Month: April 2022

5:40 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Phoenix Suns guard Landry Shamet didn’t practice Friday because of a left foot injury. The Suns have the NBA’s best overall record and are preparing for the first round of the playoffs against either the Clippers or the Pelicans. Shamet has been one of the team’s top players
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7:59 PM ET Phoenix Suns majority owner Robert Sarver will be retiring as executive chairman from Western Alliance Bancorporation in June, ending a two-decade tenure with the nearly $56 billion asset company. The company’s recent announcement of Sarver’s impending departure comes amid the NBA’s investigation into the Suns and Sarver, which the league launched in
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9:00 PM ET Atlanta Hawks starting center Clint Capela left in the first half of Friday’s play-in game against the Cleveland Cavaliers with a hyperextended right knee and will not return, according to the team. The injury occurred late in the first half when Cavaliers center Evan Mobley fell against Capela’s leg as Mobley was
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10:20 PM ET Despite losing starting center Clint Capela to a first-half injury in Friday’s play-in game, the Atlanta Hawks rallied behind Trae Young’s season-saving second half to beat the Cavaliers, 107-101, in Cleveland. The Hawks advance to face the Miami Heat, the Eastern Conference’s top-seeded team, in a first-round playoff series that begins Sunday
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8:30 PM ET Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Vancouver captain Bo Horvat is expected to be out at least two weeks after taking a shot off his right ankle in the Canucks’ 7-1 home victory over Arizona on Thursday night. Fighting for a playoff spot, the Canucks said Friday the center will be re-evaluated
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6:51 PM ET An NHL Player’s Association independently-commissioned investigation has found no “individual wrongdoing or institutional failures of policy or procedure” by its executive director Donald Fehr or others in ther handling of Kyle Beach’s allegations of sexual assault against Chicago Blackhawks then-video coach Brad Aldrich in 2010. The 20-page review, shared by the NHLPA
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7:21 PM ET Associated Press HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay birdied the final four holes Friday for a 4-under 67 and take a two-stroke lead over Robert Streb halfway through the RBC Heritage. After dropping back with bogeys on the 11th and 14th holes, Cantlay turned it around on the
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6:52 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Former heavyweight champion Andy Ruiz Jr.’s fight against Tyrone Spong, which Triller Fight Club announced would take place July 16 in Mexico City, will not proceed as planned. Ruiz, ESPN’s No. 5 heavyweight, apparently signed a contract to fight Luis Ortiz in a PBC heavyweight bout in late summer before
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1:54 PM ET A heavyweight matchup between Alexander Volkov and Jairzinho Rozenstruik will headline a UFC Fight Night card on June 4, UFC president Dana White said Friday. The UFC has not officially announced a location for the event, although the majority of Fight Night events in 2022 have taken place at the Apex facility
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