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And at this point in the season, both streaks are pivotal in their own ways.
Nuggets top Embiid-less Sixers, 116-111
This game coulda had class. It coulda been a contenda. Instead of bein’ a bum. Which isn’t totally what this game ended up being, but considering what it would have represented had Joel Embiid been available for it, it’s ultimately a disappointment.
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World Athletics – the international governing body for track and field – officially banned transgender athletes from competing in all women’s events. The announcement came last week, and tennis legend Martina Navratilova believes that this is a “step in the right direction.”
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The 18-time Grand Slam winner wrote an interesting op-ed in The Times of the UK not only showing support for the decision but also proposing a separate category for all transgender athletes.
You can’t do this to a ref!
The XFL, in case you forgot, is a football thing that continues to be a football thing. And one of the best parts about this football thing continues to be the mic’d up refs.
We had another example of this on Monday night when the refs tried to figure out a very important call during the Houston Roughnecks-DC Defenders game.
Here’s what happened: A Houston player on the sideline squirted some water at one of the officials, which was just an incredible move.
Once an obscure art, pitch framing has become an essential MLB skill. But it is suddenly endangered.
Charlie Greene tries to find something he can compare to what might soon happen to MLB catchers. He can’t.
The Brewers’ catching instructor reaches for a few analogies. This would be like telling a quarterback he can’t make passes of over 50 yards, he says. It would be like telling a basketball player he can’t dunk or take a three-pointer. But Greene knows these comparisons aren’t quite right.
This was awkward.
Sergio Romo won three World Series titles during his time with the Giants and became a hero in the city during those championship runs.
The reliever is retiring from the game, but before he does that, the Giants had him come back to pitch in one last exhibition game Monday night against the A’s at Oracle Park. It was a special night for Romo and the fans in San Francisco as they all got to say one last goodbye to each other.
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From the struggles at McLaren to Red Bull’s dominance, here is what to watch this week as F1 returns to Australia
Formula 1 is back this week, with the grid heading to Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix. As with every week in the F1 world, there is no shortage of storylines to follow during the third race of the season.
From Red Bull’s early dominance to the struggles at McLaren, and even the return of two favorite sons to Australia, here are the things to watch this week.
Is Odell Beckham, Jr. heading back to the Giants as ludicrous as it sounds? Apparently not, considering Giants co-owner John Mara is giving his front office the OK to pursue and sign OBJ.
At the NFL owners’ meeting in Phoenix, Mara spoke about Beckham’s free agency frenzy with NFL reporters. The Giants have been mentioned as suitors interested in landing the 30-year-old wideout, a re-teaming since Beckham left New York in 2019.
Despite having lost some momentum in the OBJ sweepstakes, the Giants are still interested, according to Mara.
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Shaedon Sharpe is the most fascinating rookie in the NBA
No player in the 2022 NBA Draft class sparks the same level of intrigue as Shaedon Sharpe.
As a 19-year-old rookie who was rumored to possess a 49-inch vertical and sat out his single season at Kentucky, Sharpe seemed to be half-man, half-mystery.
But now that we have nearly a season’s worth of data on the Canadian-born prodigy, we can begin to parse through some once-unanswerable questions.
Several teams that currently look like fringe playoff contenders should consider a hard pivot for the upcoming season.
According to the NFL, teams in the league do not tank. They do allow cash incentives to coaches who accumulate more draft picks. They do allow the release of veteran players en masse. They do allow oddly timed benchings, the hiring of television analysts to become head coaches in season and other methods that seem, in the moment, to make teams worse in efforts to eventually make them better.
PHOENIX — For a while during Bill Belichick’s breakfast meeting with reporters at the NFL annual meeting on Monday, it was business as usual. And you can take that to mean Belichick was being as vague and uncooperative as he could muster in talking about the New England Patriots.
A sample?
What went into the decision to bring back Bill O’Brien as offensive coordinator?
Belichick: “I thought it was the best thing for the team.”
Why was it the best thing for the team?
Belichick: “It’s a number of reasons.”
That’s the Belichick Patriots fans have come to know and love.