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The Nets kicked off trade season in January by acquiring James Harden from the Rockets as part of a massive four-team deal. This Thursday’s 3 p.m. ET deadline is more likely to bring moves involving role players rather than the blockbusters that basketball fans have grown accustomed to seeing. We shouldn’t rule out the possibility of more “Woj Bombs,” though. It only takes one call from a general manager to get the trade train in motion....

The Warriors are expected to be one strong and healthy unit in the 2020-21 season. Steph Curry and Klay Thompson will be back from their long-term injuries. Meanwhile, they also have Andrew Wiggins and the No.2 overall draft pick from this year which they can part with to accumulate valuable pieces for a potential title run. Dennis Schroder is one player who fits the bill and is likely to be available....

The NCAA reinstated Clinton-Dix on Friday after he served a two-game suspension, according to a statement released by Alabama. The Crimson Tide star was suspended indefinitely for accepting a short-term loan of less than $500 from assistant strength and conditioning coach Corey Harris, possibly violating NCAA rules about student-athletes receiving extra benefits. Harris was placed on administrative leave. Clinton-Dix remains second on the team with 24 tackles and is a possible first-round NFL draft pick....

The deal, filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, calls for the NCAA to toughen return-to-play rules for players who receive head blows and create a $70 million fund to pay for thousands of current and former athletes to undergo testing to determine whether they suffered brain trauma while playing football and other contact sports. MORE: Best who didn’t play in NFL | SN All-Americans | College football icons...

They were done here. Not done, done. But done. Louisville had the All-American guard, the heat of being a media darling, the coach who never had lost in the round of 16. Never. And the Cardinals held a lead as large as seven points with a half-dozen minutes remaining. MORE: Updated bracket | Sweet 16 photos | Live scoreboard Who saw this comeback coming at that point? Who believed the Wildcats would show this kind of spirit, this kind of poise, this kind of — no kidding — unselfishness?...

Former Michigan State star Mateen Cleaves will be part of the March Madness studio team with Matt Winer and Seth Davis. CBS Sports and Turner Sports will provide combined coverage beginning March 17. MORE: 10 best tourney players in Expanded Bracket Era | Selection Sunday schedule | Best states for hoops The pairings for this year’s event: — Jim Nantz, Bill Raftery, Grant Hill and Tracy Wolfson as the lead team for the Final Four and championship game....

Duke rallied to defeat Wisconsin 68-63 on Monday night, and CBS averaged 28.3 million viewers. The last time a championship game garnered such high viewership was 18 years ago, when Arizona upset Kentucky in overtime, according to CBS and the NCAA. MORE: Four lead to five for Coack K | Way-too-early-Top 25 | Duke championship gear Wisconsin’s semifinal against Kentucky also made TV history, with the broadcast collecting the highest rating for a Final Four game in 22 years....

The organization announced Tuesday it has formed a working group that will reconsider its current ban on name, image and likeness payments to college athletes. “This group will bring together diverse opinions from the membership — from presidents and commissioners to student-athletes — that will examine the NCAA’s position on name, image and likeness benefits and potentially propose rule modifications tethered to education,” Val Ackerman, commissioner of the Big East and working group co-chair, said in a statement....

The survey, conducted by the Pew Research Center, collected responses from 9,654 adults across the country between June 4 and June 10. It found that 63 percent of Republican respondents felt the virus outbreak was “exaggerated,” up from 47 percent who answered the same in an earlier survey administered at the end of April. Additional data pointed to a partisan divide among survey participants in their opinions about the accuracy of media reports about the outbreak, although more respondents felt coverage embellished its seriousness in June compared to April, regardless of their political affiliation....

Always-on DRM—that is, digital rights management—has been a contentious subject within the gaming world ever since it first arrived on the scene. For those of us not in the know, games that use DRM require people to remain linked to a server via Internet connection in order to actually experience them. While many game developers would assert that it’s an effective technique meant to prevent piracy of their software and is a convenient way to distribute updates, most fans would argue that it’s a hassle, especially if the DRM authentication network goes down and locks gamers out completely....

