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West preview: It’ll be a wild race for eighth — and ninth

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Add this plot twist to an unusual NBA season: To get the No. 8 seed in the Western Conference, a whole bunch of teams will enter the final two weeks of the regular s...

DATE: Jul 26, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Leaner Nikola Jokic ready to carry load for Nuggets

Denver restarts season in one week against Miami

DATE: Jul 24, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Senate wants action on college athlete compensation

Graham: ‘We’ve got to do something’

DATE: Jul 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Whole new look, a whole new NBA experience

Courts ready to welcome players

DATE: Jul 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Whiteskunk continues basketball career at Midland University

Teagan Whiteskunk knew in middle school he could score at a high volume. Long before then, he knew he wanted to play college basketball. The 6-foot-1 guard from Montezuma-Cortez H...

DATE: Jul 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Lakers’ LeBron James speaks out: ‘Nothing is normal in 2020’

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – LeBron James keeps hearing the same questions. How’s it going? How’s the bubble? He now has a one-size-fits-all answer. “I just say it’s 2020,”...

DATE: Jul 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NBA going with shorter games for Disney openers

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – The first exhibition games of the NBA restart will go a little more quickly than usual. The NBA is tweaking the rules for those initial matchups, going wi...

DATE: Jul 20, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NBA says MVP race is over

Individual player awards to be voted on before restart

DATE: Jul 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Nuggets’ Barton: Jersey messages won’t make enough impact

Denver guard works with schools, YMCAs

DATE: Jul 17, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Five to the flock: Fort Lewis College men’s basketball adds tough talent

Four junior college transfers, one freshman expected to improve ’Hawks

DATE: Jul 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Rockets’ Westbrook has virus, as NBA bubble faces first test

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. – Houston’s Russell Westbrook hasn’t made it to the NBA restart yet. The coronavirus did – but health protocols seemed to work as the league and its players...

DATE: Jul 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NBA teams at Disney had tough travel-party decisions to make

The 22 teams participating in the NBA restart were all at the Disney campus together for the first time Friday. None of them, however, made it to the Orlando, Florida area with th...

DATE: Jul 10, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports