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Matt Hudson-Smith is raising eyebrows ahead of the European championships in Birmingham, where the Olympic silver medalist admitted he genuinely doesn't know whether Grand Slam Track has paid him what he's owed. The league filed for Chapter eleven bankruptcy protection late last year, and Hudson-Smith's casual shrug at the press conference — joking he has "a memory like a fish" — isn't exactly inspiring confidence that athletes are being made whole.
Shifting to the hardwood, the Las Vegas Aces rolled into New York on Sunday without A'ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray, or Jackie Young, all three sitting out to rest after a brutal back-to-back. The team lost in Minnesota on Saturday, then traveled nearly twelve hundred miles to New York, not reaching their hotel until close to ten at night. That's a grind that would wear down anyone, and the Aces made the call to protect their core.
And over in Jacksonville, Travis Hunter is already turning heads in training camp. The Jaguars rookie hauled in a leaping interception during practice on August ninth that had fans buzzing, even though the play was wiped out by a Trevor Lawrence sack ruling. The ball flew anyway, Hunter went and got it, and that kind of instinct doesn't go unnoticed.
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