Noah Lyles and Anthony Edwards (Photos via Getty Images)
The Paris Olympics might be over for all atheletes, Noah Lyles is not done making waves with his controversial words.

When Noah Lyles was negotiating an Adidas contract extension last year, the company reportedly thought they were doing him a favor.

Comments the track and field star made in June during a discussion with Sean Gregory of Time resurfaced over the weekend and appeared to take something of a shot at Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards when he took issue with Adidas’ offer to him.

“I want my own shoe. I want my own trainer. Dead serious. I want a sneaker, ain’t no money in spikes. There’s money in sneakers,” Lyles said after the race. “And even Michael Johnson didn’t have his own sneaker. I feel like for how many medals we bring back, the notoriety we get, the fact that it hasn’t happened is crazy to me. That needs to happen.”

Noah Lyles signed an extension with Adidas before the Summer Olympics and said Adidas invited him to a signature shoe launch event featuring Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards.

“You want to do what?” said Lyles. “You want to invite me to [an event for] a man who has not even been to an NBA Finals? In a sport that you don’t even care about? And you’re giving him a shoe? No disrespect: the man is an amazing athlete. He is having a heck of a year. I love that they saw the insight to give him a shoe, because they saw that he was going to be big. All I’m asking is, ‘How could you not see that for me?’”

The sports company and the track star inked an extension earlier this year that is reportedly the most lucrative deal for a track and field athlete since Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt’s deal with Puma.

Noah Lyles earned himself plenty of new fans at the 2024 Olympics, but his brash, straight-to-the-point attitude rubbed many the wrong way.

Noah Lyles Has Been At War With NBA Fans Ever Since His World Champions Comments

Before Lyles and Edwards each were winning gold for the country, the track star took a shot at NBA players being named world champions.

“You know the thing that hurts me the most is that I have to watch the NBA Finals and they have ‘world champion’ on their head,” Lyles said. “World champion of what? The United States? Don’t get me wrong, I love the U.S., at times, but that ain’t the world.”

Team USA basketball seemingly took a jab at Noah Lyles after winning a gold medal on Saturday.

“Are we the World Champs now?” Team USA posted on X, formerly Twitter.

Michigan Wolverines HC Sherrone Moore Provides Major Update On Team’s Starting QB Plans For 2024 Season With JJ McCarthy No Longer Around

Sherrone Moore (Photo by Greg Fiume/Getty Images)
Michigan Wolverines head football coach Sherrone Moore provided an interesting update on his team’s plans at quarterback as the regular season draws closer.

The defending national champions will look a lot different this year. Head coach Jim Harbaugh returned to the NFL after accepting the Los Angeles Chargers’ HC vacancy, and Moore was named the new head coach of the Michigan Wolverines.

Michigan will also have a new starting quarterback. Last year’s signal-caller, JJ McCarthy, declared for the 2024 NFL Draft and was taken 10th overall by the Minnesota Vikings.

Davis Warren, Jack Tuttle and Alex Orji are the three front-runners for the starting job, according to Tony Garcia of the Detroit Free Press. Tuttle attempted 17 passes in minimal action last season, completing 15 of them for 130 yards and a touchdown.

With the Aug. 31 season opener against Fresno State drawing closer, Moore stresses that he’s still taking his time deciding on the new starting QB in Ann Arbor:

“The ideal timeline is when we feel like we’ve got the guy who will help us win. There’s not a date, not a time. We will have a feel as a staff…(Offensive coordinator) Kirk Campbell is a phenomenal coach…he will make a great decision and we will be there to make it together.”