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With the NBA Draft decision deadline looming Wednesday night, there are a number of players who still haven't announced whether they will remain in the draft or return to college.

No pending decision probably looms larger on the 2026 college basketball season than former Iowa State standout Milan Momcilovic, who led the nation by making a school-record 136 3-pointers last season.

After averaging 16.9 points and shooting a nation-best 48.7% from 3-point range last season, Momcilovic entered the NBA Draft as well as the transfer portal on April 12.

He attended this month's NBA Scouting Combine in Chicago, but still hasn't announced his final decision. He's reportedly drawn heavy interest from Kentucky, Duke and St. John's.

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However, Field of 68 reported Tuesday that Arizona has emerged as another suitor in Momcilovic's potential return process. A factor in this? Arizona standout Koa Peat is reportedly staying in the NBA Draft and not returning for his sophomore season.

Whoever lands Momcilovic should he return to college, it will likely take a heavy price tag to make it happen. He's commanding approximately $6 million to return to college, according to a report by CBS Sports.

Momcilovic's 260 career 3-pointers at Iowa State ties for second in school history with Naz Mitrou-Long (2012-17), 10 behind leader Jake Sullivan (2000-04).

--Field Level Media

The Montreal Canadiens find themselves in unfamiliar territory.

Sure, they will play their next game at home, but they will enter Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday night having lost two in a row for the first time since March 14-15.

The Canadiens, who trail 2-1 in the best-of-seven series, also have lost three in a row at home and five of seven overall at the Bell Centre in the playoffs.

Unfortunately for Montreal, Carolina is 5-0 on the road and 10-1 overall.

"I expect us to show up," Canadiens head coach Martin St. Louis said on Tuesday. "We're behind, but we're not dead.

"... It's hard as you keep advancing. We knew it was going to be that. I think going through that, you really realize it's hard to keep advancing. You have to grind."

Getting more shots on goal would be beneficial, too.

Montreal followed up registering 12 shots on goal in a 3-2 overtime loss in Game 2 on Saturday with 13 in a setback by the same score in Game 3 on Monday. Even the Bell Centre faithful were imploring the home team to "shoot the puck" during overtime on Monday.

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"I think we could have been better (Monday) night. I think our execution was a little bit off. We just couldn't find it throughout the whole game, it seemed like," defenseman Kaiden Guhle said, per the Montreal Gazette.

"(On Wednesday) we definitely have to be better. We have to be desperate. We don't want to be down 3-1 going back there (for Game 5 on Friday). Definitely, it's a huge one."

Andrei Svechnikov scored 14:06 into the extra session on Monday as Carolina improved to 5-0 in overtime during this postseason. The Hurricanes are now two wins removed from reaching the Stanley Cup Final for the third time in franchise history.

"I think it's the mentality of the team," Svechnikov said of Carolina's penchant of winning in overtime, per the Raleigh News and Observer. "We love tight games. Every time, we love that."

Carolina also loves scoring first, as it has done in each game of this series and nine times in 11 games during these playoffs. Defenseman Shayne Gostisbehere opened the scoring on Monday and Taylor Hall also tallied for his team-leading 13th point this postseason.

Montreal defenseman Lane Hutson scored a goal on Monday to boost his postseason point total to 15 (three goals, 12 assists). However, the 5-foot-9, 162-pound Hutson also has picked up a number of other things -- such as a swollen lip and a bruised nose -- while being targeted with physical play by the Hurricanes.

Carolina holds a decisive 127-65 advantage in hits thus far in the series.

"I would say it's a staple of our game," Gostisbehere said. "Our forwards do a great job of sending a heavy forecheck. It's to whoever has the puck, to be honest. Obviously, (Montreal's) skilled guys, you want to get a piece of them any chance you get, don't let them get up the ice. When you're doing that all game, it gets annoying. You're not going to want to get up the ice when you're getting hit all the time or mentally knowing that you're going to get hit."

--Field Level Media

CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) — Clarence B. Jones, a former speechwriter and confidante of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who helped pen his famous“I Have A Dream” speech, has died. He was 95.

Jones died Friday at a senior living community in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Cupertino, according to a statement released by the family, who was at his side.

“Our father lived a life of conscience,” the Jones' family said Tuesday. “He believed, until his final days, that an idea" is "more powerful than the march of any army. We are grateful beyond words for the love, the prayers, and the friendships that sustained him, and us, across this long and remarkable life.”

As King's personal attorney, Jones was heavily involved in some of the key moments of the Civil Rights Movement. He is credited with smuggling pages of King's “Letter from Birmingham Jail” out of his cell and writing many up until theassassination of the civil rights iconin 1968.

