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It’s not uncommon for professional athletes to have hobbies outside of their sport. Many love to golf. Others play tennis or bowl or cook. For NBA Hall of Famer and current TNT broadcaster Reggie Miller, it’s mountain biking. He recently told The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Gay that he’ll even think about his training schedule or upcoming races while he’s calling a game. Miller became so good at cycling that he races at a level just below “pro.” But Miller, 56, doesn’t think he’ll ever race… Source link

Tennis Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst Pam Shriver opened up on Wednesday and revealed that she was in “an inappropriate and damaging relationship with my much older coach” that started when she was 17. Shriver told ESPN’s Outside the Lines and wrote a story for The Telegraph detailing her relationship with former coach Don Candy. Shriver, 59, got her professional tennis start at 15 in 1978 — the same year she reached the US Open finals as an amateur. She started working with Candy, who… Source link

GREEN BAY, Wis. – A first-round pick in 2016, Kenny Clark has carried the Green Bay Packers’ defensive line for most of his six NFL seasons. It’s just not a position the Packers have dedicated a lot of resources. Over the last eight drafts, Clark is the only defensive lineman they’ve selected within the first 90 picks. Could that change this year? A lot of that depends on Green Bay’s list of needs following free agency, but it’s a possibility. In Yahoo’s latest mock draft, the… Source link

There are eight quarterbacks in NFL history with 50,000 yards and at least one Super Bowl win.  Tom Brady. Drew Brees. Peyton Manning. Brett Favre. Ben Roethlisberger. Eli Manning. Aaron Rodgers. John Elway. That’s three Hall of Famers, four locks and Eli Manning. We’ve all heard the debate on Eli Manning’s HOF candidacy by now, and he has a chance to make it eight-for-eight.  Matthew Stafford is at 49,995 career yards, which is 12th all-time. He’s five yards and two wins this postseason —… Source link

Longtime Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was the lone former player to hear his name called during Tuesday’s BBWAA Hall of Fame election announcement, rewarding a career that saw a curse broken three times over. In his first year of eligibility, Ortiz received 307 out of 397 votes (77.9 percent), putting him over the required 75 percent threshold. Here’s video of him finding out he had been elected, with Hall of Fame teammate Pedro Martinez by his side: Ortiz’s Hall of Fame case was simple…. Source link

If anyone makes the Baseball Hall of Fame when results of the always contentious voting are announced Tuesday, it will be legendary Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz. The gregarious postseason hero known as Big Papi is the only candidate trending toward potential induction in the ballots already made public, as tracked by Ryan Thibodaux and company. In his first year on the ballot, Ortiz stands out as a bellwether of several hot button Hall of Fame issues. One is murky steroid suspicion —… Source link

Kentucky basketball coaching legend Joe B. Hall has died, the school announced Saturday. He was 93. Hall replaced Adolph Rupp as coach in Lexington in 1972 and guided the Wildcats until 1985, compiling a 297-100 record with 10 NCAA tournament appearances, three Final Fours and a national title in 1978. Hall remained a fixture in Lexington until his death. He also played for Rupp on the Wildcats’ 1949 team that won the national title, making Hall one of three men who played and coached on an… Source link

Dallas Cowboys NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman is ready to take on Big Beer names such as Budweiser and MolsonCoors with the same intensity as he did long-time rivals the New York Giants on a Sunday primetime matchup.  Well sort of, but you get the point.  Aikman, 55, revealed Tuesday he will be launching EIGHT beer after two years of developing the product along with award-winning brewmaster and beer industry veteran Phil Leinhart. Billed as suds for the modern beer drinker — in… Source link

ABC News Harry Reid, the former 5-term US senator from Nevada, has died at 82 following cancer battle Harry Mason Reid, the former five-term U.S. senator from Nevada who led Senate Democrats for a decade spanning the Bush and Obama presidencies, died Tuesday, his wife, Landra Reid, confirmed in a statement. Harry was deeply touched to see his decades of service to Nevada honored in recent weeks with the re-naming of Las Vegas’ airport in his honor. Landra Reid thanked the doctors and nurses… Source link

The Baseball Hall of Fame will officially have six more members via its committee voting, even as one of its best candidates missed the honor by the narrowest of margins. For a second time. Here are the names, with a quick resume, announced by Hall of Fame president Josh Rawitch on Sunday via MLB Network: Minnie Miñoso: A nine-time MLB All-Star and former Negro Leagues All-Star who became known as Mr. White Sox for his years with the team. Gil Hodges: A longtime Dodgers (first Brooklyn then… Source link