(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
New York 102, Phoenix 83
Philadelphia 120, New Orleans 111
LA Lakers 121, Charlotte 115
Indiana 122, Toronto 114
Brooklyn 139, San Antonio 103
Cleveland 145, Chicago 134 (OT)
Minnesota 124, Denver 111
Dallas 111, Houston 106
Golden State 143, Atlanta 141 (OT)
Portland 135, Detroit 106
Miami 110, LA Clippers 100
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Boston 2, Pittsburgh 1
Vegas 3, Colorado 2
Philadelphia 4, Anaheim 0
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 7, Buffalo 3 (Suspended)
TOP-25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Penn St. 35, Utah 21
Tulane 46, Southern Cal 45
Mississippi St. 19, Illinois 10
LSU 63, Purdue 7
(CINCINNATI, Ohio) — Buffalo Bills’ safety Damar Hamlin collapsed Monday night after making a tackle during the first quarter against the Bengals in Cincinnati, and the game has been postponed.
Hamlin, 24, is currently hospitalized in critical condition, the National Football League said in a statement.
“Hamlin received immediate medical attention on the field by team and independent medical staff and local paramedics. He was then transported to a local hospital where he is in critical condition,” the NFL said. “Our thoughts are with Damar and the Buffalo Bills. We will provide more information as it becomes available.
“The NFL has been in constant communication with the NFL Players Association which is in agreement with postponing the game,” the league added.
Hamlin was down for at least 15 minutes. Paramedics were seen administering CPR as players from both teams gathered around at midfield, some openly weeping.
Hamlin was taken off the field in an ambulance, and both teams have gone back to their locker rooms.
The safety was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
“The thoughts and prayers of all of Bills Mafia are supporting you, Damar,” the team tweeted.
Several NFL teams also tweeted that they were sending their prayers to Hamlin, his family and the Bills.
Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes tweeted, “Praying hard.. please be okay man.”
Arizona Cardinals defensive end J.J. Watt tweeted: “The game is not important. Damar Hamlin’s life is important. Please be ok. Please.”
“The entire City of Cincinnati is sending all of our prayers to Damar Hamlin right now. Our hearts are with you, your family and your friends,” the mayor of Cincinnati, Aftab Pureval, wrote.
In the time since Hamlin collapsed on the field, a toy drive on GoFundMe he organized in 2020 saw donations pouring in — topping more than $1.5 million as of late Monday night, with an initial goal of $2,500. ABC has verified with GoFundMe officials that the page was originally started by Hamlin.
This is a developing story. Please check back up for updates.
ABC News’ Will Reeve and Luke Barr contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — Pro rally driver Ken Block died in a snowmobile accident in Utah Monday.
The Wasatch County Sheriff’s Office said it received a call about an accident in the Mill Hollow area at about 2 p.m. local time.
“The driver, Kenneth Block, [a] 55-year-old male out of Park City, Utah, was riding a snowmobile on a steep slope when the snowmobile upended, landing on top of him. He was pronounced deceased at the scene from injuries sustained in the accident,” the sheriff’s office said in a statement posted to Facebook.
“Mr. Block was riding with a group but was alone when the accident occurred,” it added.
Law enforcement from the sheriff’s office, Search and Rescue, Utah State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service responded to the scene.
“We are saddened to hear of the loss of Kenneth and our hearts are with his family and friends so deeply affected,” the sheriff’s office added.
“Ken was a visionary, a pioneer and an icon. And most importantly, a father and husband. He will be incredibly missed,” Hoonigan Industries, the auto media and apparel company Block co-founded, wrote on Instagram.
Block has 1.92 million followers on YouTube and his Gymkhana videos — car-driving stunt videos — regularly have 50 million views. He was also regularly a competitor at ESPN’s X Games when they sporadically included rally racing.
ABC News’ Marilyn Heck contributed to this report.
(NEW YORK) — Tennis legend Martina Navratilova announced Monday she is suffering from throat cancer, as well as a recurrence of breast cancer, which she was first diagnosed with in 2010.
