Charles Barkley is ready to stick a fork in the Lakers.
Following last night’s Miami win over Boston in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals, Barkley and TNT’s Inside the NBA crew turned their attention to the Western Conference finals. Denver leads Los Angeles 2-0, but Barkley’s of the opinion that the end result is a foregone conclusion.
He’s got Denver besting LA, which will allow him to do some golfing in the Mile High City.
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The WNBA wasn’t the same without Mercury center Brittney Griner.
In 2022, Griner’s detention and incarceration in Russia on charges of smuggling hash oil made headlines around the world. The U.S. government’s lengthy attempt to free her ultimately ended in success, with Russia releasing Griner in a prisoner exchange on Dec. 8.
During her nearly 10-month detention, the women’s basketball community repeatedly demonstrated support for her release. On Friday, it was out in full force for Griner’s first game back with Phoenix in Los Angeles.
Connecticut lost its beloved Hartford Whalers in 1997, when the team relocated to Raleigh as the Hurricanes. Now, Governor Ned Lamont believes there may be an opportunity to bring an NHL team back to the Nutmeg State, thanks to a precarious situation involving the Coyotes.
Voters in Tempe, Ariz. rejected a proposal to build a $2.1 billion entertainment district on Tuesday, which would have included a new arena for the Coyotes.
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Rory McIlroy has had an up and down PGA Championship thus far, but he clearly was unpleased with this tee shot.
Rory McIlroy entered the 2023 PGA Championship looking for his third Wanamaker Trophy. He previously won this tournament back in 2012 at Kiawah Island and 2014 in Valhalla Golf Club.
His PGA Championship did not get off to the best start for McIlroy, but he has mostly turned it around. The 4-time major winner was playing well enough entering the par-4 14th Friday that he decided to get really aggressive.
With both conference finals currently sitting at 2–0, it can be easy to look ahead towards the NBA Finals. Still, there is a lot of basketball left to be played, and the leverage of each series can switch instantly.
That doesn’t stop Charles Barkley from believing one team is ready to win it all. The NBA on TNT analyst said the Nuggets are in prime position to win their first title.
“They’re gonna win a championship in my opinion,” he said. “I can’t wait to get to the finals because I know they have some good golf courses in Denver.
Transgender activists in Pakistan said they plan to appeal to the highest court in the land an Islamic court’s ruling that guts a law aimed at protecting their rights. The Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act was passed by Parliament in 2018 to secure the fundamental rights of transgender Pakistanis. It ensures their access to legal gender recognition, among other rights.
In remote mountain villages, urban neighborhoods, along the Caribbean coast — despite Honduras’ national abortion ban and amid suffocating social and religious opposition, women are terminating pregnancies with the help of clandestine networks seeking to make the procedure as safe as possible. The networks use code words, aliases, encrypted messages, burner phones and other tactics to disguise their activity.
The musician played with the rock veterans for more than 30 years until he departed in 1993.
Inside a little wooden house among the pine and oak forests of western Honduras’ coffee-growing mountains, a woman opened a tiny package of pills, delivered to a nearby town. The woman, 27, was confident in her decision to have an abortion, but in the moment, she panicked.
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The current Red Bull reserve opened up about his future plans
Red Bull Racing shared a video this week highlighting Daniel Ricciardo’s return to the team. Ricciardo, after losing his seat at McLaren, joined his former team as Red Bull’s third driver for the 2023 season.
The video highlights Ricciardo’s return to the team’s factory at Milton Keynes, as well as Ricciardo’s thoughts on his role with the organization and how he can help Red Bull in their quest for a second-straight Constructors’ Championship.