The New York Giants stayed aggressive during Day 2 of the NFL Draft. After starting the night with only one scheduled pick, the Giants executed a bold trade to secure Notre Dame wide receiver Malachi Fields.  

​Head coach John Harbaugh and general manager Joe Schoen traded back into the third round to snag Fields at No. 74 overall. To move up, the Giants sent their fourth-round pick (No. 105), fifth-round pick (No. 145), and a 2027 fourth-rounder to the Cleveland Browns.  

​Fields brings massive frame and vertical ability to the offense. The 6-foot-4, 218-pound receiver averaged 17.5 yards per catch last season. He provides a large target for quarterback Jaxson Dart and fills the void left by free agent departures like Wan’Dale Robinson.

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A New York Giants helmet is seen during training camp at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center in East Rutherford, N.J., on Aug. 1, 2023. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire)

​Earlier in the evening, the Giants addressed the defense with the 37th overall pick. They selected Tennessee cornerback Colton Hood.  

​Hood is a physical, high-motor defensive back who recorded 20 solo tackles and 13 pass breakups in 2024. Analysts praise his ability to disrupt routes and challenge receivers at the catch point. He joins a revamped secondary featuring Deonte Banks and Paulson Adebo.

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The Giants have become one of the most discussed teams of this year’s draft, after surprising many fans with the selections of linebacker Arvell Reese at No. 5 and offensive lineman Francis Mauigoa at No. 10.

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The selections prompted mixed reactions by fans and pundits, as some argued the team should have taken star safety Caleb Downs with one of their top 10 picks, as Downs was later taken by the rival Dallas Cowboys at No. 11. 

The Giants are entering year one of the Harbaugh era, looking to get back to credibility after a decade plus of ineptitude.

Sergeant Major holds a Listed triumph on record, but assistant trainer to Ciaron Maher, Johann Gerard-Dubord, maintains the best is still ahead for the four-year-old.

Gerard-Dubord accepts that the gelding has not fully delivered since his South Pacific Classic (1400m) conquest in last autumn’s Sydney series, yet he is firmly in the horse’s corner.

“If he finally puts it all together, he’s got a lot of ability. We haven’t seen the best of him yet,” Gerard-Dubord said.

Complementing his Sydney autumn carnival win, the horse earned two stakes placings during his three-year-old campaign before faltering in four spring appearances.

An extended break followed his midfield finish at Eagle Farm come November, and Gerard-Dubord views that Queensland stint as ultimately positive despite the racing disappointments.

“In his work, he looks like he could be anything, but he has been a bit disappointing at the races, even though he is a Listed winner,” he said.

“Last prep, we felt he wasn’t going as well as he could and he’s a gelding, so he is always going to keep improving. We stopped, reset and came back at this time of year.

“The trip to Queensland seems to have done the job, like it did with Gringotts and Jimmysstar.

“He has changed physically and mentally. He has done really well.”

Gerard-Dubord sees echoes of Gringotts in Sergeant Major, with the latter peaking later and winning consecutive The Big Dance (1600m) features.

He envisions the gelding potentially stepping up to that level in due course.

“He has always shown a lot of ability, and I have always compared him to Gringotts,” Gerard-Dubord said.

“He could be a Big Dance horse at some stage. We’ll play it by ear. But he is back at a good time, and there are good races in Queensland at the back-end of the carnival if he’s going well enough.”

Betting interest has sparked early for Sergeant Major, who has firmed from $16 to $11 and gets in light at 57kg courtesy of apprentice Mollie Fitzgerald’s 3kg claim.

Head to the racing betting markets for competitive prices on his Randwick comeback in 2026.

Nottingham Forest made it back-to-back Netball Super League wins with a 68-63 victory over an NIC Leeds Rhinos side who fell to an eighth straight defeat.

Forest, in fourth, earned a fifth victory of the campaign to move within one point of AO Manchester Thunder in third.

“Speed is our best friend,” said Forest head coach Chelsea Pitman after the win.

“We play the game really quick with rapid transitions. That’s when we are at our best and Rhinos were really good at disrupting that.

“Kudos to them. They really took it to us. But I am really proud of us for grinding out the result.”

South Africa shooter Rolene Streutker led the scoring for Forest with 34 goals with Anya Williams adding nine while Paige Reed finished with 31 for Rhinos.

