Posted: Dec 22, 2020 4:22 PM ET | Last Updated: December 22, 2020
Kevin Durant s first season in Brooklyn promises to be anything but dull.(Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) comments
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The NBA season tips off tonight
The shortest off-season ever is over and the 2020-21 season opens with an interesting double-header. At 7 p.m. ET, Kevin Durant finally plays his first meaningful game for the Brooklyn Nets when they host his old team, the Golden State Warriors. At 10 p.m. ET, the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers take on the intra-arena rival Clippers. The Toronto Raptors open tomorrow night at home in Tampa vs. New Orleans.
Posted: Dec 11, 2020 5:04 PM ET | Last Updated: December 11, 2020
Breaking is the newest Olympic sport.(Jeff Pachoud/AFP via Getty Images) comments
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The Olympics are trying to get smaller, younger and more equal
Earlier this week, the International Olympic Committee s executive board met to finalize the events for the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. The headline coming out of this was that breakdancing is joining the Olympics in four years.
But several other events were either added or dropped in service of three basic objectives the IOC is pursuing (with varying degrees of success): making the Games smaller, younger and more equal in terms of gender representation.