(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Phoenix 114, Milwaukee 106
Indiana 132, Houston 129
New York 123, Memphis 113
Miami 121, Orlando 95
Dallas 119, Brooklyn 107
Chicago 129, Minnesota 123 (OT)
Utah 124, Oklahoma City 117
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Vegas 3, Edmonton 1
Vancouver 3, Carolina 2
Philadelphia 2, Florida 1
Pittsburgh 3, Winnipeg 0
Montreal 5, Washington 2
Calgary 4, Boston 1
Dallas 2, Buffalo 1
New Jersey 5, Colorado 3
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
San Diego St. 77, Air Force 64
UConn 71, Butler 62
Clemson 80, North Carolina 76
Houston 79, Oklahoma St. 63
Baylor 79, Texas Tech 73
Iowa St. 70, Texas 65
South Carolina 68, Mississippi 65
Kentucky 109, Vanderbilt 77
Dayton 94, Saint Joseph’s 79
Oklahoma 82, BYU 66
Nevada 77, Utah St. 63
New Mexico 91, Wyoming 73
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
LA Lakers 124, Charlotte 118
Cleveland 136, Sacramento 110
Dallas 118, Philadelphia 102
Golden State 109, Brooklyn 98
LA Clippers 149, Atlanta 144
New Orleans 138, Toronto 100
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
NY Rangers 2, Colorado 1 (OT)
NY Islanders 3, Toronto 2
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Kansas St. 75, Kansas 70
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Orlando 111, Detroit 99
Phoenix 140, Washington 112
Boston 131, Memphis 91
Indiana 115, Charlotte 99
LA Clippers 103, Miami 95
Minnesota 111, Houston 90
Oklahoma City 135, Toronto 127 (2OT)
Utah 123, Milwaukee 108
Denver 112, Portland 103
(NEW YORK) — New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium will host the final match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, marking the end of a tournament that will span three countries and will see a total of 104 matches, FIFA announced Sunday.
The tournament will be hosted by the United States, Mexico and Canada.
The opening match will be on June 11, 2026, at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, FIFA said. The famed stadium will be the first to host three World Cups.
The World Cup will also see an expansion of teams, with 48 nations represented, up from 32.
The United States’ group stage matches will be spread throughout the West Coast, with Los Angeles and Seattle to see the Americans take the pitch.
Other U.S. cities hosting matches include Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Boston and Philadelphia.
The World Cup final in New Jersey will be held on July 19, 2026.
(NEW YORK) — Often lost in the bright shine of athletic celebrity stardom are the deep human pains that can weigh on Black athletes in particular.
Only one in three Black Americans with mental health illnesses obtain treatment, according to multiple studies including research from Psychiatric Services published in the National Library of Medicine and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
ABC News’ Good Morning America co-anchor Michael Strahan talked with a group of Black athletes about their experiences and struggles with mental health in the realm of professional competitive sports.
“I’m learning how to live a new life in this new pain– in this journey of grief that’s like a rollercoaster,” said Jets defensive lineman Solomon Thomas, who said his mental health struggle began after his sister died by suicide in 2018.
Thomas said he grew up with the mentality that he should tough out emotional adversity.
“After my sister died, I had all these emotions and feelings I had never felt before. Like, deep depression, deep guilt,” said Thomas.
Thomas said it wasn’t until San Francisco 49ers General Manager John Lynch offered him resources for mental health that he decided to go to seek therapy.
Olympian track and field athlete Anna Cockrell said she found herself in a less traditional struggle in her third year of college.
“A lot of the typical depression symptoms that you hear about just didn’t apply to me,” said Cockrell. “I was doing all the things you’re supposed to do and still felt terrible.”
Cockrell said it was her college coach, Caryl Smith Gilbert, who recognized something was wrong and facilitated her starting therapy.
Three-time NBA All-Star Timberwolves center Karl-Anthony Towns said his mental health struggles began after his mother among several other family members died from COVID-19.
“In a way, the world was silent,” said Towns. “I got to a point where I had to start realizing I was deteriorating.”
Towns said it was a member of his team’s medical staff whom he ultimately looked to for help.
“I felt very comfortable in having those tough conversations with someone that was familiar to me,” said Towns.
Stigma, price of access, and shame can all act as barriers to mental health treatment and access.
Cockrell said that therapy was helpful in a time of crisis, but she found it most useful to do it consistently, so she was able to diagnose the problem. She also said she had to assuage her parents’ concerns that her mental health struggle was their fault.
“I think at first, my parents, they just didn’t quite understand. Like, I think there was a lot of struggle for them of thinking, “What did we do wrong? Did we make a mistake?” And having to reassure them,” she said.