He helped craft King's 1967 “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence” address given at Riverside Church in New York exactly a year before King's death. It was considered a hallmark speech for King's condemnation of the Vietnam War and U.S. militarism in general. He argued that the U.S.'s participation in the war exacerbated poverty across the country.

Born on Jan. 8, 1931 in Philadelphia, Jones had parents who were domestic workers for a wealthy Quaker family several miles away in New Jersey, according to the Clarence B. Jones Institute for Social Advocacy. Jones was class valedictorian of an integrated high school in Palmyra, New Jersey. His knack for speechwriting became apparent in 1949, when he gave a graduation speech about breaking down racial barriers.

Jones went on to graduate from Columbia University in New York. He then was drafted by the U.S. Army but was honorably discharged almost two years later. He went on to earn a law degree from Boston University.

In 1960, in what would be the start of a seminal friendship, Jones was approached by King to be on his legal team in a tax evasion case brought by the state of Alabama. Jones pivoted from a career in entertainment law in California and moved his family to New York City. There he could be closer to King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and serve as a full-time adviser, attorney and speechwriter for him.

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He was a member of the legal team on the 1964 case New York Times v. Sullivan. The nation's highest court overturned a libel case against the newspaper, which had run an ad condemning police treatment of civil rights demonstrators in Montgomery, Alabama.

After King's death, Jones went on to work for a Wall Street investment banking firm and became the first Black American with the designation of allied member of the New York Stock Exchange.

He later ventured into academia. In 2012, he joined the faculty at the University of San Francisco where he taught law students as well as undergraduates in courses such as “From Slavery to Obama.” In 2018, he co-founded the Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice at the school. Around the same time, he also became a scholar-in-residence at Stanford University's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute.

Jones published a book about those years with King in 2023 titled “Last of the Lions: An African American Journey in Memoir.”

The following year he received the nation's highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from then-President Joe Biden. A few weeks later, a tearful Jones appeared at a San Francisco Giants baseball game with Golden State Warriors basketball star Stephen Curry to throw out the ceremonial first pitch. Curry has produced and co-directed a short documentary on Jones.

“The Baddest Speechwriter of All” won an award at the Sundance Film Festival in January and will stream onNetflixlater this year.

Jones is survived by his five children and longtime partner Lin Walters.

Plans for funeral services and a public celebration of life are still being finalized.

Alexa, are you down right now?

If she doesn't say anything, you know the answer.

According to Downdetector,there were nearly 200 reports of issues with Amazon Alexa as of Tuesday evening around 6 p.m. EST.

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More than half of the issues with Alexa is with voice controls. But there were other issues as well, including others are having problems with connectivity and others are dealing with app problems.

The problem just popped up, so it could potentially be corrected quickly. But if you’re having issues, you’re not alone.

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Arthur Gea abruptly ran off the tennis court for an emergency bathroom break during his French Open debut

NEED TO KNOW

• “I cannot wait, it’s not a joke,” the 21-year-old French pro tennis player said to the umpire before sprinting to the bathroom

• Following the match, the French tennis star said that he woke up that morning feeling unwell

Arthur Geapaused the first set of hisFrench Opendebut to take an emergency bathroom break.

On Sunday, May 24, the 135th-ranked French tennis star, 21, dramatically dashed off the Suzanne-Lenglen Court in Paris after telling the umpire that he had to urgently use the restroom in the middle of his match against Karen Khachanov.

“I need to go to the bathroom. I can't move anymore,” Gea said to the chair umpire before running off, according to theAssociated Press. “I'm going to (go) on the court.”

“I cannot wait. It's not a joke,” he added, as seen in a TNT Sports video.

While Gea was trailing Khachanov 4-2 when he abruptly paused the match, Khachanov protested to the umpire as three minutes passed before they were able to resume.

According to aruleintroduced by the Association of Tennis Professionals in 2022, players can take a maximum of three minutes once they have entered the toilet. Additionally, a player may only take one toilet break per match during a set break.

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In this case, Gea said that the umpire allowed him the break because of “medical circumstances,” noting that he was given medications to ease his stomach pain.

Ultimately, Khachanov won the match 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-0.

Following the match, Gea said that he woke up that morning feeling unwell after not feeling any symptoms the night before.

“I was feeling really, really bad this morning in particular. But during the match was even worse because it was a bit hot and I had to go to the toilet really quick and they didn't allow it,” he said during apress conference. “I was asking the referee because I was feeling really, really bad and then the doctor came and obviously I could go out and it was not so long.”

In addition to Gea's illness, his match against Khachanov took place during a grueling heat wave in Paris with temperatures nearing 90 degrees Fahrenheit. As spectators fanned themselves with newspapers in the stands, players attempted to keep cool and stay hydrated on the court.

“I was feeling a bit better but it was still really bad,” Gea continued of his condition after returning the bathroom. “It was really, really hard physically with my health.”

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