(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Houston 10, Texas 3 (Series tied 2-2)
NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Arizona 2, Philadelphia 1 (Philadelphia leads series 2-1)
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PRESEASON
Boston 127, Charlotte 99
Minnesota 114, Chicago 105
Detroit 118, Oklahoma City 116
Sacramento 116, Utah 113
Denver 103, L.A. Clippers 90
Phoenix 123, LA Lakers 100
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Nashville 4, NY Rangers 1
Florida 3, Toronto 1
Tampa Bay 4, Vancouver 3
Calgary 4, Buffalo 3
Philadelphia 4, Edmonton 1
Vegas 5, Winnipeg 3
Arizona 6, St. Louis 2
Los Angeles 7, Minnesota 3
Dallas 3, Anaheim 2
Seattle 7, Carolina 4
Colorado 4, Chicago 0
Final Boston 3, San Jose 1
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Jacksonville 31, New Orleans 24
(NEW YORK) — Mary Lou Retton, the American gymnast who became a sports icon when she won Olympic gold in 1984, is getting stronger as she battles a very rare form of pneumonia,” according to her daughter.
Shayla Kelley Schrepfer, one of Retton’s four daughters, shared on Instagram that the Olympian is making “truly remarkable” progress.
“Although she remains in the ICU, her path to recovery is steadily unfolding. Her fighting spirit is truly shining,” Schrepfer wrote. “Her breathing is becoming stronger, and her reliance on machines is diminishing.”
Schrepfer continued, “Though it’s a lengthy journey, witnessing these improvements is incredibly heartening! She’s responding so well to treatments.”
Retton, 55, has been hospitalized in the intensive care unit for over one week and was initially not able to breathe on her own, according to a fundraising page created for Retton, who is not insured, according to her family.
As of Monday morning, the page had raised over $435,000, far exceeding its original $50,000 goal.
In her message, Schrepfer also thanked people for donating money and praying for her mom.
“Once more, we extend our heartfelt gratitude for your overwhelming love and support,” she said.
Pneumonia is an infection that causes the air sacs of the lungs to fill with fluid, according to the National Institutes of Health.
“When treating patients for pneumonia, reports that they’re relying less and less on clinical assistance, whether that be machines or oxygen are a great prognostic indicator that hopefully means that they’ll need even less assistance in the future,” said Dr. Darien Sutton, an emergency physician and ABC News medical correspondent, who is not involved in Retton’s care.
Retton is most famous for her performance in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, where she scored a series of perfect 10s to become the first-ever American to win an Olympic individual all-round gold, according to her official Olympics biography.
Retton also won two additional silver medals and two bronze medals at the Los Angeles Olympics, making her the most decorated athlete of that Olympics, according to her bio.
Retton has remained an iconic American sports hero in the decades since and was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1997.
In 2018, Retton competed on season 27 of ABC’s dancing competition show Dancing with the Stars.
“This has been the time of my life,” Retton said after she and her pro partner, Sasha Farber, were the fifth couple to get eliminated from the competition. “I hadn’t challenged myself in decades and now I challenged myself. I’m off to a fresh new start.”
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Houston 8, Texas 5 (Texas leads series 2-1)
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PRESEASON
Washington 131, New York 106
Brooklyn 107, Miami 104
San Antonio 117, Houston 103
Golden State 116, Sacramento 115
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Ottawa 6, Washington 1
Detroit 6, Pittsburgh 3
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS
Las Vegas 70, New York 69 (Las Vegas wins series 3-1)
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Philadelphia 10, Arizona 0 (Philadelphia leads series 2-0)
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PRESEASON
LA Clippers 116, Denver 103
New Orleans 104, Orlando 92
Boston 123, New York 110
Minnesota 138, Maccabi Ra’anana 111
Oklahoma City 124, Milwaukee 101
Toronto 106, Chicago 102
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Colorado 4, Seattle 1
Carolina 6, San Jose 3
Vegas 3, Dallas 2 (SO)
Philadelphia 2, Vancouver 0
Minnesota 5, Montreal 2
NY Islanders 1, Arizona 0
Buffalo 3 Tampa Bay 2 (OT)
Los Angeles 5, Winnipeg 1
Edmonton 6, Nashville 1
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Texas 5, Houston 4
NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Philadelphia 5, Arizona 3
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PRESEASON
Phoenix 117, Portland 106
Cleveland 120, Maccabi Ra’anana 89
Indiana 116, Atlanta 112
Philadelphia 127, Brooklyn 119
Houston 99, San Antonio 89
Utah 114, New Zealand 94
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Detroit 4, Columbus 0
Florida 4, New Jersey 3
NY Rangers 2, Arizona 1
Chicago 4, Toronto 1
Washington 3, Calgary 2 (SO)
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Dallas 20, LA Chargers 17
(NEW YORK) — This year, U.S. Women’s Soccer star and Olympian Julie Ertz announced her retirement from the sport after over a decade of professional play.
