But the league is pressing forward and the final two weeks are a go for now. LA may have trouble holding onto that spot as a result. LeBron James is working his way back from an ankle sprain and the team is relearning how to play with he and Anthony Davis. The Lakers lost 121-114 to the Raptors at home on Sunday night to fall to 0-2 since James’ return, and they’ll host the Nuggets on Monday....
James was asked Friday how many games he expects to play this season; he swiftly answered, “Eighty-two.” MORE: Classic photos of LeBron James | James says Love will be ‘main focus’ on offense Optimistic? Maybe, especially considering James, 30, received a second anti-inflammatory injection into his back less than a month ago . The four-time NBA MVP even said after the injection that he felt like he might miss some games this season....
On Monday night, James made his first public remark on the death of Kobe Bryant, who was killed in a helicopter crash Sunday just north and west of Los Angeles. James was on a plane from Philadelphia back to Los Angeles on Sunday when news broke that Bryant had died in a helicopter crash earlier that day. The sports world was shocked, and even those not in the sports realm felt the tremors....
James was perturbed that he only attempted four free throws in the Cavaliers’ 110-94 home loss to the Spurs. In his mind, he was getting fouled regularly on his drives to the hoop. MORE: Popovich rips Fox News’ ‘Shut up and dribble’ take on LeBron The four free throws were one fewer than the number of 3-pointers James attempted Sunday. In fact, King James brought up the league’s love affair with 3s in comparing who gets the benefit of the whistle....
Late in the first quarter of Monday night’s NBA Finals rematch between the Cavs and Warriors, James set a screen on Curry, and the reigning MVP appeared to get tangled up with James. This is the part where LeBron reminds us he is a 6-8, 250-pound monster made of pure muscle. MORE: How to slow down Curry | NBA scoreboard | Classic photos of LeBron A little shot at Curry following his “champagne” comment that reportedly upset Cavs players?...
Cook, who inked a two-year, $6 million contract with Los Angeles earlier this month, told Silver Screen and Roll that James lobbied Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka to sign him. Cook, 26, said he became close with James while he was in training camp with the Cavaliers in 2015. “Any time over my career, he would make sure I was good, talking to me and giving me advice,” Cook said, via the Mercury News....
Kaepernick has been out of the NFL since the end of the 2016 season, during which the quarterback attracted controversy by kneeling for the national anthem in protest against racial injustice and police brutality. He filed a grievance against the NFL in 2017, accusing owners of colluding to keep him out of a job. Kaepernick settled that grievance in February. MORE: Kaepernick drawing “legitimate interest” from multiple NFL teams...
James powered the Cavs to a 113-87 victory over the Wizards, a neat bit of revenge for the loss the Wiz put on the Cavs last week. “We played basketball the right way,” James said, per The Associated Press. “We shared the ball. We defended. We sustained effort for as close to 48 minutes as possible.” James has been taking his team’s early struggles to heart; on Monday he told reporters, “I stink....
Stick to sports; shut up and dribble. That was the deeper meaning behind the message Ibrahimovic sent when he took aim at NBA star LeBron James in a recent interview aired last week. “[LeBron] is phenomenal at what he’s doing, but I don’t like it when people have some kind of status, they go and do politics at the same time,” Ibrahimovic told Discovery+ in Sweden. “Do what you’re good at....
To learn more about how these drugs affect the body and why they are potentially deadly, NEWSWEEK’s Karen Springen spoke to Terrence Blaschke, M.D., professor of medicine and pharmacology at Stanford University. Excerpts: NEWSWEEK: How can anti-anxiety drugs and sleep aids, or a combination of them, become lethal? Terrence Blaschke: When you combine these drugs, they do act at different sites in the brain, and therefore they certainly can have additive effects in terms of depressing respiration....
Blount’s attorney, Casey White, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Friday that the former Steeler has completed his 50 hours of community service and will have his drug charge withdrawn. MORE: Patriots shift LeGarrette Blount’s story from entitlement to title shot “He was happy to put this behind him,” White said. “He knew flying out West that his duties regarding this were fulfilled and it was just a matter of paperwork being processed....
A four-game unbeaten run at the end of the season, including three wins, earned the Foxes eighth place — but their points tally of 52 was their lowest since 2018/19, in which Brendan Rodgers took charge with only three months remaining. Rodgers also guided Leicester to the semifinals of the UEFA Europa Conference League, in which they were beaten by inaugural champions Roma. With European football out of the equation this time around, here’s what we know about Leicester’s schedule so far:...
The 26-year-old was replaced by Ben Chilwell in the 70th minute due to his inability to ’touch more balls’ after the restart as the Foxes settled for a 1-1 draw against West Ham United. Mahrez 14/5 to score vs. Spurs Although the Sarcelles-born player who has scored two times in 13 Premier League outings this campaign was unhappy with his substitution, Puel debunked talks of any rift. And he has tasked the 2015-16 PFA Player of the Year to give steady impressive displays....
The Foxes find themselves just two points above the relegation zone after a third of the season having won just three matches and lost six. And their tally of 13 points mean they have now made the worst start to a title defence in English top-flight football for 54 years! Only Ipswich Town in 1962-63 have accrued fewer points (11) in the history of the game as champions,assuming three points are given for a win....
Leipzig are an unpopular presence in Germany’s top tier as their Red Bull backing is widely seen to have skirted around the league’s 50+1 rule, where club members’ must be influential in the boardroom. Leipzig 15/2 to beat Bayern But the side have been an overwhelming success on the pitch, finishing second in their first season in the Bundesliga last year to qualify for the Champions League. While some were not happy to see Ralph Hasenhuttl’s side perform so well, Rummenigge has been pleased to see their emergence....
Merullo, who died Saturday at 98, not only was the oldest living Cub, but also the last man to have worn a Cubs uniform in a World Series game. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2015 The pesky Bostonian hit just .240 in a seven-season big-league career; his major statistical achievement was leading the majors with 22 sacrifice bunts in 1942. But he still managed to help the Cubs to the 1945 World Series and ended up with a couple at-bats in what became a seven-game loss to the Tigers....
Long before he died in 1990 at 72, Bernstein was the stuff of legends – so many, in fact, that this one doesn’t turn up in Humphrey Burton’s meticulously detailed Leonard Bernstein (594 pages. Doubleday. $25). Plenty of others do: this isn’t an authorized biography, but Burton had access to an Everest of material. (The Bernstein family helped him, but had no control over what he wrote.) A British TV director, now artistic adviser to the Barbican Centre in London, he worked closely with Bernstein for 30 years....
The IPN materials are what the FBI would call “raw files”: everything the Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (the Polish secret police, or SB) had on anyone was dumped, undigested, into these files, which were eventually archived in the IPN after the fall of communism. The materials are of wildly divergent reliability. Agents, eager to enhance their own reputations, were not above making things up to meet their quota of “information” (Wielgus, for example, was said to speak Spanish, which he doesn’t)....
It’s the easiest thing in the world to dismiss those who protested in Seattle as irrational–and, for that matter, selfish. The case for free trade is one of the rare propositions in social science for which there is empirical proof. By encouraging nations with widely differing economic, social and geographical characteristics to specialize in the production of what they do best, trade maximizes total prosperity. For poor people and poor nations in particular, the right to trade their goods freely is an essential way of improving life chances....
