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LeBron James celebrates his game-winning shot in the 2022 NBA All-Star Game. (Jason Miller/Getty Images) LeBron James gave Cleveland one more win. Playing for the home team in his native Northeast Ohio, the former Cavaliers star drilled a fadeaway jump shot to give his squad a 163-160 victory in the 2022 NBA All-Star Game at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. “I could not have dreamed of that moment any better than the actuality that just happened,” said James. “For me to be back here, 35 minutes… Source link

BEIJING — Jessie Diggins brought home the United States’ 25th and final medal of the 2022 Olympic Games, winning silver in the grueling 30km mass start cross-country race while fighting off both exhaustion and the after-effects of food poisoning. “That might have been the best race of my entire life, I’m not going to lie,” she said after collapsing at the finish. “It was also maybe the hardest race of my whole life.” The final event in the Games’ Zhangjiakou mountain cluster, the… Source link

You can’t legislate wanting to win. And you can’t mandate recklessness. That’s the problem with the negotiations that may eventually end the MLB lockout. Well, one of them anyway. The first problem is the owners’ ideological resistance to yielding economic influence to the players. Then there’s the vast disparity in the money numbers. That’s a big one. But even if they could overcome those and reach a mutually tolerable compromise, I’m not confident that a new CBA would have the… Source link

It took a little help from her teammate, but speedskater Erin Jackson brought home a gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Jackson posted a 37.04 time in the 500-meter event, narrowly beating Japan’s Miho Takagi to win gold. Jackson nearly didn’t make it to Beijing. Despite being the No. 1 ranked skater in the world, Jackson failed to qualify for the 500-meter event after stumbling during trials. Teammate Brittany Bowe gave up her qualifying spot in the event, allowing Jackson to compete at the… Source link

Yahoo Sports is getting you ready for the Big Game in Los Angeles with “Countdown To Kickoff.” Who will complete their dream season and be crowned champion on Sunday? Our 60-minute broadcast will give you full analysis of the LA-Cincinnati matchup and examine the latest betting lines and props to consider ahead of the game. [Play in Yahoo Fantasy’s NFL $1 Million Big Game Baller] The program will feature host Liz Loz joined alongside esteemed Yahoo Sports NFL reporters Charles Robinson and Source link

Team USA speed skating believed it just punched its ticket to the short-track speed skating mixed team relay finals … until the semifinal race went under review. The United States was eventually penalized and disqualified, paving the way for China to win its first medal at the Beijing Olympics. At the conclusion of the semifinal race, Team USA appeared to be in. The team finished second, behind Hungary. The top two teams advance to the finals. It was enough to knock China — the favorite,… Source link

Australia’s Ashleigh Barty hits a return against Danielle Collins in the Australian Open women’s final. (Photo by AARON FRANCIS/AFP via Getty Images) Ashleigh Barty is the first Australian Open women’s champion in 44 years who is actually from Australia. In front of an enthusiastic home crowd, the world No. 1 beat fierce upstart Danielle Collins 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) on Saturday to become the first Australian woman since Chris O’Neil in 1978 to win the country’s most celebrated tennis title.  Barty,… Source link

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. trade court barred Google late Thursday from importing products that infringe home-audio company Sonos’ smart-speaker patents. The U.S. International Trade Commission affirmed an August decision that Google audio products infringed five Sonos patents and banned Google from importing “networked speaker devices” and devices that can control them like mobile phones and laptops. The ruling says Google won’t be barred from importing products that it had… Source link

Alabama has another Heisman Trophy winner. Crimson Tide QB Bryce Young was unsurprisingly named the 2021 Heisman winner on Saturday. Young entered the ceremony as a massive favorite after his performance in the SEC championship game. He was a finalist for the award along with Pitt QB Kenny Pickett, Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud and Michigan DL Aidan Hutchinson. Hutchinson finished second ahead of Pickett and Stroud. Young got 684 first-place votes and had more than eight times as many votes for… Source link

Still an active member in the NBA G-League, South Bay Lakers guard Andre Ingram shined on “Wheel of Fortune” on Friday. Ingram won $31,750 on Friday’s episode of the iconic game show, which he was invited on as a guest for a Secret Santa episode. Ingram, who is the G-League’s all-time leader in 3-pointers, missed out on the final puzzle of the night, however, which would’ve earned him an additional $39,000. Ingram didn’t actually keep any of the money he won. Instead, it went to a… Source link