"People get mad. It’s just a product of what I’ve seen," the Los Angeles Lakers legend said. "I’ve seen what greatness is, been there, played with them. I don’t see that all the time over there. So, you want me to give these mother----rs the same props you giving them? That s--- will never happen. You can call it hate if you want.
"Even with the word ‘hate,’ like these f-----g kids, they like to throw that word around. If you ain’t f-----g great and I’m great, how the f--- can I hate on you? That don’t make no f-----g sense. I’m in the f-----g building, and you not in the building, so how the f--- can I hate on you?"
O’Neal said he wants to see greatness on the court and lamented that "a lot of these mother---ers can’t play."
He pointed to Simmons, a three-time All-Star whose career has been marred by injuries. He went from averaging 14.3 points per game with the Philadelphia 76ers to averaging fewer than seven points per game with the Brooklyn Nets and now with the Clippers. All of that while he averaged around $35.4 million per year in salary and has earned more than $200 million in his career.
"Ben f---ing Simmons, that mother---er needs to be arrested. Jayson Tatum can play. He’s alright. I’m not going to bash him. But Ben Simmons needs to be f-----g arrested. ($250 million) for that bull---- Get the f--- out of my face. Robbing people, man. You can’t do that."
The NBA’s current product has found a lot of criticism over the last few years. With more teams taking 3-pointers and stars not playing the entirety of the 82-game schedule, fans responded by turning the game off.
Ratings were a hot topic of conversation earlier in the season.
Boston Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla even said he’d "rather watch something else."
The NBA playoffs are poised to change that with superstar talent in the running for a title, including the Lakers and LeBron James.
Tennis pro Daria Saville is ranked No. 108 in the world and among the top 10 best players who represent Australia.
Saville expressed her dismay with the lack of opportunities with brands as companies have turned to the wives and girls of some of the top players in the world instead of investing in the players themselves.
She sounded off in a video posted to her TikTok account on Wednesday. She screen-capped the video, "Brands are choosing WAGs (wives and girlfriends) over actual athletes… why?
"Let’s talk brand deals for a second," she started. "Tennis aesthetics are in right now, right? It’s all over the place, but female tennis players are not getting those brand deals. It’s actually tennis WAGs that fit into the ‘aesthetics’ rather than us sweaty tennis players.
"Spoke to a few influencer WAGs and they’re surprised that we don’t get the same opportunities. Is it that athletes are not as relatable as WAGs to the audience?"
Saville said a video of her getting ready to go watch her husband, Luke Saville, performed better on social media than "day in the life" videos.
"I don’t know. Is it our personalities that all we do is think about tennis? But I’ve got a personality and it’s salty right now. Of course, the top tennis players have their big sponsorships. Do marketing teams think tennis players are too niche compared to a WAG? Is that the whole glamorous life compared to sweat life? Is it more inspiration to be a WAG than a female athlete?
"Honestly, it’s mind blogging to me that brands are pickling influencers for their campaigns during Grand Slams. And I’m definitely not the only female tennis player that feels that way. Marketing girls, why is that? Sorry if I came across salty AF. I’m done here."
Wives and girlfriends of tennis stars have built up their own massive followings.
Morgan Riddle, the girlfriend of Taylor Fritz, has more than 590,000 followers on TikTok and another 435,000 followers on Instagram.
Paige Lorenze, the girlfriend of Tommy Paul, boasts more than 933,000 followers on Instagram and another 651,000 on TikTok.
Saville has 983,000 followers on TikTok and around 159,000 followers on Instagram. She has one career singles title.
Golf influencer Paige Spiranac is not afraid to flaunt what she’s got and on Friday she sent a clear message with a shirt she wore while chatting with a friend.
Samantha Marks posted a photo of Spiranac’s shirt while the two talked on FaceTime. Marks wrote on X that she just noticed what it said.
Spiranac had, "Yes they’re real," emblazoned across her chest.
Spiranac has been clear about working on her fitness goals and clapped back at a critic last week on X who was upset that the golfer was showing off a little more than what was in her golf bag.
"I went from having my back connect to my thighs to this," Spiranac wrote on X while contrasting photos of what she looked like at the start of her golf career and what she looks like now. "It’s not the biggest peach now but I’ve been working harder than I ever have in the gym and also with my diet.
"Heck yeah I’m going to show it off! I’m proud of my body and how hard I’ve been working to achieve my fitness goals."
