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5 days ago | 
bvmsports.com | Billy Heyen
By Billy Heyen via @sportingnews, The Golden State Warriors need Stephen Curry. That inexplicable Game 1 win over the Timberwolves that the Warriors pulled off despite Curry's second-quarter hamstring injury seems like it happened ages ago. Since then, in Games 2 and 3, it's been clear that Golden State can't score enough without Curry on the floor. They didn't make a single 3-pointer in the first half Saturday night. That's unheard of. But with Curry out, things are different. Spacing is worse.
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5 days ago | 
sportingnews.com | Billy Heyen
The Golden State Warriors need Stephen Curry. That inexplicable Game 1 win over the Timberwolves that the Warriors pulled off despite Curry’s second-quarter hamstring injury seems like it happened ages ago. Since then, in Games 2 and 3, it’s been clear that Golden State can’t score enough without Curry on the floor. They didn’t make a single 3-pointer in the first half Saturday night. That’s unheard of. But with Curry out, things are different. Spacing is worse. Ball handling is worse.
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5 days ago | 
sportingnews.com | Billy Heyen
Jonathan Kuminga looked to be as good as gone. The 22-year old Golden State Warriors forward sat out four of the first eight games of this postseason run for the Dubs. He had gone from being a top draft pick just a few years ago to a guy that couldn't even get into the small seconds at any point in a game. The Stephen Curry hamstring injury changed everything for Kuminga, though. Golden State had no choice but to try and let Kuminga cook.
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5 days ago | 
sportingnews.com | Billy Heyen
Shedeur Sanders had all sorts of support as he slid during the NFL Draft to the No. 144 overall selection in the fifth round by the Cleveland Browns. One of those supporters? President Donald Trump. POTUS wrote on social media during the draft that Sanders has "phenomenal genes" and is "destined for greatness."Sanders was asked Saturday at Browns rookie minicamp about the support of the President. "I was truly thankful for it," he told reporters.
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5 days ago | 
sportingnews.com | Billy Heyen
The Jacksonville Jaguars have a plan. They made it clear on Saturday after Travis Hunter spent the first two days of the Jaguars' rookie offseason program just as a wide receiver. Don't worry: His two-way dreams aren't dead. They'll just get underway in earnest next week.
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5 days ago | 
sportingnews.com | Billy Heyen
No one is quite sure what to call MLB's Athletics. They aren't in Oakland anymore. They don't want to be called Sacramento, their current home base. And they aren't yet in their hoped-for future home of Las Vegas. But what's less ambiguous is this fact: The Athletics are the most surprisingly good team in baseball. They just came back to beat the Yankees with a late barrage on Saturday in a victory that eventually went down as 11-7 on the scoreboard.
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5 days ago | 
sportingnews.com | Billy Heyen
Sometimes, heavy physical activity in the heat can even get the best of professional athletes. Case in point: Browns rookie Mason Graham at minicamp on a 75-degree May Saturday in Berea, Ohio. The No. 5 overall pick in the NFL Draft was captured in a striking photograph puking mid-action. #Browns No. 5 pick Mason Graham vomited during 11 on 11s on Day 2 of rookie minicamp and ran off the field. He had to rinse off his helmet.
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5 days ago | 
sportingnews.com | Billy Heyen
The Denver Broncos are on a bit of a changing-their-mind roll lately. Just days after opting not to bring in Desmond Ridder to rookie minicamp after planning to do just that, they cut another player who never actually appeared in their uniform. This time, it was eight-year NFL veteran punter Matt Haack. The Broncos signed Haack on March 19 to replace Riley Dixon. Haack has played 103 NFL games, putting 37.3 percent of his punts inside the 20-yard line.
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5 days ago | 
bvmsports.com | Billy Heyen
Until Saturday, there wasn't really another option for Aaron Rodgers in free agency. He pretty much just had the Pittsburgh Steelers waiting for him. He was slowplaying proceedings, but everyone seemed to have a good feel for where this thing was going. But all of a sudden, Rodgers has another option. The New Orleans Saints lost a QB on Saturday when Derek Carr announced his retirement.
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5 days ago | 
sportingnews.com | Billy Heyen
There was some surprise that Shedeur Sanders didn't get the No. 2 for his Browns jersey. That digit is currently possessed by receiver/return man DeAndre Carter, a veteran. So Sanders is wearing No. 12 instead. Will Sanders try to get No. 2 from Carter? “I’m not trying to buy anything,” Sanders told reporters on Saturday with a laugh. “My signing bonus ain’t that high right now.”The reporters then asked Sanders why he chose 12. “It was the best available number for me. That’s it," Sanders said.
