“We’re going to play our game,” LeBron James told reporters before Saturday’s practice. “We’ve gotten to this point by playing the way we play, and we’re not going to change. We’ll make adjustments throughout the game, but we won’t change our starting lineup.” MORE: LeBron’s greatest Finals games ever | Must-see photos from the NBA Finals That means James will be joined by guards Matthew Dellavadova and J.R. Smith, forward Tristan Thompson and center Timofey Mozgov as the team heads into a pivotal Game 5 against the Warriors....

James has had to take matters into his own hands after a series of injuries suffered by several star players on the Cavaliers. Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love are both missing the Finals, and Iman Shumpert had to miss some time in Game 3 due to an injury. MORE: Wade gets LeBron to open up in postgame interview | Delly: The hero Cleveland deserves The injuries have forced James to take over, and he’s done so in spectacular fashion....

The Cavaliers point guard is a former No. 1 overall draft pick, NBA Rookie of the Year, four-time all-star, champion, Olympic gold medalist and owner of the sickest handle on the face on this sphere we call Earth (though he gladly argue it’s flat.) Irving has received acclaim and accolades the world over and is just entering his prime. Despite his status, he still gets all giddy when friends and family make him feel special just like the rest of us....

On Tuesday, a trailer for a new episode HBO’s The Shop: Uninterrupted was released, and in the clip James and others can be heard speaking about Griner’s situation. “How can she feel like America has her back?” James says in the trailer, which was edited and did not show his full comments. “I would be feeling like ‘Do I even wanna go back to America?’” James’ comments on Griner’s situation came as she remains detained in Russia after she was caught with a hashish oil vape cartridge....

At one point, The King was so frustrated that he let out an expletive. MORE: Celebrities at NBA games | Mavs are title contenders | Must-see shoes It came with less than three minutes remaining in the third quarter and with James isolated on the left mid-post. The players on the court – Shawn Marion, Joe Harris, Dion Waiters and Tristan Thompson – didn’t know where to go. The Cavaliers had actually been tied with the Raptors, 65-65, with 6:13 left in the quarter....

James dropped 12 and 12, instead. That’s 12 shots as part of a 27-point performance and 12 assists that fueled a 116-86 blowout win for Cleveland at Quicken Loans Arena on Saturday. In that regard, Game 3 was a statement. James flipped the script on Boston by leading an effort in which the Cavs shot 48.7 percent from the floor and 17-of-34 from 3-point range. Six Cleveland players scored in double figures, a number that matched Boston’s team effort in Game 2....

MORE: Sports figures who support Hillary Clinton Clinton’s campaign made the announcement with a GIF of James from Game 7 of the World Series. MORE: Spencer Hawes wants to talk to LeBron about Hillary endorsement James endorsed Clinton last month in an op-ed article published by Business Insider.

The co-host accepted a job at Navy in 1968, just before his first head coaching job at Louisville. With the Army-Navy game just hours away, ESPN pulled out some vintage footage that Corso himself had never seen. When the cameras finally cut back to the GameDay set, it caught the man famous for donning mascot headgear wiping away tears. MORE: Who has cooler helmets? Army | Navy (If you can’t see the video, click here....

Already a regular at the U.S. Open and PGA Championship for around a decade, Elder made his Augusta bow in 1975. Although the Texan missed the cut, he qualified for the Masters six times in total and finished in a tie for 17th in 1979. Recognizing Elder’s breakthrough appearance, Augusta chairman Fred Ridley revealed on Monday scholarships would be established in the player’s name and he would accompany Nicklaus and Player to the first tee at the 85th Masters in April....

“The reality is that public policy change rarely works that way. Slow and steady tends to be how change like this happens,” John Hudak, deputy director at the Brookings Center for Effective Public Management, told Newsweek. “There are of course watershed moments, but those are rare. 2019 has not been a watershed moment,” Hudak added. To date, 11 states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for adult recreational use....

