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At Michigan, Warde Manuel is stepping down as athletic director at the end of the calendar year, the university confirmed following the conclusion of an internal investigation into the culture of athletics on campus. Coming on the heels of major changes in both football and basketball, the Wolverines will soon be searching for new leadership at the top of their athletic department.
Turning to the global stage, Spain has been crowned champions of the two thousand twenty six World Cup, and the awards conversation is already in full swing. ESPN's analysts are handing out their best and most disappointing elevens from the tournament, a competition that delivered the cinematic and the corrupt, the gorgeous and the genuinely unexpected, in equal measure.
And in the NFL, Brock Bowers is making noise before a single preseason snap is played. The Las Vegas Raiders tight end came in at number three in the Associated Press preseason tight end rankings for two thousand twenty six, a perhaps surprising placement for a player who turned in one of the most electric rookie seasons the position has ever seen. Expect that conversation to heat up fast once camp opens.
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