When the Los Angeles Rams drafted quarterback Ty Simpson in the first round of the NFL Draft on Thursday, head coach Sean McVay didn’t look thrilled, and he admitted as much on Friday.

McVay, while recapping the second day of the Rams’ draft, opened his press conference acknowledging his demeanor after Simpson’s selection.

“I get my demeanor last night, but we’re excited about it. There are different things. I always want to be mindful of how things come off and things like that. I’m very excited about last night and very excited about today. Couldn’t be more excited about us continuing to lead together, but every decision that we make is collective and collaborative,” McVay said.

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Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay walks on the field at Lumen Field after the 2026 NFC Championship Game against the Seattle Seahawks in Seattle, Washington, on Jan. 25, 2026. (Kevin Ng/Imagn Images)

“For any of the questions or misunderstandings just based on my demeanor or disposition last night, I did want to get that out of the way. This is my buddy right here,” McVay said with a smile as he reached out to general manager Les Snead.

“That was brought to my attention because I got so many texts. That was never my intended way to be able to come off, but sometimes I can be a little grumpy.”

A reporter followed up and asked the 40-year-old coach why he was grumpy.

“Well, there were other things that had nothing to do with that, which that’s normal life,” McVay said.

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Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford reacts after throwing a touchdown pass during an NFL game against the New York Jets in East Rutherford, N.J., on Dec. 22, 2024. (Adam Hunger/AP)

“The main thing was, I couldn’t be more excited about being able to add him, but also understanding how much I love Matthew Stafford, how respectful you want to always be and to the way things can be interpreted. The demeanor would’ve been stoic by nature because you are excited, but by no means — it is Matthew’s football team.”

Stafford, in his 17th season, won his first MVP last year with the Rams. However, despite the success, Stafford has reportedly been mulling retirement after each season for the past couple of seasons.

The 38-year-old quarterback only announced he was returning for another season when he capped his MVP speech with the news. With Stafford’s future seemingly uncertain after next season, the Rams got a jump on their heir apparent.

McVay said he is excited for Simpson to learn from Stafford.

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Ty Simpson of Alabama celebrates after being selected as the 13th overall pick by the Los Angeles Rams during the first round of the 2026 NFL Draft at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 23, 2026. (Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)

“I’m excited to be able to add Ty. What a blessing it is for him to be able to learn from Matthew and to be able to come into this atmosphere and environment. Whenever that time comes for him to get an opportunity to be Matthew’s successor will be on Matthew’s terms. I think that’s really what the important thing was. I didn’t want that to ever be misunderstood while not minimizing the excitement for Ty and the buy-in,” McVay said.

“Les and his group really liked him. As soon as we started really studying him, there was a body of work, like I talked about, that was a good, fun evaluation. A lot of the concepts that we would activate. The guy is a football junkie and plays with the timing and rhythm. You can see that he’s a coach’s son. His journey is a fun one that he’s been through.”

If Simpson one day becomes the quarterback that Stafford is, McVay won’t be feeling grumpy often.

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“First time here in Jaipur and I’ve got to say, it’s been a magnificent day. And as you do in Jaipur, what happened? Hot, hot and hotter. So when I come to this part of the world, the pink is everywhere, but the green is here too. And I think about the dimensions first on this superb stadium. I’m bowling from the northern end. And so to my right, it is 65. To my left, it is also 65 because we’re smack right in the middle of the square here. And downtown, a lovely straight hit of 76 meters. So lots of pink, very dry, but also quite green. It’s like a Garden of Eden. WV Raman, our pitch doctor – I like what I see. What about you? Yeah, I like it too because traditionally what has happened at this venue is that the pitches have always been good for batting, and this is no different. This looks fresh, but the curator told me that he’s been working on this surface for about a week now. And that’s the reason why this looks so good, because it’s well rolled. And I’m sure that the tradition of this pitch being good for the batters is going to continue as well. I like it. We all like it. I’ll tell you what – would you bat first night game, or would you prefer to bowl? That depends on what kind of dew you get here tonight because this is the first game they’re playing at this venue. So that’s something that we’ll have to wait and see. And as far as the local intel is concerned, I don’t think there’s going to be much of dew. So I think they would look to put runs on the board first – the captain winning the toss.”

