Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups have been arrested on charges connected to an FBI investigation into illegal gambling. FBI director Kash Patel announced a “historic arrest” on Thursday at a press conference where he spoke about “a wide, sweeping criminal enterprise that …
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Former NFL player and media personality Shannon Sharpe has settled a lawsuit with a former partner who had accused him of rape. On Thursday, the woman’s lawyer shared on social media that they had reached an agreement and the lawsuit would be dismissed. “Both sides acknowledge a long-term consensual and …
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The basketball world was rocked Saturday night when the Dallas Mavericks — fresh off an NBA Finals appearance last season — traded their 25-year-old Slovenian star Luka Doncic, a franchise cornerstone and one of the best young players in the league, to the Los Angeles Lakers in a three-team deal …
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T here are two men bleeding in a chain-link cage in front of the next president of the United States. A week and a half ago, Donald Trump was elected for his second term, and now he is back home at the center of the world, underneath the lights at …
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It’s not in the championship bracket or even among the prestigious bowl games, but the Pop-Tarts Bowl once again delivered on its promise of being the most viral of college football games Saturday with even more edible insanity. After becoming an online sensation in its debut year in 2023 with …
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Greg Gumbel, the renowned sports broadcaster who spent decades calling major sporting events at CBS, has died of cancer, his family confirmed on Friday. Gumbel was 78 years old. “It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of our beloved husband and father, Greg Gumbel,” his family said …
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S hohei Ohtani walks up to home plate at New York’s Citi Field, and the L.A. Dodgers fans, who are well in attendance on this Wednesday afternoon, are up on their feet. “So, ideally you get a pop-up, right? You got like five seconds in the air. God forbid the …
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The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics have finally arrived, with the promise of a newly cleaned Seine river and high-tech cardboard beds for all the athletes. There’s a lot to look forward to during the games themselves, which run from July 26 through Aug. 11 in both Paris and other French …
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Jerry West, the Los Angeles Lakers legend as both a player and an executive who was later dubbed “the Logo” after he was immortalized on the NBA’s symbol, has died at the age of 86. The Los Angeles Clippers, for whom West served as a consultant in recent years, announced …
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I t’s Tuesday night on the Las Vegas Strip. Crowds have been flowing into the Michelob Ultra Arena for the past two hours, a sea of red and silver and black. The merch line snakes around the entire front of the arena, folded onto itself like a theme-park queue. People …
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