SAN FRANCISCO - After acquiring point guard Dennis Schroder, GM Mike Dunleavy Jr. said the Golden State Warriors will remain aggressive on the trade front as they try to maximize the championship window for Stephen Curry and Draymond Green.

After a 12-3 start, the Warriors have lost eight of their last 10 games. Dunleavy officially acquired Schroder on the first day he was eligible to be traded on Sunday. And he said he will continue to look for ways to improve Golden State.

"We're always aggressive," Dunleavy said on a conference call to discuss the Schroder addition. "You got to be mindful of what you're giving up, what you're getting back, all those things. But anything to do to make the team better, we're going to do.

"We're in a time zone here of maximizing our window with Steph, Draymond and Steve [Kerr] as our coach. So as proven here on the first day we could basically make trades with certain players, we did that... For the most part I feel good about this team, particularly on the defensive end and now we have a player that we think could create and generate more offense for us. I want to evaluate and see, but we'll always be looking at stuff."

Schroder, who will be introduced to reporters after practice on Tuesday, was acquired along with a 2025 second-round pick (via Miami) from the Brooklyn Nets for De'Anthony Melton, Reece Beekman and three second-round picks (2026 and 2028 via Atlanta, 2029 via Golden State).

Schroder fills a huge hole left in the rotation by Melton's season-ending knee injury. The Warriors view Schroder as a much-needed ballhandler and playmaker to help Curry, a point guard who can run the second unit if needed and one who can knock down perimeter shots and defend. During this slump, the Warriors have struggled offensively at times down the stretch of games to score.

Both Kerr and Curry say Schroder should fit in seamlessly.

"We've been changing our starting lineup, almost nightly searching," Kerr said. "But he would seem to be a perfect fit to start next to Steph, but we got to see how it all plays out."

Kerr said that Schroder's strength on pick and rolls is something Golden State needs offensively. Schroder averaged 18.4 points, 6.6 assists and 38.7% shooting from behind the arc this season for the Nets.

Curry also likes the competitive nature Schroder will bring.

"He got that dog in him," Curry said. "... He's very animated and I've never not seen him in the moment trying to rip your head off type vibe."

Schroder is on an expiring contract but Dunleavy said he hopes this can be more than just a short-term rental.

"We still think he's got a lot of good years left in him," Dunleavy said of the 31-year-old point guard. "And we'll have his Bird rights, the ability to re-sign him after the season. We think he's a good fit for us on both sides of the court and hopefully there's a relationship here longer than just a few months."

With another tennis year about to begin, please indulge your imagination for a moment.

It is Monday, 30 June 2025 and we have just had this report from Wimbledon.

"The defending ladies' champion was the first player to walk out on to Centre Court this year, as The All England Club joined the other Grand Slams in a year of significant change.

"Men have joined women in playing best-of-three sets in the first four rounds of a major, with all singles played over five sets from the quarter-finals onwards.

"Change at this years Australian Open was well received. There was only one post-midnight finish as 17:00 local time was adopted as a default starting point for night sessions - and there is much to look forward to later in the year.

"The Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup will merge to create a World Cup of Tennis in September, while late-season tournaments will feature FA Cup-style draws, faster scoring formats and players having to hit a serve regardless of how badly they toss the ball."

You might not like all of those ideas - or even any of them - but change is not as hard as is often made out.

Here are five ideas to shake up tennis.

A pair of Exeter tries early in the second half reduced the gap to Toulouse to 23 points before the French side ran in three more scores.

"The was a period after half-time where I thought we played some of our best rugby of the season against a very good side and things looked like we were just starting to create the momentum our way," added Baxter.

"But keeping it up is one thing, but we should have started the game like it.

"How that game was after half-time was how we talked about playing the game, about getting them moving, going after them, doing things ourselves, moving the ball to create difficult scenarios.

"Sometimes we almost waited to get our players back and then did quite a static play when we can just going.

