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The Dodgers’ Kiké Hernández rounds the bases after hitting a home run during Saturday’s game against the Yankees. (Frank Franklin II / Associated Press) The silence on the broadcast was deafening. In a season already full of frustration and inconsistency, Kiké Hernández suffered another exasperating low Friday night. During a choppy in-game interview between Hernández and the Apple TV broadcast …

The 2024 Rivals Camp Series regional stops are finished and the Rivals Five-Star is on the horizon so this week, we are taking a position-by-position look at which prospects impressed us the most at the regional events this year. The running backs are up next. BEST OF THE RIVALS CAMP SERIES: Top 10 quarterbacks RIVALS FIVE-STAR ROAD TO JACKSONVILLE: Roster …

The NBA Finals tip off on Thursday, so with a couple of days in between, let’s discuss a few players who caught my attention in the postseason. Rather than pull from the teams competing for the Championship, I will revisit the players from the 14 teams who’ve been eliminated and assess whose stock is rising or falling after this postseason …

One significant order of Pittsburgh Steelers business is squared away for the 2024 NFL season. Another is just beginning the sorting process, even if the franchise continues to insist otherwise. That’s how Pittsburgh is moving into its most pivotal practices of the offseason, getting ahead of this week’s full-squad minicamp — and a quarterback battle between Russell Wilson and Justin …

If the sight of John McGinn yelping in delight and slapping his thighs as he danced around in a traditional Bavarian ceremony is anything to go by, Scotland have arrived in Germany for EURO 2024 in good spirits. Now comes the hard bit: facing the hosts in Munich in the opening game of the tournament in a ridiculously tough Group …

BOSTON — Whether it was gamesmanship or pure candor from Dallas’ head coach, Jason Kidd’s proclamation of Jaylen Brown being Boston’s best player certainly shifted a blistering spotlight back onto the battle that’s brewed throughout Brown and Jayson Tatum’s seven seasons together. It’s been a fight for these Celtics to resist the temptations of external antagonism, to the point Jrue …

Verdugo looking forward to ‘very personal’ Fenway return originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston This Friday, Alex Verdugo will return to Fenway Park for the first time since being traded to the New York Yankees in December. The Boston Red Sox parted ways with the veteran outfielder, who they acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers as part of the infamous …

The updated state rankings for the 2026 class have been released. Take a look at who ranks No. 1 in each state. NOTE: Rivals currently has rankings for 31 states, plus Washington D.C. More states will be added later in the recruiting cycle for the 2026 class. ***** RIVALS RANKINGS WEEK Sunday: Who should be No. 1? Monday: Five-Star Countdown …

Wayne Gretzky has taken notice of a particular player in the Stanley Cup Final. And it’s not the superstar on the Edmonton Oilers team with whom he won four cups. “No. 16 is the best defensive hockey player I’ve seen since Bryan Trottier,” Gretzky said Saturday night on the Hockey Night in Canada broadcast. No. 16, of course, is the …

Darvin Ham is returning to the Milwaukee Bucks to work under Doc Rivers as an assistant coach, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Ham was fired by the Los Angeles Lakers after two seasons as head coach in May, but will return to Milwaukee next season. Darvin Ham is joining the Milwaukee Bucks as the top assistant coach to Doc Rivers, sources …