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Remembering that lesson has proven instructive with basketball, too, as the NBA weighs whether to bring back all 30 teams for the season it hopes to restart in late July at Walt Disney World. One possibility includes non-playoff teams playing perhaps fewer than 10 games in order to satisfy local television broadcast agreements. The Knicks were 9 1/2 games behind the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference when the season was suspended; what is the risk, or reward, of playing games that might have a preseason feel? … [Read more...] about The Check-In: Ex-Clipper Maurice Harkless isn’t going to the playoffs, but he’s going places

Furman, while located about 1,500 miles east of the Rocky Mountains, was home to a strong contingent of Colorado athletes. In lacrosse, Erickson was joined by senior midfielder Chad Kreuzer (Monarch) plus incoming freshman signee Trevor Douglas (Arapahoe). In baseball, pitcher Austin Wood (Silver Creek) was on the team. … [Read more...] about “It blindsided me”: Discontinued sports at Furman University leave its Colorado athletes stunned

Trump, in a since taken down tweet by Twitter, said late Thursday amid the riots that “THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd,” adding that he had spoken to Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and “told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts.” … [Read more...] about Minnesota AG Ellison: Trump Calling Rioters Thugs, Calling on Them to Get Shot ‘the Same Sort of Attitude that Resulted in the Death of George Floyd’

Kara Swisher: I wrote a column in the New York Times about how President Trump is pushing a debunked lie about a deceased woman. She died of a heart condition — fell and hit her head — but he’s pushing the lie that she was killed by MSNBC host Joe Scarborough. I didn’t focus on Scarborough in this case, because it’s not the point. This is a conspiracy theory that has been going around the internet. I focused on the widower of this woman, who’s being impugned by President Trump, because Trump didn’t just recycle the conspiracy theory — he made all kinds of weird allegations and, in the process, dragged a dead woman across the national stage for his own political gain. What’s interesting about this is that it then led Twitter to take action somewhere else: around mail-in balloting. They didn’t think they had him on this one, I guess. … [Read more...] about Why Twitter Should Delete Trump’s Account

The people who follow him — I don’t think they’re worth a lot to advertisers. And what I don’t understand is, just from a business standpoint, why don’t they starch their hat white? I won’t even say starching it white, but taking it from black to light black. I think they would get a lot of kudos, and I don’t think they’d lose that much. I think a lot of people would rally to their support. It would create some consistency between this whole namaste bullshit perception that Jack Dorsey puts out there that is totally hypocritical. And at the same time, the 80 million people that are following Donald Trump, quite frankly, are not who advertisers want to reach. I don’t think it would hurt Twitter’s image. … [Read more...] about Twitter’s Trump Problem Is Just Beginning