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Journalist: Liverpool Ready to Accept €85m Offer for Forward This Summer Luis Diaz and Liverpool: The Clock Ticks on an Unwritten Future Luis Diaz’s Liverpool journey might be entering its final chapter. With just two years remaining on his current contract and no signs of renewal on the horizon, Liverpool are faced with a familiar and uncomfortable dilemma. Either they hold on to a valuable asset and risk a depreciating return, or cash in now and reshape their attacking options. As David Lynch told Dave Davis on Anfield Index, “The big question here is whether he is ready to go to Saudi or not.” That hypothetical is now central to Liverpool’s summer plans. With Al-Nassr reportedly showing interest, and Liverpool said to be holding out for around £70 million, the situation is delicately poised. Slot’s triumphant debut season, which ended in a Premier League title, has created the perfect environment for evolution rather than revolution. But Diaz’s future, like so many things in ...

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas, shown at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore in 2015 before the 140th Preakness Stakes, won 15 Triple Crown races. Lukas has died at age 89.  (Garry Jones / Associated Press) Darrell Wayne Lukas, known to the general public as D. Wayne and to friends simply as Wayne or as “The Coach” if you were in the business, died on Saturday after a brief illness. He was 89. Lukas’ career, which started in Southern California in 1968, not only built a recognizable brand but helped shape horse racing for more than 50 years. He won 15 Triple Crown races among his lifetime win total of 4,953, having run horses in 30,436 races. His horses earned more than $300 million. He died at his home in Louisville, Ky., after being diagnosed with a severe MRSA blood infection that affected his heart, digestive system and worsened preexisting chronic conditions. Lukas decided against an aggressive treatment plan that involved surgeries and round-the-clock assistance. Inst...

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Bournemouth Pushing to Sign Serie A Defender in ‘Ambitious’ Move – Report Bournemouth Eye Ambitious Move for Lazio’s Mario Gila Amid Defensive Uncertainty Bournemouth have made an enquiry for Lazio centre-back Mario Gila, according to Sky Sports News ‘ Lyall Thomas. In what is described as an “ambitious move”, the Cherries are clearly prioritising reinforcements at the heart of defence following recent developments in the transfer market. The 24-year-old Spaniard, who previously played for Real Madrid, still has two years remaining on his contract at Lazio. Gila’s profile, tactically disciplined, confident in possession and experienced at the top level, makes him an intriguing option for a Bournemouth side eager to stabilise their backline. Zabarnyi Interest and Huijsen Departure Spark Defensive Review The need for new blood in defence stems not only from Bournemouth’s desire to improve, but also from growing external pressure. Ukrainian centre-back Ilia Zabarnyi has drawn inter...

Bret Bielema Has Change of Heart on Georgia Allegations originally appeared on Athlon Sports . During a recent episode of "The Triple Option" podcast, Illinois Fighting Illini head coach Bret Bielema stirred controversy when discussing running back Josh McCray’s transfer to the Georgia Bulldogs.  “Somehow he found his way to the portal and 12 hours after being in the portal he was on a flight to Georgia. I don’t know how that happened, but it’s crazy,” Bielema remarked, insinuating tampering by Georgia’s program. His startling comments triggered widespread speculation. Several outlets covered the coach’s remarks, noting that while Bielema never directly named names, he “implied Georgia tampered with running back Josh McCray." But just hours later, Bielema took to X to clarify his statement, offering concrete details that painted a different picture.  “He actually entered the portal on 4/18 at 12:08 pm which we helped him do and guided him on the process moving for...

