Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Jordan Addison is being suspended for the first three games of the 2025 NFL season for violating the league’s Substances of Abuse Policy, the NFL announced Tuesday in a statement obtained by USA TODAY Sports. Addison will be permitted to continue participating in the Vikings’ training camp activities and preseason games without restriction, the league said. ...
The Seattle Storm are adding some star power to their quest to contend with the WNBA’s best this postseason. The Washington Mystics traded All-Star Brittney Sykes to the Storm on Tuesday as part of a move intended to shake up a playoff race that feels especially wide-open after the recent injury to Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier. The Mystics, who ...
CHICAGO — The Chicago Sky have lost eight games in a row, and has no ‘concrete timetable’ for a return of star Angel Reese. Reese is set to miss her third straight game on Tuesday, Aug. 5, when the Sky take on the Washington Mystics at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. It will be the third straight game Reese has missed ...
On Monday, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to be placed under house arrest amid ongoing legal proceedings over his alleged attempt to overturn the 2022 presidential election results. The case has gripped the nation since its inception in 2023 and has intensified international scrutiny, especially as it unfolds under the authority of a Supreme Court justice recently ...
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., is urging that President Donald Trump commute former Rep. George Santos’ seven-year sentence, calling the punishment ‘a grave injustice’ and an ‘abusive overreach by the judicial system.’ The former New York congressman was sentenced to 87 months, or just over seven years, after pleading guilty in 2024 to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Santos ...
Donald Trump said on Aug. 5 that he might call in National Guard troops and other members of the U.S. military to assist with security efforts at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Trump’s comments came after he signed an executive order to create a White House task force that will handle an assortment of issues surrounding the Games, which will ...
AI-assisted summary Former NFL player LeShon Johnson was convicted on six felony counts related to dogfighting. Authorities seized 190 dogs from Johnson, the largest seizure from a single person in a federal dogfighting case. Johnson faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for each count. A former NFL player was convicted last week by a federal ...
They say it over and over. The game is all about the quarterback. Those who have experience at the most important position on the field, college football coaches insist, win big games. Unless, apparently, you’re a blue blood program. So while you stare at the first US LBM Coaches Poll of the 2025 college football season, don’t ignore the glaring ...
The 2025 WNBA trade deadline is quickly approaching, and there are several players to monitor as movement heats up before the deadline on Thursday, Aug. 7. Only a couple of players have moved so far with DiJonai Carrington, last year’s Most Improved Player, going to the 2024 WNBA runner-up Minnesota Lynx and 2025 All-Star Brittney Sykes to the Seattle Storm. Here are ...
Claressa Shields vs. Laila Ali. The fight isn’t even official. In fact, it may never materialize. But that didn’t keep five experts from responding when asked who would win the fight between the 30-year-old Shields and the 47-year-old Ali. Both would climb into the ring with unblemished records. Shields is 17-0 with three knockouts and Ali was 24-0 with 21 ...