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USA Basketball is making a statement heading into the two thousand twenty six FIBA World Cup in Germany, and that statement has a name — or four of them. Caitlin Clark, Paige Bueckers, Angel Reese, and Aliyah Boston are all on the roster, joining veterans A'ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart as the Americans chase a fifth consecutive World Cup crown. This is the youth movement everyone has been waiting for, and it arrives on the biggest stage.
Shifting to the NFL, Jonathan Taylor is getting paid. The Indianapolis Colts locked up their workhorse on a two-year extension worth forty-four million dollars, with thirty-nine million fully guaranteed and a maximum value of forty-seven million. That twenty-two million dollar average annual value slots Taylor right behind Bijan Robinson as the second-highest paid running back in the league. Indianapolis is betting big on their backfield.
And over in college football, LSU enters the season carrying enormous expectations after landing the top transfer portal class, but the Tigers haven't reached the SEC Championship since two thousand twenty two. Brian Kelly's squad has the talent — now the question is whether they can survive a brutal conference schedule and finally get back to Atlanta.
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