Could this at last be the year? Since Sheikh Mansour took over Manchester City in 2008, the Champions League has been his target. Now, only Inter stands in City’s way in next month’s final. City also beat Real Madrid in the semifinal two years ago but, convincing as that win was, it was nothing compared to this. The final score may have been 4–0 for a 5–1 aggregate, but the gulf between the sides was far greater even than that. City’s main opponent in June may be its own neuroses.
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Yankees manager Aaron Boone provided fans with a positive update on Luis Severino’s injury recovery, as the 29-year-old right-hander prepares to return to the rotation and make his 2023 season debut.
Severino, who has not pitched this year, is expected to take the mound for his first start of the campaign on Sunday against the Reds, Boone announced Wednesday, via Bryan Hoch of MLB.com.
It will be the final game of a three-game set in Cincinnati, though the starters have not been named for Friday’s or Saturday’s tilts at the Great American Ball Park.
A day after he fired head coach Doc Rivers following his team’s Game 7 loss to the Celtics, 76ers team president Daryl Morey told reporters that the decision “shocked” star center and league MVP Joel Embiid.
Morey fired Rivers after his third season with the team. The veteran coach still had two years remaining on his contract, but saw his Philadelphia tenure end after a third straight defeat in the conference semifinals.
“I have to make tough calls all the time with trades,” Morey said, per James Herbert of CBS Sports.
When Auburn football takes the field against UMass on September 2, 2023, it is going to look very different than it did at the same time just one year prior. Not only did it swap out Bryan Harsin for Hugh Freeze at head coach, the Tigers’ roster was rebuilt on a pretty significant level.
In today’s era of college football, it is not uncommon for programs to undergo an overhaul. It’s happening all across the country. Colorado is the most extreme example, but Auburn isn’t that far behind.
Hugh Freeze hit the transfer portal hard.
If Diamondbacks fans had a nickel for every time one of their pitchers has hit a bird this century, they would have two nickels — which, to steal from Disney Channel show Phineas and Ferb, isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice.
Arizona pitcher Zac Gallen was warming up pregame for the Diamondbacks’ game against the Athletics Wednesday afternoon, in advance of his next scheduled start against the Pirates on Friday. The session ended abruptly, however, when the two-time Cy Young top-10 finisher snapped off his curveball and struck a bird.
ESPN analyst JJ Redick does not believe Grizzlies star Ja Morant should receive a massive punishment for his recent off-court incident, in which he appeared to display a gun in an Instagram live video Saturday.
The situation comes after he was suspended for eight games in March for displaying a gun at a nightclub in Colorado. While Memphis has currently suspended Morant from team activities pending the league’s investigation into the issue, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski believes that the 23-year-old could face a “lengthy suspension” from the league this time around.
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As speculation and rank rumor roiled outside the meeting rooms of the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, Fla., this week, there was discussion among Atlantic Coast Conference leaders about doing what comes naturally amid realignment drama: putting out a statement of unity among the league members.
The ACC punted on that idea, a small triumph for honesty in an inherently dishonest process.
“We’re not unified,” is how one ACC source explains it. “We’re unified until someone offers a school more to go somewhere else. Everyone is going to grab it.
Gamers will be getting a long-awaited treat in 2024: EA Sports will bring back its popular NCAA Football franchise after stopping the initial run of games with the 2013 release due to legal disputes surrounding the NCAA and use of player likenesses.
With that in mind, we took a trip down memory lane and picked our favorite—and less than favorite—aspects of the game. Not everything below will be included in the new game (au revoir, BCS), but we sure hope many of them will return.
Rick Pitino is the head basketball coach at a prominent high-major school for the first time since his ousting at Louisville in 2017. And with the 70-year-old’s arrival at St. John’s comes the return of Mike Repole.
Who is Mike Repole? He may be the most important person involved with the Red Storm basketball program that isn’t the head coach.
Repole is an entrepreneur and businessman with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion. The 54-year-old graduated from St. John’s in 1991 and holds an honorary doctorate degree from his alma mater.