Miller found unexpected inspiration this offseason from a pair of NBA greats: Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. Now he wants to lead the way they did.
Lamar Jackson’s impending extension looms large over how to pay the league’s best group of under-25 talent.
After talking to a number of people, including President Donald Trump, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones did not say what his team’s national anthem policy would be in 2020, saying, “We’re going to show grace.”
Jets running back Le’Veon Bell rededicated himself in the offseason and reported to training camp at his lowest weight since high school. At 28, he expects to have a career year.
Dak Prescott says nothing is going to change because he couldn’t get a long-term deal done with the Cowboys this offseason. “I’ve got dreams of being a Dallas Cowboy until I’m done throwing the football,” he said.
Dodgers hard-throwing reliever Joe Kelly has had his eight-game suspension for throwing at Astros players reduced to five on appeal, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Kiley McDaniel.
The Yankees ruled Aaron Judge out with lower-body tightness. His status beyond Wednesday’s game was uncertain.
The Big East joined the growing list of conferences not playing sports in the fall. The conference announced that men’s and women’s soccer, men’s and women’s cross country, volleyball and field hockey won’t be contested. Georgetown is the defending national champions in men’s soccer.
The Raptors, Bucks and Celtics are all near the top of this weeks rankings.
Giannis Antetokounmpo has been suspended for Milwaukee’s final game of the regular season, handed a one-game penalty Wednesday for headbutting Washington’s Moe Wagner. It’s unknown if Antetokounmpo would have played in Thursday’s game against Memphis anyway, given that the Bucks have already secured the No. 1 overall seed in the NBA playoffs that start next week. Antetokounmpo will be eligible for Game 1 of the Bucks’ first-round series against Orlando, which will almost certainly be played Monday or Tuesday at Walt Disney World.
