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The longtime play-by-play announcer appeared to flub the name of the Negro League Museum.

They needed a superstar. They got a super dud.
They had Batman. Robin was a no-show.
The $33 million man? The Sixers are two losses away from making a $200 million mistake.
Boston battered Philadelphia 114–102 on Friday to take a 2–1 series lead. Joel Embiid, in his second game back from a knee injury, was excellent. He scored 30 points. He pulled down 13 rebounds. He blocked five shots. Dragging around his right knee, with a bulky knee brace hidden under a long white sleeve, Embiid slogged through 39 minutes.

Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla was pleased that Boston exited Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center with a 114–102 victory against the 76ers on Friday night.
Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown combined for 50 points in the Celtics win, giving Boston a 2–1 advantage in the best-of-seven series against Philadelphia and spoiling Joel Embiid’s performance on the night of his MVP coronation.
Even after the pulling off the win, Mazzulla does not expect his squad to relax heading into Game 4. In fact, he expects the matchup to be one of the most intense of the series.

Stamp Fairtex left a stamp on Alyse Anderson’s midsection with a pulverizing body kick at ONE Fight Night 10.

Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored twice in a roughly 2 1/2-minute span and the Hurricanes beat the New Jersey Devils 6-1 on Friday night.

UFC 288 takes place Saturday night, headlined by Aljamain Sterling defending the bantamweight championship against Henry Cejudo. While the card is centered around that, another must-see fight is the welterweight bout pitting Gilbert Burns against Belal Muhammad.
Burns (22-5) is on a two-fight win streak, most recently defeating Jorge Masvidal last month at UFC 287. That marked his third win in four fights, inching closer to his first title shot since losing to Kamaru Usman in February of 2021.

A terrifying scene unfolded in the first inning of Friday night’s clash between the Phillies and Red Sox.
According to multiple sources, a spectator was taken to a trauma center after falling over a protective railing and into the Red Sox bullpen while reaching for a baseball in the first inning of Boston’s game against Philadelphia at Citizens Bank Park on Friday night.
The fan was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, according to medical personnel on the scene, after he tumbled one level from an open concourse into the Boston bullpen in right-center field.

Oklahoma and Texas now can officially leave the Big 12 and join the SEC on July 1, 2024.
The Sooners’ planned exit from the Big 12 was approved by the University of Oklahoma board of regents on Friday. Oklahoma’s approval came after the University of Texas board of regents signed all obligatory measures to allow the Longhorns entry to the SEC earlier this week.
Joe Castiglione, the Sooners athletic director, is excited about Oklahoma’s future in the SEC.

Forbes unveiled its 2023 list of the highest-paid athletes in the world this week, revealing a star-studded ranking in which eight of the top 10 earners reached the nine-figure plateau.
LeBron James and Cristiano Ronaldo headline an elite group of eight superstar athletes who earned more than $100 million over the past 12 months, dating to May 1, 2022. The total of eight athletes in that category is twice as many as in any previous year.
Although the pros in the top eight carry an impressive distinction, the final two names on this year’s top-10 list are far from poverty.

In one of the most anticipated returns in the history of combat sports, Henry ‘Triple C’ Cejudo makes his return to the UFC Octagon after a three-year hiatus to face Aljamain Sterling for the 135lb championship. The former Olympic gold medalist and two-division champion abruptly retired after knocking out Dominic Cruz to defend the bantamweight title in May of 2020. Since then the division has seen Petr Yan and the current champion, Sterling, sit atop the division.