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LOS ANGELES — Superstar NBA guard James Harden and the Philadelphia 76ers are still ironing out the final details of a one-plus-one contract that will see him take a $15 million discount. But Harden said he is “locked in” with the Sixers and eager to get to work. In an exclusive interview with Yahoo Sports

Ryan Garcia looked fantastic Saturday in his 6-round destruction of Javier Fortuna in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) Four years ago, Ryan Garcia, Teofimo Lopez, Devin Haney and Gervonta Davis were all fledgling lightweights with oversized personalities who were overflowing with talent. Speed, power, quickness, intelligence, charisma, punching accuracy, courage — you name it,

There’s a reason the Cleveland Browns were placed in the middle of these rankings. It’s impossible to know what to make of them. When the rankings were finalized, the Deshaun Watson saga hadn’t been settled. With Watson for a full season, the Browns are clearly a top-10 team. Without Watson, the Browns would be much

Will it be a busy year on the coaching carousel in college football? Last year saw some of the more shocking coaching movement in recent history, headlined by Lincoln Riley’s stunning departure from Oklahoma to USC and Brian Kelly leaving his long-time perch at Notre Dame for the appeal of the SEC at LSU. Which

Several big names came off the board over a fascinating draft weekend in Montreal. Kris Letang, Marc-Andre Fleury and Filip Forsberg received offers lucrative enough to stay in their respective markets, taking a little bit of the potential sting off the NHL free agency window. Still, there are some intriguing names out there. Let’s run

The Minnesota Vikings haven’t been bad. They aren’t boring either; any team with Dalvin Cook and Justin Jefferson will be fun to watch. They’ve just been stuck. Something had to change. Whether Kevin O’Connell will be a better coach than Mike Zimmer, who was fired after last season, is debatable. Zimmer was 72-56-1 with the

Rafael Fiziev earned his sixth straight win in the UFC Saturday with a late knockout of Rafael dos Anjos at UFC Vegas 58 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC) LAS VEGAS — The list of contenders in the lightweight division keeps growing. The latest to establish himself as a bona fide contender is

We like to think of the New York Giants as a blue blood NFL franchise. They’ve been around since the early years. They have four Lombardi Trophies. Some great players are part of Giants lore. The truth is, it has been a while since the Giants did anything to be proud about. Since Feb. 5,

The Miami Dolphins like winning the offseason. This year, the big splash was trading for star receiver Tyreek Hill. Maybe they hoped that move would help everyone forget about the controversial firing of coach Brian Flores, the racial discrimination lawsuit that came after, and the accusations that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross offered Flores $100,000 for

You expect things to go well for the New York Yankees. If hope springs eternal, then envy does also — mostly among the 29 other fan bases. Over the past few years, though, the Yankees have repeatedly run into their own sort of obstacles, and their own form of disappointment. Their playoff exits under Aaron

It has been one year and four days since the NFL announced the outcome of the Wilkinson investigation into the cesspool that is the Washington Commanders workplace. In a signature show of hubris, the league sent out the news on the eve of Fourth of July weekend, as if the 24-hour news cycle and smartphones

LAS VEGAS — Alexander Volkanovski didn’t get into MMA as some sort of blue-chip, heavily hyped prospect. After a career as a 214-pound rugby player, Volkanovski turned to mixed martial arts with zero fanfare, worldwide or in Australia, where he’s from. He lost his fourth pro fight to Corey Nelson, now a crane operator in

When news broke on NBA draft night that Kevin Durant was “monitoring the Brooklyn Nets’ situation and considering options with his future,” the team’s former assistant general manager turned ESPN front-office insider Bobby Marks suggested a trade “return package on Durant would be the largest in league history.” It better be, because the Nets are

One of the most common ways to get started on your fantasy football preparation for the season ahead is to not only look at positional rankings but also at the state of each NFL team’s offense. Which teams are most set up for success? Which teams are set to struggle? Which of those expected bottom-feeder

It’s been changing — slowly — but for decades NFL quarterbacks were almost exclusively white, by design. Fairly or unfairly, they were painted as their respective teams’ CEO, an extension of the owner class and head coaches. Maybe some of them wanted to speak up for things like human rights, civil rights and equality, but

Let’s look at a handful of BABIP — BABIP being “Batting Average on Balls in Play,” a metric used to put context on hitter/pitcher outcomes that don’t include homers and strikeouts — outliers over the first few months of the fantasy season. Unlucky Hitters Christian Walker, 1B, Arizona Diamondbacks (.184 BABIP) Walker somehow remains available