Ertz, 31, who was on the 2015 and 2019 championship Women’s World Cup team, said she was taking time to focus on her family, which includes her 1-year-old son Madden.
Ertz spoke with GMA3’s Eva Pilgrim about her career and what’s next for her.
GMA3: So let’s go back to the very beginning. Why soccer?
JULIE ERTZ: Soccer just embodied who I was and what I wanted to be. Luckily, I was able to go to an incredible college and I got to be on the youth national team. Once we won the Under 20 World Cup, I was like, I don’t want to do anything else but this for my life.
GMA3: You’ve had a lot of life happen while you were playing soccer. You got married, [and] you have a baby. Your name was different in the beginning than it is now.
ERTZ: I feel like I was so lucky to have soccer as an outlet, really, because I think it allowed me to learn so much on and off the field and share that with my family. It really is cool how sports can unify people and be an outlet and bring so much emotion and it’s just all because of a sport.
GMA3: I have to ask you about the [2023] World Cup because there was a lot of discussion about the U.S. women’s team there. There was criticism of how you all played. How did you feel about that criticism?
ERTZ: I mean, tough. Obviously, we didn’t have the greatest of outcomes at all during this year. I think it’s one of those common sayings, effort’s going to beat talent. And [it’s] not that we didn’t have effort in there, [it’s] just we didn’t put a performance on to win the game.
And at the end of the day, if you don’t score goals, you don’t win games, and we know that better than anybody else. And so the game is about scoring more goals and we didn’t do that.
GMA3: I think personally about what I was doing eight months after I had my child and it was not playing at a professional soccer game.
ERTZ: I didn’t know if I was going to get back. I’m not going to lie, I am just as confused as you are. I feel like the saying is “It takes a village to raise a child.” I guess it also takes a village and a lot of support to get back pretty quickly after pregnancy.
Because I got home and was like, I don’t know what just happened. I got home, I looked at my husband, [and] I’m like, I don’t know what I just did.
GMA3: At what point did you decide you were going to retire?
ERTZ: It was pretty shortly after. I think just understanding kind of the craziness that the year was and navigating being a first-time mom.
Sacrificing time was probably the biggest one for me. Just realizing [that] I have to drop off Madden and leave, it’s like, man, I don’t want to miss any of his firsts.
Don’t get me wrong, I love playing, but, obviously spending time with my family, there’s just nothing like it. And so I think that was just like a moment for me of like, I can’t balance enough of what I want to do.
GMA3: You said when you retired, “Mama can still play.”
ERTZ: I did say that. People seem to really like that one.
GMA3: Also lots of people were saying you were playing some of the best soccer they’ve seen you play in your whole career.
ERTZ: To be able to choose yourself like this is the right time for me.
I mean, gosh, I look at my kid’s face and I’m like, I just want to put you down to bed every night. I want to wake you up.
I’m stepping away and knowing that I feel like I was playing great soccer. But at the same time, I have been doing this for a long time.
There’s just also time that I just can’t get back. So I just go let my heart lead the way.
ERTZ: I think a clear one is motherhood. I’ve really enjoyed doing our work with our foundation. [I’m] also just [going to] be OK with maybe a little bit of uncertainty, too.
I feel like, normally, I’d be pretty nervous about the unknown, but I’m actually very optimistic and excited to just venture out on what’s next.
(NEW YORK) — Anthony Nesty attributes his recent appointment as U.S. men’s Olympic swim team head coach to his hard work ethic, determination and family.
Nesty, who is also the head coach of the University of Florida’s men’s swimming and diving team, was selected to lead the U.S. men’s swim team at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics back in September.
“I tell our athletes, being a head coach and coming from a third world country, most of these kids in the states, they don’t know,” he said, speaking with ABC News. “I always realized that I had to work hard. I had to do things at a higher level, obviously, being somebody of color … all eyes are on you. From day one coming to the states, everybody doubted me and my abilities as a swimmer. But I overcame that. When I became a coach, everybody doubted my abilities as a coach, but I became head coach [of Team USA].”
The Olympic gold medalist also addressed what his late father Ronald Nesty, who raised him in Suriname, would say now about his success.
