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Houston guard James Harden was an unanimous selections to the 2018-19 All-NBA first team, released Thursday.
Giannis, Harden are unanimous All-NBA first-team picks
NEW YORK — Milwaukee forward Giannis Antetokounmpo and Houston guard James Harden were unanimous selections to the 2018-19 All-NBA first team, released Thursday.The two MVP finalists were named on all 100 ballots. It marks the first first-team selection for Antetokounmpo and the fifth in the past six seasons for Harden.Golden State guard Stephen Curry (91 first-team votes), Oklahoma City forward Paul George (71) and Denver center Nikola Jokic (59) joined them on the first team. It was the third first-team honor for Curry and first for George and Jokic.The All-NBA second team features Philadelphia center Joel Embiid (40 first-team votes), Golden State forward Kevin Durant (29), Portland guard Damian Lillard (eight), Toronto forward Kawhi Leonard and Boston guard Kyrie Irving.Oklahoma City...
May 23, 2019

Giannis, Harden are unanimous All-NBA first-team picks

Winner Team Bora rider Italy's Cesare Benedetti (R) reacts as he crosses the finish line ahead of second-placed Team Bahrain rider Italy's Damiano Caruso (L) and third-placed Team Ineos rider Ireland's Eddie Dunbar (R) at the end of stage twelve of the 102nd Giro d'Italia - Tour of Italy - cycle race, 158kms from Cuneo to Pinerolo on Thursday. — AFP
Benedetti wins Giro d'Italia 12th stage, Polanc takes pink jersey
PINEROLO, Italy — Italy's Cesare Benedetti won Thursday's 12th stage of the Giro d'Italia at Pinerolo in the Italian Alps ahead of compatriot Damiano Caruso. Slovenian Jan Polanc took the overall lead.It was the first win for 31-year-old Bora rider Benedetti who led a long break-away group in the first mountain stage after the 158km run from Cuneo.Polanc, also among the leading group, took the leader's pink jersey from UAE Emirates teammate Valerio Conti of Italy.Benedetti crossed just ahead of Bahrain-Merida's Caruso with Ireland's Edward Dunbar of Team INEOS third."I've worked a lot for the others in the past but today I got my opportunity," said Benedetti."I'm not a talent, I'm not (usually) a winner, but the way I finished it off is...
May 23, 2019

Benedetti wins Giro d'Italia 12th stage, Polanc takes pink jersey

NTT IndyCar series driver Fernando Alonso fails to qualify for the 103rd Running of the Indianapolis 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. — Reuters
McLaren vow to learn from their Indianapolis fiasco
MONACO — McLaren boss Zak Brown shouldered the blame on Thursday for the team's failure to qualify Fernando Alonso for this weekend's Indianapolis 500 and said he would do things very differently next time.Speaking to reporters at the Monaco Grand Prix, the American was confident there would be a return to The Brickyard but the post-mortem into what went wrong this year was still being carried out.Brown said the reasons why McLaren felt they should be at Indianapolis had not changed and highs and lows were part of the sport."I think you have to dust yourself off, learn by your mistakes and come back fighting. So that's what we intend to do," he said. "To not do something is easy but that's not what winners do."There's very good reasons why McLaren...
May 23, 2019

McLaren vow to learn from their Indianapolis fiasco

Novak Djokovic can become only the second man in history to have twice held all four Grand Slam titles at the same time with victory at the French Open.
Federer, Nadal threaten Djokovic bid for historic Slam
PARIS — Novak Djokovic can become only the second man in history to have twice held all four Grand Slam titles at the same time with victory at the French Open.However, a returning Roger Federer and rejuvenated Rafael Nadal will once again stand in his way.World number one Djokovic completed his first private stranglehold of all four Slams with victory at Roland Garros in 2016.Having clinched the 2018 Wimbledon and US Open titles and then a seventh Australian Open crown in January this year, the Serb is tantalizingly close to another 'Djoko Slam'.Federer and Nadal, with 20 and 17 career Grand Slam titles each respectively, may be ahead of 15-time major winner Djokovic in total hauls and have also completed career Slams.However, not even Federer or Nadal have managed to hold all...
May 23, 2019

Federer, Nadal threaten Djokovic bid for historic Slam

This file photo shows the new Simonne Mathieu tennis court after its inauguration ceremony at Roland Garros in Paris. After years of legal battles and threats to quit its historic home, Roland Garros will show off its new look next week, with a nod to the Eiffel Tower and a Second World War resistance fighter while boasting enough plants and greenery to make even the most demanding environmentalist drool. Ninety years after it was built, the French Open's showpiece Court Philippe Chatrier was demolished soon after the 2018 event finished. — AFP
Greenhouse effect: Roland Garros unveils new look after years of legal wrangles
PARIS — After years of legal battles and threats to quit its historic home, Roland Garros will show off its new look next week, with a nod to the Eiffel Tower and a Second World War resistance fighter while boasting enough plants and greenery to make even the most demanding environmentalist drool.Ninety years after it was built, the French Open's showpiece Court Philippe Chatrier was demolished soon after the 2018 event finished.Fast forward 12 months and it has been almost completely rebuilt to accommodate the necessary strengthening required to support the retractable roof which will be in place for the 2020 edition of the sport's only clay court Grand Slam.The metal superstructure weighs half that of the Eiffel Tower, around 3,700 tons, said the French Tennis Federation's...
May 23, 2019

