There are three challenges the Mavericks are facing when it comes to resolving the Dennis Smith Jr. situation. The first is pretty common: Dallas needs to find a suitable deal for a player who was the No. 9 pick in the 2017 draft, a 21-year-old who has averaged 14.4 points in 97 NBA games. MORE: Smith has not yet made formal trade request The second is a function of the market as it stands....
After months of speculation regarding Paul George’s future with the Pacers, George has been traded to the Thunder, according to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. TRADE TRACKER: Rumors, reported trades ahead of free agency After seven seasons with Indiana, George will join fellow All-Star and reigning MVP Russell Westbrook in Oklahoma City. George averaged 23.7 points per game during 2016-17, and if you pair that with Westbrook’s triple-double record and 31.6 PPG, the Thunder now have the second scoring option they need to contend in the Western Conference....
If talks resume, sources say, NBC will have to placate Turner’s big investors, Tele-Communications Inc. and Time Warner. The companies balked when GE asked them to take a smaller role in Turner Broadcasting. GE wanted two things: for the firms to give up veto power over any important moves by Turner and their right to buy Turner assets like CNN and TNT if they were put up for sale. Another problem: GE would have picked six of the seven directors slated to oversee the combined Turner-NBC operations....
The man who hit the buzzer-beating 3-pointer last year to hand the Wildcats the title over the Tar Heels is sitting directly behind coach Roy Williams on the UNC sideline, clad in a North Carolina shirt. MORE Live updates, highlights from North Carolina vs. Gonzaga Jenkins isn’t randomly defecting to Tar Heels Nation, though. He is the brother of North Carolina guard Nate Britt and has attended every North Carolina game since Wisconsin elminated VIllanova in the second round of this year’s NCAA Tournament....
By a few. Although the crew of Mike Eades, Verne Harris and Michael Stephens were too easily tricked on some calls (UNC guard Joel Berry getting three free throws because he was blown down by Josh Perkins’ jetstream) or did not enforce the rules as directed (Zags center Zach Collins’ second foul came on what appeared to be a straight verticality play), the biggest reason they called so many fouls is because there were so many fouls....
A source close to Juzang told Sporting News that he will be permitted to play for the Bruins next season. A Los Angeles native who attended Harvard-Westlake School in Southern California, Juzang averaged 2.9 points for the Wildcats in 12 minutes per game. But he was a hero of Kentucky’s dramatic last-second, last-day-of-the-season victory on the road at Florida. He scored 10 points on 4-of-6 shooting that including two 3-pointers in UK’s come-from-behind win over the Gators....
Best storyline: Will it be Virginia vs. Michigan State III? This is becoming like the Rocky series. The first one was great — and yes, Carl Weathers was absolutely robbed of an Oscar nomination — but do we really have to keep adding to the series? It seems a bit unfair to the players to keep forcing them to climb over the same bodies to reach the ultimate goal of the Final Four....
The Twin Cities will welcome fans for Super Bowl II in February. In 2019, they’ll be home to the Final Four. To officially kickoff the countdown to college basketball’s most prestigious competition, the NCAA, in conjunction with the event’s planning committee, unveiled the official logo for the Minneapolis Final Four with Minnesota governor Mark Dayton and Gophers men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino on hand. MORE: UCLA better off without LiAngelo, LaMelo and especially LaVar Ball...
The winners of Saturday's games will advance to the Sweet 16 the following weekend. Below are the matchups, game times (all times Eastern) and television information (network, announcer teams). MORE: Must-see photos | Interactive bracket | Tournament video | Linemakers’ betting info Saturday, March 22 (All times ET) At Orlando No. 1 Florida 61, No. 9 Pittsburgh 45 No. 4 Louisville 66, No. 5 Saint Louis 51 At Milwaukee...
Arizona. Sean Miller’s reinvention of the Wildcats subsequent to the Brandon Ashley injury ranks among the most impressive coaching performances of the season, though it probably won’t get its full due unless/until they reach the Final Four. Then everyone will take full notice of the fact Miller was resourceful enough to go from a three-big alignment with Ashley to a three-guard alignment with Gabe York joining T.J. McConnell and Nick Johnson....
Wisconsin Badgers (33-3) No. 1 seed, West Region Coach: Bo Ryan (14th season) Bid: Big Ten tournament champions Starting lineup G Bronson Koenig, 6-4, So., 8.6 ppg, 1.7 rpg, 2.4 apg G Josh Gasser, 6-4, Sr., 6.8 ppg, 3.4 rpg F Sam Dekker, 6-9, Jr.., 13.3 ppg, 5.4 rpg F Nigel Hayes, 6-8, So., 12.6 ppg, 6.4 rpg, 2.1 apg C Frank Kaminsky, 7-0, Sr., 18.4 ppg, 8.1 rpg, 2....
The undefeated Kentucky team featuring Devin Booker, Karl-Anthony Towns and Willie Cauley-Stein, for example, lost to Wisconsin in the 2014-15 Final Four. The Fab Five at Michigan famously lost to North Carolina in the 1992-93 national championship game. But over the years, certain programs have been more capable of surviving March Madness than others. These powerhouses are seemingly always in play late in the tournament, guided by strong coaches and a consistent influx of talent....
The Dolphins defensive tackle was frustrated that he didn’t get a sack after having Bills quarterback Tyrod Taylor in his grasp in the third quarter of Sunday’s AFC East battle. Suh kindly explained to the refs what would happen next time if they didn’t whistle the play dead. MORE: What we learned from Bills-Dolphins | Best of Week 9 | NFL scores (Note: It wasn’t all that kind. There is strong language in the video below....
According to the National Weather Service (NWS), a surge of cold air will push south into much of the eastern U.S. on Saturday, leading to unusual weather patterns. Widespread rain and thunderstorms will move across the central and eastern parts of the nation before a late-season snowstorm becomes increasingly likely" for interior Northeast by the weekend. NWS says that the low-pressure system associated with this weather event is currently in the developmental stage across the High Plains....
According to a press release from Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the incident happened last Friday, March 11, at the Highway 86 immigration checkpoint in Salton City, California. The recent seizure comes as CBP agents continue to intercept illicit narcotics from individuals attempting to enter the U.S. through the nation’s different borders. While CBP agents were working at the immigration checkpoint, they encountered a 28-year-old male driver in a blue 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe at around 3:45 a....
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 56 percent of Americans say that unvaccinated workers should stay home and 60 percent want to work for an employer “who requires everyone to get a coronavirus vaccine before returning to the office.” Many people have been working from home for almost a year after the coronavirus pandemic first caused offices to shutter. A Gallup poll conducted earlier this year found that more than half of Americans are working remotely....
Thirty outbreaks were reported in connection with college and university campuses, buildings and off-campus residences, representing about 27.5 percent of Washington, D.C.’s total outbreaks. Nineteen outbreaks were tied to K-12 schools—which the health department noted can include staff and student activities conducted in and out of the classroom—and another 15 were linked to daycare and childcare facilities, according to DC Health’s data. The numbers represent a new era of COVID-19 reporting by DC Health, with expanded transparency regarding virus outbreaks as previously requested by the Office of the District of Columbia Auditor (ODCA)....
One contributing factor stems from the coronavirus pandemic that has forced many countries to implement lockdowns. “As a result of the economic crisis created by the pandemic, almost 1.6 billion informal economy workers (representing the most vulnerable in the labor market), out of a worldwide total of 2 billion and a global workforce of 3.3 billion, have suffered massive damage to their capacity to earn a living,” the ILO said....
A poll conducted by Morning Consult, and published Monday, found that 49 percent of QAnon supporters agreed with the claims in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the notorious hoax document created in Russia in the early 20th century which helped spread the falsehood about a Jewish conspiracy to control the world. The survey also found that 78 percent of American adults who agree with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion also backed the QAnon claims that there exists a secret cabal of satanic pedophiles involving leading Democrats and the Hollywood elite....
Matthaus: Bayern will raid Monaco The Bayern Munich goalkeeper added to his impressive list of titles after the club wrapped up another Bundesliga championship this past weekend. Starke, who has been on the books at Bayern since 2012 but hasn’t featured for the club since the 2013-14 season, has won every title available since his arrival at the Allianz Arena. That means the 36-year-old has claimed 1.86 trophies for every match he has played in in Bayern colours....
