The all-star game, now in its 14th year, boasts more than 100 first-round draft picks, including 63 lottery picks. This year, the West team outlasted the East team, 118-116 in the game played in Brooklyn, N.Y. The East trailed by double digits early in the second half, but picked up on defense to get back into it. MORE: Iowa State coach has surgery | What landing recruit means to UNLV...
The controversial University of Toronto professor, who rose to international attention as a result of his stance against gender-neutral pronouns, checked into a rehabilitation facility in New York last month after he started taking the drug Clonazepam. The 57-year-old father and grandfather was prescribed the strong medication—usually given to epileptics to control seizures and convulsions but also prescribed to control panic attacks—after his wife’s cancer diagnosis in April of this year....
The two are all but set to face off at this week’s Abu Dhabi Golf Championship as organizers could draw the two together for the first two rounds in a bid to maximize the tournament’s publicity. MORE: Spectacular images from 2015 PGA Championship | Greg Norman dumped as Fox’s lead golf analyst Spieth was golf’s biggest earner in 2015, earning more than $53 million — with more than $30 milliion of that coming off the course according to Golf Digest — taking out five PGA Tour events last year and kicking off 2016 with victory in the Tournament of Champions in Hawaii barely 10 days ago....
Benfica coach Jorge Jesus has signed a two-year extension to his contract, the Portuguese giants announced on Tuesday. The club revealed the news in a statement to the Portuguese stock exchange, saying that Jesus will stay at the Estadio da Luz until June 30, 2015. At the beginning of May, the club’s president Luis Filipe Vieira said that reaching an agreement with Jesus over a new deal would be a simple formality....
Young goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has taken his spot in the starting XI in both Premier League games against Burnley and Leicester City, with Cech on the bench. With PSG reportedly interested in securing his services, Mourinho said, “I think if that moment came the hierarchy in my club, the owner and the board – I come after them – Petr deserves to sit with him and to listen to him,”...
The 52-year-old said that it also boils down to how strong the players are, mentally, from this point on, but was quick to point out that they shouldn’t look to put pressure on themselves. “Mentality is important because now is the moment where everything is decided – for relegation, the Champions League places and the title. “I think people are comfortable. I look at the players and see people who are relaxed to play these last two months – to fight for the title is the best motivation you can have in the game,” Mourinho said....
In simple form there are two types of managers in football; Managers who want to control the ball by altering their tactics and personnel based on their opponents’ strategies - proactive managers if you want to call them and then there are managers who retain their shape and personnel - reactive managers who wait for the opposition to make mistakes and play on the counter. The likes of Guardiola and Tuchel belong to the former category while Mourinho belongs to the latter....
Asked by Sky Sports about his thoughts on Lampard as Chelsea manager, Mourinho said, Though Lampard’s former manager is seemingly reserving judgement on him taking over as the Blues boss, the reluctance suggests that he has his doubts about the level of success the former England and Chelsea midfielder can achieve at the club. The opening game of the Premier League season brings two of Mourinho’s former club’s head to head....
The trial will take place in Hawaii. The date coincides with the Rockies’ season opener at Arizona, although a plea agreement is possible. MORE: Worst crimes connected to athletes | Manfred needs to send message Reyes, 32, was arrested in October and pleaded not guilty. Police said an argument involving Reyes and his wife Katherine Ramirez turned physical and she required treatment at an area hospital.
The Eagles were beaten 2-0 by Zlatko Dalic’s men on Saturday at the Kaliningrad Stadium and they must avoid a defeat against Heimir Halilgrimsson led side at the Volgograd Arena in their second game of the ongoing world showpiece to remain in contention for a second round ticket. Dosu who won a gold medal with the Nigeria U23 team at the Atlanta Georgia Olympics in 1996 disclosed that the Eagles could capitalize on the positive vibes in the Iceland camp whose 1-1 draw against La Albiceleste could make them become overconfident against the Nigerians who are desperate for a lifeline....
