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Giants' coach Alyssa Nakken honors childhood mentor Gabe Abelia FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 San Francisco Giants' coach Alyssa Nakken talks with an outfielder during a practice at Scottsdale Stadium Thursday, March 5, 2020, in Scottsdale, Arizona.Darryl Webb / Darryl WebbShow MoreShow Less 2of6 San Francisco Giants' coach Alyssa Nakken greets _____________ at Scottsdale Stadium Thursday, March 5, 2020, in Scottsdale, Arizona.Darryl Webb / Darryl WebbShow MoreShow Less 3of6 San Francisco Giants' coach Alyssa Nakken work with the outfielders before their game with the Cleveland Indians at Scottsd...

Marshall University men’s basketball junior guard Taevion Kinsey was named one of the 30 Division I men’s basketball players to the 2020-21 Lute Olson Award National Player of the Year

All throughout 2020 — since March, anyway — a song rattled around in my head: "People Who Died," by the Jim Carroll Band. It was a minor hit in the early 1980s; maybe you know it. Carroll, the punk-poet author of The Basketball Diaries, wrote it as a sort of tribute to friends he knew who died before their time. Some of them met wild ends: a guy killed by bikers, a woman who jumped in front of a subway train. Others left Earth via less dramatic but nevertheless heartbreaking routes. My favorite line goes: Bobby got leukemia, fourteen years old / He looked like sixty-five when he died / ...

No. 10 Iowa picks up big road win at No. 14 Rutgers Iowa guard Jordan Bohannon (3) shoots against Rutgers during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Piscataway, N.J., Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Noah K. Murray) Luka Garza had 25 points to lead No. 10 Iowa past No. 14 Rutgers 77-75. The Scarlet Knights lost the game at the free throw line, where they have struggled all season. Posted: Jan 3, 2021 8:30 AM Posted By: By MATT SUGAM Associated Press PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Luka Garza got his points for No. 10 Iowa, but otherwise, 14th-ranked Rutgers managed to stifle th...

By David Mullen As is the tradition of this column at the beginning of a new year, we look back at the personalities who passed away in the previous year but had a profound impact on the sports that they served. Many were pinnacles of their game, including seven baseball Hall of Famers and one who deserves enshrinement. Members of Cooperstown who passed were Al Kaline, 85, the classy right-handed hitter called “Mr. Tiger,” Tom Seaver, 75, the most visible player on the “Amazing Mets” 1969 World Series champion team, St. Louis Cardinals legends Lou Brock, 81, one of the greatest leadof...