Safety is is a sneaky need for the Jets. It's not talked about as much as right tackle, tight end, wide receiver or defensive tackle — but it's a need.
A questionable strike three call led to Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm being ejected in the top of the seventh inning of the Yankees-Rays game on Thursday night.
Former South Alabama quarterback Gio Lopez, one of the top passers in the spring transfer portal, has committed to North Carolina, he announced on social media Thursday.
The Knicks traded for Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns in part to help take the load off Jalen Brunson after he scored 40-plus points in five playoff games last year.
The deadly campus shooting at Florida State University Thursday shocked the nation.
Several former star Florida State athletes spoke out in support of fellow Seminoles after at least two were killed and at least six were injured.
The grieving former FSU athletes included LIV Golf star Brooks Koepka, reigning NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year Jared Verse and former Seminoles star quarterback and current New York Jets quarterback Jordan Travis.
The shooting began at around 11:50 a.m. The two people killed were not FSU students, according to authorities.
During a news conference Thursday afternoon, authorities identified the suspected shooter as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, a student at the school.
Ikner was transported to a hospital after being "neutralized" by authorities. Police also said his mother is a sheriff's deputy with the Leon County Sheriff's Office, adding Ikner used his mother's weapon in the killing.
FSU has canceled all classes through Friday and said athletic events in Tallahassee were canceled through the weekend.
"All Florida State athletics home events through Sunday, April 20, have been canceled," a statement said. "Further updates on events scheduled for next week will be communicated when available."
FSU President Richard McCullough issued a statement on X, calling the shooting "a tragic and senseless act of violence."
The cancellations will include a three-game series for the school's No. 7-ranked baseball team against Virginia starting Thursday, and the No. 4 softball team's final home series of the regular season against Georgia Tech, starting Friday.
The school's last two spring football practices have also been canceled.
"There will be more updates in the days ahead and more time to reflect and heal. But, now, we mourn together," the president said. "We lean on one another. And we remember who we are. We are Florida State. We are family. And we stand together."
Fox News Digital's Rachel Wolf, Preston Mizell, David Spunt and Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.
Rangers lefty Patrick Corbin said an apparent venomous bite on his foot made it difficult for him to walk and nearly forced him to miss Wednesday's start against the Angels.
Football Hall of Famer and Colorado head coach Deion Sanders responded to the criticism Thursday over the program’s decision to retire Shedeur Sanders and Travis Hunter’s numbers, which has ruffled the feathers of a number of people associated with the football program.
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?
