Tabitha Chawinga wasn't always a prolific scorer. The Paris Saint-Germain star played goalkeeper in rural Malawi as a young girl. A collision with a defender changed all that. Her mouth was bloodied. “After that I stopped playing the goal, because I was afraid as well (of) my mom,” Chawinga says. Her mother frowned on her playing soccer and would slap Chawinga to get her to stop, she says. It's one of the many obstacles she's faced during her rise to stardom. As a teenager, she was considered so...
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Keyshawn Johnson is joined by his son Keyshawn Jr. on the All Facts No Brakes podcast to talk about all of the latest sports news including a look back on Keyshawn's commercial with Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant and former ESPN anchor Stuart Scott. Keyshawn shares some advice he received from Scott on transitioning to TV and recalls Kobe teaching him about signing autographs.
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First the play-in tournament, then the real tournament. The NBA postseason is nearly set to begin, after the regular season concluded on Sunday. The play-in tournament will kick off on Tuesday and run through Friday, and the playoffs will begin on April 20. And with that, the odds for the play-in tournament and the first round of the playoffs are on the move. Let's check out the odds for all things NBA play-in and postseason via DraftKings Sportsbook. WEST PLAY-IN TOURNAMENT ODDS Los Angeles...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Patrick Agyemang scored in the 85th minute to help Charlotte FC pull out a 3-2 victory over Toronto FC on Saturday night. Agyemang used an assist from Brecht Dejaegere to score his second goal this season and the third of his career. Agyemang has made five starts and 19 appearances over two seasons with Charlotte (3-3-2), which extended its unbeaten run at home to 13 matches dating to last season. Charlotte grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 39th minute and took it into halftime...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Capitals defenseman Nick Jensen was taken off the ice on a stretcher after a hit from Tampa Bay’s Michael Eyssimont on Saturday. Jensen was hit and went hard into the boards late in the first period of the teams’ game, and trainers called for the stretcher almost immediately after. He did not visibly move any of his extremities while he was being attended to by medical personnel. Officials postponed the final 1:31 of the first period to be played after intermission....
UFC 300 is finally here, with Alex Pereira defending his light heavyweight
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