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“Obviously, the mission now is to stay on top,” MVP guard Stephen Curry said this week at the release party for the new NBA 2K16 video game. “We have to keep our focus and know that everybody in the league is retooling.” MORE: NBA Finals could last longer this year | Top power forwards for 2015-16 season But as training camp is set to get underway all around the league, the biggest threat the Warriors face is not other teams in the league—it’s themselves....

Does he know something we don’t? Can he walk on water and atone for his awful play in the second round? MORE: Scenes from St. Andrews | Friday tee times | Tiger, Tom Watson and the spirit of 76 “Hopefully the conditions will be tough tomorrow and I can put together a good round,” he told media members at St. Andrews after his stinker of a round. “I’m going to have to have the conditions tough and then put together some really sorry rounds....

“Some have suggested that we should no longer support Republicans in Congress who voted against certification of the 2020 Presidential election,” the PAC wrote to its members. “However, the feedback we received from our discussions strongly favored vetting candidates and committees on an individual basis, rather than by applying a broad ’litmus test’ on certain issues.” In 2020, Ford’s PAC donated $1.2 million to the Republican Party, according to OpenSecrets....

MORE: The worst All-Star performances ever Isn’t it just as likely that Jake Peavy positioned his glove in such a way that would allow him to argue with an umpire and catch Posey’s throw? He doesn’t look surprised at the outcome. Can’t say the same for the other guy. Peavy is the skilled one here. The catcher is stealing his shine. Very unfair.

Reported interest in Erling Haaland, Jadon Sancho, and a plethora of centre-backs suggests Ed Woodward and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer are prioritising the three positions United fans have understood to be weakest for quite some time. And yet in Paul Pogba’s absence through February, it has slowly become clear that their midfield options beyond the Frenchman are not good enough to mount a title challenge next season. Pogba is widely expected to leave either this summer or the next, and it would be unwise to rely on a player who hasn’t been on a hot streak since the middle of the 2018-19 season....

This time, another letter to commissioner Rob Manfred, which was leaked to the press, first reported by TMZ. As The Athletic’s Ken Rosenthal pointed out, it’s not surprising that something involving Rose looking for attention and a spot in baseball’s Hall of Fame was leaked to the media. Here’s another bet that it didn’t come from MLB’s side. In 1989, Rose was banned for life for betting on Cincinnati Reds baseball games while he was the manager of the team....

The England international capitalised on Tommy Smith’s wayward clearing header to put the hosts ahead five minutes into the second half at Anfield on Saturday. 11/1 for Liverpool and Naribor to draw Sturridge’s lobbed finish over advancing goalkeeper Jonas Lossl saw him notch his 62nd goal for Liverpool and the 100th overall in his club career, having previously played for Bolton, Chelsea and Manchester City. “I didn’t even think about that, I completely forgot,” Sturridge told the club’s website....

Beach said the team largely ignored his allegations against Aldrich in 2010. An independent review commissioned by the team found they “badly mishandled Beach’s allegations,” according to the Associated Press. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that the Blackhawks had been pushing for mediation for weeks, but Beach’s attorney, Susan Loggans, had initially fought against it. The two sides attempted settlement talks earlier this month, but the Blackhawks’ lawyer said Beach’s financial demand was too high....

The former Cardinals outfielder, who is black, said he was punched in the face outside a gas station Wednesday after a white man shouted racial slurs at him and told him to “go back to Ferguson.” “I’m going to let the authorities handle this situation, but I’ve had enough of St. Louis,” Ford told The St. Louis-Dispatch on Thursday. “You hear about this kind of stuff happening, and I always knew it existed because of my previous experience working here in St....

As a result of a freak accident, involving firewords Fouth of July weekend, the Giants rescinded a 5-year, $60-million contract offer. The 26-year-old also had to have his right index finger amputated and is facing a six-week recovery. Tha’s not to mention the blow to his public image and the negative impact it could have on his team to start training camp. However, he hasn’t lost the support of former teammate and captain Antrel Rolle....