Floyd Mayweather‘s last knockout win against a legitimate opponent came against Victor Ortiz back in 2011, but despite suffering the stoppage defeat, the man known as ‘Vicious’ says he once fought a much better rival.

It was a highly contentious moment when Mayweather knocked out Ortiz in their WBC welterweight title clash over a decade ago, with the fourth round of their contest proving to be full of drama.

Ortiz was throwing combinations against Mayweather on the ropes, but then got reckless and led with the head, prompting the referee to deduct a point.

With Ortiz not paying attention as the bout was set to resume, Mayweather landed a big shot that knocked down and subsequently knocked out his rival, adding to the old adage of protecting yourself at all times.

Mayweather is undoubtedly the biggest name that Ortiz ever took on, but while the boxing legend may be regarded as one of the best of all time, Ortiz has told TalkSport that Andre Berto was better.

“He (Mayweather) is not the best opponent I’ve faced. Hands down not. The best opponent that I faced was Andre Berto; he was much better. Andre Berto is a top pound-for-pound king. He put me down, I put him down, he got up, he put me down again.

“This man showed everything: quality, heart, skill. You name it, he’s got it. Someone like Floyd, he’s got what? a counter, running? That year, I bought him some sprinting strikes at the press conference. My brother got him a box of tampons, too.

“But Andre Berto is special. I have the utmost respect for him. He’s got power in both hands; he’s the whole package. Someone with Floyd can’t compete with that.”

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Ortiz had beaten Berto to win the WBC welterweight title in the fight prior to his clash with Mayweather, in what would be the first defeat of Berto’s professional career.

Berto’s final record stood at 32 wins and 6 defeats, and he suffered a one-sided defeat to Mayweather himself when they met in September 2015.

Mayweather competed just once more after the fight with Berto, when he knocked out MMA fighter Conor McGregor in August 2017, though he is set to return to action against former foe Manny Pacquiao in September provided that current issues can be resolved.

Delhi Capitals XI vs PBKS: KL Rahul (wk), Pathum Nissanka, Sameer Rizvi, Axar Patel (c), Nitish Rana, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar.

It’ll be interesting to see who comes in as the Impact Player. Ashutosh Sharma could come in as a middle-order enforcer, while Vipraj Nigam could enter as a bowling option later.

The 46th London Marathon is set to be another record-breaker, with more than 59,000 people expected to complete the 26.2-mile course on Sunday.

The 2025 event set a world record for the number of finishers, despite hot conditions, with a total of 56,640 entrants completing the distance.

Before this year’s race, organisers confirmed discussions are ongoing over holding a two-day event in 2027, which event director Hugh Brasher says could allow for 100,000 finishers and raise over £130m for charity.

This year’s elite races feature all four defending champions, as Sabastian Sawe, Tigst Assefa, Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner return to defend their titles.

Britons Mahamed Mahamed, Phil Sesemann, Patrick Dever, Rose Harvey, Eilish McColgan, Jess Warner-Judd, David Weir and Eden Rainbow-Cooper will be among those hoping to star on home soil.

Four-time Olympic champion Sir Mo Farah and England’s Women’s Rugby World Cup winner Ellie Kildunne have the honour of officially starting the event in Greenwich Park, live on the BBC.

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Fulham boosted their hopes of European qualification as Ryan Sessegnon’s first-half goal earned them a 1-0 win over a lacklustre Aston Villa at Craven Cottage.

It was only a second win in six Premier League games for Marco Silva’s side, whose inconsistency may yet put a top-seven finish beyond their reach, but in glorious conditions and backed by a vociferous crowd, they showed the heights they are capable of reaching.

