Month: April 2017

Dan Rooney’s greatest gift to Pittsburgh: Transforming steel town into City of Champions

“We’ve lot of won a big games in New England,” he said. “We’ve won a lot of games through the years. A lot of great wins, a lot of team victories. But you know, a night off training camp is pretty close to some of our biggest wins.”

From there, Belichick thanked the coaches and praised the state of Ohio — where his NFL head coaching career began with the Browns. He waved through an applause while exiting stage left. Tim Hinton, the Ohio State executive director for football relations, then took the mic and called for an encore.

“If you could take a minute for one more applause for the best coach in the United States of America?” Hinton asked.

Everyone obliged, and few could argue at this point. Even if he’ll never admit it, it’s clear Belichick is enjoying this victory lap. When will it end?

“Sometimes kids think they know it all,” Jim Kelly said then. “Chad’s like a lot of other kids. Sometimes your mom, dad or uncle have advice and you think you know better. It’s part of maturing — how much do you really want this?”

Chad Kelly got into legal trouble before he landed in Oxford. He reportedly fought with bouncers and police officers in Buffalo in late 2014. The Buffalo News said Kelly was accused — though it wasn’t clear by whom — of telling bouncers, “I’m going to go to my car and get my AK-47 and spray this place.”

Kelly later took a non-criminal plea deal and agreed to community service. He didn’t get into any similar trouble during his two seasons at Ole Miss.

And at the highlight of Ole Miss’ Hugh Freeze era, when the Rebels won the Sugar Bowl at the end of the 2015 season, Jim sat in the Superdome in New Orleans to watch — way, way up in the nosebleeds.
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Silvio Berlusconi finally sells AC Milan.

After three years of headaches with multiple bidding groups, Silvio Berlusconi’s company Fininvest has finally completed the sale of AC Milan. The new owner is Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux, a holding company led by Chinese businessman Yonghong Li.

The Pacers end up with the No. 7 seed and a date with the Cavaliers. Indiana found its identity right in time. The Bulls get No. 8 and a series against the Celtics. What a weird season they’ve had.

Here’s the full schedule for the first round, tipping off Saturday afternoon.

The other important part of Wednesday night was ironing out the NBA draft lottery odds. The Knicks and Magic hurt their odds badly by winning on the final night. The Sixers, unsurprisingly given their experience in this game, came out ahead. The full draft order has some ties that need to be resolved, but Portland is on track to have three picks in the first round.
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This probably doesnt mean a whole lot for the Indians. And if you think that contradicts my thesis, well, buddy, let me tell you that

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They are one. They are intertwined by the skein of baseballs fates, super prospects who arent prospects anymore, who could both lead the Twins to unimaginable heights or unthinkable failures.

Dwyane Wade started his 2017 playoffs getting blocked by the rim

Game Womens Tre Mason Jersey Usually, Dwyane Wade is money in the bank on a breakaway with just one man between him and the rim. But Father Time stepped in to intervene on Sunday when he came up short on a one-handed dunk with only the 59 Isaiah Thomas in his way.

Wade came away with a steal in the passing lane and took just one dribble before elevating over Thomas in the second quarter of the Chicago Bulls first-round playoff matchup against the Boston Celtics. But the ball rocked right off the front of the rim and into Al Horfords hands.

Antetokounmpo has to have a standing reach of, like, 96 for this photo to be possible, I think. Lets say he has pulled the rim down by four inches or so, and there are actually two or three between his feet and the ground, which on closer inspection, seems likely. Add all that up, and its still absurd.

Thats why they call him the Greek Freak and why hes able to do things like finish top 20 in every major stat — the first time anyone has ever done that.

