Crawford caught the ball in the corner, right in front of the Blazers’ bench, and lofted up a 3-point attempt and turned toward the Portland bench before his shot reached the rim. The shot, which was highly contested, appeared as if it stayed in the air forever. It eventually came down and it went in. MORE: Lillard helps man propose | Thunder bench must step up | Carlisle apologizes to Parsons...
Somebody gave the Buccaneers quarterback a GoPro camera in order to share some “behind-the-scenes footage” of the event in Los Angeles. You can imagine the shenanigans. PHOTOS: Rookies at the Pro Football Hall of Fame | MORE: Winston more polished as a pro If anything, we learned the rookies love their chips and cookies, compliments of the NFLPA. Winston also attended the NFL Rookie Symposium last week in Ohio, where his playful demeanor was put to good use during the Play 60 Youth Football Clinic at the Browns’ training facility....
On Tuesday night it was time for one of his bigger games against the Nets crosstown rivals, the New York Knicks. NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) The Beard balled out, nearly recording a triple-double with 34 points, 10 rebounds, eight assists and three steals in 40 minutes of action. Postgame, he credited NBA legend Reggie Miller, who was courtside calling the game for TNT....
This statement sparked a lot of discussion, because Harden has the reputation as a notoriously bad defensive player. At this point, we do not know whether Harden has the capacity to be a great defender. The effort just hasn’t been there at any point since he moved to the Houston Rockets and assumed the brunt of the offensive load. MORE: Train like Stephen Curry | Team USA roster | Summer Conversation...
The 10-time All-Star is entering the final season of his contract, but it’s a player option worth $47.4 million. Will Harden turn it down to become an unrestricted free agent or will he pick it up to return to the 76ers? In 21 games with the 76ers, Harden averaged 21.0 points, 10.5 assists and 7.1 rebounds. TSN’s Steph Noh ranked him as the third-best player in this year’s free-agent class....
But James’ brain power extends far beyond the court, as is made more apparent when looking back on his free-agency decision and the Cleveland Cavaliers’ offseason. In this Internet age, it figures the banner moment of James’ master plan came when he went to Instagram to recognize his teammates, posting photos of projected starters and role players. It started long before then, however. From the onset of free agency, James had a clear approach....
The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tenn.) on Tuesday reported that Memphis judge Jim Kyle issued an October ruling in favor of the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association, which declared Wiseman ineligible under its “coaching link” rule. Said rule prohibits athletes from transferring schools in order to compete for a coach under whom they’d previously played. MORE: Explaining Wiseman’s eligibility issues with NCAA Wiseman was a high school student at Ensworth High School (Nashville, Tenn....
The Colombia international is in the first season of a two-year loan spell with the Bundesliga champions, who have the option to purchase him on a permanent basis. He appears unlikely to return to Madrid after falling out of favour under Zinedine Zidane, although the 26-year-old insists he holds no ill will toward the coach. Instead, the playmaker is focused on helping Bayern overcome a 2-1 deficit from the first leg when the teams meet again on Tuesday....
In a video posted on Twitter, Taillon showed off a giant card signed by a large number of Pittsburgh fans. MORE: Pirates’ Jameson Taillon to be cleared for workouts after cancer diagnosis Taillon also met with the media for the first time since his diagnosis, and said he has only received good news so far. Taillon also said he’s heard from fellow cancer survivors and patients such as Lance Armstrong, Andrew Lambo, Chad Bettis and John Kruk....
The iconic actress, who is 62 and an advocate for aging naturally, even admitted that she felt humiliated by getting surgery. “I have been an advocate for natural beauty for a long time, mostly because I’ve had the trial and error of the other part,” Curtis said in an interview on U.K. breakfast show, Lorraine, this week. “I did plastic surgery—it didn’t work. I hated it. It made me feel worse,” she said....
“I have been trying to find the words to adequately express my thoughts. I am still in shock. In disbelief really,” Janice McAfee wrote in a statement posted to Twitter on Tuesday. “John should never have spent a day in prison let alone nearly nine months. I spoke with him twice the morning of the 23rd and in our last conversations we spoke about the court’s decision to extradite him to the US....
The Italian teenager eventually prevailed 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(3) on Saturday after two hours and 15 minutes on court in the Bulgarian capital. Pospisil sent down 14 aces as he fought back impressively after losing the first set, the Canadian emphatically overcoming an early break of his serve in the second to level up proceedings. There was little to split the pair in the decider, Sinner seizing the advantage in a tense tie-break when he forced a pair of errors out of his opponent and grasping his chance to be crowned champion....
Committee member Representative Zoe Lofgren told CNN on Sunday that moving the hearing to a daytime slot means it’s more likely that Fox News, which averaged 1.4 million total viewers from August 29 to September 4, would air it for their viewers. “It’s true, it’s not in prime-time. I would note, however, that in the past Fox News does play our hearings if the hearing is in the daytime,” Lofgren said....
U.S. DistrictJudge Tanya Chutkan issued the sentence after Palmer pleaded guilty to charges of the assault, Zoe Tillman, a Buzzfeed News reporter, tweeted. This is the longest sentence issued in connected with the Capitol riot. “Show your children that while we make mistakes and we can do bad things, it does not make us irredeemable people. Good luck to you sir,” Chutkan said. “It has to be made clear that trying to violently overthrow the government, trying to stop the peaceful transfer of power and assaulting law enforcement officers in that effort is going to be met with absolutely certain punishment,” Chutkan added, according to Buzzfeed....
Speaking at an English-language briefing at the Japanese Foreign Correspondents Club in Tokyo, Taro Kono was asked about the actions of Japan’s neighbor amid rising tensions on the Korean peninsula. Kim’s regime has ramped up its rhetoric against its southern neighbor, earlier this month cutting off communication lines with Seoul, which it described as “the enemy”, the BBC reported. Last week, North Korea demolished an inter-Korean liaison office in Kaesong and this week, called off proposed “military action” against South Korea....
The grand steward of the Imperial Household Agency, Yasuhiko Nishimura, shared the emperor’s concerns at a news conference. “His majesty is extremely worried about the current situation of the COVID-19 infections,” Nishimura said. “While there are voices of unease among the public, I believe (the emperor) is concerned that holding the Olympics and Paralympics … may lead to the expansion of the infections.” Though the emperor is only a symbol of the state with no political power, Naruhito’s words are highly respected, and the emperor himself has gained popularity just like his father....
When the virus is present after people are infected, filters from the masks that are coated with ostrich antibodies will glow under the nose and mouth areas, the researchers said in a press release. The masks were created by a team headed up by Kyoto Prefectural University President and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Yasuhiro Tsukamoto, who spoke with Kyodo News recently about his work. “We can mass-produce antibodies from ostriches at a low cost....
1. Nicknamed "The Hefty Lefty," "Pillsbury Throwboy," and "Round Mound of Touchdown," he was one of the largest quarterbacks in NCAA history, weighing in at 6-4 and over 250 pounds (His "listed weight" in college). 2. In 2002, thinking his Kentucky team was about to end a streak of 12-straight losses to ranked SEC teams, he gave head coach Guy Morriss a Gatorade shower at the exact same time that LSU quarterback Marcus Randall completed a Hail Mary touchdown pass to Devery Henderson to win the game....
On Sunday, it was more relevant for a couple reasons; first, he recorded the 1,700th point of his career, a goal against the Nashville Predators. He's the eighth player to do that and first European; the others are Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Gordie Howe, Ron Francis, Marcel Dionne, Steve Yzerman and Mario Lemieux. A few minutes later, Jagr faked Predators defenseman Shea Weber of his skates. That's tough for anyone, let alone an old man....
