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Popular halftime performer Red Panda injured in fall at WNBA game

Acrobat Red Panda, a popular halftime performer known for juggling various items while riding a 7-foot unicycle, suffered a scary fall while performing during the 2025 WNBA Commissioner's Cup game at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Red Panda, whose real name is Rong Niu, is well known for her performances at NBA and WNBA games. (USA Today)

D. Wayne Lukas, Hall of Fame trainer who transformed thoroughbred racing, dies at 89

D. Wayne Lukas, the cowboy-hatted former schoolteacher who revolutionized horse training and helped redefine thoroughbred racing in the modern era, died Saturday after a brief illness. He was 89. A four-time Kentucky Derby winner and 20-time Breeders’ Cup champion, Lukas didn’t just train champions — he trained the sport itself. (WDRB)

NCAA’s new revenue-sharing era dawns with hope for change and questions about the future

College sports has officially entered its revenue-sharing era, putting away the concept of amateurism for good. Schools can now pay millions of dollars a year directly to their athletes, thanks to the NCAA settling three antitrust cases, known as the House settlement. Today - July 1, 2025 - is the first day that athletes can receive such payouts. (NBC Sports)

Before Bill Belichick, there was Bill Walsh. How a legendary coach moves to the college game

Legendary NFL coach Bill Walsh was content, until a more personal opportunity came along at Stanford in January 1992. It was an unconventional move that placed pro football's sharpest mind in college. Walsh had coached college before, but what followed became a test of whether brilliance could adapt in a setting defined by a new set of variables. (ESPN.com)

Javon Small’s grandfather had powerful reaction after grandson was picked in NBA Draft

Amid all of this year's lovely familial draft reactions, former West Virginia Mountaineers point guard Javon Small's grandfather might take the cake. When the Memphis Grizzlies drafted Small and helped him realize his basketball dream, the ESPN camera panned to his grandfather, powerfully overcome with so much happiness and emotion. (USA Today)

Wetzel: Please don't expand NCAA basketball tournaments

The most convincing argument against expanding the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments from 68 teams is pretty simple. Almost no one is asking for it. There is no groundswell from fans. There are no massive ratings for the current First Four (i.e., play-in) games that suggest consumer demand. (ESPN.com)

The NBA Won’t Forget About the 2024-25 Indiana Pacers

In the aftermath of watching any group lose in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, appreciation is a distant emotion. But without taking anything away from the Oklahoma City Thunder, a dominant champion that took care of business, if any runner-up in history deserves to be remembered more fondly than the team that just beat it, it’s the Indiana Pacers. (The Ringer)

Rece Davis shreds 'ridiculous' CWS ejection of Coastal Carolina coaches: 'That guy’s got to go'

Game 2 of the College World Series finale between Coastal Carolina and Louisiana State University had some fireworks early in the showdown. Chanticleers head coach Kevin Schnall and first base coach Matt Schilling were ejected in controversial fashion, and Rece Davis is taking the umpire who made the decision to task. (On3.com)

Louisville center Aly Khalifa eligible for 2025-26 basketball season

A little over a month after being deemed ineligible to compete in the 2025-26 men’s basketball season, Louisville big man Aly Khalifa has now been given the good-to-go by the NCAA. Known as one of the best passing big men in college, Khalifa sat out last season to undergo, and recover from, surgery to repair a hole in the cartilage of his left knee. (Card Chronicle)

LSU has earned title as college baseball's premier program

On a hair dryer of a Sunday afternoon in the town that every June becomes de facto Baton Rouge North, the LSU Tigers didn't merely win a Men's CWS national championship. Nor was it merely their eighth overall. The title they really won was that of Greatest Ever College Baseball Program. "This city feels like home to us," said former LSU coach Skip Bertman. (ESPN.com)

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