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NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Forget LeBron James making his eighth consecutive trip to the NBA Finals. The Cleveland Cavaliers star might have trouble just getting out of the opening round of the playoffs. Victor Oladipo scored a game-high 32 points to power the Indiana Pacers over the host Cavaliers 98-80 on Sunday in the opening game of their first-round NBA playoff series. “Stay calm, stay composed, play the game I have all year […]
UNITED STATES (AFP) — Results from Saturday’s NBA first-round playoff games (all series best-of-seven): Eastern Conference At Toronto Toronto 114 — Washington 106 (Toronto lead series 1-0) At Philadelphia Philadelphia 130 — Miami Heat 103 (Philadelphia lead series 1-0) Western Conference At Oakland, California Golden State 113 — San Antonio 92 (Golden State lead series 1-0) At Portland, Oregon Portland Trail Blazers 95 — New Orleans Pelicans 97 (New Orleans lead series 1-0) © […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — The Golden State Warriors fired a warning to their rivals as the NBA playoffs got under way on Saturday, routing the San Antonio Spurs 113-92 to serve notice they will not be dethroned easily despite Stephen Curry’s knee injury. Klay Thompson scored a game-high 27 points on 11-of-13 shooting, including 5-of-6 from 3-point range, and Kevin Durant added 24 points, eight rebounds and seven assists to power Golden State. […]
by Peter Stebbings © Agence France-Presse GOLD COAST, Australia (AFP) — Indian boxing star Mary Kom opened up on the heartache she faced returning to competition after having children as she captured her first Commonwealth Games title on Saturday at the age of 35. Mother-of-three Kom, the subject of a Bollywood film in 2014, won a unanimous points decision over Northern Ireland’s Kristina O’Hara in their light-flyweight final on Australia’s Gold Coast. It is […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The Golden State Warriors will be heading into uncharted territory on Saturday as they open their NBA postseason campaign against the San Antonio Spurs missing star Stephen Curry and struggling to find their best form. For the first time since head coach Steve Kerr took over in 2014-2015, the Warriors will not enter the playoffs as owners of the NBA’s best record, starting as second seeds in the Western […]
HILTON HEAD, United States (AFP) — Rory Sabbatini battled through the discomfort of a sore back to shoot a seven-under 64 for first-round lead at the RBC Heritage, with world number one Dustin Johnson not far behind. South Africa’s Sabbatini has a two-stroke lead over a group of four Americans at five-under 66, including Matt Kuchar and Billy Horschel, while Johnson fashioned four consecutive birdies at one stage of his opening round for a 69. […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Russell Westbrook became the first player in NBA history to average a triple double in multiple seasons as the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Memphis Grizzlies 137-123 on Wednesday. Westbrook entered Wednesday’s home contest needing 16 rebounds against the Grizzlies to complete his triple-double average for the second straight season. He earned his 16th rebound with about nine minutes left in the third quarter. He played 37 minutes against […]
By Norman Castro EBC New York Bureau TORONTO (Eagle News) – On a chilly Friday spring night, the Toronto Raptors looked to lock up the top seed in the Eastern Conference as they faced the Indiana Pacers. In a possible second round match up in the playoffs, this showed to be a preview of what might come. The Air Canada Centre was buzzing from the opening tip off, and the Raptors were more than […]
LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — The Philadelphia 76ers powered to a record-breaking 15th straight victory on Tuesday with a 121-113 defeat of the Atlanta Hawks to stay on course for the third seed in the Eastern Conference standings. J.J. Redick led the scoring with 28 points while Ersan Ilyasova weighed in with 26 off the bench as the Sixers moved to within one win of locking up the third spot. Ben Simmons, who had […]
By Vivem Soriano Eagle News Service Manchester City’s dream of winning Europe will have to wait again until next year after English rivals Liverpool’s 2-1 away victory at the Etihad Stadium knocked the Premier League leaders out of the Champions League on Tuesday night. Liverpool will now advance to the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League via a 5-1 aggregate victory against Manchester City. Manchester City came in to the match confident that they would […]
By Vivem Soriano Eagle News Service Roma defender Kostas Manolas sent the entire Stadio Olimpico to a delirious frenzy on Tuesday night with a stunning header in the 82nd minute as the Italian club sent Barcelona crashing out of the Champions League with a 3-0 win and advance to Europe’s final four with a 4-4 aggregate victory on away goals. After losing the first leg of the quarterfinals 4-1, Roma was facing extremely tall odds […]
By Tennie Sumague EBC New York Bureau NEW YORK (Eagle News) – The Cleveland Cavaliers coming to the Big Apple always creates a frenzy. In the middle of all of the excitement is usually LeBron James, with the media seizing every opportunity to ask him all sorts of questions – from the playoffs, to his comments on New York Knicks rookie, Frank Ntilikina earlier in the season, to social injustice issues, to being “the King” […]
