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Position Group Rankings for BYU Football According to Phil Steele As the 2025 college football season draws near, college football expert Phil Steele has released his highly anticipated team previews and position group rankings. For BYU football, which is entering its second full season in the Big 12 Conference, Steele’s analysis provides a revealing look at where the Cougars stack up position by position compared to their peers nationally and within the conference. While some areas reflect promise and depth, others highlight concerns that the Cougars must address to contend in the ever-competitive Big 12. Quarterbacks: Top 40…

OXFORD – Buckle up, college sports fans. The next iteration of name, image and likeness is here and is once again changing the way schools do business. Last week, a judge approved a settlement in the House vs. NCAA case that will allow schools to “directly pay players” a shared $20.5 million in NIL for the 2025-26 academic year, according to the Associated Press. NIL deals were previously brokered through third-party organizations like collectives and local businesses. That money can now come from the schools themselves. Former athletes from 2016-24 will also be eligible for “back pay” according to…

Despite not taking up the sport until he was a teenager, Duke basketball one-and-done Khaman Maluach has earned a coveted invitation to attend the NBA Draft and sit in the event’s green room.Following his freshman campaign with the Blue Devils, Maluach chose to enter his name into the draft process and is projected to come off the board in the lottery, seemingly with a chance to climb as high as the top five by the time the event takes place in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, June 25-26. The 7-foot-2 big man from South Sudan started all 39 games he appeared…

From Thunderstorms to Heat Waves?! Years ago, Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook were the NBA’s most electric tandem: a force of nature in OKC that came within reach of greatness. But when KD took his talents to the Bay, the fallout was unforgettable. Brotherhood turned rivalry. Loyalty turned legacy debates. And for nearly a decade, the league watched two former MVPs walk separate paths. Now? South Beach could bring them back. With the Miami Heat exploring big moves, a KD–Russ reunion alongside Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro might be the jolt this franchise needs. Durant’s…

Mark Pope and the Kentucky staff weren’t messing around this offseason, combining returning talent like Otega Oweh, Brandon Garrison and Trent Noah, incoming freshman Jasper Johnson and Malachi Moreno, as well as six talented transfers from the portal. ESPN recently ranked their top transfer portal classes in college basketball for next season. After all of the work they put in this offseason, Pope and the Wildcats are sitting at #2 overall in ESPN’s rankings, right behind Rick Pitino and St. John’s, who “narrowly got the top spot” as the best portal class, ESPN’s Jeff Borzello wrote in the rankings…

The sticky notes were the idea of Kevin Young’s mother-in-law, Tammy Bailey. She handed them out a few months ago, and encouraged family members to write “cool thoughts and words of encouragement” for others on them and leave them around the house. Young’s three children — 12-year-old Jude, 10-year-old Van and 7-year-old Zoey — took their grandmother’s directive to heart.Young’s BYU basketball team was struggling a bit when it hit Big 12 play in January, losing badly at Houston and starting 1-3 in conference games and looking nothing like the NCAA Tournament team it would become.The morning before…

Kevin Young’s first taste of being a head coach in the NBA came just after Christmas in 2021 when then-Phoenix Suns head coach Monty Williams was sidelined due to COVID-19 protocols. The associate head coach was eager to prove his worth to Suns brass, while also displaying his skills to other clubs in the league that had watched his meteoric rise up the profession. But then Young’s own son, 9-year-old Jude, got sick with a COVID complication called Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome, or MIS-C. After defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder in Phoenix, the Suns were on a flight to…

There’s a storm brewing, and you can feel it in your bones. The air hangs heavy with anticipation, the wind beginning to stir as something big looms on the horizon. It’s not just a metaphor; it’s the unmistakable shift that precedes everything that changes.The Phoenix Suns are deep in trade negotiations, inching closer to parting ways with Kevin Durant. If you haven’t already, turn your notifications on. We’re entering that volatile window where news can drop at any moment, and when it does, it’ll hit like a monsoon. Yesterday, I had a moment. I was climbing into my truck…

After landing on Kevin Durant‘s short list of preferred destinations, the Miami Heat have the real shot at acquiring the 15-time All-Star from the Phoenix Suns. It all depends on how far they are willing to go to get a deal done. According to NBA insider Jake Fischer, the Heat have a “swing” piece that they were reluctant to relinquish in past trade talks. der Kel’el Ware, given the Suns’ noted hole at center, could be the true swing factor in the Heat’s Durant pursuit. In February, it was clear: Sources say Miami was unwilling at the trade deadline to…

The Boston Red Sox made the shocking, hard-to-understand, unpopular — there’s really no shortage of words — decision to trade Rafael Devers on Sunday. Why? ESPN’s Buster Olney attempted to answer that question live on Sunday Night Baseball, giving insight based off what he heard during a matchup between the slugger’s new team, the San Francisco Giants, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. “(Devers) had reached an impasse with the Red Sox,” Olney claimed, as transcribed by WEEI’s Tom Carroll. “Getting text messages from executives, other teams have been talking with the Red Sox. They basically are saying that after Devers…