Rhythm Players Hit 'Embarrassing' Firing
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Adam Sonn and his Nashville Rhythm teammates want to keep Ashley McElhiney as their coach and hope the owners of the ABA franchise reverse a decision to fire the first female coach of a men's professional team.
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Doc Rivers left Boston Friday night with a chorus of "Fire Doc" chants still ringing in his ears after a humiliating loss to the Knicks. He woke up yesterday morning as coach of the first-place Boston Celtics.
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Our position is: NBA commissioner sent a necessary message to the players that their behavior was unacceptable. NBA Commissioner David Stern has handed the Indiana Pacers a severe but warranted penalty for
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NEW YORK (Ticker) - Minnesota Timberwolves swingman Latrell Sprewell is in trouble with the NBA yet again. Sprewell was suspended one game without pay by the NBA on Tuesday for shouting a vulgarity at a female
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You know things are bleak when the trainer has to call off practice. Yet that is what happened after the Celtics' 111-80 loss to the Rockets last night. Two more players were injured in the game. A third was sore. And trainer Ed Lacerte told coach Doc Rivers not only to call off practice today, but to keep all players ...
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A major league meltdown by a minor league manager earned him a three-game suspension and worldwide fame on the Internet. Combining bits of Earl Weaver, Billy Martin and Lou Piniella, the weekend tantrum by Double-A manager Phillip Wellman prompted his bosses at the Atlanta Braves to take action Monday.
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Take a gander at these CAPS players that are swinging big bats.
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The day before free agency opens leads to several high-profile salary cap casualties including Drew Bledsoe, Fred Smoot, Joey Porter and Joe Horn.
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Jim Mora gathered his team for its first meeting in late March and built a fire. A lot of new coaches do that and six months later there are just embers.
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The team, which has sent 19 players to the disabled list this season, is unraveling.
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Larry Bowa's fiery personality was a perfect fit as a player on Philadelphia's 1980 championship team. It was too much for the Phillies he managed, though, and it was one reason he was fired Saturday, a day before the end of yet another disappointing season.
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Some fans have made Isiah Thomasâs ouster a crusade; a smaller number have made his firing a silly indulgence.
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The league is belatedly waking up to its behavioral problems, with the players leading the charge for harsher punishments.
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A nightclub shooting that left four people dead, including a heavy-metal guitarist, has concert bookers and bar managers wondering whether fans will grumble less the next time they're patted down or directed through a metal detector.
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he Liberty&#39;s players said yesterday that they had watched the videotape of Sunday&#39;s loss to the Detroit Shock in Game 2 of the WNBA Eastern Conference playoffs and had been embarrassed by what they had seen.
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All the batons had been twirled. The confetti had been shot into the air. The &quot;Arrrrgos&quot; chant had been repeated maybe 100 times.
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The NBA issued indefinite suspensions yesterday for Indiana Pacers Ron Artest, Stephen Jackson, and Jermaine O&#39;Neal, as well as Detroit Pistons center Ben