The ESPN analyst unloaded on the Nets during Wednesday’s edition of “First Take” after watching the Warriors hand them a 117-99 loss at the Barclays Center. Golden State led by 22 points at the end of the third quarter, prompting Brooklyn coach Steve Nash to wave the white flag and pull Kevin Durant and James Harden out of the game. Warriors star Stephen Curry continued what has been an electric start, scoring a game-high 37 points on 12-of-19 shooting and earning MVP chants in the Nets’ home arena....

“The Last Dance” features never-before-seen footage from the Bulls’ 1997-98 championship campaign, including exclusive interviews with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Phil Jackson and other key members of Chicago’s dynasty. Though the season ended with a title, the tension was high as the Bulls began their journey toward a second three-peat. MORE: Release date, TV schedule for ESPN’s “The Last Dance” Despite the team coming off consecutive championship runs, there was a great deal of “uncertainty” about the direction of the franchise and the potential for a rebuild, Jordan said....

It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see if it pays off for them. As always, ESPN8 will add a “weird” factor to the worldwide leader in sports moniker, broadcasting for 24 hours straight the sporting events that normally would not get much run time on TV. You know, programming such as slippery stairs, death diving, OmegaBall and, of course, dodgeball. And if you can’t find yourself to be interested in those kinds of events, then can you even call yourself a true sports fan?...

The annual awards show will recap the entire year of sports, celebrating everything from the best teams, players, moments and plays from the 2021-22 seasons. This year’s ESPYS will be hosted by four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry. It will also have special guest presentations from other star athletes like Odell Beckham Jr., Mookie Betts, Aaron Rodgers, Derek Jeter and Megan Rapinoe, to name a few. The ESPYS will honor a number of different teams and individuals across multiple sports, with each category having four nominees for each award....

Initiated in the ’70s, it radiates out from under a bold, futuristic geodesic dome and is connected to an enormous hexagonal mosque that can accommodate up to 5,000 worshipers, with a courtyard big enough for an additional 4,000. The budget for the entire complex exceeded $3.2 billion, and it took more than 10 years to complete. It’s one of the many large-scale development projects the Saudi government has been able to undertake thanks to a gargantuan stream of oil revenue....

The Disney+ series, which stars Oscar Isaac, is set for release next month and it offers a nuanced exploration of mental health and what happens when the hero is the unstable one in the classic battle of good versus evil. Isaac stars as the protagonist, Marc Spector, who juggles multiple personalities (one of which is Englishman Steven Grant—complete with a questionable accent) because he lives with a debilitating form of dissociative identity disorder....

“Today, I am making my exit from the game of football,” he wrote in an article published Thursday on The Players’ Tribune. “I’m leaving the sport I love — the sport that has consumed my existence for the last 18 years — to start a new life.” MORE: Ex-NFL players take part in latest cannabis-related treatment study The 29-year-old tackle acknowledged that some might find his decision “puzzling,” but said “I am thinking of my family first right now — and my health and my future....

Harry Kane and Raheem Sterling were within reach of Ronaldo, but they both failed to score in the Euro 2021 final against italy. The top scorer honor is the latest in a decorated career for the 36-year-old Ronaldo, who wins the award for the first time in his career. He’s the all-time leading scorer at Euro tournaments (14 goals) and he is also tied for the most international goals ever scored by a male player....

Fears over a second wave of the outbreak have been raised in Europe following recent spikes seen in Spain, France and Germany. Each nation has reported around a 30 to 90 percent increase in new infections over roughly the past couple of weeks. Spain In the week from July 18 to 24, the country reported a total of 12,039 new infections, a nearly 90 percent (over 89.6 percent) increase from the 6,347 total new cases reported a week earlier from July 11 to 17, according to data compiled by Worldometer....

Neutrals have fallen in love with Leonardo Jardim’s free-flowing attacking football which has produced an incredible 103 goals in 37 games – the third-best tally ever achieved in a top-flight French campaign and the best since 1960. Monaco seal Ligue 1 title Monaco pounced on defending champions Paris Saint-Germain’s inconsistency in the first half of the campaign and, despite their inferior financial resources, experience and squad depth – as well as an energy-sapping run to the semi-finals of the Champions League - they have held on comfortably in the closing weeks of the season....