Long-distance runner Faith Kipyegon may not have broken the sub-four-minute mile goal she set for herself this week, but she still made history shaving off more than a second from her previous world record , with a time of four minutes and six seconds -- the fastest mile ever run by a woman. Kipyegon finished her attempt with an official time of 4:06.42 on Thursday. "I was coming here to try to be the fastest woman -- it's only a matter of time, and I think it will come our way," the Kenyan-born runner said after finishing her run. "I will not lose hope. I will still go for it. I hope I will get it one day." Christophe Ena/AP - PHOTO: Faith Kipyegon, from Kenya, runs surrounded by her pacers in an attempt to become the first woman to run a mile in under four minutes, at Stade Charlety in Paris, June 26, 2025. The 31-year-old attempted the milestone feat Thursday night at Stade Sébastien Charléty, a multi-purpose stadium in Paris and the site of her 1,500-...

Multiple Teams Offering Celtics Top-10 Picks for Jaylen Brown, Derrick White: Report originally appeared on Athlon Sports . The Boston Celtics moved quickly on a couple of trades to reset both their roster and salary cap situation moving into a 2025-26 season that will likely be absent star Jayson Tatum.  Boston first dealt two-way guard and two-time NBA champion Jrue Holiday to the Portland Trailblazers on Monday, June 23, for Anfernee Simons and two second-round draft picks.  The Celtics then moved center Kristaps Porzingis and a second-round selection in a three-team deal with the Atlanta Hawks and Brooklyn Nets that brought Georges Niang and a second-round pick back to Boston. The two moves pulled the Celtics under the second apron and saved the team roughly $180 million in luxury tax, per a report from Bobby Marks .  Former Boston Celtics guard Jrue Holiday.Bob DeChiara-Imagn Images Boston has quickly gone from a reigning NBA champion with impeccable odds a...

SEATTLE – The Indiana Fever waived DeWanna Bonner on Wednesday morning, the team announced . Concurrently, they re-signed Aari McDonald to a standard rest-of-season contract at the veteran minimum. Bonner has been away from the team since June 12 , missing five games for personal reasons. Reports first surfaced Tuesday afternoon Bonner did not intend to return to the Fever. In nine games with the Fever, Bonner averaged 7.1 points and 3.8 rebounds in about 21 minutes per game. Bonner, a 16-year veteran standing at 6-4, was a coveted free-agent signing for the Fever in February, and Indiana hoped that she would bring some veteran leadership to the young core .  “I want to sincerely thank the Indiana Fever for the opportunity to be part of the Fever franchise," Bonner said in a news release. "Despite our shared goals and excitement heading into the season, I felt the fit did not work out and I appreciate the organization’s willingness to grant my request to move on, parti...

Trade rumors surrounding New York Jets running back Breece Hall might still swirl throughout the offseason in headlines but as far the team's locker room is concerned, everything might be quelled now. Earlier this offseason, general manager Darren Mougey downplayed those . Hall himself has revealed that head coach Aaron Glenn made sure to do the same with more of a personal touch. During minicamp, Hall spoke about those trade rumors and mentioned that his new head coach went out of his way to call him and let him know that they simply are not true. "I was seeing it just like everybody else was seeing it," Hall said. "AG called me and told me he wanted me to be here. For me, that meant a lot." Hall had a career-low 876 rushing yards and 4.2 yards per carry in 2024. Hall also said that his below-average play might have been aided by injuries he played through as well. Regardless, both player and team will hope for a bounce-back year from Hall in 2025. Hal...

Former NFL Player Changes Tune on Shedeur Sanders After Second Speeding Ticket originally appeared on Athlon Sports . Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Shedeur Sanders has been pulled over twice in the past two weeks for driving well over the speed limit. Sanders, 23, was pulled over and given his first speeding citation on June 5 in Brunswick Hills, Ohio, for driving 91 mph in a 65 mph zone. He faces $269 in fines and court costs for failing to appear for an arraignment on June 16, according to an  ESPN report from Thursday. He was pulled over a second time by a Strongsville (Ohio) police officer at 12:24 a.m. ET on Tuesday for driving 101 in a 60 mph zone. Furthermore, the officer’s body camera footage shows Sanders being questioned while sitting inside his black Dodge TRX pickup truck. He faces a $250 citation for the second encounter. He has also received criticism from a former NFL player about his recent behavior. The player didn’t make much of an issue out of the fi...