She’s routinely fired back at comments about her golf attire and the way she’s dressed. In an interview with Sports Illustrated in September 2023, she explained why she wears what she does.
"I was a gymnast before I switched into golf," the former All-Mountain West Conference golfer said. "I was so comfortable wearing spandex and very little of it because that's just what you wear when you're wearing a leotard and you're competing.
"When I switched into golf, we were struggling a little bit financially and so I didn't have the luxury to go out and buy a whole new golf-appropriate wardrobe. And so, I wore what was in my closet which was workout clothes. That's just how I learned to play the game."
In July 2023, she called out the "hypocrisy" of comments in a video showing two half-naked baseball players on the mound. She noted that the players weren’t getting negative comments about what they were doing.
"Interesting how different the reaction is online when men choose to show off their bodies," she wrote on X at the time. "Not one comment on this video calling them attention whores or sluts. Just a ton of women saying baseball is now their favorite sport but those same women harshly judge me. The hypocrisy lol."
Spiranac has more than 4 million followers on Instagram and another 1.6 million on TikTok.
Randi Mahomes, the mother of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, paid a visit to the White House over the weekend and offered a two-word reaction from the trip.
Mahomes posted a photo of herself along with her daughter, Mia, entering the White House on her Instagram Stories. The post has since expired.
The matriarch of the Mahomes family was open about her support for President Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign. She endorsed the president on the eve of the election when she showed up to a Chiefs game wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat.
"I think for a president of our country, of the United States, I think it’s amazing," she said. "I think whoever the president is, to support the teams, to support America’s best sport.… I think it’s really neat for a president to be able to support it. You know what, let’s do it."
Last month, Trump had praise for Mahomes and her daughter-in-law, Brittany.
"I love those two women – they’re so great," he told OutKick’s Clay Travis. "And they’re so loyal. They’re so great. I met Patrick’s mother at the game, before the game started she came over.
"And Brittany, I’ve seen so much of Brittany, just being so loyal and beautiful. It’s really nice."
Trump met with Randi and Jackson Mahomes before Super Bowl LIX’s kickoff. Unfortunately for the Chiefs, they lost to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Trump said the Chiefs were invited to the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl LIV win, which was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.
College basketball fans were upset with a foul call on Cooper Flagg late in the Duke Blue Devils’ epic collapse against the Houston Cougars in the Final Four on Saturday night.
Duke was shooting free throws with 19.6 seconds left in the game and up one point. Guard Tyrese Proctor’s shot went off the rim and bounced toward Flagg. As the future NBA pro fought with two Houston players for the ball, a referee blew the whistle and called a loose-ball foul on Flagg.
J’Wan Roberts made two free throws to put Houston up one point. Duke missed a few shots down the stretch and the Cougars won the game 70-67 to advance to the national championship.
Duke and fans were left in disbelief.
"Got to give them a lot of credit for what they do every single night they play," Flagg said after the game. "We could have been a little bit more sharp down the stretch executing some things. At the end of the day, you got to give them a lot of credit, as well."
Houston closed the game on a 9-0 run in the final 33 seconds. Flagg had 27 points.
"Knowing going into that game that he was the player of the year, that he brought his team to the Final Four, we knew it would be challenging," Roberts said.
Blue Devils head coach Jon Scheyer lamented the collapse
"It’s heartbreaking, it’s incredibly disappointing," he said. "There’s a lot of pain that comes with this. That’s what the tournament is all about."
Houston will play Florida in the title game. The Cougars have never won a national championship.
The two preeminent coaches in women's college basketball will meet in Sunday's NCAA Division I women's basketball national championship game.
Geno Auriemma has coached UConn to 11 national titles, while South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley has led the Gamecocks to three championships – including the 2024 title. UConn and South Carolina will battle for the 2025 championship in Tampa, Florida, later Sunday.
Staley is one of college basketball's high-profile figures, and she has often shared her thoughts on whatever issue the sport may be contending with at a given moment. Amid the Gamecocks' pursuit of back-to-back national titles, Staley spoke out on the narratives surrounding UConn star Paige Bueckers as it relates to the framework of women's college basketball.
Staley pointed out the narratives surrounding former Iowa Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark when she spoke about the conversations currently being thrown around about Bueckers.
Clark's individual accomplishments during her rise to stardom over the last couple of years dominated media coverage. Clark was largely, and in some instances solely, credited with women's basketball's steep rise in popularity.
