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As-it-happens update July 17, 2021
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NHL.com
Last postseason, Heiskanen set a Stars record for points by a defenseman with 26 (six goals, 20 assists) in 27 games to help them advance to the Stanley Cup Final, where they lost to the Tampa Bay Lightning in six games.
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CBSSports.com
That's an outcome the Portland Trail Blazers are walking right into. All signs, to this point, suggest that they are not interested in trading Damian Lillard. They hired a coach that he publicly endorsed. Teams tend only to trade players of Lillard's caliber when they ...
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Sports Illustrated
His decision to retire comes two months before the start of the NFL regular season. After three seasons with the Buckeyes, Ginn became the No. 9 overall pick in the 2007 NFL Draft, selected by the Miami Dolphins.
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Sports Illustrated
The timelines of Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell and Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells intersect and weave together rather interestingly, as do the lessons Campbell has learned. As a player, Campbell was drafted by the N.Y. Giants as a tight end in ...
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GolfDigest.com
Giving chase are a pair of major winners in Collin Morikawa (nine under) and Jordan Spieth (eight under), who is looking to win his first major since the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.
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The Boston Globe
Quarterback is the most important position in football and arguably all of sports, and a majority of NFL teams have their unquestioned starter for the 2021 season. Josh Allen is the man in Buffalo. Kyler Murray is the leader in Arizona. Even rookies Trevor ...
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New York Post
The Cubs are sellers. They already traded Joc Pederson on Thursday, though statistically they had nearly as good a long-shot playoff chance as the club to which they dealt him, the Braves. The floodgates are open. Kris Bryant and Zach Davies are very likely ...
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ESPN
"If one of our players is racially abused, it's not an option for us to keep playing," Germany coach Stefan Kuntz said. "It was hard to get him in, he was terribly ...
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Sports Illustrated
With a loaded war chest of assets, the Oklahoma City Thunder have plenty of options for the future. With 18 first round draft picks in the next 7 drafts, the Thunder will have the flexibility to grab any number of star-level players. The only question is who and for ...
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Bleacher Report
Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy said Friday there's still no update on whether superstar quarterback Aaron Rodgers will play for the team in 2021. "I appreciate the question. This is really limited to questions regarding financial statements," Murphy ...
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ESPN
Australian basketball star Liz Cambage has hit out at "lies" and "fake news" following her shock withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics. An emotional Cambage posted an email on her Instagram account, saying she had been at breaking point mentally.
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ESPN
The South African knows that better than most. He has finished runner-up a whopping six times in majors since winning at St. Andrews, including a tie for second at this year's PGA Championship (lost to Phil Mickelson by 2 shots) and solo second at the U.S. ...
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nj.com
NEW YORK — The sound of sirens blared throughout the stadium. Fire graphics lit up the humongous scoreboard. Aroldis Chapman, the Yankees' $17-million-a-year closer, jogged in from the bullpen. Nobody cared. Not a single soul. That was because ...
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Sports Illustrated
MLB announced Starlin Castro was placed on administrative leave Friday afternoon under the Joint MLB-MLBPA Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy. The Athletic's Brittany Ghiroli was the first to report the news, saying that it was due to ...
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ESPN
After losing three straight to the Reds in Milwaukee before the All-Star break, the Brewers won the first of a three-game set in Cincinnati and pushed their lead in the NL Central back to five games.
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The Boston Globe
The road to gold for Team USA won't come as easy as anticipated after two exhibition losses last week in Las Vegas. Despite its immense talent and legendary coach, the US men's basketball team will have to improve quickly if it hopes to capture its fourth ...
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cleveland.com
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio State football team opens the season Sept. 2 at Minnesota. We are counting down the best 50 players Ohio State will face on that 2021 schedule. No. 4: Michael Penix Jr., QB, Indiana. 6-foot-3, 218 pounds, redshirt junior.
