The news conferences of Penguins coach Mike Sullivan have turned into triage reports, with new names added daily to the injury list. "That's been a hard decision for this coaching staff all year long", Sullivan said of choosing between Fleury and Murray. Read More »
There will be no love lost between these teams, especially after Green, whose Game Five suspension in the 2016 Finals was considered by many to be the turning point, said last November he wanted to "destroy" and "annihilate" the Cavs in a championship rematch. Read More »
First things first, though: Defending the Land. That really is what the rubber-match Finals comes down to, real stars. LeBron , Kyrie and K-Love. Especially in the clutch. If my kindergartener is on to Green's game, the Cavaliers certainly are. A year after losing to the Cavs in seven games, Warriors head coach Steve Kerr doesn't understand the perception around the series , either. Read More »
Up in the rare air of Coors Field on Sunday, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Colorado Rockies will be finishing up their weekend Major League Baseball matchup. "I was just looking for a fastball early in the count", DeJong said. NOTES: Cardinals 2B Kolten Wong (left elbow stiffness) was placed on the 10-day disabled list retroactive to Saturday. Read More »
He couldn't, and Kisner had won. "I'm just honored to be the champion here", Kisner said. Defending champion Jordan Spieth and Masters champion Sergio Garcia were five shots behind. "It was pretty frustrating". Simpson is gunning for his fourth win on the USPGA Tour to go with his US Open title and victories at the 2011 Wyndham Championship, 2011 Dell Technologies Championship and 2014 Shriners Open. Read More »
Golden State will host Game 1 of the National Basketball Association finals on June 1 against either Cleveland or Boston. Kyle Anderson scored 20 points to lead the Spurs , who were without Kawhi Leonard , Tony Parker and David Lee . Read More »
Chelsea have reportedly put Lukaku at the top of their list of desired attacking reinforcements and Costa says he would not begrudge the Belgium worldwide - who scored 25 Premier League goals this season - a second chance to prove himself at Stamford Bridge following his departure in 2014. Read More »
Without further adieu, here are the DSN staff picks for how the finals will play out. One of the league's most unsafe offensive threats, Durant is able to take advantage of switches, rising over defenders for silky jumpers, just as he did numerous times during the Western Conference finals .via GIPHYOther times Durant , who averaged 4.8 assists during the regular season, third-best in his career, will create scoring opportunities for his teammates.via GIPHYGreen, Golden State's ... Read More »
Portuguese defender Bruno Alves has arrived in Glasgow and is now in talks to join Scottish giants Rangers , according to Italian broadcaster Sky Italia . Other targets Rangers have in their sights this week are out-of-contract Aberdeen midfielder Ryan Jack and Mexico worldwide Carlos Pena. By then, he may find more of his compatriots are already in Glasgow as Caixinha is reportedly chasing Viturio Setubal centre-back Fabio Cardoso and Benfica pair Daniel Candeias, now on loan at ... Read More »
Ganguly made 7,000 runs in 174 innings. The three formats of cricket are Test Cricket, Twenty20 International Cricket, and One Day International Cricket. Incidentally, he is also the fastest to reach 2 000 runs, 3 000, 4 000, 5 000 and 6 000 runs. In bowling rankings, Bangladesh and England managed to have three bowlers each inside the top-20 and New Zealand, Australia and South Africa have two each. Read More »
The win sets up a third consecutive match-up with Western Conference champion Golden State in the Finals. On the eve of LeBron's eighth Finals appearance, the new narrative in the hater community is that should the Cavs lose to the Warriors, then the recent wave of comparisons between LeBron and Jordan will cease, the hype surrounding LeBron will slow down, and that "best player in the world" title LeBron has either shared or held by himself for about nine years will finally pass to someone ... Read More »
The 32-year-old, who joined the team late due to visa issue, has played only 15 ODIs so far in his career and thus his excitement to play his first ICC event is all but natural. In the last 12 months or so, he has worked extremely hard on his game and now he is an important member of Team India in shorter formats of the game. Read More »
The series will feature a number of compelling individual matchups, most notably James versus Durant at small forward, Kyrie Irving versus Curry at point guard and Kevin Love versus Draymond Green at power forward. When the Warriors score 103 this season, they're 78-6. At different points of the last two Finals, they've done just that to the Cavs. Meanwhile, defending champion Cleveland has only lost once en route to the Finals. Read More »
His opinion counts. It will not guide my choice, but his opinion counts. "I think he's going to play in the starting lineup and he's going to play half a game". Mbappe is now in Paris, where is attending the French Grand Slam event for the first time ever. "I'll have time to reflect on that and, no, I'm not afraid to leave". Read More »
You add Pop in there, that's five. "This is a high powered team ... it's going to be very challenging not only on me mentally but on our ball club and on our franchise". Hard to believe, but this version - with Durant - might be even better. "That's what greats do", Curry said. We have seen Kevin Love dominate the boards, granting his team second and third opportunities on the offensive end. Read More »
The 67-year-old Frenchman's brow has been constantly furrowed this season with intense speculation about his future overshadowing a campaign that saw the Gunners fail to finish in the top four for the first time since he took charge in 1996. Read More »
Wenger has been heavily criticised this season, with Arsenal fans calling for his resignation after their team failed to qualify for the Champions League for the first time in 20 years. Many felt Wenger was pressurised into signing the pair after a bad start to the season and the Gunners ended up paying a hefty £34million for Mustafi. Read More »
