(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Houston 7, Pittsburgh 0
Seattle 5, Chi Cubs 2
LA Angels 3, Washington 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Minnesota 3, Chi White Sox 1
NY Yankees 4, Cleveland 3
Tampa Bay 9, Boston 7
Oakland 8, Baltimore 4
Toronto 4, Detroit 3
Kansas City 10, Texas 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
LA Dodgers 10, San Francisco 5
NY Mets 5, San Diego 2
St. Louis 7, Colorado 4
Arizona 7, Milwaukee 3
Miami 3, Philadelphia 2
Atlanta 5, Cincinnati 4
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Chicago 109, Toronto 105
Oklahoma City 123, New Orleans 118
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Calgary 3, San Jose 1
NY Islanders 4, Montreal 2
Dallas 5, St. Louis 2
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
LA Angels 2, Washington 0
Pittsburgh 7, Houston 4
Chi Cubs 14, Seattle 9
AMERICAN LEAGUE
NY Yankees 11, Cleveland 2
Tampa Bay 7, Boston 2
Toronto 9, Detroit 3
Baltimore 12, Oakland 8
Minnesota 4, Chi White Sox 3
Texas 8, Kansas City 5
NATIONAL LEAGUE
San Francisco 5, LA Dodgers 0
Miami 8, Philadelphia 4
San Diego 4, NY Mets 2
Atlanta 7, Cincinnati 6
St. Louis 9, Colorado 6
Milwaukee 7, Arizona 1
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
LA Lakers 108, Minnesota 102 (OT)
Atlanta 116, Miami 105
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Edmonton 2, Colorado 1 (OT)
Vegas 4, Seattle 1
Vancouver 3, Anaheim 2
Carolina 4, Detroit 1
New Jersey 6, Buffalo 2
Philadelphia 4, Columbus 3 (OT)
Boston 5, Washington 2
Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 3
Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 2
Winnipeg 3, Minnesota 1
(NEW YORK) — One anonymous bidder has taken being a sneakerhead to a record level.
A pair of Michael Jordan’s game-worn shoes from Game 2 of the 1998 NBA Finals were sold for $2.238 million on Tuesday, the priciest pair of sneakers ever purchased.
The sneakers were sold as part of a lot of sports memorabilia auctioned off Tuesday by Sotheby’s. The Jordan XIIIs were the centerpiece of a two-part auction that also included the shooting shirt Kobe Bryant wore before his 81-point game, Tom Brady’s full uniform from a game in the 2004 Patriots championship season and the jersey Pele wore in his 1975 debut with the New York Cosmos.
The black and red Jordan XIIIs were autographed in silver marker and given to a ball boy after Jordan scored 37 points in a 93-88 win over the Utah Jazz. The Bulls had lost Game 1, but three straight wins starting in Game 2 pushed Chicago to within one game of their third straight title — and Jordan’s sixth overall.
Nine days later, Jordan would play his final game with the Bulls. The pair of Jordan XIII “Breds” up for auction would be the last he would ever wear in a game, according to Sotheby’s.
The ball boy had found Jordan’s lost jacket earlier the previous day and asked for his shoes as thanks — an ask Jordan fulfilled after Game 2, Sotheby’s said. The shoes remain in “immaculate condition” and are the only authenticated complete pair of sneakers worn by Jordan in an NBA Finals game, according to Sotheby’s.
Sotheby’s estimated the Jordan XIIIs would sell for $2 million to $4 million.
The Air Jordans beat out the previous record of $1.8 million held by a pair of Kanye West’s Nike Air Yeezy 1s. The rapper wore the shoes, which were auctioned off by Sotheby’s in April 2021, during the 50th annual Grammy Awards in 2008.
A pair of Jordan’s Nike Air Ships worn during his rookie season in 1984 were auctioned off for $1.47 million in October 2021. They were the second-most expensive shoes of all-time and the most expensive game-worn shoes until the sale of the Jordan XIIIs.
(NEW YORK) — Aliyah Boston, star of the University of South Carolina’s women’s basketball team, says she was “really nervous” before being selected No. 1 in the WNBA draft Monday night in New York.
The senior, who the South Carolina Gamecocks note is their “most decorated player in program history,” was drafted by the Indiana Fever.
“I was really nervous just because it was something that I’d been working toward for quite a long time,” Boston said Tuesday on ABC News’ Good Morning America. “When I heard my name called, it was like a weight had been lifted off my shoulder.”
Boston, 21, is entering the WNBA having already won an NCAA title and Naismith national player of the year award.
She said her hope for the next step in her career is to “win a lot of games and just be successful.”
At South Carolina, Boston, a 6-foot-5 forward, led her team to the program’s second NCAA title in 2022 alongside celebrated coach Dawn Staley.
“She has been the cornerstone of our program for the past four years,” Staley said of Boston in early April after South Carolina’s Final Four loss to Iowa during March Madness. “She elevated us. She raised the standard of how to approach basketball. She’s never had a bad day. She’s never come into practice sulking. She’s always just the person that you saw so very, very consistent.”
Boston said she’s learned from Staley to adapt and not get too caught up in the highs or lows of her basketball career.
“She’s like a second mom to me,” she said of Staley. “I got to college when I was 17 years old and she just helped me grow up.”
Boston has also been open about how much her biological family has supported her in fulfilling her basketball dreams.
At age 12, she and her older sister moved from their native St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands to Worcester, Massachusetts, to live with their aunt so they could pursue more basketball opportunities. After graduating from high school in Massachusetts, Boston went directly to the University of South Carolina, where she stayed for four years.
“Being parents, it can be hard to just let your children go, but my parents were able to do that,” Boston said. “They just had faith and trusted God.”
When Boston was drafted Monday night, friends and family back home in St. Thomas as well as fans in South Carolina and Indiana were cheering her on.
“Everyone back home, they’ve been supporting me since we left the island, encouraging my sister and I to follow our dreams,” Boston said. “It’s just super exciting to see the strong family, the strong support system that I have behind me.”
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Washington 6, LA Angels 4
Houston 8, Pittsburgh 2
Chi Cubs 3, Seattle 2
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chi White Sox 4, Minnesota 3
Cleveland 3, NY Yankees 2
Tampa Bay 1, Boston 0
Baltimore 5, Oakland 1
Texas 11, Kansas City 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Colorado 7, St. Louis 4
Arizona 3, Milwaukee 0
LA Dodgers 9, San Francisco 1
Philadelphia 15, Miami 3
NY Mets 5, San Diego 0
Final Atlanta 5, Cincinnati 4
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Minnesota 4, Chicago 2
Nashville 3, Calgary 2 (SO)
Seattle 4, Arizona 1
Los Angeles 3, Vancouver 0
Dallas 6, Detroit 1
Winnipeg 6, San Jose 2
Toronto 2, Florida 1 (OT)
Washington 5, NY Islanders 2
Ottawa 3, Carolina 2
Buffalo 3, NY Rangers 2 (SO)
(AUGUSTA, Ga.) — Jon Rahm has a new jacket to add to his wardrobe.
The 28-year-old Spanish golfer won his first Masters on Sunday. He shot three strokes under par in the final round of the tournament to clinch the coveted green jacket.
The win marked Rahm’s second major.
Watch highlights from his win and the rest of the Masters tournament below:
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Pittsburgh 1, Chicago White Sox 0
Texas 8, Chicago Cubs 2
San Francisco 3, Kansas City 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 4, Detroit 1
Tampa Bay 11, Oakland 0
NY Yankees 5, Baltimore 3
Houston 5, Minnesota 1
Cleveland 7, Seattle 6
Toronto 12, LA Angels 11
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 4
Miami 7, NY Mets 2
Milwaukee 6, St. Louis 1
Colorado 7, Washington 6
Arizona 11, LA Dodgers 6
San Diego 10, Atlanta 2
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Toronto 121, Milwaukee 105
Boston 120, Atlanta 114
Charlotte 106, Cleveland 95
Chicago 103, Detroit 81
Houston 114, Washington 109
Philadelphia 134, Brooklyn 105
Miami 123, Orlando 110
Indiana 141, New York 136
San Antonio 138, Dallas 117
Oklahoma City 115, Memphis 100
Golden State 157, Portland 101
Denver 109, Sacramento 95
LA Lakers 128, Utah 117
LA Clippers 119, Phoenix 114
Minnesota 113, New Orleans 108
(NEW YORK) — LSU basketball star Angel Reese had a heartwarming reunion Friday with her cousin, UConn’s Jordan Hawkins, who snuck in to the studio to surprise Reese during her interview with “GMA3.”
