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Carmelo Anthony delivered on his career, and for years, the internet was wrong about him.Those are two pretty broad sentiments about what a star prospect’s potential should be while also generalizing online conversations that were hopefully more nuanced about Melo’s career. Anthony goes into the newest class of Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinements this weekend, and in every single way, he is a Hall of Famer, no matter what you think of his career or him as a player.This isn’t one of those “Well, everybody gets into the Basketball Hall of Fame” situations. He’s not getting in because…

Stephen Fulton never had any intention of engaging in a war of words with O’Shaquie Foster.

Making tough lineup decisions each week can be the most challenging part of the fantasy football process. When you’re torn between two similar players and simply don’t know which to start, start the player with the superior matchup.Ah, but exactly how does one determine the best (and worst) weekly matchups?Let’s get the bad-news response out of the way first: Week 1 is the toughest week as far as evaluating matchups. It’s commonplace for fantasy analysis to rely heavily upon the previous season’s statistics, even though that completely ignores how quickly and dramatically this game changes, especially over a seven-month offseason.Editor’s…

Earlier this summer, Cairo Santos’ flight from Florida to Philadelphia was cancelled due to intense storms. Not one to be deterred, the Chicago Bears kicker set off on a 13-hour drive from Jacksonville to Lincoln Financial Field. Not even Mother Nature would stop him from watching his two favorite soccer teams compete against each other.Was the 26-hour roundtrip worth it? Totally.“It was one of the happiest days of my life,” the 33-year-old told The Athletic of learning Chelsea would play Flamengo in the group stages of the Club World Cup.“I was rooting for a two-all draw, just to get a…

Paulo Costa revealed the UFC has offered him a new fight.It’s no secret the #13-ranked UFC Middleweight contender and one-time title challenger wanted a piece of the new champion Khamzat Chimaev after his dominant title win over Dricus du Plessis in the main event of UFC 319 last month.Paulo Costa was supposed to meet Chimaev years ago at UFC 294, but withdrew from the 2023 bout due to an elbow infection days out.Recently on a losing skid, ‘The Eraser’ wiped that all away with a clean decision win over Roman Kopylov in the co-main event of UFC 318 in July…

Liverpool forward Chiesa is the highest profile absentee from Arne Slot’s 22-man squad., externalClubs can name up to 25 players, with a maximum of 17 who were not “locally trained”.Seventeen-year-old forward Rio Ngumoha, who scored a dramatic winner at Newcastle last month, has been selected.New signings Florian Wirtz, Alexander Isak, Hugo Ekitike, Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez, Giovanni Leoni, Giorgi Mamardashvili and Freddie Woodman are in the squad for the six-time European Cup winners.Midfielder Dowman, 15, has been named in Arsenal’s 23-man squad,, external but there is no place for injured striker Gabriel Jesus.Should Dowman, who was born on 31 December…

Is Jordan Walker a bust? It’s a premature and unfair question to even ask about the St. Louis Cardinals’ ballyhooed young hitter, but his persistent struggles in the majors have invited such inquiries. This underlying reality — that Walker is fast approaching a crossroads of sorts with the organization that drafted him out of a Georgia high school in 2020 — is reflected by recent comments made by prominent manager Oliver Marmol and hitting coach Brant Brown. Brown on Tuesday said this of Walker during an appearance on KMOX radio: “On his daily structure level is, at some point in time he’s going…

Is this an eye-popping revelation or a whoop-de-damn-doo?The investigation from podcaster Pablo Torre and his team seems to unveil Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard getting a side deal with a now-bankrupt company called Aspiration, ostensibly to circumvent the NBA’s salary cap a few years ago when he re-signed with the franchise in 2021.AdvertisementThe investigation claims Aspiration received a sizable investment from Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, and Aspiration then decided to pay Leonard $28 million over the life of that contract … to do nothing.Considering Leonard’s history with injury-induced and preventative truancy, it’s easy to surmise he would have no problem collecting…

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September 3, 2025 04:01 PM Denny Carter unpacks the reports of San Francisco wide receiver Jauan Jennings returning to practice from a calf injury, analyzing his expected usage for the team’s Week 1 match against Seattle.