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Nassourdine Imavov scores Fight Night win over Jared Cannonier
Nassourdine Imavov finished Jared Cannonier in the fourth round in their middleweight bout on the main card of UFC Fight Night in Louisville, Ky., on Saturday night.,Imavov, of France, peppered Cannonier with punches along the fence, leading to the TKO. The Dallas native thought the stoppage came to...
Chiefs' BJ Thompson 'alert, awake' after seizure
Kansas City Chiefs defensive end BJ Thompson was awake and "headed in the absolute right direction" Friday afternoon after the player had a seizure and went into cardiac arrest on Thursday, a team official said.,The prognosis is good for the 25-year-old Thompson, who had the seizure at the Chiefs fa...
Agent for Chiefs' BJ Thompson says player awake
Kansas City Chiefs defensive end BJ Thompson was awake and responsive Friday afternoon after the player had a seizure and went into cardiac arrest on Thursday, NFL Network reported.,Chris Turnage, Thompson's agent, told NFL Network that the prognosis is good for the 25-year-old Thompson, who had the...
Agent for Chiefs' BJ Thompson says doctors optimistic
Kansas City Chiefs defensive end BJ Thompson remains in stable condition at a local hospital after having a seizure and going into cardiac arrest on Thursday, multiple outlets reported.,Chris Turnage, Thompson's agent, told ESPN that the 25-year-old Thompson remained unconscious but doctors are opti...
Reports: Chiefs DE BJ Thompson in hospital after cardiac arrest
Kansas City Chiefs defensive end BJ Thompson is in stable condition at a local hospital after having a seizure and going into cardiac arrest on Thursday, multiple media outlets reported. ,Per reports, the Chiefs' medical staff attended to Thompson and an ambulance was called. The Chiefs sent players...
Report: Chiefs cancel activities after medical scare
The Kansas City Chiefs canceled all team activities Thursday after a scary medical incident, NFL Network reported.,A backup defensive lineman had a seizure during a special teams meeting and went into cardiac arrest, according to the report.,The Chiefs' medical staff attended to the player and an am...
Phillies LHP Ranger Suarez injures hand on line drive vs. Cards
Philadelphia Phillies standout left-hander Ranger Suarez was hit by a line drive in the second inning and was removed from the game against the visiting St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday night because of a left hand contusion.,Suarez took a 106.1 mph comebacker to the body from the Cardinals' Alec Bur...
Parents: Grayson Murray died by suicide
PGA Tour member Grayson Murray died by suicide, his parents confirmed in a statement Sunday morning.,The death of Murray was announced by commissioner Jay Monahan on Saturday, one day after the 30-year-old golfer cited illness following his withdrawal from the Charles Schwab Challenge at Fort Worth,...
Phillies' Ranger Suarez vies for 10th win in clash vs. Rockies
Having Zack Wheeler and Aaron Nola at the top of the rotation gives the Philadelphia Phillies an edge against almost any team. Therefore, Ranger Suarez serving as the No. 3 starter seems almost unfair.,Suarez (9-0, 1.36 ERA), after all, leads the majors in wins and is second in ERA. The left-hander ...
Falcons release TE Tucker Fisk, sign two wide receivers
The Atlanta Falcons signed wide receivers Daylen Baldwin and OJ Hiliare and released tight end Tucker Fisk on Wednesday.,Fisk, 25, had been with the Falcons since 2022, mostly on the practice squad. He was elevated to the active roster multiple times in 2023 and played in six games, making two start...
Lions QB Jared Goff: 'More fired up than ever'
Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff made his goals clear on Thursday, the day the team announced his signing to a contract extension through the 2028 season.,"I'm more driven and more fired up than ever to go even harder and put the pedal to the metal even more to bring a Super Bowl to the city and...
This week in the NFL March 09, 2024
Back in 2021, Britt Reid, then the Chiefs’ linebackers coach and son of celebrated Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, left team headquarters drunk, smashed his truck into two cars stopped on the side of the interstate at 84 mph, and put five-year-old Ariel Young into a coma. Young sustained a ...
Andy Reid's son gets break his DUI victim didn't; Emmitt Smith is right about DEI; Kelce retires for real this time
Back in 2021, Britt Reid, then the Chiefs’ linebackers coach and son of celebrated Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, left team headquarters drunk, smashed his truck into two cars stopped on the side of the interstate at 84 mph, and put five-year-old Ariel Young into a coma. Young sustained a ...
Say what you want about the NBA, it still values its titans
For all the misguided complaints about the melodrama that can be the NBA at times, or the claims that its “wokeness” will be its ruin, or how the league beats itself up over load management or whatever else, it still offers something that none of the other three non-NFL leagues can. And that’s regul...
Jalen Brunson and the Knicks are proof that having a <i>Napoleon</i> complex isn’t all bad
It’s Oscars Week, which feels like as good a time as any to draw up the NBA storylines and characters which could double as Oscar nominees....
Big men are back in style in the NBA
The 1995-96 season was the end of the golden era for big men in the NBA. Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, and Shaquille O’Neal were stuffing opponents into lockers with their unstoppable back-to-the-basket games. They were the superstars in the paint, but Alonzo Mourning, Rik Smits, a...
When Emmitt Smith talks about race, people should listen
Emmitt Smith is probably not the first athlete people associate with Black people’s American struggle. He wasn’t at the press conference with the then-Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Bill Russell, and Jim Brown in support of Muhammad Ali electing to not serve in the United States mi...
Liverpool pulled another rabbit, but its pixie dust might only last a week
While I really shouldn’t let my frustration with how MLB has sullied their regular season into my soccer coverage, it was hard not to think about how Rob Manfred just discarded those moments during the regular season that portended to more down the line as I watched Darwin Nunez dig out a Liverpool ...
Hopefully the Caitlin Clark effect doesn't end with Caitlin Clark
The buzz around Caitlin Clark eclipsing Pete Maravich’s record on Sunday was enough to get celebs to Iowa City for the occasion. I’m not talking about Travis Scott. Jake from State Farm might be sports’ Forrest Gump, but celebs walking into college arenas to dap up the TV insurance guy while neglect...
Gilbert Arenas xenophobic NBA rant is the nonsense JJ Reddick warned us about
Why anyone listens to former Memphis Grizzlies guard Gilbert Arenas is beyond me. He could be an entertaining listen if he had the self-awareness to realize where the limits of his sense of humor are. Or he could regale his listeners with stories of what it was like to share the floor with former De...