she will be drafted first overall tonight to the Dallas Wings. The Wings were awarded the first pick in this year’s draft after a 9-31 season in 2024. Ahead of draft night, Bueckers already inked a three-year contract with 3-on-3 league Unrivaled, which plays in the WNBA offseason; the first year of the Unrivaled contract […]
she will be drafted first overall tonight to the Dallas Wings. The Wings were awarded the first pick in this year’s draft after a 9-31 season in 2024.
Ahead of draft night, Bueckers already inked a three-year contract with 3-on-3 league Unrivaled, which plays in the WNBA offseason; the first year of the Unrivaled contract is more than an entire WNBA rookie contract.
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Several players, including Olivia Miles, Azzi Fudd and Flau’jae Johnson, who were projected to be selected high up in the draft order, held off on entering the draft in favor of another year of NCAA eligibility.
The WNBA draft begins tonight, April 14, at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Cord-cutters can watch the WNBA draft for free by utilizing a free trial from a live TV streaming service that includes ESPN. Our favorite options include DIRECTV (five days free, then $79.99/month) and fuboTV.
You can also stream the 2025 WNBA draft on Sling TV, which includes ESPN in its Orange plan, currently 50% off your first month. ESPN+ is also carrying the draft for $11.99/month, or you can bundle ESPN+ with Disney+ and Hulu starting at $16.99/month.
As noted above, UConn guard Paige Bueckers is widely projected to be this year’s first overall pick in the WNBA draft.
Dominique Malonga, Sonia Citron (Notre Dame), Kiki Iriafen (USC), and Aneesah Morrow (LSU) are projected to be drafted high this year, falling into the No. 2-5 slots in The Post’s mock draft.
The WNBA draft has three rounds. This year’s draft order was affected by the Las Vegas Aces violation of league rules regarding player benefits; the team’s first-round pick was revoked, so the first round will have just 12 picks, while the following two will have 13.
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Story Links JONESBORO, Ark. (5/17/25) – Several Arkansas State track and field athletes will compete Sunday at the South Alabama Last Chance, jockeying for qualifying position in the upcoming NCAA West Preliminary Rounds. Competition begins at 3:30 p.m. with the men’s shot put while the first event on the track for the […]
JONESBORO, Ark. (5/17/25) – Several Arkansas State track and field athletes will compete Sunday at the South Alabama Last Chance, jockeying for qualifying position in the upcoming NCAA West Preliminary Rounds.
Competition begins at 3:30 p.m. with the men’s shot put while the first event on the track for the Red Wolves will be the 100-meter hurdles at 4:30 p.m.
TEAMS REPRESENTED: Arkansas State, Louisiana, South Alabama (host), Southern Miss, Troy, ULM
THREE THINGS TO NOTE:
1. REGIONAL QUALIFYING: Sunday’s meet – appropriately titled “Last Chance” – represents the final chance for athletes to cement qualifying position in the upcoming NCAA Preliminary Rounds. Entering Sunday, A-State currently has eight athletes within the top 48 in at least one of their respective events in the West Region.
MEN
5000 meters: Jacob Pyeatt – 13:35.90 (#33)
110m Hurdles: Colby Eddowes – 13.45 (#9)
Pole Vault: Bradley Jelmert – 5.55m/18-2.5 (#4); John Carswell – 5.28m/17-3.75 (#32)
Long Jump: Colby Eddowes – 7.67m/25-2 (#25)
Shot Put: Menachem Chen – 18.11m/59-5 (#44)
Discus: Menachem Chen – 55.75m/182-11 (#46)
Hammer: Noa Isaia – 62.54m/205-2 (#20)
WOMEN
Pole Vault: Carly Pujol – 4.31m/14-1.75 (#20)
Shot Put: Michelle Ogbemudia – 16.40m/53-9.75 (#22)
2. PYEATT’S PROWESS: Arkansas State standout distance runner Jacob Pyeatt scored 20 points at the Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Championships, one of two men’s athletes to do so. He was also named the league’s Track Performer of the Year for not only his efforts at the championships but throughout the season.
