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However, Wenger was given a boost by Saturday’s 2-1 win over champions Chelsea in the FA Cup final and was given the backing of the club’s board at a meeting on Tuesday.

The Cleveland Cavaliers, however, say they aren’t using any snubs to get ready for the NBA Finals.

Kerr recently reviewed all seven games from 2016, when Golden State squandered a 3-1 lead and missed a repeat championship.

Although his side go into the Finals with a 12-0 record in this year’s playoffs, Kerr struggles to comprehend whey Tyronn Lue’s champions are being branded underdogs.

Both the Cavaliers and Warriors have upgraded their rosters from a year ago, when they went seven games in an epic series that spawned the first comeback from a 3-1 deficit in Finals history and resulted in Cleveland winning its first pro sports championship since 1964.

LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers dominated the Boston Celtics on their home floor in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals, 135-102, to clinch their third-consecutive NBA Finals appearance.

If Brown does remain the acting coach, he’ll lead a team into the Finals for the first time since 2007 when he was a 37-year-old coach of the Cavaliers taking a 22-year-old LeBron James to his first Finals. The point guard sacrificed some scoring early in the season while...

But that prompted further criticisms, including from @buijules, who tweeted: “Maybe next time, include why you’re apologizing… i.e”. “For Japan, for the team and for (engine suppliers) Honda, this is a special victory”.

KD has since figured out a way to deal with the haters, and he doesn’t care how mad people are about him going to the NBA Finals with the Warriors. When asked if the 2017 Warriors is the most imposing opposition he’s ever faced, James recalled the 2014 Spurs which...

For that reason, the Cavaliers need to win as much as they can while they have the best player in the world.

The Celtics couldn’t either.

It’s a showdown of the two most popular players in the game, LeBron James and Stephen Curry. He shows no signs of slowing down, and the team around him with Irving and Kevin Love can pick up as he fades. At the time that each of those series were played, both seemed like...

They’ll take stock of Game 1 and remember that they benefitted from a called-back goal that turned the tide of the game, they scored on a 5-on-3 in the Stanley Cup final – like that happens every day – and they were complicit in one of the best goalies on the...

Mumbai Indians who were ready for their hat trick to lift the cup had to shrug off the determined Pune who looked for their first win in the only second competition.

And for all the many reasons that Mike Sullivan and the Penguins’ coaching staff pulled him from these Stanley Cup playoffs, most of those reaching well beyond actual goaltending, if you ask me, it’s got to be his team once again for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference...