Brad Stevens named NBA Basketball Executive of the Year Brad Stevens has excelled as President of Basketball Operations since assuming the role in the Summer of 2021, and now, he has his first piece of hardware to show for it.The NBA announced on Tuesday ... 04/30/2024 - 5:03 am | View Link
Kendrick Perkins Names NBA Eastern Conference MVP On Monday's edition of NBA Today on ESPN, Kendrick Perkins named his Most Valuable Player for the NBA Eastern Conference. His MVP is Jalen Brunson . Brunson is coming off one of the best performances ... 04/29/2024 - 1:06 pm | View Link
The NBA has banned a Toronto Raptors two-way player for life. What did Jontay Porter do? Toronto Raptors two-way power forward Jontay Porter received a lifetime ban from the NBA for "disclosing confidential information to sports bettors, limiting his own participation in one or more ... 04/17/2024 - 8:06 am | View Link
NBA bans player for life over online sports betting The NBA has permanently banned Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter from the league for violating its gambling rules, the league said in a statement on Wednesday. According to an internal ... 04/17/2024 - 7:57 am | View Link
NBA Levies Lifetime Ban to Player in Massive Gambling Scandal Following an NBA investigation, it was discovered that Porter advised a gambler to place an $80,000 parlay bet against Portery's on-court play in a 123-89 March 20 loss to the Sacramento Kings ... 04/17/2024 - 7:52 am | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.