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Glenbard West’s Ryan Renfro, left, and Whitney Young’s Xavier Amos (5) get tangled up going for a rebound during the Class 4A state championship game at the State Farm Center in in Champaign on Saturday, March 12, 2022. (Rob Dicker / Daily Southtown)
“Pitching and defense is going to be the key to our team,” La Russa said. “We’ve got a deep enough offense to score runs. Especially if we improve. Pitching and defensive side, the depth side, with the short spring training and 162 (games) and so many days. When in doubt, you add some pitching help.”
Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin’s KeShon Singleton (5) grabs a rebound away from Metamora’s Tyler Mason (30) during the Class 3A state championship game at the State Farm Center in Champaign on Saturday, March 12, 2022. (Rob Dicker / Daily Southtown)
Meanwhile, Patrick Kane set up Jonathan Toews for the Hawks’ first goal a minute into the second period. The assist moved Kane into second place on the franchise’s all-time points list with 1,154, breaking a tie with Bobby Hull. Stan Mikita leads with 1,467.
Resting on back-to-back games isn’t far from an anomaly in the NBA, but LaVine’s absence Saturday raises a more pressing concern. LaVine didn’t practice or play Thursday or Friday, then didn’t participate in shootaround Saturday morning. But even with that rare amount of rest, he still didn’t feel steady enough to play against the Cavaliers.
“It’s very humbling, man,” Stroman said Saturday. “It’s crazy. You kind of forget that because we haven’t been around baseball for a while, so to walk into the clubhouse and to feel that kind of energy from the young wave of stars, I mean, these guys are going to be the next Hall of Famer/All-Stars in the game. To see them gravitate toward me and tell me I’m their best player …”
Jacobs is Kent State’s second-leading scorer. Johnson, Hornbeak and Rollins barely play, with none of the three appearing in games in recent weeks. Johnson does most of the rapping and talking in the video, over a song called “F–k Akron” playing in the background. The other three appear over his shoulder briefly in the video.
Iowa’s Jordan Bohannon (3) celebrates after hitting the game-winning shot during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Indiana of an NCAA college basketball game in the semifinal round at the Big Ten Conference tournament, Saturday, March 12, 2022, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) (Darron Cummings/AP)
The Cowboys were intent on dealing Cooper, who signed a five-year, $100 million contract extension in 2019 and hasn’t produced the way Dallas had hoped. He was likely to be released if the Cowboys couldn’t strike a deal, and the Browns jumped at the chance to get the 27-year-old before he hit the market.
The good news is Charles Oakley’s new memoir, “The Last Enforcer: Outrageous Stories From the Life and Times of One of the NBA’s Fiercest Competitors,” comes with a six-page index, for easy perusal. The bad news — particularly if you played in the NBA during the power forward’s 19-year career, from his 1985 debut alongside Michael Jordan on the Chicago Bulls, to his 2004 retirement from the Houston Rockets — is if you find your name in the book. I hope not. I mean, after a light, laudatory forward by Jordan himself (“He truly was my enforcer”), Oakley begins, in the first sentence, with direct words for Charles Barkley. No, he never punched Charles Barkley, he explains: