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Lionel Messi and his pink clad Inter Miami teammates kicked off the 2024 MLS season Wednesday night and showed why they are the league’s main attraction, dazzling the Chase Stadium crowd with precision passing, juking defenders left and right, looking at times like a team in mid-season form as they beat Real Salt Lake 2-0. All the fans’ concern about Inter Miami players starting the season exhausted after a 24,000-mile five-nation preseason tour were put to rest. Messi looked fully fit and highly motivated as he ran hard for 90 minutes and eluded defenders time and time again, threading passes...
Miami Herald
The Warriors’ first game out of the All-Star break against the Lakers will be much less glamorous than anticipated. LeBron James (left ankle peroneal tendinopathy) is listed as out for Thursday night’s Lakers-Warriors matchup in the Chase Center. James, 39, played 14 minutes in the All-Star Game on Sunday. The Lakers are currently 1.5 games ahead of the Warriors for ninth place in the Western Conference standings. Each of the final 29 games are crucial for the Warriors, who need to jump several teams in the standings to escape the play-in round. In the team’s first film session after the All-S...
The Mercury News
CHICAGO — John Tortorella wouldn’t use the term but he surely hinted at it. A game against the NHL’s basement dweller had all the makings of a trap game. But this time, unlike that forgetful game against the San Jose Sharks in early November, the Flyers did not get snared and skated away with a 3-1 win against the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night. Forty-four games later, this is a different Flyers team. Sam Ersson, who started in California too, has grown and developed a high-end game. He was once again stellar in net and made 22 saves against the Blackhawks, including a ridiculous sprawl...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Leaning on a bat next to the Giants spring training dugout at Scottsdale Stadium on Wednesday, manager Bob Melvin navigated the delicate process of explaining how things unraveled at the end in San Diego. In 2022, the Padres — Melvin's Padres — were a baseball rocketship, beating the 101-win Mets in New York, stunning the 111-win Dodgers and charging into the franchise's first NCLS since 1998. A season later, things crumbled and soured as a lineup loaded with marquee stars failed to perform in the clutch and discord between Melvin and President of Baseball Operations A.J. P...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Pardon me while I take a few minutes to unpack the Yoshinobu Yamamoto news. I didn’t think the Phillies had it in them. The early-offseason chatter was just that. Chatter. The idea that the Phillies were preparing an aggressive bid for a 25-year-old Japanese starter was a classic hot stove cocktail: one part wishful thinking mixed with two parts market manipulation. If you can’t beat ‘em, drive up their cost of doing business. That kind of thing. Now? I suppose I have to take John Middleton at his word. He sure sounded like a guy who was in it to win it when he talked about Yamamoto with The I...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
ORLANDO, Fla. — Mac McClung already has disproved the age-old stereotype that white men can’t jump, but now the multi-million-dollar question is whether a team will give the two-time Slam Dunk champ a chance to prove himself as a legit NBA player. McClung, a 6-foot-2 guard on Orlando’s G League affiliate in Osceola County, literally jumped over Shaquille O’Neal to complete a reverse jam to win the Slam Dunk Contest for the second consecutive year Saturday night during the NBA’s All-Star weekend in Indianapolis. His phone is ringing off the hook with marketing and interview opportunities, but M...
Orlando Sentinel
NEW YORK — Jalen Brunson now considers joining the Knicks the “best move,” but before he hit free agency in 2022, the All-Star point guard wanted to stick with the Dallas Mavericks, he said in a new interview. Brunson, now in the second season of a four-year, $104 million contract with the Knicks, maintains he was prepared to sign a significantly cheaper extension with Dallas before the 2021-22 season but the Mavericks took too long to commit. “I really did want to stay in Dallas,” Brunson, 27, said on the “All The Smoke” podcast. “Before my fourth season in Dallas, my last season in Dallas, w...
New York Daily News
JUPITER, Fla. — Trey Mancini last season watched what the Miami Marlins did from a distance. He saw a scrappy team with an underdog mentality push its way into the playoffs and defy the odds they were given. After being inside the clubhouse for one week of spring training, he has a better understanding of how they got to that point. “It’s such a close-knit team,” Mancini said. “It’s always great to come in into a situation like that.” Mancini is with the Marlins on a minor-league deal. The 31-year-old first baseman has a track record for being a professional hitter and can play solid defense b...
Miami Herald
CHICAGO — NFL players: they’re just like the rest of us. If you’re tired of the endless Chicago Bears quarterback debates, those fiery Justin Fields versus Caleb Williams arguments that have remained persistent through the early stages of this offseason, you have esteemed company. In Fields. The soon-to-be 25-year-old quarterback explained his role in this week’s hottest sports social media mystery, using an appearance on the 33rd Team’s “St. Brown Bros Podcast” to clarify why he is no longer following the Bears account on Instagram. Fields said his motive was hardly as passive-aggressive or n...
Chicago Tribune
GLENDALE, Ariz. — General manager Chris Getz had a conversation with Chicago White Sox left fielder Andrew Benintendi in September, looking ahead to 2024. “I think one of the focuses for him was to physically improve his body to be more athletic defensively, certainly offensively, and it’s shown so far,” Getz said Tuesday. “It’s definitely, from my standpoint, an encouraging sign.” With some nagging injuries behind him, Benintendi is gearing up for his second season with the Sox. “For me, obviously last year wasn’t the best year, dealt with some things throughout the year that may have hindere...
Chicago Tribune
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