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Geno Smith starts hot, Seahawks D finishes to beat Broncos in Russell Wilson’s return

Geno Smith starts hot, Seahawks D finishes to beat Broncos in Russell Wilson’s return

There was a lot of hope for Geno Smith‘s NFL future when he was at West Virginia. He was a heck of a college quarterback. It didn’t work out for him with the New York Jets and he entered the backup phase of his career. The Seattle Seahawks were mocked for trading Russell Wilson and giving Smith a chance to start. It took a long time, but Smith finally had the game of his NFL career on a night when Wilson made his return to Seattle. Smith did most of his damage in the first half, but that was… Source link

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Cade Cunningham finishes season No. 1

Cade Cunningham finishes season No. 1

It’s a three-man race for the top rookie honor. Evan Mobley, Cade Cunningham and Scottie Barnes are all deserving of Rookie of the Year for different reasons and it will be interesting to see which ways voters lean. Mobley was forced to sit out several games with an ankle injury to close out the season, but was incredible all season long. Cunningham started the season slow, coming off an injury of his own. Barnes averages the most minutes out of any rookie in the class (35.5), but has… Source link

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Kamila Valieva finishes 1st in short program

Kamila Valieva finishes 1st in short program

BEIJING — Figure skating prizes the value of keeping up appearances, smiling for the world while everything’s going to hell. But the sport can’t smile its way through this crisis. As Russia’s Kamila Valieva resumed competition at the Olympics on Tuesday despite a positive test for a banned drug, some peers broke a longstanding code of decorum and spoke out. “I think it’s completely unfair to the rest of the competitors,” Chinese American skater Zhu Yi told Yahoo Sports. “It’s the fact that… Source link

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China’s Zhu Yi finishes free skate in tears

China’s Zhu Yi finishes free skate in tears

China’s Zhu Yi left Olympic ice in tears after falling twice in Monday’s free skate during team competition. The U.S.-born skater competing for China was previously the subject of online vitriol on Chinese social media platform Weibo after falling in Sunday’s short program. Her finish in the short program saw host nation China fall from third place to fifth. “Zhu Yi has fallen” trended on Weibo late Sunday after she crashed to the ice and missed another jump later in her performance. According… Source link

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