Tough? Gritty? Perseverant? Who are these Sixers? A real team with a real problem: the Knicks. The second big difference in this Sixers team: They have a coach. A real one. No disrespect to the two who came before Nurse. Brett Brown and Doc Rivers did not have Oubre, did not have Lowry ... 04/18/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
This time, with a Tyrese Maxey, reinvesting in Joel Embiid and the Sixers is smart However, Embiid was young and soft, Ben Simmons was unforeseeably treacherous, and they mistakenly chose Simmons, Harris, and coach Brett Brown over Jimmy Butler. We know, we know, you’ve heard ... 04/5/2024 - 10:19 pm | View Link
Ex-Sixers Teammate Hints at Ben Simmons’ Drama in Brooklyn There aren’t too many people expecting Ben Simmons to step foot into the Wells Fargo Center on March 10. He would likely be stepping into a hornet’s nest, mostly conjured up from his immature ... 02/23/2022 - 12:45 am | View Link
Report: Sixers frustrated with Ben Simmons' refusal to see team doctors about mental health The Ben Simmons standoff keeps finding new ways to get uglier. Two weeks after the Philadelphia 76ers point guard said he was mentally unready to play again, ESPN reports the team has grown ... 11/2/2021 - 12:34 pm | View Link
Shaq & Sir Charles Have Harsh Words for Sixers Star Ever since Ben Simmons made it known that he would like a fresh start with a new team — and that he was willing to forgo reporting to training camp to make it happen — the Philadelphia 76ers ... 09/10/2021 - 3:54 am | View Link
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mystik Dan won the 150th Kentucky Derby in a photo finish, edging out Forever Young and Sierra Leone for the upset victory.
Sent off at 18-1 odds, Mystik Dan and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. rode the rail down the stretch with a short lead. Forever Young from Japan and Sierra Leone gave chase and pressured the leader to the wire in front of 156,710 at Churchill Downs.
The crowd waited several minutes before the result was reviewed by the stewards and declared official.
Hernandez and trainer Kenny McPeek had teamed to win the Kentucky Oaks for fillies on Friday with Thorpedo Anna.
Mystik Dan ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:03.34 and paid $39.22 to win.
When it rains, it pours. And in the case of the 2024 Rockies, it floods.
Pinch-hitter Jack Suwinski hit a walk-off single to score Connor Joe and lift the Pirates to a 1-0 victory over Colorado on Saturday at dank and dreary PNC Park. Suwinski drilled reliever Nick Mears’ 0-1 fastball into left field for the game-winner.
The Rockies, who have yet to win back-to-back games this season, squandered an excellent start by left-hander Austin Gomber and slid to 8-25.
The kids in the Grading The Week offices are a lot of things, but they are not unreasonable. (Stop snickering.) Few topics are off the table when it comes to taking the Mickey, as our pals across the pond like to say. The GTW team likes to brag that they can take it almost as well as they dish it out.
And, to be frank, there are a lot of things the kids are perfectly fine with shaming CU Buffs fans for right now.
The Rockies are off to the worst start in franchise history, and questions need to be asked.
They entered a weekend series at Pittsburgh with a 7-24 record, putting them on pace to finish 37-125. While they will likely improve on their .226 winning percentage, enabling them to avoid contending with the expansion 1962 New York Mets (40-120) as one of the worst teams in MLB history, another 100-loss season appears probable.
The Rockies, amid a youth movement, have intriguing talent on the current roster and in their farm system, but they are a bad team right now.
The best thing about rock bottom is the bottom part. It has no delusions of adequacy, and knows its friends are Antarctica, the 1997-98 Denver Nuggets and “Tiger Blood” Charlie Sheen.
The worst thing is the rock. Or in this case, the Rockies. They are playing baseball so poorly that there is a growing suspicion that they might do it worse than any team in the modern history of the sport.
Before taking on Tim Connelly’s Timberwolves in the playoffs for the second time in as many years, Nikola Jokic tipped his cap to the general manager who drafted him.
The Nuggets center pointed out how dramatically the perception of Connelly’s 2022 blockbuster trade has changed since last year, when Minnesota was the No.