Новости за 26.06.2019

The race is officially on. Kevin Durant is an unrestricted free agent, declining his $31.5 million player option to return to the Warriors on Wednesday, ESPN is reporting. His recruitment could be a showdown between the Knicks and Nets. Durant has spent time in the city since undergoing surgery on June 12 to repair his...

There are rarely a shortage of pinstripes in the All-Star Game. There were four Yankees last year and five the season before that. They have had fewer than three representatives just once since 1994. That won’t change this year, and that’s no surprise. It’s the players who may be in Cleveland representing the AL East...

Kansas City radio host Kevin Kietzman has been yanked from the airwaves indefinitely after comments made Monday about Chiefs coach Andy Reid and his family. On Tuesday, Sports Radio 810 WHB announced Kietzman would be kept off the air until the station reviews the matter, as noted in a statement by Union Broadcasting. “We take...

Could a LeBron James-J.R. Smith reunion be in the cards? After Sunday, Smith’s contract becomes fully guaranteed at $15.6 million, so it’s not in the interest of a rebuilding Cleveland Cavliers team to keep the guard at that cost. Smith, who signed his deal before the new collective bargaining agreement was grandfathered in, has a...

PHILADELPHIA — Jay Bruce plays for the Phillies, but that doesn’t mean he wants his former team within the NL East to suffer. The veteran outfielder indicated Tuesday he’s empathetic toward the Mets, who traded him to the Mariners last offseason as part of a roster refurbishment. “It’s tough when you have a lot of...

Freddy Galvis fouled off one, two, three, four, five Aroldis Chapman pitches on Tuesday night, a called strike splitting up foul balls one and two, before finally knocking a slow grounder to second base that DJ LeMahieu fielded and threw to first base in time. With that, the Yankees completed a taut, 4-3 victory over...

After finally getting off the injured list, Giancarlo Stanton hit another speed bump. In just his sixth game back after missing nearly three months with an assortment of injuries, the slugging outfielder suffered a right knee contusion in the Yankees’ 4-3 win over the Blue Jays on Tuesday night in The Bronx and underwent an...

The most common names heard when talking about Yankees prospect Deivi Garcia are Pedro Martinez and Marcus Stroman. Like Martinez and Stroman, Garcia is a short right-hander and he throws in the mid-90s. The 20-year-old has a considerable distance to go before it can be determined if those comparisons prove to be accurate, but he’s...

A GoFundMe page purportedly belonging to “Thumbs Down Guy” Gary Dunaier was launched recently in an effort to raise money for medical bills. “I’m Gary Dunaier, better known as “Thumbs Down Guy” of baseball and meme fame,” the page reads. “I’m the Mets fan who, when a Yankee player hit a home run in my...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The principal owner of the Rays says it’s unrealistic for his team to play full time in the Tampa Bay area, and a shared season with Montreal is the best option. “I don’t see it happening in St. Petersburg and would be hard-pressed to see it working in Tampa from what...