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Members of the Syracuse University men’s lacrosse team practice (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) It’s pretty amazing that it’s 2021 and we are still seeing stories of Division I coaches and athletic administrations that are choosing their own interests over simply doing the right thing. And it’s not just confined to the money-making sports like football and

By Tyler Calvaruso | May 3, 2021 12:51 pm The 2021 NFL Draft was loaded with talent from top to bottom, but a lot of that talent happened to hail from the same group of states. Six states produced double-digit picks in this year’s draft. Florida led the bunch with 37, while Texas churned out

7:00 AM ET NFL NationESPN So long, 2021 NFL draft. Hello, offseason. With all seven rounds in the books, front offices for all 32 teams are surely confident that they improved their rosters over the weekend. That’s not always the case, though. Which rookie quarterbacks will actually play in Week 1, and which organizations found

Who likes draft grades a day or two after a draft is complete? You don’t. Teams don’t. Players probably don’t, either. Yet we do them anyway, mostly to make you look and make me look bad.  You can’t truly grade a draft until three years out, which is something I do every year to highlight

What teams do or don’t do in NFL free agency and the draft set the tone for the upcoming season, months before everything has to come together for kickoff. With every team through the major roster overhauling portion of the offseason, it’s time to check in with Sporting News’ updated power rankings. Right after Super Bowl

They say it’s too early to grade an NFL draft right after it happens. While that is true to some extent, needing several years to know exactly how good or how bad every selection is, there are still immediate parameters that can be used rate and compare what every team did across the league. The 2021

Who’s Playing Toronto @ Utah Current Records: Toronto 26-37; Utah 45-18 What to Know After three games on the road, the Utah Jazz are heading back home. They will square off against the Toronto Raptors at 10 p.m. ET this past Saturday at Vivint Smart Home Arena. Both teams took a loss in their last

2021 NFL Draft Grades: Final analysis for all 32 teams originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The 2021 NFL Draft has concluded, and it did not disappoint. The five quarterbacks taken in the first round and the abundance of trades on Day 2 were two of the many aspects of what became a very exciting draft

By Tyler Calvaruso | April 30, 2021 5:15 pm Top-ranked 2022 recruit Emoni Bates has backed off his commitment to Michigan State, according to Tipton Edits. Bates originally committed to Michigan State on June 29, 2020, over offers from DePaul, Florida State, Kentucky and Michigan. The 6-foot-7, 185-pound small forward is now expected to consider

10:22 PM ET The New England Patriots selected quarterback Mac Jones with the 15th pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night, hoping they’ve found their franchise signal-caller one season after Tom Brady’s free-agent departure. The Patriots entered Thursday not knowing if they would have a chance at Jones, who had been widely rumored to

The first round of the 2021 NFL draft is, finally, in the books. Sure there were some chalky selections but there were also some surprises, and yet again those of us in the media space were forced to question what we actually know thanks to the decision makers working for NFL teams. But we all

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