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Marc RaimondiJul 27, 2025, 01:07 PM ETCloseMarc Raimondi’s first year covering the Falcons was 2024, but it wasn’t his first year at ESPN. He joined the company in 2019 and was a top combat sports reporter. He also covered professional wrestling and wrote the book “Say Hello to the Bad Guys: How Pro Wrestling’s New World Order Changed America,” which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2025. Raimondi also worked for the New York Post and Newsday, beginning in 2009, covering high school and college sports, plus the NFL, NFL, MLB and NHL.FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons’…

We discuss the League Cup latest, and the Old Firm’s readiness for the league season.

The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum officially welcomed five new members Sunday. This year’s induction ceremony in Cooperstown, New York, honored the 2025 Hall of Fame class, led by the peerless Ichiro Suzuki. The five-person Hall of Fame class is the largest since seven people were inducted in 2022.To summarize this year’s Hall of Fame class:Lefty starter CC Sabathia, outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, and lefty reliever Billy Wagner were voted into the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America.First baseman Dick Allen and outfielder Dave Parker were voted into Cooperstown by the Hall of Fame’s Classic…

Jul 27, 2025, 11:51 PM ETCAMDEN, N.J. — Dwight Muhammad Qawi, a Hall of Fame fighter who took up boxing in prison and became a two-weight world champion, has died. He was 72.Qawi’s sister, Wanda King, said he died Friday following a five-year battle with dementia.Born Dwight Braxton in Baltimore, he grew up in Camden. He competed in the boxing program at Rahway State Prison while serving a sentence for armed robbery and turned professional at age 25 soon after his release in 1978.Qawi, who legally changed his name in 1982 following his conversion to Islam, stopped Matthew Saad Muhammad…

We’re back. baby.On Monday, the six-week hiatus is over. PFT Live returns. Yeah, I did 28 episodes of #PFTPM during the “break.” But that was solo. Chris Simms returns for the full, two-hour adventure.We’ll be in our usual habitats on Monday and Tuesday. For Wednesday and Thursday, we’ll be in Canton, in advance of NBC’s coverage of the Hall of Fame game. PFT Live has been around, in one form or another, since January 2011. The two-hour, Simms-as-the-primary-co-host version enters its ninth season. Our primary locations are Peacock (live and on-demand) and SiriusXM 85. Also, the show will be televised…

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Liverpool’s transfer strategy appears to be changing, with the club now prioritising a move for Alexander Isak instead of Real Madrid forward Rodrygo.According to transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, the Premier League giants are preparing to go all-in for Isak once the sale of Luis Diaz to Bayern Munich is completed.The Colombian winger’s move is reportedly agreed upon, even if it has not been officially announced yet.Isak, currently playing for Newcastle United, is said to be very interested in the Liverpool switch.What makes the move even more likely is that the Swedish striker is not negotiating with any Saudi Arabian clubs,…

SAN FRANCISCO — Teams like the San Francisco Giants, firmly in the playoff race, do not trade their closers. Once Thursday’s deadline passes, right-hander Camilo Doval is indeed expected to remain a part of the team’s bullpen. But are the Giants missing an opportunity?Rival executives wonder if the Giants should entertain offers for Doval given San Francisco’s needs elsewhere and the general state of the reliever market.It’s not too crazy of an idea. High-end relievers are in demand. But the teams dangling those pitchers, such as the Minnesota Twins (Jhoan Duran, Griffin Jax) and Cleveland Guardians (Cade Smith, Emmanuel Clase),…

Getty Images Billy Donovan will remain the coach of the Chicago Bulls for the foreseeable future after signing a multi-year contract extension on Sunday, per ESPN. Donovan enters his sixth season as the coach of the Bulls, going 195-205 in his first five seasons in Chicago with one trip to the playoffs in 2022. The Bulls have gone 39-43 in back-to-back seasons, finishing as the 9-seed in the East both years, but are in the midst of a retool after trading away Zach LaVine and DeMar DeRozan in recent years to shift towards a youth movement. The Bulls front office decided Donovan…

LATROBE, Pa. — The last year of Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jaylen Warren’s football life can be summarized by NBA Hall of Famer Pat Riley’s quote, “In every adversity, there is a seed of equivalent benefit.” A year ago, Warren was coming off his of best season to date and appeared to be on the precipice of an even bigger year. A hamstring injury in Pittsburgh’s preseason opener, and a knee injury sustained in Week 3 of the regular season, however, turned a promising season into a tumultuous one for Warren, who said that the experience taught him a valuable lesson. “It was just…