NBA NewsFriday, Jan 16, 2026

Could the Lakers’ front office figure out a way to increase LA’s draft capital to create a more enticing trade package?

Brooks is walking the line between enforcer and liability in Phoenix.

Every "MJ: Insights to Excellence" segment has come from the same interview.

When Jared Verse begins to elaborate on the methodology of sacking Caleb Williams, it's quickly obvious the Los Angeles Rams star edge rusher has been thinking about this monumental task quite a bit. “You just have to keep rushing,” Verse said. Obviously, that’s all quarterbacks, but you have to aim for his arm.

The Power 4 conference that didn't get its champion into the College Football Playoff has a team that tied for second playing in the CFP's national title game. The league that looked most vulnerable a few short years ago when the latest round of realignment shook up college sports is doing just fine. The best proof comes out of Miami, a second-place finisher in the ACC that plays Indiana in the title game Monday.

Second-to-last Pisa scored only its second home goal of the season with three minutes left to tie high-flying Atalanta 1-1 and record a Serie A-high 11th draw on Friday. Pisa had the better of a dour match but it had scored only once in eight home matches this season and rarely threatened to increase that meager tally. It went behind with seven minutes left when Nikola Krstovic pounced on a lose ball close to goal and fired into the roof of the net from a tight angle.

Victor Wembanyama and company served Milwaukee a disheartening blowout

Ousmane Dembélé put transfer talk behind him and scored a crucial brace for Paris Saint-Germain in a 3-0 win over Lille that returned it to the top of Ligue 1 on Friday. French media last week reported that the 2025 Ballon d’Or winner rejected a new contract offer. With four defenders in front of him, Dembélé somehow found space to chip the most audacious of shots that bamboozled keeper Berke Ozer and dropped in just under the crossbar.

Niina Petrokina completed one of figure skating's great comeback performances to retain her European championship title on Friday, three months after Achilles tendon surgery. Petrokina landed seven triple jumps in a clean, personal-best free skate to music from the movie “Dune” to score 216.14 points, a score which ranks the Estonian among some of the world's best ahead of next month's Winter Olympics. “I don't know how I do it,” Petrokina said when asked about her recovery.

New York Rangers general manager Chris Drury shared a letter with fans saying the franchise feels their disappointment. Drury wrote on Friday that he plans to “retool” by possibly trading established players. Coming off an underachieving this season and missing the playoffs last year, the Rangers are the only team with a losing record in the Eastern Conference past the midway mark of the NHL season.

Vladyslav Vanat scored penalties in stoppage time of each half as Girona beat Espanyol 2-0 in a fiercely contested Catalan derby in La Liga on Friday. It was the first time Girona has won three on the trot since November 2024. Espanyol remained fifth.

Can the Lakers create an enticing enough package to make an upgrade at the wing position?