Seventh seed Iga Swiatek dropped just one game as she raced into the Wimbledon fourth round with a swift victory over Irina-Camelia Begu. The Pole, who won the French Open in 2020, beat the Romanian 6-1 6-0. Swiatek will face Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur or former Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza for a place in the quarter-finals. […]
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Red Bull’s Max Verstappen set the pace in first practice at the Austrian Grand Prix, with title rival Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes down in seventh. Verstappen was 0.266 seconds quicker than Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in a session made unrepresentative by the teams testing a new tyre for Pirelli. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz was third fastest ahead of […]
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Devin Booker scored 30 points after two quiet games and the Phoenix Suns sent LeBron James to the locker room early, dismantling the Los Angeles Lakers 115-85 Tuesday night to take a 3-2 first-round series lead. The Suns won in Los Angeles on Sunday to tie the series and went right at the Anthony Davis-less […]
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Jim Hanifan, the former St. Louis Cardinals coach who returned to the city as offensive line coach to help the Rams win the Super Bowl, has died. He was 87. Hanifan’s daughter, Kathy Hinder, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that he died Tuesday at Missouri Baptist Hospital. She said the cause of death hasn’t been […]
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Shooting comes at a price in the NBA, but it was too rich for the Kings to keep one of their own. Bogdan Bogdanovic’s restricted free-agent saga came to an end Tuesday night when the Kings declined to match the Hawks’ four-year, $72 million offer sheet, clearing the way for Atlanta to land the sharpshooting […]
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Legendary Argentine soccer player Diego Maradona, who helped bring his country a World Cup in 1986 with the infamous “hand of God” goal, died on Wednesday. He was 60. The Argentine Football Association confirmed the passing of Maradona with a statement on Twitter expressing “its deepest sorrow.” “You will always be in our hearts,” a translation of the […]
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The NFL will have only two Thanksgiving Day games, announcing Wednesday that the primetime matchup between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Baltimore Ravens is postponed until Sunday due to a COVID-19 outbreak. Seven Baltimore players and a number of coaches have tested positive since Sunday night, delaying the heavily anticipated game, despite earlier hopes that the NFL would be able to keep the schedule […]
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For months, Thanasis Antetokounmpo, Giannis Antetokounmpo‘s brother and a Milwaukee Bucks guard, stayed in regular contact with Bogdan Bogdanovic. They spoke numerous times over the phone, sources said, with Thanasis hoping to eventually court the guard’s services this offseason. During a few calls, Giannis communicated his desire in teaming with Bogdanovic. Aside from the obvious spacing Bogdanovic’s shooting […]
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Novak Djokovic moved past Alexander Zverev in straight sets to reach the last four of the ATP Finals. The Serb world number one beat German Zverev 6-3 7-6 (7-4) at the O2 Arena in London. Djokovic, seeking a record-equalling sixth title at the end-of-season tournament, was pushed much more in the second set but raised […]
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REUTERS: Habib Cisse, former legal adviser to disgraced IAAF ex-president Lamine Diack, has been ban..
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