Lionel Messi will leave Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the season when his contract expires, sources told ESPN.
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The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is embarking on a fundraising campaign to raise $25 million for a new building to house its education center and what has become one of the world’s unique collections of baseball memorabilia.
The Lionel Messi era at Paris Saint-Germain appears to be coming to an abrupt end.
According to ESPN’s Julien Laurens, Messi and PSG have come to a mutual agreement to not extend the Argentine star’s contract beyond this season, making him available on a free transfer this summer. The 35-year-old signed a two-year deal with the French giants in 2021 with an option for a third year, which will not be activated.
The news comes one day after PSG reportedly suspended Messi for two weeks following his unauthorized visit to Saudi Arabia, where he is a sponsored cultural ambassador.
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Trainer Saffie Joseph leaned against the outside wall of his barn at Churchill Downs on Wednesday morning and expressed a confused bereavement. Two of his racehorses had collapsed and died in the first two days of the spring meet at the racetrack, sudden tragedies that are, for now, without explanation.
“It shatters me,” Joseph says. “The odds of that happening twice, it doesn’t add up. Theories aren’t going to help anything. We need facts. … Twice, in three days? First two runners [of the Churchill spring meet]? Same owner [Ken Ramsey]? It’s mind-boggling.
Joel Embiid is reportedly “on track” to return for Game 2 of the 76ers–Celtics semifinal series on Wednesday night.
Fresh off winning the league’s MVP award on Tuesday, Embiid—barring any setbacks—will return to the 76ers’ lineup for the first since spraining his right knee’s LCL during Game 3 of Philadelphia’s opening-round series against the Nets. However, in Wednesday’s episode of First Take, Stephen A. Smith explicitly stated that Embiid’s return for Game 2 “is a mistake.”
“I think it is a mistake,” Smith told JJ Redick and Chris “Mad Dog” Russo.
News broke on Tuesday that the Grizzlies informed wing Dillon Brooks that he would not be brought back “under any circumstances” next season.
Brooks is an impending free agent this offseason, who made waves in the team’s first-round loss to the Lakers for attempting to instigate LeBron James in the media and on the court.
Former NBA player Stephen Jackson did not agree with Memphis’ handling of the situation involving Brooks and his free agency this summer.
“For me, I think it’s bulls—,” Jackson said on the I AM ATHLETE podcast.
The track and field world was rocked on Wednesday morning with an announcement from Team USA that three-time Olympic medalist Tori Bowie had died at the age of 32.
We join our friends at USA Track & Field and across the Olympic community in mourning the passing of 3x Olympic medalist Tori Bowie.
She was an admired friend, teammate, and a great representative of Team USA. We send our sincere condolences to all who know and loved her. pic.twitter.
Draymond Green defended Jordan Poole’s decision to take a deep late-game three-pointer that could have tied Game 1 of the Lakers-Warriors semifinal series on Tuesday night.
With less than 10 seconds to play in the fourth quarter, the Lakers double teamed Stephen Curry near the right wing. Curry dished the ball to Green, who found a wide-open Poole well beyond the arc on the left wing. Instead of stepping closer to the three-point line or attempting to create a better scoring opportunity, Poole launched the three-pointer that bounced off the rim, leading to the Warriors’ 117–112 loss.
The 76ers stole Game 1 at TD Garden on Monday without Joel Embiid and now have an opportunity to take a 2–0 lead Tuesday night with their MVP back in the lineup.
The Celtics are favored, as it has been in all seven postseason games so far, though the East’s No. 2 seed has lost its last two games in front of the home crowd. The underdog spot served Philadelphia well in the series opener, though the spread is closer with Embiid, the league’s top scorer, expected to make his return.
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