Alize Cornet took down Iga Swiatek at Wimbledon. (Photo by GLYN KIRK/AFP via Getty Images) Day 5 of Wimbledon featured two dominant performances by the top men, and a disappointing loss from one of the top-ranked women. Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic looked dominant in their matches and advanced to the next round. Maria Sakkari …
This blockbuster trade does not fit neatly into the “winners and losers” paradigm we use to measure trades on this site. It is possible for the Timberwolves to have gotten better by landing three-time Defensive Player of the Year Rudy Gobert and still to have overpaid for his services. It’s also fair to question how …
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The Knicks finished six games back of the play-in last season. This week, they added free agents Jalen Brunson and Isaiah Hartenstein. They also re-signed Mitchell Robinson. Are these upgrades enough to vault the Knicks back into playoff contention in 2022-23? The P&T staff weighs in… Joe Flynn: No. Could the Knicks compete for a …
In mid-June, Matt Ford learned someone he had been in contact with the weekend prior was experiencing monkeypox symptoms. The following weekend, intense flu-like symptoms hit the 30-year-old hard. Fever, chills, sore throat, coughing, swollen lymph nodes and sweating through his sheets at night. After being swabbed for monkeypox at his doctor’s office, flu-like symptoms lessened but lesions appeared and became “quite painful.” Dull, constant …
The NHL Draft is less than a week away, free agency is set to open July 13, and the offseason trades are already coming. Every team has some pressing need to address before the 2022-23 season opens, and the time to act has come. What is the one thing each team must accomplish during this …
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The Pac-12 originally chose to be patient with expansion. It figured it could wait and find the perfect fit or hold steady. In the wake of USC and UCLA’s departure to the Big Ten, the conference has lost that luxury. The Pac-12 Board of Directors met Friday morning and authorized the conference to explore expansion. …
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The fast-changing coronavirus has kicked off summer in the U.S. with lots of infections but relatively few deaths compared to its prior incarnations. COVID-19 is still killing hundreds of Americans each day, but is not nearly as dangerous as it was last fall and winter. “It’s going to be a good summer and we deserve …
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Things are about to change in the Big Ten. Thursday’s announcement that USC and UCLA are set to leave the Pac-12 and join Ohio State and company in 2024 was a bombshell in the world of collegiate athletics, and is certain to have ripple effects across the college football landscape in the months – and …
Technically, most of this year’s top free agents remain unsigned. Until the moratorium in place at the start of the 2022/23 league year lifts at 11:01 am Central time on July 6, most of them are ineligible to sign their new contracts. However, within the last 40-ish hours, 40 of the players from our list …
Enlarge / Lindy Elkins-Tanton, second from left, and colleagues in Siberia. Scott Simper / ASU Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a Siberian-river-running, arc-welding, code-writing, patent-holding, company-founding, asteroid-exploring, igneous petrologist professor. At various times, she has been a farmer, a trainer of competition sheepdogs, a children’s book author, and a management consultant for Boeing Helicopters. She’s currently a …
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