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Dawn Staley does not let perceived injustices slide by, especially when they involve her national player of the year. The South Carolina women’s basketball head coach took aim at ESPN and the ESPYs, the company’s annual sports award event, on Sunday night for not inviting Aliyah Boston, a rising senior and dominant center in the NCAA. Boston was named the unanimous National Player of the Year in 2022 and led the Gamecocks to the national championship. She’s won the Lisa Leslie Center of the… Source link

LAS VEGAS — It would appear Kevin Durant’s trade request would be a tipping point to the player empowerment era, a chance for NBA team owners to reset the paradigm after a decade-plus of star movement. After all, if a star in the New York market who’s just entering a four-year extension worth nearly $200 million can force his way out, a contract between player and team might as well be written with disappearing ink. A period that began with LeBron James exercising his right as a free… Source link

The rosters are set for the 2022 MLB All-Star Game. After , the league unveiled the rest of the best on Sunday evening. The American League and National League will have 33 representatives each. That’s one more than usual, as with spots on the rosters. Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles will host the Midsummer Classic on Tuesday, July 19. It will start at 8 p.m. ET on FOX, concluding a long weekend of events including the Home Run Derby on Monday night and the MLB draft on Sunday afternoon…. Source link

Amid reports of “an impasse” between the Brooklyn Nets and Kyrie Irving, the seven-time NBA All-Star will exercise the $36.9 million option on his contract for the 2022-23 season, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Irving can now sign an extension with the Nets or if the two sides cannot agree on the long-term deal Irving was seeking, he can become an unrestricted free agent next summer. The Nets could still trade him this season. Irving, an otherworldly talent and enigmatic… Source link

If Russell Westbrook returns to the Los Angeles Lakers next season, he better be prepared to take fewer shots. The Lakers have told Westbrook they want him to be a defense-first player if he is back with the team for the 2022-23 NBA season. Lakers vice president of basketball operations and general manager Rob Pelinka said he and new head coach Darvin Ham have spoken to Westbrook multiple times this offseason about his role. Westbrook is coming off a down season with the Lakers. He struggled… Source link

A Russian-born tennis player changed her nationality to Georgian in order to compete at Wimbledon later this month. Doubles star Natela Dzalamidze, who is currently ranked No. 43 in the world, is now listed under the Georgia flag on the WTA’s website. The move comes after Wimbledon banned all Russian and Belarusian players from this year’s Grand Slam due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (Belarus has supported the invasion.) Dzalamidze competed at the French Open under a neutral flag. While… Source link

M.J. Daffue is playing in his first U.S. Open. After nine holes on Friday, he was leading the U.S. Open by three strokes. Those facts combined would melt the brains of most people who watch golf, but the people who are capable of playing it are made of sterner stuff. Stuff that drives them to take shots like this, for instance: (Via screenshot) Yes, that’s Daffue, pronounced “Duffy,” preparing to drive off the deck from a hospitality tent alongside the 14th hole at The Country Club. You can… Source link

BOSTON — New Orleans Pelicans guard CJ McCollum, the new president of the National Basketball Players Association, took in Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday between the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors. McCollum is also the newest member of the media fraternity, signing with ESPN as an NBA analyst. After the Celtics won 116-100 to go up 2-1, McCollum — and new executive director of the NBPA, Tamika Tremaglio — waited in the hallway down the aisle of the locker rooms to allow… Source link

Phoenix Suns guard Mikal Bridges made his case during the 2021-22 NBA campaign as to why he’s more than deserving of winning this season’s Defensive Player of the Year award. But it’s going to take voters — consisting of sportswriters and broadcasters — looking beyond traditional defensive stats that often favor a center’s candidacy. Bridges, in an exclusive interview with Yahoo Sports, wants voters to dig deeper. “I would never discredit anybody, and obviously bigs have been… Source link

Kiki Rice recently won the Gatorade National Girls Basketball Player of the Year, the Morgan Wootten National Player of the Year and will compete in the McDonald’s All-American Game in Chicago this week. (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Kiki Rice could give the Pac-12 another powerhouse women’s basketball team to compete against defending national champion and Final Four-bound Stanford. The 5-foot-11 guard is ranked No. 2 in the 2022 recruiting class and chose UCLA over… Source link