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INDEPENDENCE — From the outside, Kenny Atkinson kept tabs on Cleveland and recognized something special happening with the Cavaliers. They had young talent. They had a positive culture. And, in Donovan Mitchell, they had a superstar. Atkinson wanted to be a part of it. So, when the Cavs fired J.B. Bickerstaff after losing in the [...]
LOS ANGELES — Professional sports leagues have 4.8 billion reasons to review how they distribute out-of-market broadcasts after last week’s judgement against the NFL in the "Sunday Ticket" case in U.S. District Court. "It's going to require other leagues to take a close look at their model and make sure that the means by which [...]
Tony Schumacher has a ready answer when fans wonder how much longer the 54-year-old, three-time world champion will keep climbing drag racing's ladder in the National Hot Rod Association. "About 10 years," Schumacher said. "That's what I've told them for the past 20 years." Age is just a number in drag racing, where cars hurtle [...]
EUGENE, Ore. — One aspiring Olympian is taking a break from his day job at the deli section while he makes his run for Paris. Another athlete worked as a nanny, but when she left to focus on running at the Games, the family understood. When these runners and hurdlers learned they would be racing [...]
Having a father working for the Golden State Warriors and former NBA star Steve Nash for an uncle, college hockey player of the year and the presumptive No. 1 NHL draft pick Macklin Celebrini likes to think he’s got game. “I think it’s pretty good,” Celebrini said, referring to his basketball ability, before acknowledging his [...]
SUNRISE, Fla. — Sergei Bobrovsky went undrafted and had little fanfare when he signed his first NHL contract in May 2010. Long before he played his first game in North America a few months later, he stood out. It was summer that year and veteran Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Brian Boucher was on the ice with [...]
France isn’t the only country producing top prospects for the NBA — it just sort of seems that way. Victor Wembanyama was the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft a year ago and went on to win the league’s Rookie of the Year award. Two more Frenchmen — Alexandre Sarr and Zaccharie Risacher — [...]
Amid all the tributes and memories about the legendary Willie Mays, consider this perspective on his greatness: He may have been baseball's greatest living Hall of Famer — not just at the time of his death last week, but from the moment he was inducted in 1979. Mays' combination of hitting, baserunning and defensive brilliance [...]
Facing upheaval on the way in college athletics, a handful of administrators and athletes from smaller schools have been working on a new model of governance. The hope by members of the Football Championship Subdivision and Division I-AAA (programs without football) is to give their athletes more of a say and essentially treat them more [...]
Shaun White is starting a season-long halfpipe league that will offer more than $1.5 million in prizes in hopes of pulling together what has long been a spread-out, confusing action-sports calendar. The 37-year-old, three-time Olympic gold medalist, who re-tired in 2022 after the Beijing Games, is calling the new enterprise The Snow League. The first [...]