Becoming A Contender is difficult business, filled with missteps, false starts, cul-de-sacs and distractions, and it is never more difficult than when a team that has been on power suck for most of the last decade and a half suddenly finds itself in other people’s late-season business. Hence, the Detroit Pistons in this, the beginning…
Walter Clayton Jr. has been the star for Florida, and while he’s led the Gators to the men’s Final Four for the first time since 2014, the senior guard could have been in Gainesville much earlier in his college career. The only difference is he would’ve been wearing cleats and sporting the iconic orange helmet with the…
Authorities say 39-year-old suffered an injury after jumping a fence when fleeing police and later died in the hospital A rapper signed to fellow lyricists Future and Waka Flocka Flame died on his 39th birthday in his home town of Atlanta after injuring his leg while running from police and jumping fences, according to authorities…
The Arm Holdings Plc initial public offering is generating a lot of excitement among IPO and tech fans, and for good reason—it’s the first significant tech IPO in more than two years. A lot depends on how well it does. Investors’ “success” in this instance included strong demand and an increase in price in the…
Federal authorities detained a Tufts graduate student last night outside an off-campus apartment in Somerville, University President Sunil Kumar announced in an email around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night. Kumar wrote that the university is seeking more information about the cause and circumstances of the arrest. The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, is a Turkish national and doctoral candidate in the Eliot-Pearson…
Tuesday night, Nikola Joki became the first player to ever get a triple-double, helping the Denver Nuggets defeat the Phoenix Suns by a score of 118-102 in Game 5 of their Western Conference semifinal series. Denver currently leads the best-of-seven series 3-2 and needs one more win to progress to the next round. With…
An Orthodox Jewish passenger says a United Airlines pilot forcibly removed him from an airplane bathroom while he was experiencing constipation, exposing his genitalia to other flyers during a flight from Tulum, Mexico, to Houston. Yisroel Liebb, of New Jersey, described his trip through allegedly unfriendly skies in a federal lawsuit this week against the airline and…
MIAMI — Jimmy Butler III sat on the Golden State Warriors bench and watched a nearly 40-second video of his Miami Heat highlights play on the big screen above him at Kaseya Center. From his iconic hunched-over, in-exhaustion moment in the 2020 NBA Finals to some of the other hits from his five-plus seasons with the Heat, Butler watched the tribute….
The Orlando Magic ended a six-game home losing streak by inflicting a third straight defeat on the Los Angeles Lakers. Luka Doncic scored 32 points and LeBron James added 24 and eight assists for the Lakers, who led 60-58 at half-time. However, Orlando outscored the visitors 34-18 in the third quarter and went on to…
The University of Southern California women’s basketball team is once again a top program in the NCAA, just like they were last season. JuJu Watkins, a rising star in women’s college basketball as a freshman, is in charge of the team. Last year, the Trojans made it to the Elite Eight for the first time…