Then along came a 616-word manifesto signed by eight elected European leaders–a ringing declaration of common cause with the United States. Published in a number of European papers on Thursday, the open letter by the so-called gang of eight was a direct challenge to the go-slow “European way” on Iraq that Gerhard Schroder and Jacques Chirac had been championing in recent weeks. “Today more than ever, the transatlantic bond is a guarantee of our freedom,” the Euro-rebels declared: Jose Maria Aznar, Spain; Jose Manuel Duro Barroso, Portugal; Silvio Berlusconi, Italy; Tony Blair, United Kingdom; Vaclav Havel, Czech Republic; Peter Medgyessy, Hungary; Leszek Miller, Poland; Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Denmark....

With an impressive resume of films that include Casino Royale, Dark Shadows, 300: Rise of an Empire and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, she is certainly no stranger to roles that lean on the dark and macabre, but in Lorcan Finnegan’s coming film, NOCEBO, Green takes on a new, perplexing character in a horror film with a social message. In NOCEBO, Green plays Christine, a fashion designer who is tormented by a mysterious illness until a cure comes in the form of a Filipino nanny, played by Chai Fonacier, who uses traditional folk healing to uncover the terrifying cause....

Neumann, 49, fled the country in February 2021, and a federal arrest warrant was issued for him in December, according to the FBI. He told Gazeta, a Russian news site, he feels he is safe in Belarus. Neumann is one of hundreds of people to be charged in connection with the riot, which left five people dead and launched a House select committee’s investigation, which is examining the activities of former President Donald Trump and his allies on the day of the attack....

When met just before Selangor’s training session on Saturday, pre-season signing and Indonesia U23’s Evan Dimas Darmono said that he is not burdened by the pressure of possibly making his debut for the Red Giants. On Sunday Selangor will open their 2018 Super League campaign against newly-promoted Kuala Lumpur (KL), in what is dubbed as the Klang Valley Derby. The Indonesian press too has arrived over the weekend, eager to cover him and Selangor’s other pre-season signing and his national teammate Ilham Udin Armaiyn, as well as KL’s new signing; former Persib Bandung defender Achmad Jufriyanto Tohir in the match....

While speaking with co-host Steve Shultz on their YouTube show Wednesdays with Kat and Steve!, Kerr acknowledged that there are several vaccine varieties. But she said she’s not open to taking any of them, according to reporting from Right Wing Watch. “I may have trusted [the vaccine] when Trump was sitting where the villain fraudulent person is sitting,” she said, referring to current Democratic President Joe Biden. “But because they’re not, I won’t trust it....

So there we were Wednesday morning in Valhalla Golf Club’s contestant parking lot, waiting by an empty space reserved for … MORE: Tee times | PGA odds and picks | Tourney info | Winners 2000 to present TIGER WOODS 1999, 2000, 2006, 2007 PGA Champion Would he show up? Would the winner of 14 major championships, now in his seventh season of chasing the 15th, play in the PGA Championship less than four days after back spasms forced him to limp into yet another waiting ambula … er … SUV?...

In announcing the company’s financial results through May 2014, ISC President John Saunders made the case for the sport as the company is seeing stabilized admission revenues and consistent corporate sponsorship. Fox saw a drop of 10 percent for its portion — the first 13 Cup points events — of the Sprint Cup schedule. TNT is in the fifth of its six-race run before ESPN/ABC take over for the final 17 events of the season....

League titles are not decided in the fifth round of 38 fixtures and there is a long, long way to go. However, with La Liga won with 90 points or more in recent seasons, a deficit of seven at this early stage is alarming for a Madrid side that had started out as red-hot favourites after winning a Primera Division and Champions League double in 2016-17. Versus Valencia, Madrid scored only two of their 29 opportunities, many of those clear-cut chances....

Brands joins from PSV, where he helped the Dutch club win the 2017-18 Eredivisie title as their sporting director. The 56-year-old Dutchman replaces Steve Walsh, who leaves the Toffees after two seasons. Walsh follows Sam Allardyce out the door after Everton also announced on Wednesday that the manager would not be continuing with the club in 2018-19. The changes were expected at Everton after a disappointing season that saw the Toffees finish in eighth place in the Premier League, failing to improve following a summer spend of nearly £200 million ($270m)....

The 27-year-old has been linked with a move away from the Goodison Park due to limited playing time and the arrival of Cenk Tosun from Besiktas. Niasse was introduced as a 69th-minute substitute in Saturday’s Premier League game and scored to salvage a point for the Merseyside outfit in their 1-1 West Bromwich Albion. With six goals already in 12 league appearances this campaign, the former West Ham United boss said that he wants to keep Senegal international beyond the winter transfer window....