Blake Griffin had 30 points and 12 rebounds, Reggie Jackson and Langston Galloway each scored 13 points and Stanley Johnson had 12 for the Pistons. They had lost six of eight. Kawhi Leonard scored 26 points and Pascal Siakam and Greg Monroe each had 17 for the Raptors. They have lost consecutive home games after a 7-0 start. Toronto (12-3) also failed to match the best start in franchise history....
The Pistons went 16-27 after the deal, effectively ending Van Gundy’s tenure. On Monday, the Pistons announced a parting of the ways with Van Gundy, who was also running the team’s front office. The plan now is to hire two people, one for each job, separating the front office from the coach’s office. But the coaching job will get the most attention, and there should be an ample pool of candidates vying for the job....
Drummond then calmly made both shots to seal the game for the Pistons. “Closing it out with a rebound and getting those two free throws — is huge,” Drummond said. “Got the win, so that’s really good.” Drummond had 24 points and 20 rebounds, and the Pistons rallied from a nine-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the short-handed Dallas Mavericks 93-89 on Thursday night. Before the game, the Mavericks traded Dennis Smith Jr....
He embellished an elbow to the face from Kentucky’s Dakari Johnson, but he oversold it, flailing unncessarily like a slippery fish. It then became the flop heard ‘round the world of college basketball. MORE: See Jones’ flop | The flop in claymation | Eight breakout players After Tuesday night’s game against Long Beach State, Pitino was asked about Jones’ on-court acting in the previous. It was clear he wasn’t happy with the guard’s performance....
That thought came and went a while ago. “We were ready to compete this year,” Narduzzi told Sporting News. “We’re one play away from beating North Carolina. We’re one play away from beating Oklahoma State. We’re one play from beating Virginia Tech. … We’re seconds away from winning all three of those games. We could’ve competed this year if things go our way.” Pitt takes on Northwestern on Wednesday in the Pinstripe Bowl, and that could be a springboard into something more next season....
With a pair of freshmen leading the way — and breaking some long-standing school records in the process — the Panthers edged Bowling Green 30-27 on Thursday night in the Little Caesars Pizza Bowl. Conner rushed for 229 yards. Boyd caught eight passes for 173 yards and also scored on a punt return. "We obviously have some great young talent and that's why we are so confident about the future of this program," Chryst said....
Disclaimer: The Major League Baseball (MLB) team in question here has a storied legacy, one which I’ll choose to ignore for the moment. This doesn’t in any way take anything away from the team’s legacy, and if one were to feel otherwise from this lighthearted poke at it, perhaps it’s reputation isn’t as rock solid as expected (troll bait, hook, line and sinker). While we are at it, it would be prudent to rise above the slings and arrows being tossed from both directions and consider this debate from a real pirate’s point of view....
The champions made it six wins from six in the top flight on Saturday, with Paulo Dybala drilling them ahead against their Turin rivals before Daniele Baselli saw red for the visitors. Verona 5/1 to beat Lazio Pjanic, who teed up Dybala’s opener, then got in on the act himself with an excellent strike, before setting up Alex Sandro for a third. Dybala completed the rout late on and Pjanic has no doubt that Juve will continue to build on their hugely impressive start....
Sarri has reportedly been granted a release by Premier League side Chelsea so he can replace Massimiliano Allegri on a three-year deal in Turin. Allegri guided Juve to five successive Serie A titles before parting ways with the Italian giants at the end of 2018-19 and Pjanic has no concerns about the club’s future. “We are not worried at all, Juventus will be strong as always,” Pjanic told reporters ahead of Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Euro 2020 qualifier against Italy on Tuesday....
After a successful outing at the Asian Games, all teams had their eyes on the Iranian players, and this season will see a record of 15 Iranians featuring in the league. Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh turned out to be the most sought after foreign player at the auction with the Bengal Warriors shelling out a whopping ₹ 77.75 lakh for the Iranian all-rounder. Historically in the PKL, the contribution of foreign players has been substantial with players like Jang Kun Lee, Meraj Sheykh, Fazel Atrachali, and Abozar Mighani becoming household names....