It was the first time the college basketball stars saw each other since each won their respective NCAA championship games over the past week.
“Have you had a chance to see him?” host Gio Benitez asked Reese, as Hawkins appeared from backstage out of his cousin’s view. Reese said she hadn’t.
Benitez then told Reese to turn around for the big surprise. When she saw her cousin, she screamed, and they gave each other a big hug. Reese told “GMA3” that they grew up playing basketball together at cookouts and family functions.
Hawkins said of his cousin, “I’m super proud, just to see your family doing something amazing is crazy. We’re all proud.”
“I’m happy for him, to see everything he’s done and be so successful,” Reese said.
Earlier in the interview, Reese also spoke about her team’s historic win against the Iowa Hawkeyes on Sunday and addressed criticism she received after making mocking hand gestures while staring down Iowa star Caitlin Clark late in the LSU Tigers’ 102-85 victory.
“I trash talk. So that’s just who I am, and that’s very passionate of me. I’m from Baltimore, so that’s kind of what we do. Caitlin’s a great player, and she understood that. It was nothing personal towards her or any player that we’ve gone at this year,” Reese told “GMA3.”
Some social media commenters argued that the negative comments Reese received perpetuated stereotypes about Black women and exemplified a double standard, noting that Clark, who is white, largely avoided backlash after making a similar gesture in a previous game in the tournament.
In a post-game press conference, Reese said, “All year, I was critiqued about who I was. I don’t fit in a box that y’all want me to be in. I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto. But when other people do it, y’all say nothing. So this was for the girls that look like me, that’s going to speak up on what they believe in. It’s unapologetically you.”
Clark herself defended Reese in an interview with ESPN earlier this week, saying she doesn’t “think Angel should be criticized at all.”
“We’re all competitive. We all show our emotions in a different way. You know, Angel is a tremendous, tremendous player. I have nothing but respect for her. I love her game – the way she rebounds the ball, scores the ball, is absolutely incredible. I’m a big fan of her and even the entire LSU team. They played an amazing game,” Clark continued, adding that “men have always had trash talk.”
The LSU-Iowa game was the most-viewed NCAA women’s basketball game on record, with 9.9 million viewers, according to ESPN.
Reese, 20, started her college basketball career in 2020 in her home state with the Maryland Terrapins. During her freshman season, she suffered a Jones fracture in her right foot and underwent surgery. She transferred to LSU just one year ago, leading the Tigers to win its first ever national championship in her first season with the team.
Reese said transferring away from home was the hardest thing she’s ever done.
“A year and a day later, now I’m in this situation. So it’s crazy how life can change in a year,” Reese said.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Miami 1, Minnesota 0
Pittsburgh 4, Boston 1
Philadelphia 4, NY. Yankees 1
Tampa Bay 10, Washington 6
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Toronto 4, Kansas City 1
Baltimore 7, Texas 2
Detroit 6, Houston 3
Seattle 11, LA Angels 2
Oakland 4, Cleveland 3
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Arizona 8, San Diego 6
Chi Cubs 12, Cincinnati 5
Milwaukee 9, NY Mets 0
Atlanta 4, St. Louis 1
LA Dodgers 5, Colorado 2
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Toronto 120, Charlotte 100
Milwaukee 140, Washington 128
Cleveland 117, Orlando 113
Miami 118, Detroit 105
Minnesota 107, Brooklyn 102
Memphis 119, Portland 109
Houston 124, Denver 103
Sacramento 121, New Orleans 103
Atlanta 123, Chicago 105
Philadelphia 103, Boston 101
LA Lakers 135 Utah 133 (OT)
Phoenix 115, San Antonio 94
Golden State 136, Oklahoma City 125
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
Colorado 4, San Jose 3 (OT)
Edmonton 3, Los Angeles 1
Detroit 5, Montreal 0
Toronto 4, Columbus 2
New Jersey 5, Pittsburgh 1
Florida 2, Buffalo 1
Carolina 3, Ottawa 2 (OT)
St. Louis 4, Philadelphia 2
Nashville 3, Vegas 2 (OT)
Chicago 4, Calgary 3
Seattle 5, Vancouver 2