“This double whammy is serious but still fixable,” Navratilova said in a statement posted to the WTA site. “I’m hoping for a favorable outcome. It’s going to stink for a while, but I’ll fight with all have I got.”
Navratilova is one of the winningest tennis players of all time. She holds 18 grand slam singles titles as well as 31 grand slam doubles titles and 11 grand slam mixed doubles titles. She was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 2000.
(NEW YORK) — Brazilian soccer legend Pelé, a three-time World Cup champion who’s largely considered to be one of the best players ever, has died. He was 82 years old.
His daughter, Kely, confirmed his death on social media.
“All that we are is thanks to you,” she wrote. “We love you forever. Rest in peace.”
Brazil has planned 48 hours of national mourning. Pele is expected to be buried in Santos, southeast of Sao Paulo, where he played club soccer from 1956 to 1974.
Pelé had been in and out of the hospital over the past year as he fought colon cancer. In November, Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo announced that his cancer had advanced and that he was in palliative care.
Albert Einstein Hospital confirmed Pelé died at 3:27 p.m. local time from multiple organ failure as a result of colon cancer.
The soccer star, whose real name was Edson Arantes do Nascimento, was hospitalized in December 2021 shortly after undergoing chemotherapy to treat a reported colon tumor. He had posted on Instagram that he was recovering.
Over the past year, Pelé had dismissed fears over his health and continued to thank fans for their support.
“Dear friends, it’s been a while since we talked about this. I want to let you know that I’m fine. I feel better every day. I don’t think even the mask for my protection can hide my happiness. Thank you very much to all of you who send me good energy daily,” he wrote in a November 2021 post on Instagram.
Named FIFA co-Player of the Century in 1999 along with Diego Maradona of Argentina, Pelé spent his retirement as a global ambassador for the sport and devoted to other humanitarian causes. In 2020, when Maradona died, Pelé remarked, “One day, I hope we can play football together in the sky.”
Pelé was born on Oct. 23, 1940, in the town of Tres Coracoes in the southern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. His parents named him after U.S. inventor Thomas Edison. Pelé’s father, João Ramos do Nascimento, nicknamed Dondinho, was also a professional soccer player.
The young Edson received the nickname Pelé in school when schoolmates mocked his pronunciation of the popular Brazilian goalkeeper Bilé, he explained in a 2016 column for The Players’ Tribune.
He began playing at 13 with a youth team in Bauru. He was scouted by the Brazilian club Santos at 15 and began playing professionally with the team.
At just 17, he emerged as a superstar with his performance during Brazil’s victorious 1958 World Cup, and he played his entire career in Brazil with Santos.
Pelé won two additional World Cup titles — in 1962 and 1970 — before ending his storied career with the New York Cosmos in 1977.
His last game on Oct. 1, 1977, an exhibition game between the Cosmos and Santos, was played before a sellout crowd at Giants Stadium. The game was televised on ABC’s “Wide World of Sports.”
He later starred in John Huston’s 1981 World War II sports film “Escape to Victory” alongside Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine.
A biopic about his life, “Pele: Birth of a Legend,” was released in 2016.
Pelé is largely credited for sparking interest in the game in the United States during the 1970s, a legacy that lives on to this day.
He is survived by wife Marcia Aoki, as well as seven children: Brazilian soccer coach and former player Edson Cholbi do Nascimento, better known as Edinho; daughter Sandra Regina Machado Arantes do Nascimento; soccer player Joshua Nascimento; son Celeste Arantes do Nascimento; and three other daughters, Kely Cristina Nascimento, Flávia Christina Kurtz Nascimento and Jennifer Nascimento.
(NEW YORK) — While Serena and Venus Williams have faced off against each other in singles matches 31 times during their tennis careers, with Serena winning 19 of those matches, Serena has nothing but love and respect for her older sister.
In a TikTok video posted Tuesday, Serena Williams shared a tour of Venus’ hall of fame featuring trophies and awards she’s received.
“I’m at my sister’s house,” Serena says in the video as she takes viewers through her sister’s overflowing shelves full of awards. “She has all these trophies.”
“That’s the Wimbledon trophy,” she points out, before jokingly saying, “that’s actually the U.S. Open trophy that she should probably get like… cleaned.”