When speaking about Bueckers and the pursuit of her first career championship, Staley suggested there was a tendency "to forget the narrative about what (South Carolina players) have been able to do, going for their third (national championship) in four years."
"Sometimes we create these narratives about great players – Caitlin was one of them; Paige is one of them right now – and we tend to forget the narrative about what our kids have been able to do, going for their third in four years," Staley said during a press conference on Saturday.
"There’s a sentimental narrative about Paige. A great freakin’ player. Anybody would start their franchise with Paige because of her efficient way of playing, because she’s a winner, because she cerebrally just knows the game, just has an aura about her. And she’ll be the number one pick in the WNBA draft. And she’ll be an Olympian. She’ll be all those things. But when you put a narrative out there, everybody sees that, and it puts us at a disadvantage, whether you want to believe so or not. Officials see it. It’s all over TikTok. It’s all over ‘SportsCenter.’ It’s all over all of that."
"And she’s a great player but just because you’re a great player doesn’t mean you need to win the national championship to legitimize it. Paige is legit. She was legit from the moment she stepped on this stage or prior to, in Minnesota. Her career is legendary. She will leave a legacy at UConn whether she wins one or not."
Staley then pointed to South Carolina's experience during last year's run to the national title.
"I just want to put it out there. I can’t not address it because it’s happening. It happened to us last year. Everything was about Caitlin Clark and her legacy and her ability to win a national championship. Yet we were coming into this thing undefeated, doing something that’s unprecedented at the time, because it’s hard. It’s hard. We find ourselves back here in a similar situation."
Staley then expressed her hopes for a more balanced approach.
"I want the sentiments to be about our players and what our players have been able to do – equally, because there's room to do both," she said. "We can raise Paige up because she deserves that and raise our players up because they deserve that. And that’s not talked about enough. There’s room for it in our game. Room for Jose. Room for our game, for all of us to be covered. Let’s not choose a history, one’s history over another program’s history. Let’s not choose one player over another player’s history because we’re all creating history for our game."
On Saturday, ESPN included quotes from Staley's media session in an article covering the Bueckers narrative. The network's women's hoops X, formerly known as Twitter, account, also shared a post with a link to the story.
"Dawn Staley says narrative around Paige Bueckers and her quest to win a title has overshadowed South Carolina’s feats," the post on X read. Staley took issue with how her comments were being presented and responded to the post. "LIES! Fix your headline, please!" the South Carolina wrote on X.
South Carolina went undefeated last season and defeated Clark and the Hawkeyes in the championship game. Iowa also came up short in the 2023 national title game, as LSU dominated the Hawkeyes in that year's title game.
Clark never won a championship during her college career. Nevertheless, she is widely viewed as one of women's college basketball's greatest players – which seems to speak to Staley's point about Bueckers not needing to "win the national championship to legitimize" a player's greatness.
South Carolina and UConn tip off at 3 p.m. ET at Amalie Arena.
The NCAA women's basketball tournament Final Four saw a steep drop-off in TV ratings from last year's record-breaking viewership. Without Clark in the tournament, the broadcasts of UConn vs. UCLA and South Carolina vs. Texas averaged just 3.9 million viewers for ESPN. It marked a 64% decrease from the record-setting 10.8 million viewers in 2024, according to Front Office Sports.
Still, even without Clark, this year's Final Four was the second-most watched in history and was even an improvement from the 2023 edition that also featured Clark.
But Clark's popularity as a college player helped the sport peak at such historic awareness last year that the women's championship game between her Iowa team and Dawn Staley's South Carolina had better ratings than the men's championship game for the first time ever.
With Clark in the WNBA, the pro league benefited from that surge in popularity in 2024.
Clark made the Fever the most-watched team in the WNBA by a landslide in her rookie year, as the 14 most-watched WNBA games of the season all included the Fever. On top of that, she broke the record for most All-Star votes for any player in WNBA history.
In early September, Clark’s Indiana Fever played in front of a TV audience of 1.26 million viewers in a game against the Minnesota Lynx that was played at the same time as a Week-1 Friday night NFL game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Green Bay Packers.
In Clark's first regular-season finale against the Washington Mystics on Sept. 19, the 20,711 fans that showed up at Capital One Arena set a new record for the highest-attended WNBA regular-season contest.
Clark drew a WNBA record 1.84 million viewers to her first playoff game against the Connecticut Sun on Sept. 22, while competing with an NFL Sunday. She followed it up with another record audience of 2.54 million viewers for Game 2.
