We’ll spare you another “Doc to Nurse” pun. The Philadelphia 76ers have reportedly agreed to hire former Toronto Raptors head coach Nick Nurse as HC, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Nurse is a hire that’ll make this fan base happy.
Known as a premier X’s and O’s coach with an attitude, Nurse is the type of hire that could jumpstart the latent Sixers roster, led by reigning MVP Joel Embiid and James Harden.
Previous Sixers HC Doc Rivers let this championship roster down with a disappointing second-round exit. Rivers was fired after three seasons with the team.
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The Philadelphia 76ers have reached an agreement with Nick Nurse to become the team’s next head coach, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Notre Dame Lacrosse finally accomplished what it hadn’t in the program’s illustrious history and senior star Pat Kavanaugh wasn’t going to miss this one, despite a lingering injury that has limited his postseason.
For the first time, the Fighting Irish are national champions. The No. 3 Notre Dame Fighting Irish defeated No. 1 Duke 13-9 on Monday afternoon at Lincoln Financial Field to secure the 2023 NCAA national title.
Game 6 between the Celtics and Heat had NBA fans across the country acting out. The dramatic finish that saw Derrick White’s putback attempt seal the win over Miami generated plenty of strong reactions on social media. But perhaps none were more dramatic than that of Skip Bayless.
Bayless spent much of the game criticizing Jimmy Butler from his Twitter account, but it seems his antics left his wife feeling a bit upset.
The Big 12’s expansion negotiations with Gonzaga, among others, are expected to take center stage later this week at the conference’s spring meetings in West Virginia.
Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark and other league officials continue deep discussions with the Zags as well as with the school’s consulting firm Navigate, sources tell Sports Illustrated. Navigate is a data-driven company that is assisting Gonzaga in a potential move from the West Coast Conference and into a Power 5 league.
BATON ROUGE – LSU coach Jay Johnson did not bat an eye as he watched a record eight SEC baseball teams receive host sites for NCAA Regional play that opens Friday.
“After going through that schedule, absolutely not,” he said at Alex Box Stadium on Monday after the NCAA Selection Show.
The SEC also tied its record for most selections to the 64-team NCAA Tournament with 10. And the league had the largest number of top eight national seeds this year with four – No. 2 Florida, No. 3 Arkansas, No. 5 LSU and No. 6 Vanderbilt.
The other four national seeds were No. 1 Wake Forest, No.
The 76ers have found their next head coach.
After parting ways with Doc Rivers following Philadelphia’s second-round playoff exit against the Celtics, the team has reportedly agreed to terms with former Raptors head coach Nick Nurse, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski.
Nurse was with Toronto from 2018 to ’23, but was fired after the ’22–23 NBA season. He spent the past 10 seasons with the Raptors, five as an assistant and five as a head coach including the ’19 campaign when he won a championship. He led the team for 390 games, amassing a 227–163 record.
Following a first-round victory at the French Open, tennis player Sloane Stephens talked to the press about facing racism online.
According to Reuters, Sloane says that she faces more racism now than in the past.
“Yes, it’s obviously been a problem my entire career,” said Stephens. “It has never stopped. If anything, it’s only gotten worse.”
“People online have the free rein to say and do whatever they want behind fake pages, which is obviously very troublesome,” Sloane continued.
Our experts look at the best and worst of the season to date — and predict which teams will rule from here.
Doug Mientkiewicz did not hold back when discussing his former Yankees and high school teammate Alex Rodriguez on a recent podcast appearance.
The former MLB first baseman, who played for New York in the 2007 season, seems to have very little respect for A-Rod now. He began talking about how Rodriguez’s PED suspension in 2014 seems to often be forgotten when discussing the former Yankee’s legacy.
“It’s painful,” Mientkiewicz said on the Foul Territory podcast. “It’s like, wait a minute, do you [forget] you got suspended 200 games? It’s like, ‘Come on, man. Stop it.