Serena then shows her followers the 1998 tennis trophy her sister won at her first tournament.
“That is for the record books,” Serena says in the video. “That’s so cool. And she’s still going y’all.”
As Serena shows off more trophies, she lands on a 2009 doubles trophy from the U.S. Open that has hers and Venus’ name on it.
“I don’t even remember winning that,” Serena says. “‘Cause she only played doubles with me — so did we win that? Let me Google that.”
At the top of the shelves is a framed photo of Serena and Venus Williams.
Regarded as one of the all-time greats, Venus Williams turned professional in the sport in 1994. She reached her first major final at the 1997 U.S. Open, and in 2000 and 2001, she claimed the Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles. Venus is also a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion.
In Serena’s career, she has notched 23 major singles titles, the most in the Open Era for men or women, as well as 14 in doubles, two more in mixed doubles and four Olympic gold medals. She has 73 singles titles.
Together, Venus and Serena Williams dominated the tennis world for nearly three decades. They won their first U.S. Open doubles title in 1999 and went on to win 22 titles, 14 Grand Slams and three Olympic gold medals while playing together.
In August, Serena Williams announced in a personal essay for Vogue that her time as a pro was coming to a close. She took her apparent final bow at this year’s U.S. Open after losing to Ajla Tomljanovic, who defeated Serena Williams 7-5, 6-7(4), 6-1.
As she closed out her professional career, she thanked her family in an on-court interview and said she is grateful for them.
“It all started with my parents. And they deserve everything. So I’m really grateful for them,” she said. “I’m from Compton, California, and I made it.”
(ATLANTA) — Just over two weeks after acquiring him in a three-way trade, the Atlanta Braves have signed catcher Sean Murphy to a six-year, $73 million deal.
The team announced the contract on Tuesday night, which runs through the 2028 season and “includes a $15 million club option with no buyout for 2029 that would give Murphy a seven-year deal worth $88 million,” the Braves said in a press release.
Murphy, 28, was traded to Atlanta earlier this month by the Oakland Athletics as part of a three-team trade that also included the Milwaukee Brewers. He began his MLB career with the Athletics in 2019.
Last season in Oakland, Murphy played in 148 games, batting .250 with 18 home runs and 66 RBIs.
(ENGLEWOOD, Colo.) — Less than a year into the job, the Denver Broncos have fired their head coach, Nathaniel Hackett.
The team announced the move on Monday, a day after losing 51-14 to the Los Angeles Rams. The Broncos are now 4-11 this season.
In a statement, Broncos owner and CEO Greg Penner thanked Hackett, 43, for his “dedication as head coach of the Denver Broncos. We sincerely appreciate Nathaniel’s efforts and wish him and his family all the best in the future.”
“Following extensive conversations with [Broncos General Manager] George [Paton] and our ownership group, we determined a new direction would ultimately be in the best interest of the Broncos,” Penner continued. “This change was made now out of respect for everyone involved and allows us to immediately begin the search for a new head coach.”
We have parted ways with Head Coach Nathaniel Hackett.
Denver also let go of special teams coordinator Dwayne Stukes and offensive line coach Butch Barry on Monday, replacing them with Mike Mallory and Ben Steele, respectively.
The Broncos have relieved Special Teams Coordinator Dwayne Stukes and Offensive Line Coach Butch Barry of their duties.
Mike Mallory will coach special teams and Ben Steele will coach the offensive line. pic.twitter.com/rLIRj3EwiF
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
New Orleans 126, San Antonio 117
Utah 120, Washington 112
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Toronto 4, Philadelphia 3
Boston 3, Winnipeg 2
NY Rangers 5, NY Islanders 3
Washington 3, Ottawa 2 (OT)
Carolina 4, Pittsburgh 3 (OT)
Vancouver 6, Seattle 5 (SO)
Calgary 3, Los Angeles 3 (OT)
San Jose 5, Minnesota 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Jacksonville 19, NY Jets 3
TOP 25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
(4)Kansas 68, Harvard 54
(5)Arizona 93, Morgan St. 68
Missouri 93, (16)Illinois 71
