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The Kentucky Derby is back in a big way. After being postponed until September last year due to coronavirus precautions, the Derby is back to its traditionally scheduled slot of the first Saturday in May. The race has an approximate post time of 6:57 p.m. ET and will be televised on NBC. The field is also once again loaded after only 15 horses competed in the Run for the Roses in 2020. There are now 19 competitors set to hit the expanded starting gate this time around, a packed field full of Triple Crown hopefuls. Essential Quality is the favorite to claim victory readmore

Will we ever see a Rodgers to Rodgers connection? The Green Bay Packers traded up in the third round during Friday’s NFL Draft and selected Clemson slot wide receiver Amari Rodgers. The question is will he ever be paired with disgruntled quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Green Bay gave up their third round pick and one of their fourth rounders in a trade with Tennessee to move up and select Rodgers. The Packers have always had an affinity for bigger receivers and had an unwritten rule that they wouldn't draft a receiver under 5-foot-10. But the 5-9 ½”, 212-pound Rodgers was readmore

Although their 1-15 record in the month of April is the worst in the NBA, the Oklahoma City Thunder have shown some very promising things this month. They went on a 14-game losing streak, which tied the franchise record for most consecutive losses, previously set in the inaugural season back in 2008, but had some great individual performances along the way. As a team, the Thunder have had great success getting to the free throw line in the month of April, attempting the tenth-most per game in the league. Additionally, they’ve become an established rebounding team, pulling down the second-most readmore

In an announcement that rocked the baseball world in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico, Hall of Fame second baseman Roberto Alomar has been banned from baseball for alleged sexual misconduct. Alomar, now 53, was elected to Cooperstown with 90 per cent of the vote in 2011, three years before the incident that prompted his placement on the permanently ineligible list Friday. He had been working as a consultant for Major League Baseball and ambassador for the Toronto Blue Jays, whom he led to world championships in 1992 and 1993. The Jays said they were cutting all ties with the 12-time All-Star, whose name readmore

The San Francisco 49ers surprised many people by selecting quarterback Trey Lance with the third pick of the 2021 NFL Draft Thursday evening in Cleveland. Lance will eventually take over as the 49ers’ starting quarterback, potentially replacing Jimmy Garoppolo as early as the 2021 season. In the process, San Francisco’s brass hopes it has finally found a franchise quarterback. With that said, the hard work is not done for head coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch. San Francisco has eight more picks over the next two days of the NFL Draft. Below, I give you an updated mock draft readmore

The New England Patriots hadn’t gone the quarterback route in the first round of the NFL draft since selecting Washington State’s Drew Bledsoe in 1993. That streak ended Thursday night at No. 15 overall. It ended with Alabama’s Mac Jones. The redshirt junior found himself the fifth prospect at his position taken in the 2021 class after Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence, Brigham Young’s Zach Wilson, North Dakota State’s Trey Lance and Ohio State’s Justin Fields. He found himself with a wait in the green room in Cleveland and a suitor in Foxborough. “At the end of the readmore

Joe Douglas did something Thursday night he had not done in the first draft he conducted for the New York Jets. He traded up to get the player he wanted.  The prospect he had his eye on was USC guard Alijah Vera-Tucker, a decorated offensive lineman who was first-team All-Pac-12 as a left tackle in 2020 but projects as a left guard for New York alongside mountainous left tackle Mekhi Becton. The Jets obviously envision the two protecting the team’s first pick of the night, BYU quarterback Zach Wilson, for many years to come.  The Jets were able to select readmore