News of the job opening has spread mostly through word of mouth on Lego fan sites, and the cattle calls have already attracted hundreds of candidates. (The company is four cities into the nine-city tour.) “I took out my earrings for this,” says a multiple-pierced Joshua Lee Roadifer, 22, who traveled from Spearfish, S.D., to New York for his shot at the dream job. “This is huge.” The drill’s the same at each location: candidates, who can preregister online or just show up with their resumes, are given 2,000 Legos and 45 minutes to build a model based on a theme, like “animals” or “transportation....

Pep on Brexit: We’ll leave if UK wants! As well as beating Sevilla in the Champions League, the Leicester City boss has overseen victories over Liverpool, Hull City and West Ham since replacing the sacked Claudio Ranieri last month. And if the Foxes defeat Stoke City at the King Power Stadium on Saturday, Shakespeare will join Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, Guus Hiddink and Pep Guardiola as the only managers to have won their first four league games in charge since 1992....

Mahrez handed in a transfer request last campaign but could not a secure away from Leicester before the end of the summer transfer window. With the incoming January transfer window, Puel admitted the Algerian’s frustration and he is eager to convince him to stay at the King Power Stadium. “It is down to me to make these players want to stay by the fact we are playing good football. I want them to be happy here....

The Foxes saw a star performer in their remarkable Premier League title-winning side lured away to Stamford Bridge in a big-money deal after proving himself in English football. Ndidi: I’m not the new Kante They could face a similar situation 12 months on, with Ndidi – who was drafted in as Kante’s successor in a holding midfield role – said to be generating interest ahead of the summer window....

Social media users accused DiCaprio of hypocrisy, pointing out his use of private jets and yachts—similar to the recent criticism lobbied at Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle. DiCaprio, 44, took the stage at Global Citizen in New York’s Central Park on Saturday to praise the efforts of 16-year-old climate change activist Greta Thunberg and the millions of young protesters who took part in climate strikes around the world earlier in September....

As it is, the Frenchman remains in charge. Even though a weird impasse between duty and gormlessness in his relationship with the club might continue to perpetuate him, his list of potential successors grows longer by the day. Badly, the Gunners need a sense of identity. That much is deserved considering the expense of their current squad. It isn’t at the level of the Manchester clubs, but Arsenal have broken their club transfer record twice in successive windows....

I thought back on that last Wednesday, in Richmond, a century later, when Arthur Ashe, the Virginian, was monumentalized. I tried to imagine how ever I could have explained that to my grandfather-how the hero that came next to Richmond after Robert E. Lee, general in chief, Confederate States of America-that next Virginian was merely a tennis player, who was also, of all things, black. As much as that would have confounded my grandfather, it is also still difficult for me to understand quite how deeply Arthur Ashes death touched so many people....

But I’m going to leave the commentary on all that to others for the time being. Going to do something a little different in this week’s column. A tribute of sorts. Last Wednesday—January 20—marked the 15th anniversary of jury selection in the 2006 trial of former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling. The two men, at the end of the 56-day trial, were convicted on multiple counts of fraud, conspiracy and bank fraud as a result of the collapse of Enron....

Across the business landscape, organizations continue to pay the price for depending too heavily on a range of antiquated systems, whether it’s an old enterprise resource planning (ERP) software product, an outmoded customer relationship management (CRM) system, an archaic accounting software or some other legacy solution. Ultimately, these dependencies cause more business problems than they solve. In this era of remote working, digital customer journeys and cloud-based apps, the risks of sticking too long with outdated network communications software and systems are especially pronounced....

As China ramps up its militarization of the South and East China Seas, it not only threatens Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia and other countries, but also tens of thousands of U.S. troops stationed in Japan. A nation like Japan doesn’t need the U.S. occupying any of its land. Even if it did, U.S. military members shouldn’t be made needlessly vulnerable to Chinese attacks. Yes, the U.S. and Japan need each other militarily, but the current arrangement undermines the potential of each country and the alliance they share....