Jumat, 28 Februari 2020

LeBon James, Charles Barkley react to Draymond Green ejection - Yahoo Sports

Draymond Green may have outdone himself Thursday night. He at least gave LeBron James a good laugh while he watched from the bench.

The Golden State Warriors forward was ejected from a game against the Los Angeles Lakers with 5:45 to go in the second quarter after picking up two technical fouls in 11 seconds. The Warriors lost, 116-86, and the Lakers were all laughs.

So was the NBA on TNT crew back in the studio.

Green hit with 2 technicals in 11 seconds

Green, who missed the two previous games with a pelvic contusion, got called for a foul under the basket with 5:56 to play when Dwight Howard backpedals into him and the two get tangled up on the way to the floor. He let official Tyler Ford know his displeasure and got the first technical call.

The second came about 11 seconds later. Green appears to have his leg out to trip Howard. He, of course, let the refs know about that one too.

And he was promptly sent off in a five-point game that could have gone differently.

Barkley gets in jab on NBA on TNT

Green had 2 points, 4 assists and 4 fouls in 10 minutes. That elicited a joke and more laughter from the NBA on TNT crew during halftime.

Warriors head coach Steve Kerr acknowledged after the game losing Green was a massive hit.

"We needed him in the second half," Kerr said, via ESPN. "We missed him out there."

The Lakers held a slim 54-52 lead at half, but outscored the Warriors, 40-17, in the third.

Green now has 14 technical fouls for the season. Two more will get him automatic suspension, which is issued at 16 technicals per season.

James tries to hide laughter at ejections

James was on the bench Thursday while dealing with a sore groin. He traveled with the team and got in a good laugh at Green’s demeanor.

Best not to let them see you laugh at them.

LeBron James got a good laugh on the bench while Draymond Green got himself ejected with two technicals in 11 seconds. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

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2020-02-28 14:58:00Z
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Why Patriots Should Wait On QB, Take Jalen Hurts In Middle Of NFL Draft - NESN

INDIANAPOLIS — The New England Patriots currently have Jarrett Stidham and Cody Kessler at quarterback. (Don’t laugh.)

They might get Tom Brady back, though it’s not a certainty.

They can afford to add another quarterback through the 2020 NFL Draft whether Brady returns or not. But that signal-caller needs to be a special case.  Taking a more traditional quarterback like Jordan Love or Jake Fromm in the first round makes no sense. Both players have potential, but there’s no guarantee either will be better than Stidham.

The Patriots need a player with some athleticism and versatility. A player they can groom but also use in the short term by getting creative with read-option looks. And the most athletic quarterback in the 2020 class is someone Patriots head coach Bill Belichick should know pretty well: Oklahoma-by-way-of-Alabama’s Jalen Hurts, who played under Friend Of Belichick Nick Saban for three years.

Hurts clocked a 4.59-second 40-yard dash at the NFL Scouting Combine on Thursday night. He ran for over 3,000 yards — including negative yards for sacks — during his four-year college career with 43 rushing touchdowns. He also caught five passes for 40 yards with a touchdown.

Hurts wasn’t a prolific passer in his three years at Alabama, but he turned it on at Oklahoma, throwing for 3,851 yards with 32 touchdowns and eight interceptions while completing 69.7 percent of his passes in 2019. He threw for an insane 11.3 yards per passing attempt.

Hurts is a quarterback. He’s made that clear. But while he learns to play QB in the NFL, would he be willing to be used in packages similar to New Orleans Saints signal-caller Taysom Hill?

“I’ve always been a team-first guy,” Hurts said. “But I think I’m a quarterback.”

Hurts wouldn’t say if he’d talked to the Patriots at the combine, but he was excited by the idea of being groomed by Brady.

“He’s the greatest,” Hurts said. “Got a lot of respect for him. Those are situations I can’t control. I wouldn’t mind being able to learn from him.”

It might take some convincing from the Patriots to move around Hurts like Hill, but he could be a developmental quarterback with some usefulness in the present.

Another option for the Patriots with less passing ability but more versatility would be Kentucky’s Lynn Bowden Jr., who moved from wide receiver to quarterback for the final eight games of the 2019 season.

