Nightly Notable: Devin Booker | Feb. 22
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Devin Booker led Phoenix with 34 points in the Suns win over the Trail Blazers.
ATLANTA (AP) Atlanta Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce was fired less than halfway into a season that began with heightened expectations but was beset by injuries. Hawks president Travis Schlenk announced the move on Monday. The Hawks are 14-20 and 11th in the Eastern Conference, following a 109-99 loss at Miami on Sunday night.
“Everybody’s talking about Gane being this big contender, but look what Francis Ngannou did to Rozenstruik,” White said. “This was his coming out party and his chance to show the world who he is. He won, but let’s leave it at that. He won.”
Canelo Alvarez's "stay busy" fight went by without incident on Saturday, as the super middleweight champion dominated challenger Avni Yildirim on his way to a third-round TKO win in Miami.
Each week during the 2020-21 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into three of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward.
It's been 11 months, but Hopkins is still positively tickled that the Texans traded him to the Cardinals for almost nothing.
Peyton Manning has been out of the NFL for five years, but his accomplishments are still apparently haunting Tom Brady.
Maybe the climb will take them all the way to a championship. If it does, they will also one day know the malaise that has befallen these Los Angeles Lakers, for whom sweat feels more like a symbol of exhaustion. The Jazz dropped the listless Lakers on Wednesday night, who have now lost four straight.
The UFC has been feeding Rozenstruik a diet of strikers, with his last three opponents being Alistair Overeem, Ngannou and Junior dos Santos. On Saturday (8 p.m. ET, ESPN+), he’ll get another when he meets unbeaten Ciryl Gane in the main event of UFC Vegas 20 at Apex.
In an emotional Instagram post, Lin encouraged people to reach out to Asians in their communities.
The Dallas Mavericks look to end their final road swing before the NBA All-Star break with a win on Monday when they face the slumping Orlando Magic. Dallas opened its three-game, Eastern Conference trip Feb. 25 with a 111-97 loss at Philadelphia but rebounded on Saturday to snap the Brooklyn Nets' eight-game winning streak in a 115-98 rout. Kristaps Porzingis scored 18 points and grabbed four rebounds in his return to the lineup from a three-game absence, the result of lower-back tightness.
The Jazz defeated the Magic, 124-109. Donovan Mitchell recorded 31 points (25 in the 2nd half), three rebounds and six assists for the Jazz, while Rudy Gobert added 12 points, 16 rebounds and two blocks in the victory. Nikola Vucevic tallied 34 points, eight rebounds and four assists for the Magic in the losing effort. The Jazz improve to 27-7 on the season, while the Magic fall to 13-21.
Nathan Chen headlines the U.S. team for the 2021 World Figure Skating Championships in Stockholm in March.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver named Pacers big Domantas Sabonis as Kevin Durant's All-Star injury replacement.
The rivalry between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier has been reignited.
The anticipation of what team J.J. Watt would end up with was fun while it lasted.
Who could the Buffalo Bills target for a pass rusher following JJ Watt signing with the Arizona Cardinals?
Washington saved $13.6 million by releasing Alex Smith, which now gives them the fourth-most cap-space in the NFL ahead of free agency.
Myatt Snider got his first NASCAR Xfinity Series victory. Noah Gragson got another heartache at Homestead-Miami Speedway. With perfect execution from the inside lane on his second chance at an overtime restart, Snider held off charging Tyler Reddick to win Saturday‘s Contender Boats 250. RELATED: Official race results | Weekend schedule For his third straight […]
The Warriors on Monday announced that they have recalled Jordan Poole and Nico Mannion from Santa Cruz in the NBA G League.
"There are certainly some moments that I know I could have done better really for our team and for Jared in particular.”