“Before this election, I have never spoken out for or against a candidate for any office,” he wrote. “But I can be silent no longer.” Over nearly four decades, Cardillo has served under six presidents—two Democrats and four Republicans—and has personally briefed both former President Barack Obama and Trump. “Broadly speaking, I can personally attest that Americans were very well served by those they elected to fill critical national security positions,” he wrote....

According to an Orlando Police Department report from Saturday's incident, Duhon was walking to his car in a garage parking lot along with brother-in-law Julio Hernandez. Duhon got into a verbal altercation with a man in a black Lexus. The man briefly got out of his car, then returned and accelerated toward the pair. Hernandez was able to avoid the car, but Duhon was struck, landed on the hood and hit his head on the windshield....

Judge Barry Willett ordered that Jones and two co-defendants be released from house arrest, The Courier-Journal reported. Willett will be in charge of the grand jury that will hear the case later in April. MORE: UK’s season of supremacy | Making each Final Four team’s case | Harrell, Rozier go pro Jones has pleaded not guilty to raping one woman and sodomizing another in February and was released on $20,000 bond, according to WHAS television....

In an extensive report by ESPN’s Outside The Lines, five former Cardinals players admitted to attending parties that included strippers (who stripped naked) provided to them by former Louisville player and graduate assistant Andre McGee. One player said he had sex with one of the strippers at the party after McGee paid her. MORE: What we learned from ‘Breaking Cardinal Rules’ | Sex scandals in sports “I knew they weren’t college girls....

On Friday afternoon, Auchincloss joined former Missouri Secretary of State and Afghanistan veteran Jason Kander, congressional candidate and Air Force veteran Col. Moe Davis and Vets for Biden Chief of Staff and former Marine Claire Russo in a press conference to discuss Trump’s comments on veterans and their families in light of the president’s statements that he may have gotten the coronavirus during an event for Gold Star families....

Logan Tuley-Tillman, a 6-7, 310-pound offensive lineman, told Ann Arbor police that he was intoxicated at the time of the Sept. 4 incident and couldn’t recall details from the night. He faces three felonies — two counts of capturing/distributing an image of an unclothed person and one count of using computers to commit a crime. MORE: This week’s SN Power Rankings According to the police report obtained by the Free Press, Tuley-Tillman arrived at the woman’s residence after drinking a bottle of cognac by himself....

Harris, who owns two Beggars Pizza restaurants, decided to give his delivery staff the night off earlier this month and took on delivery services himself. MORE: Week 3 picks | Straight-up A call was made to an address where the house was vacant and up for sale. Harris’ spokesman, Sean Howard, said the order was a ruse to lure the delivery person in for a robbery. “They put a chokehold on the senator, but to no avail....

The Securities and Exchange Commission said in a civil complaint filed Tuesday in Boston that a loan company run by Allen and Susan Daub raised more than $31 million from investors in 2012 but distributed only $18 million in loans. Allen, 36, and Daub, 54, also used more than $7 million of investor capital “to pay personal expenses or to fund other business ventures” that included excursions at casinos and nightclubs, the suit said....

“I couldn’t communicate with anybody for a few years,” Thomas told reporters on Thursday via ESPN. “I didn’t call my dad. I didn’t talk to anybody. There was a time period, yeah, where I hated the game, so to speak. I didn’t sit there and [say] I hate it. My rebound effect was like, this wasn’t worth it.” Thomas, who won the Vezina Trophy twice and one Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins over a nine-year NHL career, alluded to health issues after he retired in a September conference call when he was one of five figures named to the Hall’s Class of 2019....

In the suit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, the two players, Haley Videckis and Layana White, allege that coach Ryan Weisenberg and his staff harassed and discriminated against them because they were dating each other. Both players left the university in early December, according to an online report in the Los Angeles Times. According to the 24-page complaint, “Coach Ryan believed that the plaintiffs were lesbians who were in a relationship and would cause the team to lose games....