In Game 1, Antetokounmpo was the best player on the floor and it wasnt close. He was clearly also the longest. I started covering the league as a backup newspaper beat writer in the late 90s. It was a different, more insular time. Pregame interview sessions with coaches were informal, often held in their offices. Players were generally approachable and locker rooms werent as crowded. Our work was read primarily by those in our coverage areas, our colleagues, and the teams we covered.
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I covered the 76ers, which gave me one of the best seats in the house to watch the Allen Iverson show. Theres never been anything like it for reasons that went far beyond the confines of the court. Each game was a test. It was a chance to prove that one man could break the game into a million tiny pieces and that all the broken glass was worth it.

Switzer was ready to run the Boston Marathon, coach Briggs was ready to support her

The pair practiced together and when Switzer sailed past the finish line of a 26-mile run with ease and decided to tack on an extra five miles for good measure, she proved to her coach she was ready.

Switzer was ready to run the Boston Marathon, coach Briggs was ready to support her — but the world wasn’t. Kathrine knew she needed to register for the race officially, but didn’t dare use her full name for fear of the attention. Instead she registered as “K.V. Switzer,” and traveled with Arnie to Boston.

Chuck Bednarik Womens Jersey When the race began, Kathrine felt welcome. Several fellow runners said it was great to see a woman running along with them, but this experience was quickly sobered into the race. Switzer was chased by a race official who tried to stop her competing.

“A big man, a huge man, with bared teeth was set to pounce, and before I could react he grabbed my shoulder and flung me back, screaming, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers!” Then he swiped down my front, trying to rip off my bib number, just as I leapt backward from him.”

In a world where players like Didi Gregorius and Freddy Galvis are hitting 20 home runs in a season, maybe every hitter is a power breakout candidate?

To help narrow the focus on who might take his slugging up a notch this season, I’ve refined our hang-time-consistency research that identifies power breakout candidates by borrowing from the cutting-edge work the MLB Advanced Media research team has performed using their exciting new data source, Statcast. Their team has created a new statistic called “Barrels” that identifies batted balls as barreled if they are hit with a combination of launch angle and exit velocity that results on average in at least a .500 batting average and at least a 1.500 slugging percentage.
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Kuchar spun his tee shot on the par-3 16th directly into the cup.

Matt Kuchar made the first hole-in-one of the Masters on Sunday evening, shortly after 5 p.m. ET. Kuchar’s ace came on the par-3 16th hole Augusta National Golf Club.

CBS’ Verne Lundquist said it was the 18th ace in Masters history. The 16th hole is playing at 170 yards this week. It’s been among the easier holes on the course, with 40 birdies made there in competition so far. But nobody had aced it — or any other hole on the course — until Kuchar knocked his tee shot in on Sunday.

Kudos to these two fans who brought it to the seventh inning of Friday night’s Twins vs. White Sox game and kept us on the edge of our seats.

In the video, the guy on the right had the clear advantage: He finished his beverage first, and he had a lighter touch on each of his flips. Better technique and fundamentals are usually key.

But, man, the guy on the left just steamrolled him in the greatest comeback since J.K. Rowling’s perfect response to someone telling her they want to burn her books. And he did it with one eye on his opponent!

After flip cup, they kept their antics going into the bottom of the eighth. In addition to that, a simulcast of the television coverage will always be available at NBC Sports Live, though it may require login credentials from a cable or satellite provider. Either way, you’re totally covered trying to watch the races in the United States.
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The league cited a conflict of interest as its reasoning.

The NBA issued a memo to team broadcasters on Monday, stripping them of their power to vote for league awards, according to Indiana Pacers play-by-play commentator Mark Boyle. The message cited a conflict of interest, with team broadcasters having a direct impact on local players’ accolades, which in turn could impact their money made in the long term.
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What else do you expect from a legendary wrestler who has spent his entire life trying to get people worked up? Getting cheers and boos is what he lives for.

Flair still keeps up with WWE and notes that his favorites also happen to be his friends. “My favorite is still Triple H but I like [Randy] Orton a lot.” In the early 2000s Flair, Triple H, Randy Orton, and Batista formed Evolution, a group that dominated wrestling by touting its past, present, and future. Flair excelled as the elder statesmen ready to pass the torch. It’s a role he has revisited.

