I totally get the sentiment that Cavan needs to... play more, given the situation (with his departure to Europe somewhat imminent). However, I don’t know that a game in Trinidad and Tobago, especially while already up by a comfortable margin, is the best situation for him to come on. You can’t control tackles like these, but it doesn’t feel like the best environment for him to stay healthy and continue to grow. #doop #MLS #USYMNT #USMNT 📹: CONCACAFshow more

YIKES. Sal Olivas earns his second yellow after a... horrific challenge, only to then rip the red card out of the referee’s hand. Frustration got the best of him and likely earned him an extended suspension for his conduct. #doop #usymnt #usmnt #MLS #mlsnextpro 📹: MLS NEXTPRO | APPLEshow more

“Philly is ready to play.” Two goals, two assists,... and plenty of highlight-reel moments for Cavan Sullivan on the night. A man-of-the-match performance (Michelob sponsors the award, so I’m not sure if he can be pictured with it). A terrific showing for the American in CONCACAF play. #doop #MLS #USMNT #USYMNT #MANCHESTERCITY #MCFC #CITY #CITEH 📹: CONCACAF 📷: Don Robson (Don Robson) cc: Travmanshow more

Bryce Harper says constantly hammering young players makes them... less likely to deliver when the team needs them most: “I got a different style of the game. Old school, hard nosed, veteran mentality.” “For me, I don’t care who you are. Where you come from. What you did prior with another team. When you come into our clubhouse, I want you to feel like you’re at home.” “I want you to feel like you’re family.” “A young guy coming up from the minor leagues, If you just hammer him all the time and don’t show him any love. How do you know, in any big spot or any big situation, that you’re going to get the best out of him?” “He’s going to be sitting there going, ‘They hate me.’ ‘They don’t like me.’ I don’t want that.” “I want guys to enjoy the big leagues. It goes quick. He could be in the big leagues for four days. And that’s all he gets. And his only memory is his team getting on him.” “I just want guys to be comfortable. If I feel like I need to speak, I'll speak.”show more

Cavan Sullivan continues to be Philadelphia’s most creative player... despite his age. He is consistently breaking lines with some excellent through balls. Unfortunately for him and the Union, nothing came from those chances. Great vision. #doop #usmnt #usymnt #crew96 📹: APPLE | MLSshow more

Nicolas Batum on Chris Paul: “I texted him the... first day that happened… I obviously have a ton of respect for him… 21 years and a Hall of Famer… I got a chance to play with a lot of great players. He’s one of them. So just wanted to text him and thank him for the time I had with him.” On the reports that certain Clippers players wanted CP3 gone: “They didn’t ask me. Like everybody else, I just woke up and found out about the news. It is what it is, the situation upstairs… If something happened, I don’t really know about it… It’s sad sometimes to be part of that. On both sides. The fans too. Just wish the best for CP.”show more

Kenyon Martin believes Giannis would be a better fit... with Kel’el Ware, over Bam: “Miami, do you do him and Bam together? I don’t know. I would like to see him and Kel’el Ware more than him and Bam. I think Kel’el shoots the ball from the perimeter… He spreads the floor in that regard. The new 5 of the NBA. Giannis plays downhill. I like his athleticism. I like that defensively for them…. It’s on Pat to do his job if that is his situation down there.” (Via Gil’s Arena) 🧐show more

🚨🎥 You said that Arda Güler is fine and... ready to play, but I would like to know how such a situation is handled with a young player. I don't know if you ask him for patience and more work, or if it is the player himself who approaches your office to ask what more he needs to do? Carlo Ancelotti: All players who have doubts can come to my office to talk with me. I speak daily with him, with Endrick, and with the young players. I see that there is talk about a "Güler case," but this case has not reached me yet. He is working hard and obviously wants to play, just like all players do. It is a process for him, just as it was for all young players who are no longer young now, like Rodrygo, Vinícius, and Valverde. Young players need time to integrate into the best team in the world because here, there are. players of a very, very high level, and the competition is extremely tough. I think everyone understands that and those who don't, have to understand it. 😅😅😅show more