3. ELEVEN RED WOLVES ON THE ALL-SUN BELT SQUADS: A total of 11 Red Wolves notched all-conference finishes at the outdoor championships, including six on the first team: Menachem Chen, Colby Eddowes, Noa Isaia, Bradley Jelmert, Jacob Pyeatt and Carly Pujol. Brandon Williams, Miranda Burgett and Michelle Ogbemudia were second-team finishers, while Kamil Przybyla and Tyra Nabors were on the third team.
NEXT UP
After competing in Mobile, A-State will next send multiple athletes to the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds, scheduled for May 28-31 in College Station, Texas.
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The idea of adolescence as a horror story is not new, but it’s given a splashy workout in Charlie Polinger‘s queasily stylish debut feature, in which the swimming pools, lockers rooms and bunk-bed dormitories of a boys’ water polo camp are a puberty petrie dish livid with sinister bacteria. Drawn from experience and benefiting from […]
The idea of adolescence as a horror story is not new, but it’s given a splashy workout in Charlie Polinger‘s queasily stylish debut feature, in which the swimming pools, lockers rooms and bunk-bed dormitories of a boys’ water polo camp are a puberty petrie dish livid with sinister bacteria. Drawn from experience and benefiting from some standout performances among its well-selected young cast, “The Plague” has a familiar coming-of-age narrative, but stranger, subtler undercurrents of creeping dismay at the men these boys will become when, at this formative age, cruelty chlorinates the water they swim in.
Sensitive, 12-year-old Ben (Everett Blunck) comes to the Tom Lerner Water Polo Camp in the summer of 2003 as an outsider twice over. He’s not only joining after the second session has started, he’s also a new arrival to the area. And, as we understand from an early conversation with his affable but ineffectual coach (Joel Edgerton, who also produces) a reluctant one: there’s hurt in the studied neutrality of his tone when he describes how his mother uprooted their lives to be with her new lover. Perhaps the wrenching change-up of father figure fuels Ben’s anxiety to fit in, but also maybe that’s just the way he is. When one of the kids’ endless games of would-you-rather makes him choose between “not fucking a dog but having everyone think you did, or fucking a dog and no one knows,” Ben opts for, well, screwing the pooch.
In any wolf pack, the Alpha is obvious and even among these cubs, Jake (a superb Kayo Martin) is easily identifiable as the ringleader. Deceptively cherubic beneath a shock of tousled strawberry blonde hair, and wearing a surprisingly adult expression of skeptical watchfulness, Jake is initially friendly enough to the newcomer — at least once Ben begins answering to the nickname “Soppy,” devised after Jake picks up on his very minor speech impediment.
There’s an easier target for Jake’s lazy but keen-eyed ridicule. Eli (Kenny Rasmussen) was presumably already an oddball — into magic tricks and solo flailing dance moves and lurching non-sequitur conversation — even before he developed a disfiguring skin complaint. The angry-looking rash that covers his arms and torso is probably some sort of eczema or contact dermatitis, but the boys are still of an age to be fascinated by lepers and curses and so Jake declares it “the plague.” Eli is ostracized, to the point that all the kids dive for another cafeteria table if he so much as pulls up a chair.
Good-natured Ben, in the throes of a panicky uncertainty that from the outside is sweetly poignant, if only because it will be gone in a year or a month or a minute, feels for Eli’s predicament— possibly more than the quite contentedly peculiar Eli does for himself. But as he barely has enough social capital to guarantee his own acceptance into Jake’s circle, Ben befriends the outcast cautiously, away from prying eyes. It’s fine to make taboo transgressions if nobody knows about it.
DP Steven Breckon punctuates “The Plague” with interludes of woozy underwater photography, in which the boys’ bodies dagger into the pool and then tread water, resembling so many headless sea horses. Sometimes, while Johan Lenox’s excellent, ’70s horror-inflected, nightmare-choir score reaches a bombastic crescendo, the girls of the synchronized swimming class who share the pool and fire the boys’ crude erotic imaginings, are shown inverted, so they appear to be dancing floatily across the water’s underside surface. These subaquatic symphonies give a touch of the phantasmagoric to a milieu that’s otherwise cleverly recreated from the banal remembered details of an early noughties childhood: the Capri-Suns, the pop tunes, that brief phase where kids believe that smoking kitchen-cupboard nutmeg will get them high.
