Bill Belichick and the North Carolina Tar Heels have brought in another top talent for the 2025-26 season, and the player comes from Coach Prime’s program at Colorado.
Wide receiver Adrian Wilson told On3 he is transferring to UNC to join Belichick for his inaugural season at Chapel Hill.
Wilson was one of Deion Sanders’ top recruits for his Buffaloes program, but he entered the transfer portal Wednesday. Belichick jumped to land the four-star recruit ranked as the No. 32 wide receiver in the Class of 2025.
Belichick and his staff have been active building their roster through the transfer portal, and they nabbed former Nebraska and Missouri linebacker Mikai Gbayor earlier this week.
The Tar Heels also brought in three former Washington Huskies defensive players thanks to the coach's son, Steve Belichick, who served as defensive coordinator at Washington before joining his father at Chapel Hill.
Linebacker Khmori House, cornerback Thaddeus Dixon and safety Peyton Waters made their way east to join the former New England Patriots head coach.
Wilson, who hails from Texas, signed on with Colorado in December and enrolled early at the university after he verbally committed to Arizona State.
No one expects Belichick to be done in the portal either. Quarterback remains an important position to upgrade for the Tar Heels to compete the way their first-year coach would like next season.
South Alabama’s Gio Lopez is a QB North Carolina has been linked to.
Sanders and Colorado will be looking for the next wave of college superstars as his son, Shedeur Sanders, and two-way star Travis Hunter are both expected to be first-round picks next week in Green Bay at the 2025 NFL Draft.
Haley Cavinder, who starred for the Miami Hurricanes' women's basketball program with twin sister Hanna, announced her engagement to NFL boyfriend Jake Ferguson.
Cavinder posted a photo of herself flexing her engagement ring on her Instagram story with a beach in the background.
The photo did not feature any words, nor was a face shown. But ESPN posted a video of Ferguson and Cavinder on the beach together, and she flexed it even more.
The engagement comes roughly a month after the rumored breakup of her twin sister, Hanna, and incoming Miami quarterback Carson Beck.
Beck transferred to the U, where both Cavinders played basketball, after spending four years at the University of Georgia, where he replaced Stetson Bennett.
Last month, Hanna wiped Beck from her Instagram, and Haley went on an "unfiltered" tangent regarding the rumored breakup.
"I just want to say one thing, because I can't be too crazy unfiltered on here: If your sister comes to you or your friend or someone that's really important in your life, and they have a gut feeling about a relationship or a friendship, for example, and they just tell you that on a repeated basis, trust your dang sister. Trust her," Haley said. "She's always right. I promise, you or your mom, they're always right."
Cavinder said trolls emerged when they made their relationship public. During a YouTube Q&A session with her sister, Haley said she received negative comments about her looks when her relationship made the rounds.
"I was in Forever 21 having a great day with my mom and Hanna, and I got this post. And I just started looking at the comments about my face," Cavinder said.
But it seems like the negativity has not gotten to the couple.
Hanna had initially decided to forgo her final season of eligibility while Haley initially was transferring to TCU, but, in April 2024, they jointly announced a return to Miami to play their final season in 2024-25.
Phil Maton spent plenty of time in the Citi Field outfield Thursday afternoon, when countless Mets players and coaches came over to hug and talk with their former teammate. The Mets’ front office would be forgiven if it were less enthusiastic to see him. Maton, now a Cardinal, said he heard once from the Mets...
Ashton Jeanty doesn't have to worry like a lot of NFL Draft prospects heading into next week.
While many will be wondering if they will be taken, Jeanty is a sure bet to be taken in the first round. It's just a matter of when.
Jeanty, a Heisman Trophy finalist last season at Boise State, is the consensus top running back prospect in this year's draft class, and many believe he's not falling out of the top 10 next Thursday in Green Bay.
In case Jeanty's college-leading 2,601 rushing yards and 29 rushing touchdowns weren't enough to prove his worth, he wrote the perfect ending to his letter to NFL general managers in The Players' Tribune.
"I’d draft the guy they can’t tackle," Jeanty wrote in his article, "A Letter to NFL GMs."
Jeanty is expected to be a difference maker the second he gets to the league, especially with his ability to make tacklers miss in the open field.
And Jeanty clearly wants to be that difference maker after watching February's Super Bowl in New Orleans between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.
He wants to be what Saquon Barkley was for the Eagles last season.
"Most people, they watched the Eagles win the Super Bowl a couple of months ago. They watched Saquon run through everyone in the playoffs, and they thought to themselves, ‘This is amazing,’" Jeanty began his letter to GMs.
"I watched it and I thought something different. I thought, ‘That can be me.’"
Jeanty explained his confidence starts with his family, with his father serving in the military and moving around with his brother and two sisters throughout his career. He noted the first time he was introduced to the game of football was in the backyard instead of an organized game.
But he quickly realized, "No one could touch me."
"You’d have these older kids out there, all trying to bring me down, doing whatever they could. And I’d just be making them look silly," Jeanty added.
