Steph Curry leads the Golden State Warriors against the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday, a matchup pitting one of the league’s most popular teams against one of its most iconic franchises. It’s up to the Warriors to save the NBA playoffs, which began with so much promise but quickly…
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For much of the spring, the internal praise for Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields has been flowing through Halas Hall. Just last week, for example, tight end Cole Kmet said he has been witnessing a noticeable step forward from Fields as the team continues attacking its offseason program. Kmet has seen the way the Bears’…
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The Ravens are in their second week of organized team activities, and offensive coordinator Greg Roman already likes the flexibility offered by tight ends Mark Andrews, Nick Boyle and rookies Charlie Kolar and Isaiah Likely. When the Ravens traded wide receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown to the Arizona Cardinals in a surprising move on the first…
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Q: The players’ grades depend on the coach. Give Erik Spoelstra a C. The Heat will keep coming up short if Spo is the coach. – Carlton. A: This was in response to the Sun Sentinel’s Heat player grades for 2021-22. And you are correct that there were not grades for the coaching staff. But…
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SERIES SCHEDULE Game 1: Thursday, at Warriors, 6 p.m. Game 2: Sunday, at Warriors, 5 p.m. Game 3: Wednesday, at Celtics, 6 p.m. Game 4: Friday, June 10, at Celtics, 6 p.m. x-Game 5: Monday, June 13, at Warriors, 6 p.m. x-Game 6: Thursday, June 16, at Celtics, 6 p.m. x-Game 7: Sunday, June 19…
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By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO — When Steve Kerr looks at the way the Boston Celtics built a championship-caliber team, he sees plenty of similarities to how his Golden State Warriors got to the NBA Finals in 2015. Boston built a core through the draft by taking Marcus Smart, Jaylen Brown and…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Tesoro’s softball team competed into extra innings Wednesday for a chance to play for another championship. Unfortunately for the sixth-seeded Titans, their breakout season ended in the semifinals of the CIF SoCal regional playoffs. No. 7 seeded Mater Dei Catholic of Chula Vista…
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Former Chicago Bears quarterback Nick Foles, who now plays for the Indianapolis Colts, on May 23 placed his seven-bedroom, 7,664-square-foot mansion in Glencoe on the market for $3.29 million. A onetime Super Bowl MVP, Foles, 33, only played in one game for the Bears last year — a victory, no less — and was released…
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A culture is being created by new head coach Mike McDaniel and his coaching staff. A new offense is being installed by the Miami Dolphins, meshing what worked for quarterback Tua Tagovailoa with the core foundation of the play-action-based West Coast Offense. A defense that returns most of its core players is being tinkered with,…
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President Joe Biden wants you to know he is serious about taming inflation and that he has a plan to do so. Unfortunately, his plan reveals that his administration is either in deep denial or doesn’t understand the real cause of inflation. His proposal, therefore, is all but guaranteed to fail. Writing in The Wall…
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