Perhaps too the subjective nature of Polinger’s memory of a time when the peer-group dynamic was so much more influential than any peripheral authority figure, accounts for why these kids are so often unconstrained by adult supervision. Jake naturally takes advantage of that freedom to continue his offhand reign of terror, one he can maintain without ever really lifting a finger. Almost all of the violence in “The Plague” is self-inflicted and therefore easily disavowed by this tweenaged tyrant – a character so vivid that it’s tempting to imagine a more provocative movie told from the bully’s perspective. But as “The Plague” ramps up to an impressively eerie, body-horror-styled finale, it takes a rather more expected turn toward a significant, if hardly triumphal moment of personal growth for unhappy camper Ben. Teetering on the brink of adult society with its own bewilderingly insidious notions about masculinity and conformity, you can dive in or you can be pushed, and it’s only then you can know if you’ll sink or swim.
During much of the last three sets, if you closed your eyes for a moment, you could almost forget you were in Lexington. Against an upper-tier Minutemen group riding a 10-game win streak at the end of April, the Milford boys volleyball team transformed the small gym into a home away from home. The junior […]
During much of the last three sets, if you closed your eyes for a moment, you could almost forget you were in Lexington.
Against an upper-tier Minutemen group riding a 10-game win streak at the end of April, the Milford boys volleyball team transformed the small gym into a home away from home. The junior varsity squad’s booming cheers from the bleachers ignited the bench, who echoed every holler in a regular season matchup with a state quarterfinal feel. And on the court, super-charged junior outside hitter Gus Da Silva traded hits with Lexington’s Ale Luciani in a five-set thriller Milford lost by just two points.
Lexington ranks at No. 5 in the latest Div. 1 power rankings, with the state tournament almost a week away. It’s drawn praise as the leading candidate to break up the Bay State Conference’s grip on the Final Four.
The Scarlet Hawks, with Da Silva as their only returning starter from a trip to the state semifinals last year, rank No. 22.
“That game really showed us how good we are defensively and how good we can be,” Da Silva said. “The hype-ness, especially from our JV team and freshman team, if it wasn’t for them, I think we would’ve struggled a lot. They really boosted us as a team and our energy just skyrocketed. I think that’s what really pushed us that game. It was a good game. It felt like a home game, I can’t lie.”
Milford has a history of tenacity in numbers, wearing hearts on sleeves and producing a storm of energy that’s hard for opponents to bottle up. Last year’s senior-laden group, led by stars Alex Guerra and Arthur Gomes, showed a strong, team-wide friendship at the heart of it every day with Da Silva – a culture the junior focuses on maintaining this year.
To Scarlet Hawks head coach Andrew Mainini, that’s Da Silva’s superpower, outside of his talents as one of the state’s better outside hitters. And when Milford competes with Lexington, or beats a Cambridge (ranked No. 6) in five sets, or leads sets against Div. 1 and Div. 2 powerhouses Newton North and Agawam, that unity shines bright.
“I think off of the court, he is someone that the entire team likes, and he makes them laugh, and he brings the team together socially,” Mainini said. “The way he interacts with his teammates is really positive, and that has really brought the team – a pretty inexperienced team that was very new to each other – he has really brought the team together. And when we play defense, we often look like a well-oiled machine with a lot of chemistry. And I think that is partially because Gus has kind of united everyone as friends.”
“I want to be like a team that has a lot of chemistry and enjoys playing with each other, no hatred,” Da Silva added. “You know, that’s my focus. … We’re always hanging out. We’re always eating lunch (together). After practices or games, we’re always like together, you know, bonding as a team. So, that’s our primary goal, is just being together. When we’re at our low, we stay together, and when we’re achieving, everyone’s supporting each other.”
There’s a lot to Da Silva’s game that makes him a player to watch. Newton North and Lexington struggled at times to disrupt his hitting, which Mainini says comes from a dynamic swing that produces at the toughest of angles. The team is strong with its serve-receive, of which Da Silva is one of its best at. He’s been a standout passer.
When asked of those contributions when Milford is at its best, Da Silva points to the team. But when the Scarlet Hawks struggle, which has come in waves in an 11-8 record, the junior feels responsible for it.
“I have to take, like, the blame for it,” Da Silva said. “Everyone looks up to me, so I have to be a great role model to everyone. And sometimes I don’t do that. But I’m trying to keep myself at a very high standard for the most part.”
Milford, which has high expectations for what it can do in the state tournament despite its ranking, has shown more positives than negatives.
