TMZ Sports first reported earlier this month that several NBA teams have stopped using the term “owner,” but recently caught up with Silver for an interview where he confirmed the change in style. “I don’t want to overreact to the term because, as I said earlier, people end up twisting themselves into knots avoiding the use of the word ‘owner,’” Silver told TMZ Sports. “But we moved away from that term years ago with the league....

Multiple teams inquired about Pacers star Paul George, but no one was willing to meet the lofty demands to acquire his services by Thursday’s 3 p.m. ET NBA trade deadline. Now, the four-time All-Star, averaging 22.3 points and 6.2 assists per game, will have to attempt to lead a 29-28 squad the rest of the way without much help other than budding second-year player in Myles Turner (15.6 ppg, 7....

The 10-time All-Star has been the subject of NBA trade rumors for what feels like the last decade. Just this offseason, Anthony has been linked to the Rockets, Trail Blazers and Cavs in light of Kyrie Irving’s trade request. Now, the Thunder could crash the Carmelo party. MORE: Did LeBron leak Kyrie’s trade request? Irving reportedly thinks so The Thunder and Anthony are “circling each other,” according to The Ringer’s Bill Simmons....

Leonard has one year and $20 million left on his current contract as well as a $21 million player option for the 2019-20 season, one he is unlikely to take. The Spurs would have been able to offer Leonard a five-year, $221 million “supermax” contract this summer, but Leonard appeared willing to pass on the deal following a frustrating season full of injury troubles and confusing PR moves. So how much money could Leonard lose in a potential trade?...

In his first interview about his new book Catch and Kill, which chronicles the story behind Farrow’s Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting on Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct and similar claims against Lauer, Farrow told The Hollywood Reporter that NBC used several tactics to distance itself from Lauer and Weinstein in the wake of separate misconduct scandals engulfing both in late 2017. This included, according to The Hollywood Reporter article published Wednesday, “employing a Wikipedia whitewasher to ‘unbraid references to Oppenheim, Weinstein and Lauer’ after the allegations became public....

“I regret that I wasn’t more clear in my wording on the air,” he said in a statement emailed by NBC Sports (via USA Today). “I compounded the error on Twitter, which I quickly corrected. To set the record straight, Ron and Nellie are Simone’s parents.” MORE: Get to know the U.S. gymnasts | 31 greatest Olympians Ron and Nellie Biles adopted Simone, 19, and her younger sister in 2001 after the girls spent time in foster care while Shannon Biles, Ron’s daughter and the girls’ biological mother struggled with drugs and alcohol....

The network boasted across-the-board increases for the telecast, which ended in prime time: — Viewership increased by more than 1 million from last year’s July 4 weekend race, the traditional Daytona summer race. NBC claimed its Total Audience Delivery (TAD) for Sunday’s race was 4.37 million viewers (including streamers) compared to 3.31 million for the 2019 Daytona race. — The Indy race pulled a 2.67 rating, which was 26 percent higher than the Daytona race last year....

The rule prohibiting football programs from conducting camps and clinics away from their own facilities has been heavily criticized by several coaches, most notably Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh, as being detrimental for student athletes. MORE: SEC hating Harbaugh similar to Spurrier | Harbaugh vs. SEC The rule was proposed by the SEC in response to Harbaugh holding spring practices and satellite camps in the conference’s geographical footprint. This gave Harbaugh a recruiting advantage, the SEC claimed....

So even if we all regard the vacating of records and championships as stupid and hollow, even though we all are well aware Louisville won the 2013 NCAA Championship in men’s basketball — because we watched the game, and we saw Peyton Siva’s father cheering for his son, and we saw Luke Hancock make all those 3-pointers — it still matters that this result is no more. MORE: Villanova’s Jalen Brunson leaving field behind in Player of Year race...

Mark Emmert said Sunday that the NCAA wants to allow the big conferences with moneymaking teams to write their own rules, and those changes could solve many athletes' complaints more effectively than unionization. "To be perfectly frank, the notion of using a union-employee model to address the challenges that exist in intercollegiate athletics is something that strikes most people as a grossly inappropriate solution to the problems," Emmert said at his annual news conference, held the day before college basketball's national championship....

