Craig Sager

Stars Come Out For Colorful Craig Sager Service

... Charles Barkley, center, leaves with others after the memorial service. Jason Getz, USA TODAY Sports. Fans hold cardboard cutouts of late broadcaster Craig Sager in the second half of an NBA basketball game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Charlotte Hornets, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2016, in Atlanta. Sager died Thursday after a battle with cancer. John Bazemore, AP. Prior to an NBA basketball game between the San Antonio Spurs and Golden State Warriors is seen in detailed view of Craig Sager-Themed T-shirts on the back of the seats provided for all fans in attendance by City National Bank as a tribute to the iconic TNT sideline reporter and his ongoing fight against leukemia. at ORACLE Arena on October 25, 2016 in Oakland, California. Thearon W. Henderson, Getty Images. Atlanta Hawks mascot Harry the Hawk wears a suit inspired by the late Craig Sager as he performs during a break in the fourth quarter of their game against the Charlotte Hornets at Philips Arena. Jason Getz, ...

Longtime Turner Broadcaster Sager Dead At 65

... congratulate Aaron. When asked years later what Sager thought would have happened if he tried to interview Aaron the same way today, he told Yahoo! Sports, "I'd be shot.". He later worked for CNN, handling the network's first live remote report from the 1980 MLB playoffs. He co-anchored "CNN Sports Tonight" and anchored "College Football Scoreboard" in the 1980 s. Although Sager covered a wide variety of events, including college football, the NFL, the World Series, the Goodwill Games, the Pan Am Games, World Cup soccer, golf, tennis and the Winter and Summer Olympics, his home was the NBA. Players and fellow broadcasters rallied around Sager during his fight. Reporters began using the hashtag #Sideline For Sager and dressing in colorful outfits to show their support. In April 2016, Rockets center Dwight Howard and his D 12 Foundation held a blood drive to honor Sager. "I know a lot of people deal with a lot of different types of cancers and leukemia," Howard said. "Craig is a close friend of mine, family. He's part of the NBA family. You hate to see anybody who is a part of you go ...

Atlanta Hawks Radio Voice Steve Holman Enters Atlanta Hall

... the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame Friday night. The Class of 2017 includes former Falcons linebacker Keith Brooking, former Atlanta Track Club and Peachtree Road Race director Julia Emmons, former Hawks assistant coach Bob Reinhart and former TNT sideline reporter Craig Sager. “This is a big one,” Holman said this week. “They are all important and they are all great. To be in the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame and you start to look at the names like Bobby Jones. …”. Those honored make up an impressive list and Holman can cite most of them. He mentions those he has worked with over the years such as Falcons greats Jeff Van Note and Steve Bartkowski and Braves greats Bobby Cox and Dale Murphy. He notes those with the Hawks, the organization where he spent the past 32 years as the radio voice, including Lou Hudson and Dominique Wilkins. And of course some of his fellow broadcasters, such as Ernie Johnson Sr., ...

Hillbilly Elegy, Sports Memoirs Among Recommended Non-fiction Books For Winter Reading

... death in 1962. Mrs. Roosevelt was the most important and powerful First Lady until Hillary Clinton came along. The 670-page volume is a sympathetic portrait of a marriage and of a woman whose passion and commitment has inspired generations of Americans to seek a decent future for all folks. The author is a history professor and has written several highly-respected books, including two other volumes on ER and one on President Dwight Eisenhower. –“The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan” by Sebastian Mallaby (Penguin Press, $40) is a masterful biography of a well-known economist who served as chairman of the U. S. Federal Reserve System – or the head of the U. S. Central Banking System — from 1987 to 2006. The 781-page hardcover is the work of more than five years of research and access to Greenspan and his closest friends and colleagues. The 90-year-old Greenspan, who has served in every presidency from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, is married to television ...

Buzzer Beater Pushes Vikings Past Kayhi Kings

... , if it’s a zone or man. I think that was a little difficult for use too. I think that led to some of the turnovers, when you pass, when you dribble. But the positive side of that, every time they made a run on us, at least five times in the game, they had a couple possession to a seven point lead and we were able to come back, get back to within one possession or tie the game and that was big for us.”. Blaine Volk puts up a three pointer in the first half of Thursday’s game against Ketchikan. Petersburg was led in scoring by three seniors, Wolf Brooks scored 20 points, Conn had 19 and Alan Mc Cay had 17 points. Ketchikan benefitted from some hot three-point shooting and also forced some turnovers that led to easy fast break points. Brock says he could feel poise from his team when they needed to score to keep up with Ketchikan. “When we needed baskets we went inside where we had an advantage,” Brock explained. “I just thought Wolf (Brooks), Wolf especially played big inside asking for the ...

The 7 Most Important Nba Storylines At The All-star Break

... more or less dominated the league the whole season. The one thing we can say is that Golden State plays a little better with Stephen Curry leading the charge, not Kevin Durant, something Durant has recognized and allowed to happen in recent weeks. 4. No one’s tanking (except the Lakers lmao). The upcoming draft is looming loaded with talent, with Markelle Fultz and Lonzo Ball emerging as the stars of the draft but plenty more players well respected behind them. However, NBA teams aren’t rushing to the bottom — most are trying to win. Dallas and Miami were both careening towards the bottom, until they weren’t. The Mavericks, once 4-17, are 22-34 now while winning 11 of their last 18. Somehow, the Heat inexplicably went on a 13-game winning streak that started when they were just 11-30. You can heap tons of credit on both team’s coaches, Rick Carlisle and Erik Spoelstra , who are the longest ...

Grading The Contests From All-star Saturday Night

... of a second behind Porzingis. The Unicorn had a solid final round and won on his first three. Grade: B (for big) on the strength of Jokic’s deep three. It would be an A if he called bank. The Three-Point Contest. The first round here did not go as expected as Klay Thompson failed to reach the second round. He had a good start, but only made two balls on his money rack; one more shot would have put him in the Finals, but it was not to be. Kemba Walker went first and notched a fairly normal 19. He watched two of the next three contestants pass him by, but then the next four failed to pass him. Kyrie Irving, going earlier, had a bad start, but he heated up halfway through. He finished with 21 to get into the second round. Eric Gordon was all splash and fire, hitting 24 points to win the first round easily. Kyrie went first in the second round and hung up 20. Gordon followed him, and only needed one of his last two shots to go in to win. And neither did. So it went to OT. On the extra rack, Kyrie seemed to tire out. His shot started to look flat. (See what I did there?) Gordon hit four out of five on his moneyball rack, and then on his next rack, and notched the win ...

By The Numbers, Here’s A Look At Nba All-star Weekend

... one All-Star appearance, Kevin Durant’s 25.6-point average in All-Star Games is the best in the game’s history. (Dale Ellis scored 27 points in his lone All-Star outing.). The number of cancer survivors who will be at Friday night’s Rising Stars game in honor of longtime sideline reporter Craig Sager, who died of cancer last year. The 30 survivors from the New Orleans area will be seated in a “Sager Strong” section. Le Bron James’ first basket on Sunday will be his 120 th field goal in All-Star play, breaking a tie with Kobe Bryant for the most in the game’s history. James is already the leading All-Star career scorer with 291 points entering this weekend — one more than Bryant posted. And if he takes seven shots Sunday, James will be the All-Star career leader in that stat, too. (Bryant has 238, Michael Jordan took 233 and James has 232 and counting). The number of days older that Carmelo Anthony is than any other All-Star. Anthony is 32 and so is Le Bron James — but Anthony was born seven months earlier, and James said he was thrilled to give up the title of “oldest All-Star” when Anthony was added as an injury replacement for Kevin ...

Robinson Wins Dunk Contest, Caps Saturday Events

... tie-breaker defeated Cleveland's Kyrie Irving, the 2013 winner who had 18. The pair had each finished with a score of 20 in the final round, meaning they each had to shoot 25 more balls to decide it. Thompson was stunningly eliminated in the first round, missing a final shot from the corner that could have put him through ahead of Walker. 7:40 p.m. Big men continue to reign supreme in the NBA All-Star Saturday night skills competition. New York Knicks 7-foot-3 forward Kristaps Prozingis won it, beating Utah's Gordon Hayward in the finals. Those vanquished in earlier rounds included guards John Wall of Washington and Isaiah Thomas of Boston, both because they couldn't make their initial 3-pointers required to close out the course before Hayward did. Porzingis emerged from the big-men's division that included the Pelicans' Anthony Davis and Denver's Nikola Jokic. Porzingis and ...

Webber, Massimino Among The Hall Of Fame Finalists

... Mc Corvey, the "Jane Roe" at the center of the 1973 U. S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, has died. More > >. Saturday, February 18 2017 8:22 PM EST 2017-02-19 01:22:47 GMT. Clyde Stubblefield, a James Brown drummer who created one of the most widely sampled drum breaks ever, has died. More > >. Saturday, February 18 2017 8:07 PM EST 2017-02-19 01:07:22 GMT. Panelists at a drug summit convened by the Montana Legislature say state resources are being strained because of an increase in methamphetamine use. More > >. Saturday, February 18 2017 8:04 PM EST 2017-02-19 01:04:19 GMT. Authorities say they've found the body of a man who was swept down a rain-swollen gully during Southern California's powerful storm. More > >. Saturday, February 18 2017 7:51 PM EST 2017-02-19 00:51:14 GMT. Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, a blind Egyptian cleric who was convicted in 1995 along with nine ...

Craig Sager, 1951-2016

... and opponents. Other reporters withered under Popovich’s scorn during in-game interviews; Sager made the interaction a cartoonish game of cat and mouse. When it was revealed, in 2014, that Sager had been diagnosed with leukemia, expressions of goodwill toward him proliferated, elevating him to the status of a league-wide saint. #Sager Strong became a popular hashtag and rallying cry; players and coaches wished him well over the airwaves. As his health diminished, and his time onscreen slowly dwindled, his few appearances became occasions for basketball’s extended family of fans, announcers, and executives to shower him in appreciation. His many quiet kindnesses over the years were gradually revealed: in 1993, Sager had convinced the troubled power forward Dennis Rodman, gun in hand, not to commit suicide; after an injury cut short Charles Barkley’s final season, it was Sager who passed along a phone number for David Levy, Turner’s president, helping to jump-start Barkley’s ...