Wenger's preference has always been to stay, but the determining factor was how he believed the atmosphere around the club would be affected by him doing so. Arsene has a free reign. He would've had to go to from club to club. I've never seen him so animated. And Arsenal's second-highest goalscorer of all time says it has been "total incompetence" to have allowed this situation to have arisen. Read More »
It may not have been as easy as they made it look, but now the real challenge looms: the mighty Golden State Warriors , who went 12-0 in their Western Conference playoffs run and are looking to extract revenge after being up 3-1 in The 2016 Finals before losing to these Cavaliers . Read More »
Oracle skipper Jimmy Spithill caught the Kiwis, now helmed by Olympic gold and silver medalist Peter Burling , as the catamarans rounded the mark onto the sixth of seven legs and pulled away to win by six seconds. He hit the dock while returning from a practice session on March 22 and then ran into the back of Emirates Team New Zealand during a practice race on May 16, causing significant damage that took the Kiwis three days to fix. Read More »
The German's podium celebrations in Monaco were reminiscent of the glory years of the turn of the century when Schumacher dominated the Italian team and had everyone back at base singing to his tune. "So yes, we are the underdog and we need to catch up. This is the new reality at the moment in this championship". Hamilton has won twice in Monaco , including last year's race , and Mercedes had won the last four races in the Mediterranean principality. Read More »
Artemis was penalized Monday for a port-starboard violation and had to slow just as it approached the finish line, allowing the Kiwis to win. There was to be no redemption for the Swedish team from their Round Robin 1 loss to Emirates Team New Zealand , falling to a second defeat today in as many days to the Kiwis. Read More »
Going back to his days in the Eastern Conference playing for the Philadelphia 76ers, Iguodala's combination of size (6-foot-6, 215 pounds), smarts and athleticism gives him as good a chance as anyone of trying to slow down the unstoppable force that James is on a basketball court. Read More »
Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue owes Brown $100, and Brown is ready to accept it when their teams face off in the NBA Finals beginning Thursday, June 1. Factors attributed to the Warriors' billing as favourites include the fact they possess four All-Stars, including two recent MVP winners in Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant , and have established themselves as one of the most dominant teams in National Basketball Association history . Read More »
The Celtics were the East's top team in the regular season. And there will be reminders of the Halloween party that James threw for the Cavaliers last fall, with "3-1 Lead" - a nod to what the Warriors lost in last year's Finals - prominently displayed on the drum set. Read More »
This one wasn't pretty. The Penguins led 3-0 after one period, thanks to some calls and some bad luck, and the catfish hit, and the Penguins - the best offensive team left in the playoffs, with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin and whatnot - did not record a shot on goal in the second period . Read More »
But in hanging onto his job against the odds, Wenger is missing yet another ideal opportunity to walk away on a high. The FA Cup victory was Wenger's seventh in charge of Arsenal , taking him one clear of former Aston Villa boss George Ramsay for most won by a manager. Read More »
After blowing a 3-0 lead, the Penguins got two goals late in the third period to win the Stanley Cup Final opener in Pittsburgh . Sun staff photos can be ordered by visiting our SmugMug site. Pittsburgh owns a massive edge in Stanley Cup Final experience, 156 games to just five for the Predators, all by Fisher, while playing for Ottawa. Read More »
We're trying to repeat, which is so hard to do. "We'll use it as fuel, use it as motivation", Love said. "I would say 100". "I went when I was 23 years old, and it felt like the Western Conference Finals was nearly like the championship". Read More »
Honda have changed the MGU-H and turbocharger on Button's Fernando Alonso inherited vehicle. Belgian team mate Stoffel Vandoorne , who already had a three place penalty carried over from the previous race in Spain, was 10th. "Apart from that, this kind of situation with Pascal, I don't understand what went on there". "I touched again the head area so will have to do another scan again next week for my back so lets see". Read More »
This team has suffered. The 27-year-old midfielder will reportedly reject the chance to link up with his former Athletic Bilbao boss Ernesto Valverde at Barcelona and stay at Old Trafford. Premier League champions Chelsea were unable to add the FA Cup title this weekend after going down 2-1 to Arsenal in the final at Wembley . "It's for me afterwards to decide, if they want me, whether it's yes or no". Read More »
Two breathalyzer tests showed Woods' blood alcohol content to be zero, according to the report. Woods, now recovering from a fourth bout of surgery on a back injury in three years, is taking four separate medications - including the painkiller Vicodin, according to the affadavit. Read More »
The Warriors did lose Durant for several weeks because of the knee injury he suffered in Washington on February 29, but outside of that there have been virtually no issues integrating one of the league's dominant players and personalities into a team that had already had so much success. Read More »
Fabregas was roundly jeered by the Arsenal half of Wembley as he made his way on to the pitch, but he has backed former boss Arsene Wenger to continue, with the Frenchman's future set to be decided at a board meeting on Tuesday. The unsettled Arsenal stars are holding out for weekly wages of around £300,000 ($385,000) per week with their present deals due to expire at the end of next season. Read More »
Klopp's side have been outside the top four only twice since September, the last occasion coming in February, so it is not as though their league position is not well-deserved. Arsenal are expected to announce whether Arsene Wenger will continue as their manager on Wednesday afternoon. "I just hope if and when he decides to go he kind of does himself because I don't want people to feel badly about him and I hope he doesn't spoil that". Read More »