Rangers want Dundee defender Luke Graham in the summer — and more

Rangers want Dundee defender Luke Graham and have stepped up their interest to bring him to the Ibrox club, according to the Scottish Sun. Rangers manager Danny Rohl wants to strengthen at the back to mount a stronger challenge for the Scottish Premiership title next term and the Light Blues are keen on the 22-year-old. The Bears’ technical director Dan Purdy was at Dens Park on Saturday to watch Graham in action and more scouting trips and reports are expected ahead of the summer transfer window.

However, Rangers are not the only ones keen on the defender, with Celtic and English clubs also keen. The Light Blues could lose John Souttar at the end of the season as he has yet to pen a new contract. Nasser Djiga is expected to return to Wolverhampton Wanderers after his loan spell ends, and Rangers are already preparing for life without the duo. Graham will not come cheap as Dundee rejected a £1 million bid for him from Portsmouth last month.

The Light Blues will be ready to outbid them and Celtic as they look to lure him to Ibrox ahead of next season. Rangers are two points behind league leaders Hearts after 27 games and are a point ahead of the Hoops in a title race which promises to be intriguing. Pipping Hearts and Celtic to it will be huge for the Gers, and it could help them land Graham and other top players in the summer due to Champions League football and its money.

They were keen on him during the winter transfer window and are likely to go big for him as he keeps impressing. The Scotland youth international has established himself as a key player for the Dark Blues this term after spending a couple of seasons out on loan.

The Rangers target has played 30 games across all competitions this term after featuring just five times last season and spending most of it on loan in the Scottish Championship with Falkirk.

Mike Conley is unlikely to rejoin the Wolves immediately, per team sources. The Wolves are just under the first apron, and every day they keep his spot open, it makes it a little easier for them to stay that way. The Wolves are trying to retain enough financial flexibility to potentially sign a veteran on the buyout market. Trading Conley saved them $20 million in luxury-tax payments and unlocked an entirely different class of players they can consider.

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Maryland football is expected to hire former Jacksonville State offensive coordinator Clint Trickett for the same role, multiple outlets reported Tuesday. Matt Zenitz first publicly reported the news.

Pep Hamilton, who served as the Terps’ offensive coordinator in 2025, will assume a “senior advisor type role,” Zenitz reported.

It’s a bit of an unexpected hire, both in timing and Trickett himself. There was no previous indication the Terps were looking to move on from Hamilton, and Trickett accepted a job as Arkansas’ quarterbacks coach in December.

In 2025, Trickett led Jacksonville State’s offense to 246.7 rushing yards per game — fifth-most at the FBS level — on 5.3 yards per carry. Running back Cam Cook led the nation with 1,659 yards and led Conference USA with 16 touchdowns and 295 carries.

Trickett is 34 years old and Maryland’s fifth offensive coordinator in eight years under Michael Locksley. He’s the second of those five without any previous head coaching experience, alongside Josh Gattis.

Trickett was previously Marshall’s offensive coordinator in 2022 and 2023, and Georgia Southern’s passing game coordinator in 2024. He coached under Lane Kiffin at Florida Atlantic — there, he was tight ends coach for Harrison Bryant, who won the John Mackey Award in 2019 as the best tight end in the country.

Trickett may also represent a considerable philosophy shift from previous years of Maryland’s offenses. In four seasons as an offensive coordinator, all four offenses have ran the ball more than they passed. Jacksonville State averaged 46.4 rush attempts and 23.4 pass attempts in 2025.

Trickett played quarterback for Florida State and West Virginia between 2010 and 2014. He threw for 511 yards and four touchdowns in a 40-37 shootout win over Maryland in 2014 as a Mountaineer.

MILAN (AP) — It's not often that the second figure skater on the ice in a Winter Olympic competition is must-see viewing. Adeliia Petrosian is different.

The 18-year-old Russian, who was expected to contend for a gold medal, had only competed in one senior event outside her homeland before Tuesday's short program, resulting in one of the lowest seedings and a position near the top of the start list.

Even though she was skating around three hours before the other top contenders, Petrosian was greeted by cheers from devoted fans holding personalized banners in a nearly full arena.

“Today I wasn’t nervous at all,” she said in Russian after a clean, Michael Jackson-themed skate that earned 72.89 points, leaving her firmly in the medal picture even with 27 skaters to go. “So far I'm not feeling any strong external pressure. Let's see what happens in the free skate.”

Petrosian is competing as an individual neutral athlete at the Milan Cortina Olympics due to restrictions on Russia’s participation during its war in Ukraine. The arena announcer introduced her as a “three-time national champion” but didn’t specify a country.

The top-ranked skaters, including the U.S. “Blade Angels” trio of Amber Glenn, Alysa Liu and Isabeau Levito and three-time world champion Kaori Sakamoto of Japan, weren't due to skate for another three hours.

“I don't yet have that feeling that the competition is really against them,” Petrosian said when asked how it felt to compete with the likes of Sakamoto, Liu and U.S. champion Glenn for the first time.

“We're so far apart that I haven't even seen them once yet. I don't really have that feeling yet, but obviously I'd be really pleased to be close to them and compete.”

Petrosian showed no obvious sign of injury. Her fitness level had been unclear following comments about injuries in a recent Russian documentary.

Petrosian said she and her coaches considered a high-scoring triple axel for the short program but decided on a safer double for “stability, for the sake of my preparation and my form.”

She has practiced quadruple jumps this week in Milan and could potentially take that high-risk option in Thursday’s free skate, which could boost her score significantly.

“Come on Adeliia! Victory awaits you!” was the message written on one banner in Russian as Petrosian prepared to skate.

“The audience really accepted me well,” Petrosian said. “Each time that I think it’ll be a little less loud, the spectators always somehow shout more, greet me more warmly. And I can’t be unhappy with that.”

Petrosian is coached by Eteri Tutberidze, who has coached numerous Russian women’s skating champions including Kamila Valieva, whose doping case overshadowed the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Tutberidze isn't accredited as Petrosian's coach for the Games but TV showed her watching on a screen in the arena.

Then-IOC President Thomas Bach was critical of the “coldness” displayed by Valieva’s entourage toward the skater, who was 15 at the time, when she missed the podium.

World Anti-Doping Agency president Witold Banka said this month that an investigation found no evidence Tutberidze was implicated in Valieva’s doping case but that he was personally not “comfortable with her presence here in the Olympic Games.”

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