It was a truth-telling win, just every playoff run has a few. The truth on Sunday night was the Miami Heat defense was a goal-line-stand good the last three quarters against the Atlanta Hawks. The truth is the professionalism won Game 4 over pretense. The truth, too, came when Jimmy Butler entered the interview room…
Read more
To put the intricacies of the Miami Heat’s defensive approach on Trae Young into perspective is to consider that the precepts sometimes are leaving Erik Spoelstra’s team as confused as the increasingly befuddled Atlanta Hawks guard. “Half the time,” Heat forward Jimmy Butler quipped, “I don’t even know what we’re doing, to tell you the…
Read more
With the second weekend of the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the books, let’s revisit some of our favorite moments of the weekend. Here are the best photos, as selected by our team of photographers and editors in the field. Sign up for our Festival Pass newsletter. Whether you are a Coachella…
Read more
Buck Britton doesn’t consider himself a reader, and the nine books he went through last year while managing the Orioles’ Double-A affiliate did little to change that self-perception. But each one provided him with something he believed will benefit him through this year as Triple-A Norfolk’s manager. At the recommendation of Ryan Fuller, then his…
Read more
Q: Ira, even you said this is about more that beating Atlanta. Of the top four teams in the East, I think the Heat so far have shown the least. — Michael. A: Considering the Heat, Celtics, Bucks and 76ers largely have taken care of their business to this point, I believe your comparison/concern only…
Read more
It’s tough to win when you don’t score many runs. That has been the case for the Chicago White Sox, who recently had a stretch of nine straight games in which they scored three runs or less. That streak came to an end Sunday, but the Sox still dropped their seventh straight game with a…
Read more
General manager Ryan Poles, coach Matt Eberflus and their staffs could spend their first draft night with the Chicago Bears on the sideline. The Bears don’t have a first-round draft pick Thursday after former general manager Ryan Pace traded it last year to move up for quarterback Justin Fields. So unless Poles engineers another trade,…
Read more
The NFL draft begins Thursday night and, boy, do the Chicago Bears have a rebuilding job ahead of them. But without any first-round picks and only six selections to work with, new general manager Ryan Poles will have his work cut out for him. As the draft draws near, our team of Bears writers weighs…
Read more
In this 2022 first-round NFL mock draft, South Florida Sun Sentinel Dolphins columnist Omar Kelly looks at what each team will do based on their needs, the runs on certain positions, and where the strengths and weaknesses in the draft’s talent pool could lead each team when the first round begins on Thursday. The Dolphins…
Read more
The Angel City Football Club ended the NWSL Challenge Cup in perfect fashion Sunday. After going winless in its first five games in the preseason tournament, Angel City took advantage of a first-half penalty kick and held on for a 1-0 win over the Portland Thorns at Titan Stadium. “I think it (the win) will…
Read more
