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“He’s better than Steph Curry to me,” LaVar said. “Put Steph Curry on UCLA’s team right now, and put my boy on Golden State and watch what happens.” MORE: UCLA’s Lonzo Ball is Sporting News Freshman of the Year The two-time reigning NBA MVP was asked about those comments after the Warriors’ shootaround Wednesday. Curry took the high road. MORE: Steph Curry does the ‘Get Out’ challenge “I don’t want to talk about that," said Curry....

As a three-time NBA champion and two-time MVP, the Golden State Warriors start is one of the greatest NBA players of his generation, but he highlighted how fame and success are not considered common when it comes to Black people. “The preconceived notions of how they view rich, successful Black people as anomalies and our intelligence and our well-spokenness, that’s always the first thing you hear,” Curry told NBC Sports in an interview for the broadcaster’s Race and Sports in America: Conversations series on Monday....

The two-time MVP is having the last laugh, especially with a surprising defensive play in Wednesday night’s 109-86 win over the Sacramento Kings. Curry blocked the Kings’ 7-foot-tall Willie Cauley-Stein. MORE: UCLA’s Lonzo Ball will be better than Stephen Curry in NBA, dad says The play is pretty amazing, considering Curry is almost a foot shorter than Cauley-Stein.

We gave you a choice of six on-air talents who are frequent targets on social media: Smith; his First Take sparring partner Skip Bayless; Sunday NFL Countdown host Chris Berman; baseball analyst Curt Schilling; sports business ace Darren Rovell; and Monday Night Football analyst Jon Gruden. One day later, Smith was No. 1 in the the voting while debate partner Bayless is second. Schilling ranks third, Berman fourth and Rovell fifth....

Smith, 54, announced on the show that he had tested positive for the virus on Dec. 21 and that, at the time, he was only experiencing “mild symptoms.” His condition progressively worsened, however, as he needed to be hospitalized on New Year’s Eve. MORE: NBA COVID-19 tracker: Updated team-by-team list of players in health and safety protocols “I had 103 degree fever every night, woke up with chills, pool of sweat, headaches with massive coughing profusely,” Smith said....

The reigning MVP showed no signs of a championship hangover early in the season opener against the Pelicans, scoring 24 points in the first quarter. The Warriors eventually defeated New Orleans 111-95, with Curry putting in 40 points, seven assists and six rebounds.MORE: Eight dumb things that will definitely happen this NBA season | Harrison Barnes, Warriors end contract extension talks Curry went 9 for 13 from the field in the quarter, hitting 4 of 7 3-point shots....

It might seem counterproductive to keep your most dangerous weapon off the court in the NBA playoffs — tweaked ankle or not — but Kerr isn’t interested in immediate results. He’s playing the long game. COUNTERPOINT: Curry should play Monday | MORE: How many games do Warriors lose? Truth be told, Kerr doesn’t need Curry for the Warriors to win Game 2 against a much-maligned Rockets team; he certainly didn’t need him in the Warriors’ 104-78 romp of Houston on Saturday....

The 25-year-old midfielder, who joined Cork in 2016 from Derry City, played a key role in his first campaign at the club as the Leesiders won the FAI Cup and finished second in the Premier Division. “I’m very happy to sign back. I was working hard during the off-season getting ready for pre-season and I am delighted to get back in and get started,” said the Portstewart native. Watch: Even Barcelona players cannot stop Messi!...

The Eagles star caused a stir earlier this week, when he twice shared a quote falsely attributed to Adolf Hitler, which states that white Jews" will blackmail America. [They] will extort America [but] their plan for world domination won’t work if the Negroes know who they were." Jackson apologized for the posts, before his namesake leapt to his defense on Wednesday. In an Instagram video, the former NBA swingman claimed Jackson was “trying to educate himself” and that he was “speaking the truth....

