Month: May 2022

The comedian walks to his stage. It’s a late-night set, and he might have new material because he’s carrying his joke book. That doesn’t affect his confidence. He is ebullient and working his audience. “Get ready, get ready,” he says with a beaming smile, sitting down behind a microphone. The backdrop isn’t the stereotypical brick
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3:21 AM ET DALLAS — For the second time in a span of three possessions, Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic drove straight down the lane and finished with a two-handed dunk. The top-seeded Phoenix Suns, trailing by 20 points midway through the third quarter of Thursday’s Game 6, called timeout, providing Doncic a chance to
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2:42 AM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — After acquiring James Harden at the trade deadline, the Philadelphia 76ers hoped this would finally be the year they break through and make it into the conference finals — and beyond — in the NBA playoffs. Instead, for the fourth time in five years, Philadelphia saw its season
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10:01 PM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. CHICAGO — Nice try, Jim. That was Brian Cashman’s sarcastic response when addressing Astros owner Jim Crane’s comments against the Yankees‘ general manager concerning Houston’s sign-stealing scandal. “I don’t think anybody’s going to dance to the tune he’s singing,”
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9:34 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — The Miami Heat are headed to the Eastern Conference finals for the second time in three years after closing out the Philadelphia 76ers 99-90 in Game 6 of their second-round series on Thursday night. As has been the case throughout the series, it was Jimmy Butler who led the way
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8:05 PM ET Associated Press CLIFTON, N.J. — Madelene Sagstrom shot a flawless 9-under 63 during a round she felt holes kept getting larger to take one-stroke lead over Megan Khang after the first round of the Cognizant Founders Cup on Thursday. Nasa Hataoka, who won in Los Angeles in April before taking time off,
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6:13 PM ET Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Steve Stricker shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday to take a 2-stroke lead over Miguel Angel Jimenez and Wes Short Jr. after the opening round of the Regions Tradition, the first of five PGA Tour Champions majors. Stricker, the 2019 champion, closed his bogey-free round with a
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7:34 PM ET Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper, limited to designated hitter duty of late, has a small tear in his right UCL, will get a PRP injection and will not throw a baseball for four weeks, manager Joe Girardi told reporters Thursday. Girardi said Dr. Neal ElAttrache of Kerlan-Jobe in Los Angeles confirmed the
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7:48 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — 76ers forward Danny Green is out for the rest of Game 6 of Philadelphia’s Eastern Conference semifinal against the Miami Heat with a left knee injury. There’s significant concern that the injury Green suffered is serious, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. He is set to undergo an MRI
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