Bowden is an even better rusher and pass-catcher, but he wouldn’t be a developmental arm. He could throw an occasional pass from behind center, but he mostly would play running back or wide receiver in the NFL.

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2020-02-28 14:00:00Z
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2020 NFL combine - Offensive linemen, running backs work out Friday - ESPN

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INDIANAPOLIS -- Friday will be the second day of on-field workouts at the NFL scouting combine at Lucas Oil Stadium, after the quarterbacks, wide receivers and tight ends worked out for all 32 teams on Thursday.

A look at what you need to know:

The workouts: From 7 p.m.-11 p.m. ET (NFL Network), offensive linemen, running backs, kickers and special-teamers will do the vertical jump, broad jump, 40-yard dash and position drills.

And ... : The defensive linemen and linebackers will do the bench press as the defensive backs will be weighed and measured.

The record holders: Maryland tackle Bruce Campbell's combine story can be filed under buyer beware. At 6-foot-6, 318 pounds, Campbell ran a double-take worthy 4.75 40-yard dash and had a 34-inch vertical jump at the 2010 combine. The Raiders selected him in the fourth round but Campbell played 19 games in his career. On the opposite end of things, running back Bo Jackson's work at the 1986 combine -- the year before the event was moved to Indianapolis -- is still the stuff of legend, including the long-debated 4.12-second hand-timed 40-yard dash. Jackson has said it didn't happen at the combine because he didn't attend the event that year in New Orleans. That 40-yard dash, Jackson has said, happened on Auburn's campus.

At the top of the board: There is a gap between the top tackles and rest of the players in the position group. Look for Louisville's Mekhi Becton, Alabama's Jedrick Wills, Iowa's Tristan Wirfs, Houston's Josh Jones and Georgia's Andrew Thomas to get heavy first-round consideration when April rolls around. Many personnel executives believe Georgia running back D'Andre Swift and Ohio State running back J.K. Dobbins will get much of the pre-draft love among the ball carriers, but it is LSU's Clyde Edwards-Helaire who might be the most intriguing all-around prospect at the position.

Who can really help himself: The top five offensive tackles are likely locked in, but every other player at the position will have a chance to bump himself up the board with good work at the combine. Opinions are far more varied after the top players. Michigan center Cesar Ruiz is somebody to watch. At running back, a player such as Utah's Zack Moss, who had 66 receptions in four seasons with the Utes, will have a chance to show a little more as a receiver.

Don't miss: The new drills, added this year, as the offensive linemen will now have a screen pass drill added to the mix and the running backs will have a new drill -- called the "Duce Staley drill" -- which will simulate an inside zone play that will help scouts see a back's vision in traffic.

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Maurkice Pouncey, among others, represents the minority of NFL players - Behind the Steel Curtain

Let me just preface this article by saying that I love Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey.

I love the leadership he has displayed in the locker room since Pittsburgh made him its first-round pick all the way back in 2010. I love how he was one of the first players to stand up and say that James Harrison was full of stuff after Harrison got himself cut near the end of the 2017 season and subsequently signed with the hated Patriots. I love how Pouncey, almost on instinct, stood up for his quarterback—his backup quarterback, mind you—when he laid a beating on Browns defensive end Myles Garrett last November right after Garrett smashed Mason Rudolph over the head with his own helmet.

I am also proud to say that I am old enough to have witnessed three future Hall of Fame centers play for the Steelers (despite his lack of love from sites like Pro Football Focus, I am pretty sure Pouncey will wind up in Canton, when all is said and done).

But that Hall of Fame part, that’s where a player like Pouncey may be a bit out of touch with his fellow NFL players—at least as it pertains to the proposed new CBA (Collective Bargaining Agreement) that the NFLPA approved on Wednesday and sent to the players for a vote.

Pouncey posted an obscenity-laced video to social media on Wednesday where he criticized the NFL and even the union representatives for this new proposal that includes a 17th regular season game:

“Man, this s—‘s so f—ing crazy man. I vote no,” Pouncey said in a quote courtesy of Yahoo and ProFootball Talk. “F— that s—. Our NFLPA, the dudes at the top, the leaders, man that s— is all f—ing bulls—. F— that, they ain’t looking out for the best of the players. If y’all want my vote, the Pouncey twins vote no.”

