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WATCH: Luka Doncic Hit Game Winner For Mavericks Against Clippers

In a legend-making performance that caused Twitter to nearly self combust, 21-year-old Dallas Mavericks superstar guard, Luka Doncic had his coming out party by dropping a 43-17-13 on the two seed and presumptive Western Conference Finals…

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Minnesota Timberwolves Win Number One Pick In Draft Lottery

On what has been a dark couple decades for the Timberwolves, having not made the playoffs since the days of Keving Garnett in Minnesota, you cannot ascribe those struggle to lack of draft luck with the…

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Astros Rocky Start Continues With Alex Bregman Injury

While the MLB restart has not been the smoothest operation that has ever been executed in sports, the Houston Astros have had a particularly rocky start – they are only behind the two teams which…

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Hornets Suspend Announcer John Focke For Use Of Racial Slur In Tweet

While tweeting about Monday’s game between the Utah Jazz and the Denver Nuggets, Charlotte Hornets announcer John Focke tweeted about his excitement for the game except, in what seemed like a typo, he used the N-word in…

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Kristaps Porzingis Ejected As Mavericks Drop Game One To Clippers

In what was a tight, back and forth game between the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Clippers on Monday night, a scuffle between Clippers forward Marcus Morris and Mavericks’ star guard Luka Doncic broke out that led to…

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Marco Andretti Wins Pole For Indy 500

NASCAR driver Marco Andretti is a second-generation racer – his grandfather Mario Andretti notably having issues with the Indy 500 when he won the race only once in 1969 then never again, going 1-29 at the Indy…

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Chiefs Resign Travis Kelce, Bills Re-Up Dion Dawkins In Preparation For Super Bowl Runs

On Thursday, two AFC contenders the Kansas City Chiefs and the Buffalo Bills announced contract extensions for one of their young stars – the Chiefs said that they were signing star tight-end Travis Kelce to…

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Giannis Antetokounmpo Suspended For Last Seeding Game For Headbutting Moritz Wagner

During Tuesday’s game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Washington Wizards Bucks’ star Giannis Antetokounmpo clearly incensed by something hauled off and headbutted Wizards forward Moritz Wagner. Antetokounmo was immediately ejected for this and will now be suspended for…

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Trump Calls For College Football Season To Return Using #WeWantToPlay

On Monday, President Donald Trump called for college football to play this year. “The student-athletes have been working too hard for their season to be canceled,” the President tweeted on Monday, adding the hashtag #WeWantToPlay. “And…

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Draymond Green Fined $50,000 For Devin Booker Tampering Comments

Draymond Green is at his best when he is annoying people, whether that be his opponents, opposing fans or the NBA league as a whole. While appearing on the NBA on TNT Sunday night, Green made…

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Jon Gruden Faked COVID-19 Diagnosis To Scare Raiders’ Players

In what is perhaps the most Jon Gruden thing that Gruden has ever done, it has been reported that while the team was on a Zoom call the coach got the Raiders’ special teams’ coach to tell…

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Memphis Grizzlies’ Forward Jaren Jackson Jr. Out Rest Of Season With Meniscus Tear

With the Memphis Grizzlies fumbling away the eight seed in the West by dropping their first three games in the bubble, their road just got a lot tougher with second-year forward and rising star Jaren…

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Nets Stun Bucks In Biggest Underdog Upset … In A Long Time

Going into Tuesday night’s game, the putrid and COVID ravaged Nets (31-35) who were missing all of their original, healthy starting five were 18.5 point underdogs to the juggernaut, Milwaukee Bucks (54-13). And, miraculously, behind…

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13 Members Of St. Louis Cardinals Test Positive For COVID-19

The St. Louis Cardinals are the newest MLB team to have a COVID-19 outbreak. Over the weekend, the league released a statement giving more specifics about the incident. “The Cardinals have had 13 members of…

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NHL Announces Zero Positive COVID Tests For Traveling Teams

On Monday, the NHL announced that there were zero positive tests for COVID-19 of the 52 person traveling parties for each team that arrived at the two bubbles last week. The teams arrived at the…

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Mets Outfielder Yoenis Cespedes No-Show At Braves Game, Opts Out Of Season

In what would usually be a case of classic Mets bad luck and ineptitude is now just another entry in what has been a disastrous restart by the MLB. When the New York Mets played…

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Giants Play ‘Black National Anthem,’ “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” Prior To Home Opener

The San Francisco Giants, who were the first team to show solidarity with the BLM movement in calling for racial justice for systematic racism and police brutality in America when the MLB season resumed last…

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Mets Shortstop Jose Reyes Retires At 37

On his Twitter account on Wednesday, four-time All-Star Jose Reyes shortstop for the New York Mets announced that after a 16-year career that he would be stepping away from the game. “A young boy growing…

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Nuggets’ Michael Porter Jr. Spoken To By Exec After Saying COVID Was ‘Population Control’ Conspiracy

During a Snapchat Q&A, Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr. claimed that COVID-19 was a conspiracy meant to control the world’s population. “Personally, I think the coronavirus is being used obviously for a bigger agenda,” Porter, 22,…

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Twins & Cardinals Take Moment Of Silence At 8:46 In Honor Of George Floyd

The Minnesota Twins honored George Floyd’s memory, Minneapolis being the city where Geroge Floyd was killed, at 8:46, eight minutes, and 46 seconds being the time that an officer had his knee on Floyd’s neck,…

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Rockets Guard Eric Gordon Likely Out For NBA Seeding Games With Ankle Injury

In the second quarter of the Houston Rocket’s restart scrimmage against the Boston Celtics, Rockets guard Eric Gordon landed awkwardly on his ankle when he rose up to make a pass and immediately went down in…

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