Adam Silver was asked about the Caitlin Clark foul in his pre-NBA Finals press conference on Thursday before the Boston Celtics hosted the Dallas Mavericks in Game 1. Clark was hip-checked by Chicago Sky guard Chennedy Carter on Saturday, which set off a firestorm throughout the week about the treatment of the Indiana Fever rookie. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS …
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The Black national anthem has been a fixture in the Super Bowl and the NFL since the summer of racial unrest in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. The NAACP began to promote “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as the Black national anthem in 1917. The song being performed before the Super Bowl has caused division across social …
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A court in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on Thursday began the trial of an American soldier arrested earlier this year on charges of stealing. Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, flew to Vladivostok, a Pacific port city, to see his girlfriend and was arrested after she accused him of stealing from her, according to U.S. officials and Russian authorities. …
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The Supreme Court sided with Native American tribes Thursday in a dispute with the federal government over the cost of health care when tribes run programs in their own communities. The 5-4 decision means the government will cover millions in overhead costs that two tribes faced when they took over running their health care programs under a law meant to …
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Delonte West, a former NBA guard who has a lengthy history of trouble with the law, was arrested in Virginia. West, 40, was served with a warrant for violating the terms of his release and charged with resisting arrest in Fairfax County, Fox 5 DC reported Thursday. The former pro basketball player attempted to flee police officers, officials told TMZ …
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The possibility of the NFL adding another game to the season appeared to be on the horizon in the near future after the league went from 16 to 17 games in 2021. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell floated the idea in April of adding the additional game and moving the Super Bowl to Presidents Day weekend. Goodell later clarified that player …
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Israeli troops discovered an entrance to a Hamas tunnel inside a child’s bedroom in Rafah on Thursday. The IDF says it recovered a trove of weapons and explosives from the tunnel. The operation is the latest of what Israel calls its “precise, intelligence-based, targeted operations” inside Rafah. “This week, the troops located a tunnel shaft inside a child’s room, and …
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Poland’s military says a soldier who was stabbed last month from behind a barrier at the border with Belarus has died. It said earlier the soldier was stabbed in the chest by a migrant who reached through the bars of the border barrier. The soldier was hospitalized in serious condition in the town of Hajnowka. On Thursday he was taken …
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A professional rock climber has been sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of repeatedly sexually assaulting a woman during her weekend trip to Yosemite National Park in 2016, prosecutors said Tuesday. Charles Barrett, who was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual abuse and one count of abusive sexual contact, was sentenced this week after a …
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Kansas City Chiefs defensive end B.J. Thompson is in stable condition after going into cardiac arrest during a team meeting on Thursday morning, according to multiple reports. Thompson, who was drafted by the Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2023 draft, suffered a seizure during a special teams meeting at the Chiefs’ training facility and went into cardiac arrest, …
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