An upset loss to Taunton to share the new Hockomock League title with it was something Mainini felt Da Silva took pretty harshly. A 3-0 loss to Acton-Boxboro earlier in the week was frustrating, too. But in the first two sets, Milford was seemingly full control.
Against Newton North, which eventually lost top outside hitter Simon Vardeh to injury late in the third set, Milford led or competed well into at least the middle of all four sets in a 3-1 loss. Agawam is Div. 2’s leading title favorite, and Milford led in sets against it as well. The five-set win over Cambridge was a match Da Silva especially thrived in.
“I think when we play our best,” Mainini said. “it’s because (Da Silva) is, you know, bringing the team together and pushing them forward.”
Consistency is the key, and Da Silva has worked hard on his leadership to limit the low moments. Da Silva admits the pressure he feels with jumping from a role player last year to a central leader this year, a pressure that’s been both enjoyable and difficult. But he’s taking it in stride, and is focused on guiding the Scarlet Hawks as they look to improve their close-outs to sets.
“We’re really playing well until that closing moment (in the losses),” he said. “We just need to sense a little bit of blood, and athletes close the game every time. … Really it’s just working harder every day.”
Passion for the sport comes almost naturally for Da Silva, who dropped other sports to focus on volleyball and work as a barber. He plays for Smash volleyball in the offseason, and has made friendships and improved there, too.
“(Volleyball) means a lot (to me),” Da Silva said. “It’s like, my safe space, in a way. It brings me closer to my friends. It’s like, really calming and it’s just peaceful, you know?”
With those friends, he’s looking forward to making some noise in the state tournament. The whole team – bolstered by junior Diego Inacio-Santos, sophomore Sam Abreu and a well-balanced defense – is too.
“We’re ready, and we’re excited to potentially be the underdog who gets a couple upsets in the tournament,” Mainini said. “We know that we are more talented than a (22) seed.”
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FTC’s Adam Nagy fired in two goals against Oradea. Photo: FTC-Telekom Waterpolo 1. With the completion of the Quarter Final Stage, the semi-finals are set for the Final Four in Malta. On Friday 30 May, Novi Beograd will clash with Zodiac CNAB from 19.30, while FTC-Telekom face CN Marseille from 21.00 on the picturesque Mediterranean […]
1. With the completion of the Quarter Final Stage, the semi-finals are set for the Final Four in Malta. On Friday 30 May, Novi Beograd will clash with Zodiac CNAB from 19.30, while FTC-Telekom face CN Marseille from 21.00 on the picturesque Mediterranean island..
The two group winners, Ferencvaros and Novi Beograd have experience of playing in the iconic Tal-Qroqq Sports Complex in Gzira, as they were both part of the show last season. For Barceloneta and Marseille, this is going to be their first Champions League tour to Malta – though not the first occasion to play the finals. Well, for Marseille, it can still be considered a debut, as this is the first time they managed to reach the top four.
This is going to be the sixth straight appearance for Ferencvaros, whose players lifted the trophy last year and right away upon their first try in 2019. Barceloneta missed the cut a year ago, now they are back and playing in the finals (F4, F6 or F8) for the ninth time in the last 11 editions (they won in 2014).
Novi Beograd have also been a constant feature since 2022, as after playing back-to-back finals in 2022 and 2023, they finished fourth in 2024. Marseille have made the F8 twice before, in 2021 and 2022, but were unable to survive the quarters.
2. Title-holders Ferencvaros came up with another strong performance in the last round of games in the Quarter Final Stage, a 20-10 blast against Oradea, to maintain their perfect home record.
Sabadell were the last team to beat them in Budapest in 2023 in the last round of the Group Stage. Since then, Fradi have won all 12 Champions League matches they’ve played at home. And a lot more indeed – their win-loss count stands at 45-1 this season.
If you add their total from the previous one: 46-1, they are 91-2 combined so far – stats that make it clear why the Hungarians are considered the overwhelming favourites in Malta.
Beating Oradea was a little like a walk in the park, and how the match started underlined why this side is a real superpower. Here is the list of players who netted Fradi’s first four goals: Erik Molnar, Zoltan Pohl, Zsombor Vismeg and Vince Varga. Definitely not the household names for FTC.