They struck late in the first half. Emiliano Martinez’s quick reflexes kept out Sasa Lukic’s header, but Villa were slow to clock the threat of the lurking Sessegnon who fired between the legs of Ezri Konsa on the goal line.

Villa were complicit in their own downfall, and were poor throughout. Not since their eight-game winning run ended in late December have they won back-to-back matches in the league and that sequence continued in west London, though they still have a healthy advantage in the race for a Champions League place.

They threatened Bernd Leno’s goal only twice in the first half, through Morgan Rogers and Ollie Watkins, and barely at all after that.

Perhaps there was one eye being kept on Thursday’s Europa League semi-final first leg against Nottingham Forest, and a raft of late changes by Unai Emery suggested so. They will need to be much, much better to keep their European dream alive.

If the Super Bowl marks the end of the NFL season, WrestleMania is when WWE’s year is over.

There is no offseason in WWE, and when waves of departures hit the company, it hits harder than a Gunther knife-edge chop.

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Uncle Howdy, Erick Rowan, Dexter Lumis, Joe Gacy, and Nikki Cross appear during SmackDown at First Horizon Center in Savannah, Ga., on May 23, 2025. (Rich Freeda/WWE)

Fightful and BodySlam both reported several superstars who left WWE on Friday ahead of “Friday Night SmackDown.” Some wrestlers confirmed their departures on social media.

Those who left included: Alba Fyre, Aleister Black, Alex Shelley, Andre Chase, Apollo Crews, Bo Dallas, Chris Island, Chris Sabin, Dante Chen, Dexter Lumis, Erick Rowan, Joe Gacy, Kairi Sane, Luca Crusifino, Malik Blade, Nikki Cross, Santos Escobar, Sirena Linton, Trill London, Tyra Mae Steele, Tyriek Igwe, Tyson Dupont, Zelina Vegas and Zoey Stark.

The WWE roster is loaded as it is with several NXT stars getting called up this week.

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Sol Ruca made her presence felt on Raw on Monday when she challenged women’s champion Liv Morgan. The Fatal Influence faction of Jacy Jayne, Lainey Reid and Fallon Henley took aim at the women’s tag team division on SmackDown on Friday. Ricky Saints and Blake Monroe also had vignettes for their upcoming appearances.

Meanwhile, former NXT champion Oba Femi has been on main WWE programming for the last few weeks and beat Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 42.

Kairi Sane enters the ring during Monday Night RAW at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif., on April 13, 2026. (Rich Freeda/WWE)

Aleister Black and Zelina Vega make their way to the ring during SmackDown at Enterprise Center in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 3, 2026. (Craig Melvin/WWE)

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It’s not the end of the road for any of the recent departures. Several former WWE stars have made waves elsewhere. Some have even returned over the course of time.

The Los Angeles Lakers pulled off one of the most unlikely comebacks you’ll ever see on Friday to take a 3-0 lead over the Houston Rockets, who are falling apart (literally in this game) before our eyes. No team has ever come back from 3-0 deficit to win an NBA playoff series. 

Elsewhere, the Celtics and Spurs both took back home-court advantage in their series. San Antonio is up 2-1 on the Blazers after a 120-108 win, and the Celtics outlasted the 76ers 108-100 to go up 2-1 as well. 

Let’s take a look at the big winners and losers from Friday night’s action. 

Winner: Celtics’ 3-point math

The Boston Celtics are the casino. They know they’re going to lose some hands along the way (as they did in Game 2 when they made just 26% of their 50 3-point attempts), but in the end, they trust that the 3-point math will work out in their favor. 

Most of the time, they’re right. That was indeed the case again in Game 3 as they made 20 3-pointers (at a 43% clip) to Philadelphia’s 12 (at 34%). That’s a 24-point disparity in what wound up being an eight-point win that gave them a 2-1 series edge. You do the math. 

