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The Lakers are preparing to give out a hilarious number of rings if they win the NBA Championship
The Lakers are without a doubt one of the best and funniest stories in the NBA this season. It was only a few months ago that this team was legitimately one of the worst in the league, looking for trades and answers to right the ship — even then the consensus back then was that they didn’t do enough.
Now Los Angeles are one game away from the Western Conference Finals, and legitimately feel like the hottest team in the NBA.
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Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. Between the Heat and former Hurricane Lonnie Walker IV, it was a good night for Miami.
In today’s SI:AM:
🔥 The Lakers’ unlikely hero
🏀 What the Knicks need now
🦑 Seattle’s hockey bar
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The Warriors are in big trouble
The Lakers’ hero in Game 4 was a guy who didn’t even see the floor in Game 1.
There are calls for West Virginia to fire men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins, and for good reason: He casually uttered a hateful term repeatedly on a Cincinnati radio show, somehow managing to offend Catholic and LGBTQIA+ communities, along with anyone who is a member of both or cares about either. It was unprompted and inexcusable. Of course people want him to be fired.
Me? I want him to resign.
Not as punishment. Not to forfeit a buyout. I want Huggins to resign.
It’s hard to believe that Bill Cowher hasn’t coached in the NFL since 2006. The former Steelers coach walked away at the time with many believing that he was just taking a break from coaching, not retiring for good.
Cowher has been an NFL studio analyst for CBS Sports ever since, and is likely known more for that role than his previous coaching role by the younger generation of football fans.
So why didn’t Cowher ever return to coaching following his resignation in Pittsburgh? It turns out it had everything to do with how he felt about the Steelers.
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A Super Bowl rematch is just one of 14 playoff rematches coming in the 2023 NFL season
We have reached the next tentpole event of the NFL yearly calendar.
Schedule release week.
On Thursday the NFL will release the schedule for the 2023 season. The bulk of the schedule will be released during a primetime, three-hour event on the NFL Network.
Former Yankees slugger Gary Sánchez is reportedly set to return to New York as he attempts to revive his career.
The two-time All-Star catcher has signed a minor league deal with the Mets, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post.
The signing comes a week after Sánchez’s release by the Giants, following the catcher’s request to exercise his May 1 opt-out from his deal with the team. He struggled after being assigned to Triple-A Sacramento, batting .164 with no home runs, eight RBIs and 19 strikeouts in 16 games.
Lonnie Walker IV’s epic fourth quarter performance in Game 4 against the Warriors on Monday night has put the Lakers on the cusp of the Western Conference finals.
Los Angeles is now up 3–1 in its series against the defending NBA champions thanks to Walker’s heroics in Game 4. Walker, who had been largely out of the playoff rotation, was called upon by coach Darvin Ham to give the Lakers a boost off the bench.
Amid NCAA president Charlie Baker’s latest visit with lawmakers on Capitol Hill, there is growing movement to hurriedly produce federal legislation over college athlete compensation before the nation enters another presidential election cycle this fall.
Baker, hired in March to replace Mark Emmert, returned to the Capitol a week ago for meetings with House and Senate members and their staffs in an effort to encourage a federal bill. Among the people with whom he met was Senator Ted Cruz (R.
To look at MLB’s history of league-wide statistics is to see a catalog of its rule changes. In an otherwise gently undulating landscape of trends, the changes cause the spikes and bounces and dives. It’s not hard to look at a graph of league ERA and figure that the mound was lowered in 1969, for instance, or to examine average slugging percentages and guess that something like the designated hitter came along in ‘73.
Or to look at stolen base numbers and see that something clearly seismic is happening in 2023.
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Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi declares the buck stops with Team Principal Otmar Szafnauer after an inconsistent start to 2023
Heading into the Miami Grand Prix, the pressure was mounting on Alpine. CEO Laurent Rossi, speaking with French outlet Canal+ ahead of qualifying on Saturday, Rossi did not hold back in his assessment.
“It’s disappointing, it’s actually bad,” he said. “This year ended up starting with a flawed performance and flawed delivery.