In my defense, two of those losses were by a single point and another was by just two, which demonstrates the hazards of predicting the outcomes of NCAA Tournament games. Also, that record just might qualify me to become the next head basketball coach at Duquesne. So let’s take another crack, shall we, as the Elite Eight commences? MORE: 10 best schools never to reach Final Four in expanded bracket era...

MORE: NCAA scoreboard | Vegas lines, pick | Day 2’s biggest moments | Weekend matchups Gonzaga Bulldogs (32-2) No. 2 seed, South Region Coach: Mark Few (16th season) Bid: West Coast Conference tournament champions Starting lineup G Kevin Pangos, 6-2, Sr., 11.6 ppg, 5.0 apg G Gary Bell Jr., 6-1, Sr., 8.1 ppg, 2.5 rpg F Byron Wesley, 6-4, Sr., 10.6 ppg, 5.0 rpg F Kyle Wiltjer, 6-10, Jr., 16....

Those one million Singapore dollars translates to about $740,000 U.S, according to Google’s currency converter on Saturday morning. MORE: Schooling begs Phelps to return, but he says no The interesting twist here is that Schooling is attending and swimming for the University of Texas. But the NCAA adopted a small change in its amateurism rules a year ago — it went into effect in August 2015 — that will allow for the first time Olympians to keep their rewards....

Walk, a 6-10 center who holds many records at the University of Florida, left a legacy that included averaging 20.2 points and 12.4 rebounds per game in 1972-73. He was the only player in franchise history other than Charles Barkley to average as many points and rebounds in a single season. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2015 “We were saddened last night to learn of the passing of Neal Walk, an integral member of the most successful Suns teams in our franchise’s early years,” the Suns said in the statement....

According to Tuesday data from Dr. Jason Salemi, a University of South Florida Epidemiologist, hospitals in the Sunshine State now have 138 pediatric patients being treated for COVID-19. That number is up from 118 just one day earlier, according to tweet from ABC Action News. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that Florida had 32 pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations per day between July 24 and 30. When adjusted for the population, that accounts for 0....

Cruz faces battery charges for allegedly attacking a jail guard nine months after the February 14, 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In the preliminary days of jury selection, more than 100 potential jurors said that they could give Cruz a fair trial for his purported assault against Sgt. Raymond Beltran. Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer deemed the number large enough to select six for the jury, as well as alternates, by Oct....

Baby-sitting co-ops like Highsmith’s are growing increasingly popular because they spare parents the headache of finding a sitter they can trust, and they save thousands of dollars. Paid sitters can cost more than $10 per hour, which can turn even a humble movie-and-pizza date into a $100 evening. The price also makes mothers reluctant to take needed time out during the day. “How many times are you going to pay $12 an hour to go read a book at the coffee shop because you need a break?...

Players Conventional Wisdom Cuba +/- U.S. policy about as effective as an exploding cigar. CW sez: send ’em back. Haiti - Would cost half a billion, minimum, to invade. Where’s the CIA when you need it? N. Korea +/- Film-loving Kim won’t talk to South. Forget Carter: send Warren Beatty as envoy. N. Ireland + Ceasefire puts bombmakers in the red, pub keepers in the black. Pass the stout. Baseball - Season’s over and so is your hold on America....

The interaction occurred after Gaiman announced the third part of Audible’s adaptation of The Sandman, which features the voices of such stars as James McAvoy, Kat Dennings and Jeffrey Wright. Gaiman, who debuted The Sandman comic book for DC Comics in 1988 and this year helped create Netflix’s live-action Sandman series, tweeted that the latest Audible installment is “soooo good.” Even so, a person who uses the name S.M. 1776 on Twitter wrote, “Stay unwoke and Sandman will do just fine....

“It’s starting to feel real. We begin shooting in 3 weeks, lockdowns permitting,” Sandman creator Gaiman tweeted. That would put the timetable for filming to begin mid-October, following a coronavirus-enforced production shutdown. Of course, the project has had its share of false starts and aborted plans of adaptation over the years. The original graphic novel series ran for 75 issues from 1989 through 1996. The stories center on Dream, also known as Morpheus among other names, and a lot of it is set while he is in captivity....