The NBA has suspended Bucks guard Patrick Beverley for four games without pay for throwing a basketball multiple times at fans and “an inappropriate interaction” with an ESPN producer after Game 6 against the Indiana Pacers last week.
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The U.S. women will take 12 players to Paris. We look at whether the Fever guard will be among them.
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It’s the marketing department’s job at any company to promote its product or products. But they also have to try and be somewhat realistic. ESPN decided to eschew the realism completely in a new promo featuring the upcoming WNBA season.
ESPN is excited about the WNBA. They should be. There’s more buzz around the league than at any time in history. That’s largely due to former Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark, the number one pick in the WNBA Draft.
But in this new promo, ESPN proudly declares that the WNBA is “the best league in the world.
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Korda posted another round in the 60s as her hunt for six in a row began at the Cognizant Founders Cup.
Nelly Korda fired off a 3-under 69 to start her Cognizant Founders Cup tournament. It put her in the hunt for yet another victory in 2024. As of this writing, she is tied for sixth on a stacked leaderboard.
Korda is riding a five-tournament win streak, which is tied with Nancy Lopez and Annika Sorenstam for the most ever.
Despite her strong start, Korda is four shots off the leader, Madelene Sagström, who fired off a 7-under 65.
Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverley got away with an easy punishment after tossing a basketball at an Indiana Pacers fan’s head.
According to Shams Charania of “The Athletic,” Beverley will be suspended for the first four games of the 2024 regular season. The 35-year-old is also suspended for refusing to speak with ESPN’s Malinda Adams after the Game 6 loss because Adams is not subscribed to Beverley’s podcast.
It’s unclear if the wager will actually hold up under the league’s gambling policy.
Former NBA player Glen Davis was sentenced to 40 months in prison after his conviction for being involved in a scheme to defraud the league’s healthcare plan.
Rory McIlroy is at Quail Hollow this weekend to play in another PGA Tour signature event, the Wells Fargo Championship. Prior to his round, he was out on the driving range recounting jokes from the Roast of Tom Brady.
There was one joke he really liked, and it was about Brady’s failed crypto investment. Nikki Glaser, one of the stars of the show, told a hilarious joke that incorporated Brady’s investment along with Rob Gronkowski’s perceived lack of intellect.
“Tom also lost $30 million in crypto,” Glaser started the joke.
As promised, the new Utah NHL team is deciding its future moniker with a fan vote. Now the 20 names the team is considering are out, and while there are a couple of gems, most are absolute, unadulterated, steaming crap.
If you want to have your say in the matter, team owner Ryan Smith tweeted out the link on Wednesday evening.
But, it’s always good to go into anything as an informed voter, so let’s look at what they’ve got to choose from.