"Some of it's quite new to the players to know that we're happy with them just getting on with things and getting the ball moving, but that is the way you're going to win games now."

The lock captained Tigers for the first time in their season opener at Exeter in August, but has featured only four times to date this term because of an injury suffered while training with the national side.

Since making his senior debut for Tigers in 2020, he has made 60 appearances for the club.

Leicester head coach Michael Cheika said it was "really important for the club" that Chessum committed his future to the East Midlands side.

"Ollie is 24, home grown, has Leicester Tigers in his blood and is a high-quality player," Cheika said.

"He has been introduced to a leadership role within the team earlier this season and showed good skills given the opportunity. I'm very happy he will be part of the club these coming seasons."

Tadhg Furlong and Andrew Porter have signed new two-year contracts with Ireland and Leinster until 2027.

Irish prop Furlong, whose international debut was against Wales in 2015, has made 78 Test appearances and has won the Six Nations title three times.

Furlong played for the British and Irish Lions Test side in 2017 and 2021 and has won four Pro12/Pro14 titles and the European Champions Cup with Leinster.

The extension means Furlong will be contracted to the Irish RFU until the summer when Ireland will start to prepare for the next 2027 World Cup, when he will be 35.

"To get the chance to continue my playing career in Ireland with my home province is a dream come true," said Furlong.

"I am delighted to extend my long association with both Leinster Rugby and the IRFU for the seasons to come.

"Since the beginning of my career I have aimed to contribute positively in a winning environment and I believe that there are bright times to come for club and country."

Mitch Marner couldn't avoid stating the obvious.

It wasn't just that his Toronto Maple Leafs were reeling from a 5-1 drubbing on Nov. 27 by the reigning Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. It was how the brutal defeat halted a semi-remarkable run of victories for the club when so many players were out of action, including captain Auston Matthews, Matthew Knies, Max Domi, Max Pacioretty, David Kampf and Ryan Reaves.

"We're missing half our team up front, man," said Marner, shaking his head at the question of why Toronto couldn't generate any offense that night. "It's tough."

And yet, the Leafs have practically built their season around overcoming adversity -- and not just on the injury front. Toronto's been adapting to a new system too, under a new coach in Craig Berube, without ever having the whole band together. Establishing -- or replacing -- an identity is hard to do under the circumstances.

Toronto is managing it thanks in large part to Marner's contributions (and yes, there's more on him later). But the club's success stretches beyond a singular element. These are not the same Maple Leafs who were bounced from a first-round playoff series last spring for the third time in four years. They don't often resemble those former iterations -- and that's the point. Toronto is seeking different results -- and, for once, actually taking tangible steps to realize them.

Granted, the Leafs' postseason fortunes are unpredictable and rightly on the back burner (for now). What Toronto's focus is (and should be) on is winning under any condition -- not always a previous strength -- and eventually translating a lineage of regular-season success into something greater.

What's changed for Toronto in making that achievable? How have they carried on through early-season hardships in relatively dynamic fashion, going toe-to-toe with the Panthers for top seed in the Atlantic Division, and sitting top 10 in the NHL in points percentage?

Let's take a look.

"IT KEPT COMING back to Craig."

That's how Leafs general manager Brad Treliving introduced Berube as the franchise's head coach in May, the undeniable "new voice" Treliving wanted for Toronto after firing previous bench boss Sheldon Keefe a week earlier.

Treliving had heard players would go through a wall for Berube. But since he was hired, it's been Berube breaking down the Leafs' old barriers.

Before Berube, Toronto's reputation was as an offensive powerhouse fueled -- for better or worse -- by its so-called Core Four: Matthews, Marner, William Nylander and John Tavares.

The Leafs could score. They were flashy and fun. And that offensive output helped them secure all manner of regular-season accolades including the most single-season wins in franchise history (54) during the 2021-22 campaign. Meanwhile, Matthews owns the franchise mark for most goals scored by a player in one season (69) from his eye-popping 2023-24 showing.

