GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Jalen Brunson against Donovan Mitchell was the matchup splashed across the screens to hype the Eastern Conference finals. Unfortunately for the Cleveland Cavaliers, it turned into Brunson versus James Harden in the fourth quarter of Game 1. Brunson continuously attacked ...
PARIS — Players at the French Open are planning to reduce media appearances ahead of the start of the Grand Slam to complain about their share of the prize money. A group have already targeted the upcoming clay-court tournament for reducing players’ share of revenue to an alleged 14.3% — compared to 22% at other ATP and WTA events. Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka and No.4 Coco Gauff were among leading players who threatened a boycott of the Slams earlier this month if they don’t start receiving more compensation. L’Equipe newspaper reported Wednesday that many players competing ...
OKLAHOMA CITY — The numbers deserve a deeper look: 41 points, 24 rebounds, three blocked shots. Take a bow, Victor Wembanyama. That’s a conference finals debut like none other in the NBA’s 80-year history. The San Antonio star did everything — and a whole lot of it — in the ...
LONDON — Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz pulled out of the grass-court Grand Slam event next month because of his lingering wrist injury. Alcaraz injured his wrist at the Barcelona Open last month. That forced him out of the French Open that starts this weekend. Alcaraz started the year by winning the Australian Open final. He became the youngest man ever to win all four major titles in tennis. Elsewhere in sports: - Kevin Harvick, who captured the 2014 NASCAR Cup Series championship and won 60 races at the sport’s top level, was selected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame ...
GREENBURGH, N.Y. — Donovan Mitchell and the Cleveland Cavaliers were sent to face Jalen Brunson and the New York Knicks in a nationally televised season opener and again to kick off Christmas, NBA schedule makers clearly viewing that as the Eastern Conference’s marquee matchup. Good ...
RANCHOS PALOS VERDES, Calif. — It’s no stretch to say that in the the battle of wills, visions and, yes, national titles being waged across the college-sports landscape, the Big Ten has taken the lead. Leaders in the conference currently holding the football, men’s and women’s basketball titles opened their annual spring meeting Monday with nothing more than the future of their business on the agenda. “It seems like we’re paddling beneath the surface and we don’t really know what direction we’re going in,” said coach Dusty May, whose Michigan men’s basketball team ...
