To help the Lakers 2020 playoff run, Metro will appropriate memorial Lakers TAP cards at select bus stations and rail stations in the next few days. Many of the cards — which are stacked with a day pass — will be dispersed in low-income and underserved neighborhoods by our law requirement partners at the LAPD, […]
Dwight Howard began for the Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday against the Denver Nuggets in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals and had a quick effect. He scored 12 points and included 11 bounce back in the Lakers’ 114-108 win. It was Howard’s high in sheets this postseason and erratic his high in points, […]
Captain Steve Smith broke a game dominating 69 in Rajasthan Royal’s initial Indian Premier League game on Tuesday that produced a record-equalling 33 sixes in the Twenty20 competition. Smith, who confronted blackout fears coming into the IPL, put on a key 121-run second-wicket partnership with Sanju Samson, who crushed 74, to manage Royals to 216 […]
Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas edged Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose in the first-ever Payne’s Valley Cup, played at Big Cedar Lodge in Missouri to stamp the kickoff of Woods’ first-since public course design. Woods and Thomas joined in a Ryder Cup-style match against a couple of previous world No. 1s from Europe, with the […]
Slow starters in the initial two rounds, the Los Angeles Lakers seemed, by all accounts, to be in a rush to take care of the Denver Nuggets. It was a solid explanation to their adversary and possibly to the NBA’s MVP voters. Anthony Davis had 37 points and 10 bounce back, LeBron James included 15 […]
Jared McCann is staying with the Pittsburgh Penguins. The team declared Friday it has re-signed the forward to a two-year agreement that goes through the 2021-22 season. The deal conveys an average annual value of $2.94 million. McCann, 24, tied a career high with 35 points during the 2020-21 season, gathering 14 goals and 21 […]
Not exactly seven days after she won the US Open, three-time major champion Naomi Osaka of Japan reported via social media that she won’t play in the French Open in Paris. “Unfortunately I won’t be able to play the French Open this year,” Osaka said in posts on Twitter and Instagram on Thursday. “My hamstring […]
The Minnesota Twins’ Josh Donaldson figured out how to get catapulted while hitting a home run. Donaldson yapped at plate umpire Dan Bellino for the second time in the 6th inning of a 4-3 misfortune to the Chicago White Sox on Thursday. With Minnesota following 3-2, Bellino called a strike when the 2015 American League […]
Dallas Mavericks star Luka Doncic made the first-team All-NBA squad this season, turning into the first player named to the first team in quite a while first or second season since San Antonio Spurs legend Tim Duncan did in 1999, per Brad Townsend of the Dallas Morning News. Doncic got 59 First Team votes. Doncic […]
Cincinnati Bengals president Mike Brown will miss his first normal season game in franchise history on Thursday, he told the team’s website. The team’s top executive said he won’t go to Thursday’s down against the Cleveland Browns due to COVID-19 concerns. “I’m the age I am and I check all the boxes and I’m told […]