Matthews has had a rough start to this season, though. He missed nine games with an undisclosed injury that necessitated a trip to Germany in search of treatment. Toronto rallied without their top center, going 7-2-0 thanks to a collection of contributions that spawned an experimental moniker: the "Core Six."

The expanded definition came about as Toronto is averaging fewer goals this season than any other time in the Core Four era, sitting 22nd in the league, with 2.90 goals per game. Over the same stretch a year ago, Toronto was second overall with 3.64 goals per game. In fact, since Matthews & Co. came together, the Leafs have never finished the season below three goals per game.

Well, times have changed. Toronto has just four players with double-digit goal totals this season -- Matthews just scored his 10th in Saturday's tilt at Detroit. The critical output of Matthew Knies and Bobby McMann -- who've taken on top-line responsibilities in Matthews' absence -- put them in elite company with the Leafs' other key offensive drivers.

Because that Core Six? They have 70 goals collectively this season. The rest of the team combined has 21.

That imbalance of secondary scoring hasn't derailed the Leafs for a few reasons -- one of the largest being Marner's all-world performance.

TORONTO'S TOP-LINE WINGER is a dazzling force, with 10 goals and 40 points in 30 games, good for a share of ninth overall in the league. Marner might be weaving together the best season of his career, and the timing is perfect.

Marner, 27, is in a contract year and poised to become an unrestricted free agent in July. He has been elite carrying Toronto's offense through their health problems, so much so that the asking price on that next contract feels perpetually pushed forward. And you know Marner has some striking comparable numbers to work with from his closest companions.

It was just last season the Leafs were in a similar contract negotiation with Nylander, landing on an eight-year, $92 million pact. Matthews' contract runs through 2026-27 with an average annual value of $13.25 million. So, does Marner warrant something in the middle? He's currently making $10.9 million, has bargaining power and no apparent desire to rush into something with Toronto -- especially given his body of work this season and for his career.

The Leafs are holding their cards equally close.

"I've learned not to comment on that type of stuff," said Leafs president Brendan Shanahan to TSN's Gino Reda at the NHL Board of Governors meeting this month. "[Marner's] playing great hockey. He's been a great player for us for a long time."

Fair enough. But in all of those seasons with the Leafs' scoring prowess at the forefront, Toronto never achieved its ultimate aspiration of being fully multifaceted.

Enter Berube, who has Toronto buttoned up like their Sunday best on the defensive end.

WHILE THE LEAFS' scoring might be down, they are holding opponents off the scoring sheet at an impressive level. Toronto is fifth in goals against (at 2.60 per game) compared to 15th at this time last season (3.18).

This is a change from bygone Toronto teams brandishing a wide-open style of play that left them vulnerable to back-end breakdowns (and there were many). Treliving knew the Leafs needed reinforcements on the blue line, and took a swing at the 2024 NHL draft by acquiring the signing rights to Chris Tanev, a pending unrestricted free agent. Tanev was everything Toronto wanted to anchor its defense -- a premier stay-at-home player with exceptional shot-blocking ability and a reputation for shutting down the middle of the ice.

Tanev was originally touted as a potential top-pairing partner for Morgan Rielly, but it has been Tanev and Jake McCabe who have redefined what Toronto does on defense. The duo suppresses more chances than practically any other regular duo, while being saddled with most of Toronto's defense zone starts and their opponents' toughest matchups. Tanev and McCabe have set the standard for Toronto forcing shots from the perimeter and keeping high-danger chances increasingly off the board.

It's not just Tanev and McCabe who deserve credit for Toronto's improved defensive efforts, of course. There's been a collective buy-in that has percolated with this team for some time.

"The big shift between this year and previous years is our play on the defensive side," Shanahan said. "You really sort of admire what Florida did. They weren't really known as a defensive team. They kind of made a collective decision, as a group, that they were going to be an outstanding defensive team, and it got them a championship. ... There's a long way to go, but so far, the commitment on the defensive side of the puck, the goaltending that we've been getting, knock on wood, we just want to keep improving, getting better at that."

