The 2025 WNBA Draft will begin with the Dallas Wings. The Wings won the top pick in the draft lottery Sunday, and with it are set up to draft a potential franchise cornerstone at the annual spring event. Full 2025 WNBA Draft Lottery results: 1. Dallas Wings2. Los Angeles Sparks3. Chicago Sky4. Washington Mystics The…

JJ Redick caught himself before the 10th game of his coaching career Sunday night. The young Lakers coach was about to use a well-worn coaching adage, chuckling at the absurdity of offering a “back in my day” to anyone listening. “There’s an old saying in coaching, ‘You are what you emphasize,’” he said before the…

By Zack Rosenblatt, Amos Morale III and Jeff Howe The New York Jets have fired general manager Joe Douglas, the team announced Tuesday. Senior football adviser Phil Savage will be the interim GM for the rest of the Jets’ season. “I want to thank Joe for his commitment to the Jets over the last six…

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Transition remains for Mark Pope with No. 5 Kentucky and Pat Kelsey with Louisville, growing pains and all. But judging from the intensity Saturday for the latest Bluegrass showdown, the first-year coaches have already succeeded in re-igniting excitement into their programs along with the rivalry that had recently become rather stagnant. “I…

D’Angelo Russell, whom JJ Redick moved to the Lakers’ second unit earlier in the day on Friday, responded with 18 points for a bench that desperately needed offensive punch and helped the Lakers beat Philadelphia 116-106. “I just wanted to win,” Russell said in his first response postgame. “So whatever it took, change of plans,…

AKRON, Ohio – Gerry Faust, the gravel-voiced Cincinnati high school coach who lived a dream by becoming the coach at Notre Dame, has died. He was 89. Notre Dame said in an email to The Associated Press on Tuesday that the family confirmed Faust’s death. No details were immediately provided. Faust guided the Fighting Irish…