What inspired you to create a character like Josh Corman? I’m very lucky to have experienced a certain amount of success in the eyes of the world, or in the eyes of the industry, but the tricky thing about any measurement of success is, it’s subjective. There’s always a way you can look at it where you see yourself as a fckup and there’s always a way you can look at it where you can see yourself as a success, and what I have found is that thinking of it in terms of being a fckup or being a success is actually useless....
Griffin and Gordon connected on passes of 43 and 44 yards Friday night, the former for a touchdown, in Cleveland’s 30-13 loss at Tampa Bay. MORE: 32 fantasy sleepers for the 2016 season Both of Gordon’s receptions victimized Buccaneers cornerback Brent Grimes, who simply couldn’t cover the 6-3 receiver. Gordon toasted Grimes early for the 44-yard gain up the sideline. He later out-muscled Grimes in the end zone to haul in the 43-yard touchdown....
The Ravens extended the 33-year-old quarterback an offer this week after his workout for the team, according to NFL Network. Johnson “didn’t feel it was the right fit,” considering he likely would be third or fourth on the depth chart once Robert Griffin III recovers from a broken thumb he suffered over the weekend, Ian Rapoport reported. Griffin is expected to miss anywhere from four to eight weeks and will be competing to back up second-year signal-caller Lamar Jackson, who made his way into a starting role as a rookie in 2018-19....
The 22-year-old left his boyhood club after 15 years to play regular first-team football at the Griffin Park, and reflected on his experience at Chelsea, while also divulging details about how the Los Blancos almost managed to convince him to move to Madrid. “I was 15 or 16 at the time and Chelsea offered me a very good contract.” he said. “But Real showed interest in me and were going to fly my family out to Spain....
Norman, who left the Panthers as a free agent in the offseason to sign with the Redskins, told Scott Fowler of the Charlotte Observer that Beckham’s famous one-handed TD catch in 2014 against the Cowboys “went to his big old head.” Norman’s comments appear in Fowler’s new book, “Panthers Rising,” detailing the team’s rise from also-rans to Super Bowl runnersup. MORE: NFL’s 10 greatest rivalries ever “I don’t care for the guy at all....
Neither of the two southpaws had suffered a defeat heading into Saturday’s bout in London and their meeting lived up to the hype, with Taylor earning the victory to improve to 16-0. One judge had it at 114-114 but two awarded the fight in favor of Taylor, one at 115-113 and the other, somewhat perplexingly, at 117-112. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year That margin seemed particularly harsh on Prograis, who left Taylor with a closed-over, swollen right eye but was also bloodied and battered himself....
The bout has drawn comparisons with Warrington’s two showdowns with another dangerous Mexican, when he lost to and drew against Mauricio Lara in successive scraps before knocking out Spaniard Kiko Martinez in March. “We know he’s got power and knows how to beat people,” said Warrington of Lopez. “He believes he’s going to do what his Mexican friend did and come over here and blast me out.” Here’s what you need to know about the fight, including timings, ticket details and the rivals’ records....
Across the Atlantic, that title belongs to unified heavyweight titleholder Anthony Joshua (21-0, 20 KOs), who puts his IBF, WBA and WBO titles on the line Saturday against former heavyweight champ Alexander Povetkin at Wembley Stadium. The biggest criticism of Joshua has been all of his fights have taken place in his native England without him ever making the trek over to the U.S. to fight. Does he really need to do that, though?...
Making Google pay for content they display in searches, which they have blatantly used to their own advantage without paying a cent for years, means diversity in media. It means regional news that speaks to local audiences; it means truth instead of fake news; it means jobs, it fuels democracy and it ensures that power is held to account by the public. Google, currently worth $1 trillion, would rather issue empty threats and hold onto its billions in ad revenue than pay for content, enabling the essential role of journalism and journalists....
Have you ever seen a pitcher shimmy like this before? Or this, or this, or this or this? MORE: Most disappointing players | Why the Cards won’t win the World Series | Will September woes sink Royals in October? Sorry, did you say something? We we’re hypnotized by his style. Nelson Cruz was too. Cueto struck him out. BONUS SHIMMY: Any time we get a chance to use this ....