Even in a game like this, usually the top scorers kick off the party and once the lead is substantial, those players also add a couple of goals. Those names tend to do the bulk of defending, making space for the master shooters, and so on.
Still, in this match, these players put Fradi on the right track, then entered the stars like Stylianos Argyropoulos, who hit three and is on his way to becoming the top scorer for this season.
3. Zodiac CNAB also did a clean job in Group B – the 17-10 trouncing of Savona was another spectacular win for the Spaniards. They are now on a five-game winning streak after losing the opener to Fradi in the Quarter Final Stage.
Indeed, they are also 11-1 combined in the Champions League (Group Stage and Quarter Final Stage), just like the Hungarians. And so far, they are the only ones who could beat FTC across all competitions, even if only in a shootout.
It was a flawless performance against the Italians – and the result also marked the end of an era…
With Recco skipping the top competition and Brescia falling in the qualifications, Savona remained Italy’s only hope, but they just barely survived the Group Stage and never had a realistic chance to qualify for the Final Four.
So, 2025 will mark the first year since 2013 when the finals will begin with no Italian team on the grand stage. Indeed, since the Champions League format took shape, replacing the home-and-away duels in 1997, Italian sides were missing from the finals only in 2000, 2004 and in 2013, for obvious reasons, when they did not enter the competition.
This year marks the very first time when an Italian club was fighting for the ultimate prize, but couldn’t make the cut.
4. Obviously, Olympiacos’ water polo teams wanted to contribute to their club’s 100th anniversary celebrations with much better results. The women got the bronze in the Final Four at least – but the men’s campaign was derailed completely in the quarters.
Still, they wanted to restore some pride and offer some consolation to their fans, and showed strength and quality against Marseille to land a great 12-8 win on day six of the quarters.
We’ll never know how this game may have unfolded if the Greeks had had a chance to advance – indeed, they managed to lead 12-7 late in the match before conceding a late goal from a penalty (after having lost 7-12 in Marseille).
Had it been a different scenario, the results against each other may have really mattered…
Marseille were still the happier side at the end, even if they dropped to second place in Group A. From their perspective, making the Final Four is already a tremendous feat, perhaps even surpassing their previous top achievement – their 2019 Euro Cup triumph.
And even if they are set to play with title-holders Ferencvaros in the semis, a game against Barceloneta wouldn’t have looked any easier either.
5. For understandable reasons, Jadran Split let the last match go, as the Croats were focusing on their league final (vs Mladost Zagreb) and rested their top players. Well, they were already heading towards the exit after losing their first three games, and their Piraeus heroics were short-lived.
Fielding youngsters paved the way for Novi Beograd to clinch an easy win – and it also put the Serbs back on top of Group A, as Marseille’s four-game winning streak came to end in Piraeus.
Credit goes to NBG, as they are no longer the formidable team that lined up most of the Serbian aces – who were Olympic champions alongside quality foreigners.
A couple of key players left the club (and joined Radnicki), still, Novi are a great blend of top home players, talented youngsters and their Greek duo of Angelos Vlachopoulos and Dimitrios Skoumpakis add even more experience and skills to the mix.
In contrast, Jadran continued to add quality players to their line-up, but the Croatian champions were unable to get any closer to the finals. Last year they had six losses in the Quarter Final Stage with a goal-difference of –30 (62-92).
This year they managed to win a match at least (but in a shootout, so no three-point victories in two years), but they sill finished bottom with –32 (48-80).
However, this will be another season remembered for Jadran not getting the results many would have expected, especially from a side that features half of the powerful Croatia team that reached the finals in all three majors last year (Europeans, Worlds, Olympics).
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Mounds View is the Suburban East Conference champion in the first year of boys volleyball as an MSHSL sport. The Mustangs, coached by Kressen Anderson, were 9-0 in the conference, and are 13-11 overall heading into sectionals. They closed the regular season last Wednesday beating Centennial 25-17, 25-18, 22-25, 26-28, 15-9. Junior middle hitter Tate […]
Mounds View is the Suburban East Conference champion in the first year of boys volleyball as an MSHSL sport. The Mustangs, coached by Kressen Anderson, were 9-0 in the conference, and are 13-11 overall heading into sectionals.
They closed the regular season last Wednesday beating Centennial 25-17, 25-18, 22-25, 26-28, 15-9.
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