Author: Michael

The NBA may have hit rock bottom over the weekend, introducing a wonky new All-Star format consisting of a series of first-to-40 contests in which players are bribed by a prize pool of $1.8 million.
Already, the league has leaked plans to overhaul the event entirely next season. But fixing the All-Star Game, which used to be a preeminent event on the American sports calendar, would hardly solve the ills of the NBA.
At one point this season, viewership on ESPN was down nearly 30% year over year.

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A special moment unfolded as an Auburn outfielder blasted the team’s first home run of the season — just hours after his mother died of cancer.
Sophomore Cade Belyeu lost his mom, Staci, on Friday morning. It would have been completely understandable if he chose to skip the Tigers’ game that evening against Holy Cross, but Cade wanted to go ahead and play. Head coach Butch Thompson called his father, Roger, to confirm.
“About 10:30 I was wrestling, sitting here trying to figure out,” Thompson told 1819 News. “‘He wants to play.

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