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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — During a recent weekend in Georgia that served as a moment of triumph for Shawn Wheeler, the former Charlotte Checkers hockey star, he received two things: An induction, and an apology. The induction came when Wheeler earned enshrinement into the ECHL Hall of Fame, an honor he said “came as a total shock.” He became only the second Black person to make the ECHL Hall, which honors notable contributors to one of minor-league hockey’s most famous leagues. The apology? That came during the same weekend at a bar in Savannah, Georgia. Wheeler said a former opponent, whom he didn’t ...
The Charlotte Observer
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Aramis Garcia will never forget the sound he heard on July 28, 2023. It was a loud pop, almost like a gunshot. He turned toward the field and saw his Lehigh Valley teammate, Nick Podkul, flat on the ground. Blood was seeping into the dirt. Podkul, an infielder for the triple-A IronPigs, remembers it well. He remembers the pitcher — Syracuse Mets right-hander Jeff Brigham — and the pitch — a 92-mph fastball. Brigham is best known for his slider. It looks like it’s coming straight at you, until it breaks at the very last moment. That was what Podkul was expecting. As he watche...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
LUBBOCK, Texas — Easy to forget that it wasn’t that long ago Texas Tech was 20 seconds away from winning a national title in men’s basketball. Tech’s painful, overtime loss in the title game to Virginia was in the spring of 2019, which only feels like 2,019 years ago, as does nearly everything else that happened before COVID. Since that game, Texas Tech somehow maintained its reputation as the Stranger Things of college basketball, specifically with their coaches. Every time Tech was sure it had “The Guy,” something happened. Bob Knight quit. They fired his son. They fired the next guy. The ne...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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
What should Inter Miami fans expect of Lionel Messi in 2024 with his first full season in Major League Soccer now underway? Everything, that’s all. Matters not that he will turn 37 in a few months. Time is the constraint of mere mortals. This is Messi: Greatest of all time and greater than time itself. Are we serious? Another question: Can there be too much hyperbole when applied to this man? And now Messi is joined not only by Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba again, but by new attacker Luis Suarez to form a Big 4. The superteam on paper looked the part on grass in much of Wednesday night’s seas...
Miami Herald
SAN DIEGO — Every spring training deserves a Tony Gwynn story — such as the one from 25-plus years ago, when Mr. Padre untracked a young Rockies hitter who last month learned he'll get his own bronze bust. Knowing Todd Helton was having a hard time in his second big league season, Gwynn chatted up the former first-round pick and corrected a flaw. How do we know Gwynn assisted Helton, despite the two being on different teams? Because Helton mentioned Gwynn's technical pointers on the day he found out he was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. "Tony said, 'Todd, where do you look when you're l...
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
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