Ah yes, the goaltending. Another spot the Leafs are ecstatic about upgrading that's been recently bit by the injury bug.

As noted, the forward group has been decimated at times. Marner and Nylander are the only regulars up front who have appeared in every game. Toronto has had better luck with their defensemen and netminders staying healthy -- just not lately. First, it was McCabe sitting out five games with an upper-body injury. Now it's Anthony Stolarz joining a long list of Leafs who've been listed as day-to-day this season.

Good thing Toronto has no expectation of sympathy from their league partners.

"We're the Leafs," McMann said. "No one feels bad for us. Guys go down [but] everywhere we go, we're going to have other teams' best to go up against."

TORONTO HAS BEEN answering that bell on the back of Stolarz. After he exited the first period of Thursday's game against Anaheim with a lower-body injury, Berube couldn't hide his relief that the prognosis wasn't worse. If it weren't for Stolarz, the whole narrative of Toronto's season might be starkly different, but he could return later this week.

When asked about Stolarz being moved to IR on Sunday, Berube seemed to backpedal by saying, "we'll get an update on [him] in a couple days; I'm not really going to comment on that now."

This isn't great news for the Leafs. Dennis Hildeby -- up from the American Hockey League and fresh from recording an .889 save percentage in the Leafs' come-from-behind win over Buffalo on Sunday -- can only do so much filling Stolarz' spot alongside Woll.

Treliving signed Stolarz as a free agent last summer after the veteran won a Cup with the Panthers backing up Sergei Bobrovsky. He has not only paired with Joseph Woll to form the sort of reliable tandem Toronto's been searching for in net, but has excelled in Toronto's bright spotlight, while collecting the best save percentage in the league among goalies with at least 20 starts.

And Stolarz's dominance has helped propel the Leafs even while missing large parts of the regular lineup. Being able to lean on top-tier goaltending hasn't always worked out for the Leafs -- something Keefe knows all too well. And Toronto's former coach had high praise for Stolarz after he put on a clinic beating Keefe's New Jersey Devils last week.

"Best goaltending in the league on the other side," surmised Keefe when asked what made the difference for Toronto.

That compliment could apply to Woll as well. He's posted an 8-4-0 record with a .918 save percentage and 2.24 goals-against average, ranking among the league's best goaltenders with a minimum 10 starts.

The nagging issue with Woll has been his health. The 26-year-old has been sidelined at several times during his Leafs' career with injuries, even forced out of a critical Game 7 start against the Boston Bruins in Toronto's first-round playoff series last spring. He was also sat out to start this season with "lower-body tightness."

That's really what opened the door for Stolarz to step in as the Leafs' starter -- and he hasn't looked back. Toronto remains hopeful Stolarz won't miss much time, but even a brief absence will allow the Leafs to show they can continue to rally through hardships that would have been stumbling blocks in the past.

Because the Leafs are different now, right?

Have they proved it yet? And can that even be done in the regular season -- or will they need to prove it in the playoffs?

What's true now is that Toronto doesn't only resemble the team it used to be. There's a grittiness to the group that goes beyond just an evolved style of play. The Leafs themselves a little more hardened. A little less playful. And maybe significantly more focused on the fact that the prime years for that forward core -- whether it's four or six -- are dwindling.

Toronto's window is still open. Now it's time to see if they can throw enough weight to keep it from closing with another disappointing thud in May.

Harry Maguire has said he hasn't given up hope of extending his stay at Manchester United after "positive" conversations about a new contract.

Maguire's current deal is set to expire at the end of the season, although United have an option to extend his contract by a year until 2026.

The England defender was close to leaving Old Trafford for West Ham in 2023 before the move collapsed. He has slipped down the pecking order at United after the summer arrivals of Matthijs de Ligt and Leny Yoro.

But after an impressive performance in the 2-1 win over Manchester City on Sunday, the 31-year-old is still hoping to stay.