Strahan said he noticed the entrance of a “new era” of mental health that may be unfamiliar to older generations. According to a 2013 study from the American Psychological Association, only 5% of the psychology workforce was Black and Strahan noted this could be a contributing factor to lagging participation in mental health treatment.
Thomas said his mom was supportive of his therapy, something he was initially reluctant towards. He said therapy helped him answer questions like “What does my brain patterns revert to when I get anxious or when I get sad, and how do I break that?”
Thomas said he now encourages similarly struggling teammates to seek professional help despite pushback.
“When you’re stuck in that cycle, you feel so empty. You feel so alone. You feel like you’re the only one going through it to a point where you even feel like you’re crazy, and– and you’re not. You’re human,” said Thomas.
Towns said he thinks the biggest misconception in the Black community around mental health is the “weakness in showing vulnerability.”
He identified the issue as a generational battle, saying the perseverance of the Black community in its fight for equal rights can make showing weakness difficult.
“We refuse to allow anything to ruin what we built,” he said.
Cockrell said she decided to be vocal about her mental health struggle in order to speak specifically to Black women’s experiences.
“You don’t have to take everything on. Your pain, your experience, your voice, your struggles, your success, they all matter,” is Cockrell’s primary message to Black women.
Strahan concluded by asking the group why it’s important to have these conversations about mental health in the Black community.
“There are so many people out there struggling,” said Thomas.
He said if those people could see they are not alone, “These conversations can save these lives.”
“I look at this conversation as a celebration,” said Strahan. “A celebration of being free enough, confident enough, strong enough, supported enough to share how you truly feel to the world.”
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Portland 119, Milwaukee 116
LA Clippers 125, Washington 109
Chicago 117, Charlotte 110
Cleveland 128, Detroit 121
Minnesota 121, Dallas 87
Orlando 108, San Antonio 98
New Orleans 110, Houston 99
Oklahoma City 105, Denver 100
Phoenix 136, Brooklyn 120
Miami 115, Sacramento 106
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Anaheim 3, San Jose 2 (OT)
Ottawa 3, Detroit 2 (OT)
Los Angeles 4, Nashville 2
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Atlanta 138, LA Lakers 122
Boston 129, Indiana 124
Toronto 118, Chicago 107
New York 118, Utah 103
Golden State 119, Philadelphia 107
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
San Jose 2 Seattle 0
Columbus 1, St. Louis 0
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Georgia Tech 74, North Carolina 73
South Carolina 63, Tennessee 59
Kansas 83, Oklahoma St. 54
Marquette 85, Villanova 80
Illinois 87, Ohio St. 75
TCU 85,Texas Tech 78
Utah St. 82, San Jose St. 61
Dayton 83, George Washington 61
Oklahoma 73, Kansas St. 53
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
New York 113, Charlotte 92
Cleveland 118, LA Clippers 108
Boston 118, New Orleans 112
Brooklyn 147, Utah 114
Phoenix 118, Miami 105
Sacramento 103, Memphis 94
Minnesota 107, Oklahoma City 101
Washington 118, San Antonio 113
Houston 135, LA Lakers 119
Dallas 131, Orlando 129
Denver 113, Milwaukee 107
Portland 130, Philadelphia 104
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Ottawa 4, Nashville 3 (OT)
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Houston 76, Texas 72
Duke 77, Virginia Tech 67
Chase Young #92 of the San Francisco 49ers celebrates after beating the Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship football game at Levi’s Stadium on January 28, 2024 in Santa Clara, California. (Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)
(SANTA CLARA, Calif.) — The San Francisco 49ers will advance to Super Bowl LVIII and face the Kansas City Chiefs in Las Vegas next month.
Though the 49ers seized many of the season’s victories in easy fashion, the team fought back from a 17-point deficit against the Detroit Lions Sunday to claim the team’s eighth NFC Championship. The Niners grabbed 27 consecutive points in the second half, 282 offensive yards and averaged 7.4 yards per play.
“That’s the cool thing about football,” tight end George Kittle said, according to ESPN. “For us to be able to hunker down and start to fire on all cylinders, that’s what you see — an explosive offense, a very talented defense that flie[s] around and hits people and causes turnovers and then our special teams make plays when they need to.”
Now San Francisco will direct its focus to a Super Bowl rematch against Kansas City. The Niners lost to the Chiefs during the team’s last Super Bowl appearance in 2020.
The 49ers and the Chiefs will take the field at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas for Super Bowl LVIII on February 11, 2024.
