BOSTON — It was Celtics 112, Hawks 99 on Saturday.
Are you ready for three more?
Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals wasn’t a playoff game. It was a playoff beating. Boston led by ten points after one quarter. They led by 30 at the half. Atlanta’s three-point percentage through two quarters: 6.3%. Sure, the Hawks closed to 19 at the end of the third and at one point they whittled the lead down to 12 in the fourth. Big deal. All that did was prevent Luke Kornet from picking up a few postseason minutes.
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After getting a firsthand view of Texas’s Orange-White spring game Saturday afternoon, one prominent ESPN football analyst came away thoroughly impressed.
Former Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III heaped immense praise on Steve Sarkisian’s club looking ahead to a pivotal 2023 season.
“Just called the Texas Spring Game and Sark has this team ready to win a Big 12 Championship and contend for a National Championship,” Griffin tweeted.
Those are pretty strong words from a Heisman Trophy winner who attended a conference rival in Baylor.
Ben Roethlisberger is downplaying the talks he had with the San Francisco 49ers.
Roethlisberger revealed last month that the Niners had been in touch with his camp after running into quarterback issues late in the year.
“There were some truths to the Niners thing,” Roethlisberger said last month. “They were, I think reaching out maybe just to gauge my interest. I had discussions. I don’t want to sit here and say I was going or anything like that.
Check out Lauri Markkanen’s fresh cut. The former Chicago Bulls forward is joining the Finnish military.
Twins manager Rocco Baldelli voiced his frustration with the umpiring crew following Saturday’s road loss to the Yankees after he was controversially ejected for protesting the handling of two sticky substance checks involving New York pitcher Domingo Germán.
Baldelli explained to reporters he was “upset” with the fact that Germán, who, in the midst of pitching a no-hitter, was allowed to stay in the game after being warned for excess rosin twice in between the third and fourth innings.
The bracket for the 2023 NBA Playoffs is set.
The 2023 NBA Playoffs are finally here. The postseason bracket was set on the last day of the regular season, with four first round series locked in and four more ready to be determined by the NBA play-in tournament.
The Los Angeles Lakers will host the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 7-8 matchup in the West play-in tournament, with the winner earning the 7-seed and drawing the No. 2 seed Memphis Grizzlies in the first round best of seven series.
With the NFL draft looming, old clips of draft takes that didn’t age well are making the rounds online. Among those to resurface is video of Skip Bayless debating Merril Hoge during an episode of ESPN’s First Take, during which Hoge correctly predicted Johnny Manziel would be a franchise-altering bust.
Bayless, massively in Manziel’s corner back in 2014, was appalled by Hoge’s stance, clapping back at the fellow ESPN analyst.
After Hoge labeled Manziel as a player with a “fifth- or sixth-round grade,” Bayless came to the former Texas A&M QB’s defense.
Steve Sarkisian wanted to put any kind of talk about the starting quarterback competition to bed on Saturday afternoon. No matter what happens from now until the season opener, Quinn Ewers is the guy to lead Texas. Sure, it was nice to see Arch Manning take the field, but he also has competition for the backup role.
The magical aurora around Arch Manning was evident when he took the field to a standing ovation from the Longhorn crowd. Texas fans understand that the future looks bright at the quarterback position, but right now it’s Quinn Ewers time to shine.
Twins manager Rocco Baldelli was not happy with New York Yankees pitcher Domingo German during Saturday’s game.
The Yankees won easily, riding a dominant start from German to a 6-1 win.
But that wasn’t what made Baldelli so upset.
German began the game with three perfect innings, receiving substance checks along the way, as usual.
What wasn’t so usual is that he was clearly instructed to wash his hands after the end of the third inning. After the fourth inning though, the situation escalated a bit more.
Zhang came into London as a huge underdog against the now former interim heavyweight champion Joyce.