There were 22 players representing 15 different HBCU schools on NFL rosters when training camp closed last season. However, none of those players heard their name called at the 2024 NFL Draft. Could the 2025 HBCU NFL Draft class break through? The HBCU’s annual NFL Draft combine took place earlier this week in New Orleans,…
The NFL Scouting Combine kicks off in a few days, and it provides a great callback to our annual Freaks List of college football phenoms. Some of those Freaks in this draft aren’t expected to work out this year, including East Carolina star cornerback Shavon Revel Jr., who is coming off of a torn ACL….
Welcome to the Baskin-Robbins draft. And we’re dubbing it that not just because the 2025 NFL Draft features (more than) 31 flavors of elite talent for any team in any situation, but because if you took a poll of every NFL team’s board right now, you’d get 31 (OK, 32) different answers. There’s a lot…
In the last few weeks before the NFL scouting combine, teams conduct scouting meetings to have healthy debates on prospects and build initial draft boards. Their rankings won’t be set in stone as the 2025 NFL Draft process continues to play out, but they establish a foundation going into the combine later this month. Similarly,…
Welcome to this year’s ranking of the top 100 prospects in baseball. I’ve been compiling and writing such rankings for 18 years now, and those of you who’ve read them before will find the format here similar to those from the recent past. My farm reports covering at least 20 prospects in each team’s system,…
Since Russia invaded his country three years ago, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has survived a military assault on his capital, assassination plots, corruption scandals in his government, political infighting and ominous setbacks in his army’s fight against Russia. He had enough support from Ukrainians to carry him through each time. Now, with Donald J….
JINJA, Uganda – For the past six months, Armstrong Muhoozi has been putting in work. He lugs his baseball equipment about a mile uphill from his ramshackle home to a rutted, bumpy field at the Masese Co-Education Primary School. Sometimes, the 17-year-old makes this dusty trek twice per day, committed to perfecting his backhand on…