Cleveland trolled Golden State on Sunday with a blown-up photo of the key defensive play LeBron James made in the final minutes of Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals before their Christmas Day showdown at Quicken Loans Arena. MORE: 12 surprises and disappointments from the NBA season The team even digitally edited a championship ring on James’ finger. Talk about some holiday savagery. May the filthiest animals win.
The point spread for Sunday’s Game 4 has flipped, with the Cavs the 1.5-point favorites as of Saturday evening. The total is 194.5 at most betting venues. Check our odds page for current Las Vegas lines. Rose scored 30 points on Friday and, at least temporarily, silenced his critics who questioned his ability to play on one day’s rest. Rose looked explosive taking the ball to the basket, although he needs to do a better job finishing, as he shot 10-of-26 from the field overall....
The Uruguay international striker grabbed his 21st continental strike for the Ligue 1 runners-up from the penalty spot shortly before the interval after he had been fouled by Jozo Simunovic as he tried to head home a cross. PSG 6/1 to win CL Cavani is in his fourth season of European competition with Unai Emery’s side, having arrived from Napoli in 2013. He mustered four goals in his first campaign before netting six then two in the following years....
MORE: Ranking the playoff coaches The 38-year-old Lue has a verbal agreement with team management, according to the report. That agreement is expected to pay him $3 million prorated this season, $3 million next year and $3.5 million in 2017-18 under a team option. That would put Lue — who is currently the league’s highest paid assistant — in the bottom half of head coach salaries in the league....
Sabathia was removed from the Yankees’ American League Championship Series roster Friday after suffering a subluxation of his left shoulder joint, the team announced. He will be replaced by pitcher Ben Heller and is ineligible to return this postseason. The former Cy Young Award winner exited the Yankees’ Game 4 loss to the Astros in the eighth inning after facing four batters. The home crowd gave him a standing ovation in what wound up being his final appearance at Yankee Stadium....
The move was in response to increased calls to make the boosters more widely available ahead of the holiday season when people will be traveling more. The CDC is expected to give final approval later Friday. Boosters are for anyone who is more than six months past their second Moderna or Pfizer dose or two months past their Johnson & Johnson shot. The CDC stressed during Friday’s meeting they especially recommend the boosters for adults 50 and older....
The decision came in light of the Omicron variant, a potentially more infectious new COVID variant discovered in Africa earlier in November. While the exact scope of the new strain’s infection rate and resistance to vaccines will take time to understand, the CDC nonetheless made the recommendation as a way to potentially prevent serious illness. “Today, CDC is strengthening its recommendation on booster doses for individuals who are 18 years and older,” Dr....
Fans have already been treated to a short teaser trailer, where the Hargreeve family come face to face with The Sparrows, another group of siblings with superpowers. Even better, in the weeks leading up to the premiere, some first-look photos of the cast are starting to drop and on Tuesday, April 30, Elliot Page released a first-look picture of Victor Hargreeves. In the first two seasons of The Umbrella Academy, Page played the role of Vanya, one of the most powerful Hargeeves siblings, who for so long, though they had no powers whatsoever until at the end of Season 1, Vanya (also known as Number 7) caused an apocalypse....
The list on Saturday included Chile internationals Fabian Orellana and Pedro Pablo Hernandez, who recently joined the Spanish club, reports Efe. The Spanish team will play four friendlies during this tour. The squad included all players of the first team, except for French striker Claudio Beauvue, who will continue his recovery programme in Vigo. Five players from Celta Vigo B are also in the list, namely Borja Fernandez, Borja Iglesias, Pape Cheikh, Brais Mendez and goalkeeper Ivan Villar....
Wallace was set to have postseason surgery to correct bone spurs on his left ankle, but an MRI revealed a torn meniscus in his left knee, according to ESPNBoston.com. Wallace has played hard over his career and suffered many injuries, but this is the first time he has ever needed to have surgery in his 13 NBA seasons. "The report that I got from [team trainer] Ed Lacerte was that they did both, the ankle and the knee, and that both went well," Celtics coach Brad Stevens said, according to ESPNBoston....
