Month: March 2023

8:09 AM ET ORLANDO, Fla. — The sounds of Nickelback coming from the portable speaker in the side of the Miami Heat locker room were unmistakable. As the rest of his teammates and Heat staffers quietly showered, got dressed and picked over a postgame pizza spread following a 126-114 overtime loss to the Orlando Magic
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4:44 AM ET DAKAR, SENEGAL — NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum acknowledged to ESPN that the All-Star Game needs minor tweaks following criticism of its intensity levels in Salt Lake City recently. In defence of the standard of the All-Star Game, which Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone called the “worst basketball game ever played” after
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2:48 AM BST Reuters and ESPN staff World Rugby will encourage member unions to join a global trial of lowering tackle height to below the sternum in the community game, the governing body has said, stressing the importance of reducing injury risk via “education, sanction and law change”. It pointed to trials conducted in France
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11:32 PM ET “Pistol” Pete Maravich’s Division I career scoring record could be preserved after the CBI decided against inviting Detroit Mercy and star Antoine Davis to the postseason event. Davis, who has 3,664 career points, is three shy of Maravich’s NCAA mark of 3,667, which he achieved in three seasons at LSU. Davis, a
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10:56 PM ET Hours after finding out that they failed to make the NCAA tournament field, Oklahoma State, Rutgers, Oregon and Clemson were given No. 1 seeds in the National Invitation Tournament on Sunday night. The Cowboys, a team that NCAA tournament committee chair Chris Reynolds specifically mentioned as receiving strong consideration on the bracket
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9:57 PM ET SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Safety Tashaun Gipson joined the San Francisco 49ers just 20 days before the start of the 2022 season. But, after claiming the starting free safety job when Jimmie Ward was lost to a training camp injury, Gipson never relinquished it. Now, Gipson is set to hold it for
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6:24 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Kendric Davis scored 31 points, including 14 in a big run before halftime, and Memphis held on to beat short-handed No. 1 Houston 75-65 in the American Athletic Conference tournament championship game Sunday. DeAndre Williams had 16 points and 13 rebounds for coach Penny Hardaway and
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9:10 PM ET Alabama received the No. 1 overall seed, but sportsbooks have Houston as the consensus favorite to win the national championship ahead of what oddsmakers believe is a wide-open men’s NCAA basketball tournament. Houston, the top seed in the Midwest Region, is listed at 6-1 at Caesars Sportsbook, followed by Alabama at 7-1
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9:14 PM ET Associated Press INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — Qualifier Cristian Garin of Chile shocked third-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway 6-4, 7-6 (2) at the BNP Paribas Open on Sunday for his first win over a top-five player in nearly two years. Garin, ranked No. 97, had 39 winners while Ruud, ranked No. 4, managed
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7:02 PM ET Associated Press PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Scottie Scheffler was fearless on a TPC Sawgrass course that can jangle the nerves on every hole. The wind was getting stronger, the targets looked smaller, and all he wanted was to make sure his lead got larger in The Players Championship. “You can’t limp
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