But after Clark's Fever season ended, the WNBA playoffs also saw a steep drop-off in viewers.
The first game between the Aces and Liberty, a rematch of last year's WNBA finals between two of the league's most popular and successful teams, drew an audience of just 929,000, which was 50% less than the Fever's Game 1 against the Sun.
Cooper Flagg, the potential No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft if he decided to leave, missed a potential game-winning shot with less than eight seconds left, and the Cougars escaped with a 70-67 win.
Duke led by as many as 12 in the first half, but Houston was able to cut it to six, as neither team got it quite going offensively.
But the second half was all Duke early on. As the Blue Devils got out to a game-high 14-point lead, Houston had a span where they missed seven of their eight shots.
After that, though, Houston went on an 10-0 run to cut it back down to six with just under five minutes to go, as Dke went on a seven-plus-minute stretch of not hitting a shot. But, the Wooden Award winner Flagg drained a three with just over three minutes to go to make it a nine-point game.
The Cougars were not out, though - in fact, they went on an 11-1 over the final 1:14 to end it.
Houston's Emanuel Sharp knocked down a three with 32.4 seconds left to cut their deficit to three points. Then, off the inbound, Duke turned the ball over, and Houston got a putback dunk to make it a one-point game.
Duke's Tyrese Proctor then missed a one-and-one, and an over-the-back foul on Flagg brought Houston to the line. J'Wan Roberts hit both to take the lead.
After Flagg missed a shot that would have given Duke a lead with less than 10 seconds left, Duke fouled, and L.J. Cryer knocked down both free throws to go up three points. Duke missed a final shot at the buzzer that would have sent them to overtime, sending Duke to the national title game.
Houston scored eight points in the final 33 seconds to Duke's zero to complete the wild comeback.
The two teams shared the longest winning streaks in the NCAA entering the contest - Houston's is now at 18, while Duke's was snapped at 15.
Flagg finished with a game-high 27 points, but his possible last shot in a Duke uniform will be one he'd like to soon forget.
Houston faces Florida on Friday night for the national title.
Philadelphia Phillies infielder Bryson Stott went the extra mile to help a friend make a special announcement.
During the Phillies' game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Citizens Bank Park Saturday, Stott wore a unique piece of equipment for an in-game baby gender reveal.
Stott wore a pink armband when he walked into the batter's box for the first time in Saturday's game. Phillies broadcaster Tom McCarthy announced the second baseman's friend, Ryan Stevens, would soon be a father to a baby girl.
Stott finished Saturday's game with one hit in three plate appearances. The defending World Series champion Dodgers continued their strong start to the 2025 season, defeating the Phillies 3-1.
Walter Clayton Jr. scored 34 points to lead Florida and had a driving layup with 2:24 left after Australian big man Alex Condon drew a charge against Johni Broome, the other All-American in the national semifinal who was dealing with an injured right elbow.
After a record 14 SEC teams made this NCAA Tournament, seven reached the Sweet 16. SEC teams also made up half of the Elite Eight and a Final Four filled with No. 1 seeds.
The Gators will have a chance Monday night to win the SEC’s first title since Kentucky in 2012. Florida takes an 11-game winning streak into the title game at the Alamodome against either Duke or Houston.
Auburn (32-6), in its second Final Four with coach Bruce Pearl, was the tournament's top overall seed.
Dallas Mavericks minority owner and "Shark Tank" host Mark Cuban gave his take on transgender athletes in women's sports this week.
During an interview on "The Stephen A. Smith Show" Friday, Cuban suggested trans inclusion should not be "pushed down people's throats."
"To make it a national issue so that if you weren’t supporting the fewer than 10 trans athletes in the NCAA, then you weren’t a good person. People just aren’t ready for that yet. You've got to meet people where they are," Cuban said. "It takes time, you can’t just force it down people’s throats."
Cuban also suggested people affected by transgender inclusion policies in sports should not be used in political campaigns.
"Instead of trying to get where the people who are being disadvantaged and being discriminated against are helped, they wanted to make it a campaign issue," Cuban said. "Focus on helping the people, not using them to campaign."
A national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America legislative action committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of "Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men using girls' and women’s bathrooms" as important to them.
Additionally, 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was "very important."
Cuban also suggested he supports women athletes who choose not to compete against transgender competitors, saying the decision of whether to compete against trans athletes should be left up to the athletes themselves.
