Author: Shekari Philemon

Tyler Herro is home. The Milwaukee-area native who grew up watching the Bucks and graduated from Whitnall High School in nearby Greenfield is now wearing the uniform of the team he grew up rooting for, and he said Saturday he is trying not to let the contract uncertainty that shadows this season distract from the opportunity in front of him. He came to Milwaukee in the trade that sent Giannis Antetokounmpo to the Miami Heat, the organization where Herro had spent the first seven seasons of his career. He said at a youth basketball camp he was hosting that he…

The New Orleans Saints suffered another significant training camp setback on Saturday when offensive guard Dillon Radunz tore his ACL, ending his season before it began and leaving the team with a second major ACL loss during preseason workouts. Radunz limped off the field after one-on-one line drills near the start of Saturday’s practice and did not return. Coach Kellen Moore confirmed the torn ligament. Radunz signed with the Saints last year and had established himself as a key reserve, starting 10 games during the 2025 season. The setback compounds an already difficult camp for New Orleans. Defensive tackle Bryan…

Teddy Bridgewater has retired from the NFL again, stepping away from the Detroit Lions during training camp and being placed on the reserve/retired list ahead of Sunday’s practice, ending what would have been his third stint with the organization. The Lions moved quickly to replace him in the quarterback room, signing Joshua Dobbs to a one-year, $1.425 million contract with $475,000 fully guaranteed. Dobbs, 31, previously spent time on Detroit’s practice squad in 2022 and most recently served as Drake Maye’s backup with the New England Patriots last season. Bridgewater, 33, had been signed by Detroit in March as a…

Don Nelson, the Hall of Fame coach who helped pioneer a style of play that reshaped the modern NBA and who spent parts of five decades in professional basketball as both a player and a coach, died Sunday at the age of 86. Nelson’s family said in a statement that he died peacefully that morning, surrounded by family, having spent his final week with loved ones sharing memories and friendship. Nelson had retired to a farm in Maui, Hawaii, following the end of his coaching career. He finished with 1,335 regular-season coaching wins, a record when he retired that was…

Jannik Sinner will not play in the Cincinnati Open, withdrawing from the Masters 1000 event on Sunday due to a right knee problem that has kept the world No. 1 from competing since Wimbledon, where he won his fifth Grand Slam title. He said in a statement released by the tournament that the knee has been bothering him and that despite working closely with his medical team he is not ready to compete. He described himself as disappointed to miss Cincinnati and said his focus is now on preparing for the U.S. Open, which begins its main draw on Aug.…

Coco Gauff said Wednesday that she broadly understands the reasoning behind the WTA Tour’s new gene-testing policy but objects to what she described as the politicization of the discussion, which she said has generated animosity toward the transgender community in ways she does not support. Speaking to reporters in Toronto following an opening-round victory at the Canadian Open, the two-time Grand Slam champion offered what she called a nuanced position on a topic she acknowledged requires more careful handling than it typically receives. Gauff said she can see the argument for protecting fairness in women’s sports, while also taking issue…

Jahmyr Gibbs signed a three-year extension with the Detroit Lions on Thursday that makes him the highest-paid running back in NFL history, surpassing the record Bijan Robinson set with the Atlanta Falcons earlier the same week. The 24-year-old agreed to a deal worth $67.5 million that can reach up to $75.75 million with incentives and includes $51.5 million guaranteed. The average annual value of $22.5 million edges out Robinson’s $22.25 million, the previous record, and also surpasses the $22 million extension the Indianapolis Colts gave Jonathan Taylor and the $20.6 million Saquon Barkley received from the Philadelphia Eagles. He was…

Jaylen Brown sat down for his introductory news conference as a Philadelphia 76er on Thursday and spent 25 minutes doing what he said he intended to do with this next chapter. Focus forward, not backward. He said he was not fully surprised when he learned he had been traded from the Boston Celtics to a division rival that had eliminated Boston in the first round of the playoffs last season, because his name had come up in trade conversations so regularly over his 10 years with the organization. He was disappointed by how the organization communicated, but threw his phone…

A new allegation has surfaced in the NBA’s ongoing investigation of the Los Angeles Clippers, with a report claiming Kawhi Leonard had an undisclosed sponsorship deal with the company that designed and installed the massive videoboard inside the Intuit Dome. The allegation, reported Thursday by former ESPN contributor Pablo Torre on his podcast, involves Daktronics, the South Dakota-based company that created the Halo Board, described as the largest double-sided halo display built in an arena, inside the Clippers’ $2 billion venue in Inglewood, California, which opened in August 2024. Torre cited two anonymous sources who alleged the sponsorship arrangement was…

Joseph Parker is free to fight again after British anti-doping authorities imposed a three-month ban that has already been served, accepting that any cocaine in the former world heavyweight champion’s system at the time of his October bout with Fabio Wardley entered his body out of competition rather than on the day of the fight. UK Anti-Doping announced Thursday that Parker received the three-month sanction, which was deemed served given that the 34-year-old New Zealand fighter had been provisionally suspended since late November following urine tests taken after his Oct. 25 loss to Wardley at the O2 Arena in London.…