CHICAGO -- The 2020 All-Star Game saw Kawhi Leonard win the first Kobe Bryant MVP award and saw both teams honor the late Los Angeles Lakers legend in the most fitting fashion: by playing hard to the last second. Under the new "Elam Ending" rule ...
CHICAGO -- Perhaps no one in recent history cared more about winning the All-Star Game than Kobe Bryant. The format changes and his memory combined to create a game Sunday night at the United Center that would've made Bryant proud. Technically ...
27. The three-point range from the lane / He'll give you a dosage / From the Denver Nuggets / Two-time all-star, the Joker, Nikola Jokic. A dosage of what? Why is it the three-point range from the lane instead of "From the three-point range TO the lane.
Alex Ovechkin is still chasing his 700th NHL goal for the Washington Capitals and the Tampa Bay Lightning will try to set a team record with their 11th consecutive win. But there are more stories to watch this week. Here are the top five along with fantasy ...
The 2020 dunk contest may sadly become known for the absolute travesty that was the judging. Derrick Jones, Jr. technically won the event, even though Aaron Gordon produced five straight perfect scores and then somehow got a 47 despite dunking over a ...
The first day of the Timbers Preseason Tournament saw the home team emerge victorious in a rivalry match played in front of 13,882 at Providence Park. The Portland Timbers downed Cascadia foes Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1 behind goals from Diego Valeri ...
Ever since the Kings signed forward Nemanja Bjelica to a three-year, $20.5 million contract in the 2018 offseason, it quietly has been a great deal for Sacramento. Bjelica averaged career highs in points (9.6) and rebounds (5.8) for the Kings last season, and ...
John Beilein's first season as coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers has gone about as bad as it possibly could so far. With a dismal 14-40 record, Cleveland is currently in the Eastern Conference's basement, and several veterans, including 2016 champions ...
Francesca Pan scored 13 of her 30 points in the first six minutes of the third quarter and Georgia Tech built a double-digit lead and withstood a late rally to stun No. 4 North Carolina State 65-61 on Sunday in Raleigh, North Carolina. The Yellow Jackets (17-9, ...
PHILADELPHIA — Faced with a halftime deficit, Collin Gillespie and Villanova didn't panic. Gillespie scored a season-high 29 points to lead No. 15 Villanova to a 76-56 comeback victory over Philadelphia rival Temple on Sunday. Jermaine Samuels added ...
With the Chicago Bulls heading toward a third straight losing season, the team is reportedly looking to shake up its management. According to Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times, "the Bulls have started the early stages of adding a new face to the front ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Rhyne Howard scored 26 points and led a third-quarter surge that sent No. 18 Kentucky over No. 6 Mississippi State 73-62 victory on Sunday. Howard had 11 points to help the Wildcats (19-5, 8-4 Southeastern Conference) outscore ...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker has gone from hoping aloud that fallout from his new team's sign-stealing scandal would go away quickly to accepting that the back-and-forth is lingering. "You realize it's going to take a ...
Antonio Conte said Scudetto challengers Inter gifted two goals to Lazio and were "scared" in the second half of their 2-1 Serie A loss on Sunday. Inter's half-time lead was erased as Ciro Immobile and Sergej Milinkovic-Savic completed a comeback for Lazio, ...
CHICAGO — With the memory of Kobe Bryant accompanying everything that surrounded the All-Star weekend and especially Sunday's game with a revised format in his honor, Rockets guards James Harden and Russell Westbrook remained hesitant to say ...
All-Star observations from a front-row couch ... • Who won Sunday's NBA All-Star Game? The score is still being tabulated by the Iowa Democratic party. • Three quarters of sleepwalking, showboating and unwatchable basketball, followed by one quarter of the ...
NASHVILLE — The return of Oskar Sundqvist from injured reserve on Sunday after he missed nine games with a lower-body injury was a welcome relief for the Blues, who missed his presence in all aspects of the game. It also means another round of ...
KNOXVILLE — Shortly after his 16th-ranked Texas A&M women's basketball team held on to beat No. 25 Tennessee 73-71 on Sunday at Thompson-Boling Arena, longtime Aggies coach Gary Blair gave the ultimate tip of the cap to the Lady Volunteers and ...
There will be no asterisk this time for Adam Scott at Riviera, a place he calls his favorite golf course. There was no doubt on Sunday for the 39-year-old Australian as he stormed to the Genesis Invitational victory, his first PGA Tour win since the World Golf ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Adam Henrique scored twice, Derek Grant had a goal and an assist, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-1 Sunday. Brendan Guhle and Sam Steel also scored for the Ducks, who have wins in two of their ...
Nathan Beaulieu's first goal of the season early in the third period sent the Winnipeg Jets past the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 on Sunday night. Playing in his 27th game of an injury-riddled season, the defenseman fired a one-timer from the point that hit a ...
One Premier League goal all season, and currently enduring a run of 22 consecutive top-flight games and 1,856 minutes without finding the net. Newcastle striker Joelinton's statistics don't make pleasant viewing for a player that cost a club record £40m in the ...
The BBC has said it will no longer use the pundit Craig Ramage after the former midfielder criticised Derby County's "young black lads", saying they needed "bringing down a peg or two". The 49-year-old made the comments, which Kick It Out condemned as ...
AMES — Iowa State wrestling coach Kevin Dresser pulled Sam Colbray aside in the Hilton Coliseum parking lot before weigh-ins Sunday. Dresser told his 174-pound wrestler that he was 50-50 on whether or not he would wrestle him against Northern Iowa.
Mitchell Santner hasn't just missed out on the job, it turns out the position may not even be available anymore. If the Black Caps allrounder wasn't already concerned for his test cricket future after being left out of the squad to play India, then five words - that ...
NORTH PORT, Fla. — Ben Cherington made a remark on the day he was hired as the Pittsburgh Pirates' general manager that raised the eyebrows of many fans. Cherington said Nov. 18 he felt he would have the resources necessary to win in Pittsburgh.
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