This is a nearly inescapable fate for the Need for Speed franchise, and it is both a blessing and a curse. Being known for a genre-defining game like Most Wanted is an honor most franchises could only dream of. However, as Need for Speed Unbound demonstrates, it also brings with it a couple of hurdles to overcome. RELATED: Need for Speed Unbound’s Side Bets Could Influence Future Franchise Entries...

Let’s Start With What Is A VPN? When using a VPN service, all the requests to any webpage are encrypted and then sent to a VPN Server. It then exits the Server to the internet in the usual way. This makes it almost impossible for any malicious actor to trace the request or information you seek on the internet to you. A VPN also helps you hide your IP address and enable location spoofing on your device....

Just the day before, the Haryana-born athlete hurled the spear to a distance of 89.08m to comfortably attain a historic first-place finish in the 2022 Lausanne Diamond League. Chopra’s javelin was added alongside Olympic gold medal-winning shooter Abhinav Bindra’s rifle from the 2008 Beijing Games at the Olympic Museum. This is being done with the aim of treasuring the Olympic legacy and inspiring future generations to take up sports....

There are many reasons why American Buffalo was a game-changer when it debuted in 1975. For a generation of theater creatives, it is a seminal work. Pepe told Newsweek, “I have so many friends, and colleagues and people who I admire in the theater world who cite this play as being a real turning point for them when they saw it, or read it or heard it. “I think that has to do with a number of things....

Sharon Merkel, of Little River, received a letter asking “all able white men and woman [sic]” to join the National Socialist Movement (NMS) along with a donation card to give money to the white supremacist group. The letter, obtained by WBTV, features a caricature of a man with a swastika armband urging people to “come into the ranks of the fastest growing Nationalist Socialist Party.” The letter adds: “Don’t stay in the crowd and stare you are wanted at the front!...

Martsinkevich—the founder of a Russian Neo-Nazi group called Format 18 (18 being an alphanumeric code representing the first and eighth letters of the alphabet, “A” and “H” for Adolf Hitler)—had been arrested, convicted and imprisoned three times previous to his most recent incarceration, each time for inciting ethnic hatred in public or through his online videos. Through Format 18, he allegedly arranged the production and sale of videos showing immigrants being tortured....

The premise of Neon White is that the player controls a damned soul attempting to earn redemption in a place of heaven. This goal is achieved by reaching heaven through violence, shooting, and slashing through enemies in quick succession. Like other games from Annapurna Interactive, it is hyper-stylized and distinct, unmistakable as anything else. RELATED: PlayStation Console Exclusive Cat Game Stray Reveals Gorgeous New Screenshots First and foremost is the biggest announcement of the new Neon White trailer: the release date....

Despite having a perfect platform to build on, it appeared for much of the summer that the Clippers would miss out on their number one target Kawhi Leonard. However, in one of the biggest shocks in recent memory, the Clippers not only managed to add Leonard but the team also completed a stunning trade for Paul George. To complete the deal for George, the Clippers had to let go of Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Danilo Gallinari - although the likes of Patrick Beverley and JaMychal Green returned in free agency....

Even though they are 4th and staking a claim for home court advantage, the Raptors are in a tight spot, just half a game ahead of the 5th place Indiana Pacers and 1 game ahead of the 6th place Philadelphia 76ers. A matter of 2 or 3 games could turn the season on its head. The Raptors president, Masai Ujiri is known for making quiet deals for players, without anyone catching a whiff of what is going on (cue DeMar DeRozan)....

They can try to add another star next to Bradley Beal and John Wall and try to compete next season, or blow it all up and go on a rebuild. Either way, as per the NBA trade rumors, here are their 3 most valuable assets going into the offseason. NBA Trade Options: 3 most valuable assets for the Washington Wizards going into the 2020-21 season While their veteran John Wall missed the enter 2019-20 season following a ruptured Achilles, Bradley Beal went on to have an All-NBA caliber year (though he was snubbed from All-NBA teams)....