Nick Richards recorded 21 points, 10 rebounds and three blocks and the Charlotte Hornets broke a 15-game skid in Portland with a 93-80 victory over the Trail Blazers on Sunday night. Miles Bridges added 18 points and 10 rebounds and Brandon Miller scored 17 points as Charlotte defeated the Trail Blazers in Portland for the first time since March 29, 2008. The franchise was known as the Bobcats when it last won in the Rose City. Cody Martin had 11 points and 10 assists and Vasilije Micic also scored 11 points as the Hornets won for the fifth time in their past six games. Deandre Ayton recorded 26 points and 19 rebounds for Portland, which lost its eighth consecutive game. Jerami Grant added 15 points and Anfernee Simons had 10 but was just 4 of 21 from the field. Charlotte shot 49.…

data-mm-id=”_i0q97rb9r”>Thanks to Disney+, we're looking at a galaxy far, far away through a whole new lens. The streaming service debuted Tuesday, with one of its high-profile releases being The Mandalorian, the first live-action series in the Star Wars franchise. After recent releases like Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Solo: A Star Wars Story received polarizing responses from fans, the series has received mostly positive replies from the notoriously hard-to-please base. But, like every form of Star Wars media before and after it, the series brought numerous questions, queries that we, fortunately, won't have to wait too long to figure out…(SPOILERS FOR THE MANDALORIAN'S FIRST EPISODE FOLLOW)Who Is The Mandalorian?Star Wars die-hards are probably already sick of letti…

data-mm-id=”_w3x0tbf0o”>Alex Rodriguez has posted a video pleading with players and owners alike to "step up to the plate together" in order to get baseball back in these unprecedented times. He did this with a straight face, but by no means do viewers have to keep one while watching. It’s time for owners and players to step up to the plate … together.This is a huge opportunity for the game of baseball to take a huge leap forward and show leadership. We are in unprecedented times. pic.twitter.com/F8iMqTVyby— Alex Rodriguez (@AROD) May 16, 2020Here's his pitch:“It is the people’s comfort food and people are starving. And I just don’t want to see this great game, people fighting, billionaires fighting with millionaires. This has nothing to do with the past. Thi…

data-mm-id=”_nfiwx1kac”>Roger Clemens showed flashes of brilliance during his first two Major League seasons, compiling a 16-7 record and 3.88 ERA. The 22-year-old won his first three starts in 1986 and took the hill full of confidence 34 years ago tonight against a woeful Seattle Mariners club. It would prove to be the first of many explosive launches for Rocket.Clemens fanned the side in order in the first and picked up two more in the second and one in the fourth. Then he ripped off a stretch where eight consecutive outs came via the strikeout, moving his in-game total to 14 through six innings.With the MLB record of 19 firmly in reach, the fireballer notched two each in the seventh and eighth with impossibly unhittable stuff. Clemens tied the mark by dusting Spike Owen and broke it…

data-mm-id=”_t98w9w1t9″>It's unclear whether Ryan Fitzpatrick intends to play football in 2021 or beyond. John Clayton became the first noted NFL reporter to suggest he won't, writing it, "looks like he's going to retire" in a story published earlier this week. That doesn't mean Fitzpatrick is going to retire, especially with so many teams in need of quarterbacks this offseason and the free agent list short and undistinguished. But if Fitzpatrick does wind up retiring, ESPN should be the first organization to call his agent and offer him a job. Before the 2020 season, we ranked Fitzpatrick as the third-best quarterback in the NFL based on broadcasting potential behind only Drew Brees and Philip Rivers. The reasoning was simple: Fitzpatrick is smart (went t…

data-mm-id=”_1buqg08l5″>For the second time in as many days, a member of the Le Batard family has bellied on up to the bar to face the music in a gauzy, reading-from-prepared-remarks-for-the-first-time tone. Late last night it was the younger shock jock who sunk his future prospects into deeper uncertainty by revealing some things that would be Hilaria if they weren't so serious.Tonight it's the elder Le Batard appearing with an unnamed cameraperson oddly struggling to stifle laughter as portions of the truth were doled out in last-minute desperation. "Doug from Des Moines" absolutely emptied the chamber, throwing himself and several other members of the expanded Le Batard and Friends Universe under the bus. pic.twitter.com/FWHDT34Ylg— Dan Le Batard Show with Stug…