USA TODAY Sports has live coverage of the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine from Indianapolis. Follow along here for updates. Hundreds of college football standouts are in Indianapolis for the 2026 NFL Scouting Combine. The week of action began on Tuesday with coach and general manager media availability. Thursday brought the main reason for fans to tune in: on-field drills and ...
Deion Sanders questioned the timing of a racial slur yelled at the BAFTA Film Awards. Sanders suggested the slur must be ‘already in you’ to be part of an involuntary outburst. The man who yelled the slur, John Davidson, said he felt shame and that it was one of several tics he had that night. Colorado football coach Deion Sanders ...
Forward Taj Gibson, 40, has agreed to a deal to join the Memphis Grizzlies, his agent told ESPN’s Shams Charania on Feb. 26. It will be the 17th season for the USC product. He’s played with seven different NBA teams during his professional career, including last season with the Charlotte Hornets. He started 11 of the 37 games he played ...
The NFL scouting combine has a way of changing things. What it alters, however, might be perception more so than actual draft boards. The annual summit in Indianapolis holds a special place on the league’s offseason calendar, marking a two-month march to the start of the 2026 NFL draft itself. For front offices, a bulk of the evaluation work has ...
Minnesota Timberwolves’ guard Anthony Edwards has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for throwing the game ball ‘with force’ into the stands during halftime of Minnesota’s 124-121 road win over the Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday. The incident occurred at the end of the second quarter, when Edwards snagged a rebound off a Portland miss, then faked a heave to ...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wasted no time criticizing Republicans after she emerged from a roughly six-hour grilling in the House Oversight Committee’s Jeffrey Epstein probe Thursday evening. Clinton told reporters she answered questions ‘repetitively, literally over and over again’ after blasting Republicans for holding a closed-door deposition instead of a public hearing. She said, however, that she would ...
A Senate Republican warned Thursday that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s primary focus is shedding American blood as U.S.-Iran relations continue to simmer. ‘The ayatollah not only thinks that I’m going to hell because I don’t agree with his religion — he wants to kill me,’ Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., said on the Senate floor Thursday. ‘He wants to kill Americans and ...
Afghanistan and Pakistan exchanged significant cross-border fire Thursday in an escalation of hostilities along their shared border, according to multiple reports. The clashes came after the Taliban said it launched retaliatory strikes on Pakistani military positions, while Islamabad said it was responding to unprovoked fire in the area. Reuters reported that both forces clashed for more than two hours along ...
Denmark will head to the polls March 24 after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called a snap parliamentary election, a move widely viewed as an attempt to consolidate rising public support tied to her handling of tensions with President Donald Trump over Greenland. Frederiksen announced the early vote Wednesday, arguing Denmark needs political clarity at a time of mounting geopolitical pressure. ...
Pakistan’s defense minister declared an ‘open war’ with Afghanistan on Friday after the two sides exchanged heavy fire along their shared border on Thursday, according to multiple reports. Defense Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif said in a post on X that Pakistan had hoped the Taliban would bring stability after NATO’s withdrawal, but instead accused the group of turning Afghanistan ‘into ...