Recently, many iPhone users around the world have reported this issue where they would see numbers being displayed instead of the contact name they have saved. This seems to be a small glitch, which has occurred in iOS devices after the recent updates. It gives you the impression that all your iPhone contact names and other information has been erased, but thankfully, this is not the case. Also Read: Quick and Easy Steps to Move Contacts from one iPhone to another iPhone...

Steve Austin posted a new blog here looking at the premiere of the third season of Redneck Island tonight after the CMT Music Awards. Austin will be live tweeting during tonight’s premiere. Austin was also on The Daily Show writer Paul Mecurio’s podcast yesterday, you can listen to the first part of the two-part interview here. In another Austin note, A.J. Kirsch, Eric Watts and Martin Casaus – who competed on the Austin-hosted season of Tough Enough – will compete in a Tri-Force Challenge match at Vendetta Pro Wrestling’s Summer Sizzle Tour 2013 at the Colony Park Community Center in Atascadero, CA this Saturday night at 7pm....

A friend found Montador non-responsive about 2 a.m. ET, and he was pronounced dead at 2:30 a.m., according to the Mississauga News. His death is being investigated, but foul play was not suspected. An autopsy was planned. “We are not treating it as anything criminal,” a police representative said. “It’s a sudden death, so there’s nothing to indicate anything untoward, just natural causes as far as we know.” Montodar was a member of the Calgary Flames’ 2003-04 team that went to the Stanley Cup finals, losing to the Tampa Bay Lightning....

MORE: Classic Spurrier photos | Top 10 all-time Gators | SN coach rankings | Week 1 picks “Butters hired Coach K, right?” “Yep, yeah” Spurrier confirms with a quick nod. “And me.” Everybody at the table laughs. Only Spurrier could casually put himself in the same sentence as Mike Krzyzewski. That presumptuous confidence stretches 30-plus years with the Tampa Bay Bandits of the USFL, Duke, Florida, the Washington Redskins and now South Carolina, all chronicled on the documentary “The Believer” on the SEC Network tonight....

Sticky Wicket have remained unbeaten throughout this tournament. They topped Group C with three wins before dominating their quarter-final and semi-final fixtures. On the other hand, Malaysian Armed Forces also finished at the top of the points table in their group (D). They recorded a comprehensive win in the quarters before they hunted down 133 in the final over in the semis. STW vs MAF, Match Details The final of the MCA T20 Cup 2022 between Sticky Wicket and Malaysian Armed Forces will be played on August 28 at the UKM-YSD Cricket Oval in Bangi....

Sanders, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, has previously pushed for monthly payments of $2,000 to American households throughout the pandemic and renewed this call as he criticized the lack of relief action. He also highlighted his desire to see enhanced unemployment benefits backed, as well as flagging healthcare as a priority. “The American people can’t afford to wait any longer,” he said in a recent tweet. “Every working class American needs $2,000 a month....

Having cost Pune over $2million - a record for an overseas player - Stokes rewarded his team with a string of brilliant performances, scoring 316 runs, taking 21 wickets and displaying his prowess in the field with a number of stunning catches. The all-rounder’s efforts were enough to see him crowned the Most Valuable Player in the competition as Pune finished second in the points table. But Stokes was absent in the play-offs, where Pune reached the final before losing by one run to Mumbai Indians in a thrilling contest....

The Texas Rattlesnake recently answered some questions on WWE’s TikTok account in a rapid-fire Q&A. Amongst several questions he was asked, was which current superstar he’d like to face, and he answered Brock Lesnar. The dream match has been teased by Austin on numerous occasions since Lesnar returned to WWE in 2012. These phenomenal superstars would certainly create magic in and out of the ring due to their experience, wrestling ability and charisma....

The Texas Rattlesnake had a historic run as part of the WWE roster and headlined the company’s Hall of Fame class on WrestleMania 25 weekend. Despite retiring following WrestleMania 19, Austin returned to the ring to face Kevin Owens earlier this year in the main event of Night One of WrestleMania 38. Hall of Famer John Bradshaw Layfield was a guest on the latest edition of WWE’s The Bump to discuss a wide variety of subjects....