Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Pat Summitt's toughness, success helped advance women's place in sports and other top stories.

  • Pat Summitt's toughness, success helped advance women's place in sports

    Pat Summitt's toughness, success helped advance women's place in sports
    When DePaul coach Doug Bruno recalls former Tennessee coach Pat Summitt's 1,098 victories and eight national championships, he points out that her accomplishments are even more impressive because she never shied away from the most daunting competition."If you go over with a fine-toothed comb and start analyzing the history of basketball, men and women, who of them have truly played against great competition from the beginning of the season to the end of the season? Who is truly cream-puff free?..
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  • Celebrating Pat Summitt, a Pioneer in Women's Sports

    Celebrating Pat Summitt, a Pioneer in Women's Sports
    Transcript for Celebrating Pat Summitt, a Pioneer in Women's Sports We move on to the story of a towering and ground-breaking figure in the world of sports. Pat Summitt has died. ABC's robin Roberts who had a special relationship with the coach looks back tonight. Reporter: A legendary, unstoppable force. A pioneer in women's sports. And a fierce competitor. I don't know about y'all but I want to win a national championship. Reporter: Pat Summitt coached the university of Tennessee's lady vol..
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  • Agent: LeBron James elects to opt out of $24M player option

    Agent: LeBron James elects to opt out of $24M player option
    Finals MVP LeBron James will not exercise his player option with the Cleveland Cavaliers for the 2016-17 season, according to his agent, Rich Paul.James, who had to inform the Cavs of his decision by Wednesday at midnight, will become a free agent July 1 for the third straight summer. He was slated to earn $24 million next season.Though he has opted out, James can re-sign with the Cavaliers and said last week he has no intentions of leaving Cleveland again."I love it here in Cleveland. I have no..
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  • NASCAR tweaks Chase rules for noncharter teams

    NASCAR tweaks Chase rules for noncharter teams
    12:35 PM ETBob PockrassNASCAR Close• NASCAR writer for ESPN.com • 2009, 2013 NMPA Writer of the Year • More than 25 years experience covering motorsportsNASCAR announced Tuesday that if a noncharter team makes the Chase for the Sprint Cup, it will get a guaranteed starting spot for the entire 10-race Chase.Only the 36 charter teams are guaranteed spots in the 40-car field during the regular season, with four spots open to noncharter teams based on qualifying.One of those noncharter teams has a d..
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  • Missy Franklin falters in 100-meter backstroke, remains upbeat

    Missy Franklin falters in 100-meter backstroke, remains upbeat
    OMAHA, Neb. -- Four years ago in London, a 17-year-old teenage girl from Colorado became America's swim darling with her infectious smile, bubbly personality and innate ability to touch the wall before any of her competition. Missy Franklin wasn't even old enough to vote when she became the first female swimmer to win four gold medals at a single Olympics. There was talk that she would be the one to fill the shoes of the then-retiring Michael Phelps and become the face of the sport. Nothing, see..
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  • What made Buddy Ryan appealing was that he wasn't for every player

    What made Buddy Ryan appealing was that he wasn't for every player
    Legendary NFL coach Buddy Ryan has passed away at the age of 82. USA TODAY SportsBuddy Ryan before a game between the Phoenix Cardinals and Washington Redskins on Sept. 5, 1995.(Photo: Matt Mendelsohn, USA TODAY Sports)Buddy Ryan was an innovator, a motivator, an incinerator.He ripped anyone and everyone. He refused to call players by their actual names. If you were in his circle of trust, you were given a nickname. Otherwise, you were just a number to him.He was a football original, am..
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  • MLB notes: Kershaw goes to LA for tests on back

    MLB notes: Kershaw goes to LA for tests on back
    Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw is returning to Los Angeles from Milwaukee for tests on a sore back that’s been bothering him for a few weeks.Manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday that he was still hopeful Kershaw could make his next scheduled start, Friday night at Dodger Stadium against Colorado.The three-time NL Cy Young winner is 11-2 with a 1.79 ERA this season. He lost his last start Sunday in Pittsburgh, giving up four runs and nine hits in six innings. Roberts said Kershaw has been dealing on a..
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  • The upcoming Game 3 of the CWS finals has a familiar feeling

    The upcoming Game 3 of the CWS finals has a familiar feeling
    OMAHA, Neb. -- After five months of college baseball, the season will come down to one game.In the second game of Tuesday night's College World Series finals, Coastal Carolina and Arizona unfurled another pitching showdown in a 5-4 victory for the Chanticleers. The game itself was Monday's Game 1 turned inside out.On Monday, it was the Chanticleers who looked tight, made uncharacteristic fielding errors and failed to capitalize when runners reached base. On Tuesday, that role was played by the W..
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  • Webb running out of time for Olympic dream

    Webb running out of time for Olympic dream
    AKRON, Ohio (AP) — One of Karrie Webb's greatest thrills was carrying the Olympic torch on the eve of the Sydney Games in 2000. She had a cousin who played for the Australian women's basketball team in the 1984 Olympics, and she has been a huge fan since then.It's the reason Webb, a Hall of Famer with nothing left to prove, keeps a full schedule at age 41. Golf is back in the Olympics for the first time in 112 years, and Australia's greatest female player wants to be there.But in a sudden shift ..
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  • Erik Spoelstra, Heat nearing extension

    Erik Spoelstra, Heat nearing extension
    The Miami Heat are closing in on a contract extension with coach Erik Spoelstra, a source told ESPN, confirming a story first reported by The Vertical on Tuesday.Heat coach Eric Spoelstra's current contract was set to end after next season. Brett Davis/USA TODAY SportsThe Heat expect to "work something out soon" with Spoelstra, the source said.Spoelstra's current deal with the team ends after the 2016-17 season, but both sides had long planned to finalize a new deal before the start of free agen..
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