Draymond Green calls out Adam Silver and the NBA... for the new All Star format calling it a joke to the league: “Best in the East, Best in the West it works when the game is good. We doing all this different gimmicks makes it more of a joke. It looks good for a year it’s a quick fix, but then you are like I don’t want to see that again. Because it wasn’t the game I grew up on. I can’t see this World vs USA and then equated to when KG was on the East, Shaq was on the West. I can’t do that it doesn’t make sense to me it’s not the same thing”show more

Paul Pierce says Karl-Anthony Towns needs to be the... Knicks best player if they want to win: “And I said this and this is not a knock on Jalen Brunson, he can’t be your best player on a championship team. If we’re saying the Knicks, like he can be a great player and close and be that role, but like for us, KG was our best player. I was the closer and I understood that like throughout the course of the game we got to go to KG, you know, that’s how I feel like this should look.” (Via No Fouls Given)show more

Oleh Plotnytskyi answers what it's like to have strong... teammates in the club. "How is it when two strong players like Ishikawa or Semeniuk arrive in the team? Is it a stimulus?" "It's a lot. You have to take these opportunities as something that makes you improve, because it's not like you have to be like: 'I want to play, this guy has to stay on the bench, the coach likes him, I don't like him', I'm sorry but cazzo, you don't have to do that. You have to take it as an opportunity to improve because you have him in front of you every day, the best player in the world and then you have everything. And luckily God gave you that he plays with you with your team and not on the other side. You can achieve something for yourself like Yuki, Yuki's tranquility, do like him, he makes a mistake smiles, is fine, asks for the ball, give me another and scores a point. Semeniuk is always focused on work, try to do like that.show more

Q: Has Hyeseong shown you enough where you now... want to push him a little more by starting him vs. lefties every now and then? DAVE ROBERTS: Not really. I think that with what he’s done for us in the role that we have for him, he’s done fantastic. But I also think that Max is going to typically play against lefties, and then in this particular situation, he’s down, so I feel very good with Kim in there. But yeah, I do feel like the best version of him is kind of playing in the right spots vs. right-handed pitching. 🎥: DodgersBeat | Dodgers News & Interviewsshow more

Danielle is like. You don’t know HIM!! Then they... ask HIM questions to get to know him and she’s like. Stay out of his business!! I’m with Lindsay. Why are you on the show?? If you don’t want to share. I still don’t like Danielle. #Inthecityshow more

Stephen A Smith says Miami is the best basketball... landing spot for LeBron: “From a basketball standpoint, Giannis, Adebayo, Bobby Portis, your front line is stacked… with LeBron having the ball in his hands. From a basketball standpoint it’s the best situation for him. If lifestyle is what’s important, that damn sure is a better situation for him. Except compared to Golden State. Since you’re LeBron and can afford the PJ, you can leave a game and hop on a jet 45 minutes later and you’re chilling with the family. You can’t underestimate that. If he decides to play for GS, we all know, it’s family.” (Via Stephen A Smith)show more

Gypsy Crusader meets Adin Ross for the first time... ever in person and told him directly to his face that he doesn’t like him and started pressing him 👀 “I don’t like you… I hate you… I can’t stand you…”show more

Naomi Osaka on the upsides and downsides of the... USTA inviting a lot of influencers to the U.S. Open: “If you come to a sporting event, you have to respect the sport. I feel like it’s common courtesy to read up on the sport. Especially the etiquette. It could be a good thing for people to make the sport of tennis popular to their specific audience. But I think it has to be managed a lot better, especially in the situation like in my first round match. Overall there’s huge positives. You want people to continue to grow the sport. I just think it has to be in a way that everyone knows the rules & the etiquette.” (via US Open Press)show more

Karl-Anthony Towns says he'd take a $100,000,000 pay cut... to keep the Knicks together Q: “You willing to take a $100 plus million dollar pay cut to like Jaylen Brunson did to keep this thing together?” KAT: “If we can keep it all together. We all got to get in the room and say we going to do it” “I mean, Jalen Brunson, shout out to him. That's a lot of money. But you know what? You can't put a value on the fact that he's at where he wants to be. And I think that's a big value number that no one's thinking of. “He's with his father. He's super comfortable. He has a team that believes in him. I think that belief that a team and organization can give you is something that's worth a lot, a lot, a lot of money. And they give him that belief, and I think that he felt that was the best situation for him, and I root him on for that”show more