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A Brandon Ingram trade may not happen anytime soon. upon Low Post ESPN's Zach Lowe said on his podcast Friday that the New Orleans Pelicans forward may not get the lucrative contract extension he's seeking, and the team may not be looking to trade him anytime soon. “I haven't heard a lot of rumors that the Pelicans are keen to give him such a big extension,” Lowe said. “I haven't heard a lot of rumors that Tim MacMahon or Brandon Ingram are going to be traded anywhere anytime soon.” Ingram took a step back in 2023-24, averaging 20.8 points, 5.7…
The problem with hosting the biggest outdoor party Paris has ever seen is that it sometimes rains.Quite a bit, even.From the base of the Eiffel Tower to the city's sidewalk cafes and public squares, tourists, Olympic fans and Parisians took to the heavily policed streets on Friday for a night of fun, anticipation and togetherness.Some 300,000 people were able to watch the opening ceremony, the first to be held on the banks of the Seine rather than inside a stadium, but thousands more were left stranded outside the guarded gates.Spectators holding Australian, French and Swiss flags watch the water parade…
Belal Muhammad is ready for his first title fight at UFC 304. Who has he been training with in preparation for this big moment? None other than Khabib Nurmagomedov. How would Muhammad describe training with Khabib? He calls it a game changer. “They're on another level,” Muhammad said. What makes the Dagestani camp special? It's their relentless work ethic and mental toughness. Muhammad shared his views in a recent interview with TNT Sports. He considers Khabib the “Michael Jordan” of MMA. Will this rigorous preparation help him beat Leon Edwards? Muhammad reveals Dagestan training secrets Belal Muhammad is gearing up…
TNT Sports is suing the NBA after the league rejected an offer to match one of its new television contracts.”We have taken legal action to enforce our rights after the NBA wrongfully refused to match our third-party offers,” TNT Sports said in a statement. TNT Sports statement on NBA media rights: pic.twitter.com/C14DPCJ65P — TNT Sports US PR (@TNTSportsUS) July 26, 2024The NBA announced 11-year, $77 billion deals with ESPN, NBC and Amazon Prime Video earlier this week.The deal is set to begin in the 2025-26 season, and TNT Sports will remain the home of the NBA alongside ESPN this season,…
Apple said Friday it would voluntarily implement safeguards for its artificial intelligence (AI), joining other big tech companies including Open AI, Amazon, Google parent Alphabet and Meta in following Biden administration guidelines aimed at minimizing national security risks. In July 2023, the Biden administration announced it had secured voluntary commitments from seven major AI companies that pledged to “help advance progress toward safety, security, and transparency” of AI technology. Amazon, Anthropik, Google, Inflexion, Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI were the first seven companies to endorse the administration's initiative. Pictured above, Apple CEO Tim Cook is on the company's campus in Cupertino,…
The 2024 Summer Olympics will be held in Paris. Soccer will again be included in the competition this year, with both men's and women's teams competing in a shortened tournament.Olympic rules state that the men's tournament must be made up of players aged 23 or under (born after Jan. 1, 2001) and allow each country to take part in three over-age players; there is no age limit for the women's tournament.With the 2024 Euros and Copa America just concluded, many national teams are missing many of their star players, but some teams still look strong, including Argentina, Spain and the…
Story Link Follow Along: 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games The U.S. Team field hockey roster for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games showcases a team with every player with NCAA ties, highlighting collegiate sports as a vital training ground for future Olympians. The roster features 16 current and former NCAA student-athletes from 12 schools and six conferences. “I think the reason the U.S. is so good at Olympic sports is because of the support of the NCAA,” said Kelsey Bing, the U.S. team goalkeeper and former Stanford University star. “There's a lot of…
The Big Ten, a key member of college football's recent conference realignment and a likely beneficiary of an expanded playoff, is now home to 18 schools after relocating west, and with the annual media day now over, it's time to check out the league's preseason football rankings.more: Read the full ESPN rankings | AP Poll by Phil Steele | B1G RankingsWith less than a month until kickoff, let’s take a look at where the Big Ten power rankings currently stand, according to ESPN’s Power Index computer analysis model.18. Indiana. Curt Cignetti is projected to win 5.3 games this season, with…
KALAMAZOO, Michigan – It all started with a punching bag underground.Jadosi Green's grand vision took shape more than three years ago when he began working as a boxing mentor and strict instructor, slowly transforming the basement of his Kalamazoo home into a training facility.Greene lives and breathes boxing, it's in his DNA.And so what was once a single boxing bag grew into the Champsden Boxing Club, a renowned underground training facility founded by Green that turned untried amateurs from southwest Michigan into strong, talented sparring partners.In fact, Green's basement is where champions are raised.”I came to the conclusion that if…
Charles Barkley has slammed the NBA for rejecting a broadcast deal with Warner Bros. Discovery to continue airing games and instead partnering with Amazon, claiming the professional basketball league is putting money over fans. The NBA announced an 11-year deal this week to have its games broadcast by Amazon Prime Video, Disney and NBC. Warner Bros. owns the cable network TNT, which has aired NBA games for nearly 40 years and also broadcasts the Emmy Award-winning show “Inside the NBA,” hosted by Barkley, Ernie Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal and Kenny Smith. “Obviously the NBA wanted to break with us from the…