The Los Angeles Lakers appeared dead in the water on April 5. They’d just lost to a tanking Dallas Mavericks team despite LeBron James coming one rebound shy of a 30-point triple-double. With Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves out with injuries that, at the time, appeared likely to keep them out longer than the Lakers were expected to last in the postseason, the onus fell entirely on the 41-year-old James to keep the team afloat. 

If he couldn’t do it against the Mavericks, well, the odds that he’d be able to do it against a playoff opponent didn’t look promising. When asked what the Lakers would need out of him in order to survive, James responded, simply, “everything.” He delivered that and then some in Friday night’s miraculous 112-108 overtime victory over the Houston Rockets that put the Lakers up 3-0 in the first-round series.

If we rewind nearly three weeks ago to when he said that, we had a reasonable idea of what “everything” might entail. James outlined it himself. “Nothing changes for me,” James added after that initial, single-word response. “Just back to the old ways.” 

We’ve seen him singlehandedly lift lesser rosters through postseasons before. He once scored 29 of his team’s last 30 points in an Eastern Conference Finals game. He played all 48 minutes and scored or assisted on two-thirds of his team’s points in another conference finals clincher. We’re talking about someone who once averaged a 33-point triple-double in the Finals. 

James has performed plenty of basketball miracles. The Lakers seemingly needed four more to make it through the first round against the Rockets. Four more games in which James contributed in every imaginable way. Four more games in which less was needed out of his supporting cast because his team had the one player in the history of basketball who really could do everything.

The first two games of the Lakers vs. Rockets series were a bit more subdued. James was excellent, but he was reserved. He monitored his energy output cautiously, hitting the gas only when necessary. Luke Kennard‘s shot was hotter than the surface of the sun. Marcus Smart made every winning play. James was the conductor, but the first two victories belonged to the entire orchestra. Everyone played their part in Game 3. Smart was spectacular again, and so was Rui Hachimura. Even Bronny James had the most significant performance of his NBA career as Lakers coach JJ Redick trusted him enough to play fourth-quarter minutes.

But in a long lineage of historic playoff performances, this one is going to stand out for the elder James. Even if everyone chipped in, this was his “everything” game, even if it didn’t quite come in the manner we imagined. The stat line would look remarkable attached to any other name: 29 points, 13 rebounds, six assists and three steals. It’s probably only above average by LeBron’s lofty standards. This wasn’t the “everything” game because James did everything. It was the “everything” game because he gave everything.

We’re used to James feeling superhuman, and there were indeed moments that felt superhuman, like the alley-oop dunk from Smart and the game-tying steal and 3-pointer. But there were vulnerabilities too, and they didn’t just show up on the stat sheet as his eight turnovers did. 

Two of those turnovers came in the final minute. On the first, James was so visibly exhausted that Alperen Sengun managed to zoom right past him as the trailer, catch a pass from Reed Sheppard on the run and extend the Houston lead to four with a layup with 49.6 seconds to play.

On the second, James made an earnest attempt at a play we’ve seen him make so many times — a chase-down transition block on Sengun. He couldn’t close the gap. He couldn’t get enough air on his jump to meaningfully contest a center 18 years his junior.

That’s what will ultimately make this game feel so memorable. James felt mortal. He felt every one of his 41 years as he competed not just with the Rockets, but with Father Time. He didn’t get the sports movie ending. He missed his buzzer-beating attempt to win the game in regulation. It was the sort of gritty rock fight the Rockets specialize in. James felt every minute of it and came through anyway.

That comes across in the box score. The Lakers don’t win this game without every point James scored or created. But the defining moment came with around a minute and a half left on the clock in overtime. Sheppard attempted a transition layup and missed. James flew in from the wing to attempt a rebound. He grabbed it, but as he was falling out of bounds, he had to fling the ball back into play before he careened into a cameraman. He immediately picked himself up, got back into the play, stripped Sengun, and dove back onto the ground to try to secure possession. Eventually, a jump-ball was called.

James lined up for the jump-ball against Jabari Smith Jr., a player whose father lined up against him in his NBA debut all the way back in 2003. It was a fitting moment in a game in which James threw an alley-oop to his own son, and a gassed James managed to win possession despite barely jumping. All he seemingly had left was a brief hop.

The Lakers weren’t surprised. “That motherf*****’s been in this 23 years, right?” Smart joked after the game. “We know he’s gonna come up with that ball.”