This is why I wasn’t concerned with Philadelphia’s Game 2 victory. In that game, the Sixers, a bottom-10 3-point shooting team during the regular season, made 19 3s to Boston’s 13. That’s just not going to happen multiple times, let alone four times to win a series. That’s the drunk guy turning over a blackjack once in a while. If he stays at the table long enough, he’s going broke. 

Barely two minutes into the second half on Friday, the Celtics had already made more 3s (14) than they made in all of Game 2. It has always begged the question: If the math always works out, then why doesn’t everyone launch a million 3s? Because they don’t have Boston’s personnel. 

There’s a fine line between a good and bad 3-point attempt these days, and a lot of teams can’t get near 50 attempts in a game without taking too many bad ones for the math to work. They don’t have enough players who can create the good 3s in the first place, or enough players who can make them. In Boston, everyone can create, and everyone can shoot. On Friday, 10 Celtics made at least one 3-pointer. Philly had four players connect from distance.

Still, the 76ers had a real shot to win this game. They were down two with a little over a minute remaining and had Boston in a straightjacket with the shot clock winding down, only for Payton Pritchard to hit them with an escape-dribble triple to stretch the lead to five.

About 40 seconds later, the Sixers had it back down to three only for Jayson Tatum to deliver this dagger. 

This is what the Celtics do. They just have too many guys who can shoot. And over time, the three or four guys on the other side just can’t keep up. — Brad Botkin

Loser: 76ers’ late-game rebounding

One of the ways the Celtics generate so many 3-pointers is by grabbing a ton of offensive rebounds, which often lead to either immediate kick-out 3s as shooters are lost in the shuffle, or at least another possession for a team like Boston to get up yet another shot. It killed the Sixers on Friday. 

That Tatum 3 above? That never would’ve happened had the Sixers been able to rebound the initial miss by Nikola Vučević. Instead, Derrick White flew in for the offensive board, and a few seconds later, a three-point Celtics lead turned into six. 

Earlier in the fourth quarter, Vučević missed from the other corner. But again, the Sixers were unable to corral the board, and again it led to a Celtics second-chance bucket. 

Jaylen Brown‘s lone 3-pointer of the game? Off an offensive rebound …

Derrick White’s lone 3-pointer of the game? Off an offensive rebound …

All told, the Sixers allowed Boston to grab 15 offensive rebounds, which led to 22 second-chance points (to be fair, the Sixers had 17 second-chance points of their own, but that’s another five-point deficit on top of the 24-point 3-point disparity). 

It’s not easy to keep Boston off the glass. They’re definitely going to get their share, in part because the 3s they take lead to a lot of long caroms that become more loose balls than rebounds. But the two at the end were particular killers. Both times, the Sixers had a chance to get the ball back late in a close game and tie or take the lead, and both times they failed to get the rebound, allowing Boston to convert a second-chance bucket. 

Playoff games often come down to a few possessions. Giving Boston two extra ones at this juncture was too much for Philly to overcome. — Brad Botkin

Winner: The James family

Even by his own lofty standards, Game 3 against Houston was a memorable playoff performance by LeBron James. A game-tying steal and 3-pointer to send the game to overtime. A historic 29-point, 13-rebound, six-assist performance. A 3-0 lead in a series that many assumed the Lakers would lose handily. James doesn’t exactly need to burnish his legacy any further. He’s already in the eyes of most either the best or second-best player in the history of the sport. 

But as his retirement nears, moments and series like this are going to be an effective bookend. He’s not the same basketball superhero he once was. He can’t singlehandedly lift teams to the Finals anymore. But even now, in his 40s and with a diminished roster, he’s still the absolute definition of a winning player, someone who can lift a team further than anyone imagined possible through his immortal basketball genius. He had nothing left in the tank by the end of Game 3, but he got the Lakers across the finish line.

