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Toronto Maple Leafs alternate captain Auston Matthews has become the third Leaf ever to win the Hart Trophy. Receiving 119 first-place votes in voting by the Professional Hockey Writers Association, the 24-year-old surpassed other contenders like Edmonton’s Connor McDavid and the New York Rangers’ Igor Shesterkin by a landslide. “I can’t lie, it feels really good… […]
Ahead of the release of the Giannis Antetokounmpo biopic Rise, Complex has shared an exclusive scene from the forthcoming Disney+ sports drama. The clip features young Giannis and his brother Thanasis—portrayed by real-life brothers Uche and Ral Agada—sharing sneakers at basketball practice as the Antetokounmpo family is not able to afford an extra pair of shoes for the future NBA players. […]
Rob Gronkowski is retiring from the NFL for the second time. Widely considered the greatest tight end in NFL history, Gronk took to social media on Tuesday to announce his retirement. The 33-year-old, who retired after the 2018 season before reuniting with Tom Brady in Tampa Bay in 2020, walks away from football after 11 […]
Darius Lee, a star basketball player for Houston Baptist University, was fatally shot Monday morning while at a gathering in Harlem. KTRK reports Lee, 21, was one of nine people who were shot around 12:40 a.m. Monday on a footpath over the Harlem River Drive. CBS News notes that the shooting broke out as a music video was being […]
After the announcement that Toronto and Vancouver will be hosting some of the FIFA World Cup games in 2026, the stadium where the games will take place in hogtown has wasted no time in sharing their plan for expansion. A sizeable chunk of the $290 million that Toronto is spending to host the World Cup is […]
Mike Tyson has again addressed the viral footage showing him in a fight with a fellow airplane passenger. Sunday, TMZ shared footage of Tyson—who, per the ensuing report, “appeared to be” on his way to a commercial flight from Los Angeles at the time—being asked about the aforementioned incident. Specifically, Tyson was asked if he […]
FINA, the international governing body for swimming, voted Sunday to restrict the participation of trans women in elite women’s races, ESPN reports. The new policy will require transgender athletes to have completed their transition by the age of 12 in order to compete in women’s competitions. “This is not saying that people are encouraged to transition by […]
Both sides in a lawsuit over the alleged taking and sharing of Kobe Bryant helicopter crash site photos have shared statements on an involved sheriff’s deputy having also been at the center of a 2021 excessive force scandal. Per a report from USA Today, Luis Li—an attorney representing Vanessa Bryant—said Friday that he and his […]
Charlotte Hornets forward Montrezl Harrell is facing a felony drug charge after he was pulled over in Kentucky last month. The Charlotte Observer reports Harrell, 28, has been charged with trafficking less than five pounds of marijuana after police said they found three pounds in his car during a traffic stop. Harrell was pulled over by a […]
In a recent appearance on JJ Redick’s Old Man and the Three podcast, Stephen A. Smith spoke about his background in politics, revealing that he was approached to run for Senate in Pennsylvania last decade. “When ESPN let me go in 2009, I appeared on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN 150 times,” Smith said. “I honestly thought […]
