(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Team LeBron 170, Team Durant 150
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE NY Islanders 5, Buffalo 2 Tampa Bay 6, Chicago 3 New Jersey 1, Boston 0 Carolina 4, Florida 2 Washington 3, Philadelphia 1 Pittsburgh 5, NY Rangers 1 Nashville 4, Dallas 3 (SO) Ottawa 4, Calgary 3 (SO) TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Michigan St. 70, Michigan 64 Baylor 88, Texas Tech 73 Iowa 77, Wisconsin 73 Houston 67, Memphis 64 Texas 76, TCU 64 Loyola of Chicago 75, Drake 65
(ATLANTA)– Philadelphia star Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons will miss the All-Star game after coming in contact with someone who has since tested positive for COVID-19, the league announced Sunday.
ESPN NBA Insider Adrian Wojnarowski reports the pair were in contact with a Philadelphia barber. The barber tested positive following an inconclusive positive coronavirus test.
Wojnarowski says the two players traveled to Atlanta in private planes and have remained in quarantine, which is protocol for all participants. They have not had any contact with other players at the All-Star game.
The NBA says no other players at the All-Star game have been affected.
Team Durant takes on Team LeBron tonight at 8:00 PM ET.
(NEW YORK) — Maia Chaka will become the first Black female on-field official in NFL history, the league announced on Friday.
Chaka, who has officiated college football and XFL games, will begin her new role this upcoming season.
When not on the field, she’s a teacher for at-risk youth at her home in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Chaka told ESPN she wants to inspire young girls both on and off the field.
“It gives those girls an opportunity to see, ‘OK, I can see my teacher works with people who don’t look like her, and maybe it gives me an opportunity to work with people who don’t look like me also,'” Chaka told ESPN.
Chaka will join Sarah Thomas, who broke the league’s gender barrier among officials in 2015 and went on to become the first woman to officiate a Super Bowl, earlier this year.
“As we celebrate Women’s History Month, Maia is a trailblazer as the first Black female official and inspires us toward normalizing women on the football field,” NFL Vice President Troy Vincent said in a statement.
Chaka told “World News Tonight” about the moment she received the call. She said she couldn’t believe the good news.
“I’m so excited to be a member of the National Football League’s officiating staff. I will always remember that day,” she said. “My response was, ‘I think I’m getting punked!'”
Chaka said she owes the opportunity to working hard and helping others work hard.
“As long as you put in the work and you have a strong work ethic, and you strive for greatness and strive to get better, all your dreams and goals and aspirations will always come true,” she said.
(NEW YORK ) — It seems like just yesterday Aaron Rodgers revealed he was engaged to Shailene Woodley, and now he’s already talking about starting a family.
On Thursday, the Green Bay Packers quarterback, 37, joined Zenith Watches CEO Julien Tornare on Instagram Live and chatted a bit about his engagement.
“I’m recently engaged, so been enjoying that part of my life,” Rodgers, who was named as the brand’s ambassador last month, shared. “Obviously that’s the best thing that’s happened to me in the last year.”
As for what’s next, the athlete said his “next great challenge will be being a father” adding that he’s “in the age group where a lot of my close friends from high school and college are fathers now and have families of their own.”
That doesn’t mean Rodgers will have a mini-me running around in the next nine months, though. He expressed that while fatherhood is something he’s looking forward to, it’s “maybe not in the immediate future.”
“It’s gonna be a really fun challenge. I’ve done a pretty good job at taking care of myself for the last 37 years, and look forward to taking care of another life at some point,” he said. “I think it’s gonna be so fun. I’ve dreamt about what that would be like and I’m really excited about that chapter, whenever that comes.”
Woodley recently opened up about their engagement, saying it’s “not new news” to them even though the world just recently found out.
“Everybody right now is freaking out over it, but we’re like, ‘Oh, we’ve been engaged for a while,'” the “Big Little Lies” actress said.
Though Woodley, 29, said she “never” thought she would be engaged to “somebody who threw balls for a living,” she called Rodgers “a wonderful, incredible human being.”
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