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For Giants, the one question at the center of the Dexter Lawrence trade demand
The answer to a simple question will guide the New York Giants through their contract standoff with Dexter Lawrence: Was last season’s underperformance the start of a decline for the 28-year-old or an outlier for a player who had established himself as the best interior defensive lineman in the NFL?Simple question. But a complicated answer that carries high stakes.Advertisement
Guardians star rookie Chase DeLauter has an unusual swing. Here's why it works
CLEVELAND — Every day, there’s a new Chase DeLauter highlight. A fastball yanked over the right-field fence at Progressive Field. A pitch launched the other way off the 19-foot wall in left. A crowd full of fans, bundled in parkas and winter beanies, shouting the lyrics to his walk-up song, John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”Advertisement
Patriots 7-round NFL mock draft: New England goes after a pass rusher in Round 1
The NFL Draft is two weeks away, and only one team (the Pittsburgh Steelers) has more picks than the New England Patriots’ 11.But despite reaching the Super Bowl, they still have plenty of needs. They have to upgrade the situation at edge rusher. Same for tight end and off-ball linebacker. They could use depth elsewhere, too.Advertisement
Piastri focused on closing gap
Oscar Piastri knows as well as anyone on the Formula One grid how quickly dominance can dissipate and is approaching his unexpected early-season furlough with some confidence that McLaren can challenge Mercedes when the racing ‌resumes. The Australian had a calamitous start to the season, crashing on his way to the grid in his home grand prix in Melbourne then failing to start in China because of an electrical issue with his car. In round three in Japan, however, Piastri finished secon...
Gujarat survive final-over chaos
Gujarat Titans survived a ferocious late assault from David Miller to clinch a nerve-shredding one-run win over Delhi Capitals in an Indian Premier League (IPL) thriller on Wednesday. Asked to bat, Gujarat stacked up 210-4 and appeared ‌to have the game in the bag after Delhi's chase wobbled when KL Rahul departed after a 52-ball 92. Miller, who had earlier retired hurt with a hand injury, returned to transform a canter into a cliff-hanger before Delhi finished on 209-8, agonising...
Como's UCL bid tested
Como's bid to reach the Champions League faces a key test on Sunday when Serie A leaders Inter Milan arrive lakeside trying to take another step towards a 21st league title. A traditionally tiny club, and one more experienced with lower league football and bankruptcies than playing the continent's elite, Como sit fourth and are on course to qualify for Europe for the first time. Coach Cesc Fabregas has done such an impressive job that Como could make their continental debut in the...
Islamabad United overpower Qalandars in one-sided PSL 11 clash
Devon Conway led a commanding batting performance as Islamabad United’s bowlers dominated to hand defending champions Lahore Qalandars a crushing nine-wicket defeat in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 11 at the National Stadium on Thursday. United bowled out Lahore for a modest 100 runs before chasing down the target with ease, finishing on 104 for 1 in just 10.2 overs, sealing victory with 58 balls to spare. Chris Green was named Player of the Match for his decisive bowling, claiming...
Nick Rockett pulls out of Grand National
Nick Rockett pulls out of Grand NationalPublished6 minutes agoLast year's winner Nick Rockett has withdrawn from this weekend's Grand National at Aintree.Jockey Tom Bellamy had been set to attempt to guide the Willie Mullins-trained horse to consecutive victories in Saturday's race.More to follow.Related topicsHorse RacingMore on this storyLatest horse racing results
Marianne Vos: How Paris–Roubaix victory would cap off an extraordinary career
Almost 20 years to the day since Marianne Vos’s first win as a professional road cyclist, she racks her brain to recall the finer details.“I think it was Gracia–Orlová?” women’s cycling’s greatest tells The Athletic.Correct, and more than 250 wins on the road have followed her solo breakaway on the fifth and final stage of the modest Czech stage race, beating Judith Arndt by over two minutes on the last day of April 2006.Advertisement
Fantasy baseball stock watch: Chase Burns looks like an ace; Emmet Sheehan looks 'broken'
Patience is the obvious path regarding the many slumping hitters who were drafted early in fantasy leagues, but we also have to decipher whether hot starts are a sign of an upcoming breakout or simply small-sample noise. Jordan Walker is a former top prospect who’s still just 23 years old with a retooled swing path and attack angle. His impressive start to the season includes an increase in BB%, a decrease in GB% and MLB’s highest average exit velocity. However, Walker also sports a 27.3% K rate...
Lakers aren't chasing NBA playoff seeding. They're searching for answers
LOS ANGELES — April unraveled quickly for the Los Angeles Lakers, and now they’re almost out of time to fix it.Through the first two games of the month, the Lakers have already matched their March loss total with blowout road defeats in Oklahoma City and Dallas. They also lost Luka Dončić (left hamstring) and Austin Reaves (left oblique) to soft tissue injuries that could cost both the rest of the month. LeBron James sat out Tuesday due to left foot injury management, while starter Marcus Smart...
Lindsey Vonn on her Olympic crash, the long recovery road and what lies ahead
Lindsey Vonn’s days are full.“It’s a lot of rehab,” she said from a conference room in Los Angeles.“Wake up at 7:30, breakfast at 8, 9 to 11 is rehab at my house. I have a little break, eat some food. Go to a hyperbaric chamber. Do about two hours with decompression in the hyperbaric, and then I come back and have a little break. And then usually work out from, like, 5 to 6:30, little break, shower, dinner. That’s kind of my day every day, six days a week. Sunday is kind of a day off without a s...
NFL players' Olympic flag football dreams face another hurdle — the injury risk
For NFL players enticed by Olympic gold, the Fanatics Flag Football Classic was a harsh reality check.Two squads of NFL superstars, doomed by a skills discrepancy and lack of flag knowledge, lost all three games to Team USA by a combined 106-44 score.The lopsided exhibition badly exposed the pros.The only relief: For the most part, they didn’t hurt themselves.Advertisement
Why are the Masters' concession prices always so low at Augusta National?
AUGUSTA, Ga. — On an idyllic Saturday afternoon last spring, Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen strolled down the first fairway at Augusta National, one eye on the Masters participants in front of him and the other on his egg salad sandwich.It was an only at the Masters moment. And that sandwich Allen was happily chomping away at cost $1.50, the same as it does this year, and two years ago, and two years before that.Advertisement
Player alleges racial abuse from crowd at second-tier tennis event in Madrid
Spanish police were called to a second-tier men’s tennis tournament Tuesday in Madrid, after Jordanian player Abdullah Shelbayh reported that he had been racially abused by a small group of spectators.Shelbayh, the world No. 300, was trailing 3-0 in the final set of his match at the Gran Prix Open Comunidad de Madrid Challenger event against Zsombor Piros when he asked the chair umpire to remove at least one person in the crowd.Advertisement
Fury wants boxing clash with Joshua after comeback fight against Makhmudov
Fury, who returns to the ring against Makhmudov on Saturday, says he wants to face his compatriot Joshua next.
Lambiase to leave Red Bull
Max Verstappen's long-time Formula One race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase is to leave Red Bull and join McLaren in a supporting role to team principal Andrea Stella. There was no immediate comment from either ‌team on Thursday but senior insiders confirmed the move, first reported in Dutch media, to Reuters. The news was also reported by the BBC and Sky Sports, with 2028 given as the likely start date for a man who has been working with Verstappen since 2016 and has played a key rol...
Leicester close to third tier
Leicester's appeal against a six-point deduction for breaching financial rules was rejected on Wednesday, plunging the Foxes ever closer to relegation to English football's third tier. Just a decade on from their stunning Premier League title triumph, Leicester sit third from bottom of the Championship, one point adrift of safety with just five games to go. "With the matter now at an end and five games of the season remaining, everyone at the club is fully focused on the matche...
Europa League and Conference League odds: Can Forest silence Porto, and will Villa and Palace prosper?
For all the focus on the Champions League quarter-finals this week, the Europa League and Conference League might be where there is the best chance of English glory this season.Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest are among the eight sides still left in the Europa League, while Crystal Palace are involved in the Conference League quarter-finals. All three teams could get their hands on a European trophy.Advertisement
Medvedev thrashed at Monte Carlo
Daniil Medvedev slipped to an embarrassing 6-0, 6-0 thrashing by Matteo Berrettini in the Monte Carlo Masters second round on Wednesday, as Alexander Zverev dug deep to beat Cristian Garin. Medvedev completely unravelled against Berrettini after missing two break points in the opening game, making 30 unforced errors and serving five double faults. Medvedev did not win more than two points in any of the last 11 games and his frustrations boiled over in the second set, smashing his racquet in...