We’re exactly six days away from the NFL draft, and yet we still aren’t sure what the first round is going to look like. Perhaps Deebo Samuel, A.J. Brown, and/or Terry McLaurin are traded in the next few days and shake up the first round. Maybe the Panthers make a move for Baker Mayfield. And I don’t remember the last time there was this much mystery surrounding the first overall pick. Will the Jaguars take Hutchinson? Thibodeaux? Walker? Neal? Ekwonu? Do they blow up everyone’s mock drafts and choose Sauce Gardner or Derek Stingley Jr.? As crazy as it sounds, those moves aren’t out of the question. The biggest question of all, though, is where will each of the big-ticket quarterbacks go. Never before has there been such a plethora of talent at the quarterback position in the …

When Nikita Parris watched the 2012 Olympics as a fan, she had one eye on the debut of the Team GB women’s football team. The other was focused on the boxing ring. Why? Because there her sister Natasha Jonas was carving out her own little piece of history, becoming the first British female boxer to compete at an Olympic Games.

Nine years later Parris is following a road taken by her sister that perhaps she would not have expected when plans for a Team GB women’s football team for Rio 2016 fell apart. Last week the England and Lyon forward was named in the squad for the Tokyo Games.

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Kylian Mbappé has insisted that he was not concerned by the Argentina goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez’s celebrations following the World Cup final but admitted he will “probably never get over” France’s defeat.

Mbappé became the first player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final since England’s Sir Geoff Hurst in 1966, but still ended up on the losing side after Martínez’s heroics in the penalty shootout.

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For Joel Mannix, witnessing Sam Allison becoming the first black Premier League referee for 15 years when he took charge of Sheffield United against Luton in December was just the start. A founder member of BAMREF – an organisation that seeks to give a voice and support to all officials from black, Asian and mixed heritage communities – Mannix has devoted the past three years to helping others overcome the barriers he faced.

“I knew I would never see the promised land as a referee,” he says. “I was getting bored with the same old negative words from observers. Sometimes, when doors keep closing on you it can get disheartening …”

But with Sunny Gill having made history in March when he became the first …

Much like politics and elections, we can’t really change them because they still cater to old white people, who also happen to have all the money, we can’t really ignore golf either, no matter how much of an anachronism it might be. That’s why they employ Steph Curry to try and make it into a hip gameshow during his free time from trying to keep poor people five miles at least from his house at all times. And golf’s biggest anachronism, the Masters, takes its usual place over Easter weekend starting today. For your benefit, we definitely spent at least seven minutes researching what are the best storylines heading into this year’s edition, where someone definitely interesting or that you’ve heard of before or care about in the least will win it. Is that LIV vs. PGA thing st…

Naomi Osaka's first Wimbledon match in five years was a victory, and she was just relieved to get into the second round. Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam champion, notched a 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 victory over Diane Parry of France on Monday in her first-round match at the All England Club in London. Osaka had 34 winners to 14 for Parry and saved 8 of 12 break points while recording a victory at Wimbledon for the first time since 2018, when she was ousted in the third round by Germany's Angelique Kerber. "For me, it felt really fun and really stressful at the same time," Osaka said after the win. "It was fun because the crowd was so engaged. … It felt like an arena. The match I think was a little up-and-down, but I think overall it was something that I can take a lot awa…

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