What would happen if Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes and Joe Burrow all suddenly became free agents? Chaos, that’s what. (Taylor Wilhelm/Yahoo Sports) The Great NFL Re-Draft of 2025: What if every NFL player was available? So imagine the NFL decided to go full fantasy football and empty its rosters after the season. Josh Allen, Patrick … Read more
Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol’s hotly anticipated rematch is the talk of the boxing world. The pair met in an epic light-heavyweight undisputed title battle in October last year, which saw Beterbiev get the edge on the judges’ scorecards in a contentious decision. 7 Beterbiev and Bivol will meet in a mouth-watering rematchCredit: Getty Bivol … Read more
There are a lot of ways for dead stars to blow their tops. Astronomers discovered this explosive diversity when they assessed 3,628 exploding white dwarfs during a next-generation sky survey conducted using the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) between March 2018 and December 2020. That means that this dataset of nearby supernovas is several times larger … Read more
Using 16 years of data from NASA’s gamma-ray detecting Fermi spacecraft, astronomers have discovered that “microquasars,” systems in which a black hole is slowly devouring a star, may be small, but they pack one heck of a punch. Despite their diminutive nature, this research suggests even microquasars snacking on small stars can have an impressive … Read more
Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the Pick Six newsletter! If you have an NFL offseason calendar in front of you, and I don’t know why you would, but if you do, then you may have noticed that today is the first big day of the offseason, and that’s because the franchise tag window has … Read more
How do you cool down a phoenix? I don’t mean the mythological birds of flame and rebirth, but rather a cosmic namesake with a fittingly fiery nature. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may finally have the answer. They used the powerful instrument to investigate the extreme cooling of gas in the Phoenix … Read more
We are approaching the home straight in this year’s Love Island, and things are seriously heating up in the Villa. Surprise exits, dramatic returns, and more are coming away over the next week, and the bookies still can’t make their minds up as to who is going to win, making it the perfect time to … Read more
Planet formation around low-mass stars may be suffering from Peter Pan syndrome. While previous observations and models have suggested that a disk of planetary building blocks should be ‘fully grown’ – having burned through its world-making material – in about 10 million years, a new kid on the block is proving them wrong, weighing in … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — Let’s give Adam Silver and the NBA this much credit: They’re trying, at least, to try and salvage the NBA All-Star Game. This isn’t an easy task. The All-Star Game and its constellation of events haven’t been a consistently culturally relevant or successful sporting event for a long time. The NHL canceled … Read more
A team of G Leaguers threatened to crash Sunday’s NBA All-Star party from Friday’s Rising Stars tournament, but Chris Mullins’ team of NBA players ultimately prevailed. Team G League, coached by Jeremy Lin, beat a team of young NBA stars coached by Mitch Richmond in the semifinals, then took a 12-8 lead against Mullins’ team … Read more