You’ll see all of the records that inevitably come with a game like this at his age. He became the oldest player in NBA history to lead his team in scoring in a playoff game, breaking the record he set three days earlier. The game-tying 3-pointer will live in his playoff highlight reel forever, and the steal that led to it is an eternal testament to his situational awareness against a less seasoned opponent. The numbers, the big moments, they speak for themselves, and they fall into a nearly never-ending pile. We weren’t exactly short on legendary LeBron James playoff games.

But as we draw closer to the end of the greatest overall career in the history of the sport, there’s something special about the sort of game that could only come at this specific point. It was less an incredible James playoff game than it was an incredible old James playoff game, a somewhat unique position in his archives. We’re so used to James feeling inevitable that seeing him win when he isn’t is a different sort of satisfying, and perhaps a more relatable one for those of us not blessed with the one-of-a-kind physical gifts James has enjoyed for most of his career. 

This was a basketball genius summoning every last ounce of basketball left in his body to take down a younger, fresher opponent, and after more than two decades of superheroics, it’s just a different flavor of excellence. 

He promised the Lakers everything, and he delivered.

Siragusa’s conduct on day two at The Championships defies explanation, though co-trainer Rob Archibald believes the horse can forget it and realign his season for better results.

At $10 in the Listed South Pacific Classic (1400m) April 11, Siragusa stood still at the start, dislodging jockey Craig Williams and withdrawing from proceedings.

“I don’t know what happened. It was a bit of a head scratcher,” Archibald said.

“Craig said he just jumped a bit awkward then ducked out. But he has trialled since and he was fine.”

Starting his racing life with two straight wins, the son of I Am Invincible took Tamworth in January by three lengths and Muswellbrook in March by much the same.

Those runs convinced Archibald and partner Annabel to test the three-year-old at stakes level, and despite the setback, Rob Archibald expects recovery in Saturday’s The Last Post Handicap (1400m) at Randwick.

“He seems talented, albeit he’s won at Tamworth and Muswellbrook,” he said.

“We’re learning about him all the time and we’re just trying build him up to take him through his grades, but he’s certainly one we like.

“He’s definitely got ability, so I’m looking forward to seeing him develop.

“It was a hiccup the other day, but I’m confident he can bounce back on Saturday.”

The team saddles lightly raced Seastraand in that race for key owner Gerry Harvey, a part-owner of Siragusa, as OTI Racing three-year-old Hillier eyes a slot in the Australian Flying Corps Handicap (1200m).

Last spring’s Group 2 placegetter in Melbourne, Hillier was fifth from afar in Autumn Boy’s Caulfield Guineas (1600m), and the awkward draw has Archibald pondering a delay for his Randwick opener.

“I’m not sure. He has drawn a bit sticky,” he said.

“We’ll have a good look at the race and potentially wait a week. But I’ve been really happy with his trials. He seems to have come back in good order so I’m keen to get him started.”

Head to the betting sites to find racing odds for Siragusa in the Last Post Handicap.

One of Anthony Joshua‘s most fierce rivals has sent a warning to the British heavyweight.

Joshua is expected to fight twice this year, first in a warm-up in the summer and then in a long-awaited showdown against Tyson Fury towards the end of the calendar.

‘AJ’ has boxed only once since a devastating knockout defeat to Daniel Dubois back in September 2024, with that solitary outing coming in an uncompetitive six round stoppage win against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.

However, following the comeback of ‘The Gypsy King’ earlier this month, all signs are pointing to one of the biggest fights in the history of British boxing, with Fury vs Joshua now back on the cards and reportedly nearing an agreement.

First, Joshua hopes to shake off any ring rust by returning to fight in the summer, but he will presumably pick an opponent whom he does not believe can scupper plans for a Fury fight, but also one that properly motivates him.

Therefore, Jarrell ‘Big Baby’ Miller could make for the perfect dance partner given their rivalry which was birthed ahead of their scheduled meeting in 2019, before Miller tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

Speaking to Matchroom, with whom Miller has recently teamed up with, the American told Joshua that he is going to get ‘whooped’ sooner or later.

“[Your] a** whooping gon’ come sooner or later. You can run, but you can’t hide.”

Miller fights Cuba’s Lenier Pero on Saturday night, in his first outing since signing with Eddie Hearn’s promotional outfit.