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- Former winner Shaun Murphy came from behind to defeat veteran qualifier Mark Davis 10-7 at the World Snooker Championship, while three-time champion Mark Selby routed Kurt Maflin.
- By his own admission, Chris Chester finds it hard enough to get time away from the stresses of coaching a Super League team.
- Kentucky freshman guard Terrence Clarke died on Thursday following a car accident in Los Angeles. He was 19.
- Britain's Olympic track cycling gold medallist Callum Skinner says the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will not be able to stop athletes taking a knee during this year's Tokyo Games.
- Arsenal's owners do not plan to sell the Premier League club despite the intense backlash following their involvement in the breakaway European Super League, director Josh Kroenke said.
- Carla Suarez Navarro has said she has completed treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma and is cured of her cancer.
- Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta says he is "pretty positive" that Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang will return before the end of the season as the club captain continues his recovery from malaria.
- NFL Network analyst Brian Baldinger has labelled Alabama's Landon Dickerson as his favourite prospect at the 2021 Draft, but feels uncertainty over his injury woes could see a first-round talent slip into the second round.
- Giannis Antetokounmpo had 27 points, 16 rebounds and six assists to lift the host Milwaukee Bucks past the Philadelphia 76ers 124-117.
- Chris Eubank Jr insists his trainer Roy Jones Jr "will add years to my career" and has taught him about "being smart" inside the ring.
DEADSPIN – Sports News
- Kentucky guard Terrence Clarke, who recently declared for the NBA draft, died Thursday night after a car accident in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. He was just 19 years old.Read more…
- The NCAA apparently doesn’t want college football games to potentially go to absurd quadruple overtimes anymore, so they made a slight change to the manner in which overtime will be played, starting this year.Read more…
- The world of sports is not hermetically sealed. Societal issues, economic concerns, political disputes, and, yes, the climate, all permeate the games we watch and play.Read more…
- In a response to hate crimes directed at Asian-Americans across the country, the United States Senate passed a COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act this afternoon by a vote of 94-1. And the “1” vote was brought to you by Josh Hawley, who ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski said “fuck you” to last summer. Read more…
- Tom Brady kindly would like you to get off his lawn and stop fucking with traditions that are super-duper important, like jersey numbers. The NFL has passed a rule to relax their jersey number options, allowing running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends to wear any number from 1-49 and 80-89. Defensive backs can…Read more…
- Everyone knows that Devin Booker is a bucket.Read more…
- Yes-yes, sure-sure … top-tier wide receiver prospect DeVonta Smith is 166 pounds — I know. And I don’t give a damn.Read more…
- The hate stops here. Or at least it should.Read more…
- Football players have always wanted to prove they can show out on the hardwood, and Justin Jefferson is just the latest. But many others have failed miserably.Read more…
- Yesterday over at ESPN, Greg Wyshynski put forth a report that says the NHL is looking to start next season somewhere around October 12. It’s a little later than a season would normally start, thanks to this season ending in the middle of July for two teams at least, and maybe more if the league […]
