2:48 AM ET A little more than a month ago, Austin Rivers was at home, out of the NBA and waiting on his phone to ring for another chance. On Thursday night, Rivers was at the forefront of a pivotal NBA playoff game, scoring 16 of his 21 points in a supercharged fourth quarter to
3:47 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Playing in their first home playoff game in eight years, the Los Angeles Lakers looked like a true championship contender for the first time in a while. L.A., the No. 7 seed, won 109-95 on Thursday night to take a 2-1 lead in its first-round matchup against the No.
News The new payment system has created a bit of a divide between players and the board The Sri Lanka men’s players’ rejection of their central contracts is “very unfair”, essentially because the board is offering more for winning series against top-ranked opposition. This is according to Aravinda de Silva, one of the architects of
5:39 AM ET Mercedes have finally stopped the clock on Valtteri Bottas’s Monaco Grand Prix tyre change after removing a stuck wheel from his car two days after it forced his retirement. 1 Related The Formula One champions posted a video on Thursday of a crouching mechanic freeing up the front right wheel with special
5:45 AM ET Adriana Garcia Alan Ruschel was one of three players to survivors to survive the accident. Photo by Buda Mendes/Getty Images Chapecoense plane crash survivor Alan Ruschel has sued his former club in a Brazil court for moral damages, unpaid wages and the late payment of insurance from the 2016 accident. The defender was
3:20 AM ET Former United States president Barack Obama has praised Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford for the work he does in bringing awareness to children’s food poverty, in an online meeting between the two. Rashford and Obama share the same book publisher and discussed Rashford’s work in the United Kingdom which has seen the
5:39 AM ET Andrew Cesare Richardson Juventus have announced that Andrea Pirlo has been sacked as manager. A statement on the club’s website read: “Thank you, Andrea. “These are the first words that all of us need to say at the end of this special experience together. “A few months ago, Andrea Pirlo, an icon
2:45 AM ET LOS ANGELES — By now, Phoenix Suns head coach Monty Williams knows what’s going on with his star point guard Chris Paul by the look on his face. There’s a look Paul gets when he’s locked in — something between completely-in-control and about-to-jump-into-any-fray — and then there’s the look he had on
3:00 AM ET It’s all about leverage — in business, in sports, in life. Or, at the risk of dating myself, it’s all about “hand,” in the Seinfeldian sense. When it comes to Harry Kane and a move away from Tottenham Hotspur, he simply has very little. Which is not to say he won’t move
12:06 AM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Kansas City Royals right-hander Jonathan Bowlan needs Tommy John surgery, the team said Thursday, causing the U.S. team to lose one of the young prospects on the roster for Olympic qualifying next week. The 24-year-old was 2-0 with a 1.59 ERA in four starts this season