And if you asked him what his most memorable moment from the game was? He’d probably tell you it was the alley-oop that he threw to his son Bronny. Yes, Bronny James, the player critics accused of being a nepo hire, is now playing real, impactful postseason minutes. He scored his first five playoff points in Game 3, and he did well enough in his first-half stint that JJ Redick trusted him to play a few minutes in the fourth quarter. The Lakers won his minutes by four points.

Is he ever going to be the player his dad is? No, but that’s an unfair standard for basically anyone. If the goal here is to prove that he can be a real NBA player and sustain a career even after his father retires, well, that’s growing more and more achievable by the day. James has always been a capable defensive guard, but he’s starting to look more confident as a shooter after dealing with several early offensive issues. He still has work to do, but however small it is, he’s surviving on the floor of a playoff series, and that’s something he can build on. — Sam Quinn

Loser: Reed Sheppard

Reed Sheppard has spent this entire season struggling to convince Ime Udoka to put him on the floor. As one of the few genuine shooters on this roster, he’s one of the only players capable of making the Rockets look offensively functional. Udoka still needed convincing. Even after the Rockets closed the season with a 17-4 record with Sheppard as the starter, Udoka pulled him after only 11 minutes in Game 2. The Rockets, unsurprisingly, were held below 100 points in an upset loss.

Udoka had no choice in Game 3. With Kevin Durant out, He needed Sheppard’s offense, and to Sheppard’s credit, his presence did provide a modicum of space in an otherwise cramped paint. Alperen Sengun and Amen Thompson had their best games of the series, combining for 59 efficient points, probably not coincidentally in the same game they were able to share the floor with a high-level shooter.

But Sheppard himself yet again struggled. He shot 6 of 21 from the floor and 4 of 13 from deep while committing five turnovers, including the biggest of the game to set James up for his game-tying 3. 

Udoka’s hesitance to give Sheppard consistent playing time is motivated by his defensive limitations. Sheppard is small. He gets picked on. And the Lakers did quite a bit of that yet again in Game 3. Considering how bleak things now look, Udoka probably can’t limit Sheppard to 11 minutes again in Game 4 even if Durant is back. But he hardly earned his coach’s trust, either. — Sam Quinn

Winner: Spurs’ non-Wemby youth

If any other team had used its last two lottery picks to take Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper they would be doing organizational cartwheels. That the Spurs have Victor Wembanyama and these two guys is beyond an embarrassment of riches. 

With Wembanyama sidelined for Game 3 with a concussion, Castle and Harper combined for 60 points. SIXTY. They shot a collective 63% and made seven of their nine 3s to join Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook as the only teammates age 21 or younger to each score 25 points in the same playoff game. 

Castle is a little more established. He’s a starter. He won Rookie of the Year last season. He feels like a 10-year veteran. A no-frills rock on both sides of the ball. He is cut from Jimmy Butler cloth in all the right ways. Same kind of sturdy athlete. Loves to play off two feet. Wins angles and with his body. Competes like crazy. Great footwork. Never sped up. You’re forgiven if you had no idea he’s just 21 years old as you were watching him put 33 on the Blazers on Friday. 

Harper is a little different. Those of us who watch NBA basketball every night have known pretty much since Day 1 that he’s awesome, but to the casual fan tuning in for the playoffs, you must’ve been shocked when Harper started going crazy in the third quarter. Like, who the hell is this guy? He scored 22 of his 27 points in the second half. The dude was a teenager two months ago, and he was in total control of an NBA playoff game in the most poised fashion imaginable. 

Let’s take another look at that baseline hammer. My god. 

Harper is going to be so good so quickly. It’s already happening, but the leap is going to come fast. Throw in Carter Bryant, San Antonio’s second lottery pick from last summer (No. 14 overall), and now it’s just silly how bright San Antonio’s future looks. Bryant was a plus-17 in 23 minutes on Friday. He defended all over the floor and tallied six rebounds and four assists. He only made one shot, but man was it a beauty. 

That these three guys and Wembanyama are all under 22 years old is hilarious. Good luck, every other team in the NBA over the next decade. You’re going to need it.  — Brad Botkin