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Three-star defensive back Braylon Conley will leave his native Texas to go play for USC.Don't look now, but Lincoln Riley is building up quite the recruiting class for 2024 over at USC.This is Riley's first full offseason recruiting players to Southern California. After a disastrou...

All-Star guard Fred VanVleet secured a massive three-year max contract from the Houston Rockets -- and reminded us all to bet on yourself.The Houston Rockets swindled Fred VanVleet away from the Toronto Raptors with a massive three-year, $130 million contract. VanVleet will now captain the ship ...

Sarina Wiegman was “very disappointed” England had not won but insisted the performance was not a concern after they were held to a goalless draw by Portugal in their Women’s World Cup warm-up match at Stadium MK. The European champions’ last home game before departing for this summer’s showpiece in Australia and New Zealand saw them unable to make a breakthrough despite creating a considerable number of chances. Georgia Stanway and Lucy Bronze both struck the woodwork and Alessia Russo was denied by a goalline block, while other notable moments included Rachel Daly having a header saved, Lauren Hemp heading over and Russo firing wide. Lionesses boss Wiegman said: “Of course my first thoughts are that I am, but also the team is, very disappointed that we didn’t win this game. “But we also take a lot of learnings from it and I think at moments we saw the things we really have been working on, that we wanted to show, a way of creating chances. “I think the first half we were a little bit too slow, the ball tempo was, and we had too many players behind the ball or very close to it, and then when we did break lines we didn’t have enough numbers higher up the pitch. I think we did that a lot better in the second half. “We had players higher on the pitch and created more chances, although I think in the first half we created a couple. But we just didn’t score. “I think we had moments that were really good and moments we could have done a little better.” Asked specifically about chances that fell to Daly, who started up front, and Russo, who replaced her at half-time, Wiegman said: “I think the first thing is you want to create lots of chances, and then see how we execute that. “And yes, it’s disappointing of course, they want to be ruthless and score those chances, and today they didn’t. It’s not a worry for me. “It’s just we want to get into those positions. When you got so much into those positions today – I think that’s pretty good. But of course we want to do the final touch too, and that’s to get the ball in the net. So we all know that.” The Dutchwoman added: “That was today a little problem, but if you see how many chances we created – I think we had 23 shots on goal – there won’t be many matches where we then don’t score.” England fly to Australia on Wednesday and face Canada behind closed doors in a final warm-up match on July 14 before opening their World Cup campaign against Haiti in Brisbane eight days later. When Wiegman, who made a treble change in personnel at the interval and six substitutions in total, was asked if she was closer to knowing her starting XI for the Haiti game than she had been before the Portugal contest, she said: “No. I’m not closer now. “I’m not sure if we get closer than this though. At the end you have to make decisions. I think in some positions it’s really tight. We have some time now. So, no, I’m not sure, and this is not the time to make the final decision because we still have a couple of weeks to go.” England were playing a Portugal outfit ranked 17 places below them at 21st and who will be making their first appearance at a World Cup finals this summer. Boss Francisco Neto said: “Playing in this kind of environment is not easy, and the emotional stability that we had during the game, I’m very happy with that, because it looks like the girls are ready for the environment that they will have in the World Cup.” Read More Charity boss speaks out over ‘traumatic’ encounter with royal aide Ukraine war’s heaviest fight rages in east - follow live Late reprieve for Ben Duckett keeps England’s hope of miracle chase alive Katie Boulter not feeling pressure of being British number one at Wimbledon Novak Djokovic still hungry as he bids for 24th Grand Slam singles title

Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard has requested a trade and the seven-time NBA All-Star guard prefers a deal to the Miami Heat, according...

With James Harden and Damian Lillard likely to be moved, why not look at a deal that gets this done in one fell swoop?NBA free agency has opened, and a massive wave of moves have already been agreed upon that will be signed soon. With that in mind, there are still massive dominoes to fall, and m...

All the dates for Der Klassiker in the 2023/24 Bundesliga season as Borussia Dortmund try to wrestle the title out of Bayern Munich's vice-like grip

WWE Money in the Bank 2023 takes place on Saturday, July 1 at 3:00 p.m. ET, live from the O2 Arena in London, England. Here are the full results and highlights from the show.The next WWE premium live event on the calendar has arrived. On Saturday, July 1 at 3:00 p.m. ET, WWE presents Money in th...

Damian Lillard wants out. Which teams can deliver what he desires: a chance to win the NBA championship?The Portland Trail Blazers were stuck between a rock and a hard place after using the No. 3 overall pick on Scoot Henderson in last month's NBA Draft. It always felt like a matter of time...

The Los Angeles Lakers have filled out most of their roster after the first two waves of free agency. What does their depth chart look like now?The Los Angeles Lakers have made a lot of moves to fill out the team's depth. The Lakers added a lot of wing depth and have added an interesting ad...

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark could not have been more excited to welcome BYU, Cincinnati, Houston and UCF into his rapidly growing Power Five conference on July 1.The days are over when it comes to laughing at the Big 12's small market energy.For those who have followed along to th...

Kyrie Irving plans to meet with several teams in free agency

Damian Lillard has asked the Portland Trail Blazers for a trade, a move that will end the seven-time All-Star’s tenure with that team, according to two people familiar with the matter