"My attitude is if there’s a trans athlete, no matter what side, you let the opponent — whether it’s an individual sport or a team sport — you let them decide if they want to compete against them or not," Cuban said.
Cuban, a staunch supporter of former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris and an impassioned critic of President Donald Trump, is one of the many prominent left-wing figures who have spoken out against the Democratic Party's stance on trans athlete inclusion.
Smith has repeatedly called out the Democratic Party for its stance on trans athletes, suggesting it played heavily into its defeat in the November election.
HBO host Bill Maher has also criticized Democratic support for trans inclusion in women's sports. Even Democratic lawmakers like Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass, and former Montana Sen. Jon Tester have spoken out against the party's current stance.
A New York Times/Ipsos survey found the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of Democrats, don't think transgender athletes should be permitted to compete in women's sports. Of the 2,128 people who participated, 79% said biological males who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in women's sports.
Of the 1,025 people who identified as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 67% said that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete against women.
The Tennessee Titans may have just revealed to everyone who they are taking with the first overall pick.
Cam Ward has long been considered the favorite to be the top selection, and it seems like that will be the case.
The Titans were scheduled to have a private workout with Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders, who, at one point, was considered ahead of Ward.
But Ward has separated himself in recent weeks from the pack, and there is speculation Sanders is even falling on draft boards. Jaxson Dart is widely considered the third-best QB in the draft.
The Titans and Sanders agreed to cancel that private workout after the team attended his pro day, according to Jim Wyatt of the team's official website.
Wyatt noted the Titans have had eyes on Sanders for a long time, watching four years of game film. The team, Wyatt said, also thought he was "very impressive" at his pro day.
So, maybe they were convinced to take Sanders after his pro day, but considering what's transpired, that doesn't appear to be the case.
Sanders and Travis Hunter, both likely top five picks, played major roles in turning the Buffaloes football program around after transferring there from Jackson State to follow Sanders' father, Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders.
With his superstardom on both sides of the ball, Hunter won the Heisman Trophy. Sanders owns the all-time FBS record for completion percentage at 71.8%. He led the Big 12 with 4,134 passing yards and 37 touchdowns with a 74% completion percentage.
The speculation is that the New York Giants, who own the third overall pick, are big fans of Sanders. Sanders was given a pair of Giants cleats ahead of the Alamo Bowl when the Giants had the No. 1 pick, but they beat the Indianapolis Colts in Week 17 to drop in the draft.
Flagg received the nod over Johni Broome, Walter Clayton Jr., Mark Sears and Braden Smith.
This season, Flagg is averaging 18.9 points, 7.5 rebounds and 4.2 assists. Despite returning from an ankle injury sustained in the ACC tournament, he is putting up 19.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists in the NCAA Tournament.
Flagg has helped carry Duke to the Final Four, and the Blue Devils are the favorite to win it all.
It will not be an easy task because the Final Four features four No. 1 seeds for just the second time in tournament history.
The Blue Devils will take on Houston at 8:49 p.m. ET Saturday after Florida and Auburn meet in San Antonio.
Flagg is the favorite to be the first overall pick this summer if he enters the NBA Draft. Flagg has said he wants to remain at Duke.
"S---, I want to come back next year," the freshman said in February. "I still feel like a kid. This is the only way I’ve ever known college. That’s how I see it. I really wouldn’t know how kids felt before, and if this feels different, if this feels more like being a professional. I mean, it’s the same thing for kids in high school, too, getting paid a lot of money. I don’t know. I feel pretty normal."
Watkins was one of the most dominant players in the NCAA tournament before tearing her ACL in the second round. She is fourth in the nation in scoring with 23.9 points per game, along with 6.8 rebounds, 3.4 assists, 2.2 steals and 1.8 blocks in 33.8 minutes per game.
Watkins was also on pace to potentially break Caitlin Clark's all-time NCAA scoring record before the ACL tear.
Bueckers, a senior, is still playing in the NCAA Tournament and will have a chance to win the championship after dominating UCLA 85-51 in the Final Four Friday.
The last person a 13-year-old was with before he died has been arrested on a separate sexual assault charge, according to the teen's family
Oscar Omar Hernandez was found dead in a ditch earlier this week in Ventura County near Los Angeles, and his family says he was last seen with his youth soccer coach.
On Wednesday, the same day Hernandez's body was found, Los Angeles police arrested the coach on an unrelated sexual assault charge from a case in February 2024.