“He probably wouldn’t say much,” Anthony Nesty said. “But he underst[ood] that the lessons that he taught me, I took to heart.”
Ronald Nesty was the one who introduced Anthony Nesty and his four siblings to swimming when they were children in in Suriname, a culturally Caribbean country perched on the north coast of South America.
Ronald Nesty put a high value on discipline, hard work and consistency, his son said, and thought individual sports like swimming brought out the best in athletes because it was completely up to the individual on how well they could perform.
Still, he said, “I had no clue what training was all about until I got to the states. So, that was a big challenge for me.”
Anthony Nesty first arrived in the U.S. as a student-athlete at The Bolles School, a private prep and boarding school in Jacksonville, Florida. Swim practices there were grueling and he was competing against the best swimmers he had ever faced. Even though his father was still in Suriname, Anthony Nesty said his father’s lessons stuck with him.
“My dad was a driven man. He did everything for his kids,” he continued. “And my feeling was, and still is, I have to do everything I can to uphold the family’s name, and that’s why I worked so hard at what I do.”
Anthony Nesty used the lessons his father taught him as a child to eventually attain gold and bronze medals in the men’s 100-meter butterfly at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, respectively. His 1988 victory over Team USA’s Matt Biondi made Anthony Nesty the first Black male swimmer to win an Olympic gold medal.
His hard work later earned him his current head coaching role at the University of Florida, as well as an assistant coaching role for Team USA at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, where he trained world-class swimmers such as Katie Ledecky, Bobby Finke and Caeleb Dressel.
Anthony Nesty now shares his father’s lessons with his 17-year-old daughter Lillie Nesty and his swimmers. His daughter is a qualifier for the Paris Olympic trials and in February committed to the University of Texas swim team.
“They have to believe in their ability to do things on a day-to-day basis, and when the time comes, just bring all those pieces together,” Anthony Nesty said, sharing his advice for bother Lillie and his swimmers. “You’ve got to believe, and it’s in anything in life that you do. Pretty simple.”
(ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.) — Buffalo Bills running back Damien Harris was taken off the football field by ambulance during Sunday night’s game with the New York Giants.
Harris was tackled after receiving the ball from quarterback Josh Allen and stayed on the ground following the play.
Bills staff ran onto the field and Harris was strapped to what appeared to be a gurney.
Damar Hamlin, Harris’ teammate, who went into cardiac arrest earlier this year on the field, watched from the sidelines, looking distraught.
Harris was seen giving a thumbs-up as he was lifted into the ambulance and driven out of the stadium.
According to a post on the team’s X account (formerly Twitter), which was retweeted by the team’s page, Harris was out of the game with a neck injury.
“Injury Update: Damien Harris (neck) is out for the game. He has movement in his arms and legs. Harris is being taken to hospital for further testing,” the post read.
The incident happened shortly before the end of the second quarter when the Giants were up 6-0.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Texas 2, Houston 0 (Texas leads series 1-0)
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PRESEASON
Charlotte 117, Oklahoma City 115
Toronto 134, Cairns 93
Miami 132, Memphis 124
Milwaukee 108, L.A. Lakers 97
Denver 116, Chicago 102
Golden State 121, Sacramento 115 (OT)
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Ottawa 5, Tampa Bay 2
Anaheim 6, Carolina 3
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Baltimore 24, Tennessee 16
Cincinnati 17, Seattle 13
Cleveland 19, San Francisco 17
Houston 20, New Orleans 13
Jacksonville 37, Indianapolis 20
Miami 42, Carolina 21
Minnesota 19, Chicago 13
Washington 24, Atlanta 16
Las Vegas 21, New England 17
Final Detroit 20 Tampa Bay 6
LA Rams 26, Arizona 9
NY Jets 20, Philadelphia 14
Buffalo 14, NY Giants 9
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS
New York 87, Las Vegas 73
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS
Philadelphia 3, Atlanta 1
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PRESEASON
Orlando 108, Cleveland 105
Washington 98, Charlotte 92
Detroit 128, Oklahoma City 125
Brooklyn 135, Maccabi Ra’anana 103
Atlanta 103, Memphis 102
Houston 120, New Orleans 87
Chicago 133, Denver 124 (2OT)
Phoenix 122, Portland 111
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Vegas 4, San Jose 1
Philadelphia 4, Columbus 2
NY Rangers 5, Buffalo 1
New Jersey 4, Detroit 3
Nashville 3, Seattle 0
Minnesota 2, Florida 0
Dallas 2, St. Louis 1 (SO)
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Final Kansas City 19 Denver 8