Pouncey isn’t the only player that has come out strongly against this proposed new deal, other stars such as J.J. Watt, Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers have also expressed their displeasure.

Again, though, those players, like Pouncey, are stars, meaning, they’ve already gotten theirs.

Pouncey’s last two contracts with the Steelers have netted him $25 million in guaranteed money, alone. And when you look at his previous deal, combined with his current one, Pouncey will earn roughly $70 million through the 2021 season....and that’s not even including what he made on his rookie deal.

How many NFL players will ever earn that much money? Very few, and that’s why this proposed new CBA—one that will reportedly net every player a prorated extra game check (the proposed $250,000 cap has reportedly been scrapped, according to USAToday)—will be really hard to pass up for your average—emphasis on average—NFL player.

If you’re a superstar whose earned near or over $100 million during your NFL career, what do you care about a prorated extra game check? You’re set for life. You probably aren’t even all that concerned that the new deal won’t include lifetime health insurance for every NFL player.

You’re just mad that you have to go out there and put your body on the line for an extra 50 or 60 plays a year. I get it. But you have to understand how important an extra game check is to the average NFL player, someone who is earning six figures a year and knows his last day on the job could happen at any moment.

Phil Simms talked about this last year on his Unbuttoned podcast, when the possibility of an 18-game regular season was being discussed by the owners:

“More money. More game checks. It’s pro-rated. Give me two more game checks. If you put it up to a vote by the NFL players, it’ll overwhelmingly go over and say yes. Some of the elite quarterbacks and a few players, no. Well yeah, you’re making 25 and 30 million. But the guys that are making a million or less...two more game checks? Are you kidding me? Think about what those checks look like and how much that is and how much of a difference that makes in their lives.”

While the stars talk about providing lifetime security for themselves and their families, the average NFL player, well, he just has to make as much money as he can while he can.

Yes, it’s still a lot of money compared to the rest of society, but it’s not enough to provide lifetime security. It’s not enough to not be concerned with the cost of future medical bills.

Ramon Foster, the Steelers player representative, once remarked earlier in his career that he didn’t make enough money to afford the injury insurance that so many of the superstars take advantage of.

That’s the plight of your average NFL player, and it’s those kinds of financial issues that will likely lead to this proposed new CBA being approved by the rank and file.

Maurkice Pouncey might be a great and vocal leader, but he’s not someone the average NFL player will likely look to for guidance when casting his vote on this proposed new deal.

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Triple Olympic champion Sun Yang handed eight-year ban - CNN International

CAS said it had accepted an appeal from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) against a decision by the world swimming body FINA to clear Sun of wrongdoing for his conduct during the test in September 2018.
The 28-year-old is one of China's top athletes, having won two gold medals at the 2012 London Olympic games and another in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
The eight years is the maximum ban that CAS can hand out. It's the second ban Sun has received for doping, after the Chinese swimmer served one in 2014.
Sun poses with his gold medal he won during the 2016 Olympics.
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'Justice rendered'

WADA said it was "satisfied that justice in this case has been rendered."
"The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) welcomes the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in relation to WADA's appeal against the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA) disciplinary panel decision in relation to an incident that led to a doping control involving Chinese swimmer Sun Yang not being completed as planned," said WADA in a statement.
"WADA had lodged the appeal on the basis that Sun Yang voluntarily refused to submit to sample collection as per the terms of the World Anti-Doping Code and the related International Standard for Testing and Investigations.
The ban means Sun -- who is nicknamed the "Underwater Meteor" -- won't be able to compete at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
Sun won a gold medal in the 200m freestyle at the 2019 World Aquatic Championships in South Korea, but British swimmer Duncan Scott, who won joint-bronze, refused to shake hands or pose for pictures with the Chinese swimmer -- only two days after Australian swimmer Mack Horton chose not to share the podium with Sun.
Before the 400m freestyle race at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Horton had labeled Sun a "drug cheat."
Gold medalist Sun Yang of China (left) and bronze medalist Duncan Scott of Great Britain (right) interact during the medal ceremony for the Men's 200m Freestyle Final.
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'This is unfair'

Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency quoted Sun as saying that he will "definitely" appeal the CAS ruling. "This is unfair," Sun told Xinhua. "I firmly believe in my innocence."
Sun himself confirmed to his 33 million followers on Weibo that he will be appealing the decision.
"I am shocked and angry -- I don't understand," the swimmer wrote in a post on the Chinese social media platform. "I firmly believe my innocence and that truth will prevail over lies."
The Chinese Swimming Association expressed its "deep regret" over CAS' decision and voiced its support for Sun to "continue to safeguard his legitimate rights through legal means," according to state media.
CAS Secretary General Matthieu Reeb reads the decision of the Court on the case of Sun.
The national organization said in a statement that the activities in September 2018 by "untrained and unqualified personnel" targeting Sun are "illegal and invalid." It added that WADA and other agencies should improve and perfect their rules, and stop ignoring athletes' legitimate rights.
"They can't just allow anyone to engage in work that's as intimately related to athletes' vital rights as anti-doping testing," it said.
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However, WADA Director General Olivier Niggli called the ban a "significant result."
"WADA decided to appeal the original FINA ruling having carefully reviewed it and having concluded that there were a number of points that seemed to be incorrect under the Code.
"Today's CAS ruling confirms those concerns and is a significant result. We will now need to take time to review the decision in full, and we will continue to review diligently all anti-doping decisions taken by Code Signatories to ensure they are in line with the Code and, when warranted, to exercise our independent right of appeal."

Steven Jiang contributed to this report.

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2020-02-28 09:53:27Z
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Sun Yang, Chinese Olympic Swimmer, Gets 8-Year Doping Ban - The New York Times

Sun Yang, the three-time Olympic swimming champion from China, was suspended from competition for eight years for a drug-testing violation, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on Friday, a decision that will keep him out of the Tokyo Olympics this year and likely end his career.

Sun, 28, a six-time Olympic medalist and the first Chinese man to win a swimming gold at the Games, had been fighting a multiyear battle with the World Anti-Doping Agency to preserve his eligibility to compete in international competition.

WADA brought a complaint against Sun, currently China’s most famous athlete, to the court after swimming’s international governing body declined to penalize him for refusing to cooperate with three antidoping officials who had traveled to his home in China to retrieve blood and urine samples.

During that confrontation in September 2018, Sun argued with the testers and his mother ordered a security guard to break his blood-sample vials with a hammer. Sun declined to submit a urine sample.

A panel unanimously found “to its comfortable satisfaction” that Sun had violated rules governing efforts to tamper with doping procedures, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said in a statement.

“The athlete failed to establish that he had a compelling justification to destroy his sample collection containers and forgo the doping control when, in his opinion, the collection protocol was not in compliance,” the court said.

The ban is the first imposed on a Chinese sports figure as influential as Sun, who is feted as a national hero, similar to the adulation showered on the country’s former basketball star Yao Ming.

The reaction from Chinese fans to the court ruling was immediate and furious. Social media platforms were flooded with messages of support for the swimmer and anger at the decision, which many described as anti-Chinese and designed to harm the country.

Sun, who contended the testers had been unprofessional and lacked the proper paperwork, received only a warning from a tribunal from FINA, swimming’s governing body. WADA, the antidoping agency, appealed that decision, arguing for stronger penalties.

The court said that while athletes might have grounds to question the accreditation of testing personnel, the destruction of samples — an act that would prevent testing at a later date — in defiance of warnings about the consequences was not acceptable.

The November hearing before the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Montreux, Switzerland, translation issues marred the proceedings, and a new confrontation erupted — between Sun’s mother and opposing lawyers during cross-examination.

WADA said on Friday that it “welcomes the ruling.”

Sun is disdained by some fellow swimmers because of concerns about doping — he was suspended for three months by the Chinese swimming authorities in 2014 after he tested positive for a recently banned prescription drug — and several rivals verbally sparred with him at the world championships last July or refused to stand on the medals podium with him after races.

Sun won the 400- and 1500-meter freestyles at the London Games in 2012 and the 200 freestyle in Rio in 2016. He has three other Olympic medals and 16 from the world championships, including 11 gold.

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2020-02-28 09:21:00Z
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NFL Scouting Combine Notebook: Is Henry Ruggs Too Fast for His Own Good? - Bleacher Report

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Here's a look at how some of Thursday's eye-popping numbers will impact the draft stock of the prospects who produced them.

