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Preseason college football Power Rankings: Who's No. 1 in 2026?
Can Indiana do it again? Will Texas break through? Is Notre Dame ready to rise up? Here's our preseason top 25.
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The ten most important sports stories across the United States and Canada right now — ranked by freshness, coverage breadth, publisher authority and momentum. How ranking works
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01 02 SportsUnited StatesFormer Alabama basketball player wins $9.25m in defamation case against New York Times
Kai Spears incorrectly linked to death of young mother Times says it had not lost libel case in more than 50 years An Alabama jury has awarded $9.25m in damages after finding that the New York Times defamed a college basketball player by incorrectly reporting that he was at the scene of a fatal shooting . Kai Spears, who played for the University of Alabama men’s team, sued the Times in 2023 after it published a report, citing a person familiar with the investigation, that said he was a…
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03 SportsUnited StatesWNBA commissioner says ‘haters’ trying to stir up debate about trans athletes and league
Transgender woman has never played in the league Engelbert says league being used as ‘political football’ The WNBA commissioner, Cathy Engelbert, has denounced people she said are trying to “sow divisiveness” as the league grapples with a debate over transgender athletes. Engelbert made the comments on Thursday before the Indiana Fever’s loss to the Dallas Wings at the home of the Dallas Mavericks. Demonstrators showed up outside American Airlines Center, as they have at other venues since the…
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04 SportsUnited StatesThe Los Angeles Lakers sold for $12.5 billion. Here’s what every NBA team is now worth
The pending $12.5 billion Lakers sale would lift CNBC’s average NBA team valuation 21% to $6.68 billion, with the Warriors still No. 1.
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05 SportsUnited StatesPulisic, Friedel, Dempsey: Best Premier League careers in USMNT history
With the Premier League kicking off and several Americans set to play big minutes in 2026-27, ESPN ranks the best careers by U.S. players in the league.
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06 Have fun! Don't dig holes in the outfield! MLB players give their Little League advice
We asked major leagues what one piece of advice from their youth baseball days stuck with them -- and what advice they'd give now. Here's what they said.
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07 Updated top 100 MLB prospect rankings: Which future star is No. 1?
Here's who has surged up our list now that the draft and trade season have passed.
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08 SportsCanada'We have dogs in Ottawa': Akheem Mesidor is paving the way for next gen Canadian NFL players
Ottawa is having a moment in the NFL. And the city's first first-rounder Akheem Mesidor hopes to usher in the next generation.
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09 SportsUnited StatesFrom Showtime to Insurance Time: how the LA Lakers became a $12.5bn hedge fund play
Bob Iger and Josh Kushner’s $12.5bn bid to buy the Lakers shows that NBA teams are no longer family dynasties, but quick flips for private equity sharks For years, the NBA was built on the alliance of patient money and marketing pizzazz, and no team captured that curious mixture better than the Los Angeles Lakers. Through Showtime in the 1980s and the dominance of the Shaq-Kobe years, the Lakers became the benchmark for a league and a sport intent on global conquest: charismatic, ambitious, and…
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10 QB Beau Pribula traveled 6K miles in eight days to find a new home. He wasn't alone
Among the struggles? Finding yourself on a visit and another player takes your roster spot.
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