Michigan State Spartans Quarterback Aidan Chiles is Expected To Have a Big 2025 Season With All Offensive Pieces Falling in Place originally appeared on Athlon Sports . Michigan State football head coach Jonathan Smith is in his second year of revamping the Spartans' program. Looking ahead into the upcoming season, it seems as though the offense is finally taking shape. Starting quarterback Aidan Chiles is expecting to prove fans and critics wrong in 2025-26. He won't be a head-turning star, but there's more potential that will be unlocked. Michigan State football quarterback Aidan Chiles.Nick King/Lansing State Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK Chiles, like Smith, is also entering his second year at Michigan State.  As a sophomore , he threw for 2,415 yards and 13 touchdowns on 192 completions. His passing rate came to 59.4 percent by the end of the season. The rising junior also tallied 97 rushing attempts for 225 yards and three touchdowns. The biggest ...

Caitlin Clark’s Personal Decision Turns Heads Before Aces Game originally appeared on Athlon Sports . Caitlin Clark had a disappointing performance in the Indiana Fever's 88-77 loss on Thursday to the Golden State Valkyries. In her third game back from a quad injury, Clark had 11 points, nine assists and seven rebounds while shooting 3-for-14 from the field and recording six turnovers. "I'm not gonna play perfect for 44 games," the second-year guard conceded at Fever practice. "I didn't play very well at Golden State, and to me, I wasn't defeated after the game." In an attempt to turn things around ahead of a huge matchup with the Las Vegas Aces on Sunday, Clark made a noticeable change involving someone very close to her. Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark (22).© Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images In practice photos posted to Instagram by the Fever, fans noticed that Clark had changed shoes after Thursday's loss. She was photographed wear...

Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev plays a forehand return against Germany's Alexander Zverev their Men's singles semi-final tennis match during the Terra Wortmann Open. David Inderlied/dpa Daniil Medvedev continued his impressive record against Alexander Zverev on Saturday to deny the German on home grass and reach the Halle final. The third seed prevailed 7-6 (7-3), 6-7 (1-7), 6-4 over the second seed in the semi-final of the Wimbledon warm-up in the west of Germany. Medvedev had the only break point of the first set but failed to take it, only to fly through the tie-break and seize the initiative. The Russian, who now bosses the head-to-heads over the German 13-7, went 2-0 up in the second set but saw the home favourite hit back. Medvedev soon squandered three match points on Zverev's serve at 5-6 and the German, who had been sick again in his quarter-final, then dominated the second set tie-break. The 29-year-old Medvedev then broke for 2-1 in the decider and...

TAMPA, FL — It should've been three up, three down for the Detroit Tigers against the Tampa Bay Rays in the first inning. Except it wasn't. Left-hander Brant Hurter — working as an opener as part of the Tigers' strategy — retired the first three batters he faced, but one of the batters reached safely on a passed ball by catcher Jake Rogers, which extended the inning. One mistake led to four runs. The Tigers lost, 8-3, to the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday, June 21, at George M. Steinbrenner Field. They've been outscored by 11 runs in the first two games of the three-game series. SHAWN WINDSOR: Detroit Tigers fans' beefs with Pirates have me wondering: Can't we act like adults? All four runs in the first inning were unearned, with Hurter exiting at 31 pitches after recording just two outs. From there, right-hander Sawyer Gipson-Long — working as the bulk reliever — covered the next 6⅓ innings, though he surrendered four runs. The Tigers (48-30) now have lo...

