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Not every contract standoff that could potentially lead to a training camp holdout should be viewed as a blunder. The Commanders, for example, have yet to extend wideout Terry McLaurin which has led to some public tension. However, McLaurin will turn 30 in September and isn’t to command a contract at the very top of the market. Washington needs to …

JC Tretter, considered one of two favorites to take over as interim executive director of the NFL Players Association, resigned from the organization Sunday, a league source confirmed to The Athletic. A source briefed on the procedure said the NFLPA executive board still plans to meet in the coming days to determine a process for selecting an interim executive director. …

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland — There is a universal truth in this game: Golf can never be fully mastered. Rarified excellence can be achieved, but to see all the pillars of the game firing at once, coupled with the glue that is the golfer’s mind, is the exception, not the norm. A player can feel complete, but that state is fleeting, …

Lindsay Barad felt like she was in the best shape of her life. The 39-year-old New Yorker had just run her fourth 26.2-mile marathon, and was avoiding alcohol and even eating clean. She felt unstoppable. But just a month after the race in 2021, she was hit with a devastating diagnosis of stage four appendiceal cancer and told she had hundreds …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Andry Hernández Romero, a makeup artist from Venezuela who was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration and held in a notorious mega-prison, was among the scores of migrants sent back to Venezuela in a three-nation exchange Friday, a California congressman said. Rep. Robert Garcia posted on social media Friday night: “We have been in touch …

Though H5N1 avian flu outbreaks in dairy cattle and commercial poultry are at low levels in the United States, scientists continue to sort out how the virus spreads on farms, and two new pieces of information this week shed more light on potential spread in dairy cattle: contamination from house flies and “milk snatching”. Over the last 30 days, the …

Pundit Includes Ravens Among Teams Facing Most Pressure in 2025 Success breeds high expectations, and with high expectations comes pressure. The Ravens have been perennial Super Bowl contenders during the Lamar Jackson era, but they have yet to get over the hump. For that reason, NFL.com’s Tom Blair included them on his list of teams facing the most pressure this …

Young people appear to be increasingly vulnerable to gastrointestinal cancers, but researchers aren’t entirely sure what is driving the surge in disease. In a new study out this week, scientists led by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute found that rates of early-onset GI cancers—those occurring in people younger than 50—are rising more rapidly than other types of cancer. In particular, colorectal …

There are eclectic tales at the summit of this Open leaderboard. It just appeared as if nobody was minded to pay heed to them on a day when Rory McIlroy’s competitive return to Northern Ireland turned every head and Scottie Scheffler performed his usual trick of hiding in plain sight. McIlroy seemed to battle his game more than the elements …

Matt BowenJul 17, 2025, 12:15 PM ET Close Matt Bowen is a fantasy football and NFL writer for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2015, writes regularly for ESPN+ and spent multiple years on “NFL Matchup.” After graduating from the University of Iowa, Matt played safety in the NFL for St. Louis, Green Bay, Washington and Buffalo over seven seasons. Earlier …