Jeanty’s love for the game grew, especially when he joined his first organized rec league in fifth grade with his best friend, Mario. So, what differentiates Jeanty?
He said it was when his dad was stationed in Naples, Italy, when football wasn’t available in middle school for the young Jeanty. That’s the difference, and one of the main reasons why he believes NFL GMs should consider taking him.
"I actually think that time in my life where I couldn’t play football is a part of it," Jeanty explained. "A lot of people, they might flourish when things are going according to plan. But then, if they get thrown a curveball, they can’t adapt. Me, I feel like I’m the opposite. When I had to move across the world and pause football for a year, my attitude was, ‘Well, alright — I can’t control that. So let’s take what I can control, and make the absolute best out of it.’"
Jeanty eventually moved to Frisco, Texas. He was a star in the making throughout his three years in Texas, and he quickly realized that playing running back was instinctual for him, something that translated to the college level and likely to the pros.
"Once I’m running that football, I swear: my instincts just take over. This special gear kicks in, and it’s like I’m 10 years old again and I’m making the older kids look silly. I turn into this unstoppable beast," he said.
What team is expected to take this self-proclaimed "unstoppable beast?"
The Las Vegas Raiders pick at No. 6, and a number of mock drafts have them taking Jeanty. They could use an elite running back with Geno Smith aboard as the team's new signal-caller under Pete Carroll, who returns to the sideline as head coach in Sin City.
Either way, Jeanty's confidence is through the roof. He wants to do exactly what Barkley did for the Eagles last season by setting the tone on offense and becoming a human highlight reel, which he was in college.
"I’ve taken the long way. I’m done with that way," he wrote. "If you pick me, it’s simple: I’m coming to your franchise to do what Saquon and the Eagles just did. I’m coming to win, big, soon."
Lakers star Luka Doncic happily reminisced about his game-winning 3 over Wolves center Rudy Gobert in last year's playoffs and said he would welcome the four-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year trying to guard him again in their first-round series.
Just as important: Not every player who tortures and torches the Knicks is automatically a villain. Ah, but when a player lands at the intersection of Great and Grating?
Roman Reigns demanded every city he visited "acknowledge" him and his greatness over the last five years, and he appeared to suggest his story may be entering the ninth inning.
Reigns told Vanity Fair in a wide-ranging interview published Thursday he has about two years left in him after his current deal with WWE is up.
Reigns’ contract with the company expires after WrestleMania 42, and he revealed plans for the rest of his full-time career.
"After I finish the contract that I’m in, we probably got another year or two max," he told the magazine days before his triple-threat match against CM Punk and Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 41 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. "Then it’s time to take on a less physical form of entertainment."
Paul Heyman, the longtime wiseman to Reigns’ "Tribal Chief," told Fox News Digital hours after the story was published it was always the plan for the WWE great to shift to the Hollywood side of entertainment, but it had to be the right time.
"I would also suggest, in the limited space that media is provided to tell the tale of the quotes that they are given, that a lot of people are missing part of the story, which is this is nothing new," Heyman said. "Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman have been offered roles, projects, films, TV series, reality shows for the past several years.
"I can show you my phone right now, and there are people begging to fly up from Hollywood to take in a meeting either before or after WrestleMania about directing films, writing films, this project. And I’m not knocking indie films — I’m a big fan of indie films — but I’m not talking $1-2 million budgets. I’m talking real, substantial studio budgets. And, because of the schedule and because of commitments, neither one of us have jumped on that."
Reigns, whose real name is Joseph Anoaʻi, has already dipped his toes into the waters of the silver screen. He appeared in "Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw," "The Wrong Missy" and "Rumble." He also has a role in an Eddie Murphy film, "The Pickup."
"So, Roman saying that this is a consideration of his and that it is something that he would like to exploit is nothing new, but under the current contract, he doesn’t have the time and the amount of time in a block to pursue such goals," Heyman told to Fox News Digital.
"And as he looks at whatever the next deal may be, I’m sure he wants to carve out times that he can now expand his horizons and include that within his annual schedule."
Heyman will be a huge part of WrestleMania 41 and the events in Las Vegas. He'll be one of the guests for the Roast of WrestleMania featuring Tony Hinchcliffe after the second night of the event at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas.
Billy Horschel was among them, but he found himself in an awkward situation.
On the par-4 10th hole, Horschel hit his tee shot too far to the right, and it wound up hitting a fan in the leg, bouncing back toward the fairway before settling in the rough.
He didn't know it at the time, but Horschel was informed as he approached the ball that it had hit the woman.
So, he signed her leg, and the two shared a hug.
It was just one of the shots of a tough day for Horschel, who shot an even round but is tied for 51st place with nine others.
Two-time PGA champion Justin Thomas led the way with a 10-under 61, while Russell Henley and 2022 and 2024 Masters winner Scottie Scheffler are three strokes back.
The RBC Heritage is the fifth signature event, so there is no cut line. So, Horschel still has an outside chance to make up some ground.
The Bills and cornerback Tre'Davious White reached agreement Thursday on a one-year deal worth up to $6.8 million, his agents told ESPN's Adam Schefter.
