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The Sixers and Bulls great had to wait decades for Hall of Fame enshrinement.

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice has had a tempestuous offseason after winning the Super Bowl as a rookie.
First, on April 10, police charged Rice with aggravated assault, collision involving serious bodily injury, and six counts of collision involving injuries for his alleged role in a hit-and-run crash in Dallas. Then, on May 7, police in the same city named Rice a suspect in an alleged nightclub assault.
On Saturday, Rice addressed his legal issues for the first time in Kansas City.
“I’ve learned so much from that,” he told gathered reporters.

If you thought that The International Olympic Committee would take a common sense approach in their guidelines for how transgender athletes are covered at the upcoming Summer Games in Paris, prepare to be disappointed.
It’s one thing to be respectful, but pretending biology is “problematic?” That’s pretty wild.
Unfortunately, that seems to be precisely what the IOC wants ahead of the Paris games, at least according to the organization’s “Portrayal Guidelines.”
This is the third edition of the guidelines, and it’s bizarre.

Edmonton tried everything they could, but Florida’s goalie put on a show while three different Panthers scored to take an early Stanley Cup Final series lead.

American boxer Ryan Garcia was arrested Saturday afternoon and charged with felony vandalism, according to a Saturday night report from TMZ Sports.
Per TMZ, Garcia was taken into custody after allegedly damaging his room and a hallway in the Waldorf Astoria in Beverly Hills, Calif..
Garcia, 25, has been in the headlines frequently since defeating countryman Devin Haney by majority decision on April 20 in Brooklyn. He tested positive for a banned substance on April 19, a charge he has disputed.
The Victorville, Calif.

Hall of Fame forward Chet “The Jet” Walker, a seven-time NBA All-Star and member of the Chicago Bulls’ recently uncovered Ring of Honor, has died at the age of 84, the NBA announced on Saturday night

Sitting in an ornate royal box behind home plate at Stamford Bridge Grounds in Chelsea, watching the first baseball game of his life, the King of England heard umpire Bill Klem call a strike.
Turning to Walter Hines Page, the United States ambassador to Great Britain, King George V remarked, “I thought that one was pretty low.”
King George caught on quickly. The rest of England did not.
The date was Feb. 26, 1914. About five months later, on Aug. 4, King George would write in his diary, “I held council at 10:45 to declare war with Germany.

You never know what you’re going to see in a UFC bout.

Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is a beloved figure in at least three cities. He is beloved in Buffalo, where he has played his entire three-year NFL career, and he is beloved in Cincinnati, which helped nurse him back to health after his terrifying entry into cardiac arrest against the Cincinnati Bengals on Jan. 2, 2023.
However, Pittsburgh knew him first. He was born in nearby McKees Rocks, played his high school football at Pittsburgh Central Catholic, and played collegiately for Pittsburgh.

The New York Yankees are hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers this weekend, and while we don’t know how this series will shake out, we do know that one Dodgers fan will be going home down one oversized novelty chain thanks to a home run from Yankees star Aaron Judge.
In the bottom of their inning, Judge was at the plate for his second at-bat of the evening against Dodgers rightly Gavin Stone.
Judge — who is leading the Majors in home runs this season — got ahold of a pitch that was right up the gut and crushed a line drive into left-center field.
Yes indeed, that did become homer No.