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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

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