Hernandez's body was found roughly 70 miles away from his home. According to KTLA in Los Angeles, the family called Hernandez over the weekend, but his phone was answered by the coach, who said Hernandez's hands were covered with paint, and he couldn't answer the phone.
The family had video chatted with Hernandez earlier in the day.
The teen had gone to the coach's house to help paint their team's soccer jerseys, his mother, Gladys Maribel Bautista, told Fox 11. The family reported him missing Sunday after he never returned home, and his body was found three days later.
The coach is now considered a person of interest in the case and has reportedly been questioned.
The coach is not considered a suspect, nor has his identity been released because police have not publicly confirmed he's the same person being questioned regarding the teen's death.
Hernandez's sister, Alejandra, told Fox 11 the coach "even helped us look for Oscar."
"We never thought he would harm him," she said.
Hernandez and his family moved to California from Honduras three years ago.
A UFC fighter played hero in his Phoenix neighborhood late Friday night by apprehending the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a neighbor's home.
Henry Cejudo said he saw a car "probably going 80 to 100 miles an hour" and heard a loud boom. He then saw the car had crashed into his neighbor's home.
After hearing the crash, Cejudo saw the driver leave the car after a bit of a struggle and tried to get him to stop.
The owner of the home did the same. But when the driver "cold-cocked" the neighbor, "that's when I had to step in," Cejudo told MMA Junkie.
From there, it was easy for the former flyweight and bantamweight champion and his neighborhood wrecking crew.
"Pretty much all my neighbors came in to fight the situation. I ended up lifting him, dropping him, slapped him around a little bit and just pretty much controlled him," he said.
President Donald Trump has advanced to Sunday's final round of a Florida golf tournament, the Senior Club Championship, after winning in the second round Saturday, the White House announced.
"The president won his second-round matchup of the senior club championship today in Jupiter, Fla., and advances to the championship round on Sunday," the statement said.
Trump will look to win his second golf championship in a month. In early March, he won the Golf Club Championship at his club in Palm Beach County, Florida.
Trump suggested that tournament would be his last in a Truth Social post, but it turns out it wasn't.
"I just won the Golf Club Championship, probably my last, at Trump International Golf Club, in Palm Beach County, Florida. Such a great honor! The Awards dinner is tonight, at the Club," the March 5 post said.
Trump played in the Senior Club Championship this weekend after a week in which he imposed a series of tariffs on other countries as part of his "Liberation Day" agenda.
Trump imposed a 10% baseline tariff on all imported goods into the United States while some countries were slapped with higher rates.
Trump, in a post on Truth Social Saturday morning, wrote that his plan is already working with trillions of dollars pouring into the U.S. economy and encouraged Americans to "hang tough" after stock market declines.
"We are bringing back jobs and businesses like never before. Already, more than FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS OF INVESTMENT, and rising fast! THIS IS AN ECONOMIC REVOLUTION, AND WE WILL WIN," Trump wrote.
"HANG TOUGH, it won’t be easy, but the end result will be historic. We will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"
Colorado head coach Deion Sanders is not only confident that two of his players will be top 10 picks in the NFL Draft later this month. He says they should be the first two picks announced.
Colorado’s pro day Friday welcomed evaluators from all 32 NFL teams to watch quarterback Shedeur Sanders and Heisman Trophy winner Travis Hunter showcase their talents ahead of the draft in Green Bay, Wisconsin, April 24.
According to ESPN, Sanders and Hunter did not participate in most position drills or physical testing.
But Sanders had a nearly hour-long throwing session that included Hunter. For coach Sanders, it was more than enough to prove both players should be the first and second picks in the draft.
"I think we have the most qualified guys in the draft," he said, via Titans reporter Jim Wyatt. "They are not a risk. Shedeur has been doing it year after year after year after year. Shedeur has led college football in this, this, this and this. And Travis, ain't nobody like Travis.
"So, the surest bets in this draft — and I'm not a betting man, I'm a Godly man — are those two young men. And I didn't stutter or stammer when I said that, did I?
The Tennessee Titans have the first pick in this year’s draft, and most forecasters have them selecting Miami quarterback Cam Ward. But the Titans seemed impressed Friday with both Colorado star players.
"Shedeur threw the ball well, and we got to see him out there with Travis," Titans general manager Mike Borgonzi said, via the team website.
