Team USA men’s basketball head coach Steve Kerr made the decision not to play Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum in the team’s Olympic opener, a blowout win over Serbia.
The decision caused all kinds of chaos, particularly in the media. ESPN hot air balloon Kendrick Perkins said Kerr “disrespected and embarrassed” Tatum by sitting him in Team USA’s first game.
Even Kerr said after the game that he made a mistake not playing Tatum, even though the team easily cruised to victory without him.
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Katie Ledecky claimed her eighth career gold medal.
The Yankees completed a three-game sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies, winning 6-5 on Wednesday afternoon.
Korbin Albert scored what proved to be the game-winner for the U.S. women’s soccer team against Australia during the squad’s final group stage match at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday. While Albert’s USWNT teammates immediately celebrated with her following her great strike from well outside the penalty area, haters of the ‘controversial’ midfielder flooded social media in typical fashion.
On today’s episode of the College Football Enquirer, Dan Wetzel, Ross Dellenger and SI’s Pat Forde discuss the impending Notice of Allegations expected to be delivered to Michigan. They predict the severity of the allegations and judge what would be a fair punishment for their actions.
For a team comfortably in first place as the calendar turns to August, the Los Angeles Dodgers have had a disappointing season.
The Dodgers committed over a billion dollars to free agents or extensions over the offseason. They signed Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Teoscar Hernandez, and traded for Tyler Glasnow. They expected Walker Buehler to return from Tommy John surgery, had exciting second year starter Bobby Miller returning, and a fearsome lineup with Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy and Will Smith combining with the free agency acquisitions.
New first-down technology will be used in some preseason games.
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That was a bad look for Tennessee Titans defensive lineman Jeffery Simmons on Tuesday when he came off the practice field and made a beeline for a local Nashville radio host so he could ultimately call him a “p—y,” while he was on air.
And Simmons apparently realizes that now.
So Wednesday he apologized to Buck Reising and others for his actions.
“You all know what happened yesterday,” Simmons told reporters. “A lot of y’all been here since I been here so y’all know me. That’s not who I am. That’s not who I want to be seen as.
The Canadian women’s soccer team is gearing up for their final match of the group stage at the Paris Summer Olympics and a win would send the team into the knockout stages despite a hefty 6-point penalty imposed for a drone-spying scandal.
A scandal that continues to get wilder.
So, if you weren’t aware, even before the Olympics started, Team Canada was in some trouble.