Author: JamesMcGhee

3 observations after the Sixers fell to 0-2 with the defeat in Toronto originally appeared on NBC Sports PhiladelphiaA trip to Toronto and a matchup against a Raptors team that went 25-57 last year didn’t get the Sixers in the win column.They lost their first road game of the season and fell to 0-2 on Friday night, falling to a 115-107 loss to the Raptors.Toronto’s Scottie Barnes recorded 27 points and shot 8 of 11 from the floor. Jakob Poeltl added 19 points, nine rebounds and four blocks.Kelly Oubre Jr. scored a game-high 28 points for the Sixers. Tyrese Maxey…

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Deebo details ‘scary’ pneumonia experience before 49ers-Cowboys game originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay AreaStar 49ers wide receiver Deebo Samuel still recovering from pneumonia that sidelined him in San Francisco’s 28-18 game loss to the Kansas City Chiefs last weekend at Levi’s Stadium.He spent Sunday to Tuesday at the hospital with fluid in his lungs, but is progressing cautiously ahead of San Francisco’s Week 8 matchup with the Dallas Cowboys on “Sunday Night Football.”“I honestly couldn’t breathe, for real,” Samuel told reporters Friday. “I didn’t really understand what was wrong until after the match.”Living, let alone sprinting while wearing shoulder…

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LAS VEGAS – Vegas Golden Knights forward Keegan Kolesar isn’t known for his scoring prowess. The 27-year-old fourth-line winger usually grabs more headlines with his physical play.In 282 matches, he has 28 goals. And only two of them had won the game.Until Friday evening.With the Knights and Ottawa Senators tied at 4 late in the game, Kolesar took Tanner Pearson’s pass through the slot, skated into the left circle and buried a wrist shot at the top of the net. shelf to give Vegas the advantage.It was a perfect placement over the right shoulder of Ottawa goalkeeper Linus Ullmark, sliding…

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Oct. 25 — MINNEAPOLIS — Never underestimate the heart of a champion.That adage suited Rochester Mayo’s Claire Loftus perfectly Friday afternoon during the singles championship of the Class 2A tennis tournament at the University of Minnesota’s Baseline Tennis Center.The Mayo senior went from looking exhausted and beaten to a champion, beating Elk River’s Ava Nelson 5-7, 7-5, 2-0, the final set abbreviated when Nelson retired after suffering from Quadriceps cramps at the end of the second set.Loftus was the tournament’s top seed, Nelson No. 3.That left Loftus a perfect 32-0 on the season and gave the senior a second straight…

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