(The Sports Xchange) – The Golden State Warriors moved to within one win of a trip to their first Western Conference finals since 1976, overcoming a slow start to rout the Memphis Grizzlies 98-78 on Wednesday for a 3-2 lead in their playoff series. The Warriors can wrap up the best-of-seven series and advance to face either the Los Angeles Clippers or Houston Rockets with a road win in Game
Noted labor attorney Jeffrey Kessler will aid in the players’ union’s planned appeal of Tom Brady’s suspension. The New England Patriots quarterback was suspended by the NFL for the first four games of the 2015 season for his role in the deflating of footballs. He was instrumental in getting NFL free agency established and had a key role in helping end the league’s lockout of the players in 2011. Along
Bill Guthridge, the longtime assistant to Dean Smith who succeeded him as North Carolina’s head coach, has died. The school announced Wednesday that Guthridge died Tuesday night. ”If he told me to run through that wall to make me better, I’d hit that wall,” former North Carolina player and well-traveled college coach Buzz Peterson told The Associated Press. ”Because I knew coach Guthridge had the best interest for you and
