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Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey is often given credit for leading the analytics revolution in the NBA, and he has certainly played a major role in utilizing analytics effectively and raising public awareness of it. The proliferation of analytics tools in basketball decisions has grown to the point where …

Sports’ Ben Rohrbach, Nadal threw cold water on the idea that women should earn as much as men in tennis, saying “it’s a comparison we shouldn’t even make.” “Female models earn more than male models, and nobody says anything,” he was quoted as saying in the magazine. And while Rohrbach …

Besides being a popular theme in real money online casino games, it is a men’s professional basketball league in North America. The NBA consists of thirty teams; twenty-nine of those are based in the United States whilst one is from Canada. It is widely considered as the top men’s professional …

In the final game of a three-match, seven-day stretch, Sporting Kansas City left Providence Park on Saturday night having accomplished the admirable feat of holding the Portland Timbers scoreless at home for the first time this season, despite seizing upon a scattering of chances to snatch a victory in what …

The news Friday that dual threat Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels is headed to the disabled list with a Grade 2 ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) sprain in his right (throwing) elbow immediately sent ripples through the baseball world. Angels place Ohtani on DL with sprained UCL Los Angeles …

Arizona Cardinals running back David Johnson created a stir in recent days. Cardinals coach Steve Wilks declined to go into particulars on what kept the running back from the practice field, but NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo and Tom Pelissero reported the star running back is not injured. While a healthy …

LeBron James, partially responsible for ushering in the NBA’s era of superteams when he joined the Miami Heat in 2010, said that for as much talent as the Golden State Warriors possess, the greater challenge in bringing them down might be matching their collective basketball IQ. The Cleveland Cavaliers trail …

Five Armenians have been charged in Belgium with corruption, money laundering and other crimes as part of an international investigation into match-fixing in tennis, prosecutors said on Wednesday (Jun 6). Belgian prosecutors said the matches were on the low-level Futures and Challenger circuits, away from the gaze of television coverage …

A car in which PGA Tour golfer Bud Cauley was a passenger went airborne before striking a large tree and three smaller trees and stopping in a ditch Friday night, according to a police report released Tuesday. Cauley, Wisniewski and a third passenger were taken to a Columbus hospital for …

Faking or exaggerating an injury is not exactly new to soccer, but at least the goalkeeper for Tunisia, Mouez Hassen has a pretty understandable reason for it, as reported by the BBC. Meanwhile, Egypt has brought in a specialist to help its players stay in shape if they fast, while …