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Normally Austin Reeves doesn’t even look like a basketball player. He commands a room with the swagger of an accountant — which is to say, not all. That all changed on Thursday night when the world couldn’t stop looking at Reeves turning up to his post-game interview looking like an emo rock star from 2004.
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How can anxiety last this long?
By midnight it was still going. Tiring, but peppy announcers quipped that Game 2 between the Panthers and Hurricanes was technically tomorrow as the calendar flipped over. It was an amusing observation that cut through playoff hockey anxiety. By 1 a.m. it stopped being funny. By 2 a.m. every minute felt like an hour. Dead legs and broken bodies shuffling themselves around the ice out of sheer will alone, before Matthew Tkachuk became an angel or mercy, finally putting the puck in the net and ending the torment.
The Nuggets took care of business again at home on Thursday night, beating LeBron James and the Lakers, 108–103, in Game 2 to take a 2–0 series lead as it shifts to Los Angeles for Saturday night’s Game 3.
Denver’s home crowd was rocking in the last two quarters, as the team stormed back from a halftime deficit and closed out the game in dramatic fashion.
Peyton Manning was one of those fans taking in the action in Denver, a city he’s called home since he joined the Broncos years ago and won a Super Bowl before calling it quits.
Tom Kim was baptized in the mud pits of Oak Hill.
The Korean golfer saw his day go sideways after falling into a swamp during the first round of the PGA Championship.
Kim’s lowlight came in the sixth hole — cameras caught the young pro emerging out of the mud like Andy Dufresne in “The Shawshank Redemption.”
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The look might’ve been messy, but Tom Kim’s image and swagger came out clean on the other side.
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LeBron James and the Lakers are heading home down 2-0 to the Nuggets in the Western Conference finals after Thursday night’s 108–103 loss in Denver.
The Lakers led at halftime and had some good chances to possibly even the series but Nikola Jokić & Co. rose to the challenge in front of a very loud home crowd and took care of business down the stretch.
James, who recently said the Lakers don’t flop, sure looked like he flopped on one play in the fourth quarter and he was able to draw a foul on Jokić in the process.
A stadium is a factory of inspiration. Lay some sod, turf or cinder, mark its boundaries with appropriate exactness, and let loose the human will—the need—to test our physical boundaries.
At their best, these secular cathedrals also inspire those who sit in the stands that ring these fields of endeavors. They become our town halls, in which the mere act of being there makes us a part of the community—and from which the community draws identity.
On the afternoon of Sept. 18, 1932, Paterson, N.J., Mayor John V.
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After the cancellation of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Mercedes will bring their upgrades instead of the streets of Monaco
With Formula 1 deciding to cancel this week’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, a number of teams now face a decision regarding planned upgrades to their cars. Teams such as McLaren, Aston Martin, Ferrari, and others were planning on bringing upgrades to the track at Imola.
There may not be an individual pitch that has garnered as much attention this year as Shohei Ohtani’s sweeper.
Of course, the sweeper is generally trendy, now that pitch classification systems have begun recognizing the breaking ball as its own distinct entity. But no one is using it quite like Ohtani. After making the sweeper his primary pitch for the first time last season—dethroning his four-seamer—he has leaned on it even more heavily this year. The sweeper now makes up 45% of Ohtani’s pitches. Yet it hasn’t lost any of its effectiveness.
For about a month it seemed like Gardner Minshew might get a chance to be the Indianapolis Colts starting quarterback in 2023. It seemed his two years under Shane Steichen with the Philadelphia Eagles might pay dividends and give him an insurmountable advantage knowing the new Colts head coach’s system.
Then the NFL draft happened in April and the Colts selected Anthony Richardson with the No. 4 overall pick.
Minshew might still be the starter early on in 2023 for the Colts. But everyone understands it’s temporary.
Richardson is going to be the face of the franchise.
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Meet the players moving up the board at the NBA Draft combine, plus the latest buzz.
CHICAGO — The 2023 NBA Draft will be remembered forever for the player set to go No. 1 overall. Victor Wembanyama, the 7’5 French super prospect hailed as the best talent to enter the league since at least LeBron James, will start his career with the San Antonio Spurs after the franchise became the lucky winners of the draft lottery.