Canucks Linked Again to Wild’s Former First-Round Pick in Trade Push originally appeared on Athlon Sports . The Vancouver Canucks are back at the table with renewed interest in  Minnesota Wild center Marco Rossi as he approaches restricted free agency on July 1. Talks between the two clubs have ramped up again after an earlier attempt during the season fell short. Patrick Johnston of the Vancouver Province  wrote on Thursday that the Canucks are "hot" after Rossi. According to Johnston, Vancouver is offering the 15th overall pick in next week’s NHL Draft and an additional player to pry Rossi out of Minnesota. The Wild, however, are pushing for a more immediate return and, according to  Mike Russo of The Athletic , general manager Bill Guerin "has made it clear that he doesn’t want to make his team worse." Canucks talked trade for Minnesota Wild's Marco Rossi https://t.co/cMfEeSXOP0 pic.twitter.com/hn0jlW3QFd — The Province (@theprovince) June 20, 2025...

F1 Rookie Reveals What Makes Lewis Hamilton So Dangerous on Sundays originally appeared on Athlon Sports . Few drivers have left a deeper imprint on F1 than Lewis Hamilton and rising star Isack Hadjar just spelled out exactly why. Speaking candidly about the seven-time world champion, Hadjar praised Hamilton’s race-day mastery, calling it the most impressive part of his game. “For me, it’s all about his race pace,” Hadjar said . “Like how he can start from the very back and end up racing George, you know?” Referring to Hamilton’s comeback drives in the 2024 season and consistency under pressure, Hadjar pointed how Hamilton regularly turns difficult grid positions into podium fights, often battling his teammates like George Russell even after starting near the back.  “It’s this race pace advantage he had on his teammates when he was with Valtteri [Bottas] as well,” he added. Lewis Hamilton during previews ahead of the Monaco GP.Clive Rose/Getty Images What truly sep...

The WNBA has upgraded the technical foul on Connecticut's Marina Mabrey for shoving Caitlin Clark to the floor during Tuesday's night game against Indiana to a Flagrant-2, a person familiar with the situation said Wednesday. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because no official announcement had been made. Any flagrant foul comes with an automatic fine. The person also said the league has fined the Fever's Sophie Cunningham for her role in the on-court melee that occurred after she fouled Jacy Sheldon with 46.1 seconds left. Cunningham received a Flagrant-2 Tuesday night. There will be no further penalties for on-court actions during the game, the person said. The WNBA doesn't disclose the amount of money players are fined. The play at the end of the game was the culmination of tensions that had been building throughout. Mabrey's technical followed a skirmish in the third quarter . Sheldon poked Caitlin Clark in the eye while de...

Spurs Think 'Price is Too High' for Kevin Durant Trade: Report originally appeared on Athlon Sports . The fate of Kevin Durant has been the subject of plenty of discourse already in 2025, and the offseason hasn't even fully kicked off just yet. The 15-time All-Star and two-time Finals MVP, 36, appears to be looking for an exit away from the Phoenix Suns sooner rather than later. Under the stewardship of new general manager Brian Gregory and new head coach Jordan Ott, Phoenix appears very open to accommodating a Durant departure. Last year, the Suns went 36-46 and missed even the play-in tournament in the Western Conference.  Despite Durant and fellow All-Star Devin Booker being largely healthy, their union with former three-time All-Star guard Bradley Beal has been decidedly rockier than anticipated.  With Ott in the fold, Phoenix is already now on its fourth head coach in as many years under new owner Mat Ishbia. San Antonio Spurs center Victor Wembanyama (1) and ...

We're more than a month away from the 2025 Major League Baseball trade deadline, but the hot stove is already warming. The Milwaukee Brewers have entered June in recent years looking like buyers, but a 4½-game deficit in the National League Central this time — albeit a perfectly surmountable disadvantage — creates some lack of clarity around their ultimate course of action. Here's what to know, including trade rumors, about the Milwaukee Brewers and the 2025 deadline. When is the 2025 MLB trade deadline? It arrives 5 p.m. CT Thursday, July 31. Who are some possible candidates for the Brewers to acquire? MLB.com put together an ample list of possible names available at the deadline, mostly standout players on underperforming teams. The Brewers have struggled on the left side of the infield this year, making Arizona Diamondbacks veteran third baseman Eugenio Suárez one of the more compelling names to follow, as well as Los Angeles Angels third baseman Yoán Moncada and ...