Author: Tim Runn

Ben Roethlisberger is preparing as if Monday night’s game against the Cleveland Browns will be his final regular-season home tilt at Heinz Field. “I don’t ever speak in definites or guarantees, that’s not what I’ve ever done or who I am,” the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback said Thursday. “But, looking at the bigger picture, I would say that all signs are pointing to this could be it. Regular season that is, I know we still have a chance to potentially get a playoff game there if things fall our way and we take care of business and things have to happen.…

Isaiah Thomas made his Mavs debut Wednesday, finishing with 6 points in 13 minutes off the bench. The Dallas Mavericks added former All-Star guard Isaiah Thomas to their roster on Wednesday via a 10-day contract under the NBA’s COVID-related hardship allowance. He arrived just in time to suit up for the Mavs in their 95-94 road loss to the Sacramento Kings. For Thomas, this marked his second team this season after he had played for the Los Angeles Lakers on a similar circumstance just weeks ago. Thomas might have been wearing a Mavericks jersey but the crowd at Golden 1…

Over the course of this past NASCAR season, there were winners on and off the track. Ally and NASCAR’s Alex Bowman, driver of the Ally-sponsored No. 48 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE of Hendrick Motorsports, teamed with Best Friends Animal Society to improve animal welfare across the United States. Ally and Bowman donated a total of $123,000 to 32 Best Friends network partners, one shelter in each city that hosted a NASCAR race. For each race, Ally and Bowman each donated $1,000 to a local shelter, and Ally increased its donation to $10,000 in the four communities where Bowman won. Since…

Many working parents have been scrambling to juggle the pandemic, their jobs and their kids day in, day out for nearly two years. A new partnership is helping working parents at Major League Baseball get closer to batting 1,000.Bright Horizons, one of the largest global providers of employer-sponsored child care, teamed up with the MLB to offer expanded family benefits to its 1,200 employees who returned to the office in the fall. These benefits include back-up child or elder care, which gives employees time away from the office and the resources to access caregivers last minute, as well as discounted…

When the position of Triton head golf coach became available prior to the 2006 season, all Rich Dube knew was that he loved playing the sport with his buddies down at Ould Newbury.“By no means was I a swing coach,” joked Dube. “I just loved to play.”That’s why, even today, when people ask him how he got the job all those years ago, he still can’t give a straight answer. He had started teaching business and math at the school a few years prior, and when the position opened, he thought he might as well throw his name into the…

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India’s fast bowlers took their team close to victory by claiming three wickets on the fifth morning of the first Test against South Africa at SuperSport Park in Centurion.South Africa, needing 305 to win, were 182 for seven at lunch.MATCH CENTRE: South Africa vs India first Test live scorecard, updates, videoWatch the South Africa vs India Test series live on Kayo. New to Kayo? Try 14-days free now.Jasprit Bumrah, who took two wickets in the closing stages of the fourth day’s play, again made a crucial breakthrough when he trapped South African captain Dean Elgar leg before wicket for 77.Mohammed…

Boxing News readers named the first Ali-Frazier contest as the best fight of the seventies, but what were your choices for the best fights of the 1980s? THE premise for Desert Island Fights is simple: You will soon be stranded on a desert island. To ease the boredom, you can take along one – and only one – fight from each of the last five decades (1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s) to watch while you’re there. Which five fights do you take? If the 70s was the decade for heavyweight legends, the 1980s were dominated by four kings: Sugar…

Novak Djokovic could still play at the Australian Open, a Serbian teammate said Thursday, despite the world number one’s last-minute decision to pull out of the ATP Cup in Sydney. The 20-time Grand Slam champion withdrew from this week’s teams event days before its start on Saturday, heightening doubts over whether he will defend his Australian Open title. Djokovic has refused to confirm if he has been inoculated against Covid-19, with all participants at the opening Grand Slam of the year needing to be vaccinated or have a medical exemption.Dusan Lajovic, who will lead Serbia’s ATP Cup drive in Djokovic’s…

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