Roaring through for the win 🔥
Ben Shelton comes through the third set tie break to defeat Marcos Giron. He will play his quarterfinal vs. Shimabukuro later today 👀
First and foremost, I want to thank God for always giving me the strength, courage, and faith to persevere through every challenge and moment of adversity. I also want to thank my family for standing by my side through thick and thin, especially throughout this process and this important decision.
I usually don’t speak publicly about things like this, but I feel it’s important to address a few things. Ever since I was a kid, my dream has always been to play in the NBA, and that dream has never changed. At the same time, I’ve always believed in myself and have always been self-aware enough to understand what I need to do to put myself in the best position to succeed.
I’ve seen and heard the rumors and speculation surrounding my decision. The truth is, none of that affects me. My entire life, I’ve been criticized, doubted, and questioned, and I’ve learned to stay focused on what matters.
I want to make one thing very clear: my decision to attend St. John’s has nothing to do with money. My decision was based on basketball, development, and winning.
I love what Coach Rick Pitino has built at St. John’s. His experience, leadership, and résumé speak for themselves, but what stood out most to me was the belief he has in his players, his relentless work ethic, and his ability to help good players become great players while also helping them grow as men.
At every level I’ve played, my goal has always been to compete for championships. I made this decision based on where I believe I can best develop as a player, grow as a leader, and put myself in the strongest position to achieve my ultimate goals.
This was a basketball decision. This was a development decision. This was a winning decision.
That’s the truth.
#redstorm
Court documents revealed that Brendan Sorsby was betting on the "Turkish basketball league, Romanian soccer games, obscure doubles tennis matches and Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest."
BREAKING:
Kei Nishikori, the best men’s singles Asian player of all time, will retire from tennis at the end of the season.
Former top 5
Olympic medalist
Grand Slam finalist
A trailblazer!
One of the many mental things with these individual sports: Dudes don’t know how to be discreet in their celebration of victory.
Not gonna fault bruh for celebrating like he did, but somewhere along the way he wasn’t shown the humility (that may be commonplace in other sports)
Almost a year ago 17 year old Diego Dedura-Palomero celebrated like he won the World Cup after Shapovalov retired from the match with injury at the ATP 500 in Munich.
Diego has not won a main draw ATP since and has fallen outside of the Top 250.
Everybody tries to be creative/innovative in coaching, & seen a lot on social media this year about o rebound strategies and being aggressive…. THIS is why I always teach my teams to have at least 1 player getting back/momentum going towards the other hoop when shot goes up
St. John's fans should celebrate tonight.
St. John's fans have waited for a LONG time for a run like they've had the past two years.
But St. John's fans also know this:
This team has to get to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament to truly wring out the sponge.