni Bates, the No. 1 recruit in the class of 2022, and Jalen Duren,

10:37 AM ET After testing positive for the coronavirus, Orlando Magic coach Steve Clifford will miss multiple games, starting with Sunday night’s game against Indiana, sources told ESPN. Clifford has been asymptomatic, but after receiving a positive test Sunday morning — his third positive in a four-day span — he will be forced to enter

11:27 PM ET Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. — Kentucky’s Alli Stumler bumped into coach Craig Skinner at the team hotel a few hours before the NCAA volleyball championship match and had a question for him. “You ready to win a natty?” she said she asked him. Oh yea, Skinner was. So was Stumler. The All-American

Zach Wilson looks like he’s headed to the Jets as the second overall pick, but not everyone thinks he’s the second-best quarterback in the draft. ESPN draft analyst Mel Kiper Jr. believes the Jets would be better served taking Justin Fields because of the level of competition Wilson faced, his injury history and Fields’ more