The Haryana Steelers lost their last game by a big margin of 23 points as their defensive unit managed to pick up only 3 tackle points in the match against Pawan Sehrawat’s record-break 39-point performance. On the raiding front, Prashanth Kumar Rai was brilliant as the lanky raider picked up 17 points on a day when Vikash Kandola put up a rare failure to record just six points to his name....
Vinay from Haryana became the top scorer of the match after collecting 11 raid points. Ajinkya Kapre from U Mumba fell short of his first Super 10 by a single point. On the defensive front, Fazel Atrachali and Sandeep Narwal from U Mumba displayed smashing performances and picked up 8 and 5 tackle points respectively. Dong Geon Lee, hailing from South Korea, inaugurated the night for U Mumba and returned with a quick bonus point....
A small plane flew above the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama on Sunday with a large Confederate flag and the words “Defund NASCAR.” The aircraft flew over the speedway prior to Sunday’s Geico 500, which is part of NASCAR’s restart to the season because of the novel coronavirus. Sunday’s race is only the second to allow a limited number of fans in the stands, following the lead of the South Florida racetrack in Homestead, which hosted 1,000 local military members last weekend....
With the advent of the advance era of iPhones, Nokia is making immense effort to retain the popularity of smart phones amongst the technology lovers. Among all these eye catchy models, Nokia Lumia 925 is still waiting for its release that can probably take place on June. Unlike to the previously launched Lumia sets, 925 will have an aluminium case rather than the polycarbonate covering. This extremely slim eye candy phone is also lighter in weight in comparison to other models of the series....
The Estate of the late Michael Jackson have objected to the “dancing zombie” that resembles Thriller-style Jacko, and PopCap opted to respect their wishes. PopCap explains the objection: The recent update to the game replaced zombie MJ with a disco-themed dancing zombie (pictured below). The zombie’s movement, backup dancers and attacks are all the same - the only change are the visuals of the zombie characters. There are some reports that the new update causes the game to crash, though it may be corrected now as another update came through this evening citing “bug fixes....
MORE: Conor McGregor chosen as cover athlete for “EA Sports UFC 3"QUICK FIGHT and FIGHT NOW CLASSIC: Jump into Quick Fight and Fight Now Classic to experience the revolutionary new Real Player Motion (RPM) Tech. RPM is a revolutionary EA Sports animation technology that sets a new bar for motion and responsiveness in the best-looking, and now the best-feeling, “EA Sports UFC” game ever. Players can now slip and strike in full motion to execute dangerous counterattacks, adding new levels of strategy and competition to every fight....
That’s why? As opposed to every single other reason out there, this year and the last several? MORE: Why Odell Beckham Jr. keeps self-destructing It’s actually too early to reach conclusions about anything this season, including whether the widely-reported ratings drop is or isn’t just a speed bump. It’s way too early to decide in the six weeks since Colin Kaepernick’s protests first went public, whether that’s even a factor....
Quietly and carefully, Parsons has emerged in a pivotal role as Time Warner’s senior financial engineer, in-house dealmaker and emissary to the outside world. How important is he? If the $7.5 billion purchase of Turner wins FTC approval this summer, Time Warner will displace the Walt Disney Co., which recently purchased ABC, as the world’s largest media company. And if Parsons has his way in the multibillion-dollar battle to restructure the partnership with U S West, Time Warner will regain full ownership of HBO and Warner Bros....
The two Alan Wake expansions can be accessed by a download link from the Xbox site, as well as through the Xbox 360 and Xbox One console marketplace. The additional content comes in the form of The Signal and The Writer, with both of which set after the events of the original game. It’s a no-brainer for those that have already got their hands on the title, and will no doubt also prove extremely tempting for those who have yet to play Alan Wake at all....
That optimistic view was reinforced two days later, when FBI agents rounded up five men in a suburb of Buffalo, N.Y., and charged them with providing “material support” to Al Qaeda. The men, all U.S. citizens of Yemeni descent, allegedly attended a terrorist-training camp in Afghanistan, where they learned to use weapons and listened to a speech by Osama bin Laden. The Buffalo arrests seemed to illustrate the administration’s warnings that Qaeda “sleeper cells” may still be operating in the United States, awaiting orders from overseas....