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FOXSports.com
Is there anything Tom Brady can't do? It appears not. The 43-year-old quarterback has already defied the odds by winning seven Super Bowls, the most recent coming in Super Bowl ...
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Sports Illustrated
The Phoenix Suns are 4-point favorites in Game 5 of the NBA Finals against the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night, according to FanDuel. Related stories on NBA basketball. PACERS INTRODUCE RICK CARLISLE ...
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CBSSports.com
With only five events left on the NASCAR Cup series regular season schedule, Denny Hamlin is clinging to a slim lead over Kyle Larson in the standings. As the circuit heads to New Hampshire for Sunday's 2021 Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at 3 p.m. ET, ...
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nj.com
Marcus Stroman jumped in the air and yelled as a line drive settled into the glove of first baseman Pete Alonso. The Mets pitcher escaped the fifth inning with a runner stranded on third, knowing it was likely his final pitch of the night. Stroman said he yelled at ...
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Pinstripe Alley
Prior to Friday's game against the Boston Red Sox, the Yankees placed first baseman Luke Voit on the 10-day injured list (retroactive to 7/13) with left knee inflammation. According to MLB.com's Bryan Hoch, the slugger was scheduled to have a lubricating ...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Steelers have picked 79 players in the first round of the NFL draft. Bill Dudley, Joe Greene, Terry Bradshaw, Franco Harris, Lynn Swann, Rod Woodson, Troy Polamalu and Alan Faneca made the Hall of Fame, as did Len Dawson, the team's No.
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Burnt Orange Nation
It appears Chris Beard has just landed his first starting point guard on the Forty Acres. After initially entering the transfer portal and testing the NBA waters before withdrawing his name in late June, highly-touted point guard Marcus Carr is remaining among the ...
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NHRA.com
After a one-year absence, the hills surrounding Denver's Bandimere Speedway reverberated with the sound of nitro engines as the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series returned for the Dodge/SRT Mile-High NHRA Nationals. During Friday's thrilling ...
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Sports Illustrated
In the 2021 NBA Draft, the Oklahoma City Thunder own one lottery pick at No. 6 overall. If they were to move up in the draft, one of the prospects they could target is Evan Mobley who most recently played for USC. Profile: Mobley projects to be the best big ...
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ESPN
Officials said it was not an athlete with the the Games opening in just under a week on July 23. Tokyo officials including Seiko Hashimoto, the president of the organizing committee, confirmed the case and said ...
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nj.com
The Dominican Republic native hammered a 2-2 pitch from right Wilmer Flores over the wall in right field. Dominguez finished the game 2-for-4. He played three games with Low-A since getting promoted from the Florida Complex League.
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New York Post
Holt is not in the lineup for Saturday's game against the Blue Jays. Holt is hitting just .174 off left-handed pitching this season, so it's no wonder he takes a seat with Hyun Jin Ryu on the bump for Toronto. Consecutive hitless performances before the break ...
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New York Post
He was 23. The school did not disclose a cause of death. Roundtree died in Tampa, where he had rehabbing from the spinal cord injury. "All of us with Illinois Athletics are shocked ...
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cleveland.com
OAKLAND -- The All-Star break did not solve Emmanuel Clase's problems in the late innings. Clase allowed a two-run walk-off homer to Jed Lowrie with one out in the ninth on Friday night as Oakland came from behind to beat the Indians, 5-4, at the Oakland ...
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CBSSports.com
The assumption was the Cavs would eventually trade Love, who perhaps, in the era of short-term star contracts leaving teams in the lurch, would be a more attractive asset given the long-term team control of his deal. But the Cavs never traded Love.
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USA TODAY
Bad as Laurie Hernandez initially thought the injury that ended her Olympic hopes were, it was so much worse. Hernandez withdrew from the national championships after hyperextending her knee during warmups for balance beam. In a July 6 tweet, however ...