Despite losing yet another star player to injury – this time Jaylen Brown – the Celtics somehow managed to turn an eight-point half-time lead into an easy 112-96 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks in game seven. The Celtics advance to host the Philadelphia 76ers in game one of an Eastern Conference semi-finals matchup on Monday. Brown, who had scored 20.5 points per game in the first six games of the series, limped to the locker room late in the first half....
New head coach Ime Udoka didn’t hold back with his assessment of the performance. “I said to the group that’s as ugly as it can get,” said Udoka. “One thing I can’t stand as a coach is getting punked out there. I felt they basically came out and punked us, outplayed us, played harder than us, all the things we talked about.” The Celtics were jeered off the floor by their home fans, with the Celtics now 0-2 on the season....
John Sculley, 54, is the hero-turned-goat of Apple Computer (he built it up, ran it down) who stunned the industry last fall when he took a job as CEO of Spectrum Information Technologies, a little company with as dubious a reputation as some of its more famous Long Island neighbors like Joey B. and Amy. Sculley believed he could turn Spectrum into a major player in wireless technology, and he signed on for a $1 million salary and a boatload of stock options....
CES 2022’s in-person convention was initially announced to run from January 5 through January 8. With today’s announcement, CES 2022 will now end of January 7, though it will still open on January 5 as planned. The reason for the change, according to CES organizers, is for an “additional safety measure.” RELATED: Comic-Con Postpones In-Person Events Until 2022 CES also points out that it has existing Health Protocols in place for its in-person convention....
Although he was enjoying himself, Cesaro wasn’t able to speak as his teeth were lodged into his upper jaw during the Bar’s match against Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose. In case you didn’t know… The 36-year-old suffered an injury during his recent match for the RAW Tag Team Championships at No Mercy, where he and Sheamus took on Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins. Cesaro took a huge bump at the hands of Ambrose and lost some of his front teeth after hitting the turnbuckle hard, But he continued nonetheless and took a Brogue Kick from Sheamus before the match ended....
Following his win over Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 37, Cesaro unsuccessfully challenged Reigns for the Universal Championship in the WrestleMania Backlash main event. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the pay-per-view was held in the WWE ThunderDome without a live crowd. Speaking on Ryan Satin’s Out of Character podcast, Cesaro said it was “awesome” to go one-on-one with Reigns in a major storyline. However, he would have preferred to face The Tribal Chief when fans returned....
The two stars collided at WrestleMania Backlash last year for the Universal Championship in a 27-minute bout. The match took place inside the ThunderDome with no one in attendance. During a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, Cesaro stated that he’s proud of the match, but he wants to redo it in front of a live crowd. Cesaro wants to accomplish more during his time in WWE Cesaro is a former United States, Raw and SmackDown Tag Team Champion....
That first game made an impression, leaving the standard for every other college football player, coach, team and fan in history to follow. It wasn’t the greatest game — Rutgers beat New Jersey 6-4, after all — but its impact soon transcended the field and become interwoven with the fabric of American society. CFB 150: Sporting News celebrates 150 years of college football A century-and-a-half later, that hasn’t changed. Only a handful of college football games have reached that same level of cultural impact, like the time Pitt’s Bobby Grier helped integrate the Sugar Bowl on Jan....
It was a cakewalk for the Kolkata giants against Subhash Bhowmick’s side ahead of the all important Kolkata Derby on Sunday. East Bengal took the lead in the first half when Plaza headed in from Chullova’s corner. Plaza had got one more opportunity to score but his effort was brilliantly stopped by Tollygunge custodian Sourav Roy. The floodgates opened in the second half when the Trinidad and Tobago forward doubled his tally by dribbling past three defenders inside the box and calmly finishing....
