When reflecting on how the Gunners ended up in a situation where their two most lucrative names have been allowed to run down their contracts, it’s important to note that only Alexis has pushed for a move away and came close to leaving north London for Manchester City on transfer deadline day last summer. Ozil, meanwhile, has been the subject of interest from the likes of Barcelona and Manchester United yet found himself in a position where Arsenal have only recently put a formal contract offer on the table following prolonged talks....

His father is Paul Coffman, who was an NFL tight end for the Packers, Vikings and Chiefs during a 10-year career. His oldest brother, Chase, was a third-round pick out of Missouri by the Bengals in 2009 and is a tight end for the Titans. His other older brother, Carson, has quarterbacked in various arena football leagues around the country after his career at Kansas State. MORE: SN Power Poll | Dad on Will Grier: ‘I just knew something great was going to happen’...

The ESPN personality was suspended by the Worldwide Leader for insulting Penn State students and supporters in a series of tweets. Olbermann hasn’t been Penn State’s biggest fan in recent memory, but he claims in this case he didn’t click the link to the story that led to his irresponsible back-and-forth with the Nittany Lions faithful. MORE: Top 10 Nittany Lions | Tweets we wish Steve Spurrier would’ve tweeted | Top 25 coaches without titles...

The last time Thurman was in the ring, he fell short in a split decision loss to Manny Pacquiao in July 2019. It was the first loss of Thurman’s career and in between injuries and a global pandemic, it’s taken quite some time for “One Time” to find his way back inside of a boxing ring. Barrios will be making his debut at welterweight after spending much of his career in the super-lightweight division and holding the WBA (Regular) championship....

The Malaysian FA (FAM) Status Committee has instructed Kelantan to pay a total of around RM 190,000 (around USD 44,553.88) it owes to its former personnel. In a statement dated June 1, the committee found that the Red Warriors owe unpaid wages to two former players; Tuan Muhamad Faim Bin Tuan Zainal Abidin (RM9,000) and Faizal Bin Abu Bakar (RM44,000), current squad member Khairul Izuan Rosli (RM77,486.87), as well as former head coach Velizar Popov (USD 14,000, or around RM 59,703)....

Thursday night’s matchup between the Heat and Hornets ended with a Charlotte victory, but not before some Swaggy P-level high jinks from Walker. The Hornets point guard was so absolutely sure his shot was going in, he turned away and hit ’em with the shoulders. MORE: 12 surprises, disappointments from the NBA season But then the darndest thing happened. The shot rimmed out. Keep doing you, Kemba.

In fact, no No. 1 pick had ever come close before Griffey. Harold Baines, the first pick in 1977, was the only previous candidate ever to receive more than the five percent of the vote needed to stay on the ballot. Baines received as many as 33 votes before falling off the ballot in 2011, his fifth year. Griffey was just the 10th No. 1 pick even to appear on a ballot....

A day earlier, word came that professional wrestler John Cena would be the race’s honorary pace car driver. MORE: Hall of Fame calls Griffey, Mike Piazza | Junior’s many uniforms | Baseball only part of Junior story | Classic images of The Kid All this ramps up anticipation for the 58th running of the Daytona 500, the climax of Speedweeks at the Florida speedway. The race is scheduled for Feb....

MORE: Baylor is proof that win-at-all-costs mentality has too high a price They even put their name to it — in the form of a full-page ad in Sunday’s Austin American-Statesman. Among the names of listed donors to the advertisement is Ray and Ellen Deaver, whose son, Kyle, is the mayor of Waco, Texas — the city in which the school resides. The ad looks awful in light of reports that Starr may have known that a female student had allegedly been raped by a Baylor football player — and did nothing about it....

LeBron James was left wanting more, and asked the Compton, Calif., native for new music. MORE: Best NBA players by age | LeBron’s Cavs aren’t so scary On Thursday night, Lamar dropped a new album — eight tracks titled “Untitled Unmastered” on iTunes. Now, it could have been a coincidence. But then Top Dawg Entertainment CEO Anthony Tiffith responded on Instagram. (Warning: Video contains strong language.) It must be good to be the king....

Those were essentially the words of Warriors All-Star forward Draymond Green, who uploaded a podcast titled “Warriors-Celtics NBA Finals Game 3 Reaction: ‘I played terrible’” to The Volume’s YouTube channel just hours after Game 3 of the NBA Finals ended. Green, whose presence in the media as an active player is both groundbreaking and revolutionary, has continued to record podcasts throughout the 2022 NBA Playoffs, much to the dismay of a number of former players....

The student, Mallory Jech, detailed the alleged abuse in a 16-tweet thread (now since locked), claiming she and Brooks dated from June 2018 to March 2019, living together at one point during their relationship. She said Brooks not only cheated on and manipulated her, but also abused her mentally and physically abused her, scaring her anytime they argued. She did not file complaints with police. Jech also claimed to have pictures of bruises on her phone through text messages between the two, one accompanied by a message from Brooks that allegedly read, “I should not have to put my hands on you to move....

And yet, for all the woe that surrounds this franchise, Atkinson and his Nets have to be the sunniest bunch of 4-7 NBAers in recent memory, despite a roster packed with obvious deficiencies and few tools available to address those deficiencies. The Nets, of course, are subject to a draft-pick swap with Boston this year and owe next year’s pick outright to the Celtics, meaning they won’t reap the usual benefits of missing the playoffs, no matter how spectacularly they do so....

Lillard has been remarkable this month, pushing the Trail Blazers into the NBA Playoffs during the league’s seeding games. He ended the seeding games by scoring 154 points in his team’s final three games, and did so with his outstanding 3-point range. He did the same thing Tuesday night in the Trail Blazers’ surprising upset over the Lakers, finishing 6-of-13 from deep. With Lillard being so hot, Smith got lost in the moment and said during Tuesday’s broadcast of “NBA On TNT” that the Trail Blazers star had better range than Curry....

The 1.99-mile winding road course is becoming NASCAR’s newest short track, producing rough, physical racing highlighted by wild wrecks and thrilling finishes. Sunday’s bumping and banging left plenty of victims in its wake, with drivers like Matt Kenseth, AJ Allmendinger, Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer seeing their days get ruined by NASCAR’s newest style of bumper cars. Our winners and losers from the Toyota/Save Mart 350: Winners Carl Edwards — It might have been a road course, but Edwards’ team developed the winning strategy and the driver did his part for a surprising win....

“It’s going to be Kenta,” Roberts reiterated to reporters, after a question that sought to “triple-, quadruple-check” that nothing in the 10-2 loss would lead Roberts to adjust the rotation he announced earlier in the week. MORE: Best photos from the NLCS Kershaw has pitched on short rest repeated times in this postseason, and would be doing so again if he were to start Thursday. Now, it appears he’ll be pushed back to Saturday’s Game 6 and likely would have limited availability if there’s a deciding Game 7 the next day....

“The difficult thing to explain with her is it’s so far after the wire, and she was easing down like you’d like to see a horse slow down by that point. I don’t have an explanation for it,” Dr. Larry Bramlage, the on-call veterinarian, told the Associated Press after the fall. Between Eight Belles and Barbaro, the beloved Kentucky Derby winner euthanized last year due to complications from an injury sustained during the 2006 Preakness Stakes, two celebrated horses have now suffered fatal injuries on live television in Triple Crown races since 2006....

Secretariat still holds the Run for the Roses record at 1:59.40, set in 1973. He ran the 1 1/4 mile race nearly a minute faster than Kingman did in 1891 (2:52.25). MORE: Kentucky Derby date, times and TV schedule PHOTOS: 2014 Kentucky Derby 1875: Aristides, 2:37.75 1876: Vagrant, 2:38.25 1877: Baden-Baden, 2:38 1878: Day Star, 2:37.25 1879: Lord Murphy, 2:37 1880: Fonso, 2:37.50 1881: Hindoo, 2:40 1882: Apollo, 2:40.25...

SUBSCRIBE TO THE PARTING SHOT WITH H. ALAN SCOTT ON APPLE PODCASTS OR SPOTIFY What first interested you about City on a Hill? I read this pilot three years ago. I was just knocked out by the character. At this point in my life, for a guy who’s new to me, because I’ve played a lot of different kinds of men, that becomes kind of hard to find. First off, he’s incredibly corrupt and has a very dark side to him....