Most recently, Flair has accompanied his daughter Charlotte who is making her own mark in wrestling. Billed from the Queen City (that’s Charlotte, N.C.), the second-generation superstar has already become one of the most talented women in WWE as the company focuses more on women as competitors equal to their male counterparts.

Biggest 2017 game: Fresno State (Oct. 6). It’s maybe the best shot at a conference win, but it’s also a chance for a confidence booster after a draining September.

Summary: San Jose State was looking for its personal Fleck when it hired the energetic Brent Brennan to replace Caragher. With a rugged non-conference slate and only a couple of units with senior starters, he’ll probably have to wait until 2018.

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The Golden Gophers were one of the most pleasant surprises of the 2016-17 season

One of the most infamous passages in sports history happened at the end of the gold medal basketball game in the 1972 Munich Olympics.

The U.S. had effectively won the gold medal when Doug Collins sank two free throws to make the game 50-49 with under a second to go, but a series of bizarre events, including intervention from then-FIBA president Renato William Jones gave the USSR three seconds left on the clock.
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This continued once again after a failed inbounds pass when the FIBA chief decided to give ANOTHER three seconds to the Soviets. They would eventually score to win and the USA refused to accept their silver medals. No email would have helped.

The Golden Gophers were one of the most pleasant surprises of the 2016-17 season, but expectations will be higher for Richard Pitino and company now. Thankfully, Pitino returns every player outside of senior Akeem Springs from the team that did enough damage in the Big Ten to earn a No. 5 seed in the NCAA tournament.

Donovan Mitchell is the decision to watch here. If the first-team All-ACC guard chooses to put the NBA on hold for one more year, then Louisville will return seven of its top eight scorers from a team that earned a No. 2 seed in the 2017 NCAA tournament. Rick Pitino also adds a top 10 recruiting class headlined by versatile 6鈥?0 forward Malik Williams.
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Kadeem Allen was the only senior on this year鈥檚 roster, but it鈥檚 more likely than not that Sean Miller will lose at least two of his four star underclassmen to the NBA draft. If he can get just one or two of those guys back, then they should be able to join forces with all-everything freshman DeAndre Ayton to have the Wildcats right back in the hunt for Miller鈥檚 ever-elusive first Final Four appearance.

It was up to the task. Jarvis Jones clubbed Megatron within the 5-yard cushion on first down

‘I don’t know why you can’t take an umbrella into the stadium, but you can take loaded guns,’ he said.

Authentic Kids Mason Foster Jersey At his news conference, Hutchinson said, ‘A bad guy could get a gun into Razorback Stadium now. Under this current law, if you have got the enhanced training, then you would be able to go into that facility.’

Arkansas isn’t the first state to discuss guns in stadiums. Washington recently had a similar proposed bill that doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, several Alabama schools revised their policies to maintain campus gun bans after a state public-places law passed, Ohio State bans firearms in its stadium despite a state law that allows them, FSU’s been sued for requiring guns to remain locked in cars, and the NFL’s blanket gun ban has so far only been surpassed by a Texas state law allowing off-duty law enforcement to carry.

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It was up to the task. Jarvis Jones clubbed Megatron within the 5-yard cushion on first down. Ross dropped a pass on second down with Will Gay in coverage, and Will Allen picked off Stafford on third down and returned it 27 yards to the 34. So, all the offense had to do was kill the clock with 4:11 to go.

It was up to the task as well. It took a couple minutes off the clock and also scored a touchdown. Bell ran for a first down, and on third down from the 20, Cotchery was open down the left side. Roethlisberger lobbed it over there, and he cruised into the end zone for his seventh touchdown. He also is among the NFL leaders with conversion catches on third down. The Steelers led 37-27 with 2:29 remaining, and the defense had some points to work with this time.