"I haven't really thought about [his long-term future]," Maguire said. "I've still got this year to go with an option in their hands. But, yeah, all the signs are positive at the moment and the chat that I'm having is really positive."

Asked if talks about a new long-term contract were ongoing, Maguire said: "Yeah."

Maguire was a surprise inclusion in Ruben Amorim's team at the Etihad Stadium. But the former Leicester City man kept Erling Haaland quiet before United scored two late goals to seal a dramatic derby win.

"It's been a difficult start to the season for us and not much for our fans to cheer about, so it's for them," Maguire added. "I thought the game was a 50-50 game, to be honest. Could have gone either way. It's an improvement but still a long way to go."

Victory at the Etihad was a statement result for Amorim, who has overseen a mixed bag of performances since taking over from Erik ten Hag.

The Portuguese head coach has been clear that his team is a work in progress with very little time to train between games. He's only been at United for a short time but Maguire has already been impressed with the 39-year-old former Sporting CP coach.

"I think you can see we have a good structure, a good style of play, the way that he wants us to work," he said.

"He's tactically very good. He's proven that he's a winner.

"And, look, we're still pretty new. I think he's been here for a month now or so, and we're really looking forward to where we can go and where we can take this club, and I'm sure he'll take it in a positive way."

South Korean winger Yang Min-Hyeok departed Seoul for London on Monday to join Tottenham Hotspur midseason, where he will link up with fellow international Son Heung-Min.

Spurs signed Yang from Gangwon FC in July on a contract valid through 2030. The 18-year-old was initially set to join Ange Postecoglou's side in January but is now arriving a month earlier than planned.

He will still be ineligible to play for the club before Jan. 1.

Yang conceded he felt anxious before his 14-hour flight but shared his anticipation at the chance to play alongside Tottenham captain Son, the most popular sports figure in his home country and 14 years his senior.

Struggling to sleep, he spent the early hours watching Spurs' dominant 5-0 Premier League victory over Southampton, which kicked off at 4 a.m. Monday in South Korea.

"I am excited to be joining the club. It would be an honour to play with Son and I would be grateful for that opportunity," Yang told reporters at Incheon International Airport in Seoul.

"I have pictured myself in that situation. I can't wait to get there and show people what I am capable of, and have a chance to play next to him in the same match."

Yang and Son have briefly crossed paths before. In July, Yang faced Tottenham in a friendly while representing a K League All-Star team. By September, he had joined Son on the South Korean national team after earning his senior call-up for World Cup qualifiers. However, he has yet to earn a cap.

Yang scored 12 goals and registered six assists in 38 matches for Gangwon this season. In March, he became the youngest-ever goalscorer in K League 1, just before his 18th birthday.

He will be a welcome addition to a Spurs side ravaged by injury.

"I'd like to get into a match before the season ends, and hopefully score a goal or get an assist," Yang said. "Because I am joining the team in midseason, I've been focusing on rest and recovery, so that I will stay healthy going forward.

"Personally, I feel that I am ready [for Premier League debut]. I'll put on a good performance there and I hope fans will continue to support me."

Austrian football player Guido Burgstaller has been left with serious head injuries, including a skull fracture, after he was attacked in the Vienna city centre, his club Rapid Vienna said on Monday.

Rapid Vienna said the 35-year-old striker was struck by an unidentified man and fell, injuring his head, in an incident which took place in front of witnesses during the weekend.

The club said Burgstaller, who has played 26 times for the Austria national team, was expected to spend "the coming days" in a hospital and would likely be unable to play for several months.

The club didn't give further details of the incident and said it wanted to respect the privacy of Burgstaller and his family.

It added that it "trusts that the responsible authorities will soon bring the as-yet unidentified perpetrator to justice."

Alongside his international exploits, Burgstaller has had playing spells in Austria, Germany and England. His most club appearances have come for Rapid Vienna over two spells, while he featured 95 times for Schalke in the Bundesliga and three times for Cardiff City in the Championship.