"And Travis, everything you see on film – he is one of the twitchiest athletes I've ever seen. He's impressive. It was good to see Shedeur go through the whole workout and the two-minute drill after. It just confirms a lot of stuff you saw on tape. He can drive the deep ball. You saw that here today."
The Cleveland Browns could take Hunter with the No. 2 pick, opening the door for the New York Giants to draft Sanders at No. 3.
"It's tough to turn down that money when you know you're going to be No. 1, but he's at a great program, Duke," Johnson told TMZ Sports.
"To go back to Duke and spend one more year, just get them skills together a little bit more. I think that would be a pretty good idea. But, again, knowing you're gonna be No. 1 coming out as a freshman, that'd be hard to turn down."
Johnson also dismissed the idea Flagg would be risking an injury if he stayed at college, which could affect his draft stock.
"You can get hurt doing anything," he said.
Johnson had an opportunity to go out on a high note. He was on his way to the NBA after winning the national championship with UNLV in 1990, but he returned for one more year.
"I want to come back next year," the freshman said. "I still feel like a kid. This is the only way I’ve ever known college. That’s how I see it. I really wouldn’t know how kids felt before, and if this feels different, if this feels more like being a professional. I mean, it’s the same thing for kids in high school, too, getting paid a lot of money. I don’t know. I feel pretty normal."
Flagg and the Blue Devils will take on Houston in Saturday's Final Four at 8:49 p.m. ET in San Antonio.
Flagg, who returned from an ankle injury he sustained in the ACC tournament, is averaging 19.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists in the tournament, numbers similar to what he posted during the regular season.
A video of women's disc golfer Abigail Wilson refusing to face a transgender opponent went viral on Friday, prompting praise from women's sports rights activists.
The incident came just days after Fox News Digital reported that women's fencer Stephanie Turner had refused to face a transgender opponent at a competition in Maryland, prompting global awareness and criticism against USA Fencing.
Wilson's refusal to face the trans athlete came on Friday in Nashville, Tennessee, at the MVP Music City Open, which is an event that is officially sanctioned by the Disc Golf Pro Tour and the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA). When her name was called to step up to compete, she walked up to the tee box, wound up her toss, and flung her arm forward, but didn't let go of the disc. Then she turned around to explain why.
"Females must be protected in our division!" Wilson yelled to the crowd. "This is unfair. I refuse to play!"
Later on Friday, she shared the footage of her protest in an Instagram video.
"Today I refused to play at the Music City Open. Females deserve to have their gender protected division be protected. This is unfair. I have worked so hard to get to this point to play on the DGPT, but the sacrifice of my career and my hard work is worth it if it means I can make a difference for other women, daughters, nieces, and the future of our sport. If you feel how wrong it is to have biological males be competing in female protected divisions in sports, now is the time to speak up and stand your ground," she wrote in the caption.
"I took this stand today because I was having anxiety about playing with the openly trans player on tour because of the planned protests for this year and the threats of violence at the event last year. After speaking with a member of the DGPT staff yesterday they made it clear they would be unwilling to change me to an earlier tee time when regarding my fears of safety on the course.
"They assured me that there would be bag checks, police, and security at the event. Upon arriving this morning there was no security or police presence, I was also allowed entry even though I did not have my credentials. There were zero security precautions."
Wilson added that she believes the decision will end her disc golfing career.
"Today I most likely ended my career and that is okay because this is bigger than me."
Fox News Digital has reached out to the CEO and Tour Director of the Disc Golf Pro Tour Jeff Spring for comment.
The Professional Disc Golf Association rules state that transgender players who were assigned male at birth are eligible to compete in the women's category after undergoing continuous hormone therapy for at least 24 months and maintaining a certain testosterone level, verified through multiple blood tests. Eligibility can also be achieved through gender-affirming surgery, with the same requirements for testosterone levels post-surgery.
The trans competitor who prompted Wilson's protest, Natalie Ryan, first garnered attention in September 2022 after winning the women's division at the Discraft Great Lakes Open, and achieving a rank as one of the world’s top five female-classified disc golfers.
Ryan identifies as openly transgender, according to the athlete's Instagram page.
The Music City Open marked Ryan's return to the sport after recovering from "very invasive surgery," the athlete revealed in a post on Thursday.
At the 2024 Music City Open, the event had to be paused after a terroristic threat, which was targeted at Ryan, the organization released in a statement.
"A call came into the event site stating there would be a threat of potential violence against a competitor at this weekend’s tournament," a tour statement read.
