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NHL Playoffs 1st round: A curse lifted, defending champions ousted and 14 overtimes

4:46pm May 01, 2023

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with NHL senior writer Dan Rosen about the buzz surrounding the first round of playoffs, growing parity in the NHL, and matchups to watch as the next round starts Tuesday.

Larry "Gator" Rivers, a member of the Chatham County Commission and a former Harlem Globetrotter, shows off his ball handling skills as he rides in the annual Veterans Day Parade on Nov. 11, 2021 in Savannah, Ga.

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Basketball legend Larry 'Gator' Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, has died at 73

12:48am May 01, 2023

by The Associated Press

Rivers, who helped integrate high school basketball in Georgia before playing for the Harlem Globetrotters and becoming a county commissioner in his native Savannah, died on Saturday.

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Saturday Sports: NBA playoffs; a delayed Major League Baseball debut

8:15am April 29, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of Meadowlark Media about the NBA playoffs and a long delayed debut in Major League Baseball.

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Swords in hand, an American team is in Europe for a medieval combat competition

7:58am April 29, 2023

by Shanna Lewis

An American team is in Europe this week for a medieval combat competition. They dress up in period costumes and fight with dulled weapons.

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Players in baseball's segregation-era Negro Leagues unite to keep the legacy alive

7:58am April 29, 2023

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Sean Gibson of the Negro Leagues Family Alliance about honoring its past in modern baseball and Ron "Schoolboy" Teasley about his own history playing in the Negro Leagues.

During a press conference in Phoenix on Thursday, Brittney Griner told reporters she wasn't planning to play overseas again unless she was invited to the Olympics.

Brittney Griner says she's 'never going overseas' again after her detention

12:57pm April 28, 2023

by Emily Olson

During her first press conference since being detained in Russia, the Phoenix Mercury star told reporters the only thing that'd take her off U.S. soil is an invitation to compete in the Olympics.

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N.J. town forces combative parents to be umpires at Little League games

6:32am April 28, 2023

A youth baseball program in New Jersey made a rule: If parents want to yell at the umpires, they have to become an umpire for three games. If they refuse, they are thrown out of the game.

South African sailor Kirsten Neuschafer beat 15 rivals in the 2022 Golden Globe Race, a grueling, nonstop, round-the-world sailing competition. She is the first woman in the race's history to have taken first place.

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She went around the world in 235 days to win sailing's most grueling competition

5:27pm April 27, 2023

by Scott Neuman

South Africa's Kirsten Neuschafer beat out 15 rivals to win the Golden Globe Race, crossing the finish line in France on Thursday after nearly eight months solo at sea.

Brittney Griner speaks to press ahead of WNBA season

4:43pm April 27, 2023

by Tom Goldman

Women's basketball star Brittney Griner meets the press on Thursday ahead of the WNBA season. Griner has said little publicly since her release from Russia after a months-long detention.

After more than 1,100 minor league games, Drew Maggi of the Pittsburgh Pirates made his Major League debut on Wednesday.

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He played more than 1,100 minor league games, and finally made an emotional MLB debut

2:36pm April 27, 2023

by Becky Sullivan

The picture of a baseball journeyman, Drew Maggi had seen 4,500 plate appearances in places like Charleston, Tulsa, Little Rock and Altoona, Pa., before finally getting his big-league shot Wednesday.