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Four games into the second round of the NBA playoffs, the No. 1 seeds from each conference find themselves in two different places. East top seed Boston and West top seed Oklahoma City both made it through the first round with relative ease. After an early stumble to begin Round 2, the Celtics are back home for Wednesday's Game 5 with a 3-1 series lead over Cleveland, and with a chance to advance to their third consecutive conference final. Meanwhile, the Thunder return home in a 2-2 tie with Dallas. Boston is feeling good about how it followed...
NFL chief compliance officer Sabrina Perel has been busy this spring. As the leader of the NFL's efforts to educate the approximately 17,000 players, coaches, team personnel and others about the league's gambling policies, she's in the middle of an annual pilgrimage of sorts. With training camps opening in less than a month, she's already visited with more than a dozen NFL teams, and leaves them with the same parting message: "You need to follow the policy at all times. … because this truly does impact the entire team." The reason the NFL h...
BOSTON (AP) — The Oklahoma City Thunder were on the verge of making some unpleasant history. Lu Dort made it his mission not to let that happen. Dort scored 24 points, Darius Bazley added 21 points and 10 rebounds, and the Thunder snapped a 14-game skid with a 119-115 win over the Boston Celtics on Tuesday night. Isaiah Roby and Ty Jerome each finished with 15 points for the Thunder, who won their first game since March 31 against Toronto. A 15th straight loss would have set a franchise record for Oklahoma City. "I saw it today and I told S...
BOSTON (AP) — Ron Roenicke is preparing to play baseball this year. The Boston Red Sox manager admits he has concerns about some options Major League Baseball officials have discussed in order to safely start the season in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic. But he does believe there will be games. "If I'm going with my gut, yes, I do," Roenicke said Tuesday during a conference call with reporters. Roenicke and his coaching staff continue to be in contact with players, who are commencing with conditioning and throwing programs as best they c...
Resuming the NBA season with the start of the playoff is one option for the league. Most teams had about 15 games left to play in the regular-season schedules when play was halted on March 11, and not everyone had played the same amount of games. But in this unprecedented situation, games won't resume until well beyond the originally scheduled April 15 end of the regular season. Coaches are preparing for any and all possibilities. If the NBA does decide to resume the season with the playoffs, here is a look at those potential matchups: ___ East...
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker found himself in need of an assist to help the state fight the coronavirus pandemic. He called on the New England Patriots. The team's private plane was on schedule to return to Boston from China on Thursday evening carrying more than one million masks critical to health care providers fighting to control the spread of the virus.. Baker secured the N95 masks from Chinese manufacturers but had no way of getting them to the U.S. He reached out to Patriots team owner Robert Kraft, who loaned the B...
BOSTON (AP) — Strong special teams play has been one of the staples of the Patriots under Bill Belichick. Few players know that more than longtime special teams captain Matt Slater, one of the most recognized leaders in New England's locker room. The unit has already undergone big changes this offseason following the departures of former coordinator Joe Judge, kicker Stephen Gostkowski and Nate Ebner. It's left the 34-year-old Slater, who recently agreed to a two-year deal, as the team's most-tenured player following the exits of Tom Brady a...
BOSTON (AP) — Red Sox left-hander David Price says he's feeling better, just days after getting a cortisone shot to treat a cyst in his left wrist. "First time I've had an injection like that, so it made it sore the first 48 hours," the 33-year-old said Saturday before Boston's game with the Los Angeles Angels. "But yesterday it started feeling a lot better." Price was placed on the injured list on Thursday after an MRI revealed the cyst. Price is 7-5 with a 4.36 ERA over 21 starts this season. He said the discomfort in his wrist started "...
