12:10 PM ET It’s getting very, very hard to sympathize with the National Hockey League when it comes to Olympic participation. For a while, it was easy. The International Olympic Committee was on the other side of the table, an organization that makes FIFA look like Amnesty International by comparison. Pick your toxicity: The bottomless
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9:00 AM ET TOWARD THE END of Bam Adebayo‘s freshman year at Northside High School in tiny Pinetown in eastern North Carolina, two teachers, a coach, and a mother gathered in the coach’s classroom to discuss how they would wrap their arms around the mother’s son — a raw basketball prodigy already bordering on 6-foot-8.
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8:08 AM GMT The Hong Kong and Singapore Sevens will be postponed until October due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak, World Rugby announced on Thursday. Sources had told ESPN that both legs would be rescheduled and the organisation has confirmed the Singapore tournament will take place from Oct. 10-11 and Hong Kong will run
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3:26 AM ET DENVER — The Los Angeles Lakers increased their stranglehold on the Western Conference’s No. 1 spot with an impressive road win against the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday, but LeBron James claims seeding isn’t a topic of conversation for L.A. “We don’t talk about it,” James said after the Lakers’ 120-116 overtime win
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2:41 AM ET Associated Press ADELAIDE, Australia — Defending champion Nelly Korda shot a 4-under 69 to trail Jodi Ewart Shadoff by three strokes after the first round of the LPGA’s Women’s Australian Open on Thursday. Ewart Shadoff had seven birdies in her round of 66 at Royal Adelaide and held a one-stroke lead over
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11:35 PM ET Associated Press UNIONDALE, N.Y. — No. 2 seed Milos Raonic was upset in his opening match at the New York Open, falling 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4) 6-4 on Wednesday night to Soon-Woo Kwon. The Canadian was playing his first match since losing to eventual champion Novak Djokovic in the quarterfinals of the
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9:37 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — There appears to be public peace between Team Penske teammates Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski. Keselowski was furious at his teammate and accused Logano of throwing unnecessary blocks that triggered one of the two wrecks in the final nine laps of the Busch Clash. “We shouldn’t
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8:46 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Andrew Friedman, the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ president of baseball operations, tried to trade for Mookie Betts last summer. But the Boston Red Sox, at the time still under the direction of Dave Dombrowski, suddenly got hot. They won five of six against the division rival Tampa Bay Rays and
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