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Duke basketball is partnering with a former team manager to help support people affected by COVID-19. Mike Krzyzewski and Kevin Marchetti, who is the co-founder and co-executive chariman of Lineage Logistics, announced that they’re donating $225,000 to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. Marchetti was a team manager from 1996 to 2000. …
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Over the next five weeks, ESPN will give a glorious gift to a sports-deprived public. That gift is The Last Dance, a ten-part docuseries about the rise of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls that pays specific attention to their 1997–1998 season, when the team won its sixth NBA championship and brought one of the …
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As Homer Simpson shouted when stuck in the bottom of a deep hole, “Dig up!” Throughout his NBA career, 1997-2014, Stephen Jackson was a load to endure. Fines, suspensions, criminal recklessness in a strip-club hassle, Twitter-issued physical threats. He played a leading role, and not as a peacemaker, in that infamous brawl with fans during …
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Sabrina Ionescu emerged as both a generational talent and a face of women’s basketball during her college career at Oregon. Now, New York City and the WNBA await. The Liberty made a long-anticipated and easy decision official Friday night by selecting Ionescu, the superstar point guard, with the first-overall pick of the WNBA Draft, marking …
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The Knicks need a point guard and there is a highly rated one who lives just a few subway stops from the Garden. It could be a perfect match, one that Cole Anthony — the son of former Knicks guard Greg Anthony — would welcome. “It would be pretty cool,” the Upper West Side native …
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Not even the challenges of a virtual draft could get in the way of this pick. The Liberty completed the no-brainer Friday night and selected Oregon superstar point guard Sabrina Ionescu with the first-overall pick of the WNBA Draft, marking what could turn out to be a franchise-altering day for the organization. Ionescu, whose play …
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Despite reports of renewed optimism about restarting the NBA season, commissioner Adam Silver said Friday night there is too much “uncertainty’’ to even give a date on when a decision can be made. “We are not in any position to make any decisions and it’s unclear when we will be,” Silver said on a Friday …
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The dream began over a decade ago. Cole Anthony was just 7 years old, admittedly not very good at basketball. The sport had yet to become his passion, not the way it would be years later, but the NBA was already on his mind. It was what he wanted to do, the career path he …
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Dan Fouts, who was sentenced by CBS to call many Jets telecasts, never failed the 1 p.m. NFL Sunday Wince Test. You know the Wince Test? That’s when you find out who the announcers will be on the CBS and Fox early games. Too often the likes of Daryl “Moose” Johnston, “Hollerin’ ” Kevin Harlan and …
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The assists were her ticket onto the court. The boys at the neighborhood park wanted someone to pass it to them, so to make sure she would get picked, the young girl obliged. The rebounds were her chance to get the ball in her own hands for once, so she learned to crash the offensive …
Duke basketball is partnering with a former team manager to help support people affected by COVID-19. Mike Krzyzewski and Kevin Marchetti, who is the co-founder and co-executive chariman of Lineage Logistics, announced that they’re donating $225,000 to the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. Marchetti was a team manager from 1996 to 2000. …