Greenhouse effect: Roland Garros unveils new look after years of legal wrangles

Roger Federer strikes a few silky forehands in his first practice session at Roland Garros for four years to create something of a social media frenzy this week.
Anticipation grows ahead of Federer's return to Paris
MELBOURNE — All Roger Federer had to do was strike a few silky forehands in his first practice session at Roland Garros for four years to create something of a social media frenzy this week.Ever since the 37-year-old announced he was ending his self-imposed French Open exile, anticipation has been growing and video footage of his gentle warmup on Tuesday sent his legions of fans into a frenzy.It is 10 years since Federer claimed his one and only title on the Parisian dirt — completing his career slam with victory over Swede Robin Soderling.He opted to skip the French Open for the past three years — a decision based on prolonging his career — but a decade after lifting La Coupe des Mousquetaires he returns not just for old time's sake, but because the Swiss must truly believe he...
May 23, 2019

Anticipation grows ahead of Federer's return to Paris

Serena Williams heads into this year's French Open as an outsider for a Grand Slam title for possibly the first time in 20 years, with questions surrounding her fitness after a poor start to the season.
Uncertainty over Serena fitness, Osaka form at Roland Garros
PARIS — Serena Williams heads into this year's French Open as an outsider for a Grand Slam title for possibly the first time in 20 years, with questions surrounding her fitness after a poor start to the season, while Naomi Osaka needs to rediscover her best form to solidify her position at the top of the women's game with a third straight major crown.The 37-year-old Williams is still waiting for a record-equaling 24th Grand Slam triumph, with her last victory coming at the 2017 Australian Open shortly before taking a break from the sport due to pregnancy.She impressed initially after returning, but last year twice fell just short of drawing level with Margaret Court's mark, losing in the Wimbledon final to Angelique Kerber before her infamous meltdown en route to another...
May 23, 2019

Uncertainty over Serena fitness, Osaka form at Roland Garros

Nick Kyrgios's French Open build-up has been more or less normal by his unorthodox standards.
The Kyrgios one-man circus rolls into Paris
MELBOURNE — With two completed matches on clay, a petulant tournament default in Rome and character assassinations of some of the game's leading players, Nick Kyrgios's French Open build-up has been more or less normal by his unorthodox standards.It may be a little frosty in the locker room Roland Garros after the Australian described 11-times champion Rafa Nadal as a sore loser and Novak Djokovic as obsessed with being liked in an explosive podcast interview last week.The Parisian crowd may also be a little scornful after he said the French Open "absolutely sucks" compared to Wimbledon in a video he shot himself and posted on social media.By his own admission, Kyrgios has virtually no chance of winning the tournament on a surface he "hates", with the odds on...
May 23, 2019

The Kyrgios one-man circus rolls into Paris

Spain's Rafael Nadal reacts during his semifinal match against Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas during the MAdrid Open in this file photo. — Reuters
Nadal primed for another French Open charge after Rome crescendo
BARCELONA — Rafael Nadal has hit form at the perfect time heading into the French Open after a slow start, by his standards, to the claycourt season caused some to doubt his chances of continuing his vice-like grip on the tournament.Nadal has made a habit of cleaning up at the warm-up tournaments to Roland Garros, but semifinal defeats in Madrid, Barcelona and Monte Carlo led to a sense that his dominance on clay might be receding.Yet with the prospect of a record-extending 12th title appearing far from certain, the Spaniard showed rumors of his demise were greatly exaggerated with an outstanding 6-0, 4-6, 6-1, victory over Novak Djokovic to win the Italian Open.Few would now bet against him continuing his dominance on the surface in Paris, where he has only dropped one set since 2016....
May 23, 2019

Nadal primed for another French Open charge after Rome crescendo

Thurman says ready to 'crucify' Pacquiao
BEVERLY HILLS, United States — Keith Thurman vowed to retire Philippine boxing legend Manny Pacquiao on Wednesday as the two fighters traded verbal jabs ahead of the World Boxing Association battle for welterweight supremacy.The undefeated Thurman, 30, takes on Pacquiao in Las Vegas on July 20 in a contest that pits the WBA's "super world champion" against the body's secondary "world" champion.Thurman (29-0, with 22 knockouts) returned from a near two-year layoff to retain his title with a 12-round majority decision over Josesito Lopez on Jan. 26.Eight-division champion Pacquiao, who last fought in a one-sided demolition of Adrien Broner in January, is 10 years older than his American opponent.And as the two men came face to face at a press conference in...
May 23, 2019

Thurman says ready to 'crucify' Pacquiao

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