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Field Gulls
It's never too early to do a report on who's in/who's out for an upcoming Seattle Seahawks game, is it? New Orleans Saints defensive tackle David Onyemata disclosed on Friday that he tested positive for PEDs (but did not disclose what he popped for).
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The Washington Post
Hendricks (12-4) allowed a run on six hits and struck out four to match the Dodgers' Julio Urias for the major league lead in wins. He is the first Cubs pitcher to go at least 12 straight starts without a loss since Jon Lester in 2016.
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Anonymous Eagle
All times Central, of course. Wichita Regional. 12pm: #5 Florida TNT vs #12 Kimchi Express, ESPN3. Florida TNT reached the second round in their lone TBT appearance back in ...
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CBSSports.com
When Tony Stewart and longtime NASCAR crew chief Ray Evernham founded the Superstar Racing Experience, the idea was to bring a collection of legends and current stars from multiple racing mediums for a racing experience reminiscent of the IROC ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
The A's recovered a key piece of their lineup Saturday, activating outfielder and leadoff hitter Mark Canha from the injured list before their game against Cleveland. Outfielder Skye Bolt was optioned to Triple-A Las Vegas in a corresponding roster move.
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CBSSports.com
An automatic berth in November's Breeders' Cup Classic will be on the line when seven three-year-old colts leave the starting gate in the 2021 Haskell Stakes on Saturday at Monmouth Park. The Doug O'Neill-trained Hot Rod Charlie is the 6-5 morning-line ...
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Jalopnik
Meanwhile, Sergio Perez pushed himself up to seventh place after a poor qualifying session while Fernando Alonso moved from 11th to fifth. At the rear of the grid, Nikita Mazepin spun his Haas, and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz Jr. dropped to 18th after making contact ...
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USA TODAY
Competing against his childhood idol, Tony Hawk, Gui Khury dared himself to do something nobody had done before Friday night on Day 3 of the X Games in Vista, California. The 12-year-old dropped down the vert ramp, gained some air and then let physics ...
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WWLP.com
(KTVI) – Skateboarding, a staple of American culture, is being exported to Tokyo to make its Olympic debut. Three women are competing for Team USA in Park Skateboarding and two of them are 17 years old and best friends. Bryce Wettstein and Brighton ...
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Miami Herald
It was already the time for urgency for the Miami Marlins. Don Mattingly was straightforward about that before they started the second half of the 2021 MLB season with a seven-game road trip and four-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies.
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STLtoday.com
Despite being under .500, the Cardinals are not really "sellers," in the trade market, president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said Friday before the club's game with San Francisco. "I would find that very hard for us to get to that point," he said. "First off ...
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Section 215
Dave Dombrowski was brought in to make moves, and with the Philadelphia Phillies teetering just around the .500 mark through the first 90 games of the season, it appears the future Hall of Fame executive has his eyes set on improving the roster sooner ...
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Deadspin
Julius Ssekitoleko may not have thought this one all the way through. The 20-year-old weightlifter from Uganda, who made international headlines on Friday by going missing from pre-Olympic training camp in Japan, made a break for it because he wants to ...
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NOLA.com
Peyton Manning was a little frustrated at the time. He was attending the University of Tennessee and didn't like the high school football scores he was seeing back home in Louisiana. "It used to bother me," Manning said. "I would see teams get beat 35-3 and ...
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The Viking Age
The Minnesota Vikings may not have great depth at wide receiver heading into the 2021 NFL season but they have some options for players to be the WR3. Depth can be hard for an NFL team to have at all their positions. With the salary cap and luck of the ...
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CNN International
The International Olympic Committee on Saturday backed New Zealand's selection of transgender weightlifter Laurel Hubbard for the Tokyo Olympics despite criticism, saying that under the current rules -- which will be reviewed in future -- she can compete.
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Houston Chronicle
Charlo, a Houston native, will defend his WBC, WBA and IBF super welterweight titles against the WBO champion Castano on Saturday night at the AT&T Center in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions event airing on Showtime.
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