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Stephen F. Austin assistant women’s bowling coach Steve Lemke has resigned from his position after the school discovered he was having an affair with a player on the team.
Lemke—who is married to the team’s head coach, Amber Lemke—resigned on April 10 rather than be fired.
“He’s not working here anymore,” Stephen F. Austin athletic director Ryan Ivey said, per Nathan Hague of The Daily Sentinel. “From a departmental standpoint, he had a choice and he chose to resign.

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Mike Malone was in rare form throughout the Nuggets’ NBA championship parade in downtown Denver on Thursday.
But even after recovering from all the champagne he consumed and the confetti-filled streets in the city, the Nuggets coach continued his wave of celebration on Tuesday by getting a tattoo of the team’s old mascot, Maxie the Miner, clutching the Larry O’Brien Trophy.
It took Denver 47 years to win its first NBA title. Even more, Malone earned his first NBA championship as a head coach after three decades of coaching.

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There are different ways to pay tribute to Mike Leach, even if you aren’t trying or had the intention. This was the case for Tennessee baseball coach Tony Vitello on Tuesday night against LSU in the College World Series.
Leach, the late Mississippi State football coach, had so many funny moments during his time coaching college football, but his last one came this past season against Auburn. The Bulldogs led 24-6 at halftime, but came out in the third quarter looking flat, as the Tigers cut the lead to 24-19.

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Days after Bob Huggins resigned from his position as basketball coach at West Virginia, his daughter, Jacque Huggins, took to social media to blast university president E. Gordon Gee and the school’s board of governors for how they handled the aftermath of Huggins’s recent DUI arrest.
The 69-year-old coach resigned on Saturday, a day after being arrested in Pittsburgh for suspicion of DUI. His car was blocking traffic with a “flat and shredded tire,” and he failed multiple sobriety tests.

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Washington, D.C., likely will be extra lively when the 2023 women’s World Cup begins in July.
Kenyan McDuffie, a councilmember in the nation’s capital, initiated a bill on June 5 to permit bars and restaurants to remain open 24 hours when the World Cup begins on July 20 and until the tournament concludes on Aug. 20. Businesses in the city will be allowed to sell alcohol around the clock except from 4 a.m. to 6 a.m. each day of the quadrennial event.
The move was proposed because the World Cup is being contested in Australia and New Zealand, which will feature overnight games in U.S.

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There’s a unique terror in a first pitch.
Compare it to a puck drop, or a coin flip, or any other ceremonial act in which a celebrity might partake before a sporting event. Those are straightforward, routine tasks, almost more administrative than physical. They do not bear a direct resemblance to the action of their respective sports. But a first pitch? It’s not just a request to perform an athletic feat that most adults do not practice regularly or, in fact, ever. It’s a request to do that immediately before a group of people who are remarkably and professionally skilled at it.

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French basketball sensation Victor Wembanyama makes zero sense as a physical specimen.
If you gave Ridley Scott’s Xenomorph the ability to shoot from beyond the 3-point line and the ball-handling skills of a college point guard, you end up with the projected first overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft (scheduled for Thursday in New York).
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Wembanyama is an anomaly, in the best sense.

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