Miami (Ohio) women's basketball coach DeUnna Hendrix resigned after the school was alerted to "intimate" text messages she exchanged with a player, according…
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Good morning! Maybe Ryan Reynolds will buy your team next.
Synergy can be a beautiful thing. Multiple factors aligning in service of one, targeted goal. For the Yankees, that synergy can be found in the dirt about five feet from first base.
They’re leading the base-stealing revolution, as Ken Rosenthal highlights in his excellent story today. Two factors in the thievery surge:
Baseball’s new rules incentivized steals by enlarging the bases and limiting pickoff attempts.
An old-school strategy popularized more than 50.
It is a nifty trick to turn what it is essentially a sports business story into a compelling piece of filmmaking. That was the case for Apple TV’s recently released four-part docuseries, “Super League: The War for Football,” which is the best sports documentary I’ve watched in 2023. The film focused on the creation and ultimate failure of a proposed “Super League” competition among Europe’s most popular teams. The tempo, plot and pace felt like a scripted drama.
I was thinking about sports films this week because of the success of “Air,” the Ben Affleck-directed film.
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Good morning! You’re the No. 5 seed in my heart.
The Clippers edged the Lakers, 125-118, last night in what might’ve been the most important game between the two teams in years. Both entered the night tied in the Western Conference standings. How things stand:
The Clippers who have won 11 straight against the Lakers somehow stay in the top six and place the Lakers firmly in the Play-In. The Pelicans are tied with the Lakers in the standings, but don’t have the tiebreak advantage. The Warriors and Clippers.
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Good morning! The poll results are in.
The brackets are gone, but there is still basketball happening. And it’s just getting good. A quick NBA reset before the playoffs take shape:
Most of the field is sorted, aside from a massive logjam in the West. Five teams the Warriors, Lakers, Clippers, Pelicans and Timberwolves are vying for the Nos. 5 and 6 seeds, a.k.a. the spots that aren’t in the Play-In. It’s a tight race.
All five teams are within two games of each other. Each has either two or three games left to.