McKenzie Milton, quarterback and team leader of the No. 9 Central Florida Knights, left the UCF and South Florida game prematurely due to a gruesome knee injury. Milton required the assistance of a stretcher and cart to remove him from the field. During Rivalry Week in college football, UCF defeated […]
Gonzaga, led by Junior forward Rui Hachimura, defeated No. 1 Duke 89-87 in the finals of the Maui Invitational in Lahaina, Hawaii. Duke (5-1) lost its first game of the season, while No. 3 Gonzaga improved to 6-0. Down Goes Duke The top-ranked team in the country, Duke, lost their first […]
LeBron James played his first game in a LA Lakers uniform against his old team, the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Lakers won 109-105 in a bittersweet homecoming for Ohio legend. The Cavs led for most of the game, but LeBron led his new team to a comeback victory. The Lakers won […]
Kentucky Wildcats basketball coach John Calipari said that he’s not the master recruiter many fans and pundits give him credit for after seeing the top prospect in the nation choose to go to Memphis rather than to his program. The comments came in a pregame media session before Kentucky’s 87-74 […]
Memphis high school basketball star and the #1 prospect in the country, 7-foot tall center James Wiseman, decided to stay in his hometown and attend the University of Memphis next season. Memphis, thanks to new head coach Penny Hardaway, won a fierce recruiting battle against Kentucky to land Wiseman, the […]
LeBron James scored his first 50-point game as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers with an outstanding 51-point performance in a victory over the Miami Heat 113-97. LeBron became the fifth player in NBA history to score 50 or more points for three different franchises. LeBron also locked up […]
Guard Kemba Walker exploded for a career-high 60 points for the Charlotte Hornets in an 122-119 overtime loss to the Philadelphia Sixers. Newly-acquired Jimmy Butler stole the spotlight when he hit a game-winning three pointer in overtime to lead to the Sixers to victory. Kemba 60 Kemba Walker does not […]
Kermit Washington’s sucker punch against Rudy Tomjanovich during a bench-clearing brawl between the Houston Rockets and LA Lakers game in 1977 still ranks among the worst all-time cheap shots. Fitchburg State basketball player Kewan Platt got frustrated and lost his cool in a game against Nichols College. Platt elbowed Nate […]
Starting the early 1990s and lasting 25 years, comedian Garry Shandling hosted a Sunday pick-up basketball game at his house in the swanky Brentwood section of Los Angeles. The secret weekly game, attended by some of the biggest names in comedy and the entertainment industry, discontinued in 2016, when Shandling […]
Ten-time all-star Carmelo Anthony, averaging a career-low 13.4 points per game, lasted ten games before the Houston Rockets and general manager Daryl Morey determined it was time to part ways. The Houston Rockets are 6-7 and in fourth place in the Southwest. The Rockets were expected to clinch another Southwest […]
Apparently having LeBron James on your team doesn’t help Los Angeles Lakers’ coach Luke Walton odds to be the first NBA coach fired this season. The 38-year-old has been at the helm of the Lakers since 2016, but oddsmakers believe this year will be his last. Bovada has the son […]
Only three games into the season, Duke freshman big man Zion Williamson keeps adding more thunderous dunks to his highlight reel. In an 84-46 blowout win against Eastern Michigan, Duke dunked the ball 14 times and Zion Williamson threw down several monstrous dunks. Zion Shines in Debut In three games […]
With a free throw late in the fourth quarter, LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers scored the 31,420th point of his career. In doing so, James passed Wilt Chamberlin to become the NBA’s fifth all-time leading scorer. LeBron finished the night with 44 points and the Lakers defeated the […]
It was the cheap shot heard around the world. Late in a basketball game between two Division III schools in Massachusetts on Tuesday, Nate Tenaglia of Nichols College sank a wide-open three pointer. The ball had hardly cleared the net when Kewan Platt of the home team Fitchburg State delivered a […]
The Golden State Warriors suspended All-Star forward Draymond Green without pay for the team’s Tuesday night game against the Atlanta Hawks following heated exchanges between Green and teammate Kevin Durant during the Warriors’ Monday loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. The Warriors said in a statement that the suspension was […]
It’s not a great time to be a New York City sports fan. The Giants and Jets are at the bottom of the NFL. In the NBA, the Knicks haven’t been to the playoffs since 2013, and the Brooklyn Nets since 2015. The NHL’s Rangers and Islanders didn’t make the […]
Marc Stein from the New York Times reported that Carmelo Anthony’s time with the Houston Rockets “will soon be ending.” The Rockets started the season 5-7 and went from the highest-scoring offense in the league to the lowest scoring. Stein tweeted, “The Rockets have denied they are waiving Carmelo Anthony, […]
Jimmer Fredette, former BYU basketball star and former lottery pick, scored a career-high 75 points for the Shanghai Sharks in the Chinese Basketball Association. Fredette, the 2011 College Basketball Player of the Year, scored 40 points in the fourth quarter, but it was not enough for the win. The Sharks […]
LaMelo Ball, the youngest son of controversial father, LaVar Ball, has decided to put professional basketball aspirations on hold temporarily and return to high school. The 17-year-old enrolled at the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio, a private school that focuses on top-level athletes preparing for furthering their athletic careers. Ball […]
It’s only one game, but Duke basketball showed how they could possibly be as dominant as Alabama’s football team. Oddsmakers were certainly impressed. After the Blue Devils dismantled Kentucky, 118-84, many sportsbooks lowered the team’s odds to win the National Championship. Before the season, both Duke and the Wildcats were […]
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