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Last year’s 72-game season was created out of COVID-19 necessity, but it seemed to confirm Adam Silver’s belief about changing the regular season model and integrating an in-season tournament. “It was far from a perfect experiment,” Silver said during an interview with Yahoo Sports on a variety of topics in the days leading to All-Star weekend in Cleveland. “[But] the fact there were fewer games was quickly forgotten.” Silver corrected himself to not put an exact approximation on… Source link

Andrew Benefield lived the baseball dream on Monday. The Dallas Baptist redshirt freshman stepped up to the plate with two outs in the seventh inning of an NCAA baseball tournament game against Oregon State. The bases were loaded as his Patriots trailed, 5-2. The winner would advance to the Super Regionals. The loser would go home.  When Beavers pitcher Joey Mundt sent a first-pitch fastball over the plate, Benefield responded with this: Umpire runs out of patience  Yep, that’s a go-ahead grand… Source link

The App is Back! Don’t forget to download the NBC Sports EDGE app to receive real-time player news, mobile alerts and track your favorite players. Plus, now you can check out articles and player cards. Get it here! The new NBC Sports EDGE Driver is such a fun tool to play around with. I’m going to put my lab coat on and see what kind of course-fit stats it can pop out this week for the Memorial Tournament. What do we know about the host venue, Muirfield Village Golf Club? It’s a Jack… Source link

Yahoo Sports will keep you updated nightly on the NBA playoff race during the last two weeks of the regular season. Check back daily for the latest movement in the standings, what to watch for and teams securing their 2020-21 playoff berths. Sunday’s standings Eastern Conference 1. Philadelphia 76ers (47-21) 2. Brooklyn Nets (44-24, 3 GB) 3. Milwaukee Bucks (43-24, 3.5 GB) 4. New York Knicks (38-30, 9 GB) 5. Atlanta Hawks (37-31, 10 GB) 6. Miami Heat (37-31, 10 GB) Play-in tournament 7. Boston Celtics… Source link

Yahoo Sports will keep you updated nightly on the NBA playoff race during the last two weeks of the regular season. Check back daily for the latest movement in the standings, what to watch for and teams securing their 2020-21 playoff berths. Thursday’s standings Eastern Conference 1. Philadelphia 76ers (45-21) 2. Brooklyn Nets (43-24, 2.5 GB) 3. Milwaukee Bucks (42-24, 3 GB) 4. New York Knicks (37-29, 8 GB) 5. Atlanta Hawks (37-31, 9 GB) 6. Boston Celtics (35-31, 10 GB) Play-in tournament 7. Miami… Source link

Luke Ratliff died this week, days after attending the NCAA tourament. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images) Health officials in Indianapolis are investigating potential COVID-19 exposures at the NCAA tournament following the death of an Alabama fan.  Luke Ratliff died on Friday at 23 years old. An Alabama student and a leader of the school’s basketball fan club Crimson Chaos, Ratliff was one of Alabama’s most visible fans. His father, Bryan Ratliff, confirmed his death Friday night.  “He was my son… Source link

The Guardian Trump and Carlson lead backlash as MLB pulls All-Star Game from Georgia Former president calls on fans to ‘boycott baseball’Obama lauds MLB ‘for taking a stand on behalf of voting rights’ Mike Pence laughs as Donald Trump holds a baseball bat at the White House in 2017. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson led rightwing backlash after Major League Baseball said it would not play its All-Star game in Georgia because of a new law that restricts… Source link

MMA Weekly Francis Ngannou wants to fight Jon Jones, despite Dana White’s doubts After knocking out Stipe Miocic in the second round to win the UFC heavyweight championship at UFC 260, Francis Ngannou spoke to the media at the post-fight press conference about what could be next for his career. Earlier in the evening at the press conference, UFC president Dana White said he was 100-percent willing to make a title fight between Ngannou and Jon Jones. But White also expressed doubt that Jones… Source link

With the NCAA women’s basketball tournament being played in the area, Gregg Popovich and the San Antonio Spurs honored some of the top players in the history of the sport ahead of their matchup with the Charlotte Hornets on Monday night. Spurs players all wore jerseys to the AT&T Center to pay tribute to some of the best players in women’s college basketball history. DeMar DeRozan showed up wearing a USC Cheryl Miller jersey, and Rudy Gay wore a Connecticut Rebecca Lobo jersey. Patty Mills… Source link

For more than 48 hours, the NCAA men’s tournament returned to precisely what we fondly remembered — overtimes, upsets and the type of merry chaos that make the event one of the most exhilarating on the American sporting calendar. After the NCAA canceled the tournament in 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, college basketball endured a 2020-21 season of fits and stops, sporadic flourishes and frequent shutdowns. So it was only obvious that COVID-19 would loom over the tournament,… Source link