College basketball Power Rankings: Auburn stays No. 1, Kentucky stirs the pot, Alabama stumps

On this day 26 years ago, Michael Jordan made six straight 3s in an NBA Finals game against the Portland Trail Blazers. After the sixth make, we got one of the most iconic moments in the history of basketball. As if the greatest basketball player ever needed it, Jordan had extra motivation to dominate the Blazers in that series. Portland’s best player was Clyde Drexler, who, at the time, was considered one of Jordan’s rivals for the “best player in the league� title. That didn’t sit well with the ultra-competitive Jordan. Not at all. And he made it his personal mission to destroy Drexler — both mentally and physically — during the series. David Halberstam wrote about Jordan’s fixation with embarrassing

As the league’s most unsuccessful franchise of the modern era, the Cleveland Browns are desperate to rehabilitate their public image. The punchline to so many jokes about how not to run a team, they likely believed an appearance on HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’ would show the team in a different light this offseason. After six season with the Pittsburgh Steelers, offensive coordinator Todd Haley is one of several new faces experiencing life in training camp with Cleveland for the first time this year, and like many viewers watching ‘Hard Knocks’ on Tuesday night, it appears he cannot believe how the Browns organization is run either. During a coaches meeting to discuss the availability of injured players, Haley seems to be struggling to understand the team’s policy when it comes to allowing individuals to sit out practice and his thoughts on the matter did not appear to mesh with Hue Jackson’s vision.