   

Justin Jefferson, WR, LSU: 4.43-second 40-yard dash at 6'1", 202 pounds.

My personal pre-combine scouting notes for Jefferson begin: "Speed: C+. Looks like a track star at full stride but lacks top initial separation quickness." That report could probably use some revision. Jefferson explained on Tuesday that the LSU offense often required him to throttle down when coming off the line of scrimmage so Joe Burrow could go through his routes and use Jefferson as "the backup read at the end of the play."

Jefferson earned B-plus or A grades from me for his hands, blocking and ability to drag defenders into the end zone after the catch. I won't be revising those. He may be the fourth or fifth wide receiver off the board come April.

   

Albert Okwuegbunam, TE, Missouri: 4.49 second 40-yard dash at 6'5", 258 pounds.

Okwuegbunam doesn't look like a speedy NFL-caliber seam-stretcher on tape. But he's versatile, well built and blocks about as well as college tight ends block these days. This is a relatively weak tight end class, so measurables matter: Teams may be tempted to draft for traits and potential on Day 2. Okwuegbunam's numbers will make teams take a second look at his film.

      

Brycen Hopkins, TE, Purdue: 4.66 second 40-yard dash and 21 bench press reps at 6'4", 245 pounds.

Hopkins, the silver medalist in the tight end 40-yard dash, looks a lot like Mike Gesicki, the former Penn State tight end who now plays for the Dolphins. Hopkins has the body control and ability to make leaping, away-from-the-body catches of an elite wide receiver. But despite being the son of former Titans Pro Bowl left tackle Brad Hopkins, he also blocks like a wide receiver.

Hopkins could have used a faster 40 to convince teams he can be a slot mismatch, but his results (including a very strong 4.28-second 20-yard shuttle) should be enough to land him at the end of Day 2 or the beginning of Day 3 of the draft.

   

Adam Trautman, TE, Dayton: 6.78-second three-cone drill, 4.27-second 20-yard shuttle.

Trautman had a strong Senior Bowl week and tested competitively in all areas on Thursday, demonstrating his agility by winning the three-cone drill for tight ends. He's this year's official Super-Athletic Small Program Draft Crush Tight End. You'd love him if your team drafted him on Day 3.

   

Netane Muti, G, Fresno State: 44 bench press reps.

Here's a hype video of Muti body-slamming and steamrolling opposing defenders for your enjoyment. Muti missed most of last season with a Lisfranc injury, so his medical reports are more important than anything he does in workouts. If healthy, he will be the top interior lineman off the board.

In a tangentially related note, Muti sometimes enjoys a 10x10 burger from In-N-Out Burger. That's 10 patties and 10 slices of cheese. Muti should take part in the great Steak 'n' Shake tradition while he is here in Indy to celebrate his bench-pressing performance. Just as long as he saves some for the rest of us.

   

Donovan Peoples-Jones, WR, Michigan: 44.5-inch high jump, 139-inch broad jump, both bests among wide receivers.

Jump numbers are often used as proxies for a player's initial quickness and explosiveness. And though Peoples-Jones was slowed by a groin injury last season and sometimes got lost among a crowd of talented receivers in a very inconsistent Michigan passing offense, scouts now have reason to take a second look to see if there's more to Peoples-Jones than what showed up on the stat sheet.

   

Jeff Okudah, CB, Ohio State: 78 ⅝-inch wingspan.

Per Eric Edholm of Yahoo Sports, only two cornerbacks in the past 20 years have had a longer wingspan than Okudah. He's the best cornerback in this draft, and we will revisit him when he works out later in the week. For now, know that several receivers name-dropped him as the toughest defender they ever faced during interviews this week and that he has the length to cover the NFL's tallest wide receivers.

   

Jalen Hurts, QB, Oklahoma: 4.59-second 40-yard dash, second-best among quarterbacks.

Hurts also looked very sharp in passing drills. No one of significance is suggesting that Hurts should move to wide receiver. But it's customary to beat up the "move to receiver" straw-man argument at every opportunity, so here goes: Hurts is really fast for a quarterback but rather slow for a wide receiver; good thing he's a quarterback! Wow, striking that blow against all those old NFL fuddy-duddies sure felt empowering!

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