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CAROLINE WOZNIACKI has announced she is pregnant - just days before ex Rory McIlroy goes for glory at The Masters. The former tennis World No1 revealed she is welcoming her third baby with ex-NBA star husband David Lee.
Reggie Miller, who played 18 seasons for the Indiana Pacers, had a great day. He put over six minutes into the second-place rider. Though Reggie was one of two competitors in the Masters 55-59 category, his lap times were still competitive.
Stephen Curry has long been an admirer of Lee Elder, who endured racism as the first Black man to play in the Masters Tournament in 1975. So, of course the Golden State Warriors’ all-time leading scorer made it a point to watch the golf legend make history again at the 2021 Masters, where Elder served as an honorary starter alongside Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player on April 8. “To know that [Elder] gets his flowers while he’s still here, one, but to know what he went through at ’75, just to qualify for the Masters, to show up there with death threats and hate messages and just a very volatile kind of atmosphere,” Curry told The Undefeated in a phone interview Sunday evening. “And now he’s up there with two other legends getting a round of applause. So many amazing words, and deservedly so, of his impact and legacy in the game.”
The first round of the draft averaged 2.65 million — ESPN’s top NBA audience in the month of November since 2018 — and ranked second for the night in adults 18-49 and 18-34 behind “The Masked Singer” on FOX. The steep decline and multi-year low for the NBA Draft is in keeping with the broader trend facing the sports media industry. The NBA Finals, World Series, Stanley Cup Final, final rounds of the Masters and U.S. Open — and more — have hit historic lows since the wave of cancellations and postponements in March.
Turner Sports has rounded up a foursome for its third incarnation of The Match, a charity golf event the programmer first introduced back in 2018. Teeing off on Friday, Nov. 27 are three-time Masters champion Phil Mickelson and trash-talking pro-am habitué/Nationwide spokesman Peyton Manning, both of whom played in last spring’s round. Joining the two Match veterans are thrice-crowned NBA champ and scratch golfer Steph Curry and … Charles Barkley.
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“Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective” is an ESPN podcast that offers takes on what’s taking place in the NBA. Windhorst mentioned (at the 30:20 mark) Irving’s behavior in 2016 to colleagues Rachel Nichols and Andrew Han as part of a discussion of his playoff performance with his current team, the Boston Celtics: “Kyrie is a strange dude. They (Celtics) win Game 1. He played okay. He kind of took over in the second half. He runs over to his family after winning Game 1 in the same vein Tiger [Woods] ran over to his family after winning The Masters. He’s celebrating with his dad. I’m all for it. “He won The Finals (in 2016 with the Cavs) and he was angry. He seriously won The Finals, his father and sister came out to hug him and he was angry. He was mad, in that moment. And then, when he got to the locker room, while his teammates were celebrating, he FaceTimed Kobe [Bryant].”
Sage Steele anchored ESPN’s Masters coverage on Wednesday morning as part of SportsCenter on the Road, a day after the network tapped Michelle Beadle as the new host of NBA Countdown on ABC and ESPN. Steele hasn’t commented on Instagram or Twitter --- where she has spurred controversy in the past --- since ESPN announced Beadle’s new hosting role. ESPN spokesperson Ben Cafardo told USA TODAY Sports in an email that Steele will be focused on her SportsCenter on the Road duties and is “in the midst of several high-profile assignments such as the Final Four, The Masters, the NBA Playoffs and the NBA Finals on ABC.”
Adande will continue to contribute to various ESPN platforms on a contract basis while leading Medill’s sports program. He has covered the Olympic Games, Wimbledon, the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final Four, the college football national championships, the NBA Finals, the Masters Golf Tournament and soccer World Cup.
The son of a psychologist, Rao said it's the desire to make the shot and delight those fans that forces some shooters to put in extra effort and concentration -- a little like Els at the Masters. And that conscious effort can screw it all up. The Rockets tracked Howard's free throws, and he shot "upper-70s"in the practice gym, according to a team source, but he shot 48.9 percent in games this past season. That's a 30 percentage point gap.
Tom Brady won another Super Bowl. Stephen Curry won an MVP and an NBA title. Jordan Spieth won the Masters and the U.S. Open. Misty Copeland became the first African-American to become a principal dancer at a major ballet company. It has been a big year for Under Armour's most high-profile spokespeople, and the company this week will start to roll out its first major brand campaign featuring all of them. It's called "Rule Yourself," and the idea summons Malcolm Gladwell's theory that it takes 10,000 hours of practice at something to be the best.
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The Hawks have retained investment banks Goldman Sachs and Inner Circle Sports to handle the sale of the team. Sources expect the team's "book," detailing the franchise's assets and liabilities, to be available for the interested groups by the end of this week, or next week at the latest. The Hawks have struggled in recent years to connect with the Atlanta community at large, losing market share to SEC football, NASCAR events and golf tournaments like The Masters in nearby Augusta. But the scarcity of NBA franchises and the potential of a market with 4.72 million people in the city and surrounding counties has a lot of rich people very interested in buying the team.
The night before Game 6 of the 2014 Thunder-Clippers series in May, Durant went to a bible study at a church he helped found in Los Angeles. Watson happened to be speaking at the church that night. "He heard me talk about the bible and about family life, so we interacted," Watson said. "Then I said, 'hey, why don't you give me your shoes after the game? It'd be funny.'" Watson immediately regretted the request. "As soon as I said it, I was like "'if somebody did that to me at The Masters, I would be so mad,'" Watson said. "But I guess if it's the right person." Little did Watson know, Durant took him seriously, walking right up to him after the game and handing him the shoes on the court.
Meanwhile, Adelman said he's preparing for two weddings in his family this summer and he hopes someday to get a chance to watch the Masters Golf Tournament in Person and not just on television. However, he's not ruling out coaching again. "I'm not looking right now," Adelman said. "I'm not going to sit down right now and start calling people. "I'm going to home (Portland), kick back and see what happens." If the right coaching opportunity comes along watching the Masters on television may be his only option. "I would certainly look at it," Adelman said. "There are some places I wouldn't look at, but I certainly would listen to somebody who wanted to talk about it."
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