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[Big East Rewind & Hoops 24/7 @bigeastrewind]

Big East Hoops March 1, 2003 Syracuse 93 Georgetown 84 OT

Michael Sweetney stat line:
31 points
19 rebounds
7 assists
7 blocks

[Not Gaetti @notgaetti]

https://t.co/VUrb5S93he

[Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel]

All in all -- to acquire and later via NBA sanctions -- Kawhi Leonard cost the Clippers:

2021 first round pick
2022 first round pick
2023 first round pick
2023 first round pick swap
2024 first round pick
2025 first round pick swap
2026 first round pick
2029 first round pick
2030 first round pick
2031 first round pick
2032 first round pick
2033 first round pick

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, two time reigning NBA MVP
Danilo Gallinari

$30 million fine
Steve Ballmer suspended for one year
Lawrence Frank suspended six months
Gillian Zucker suspended one year

Leonard averaged 47 games in his seven seasons with the club.

[Barry @BarryOnHere]

This is a really awesome find. It also helps explain this absolutely insane stat.

From 2001-19, the Patriots made 9.4% more of their field goals than their opponents.

No other team in the NFL in that span was even at +4.0%

[Todd Fuhrman @ToddFuhrman]

NFL HFA (homefield advantage) was widely accepted to be around 2.9 points in the early 2000's.

That baseline has declined to a league average closer to 1.5 points now with adjustments made for weather, divisional games, etc

Here's how I currently tier things

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

The 1993 Notre Dame vs. Florida State intro with Bob Costas makes me want to run through a wall. College football is almost back.

[Kevin Graber M.Ed. @Coach_KGraber]

BY POPULAR DEMAND: Anatomy of a Rickey Henderson steal, segment by segment — steal break to headfirst slide. The hands, the push, the drop step, the lean, the shin angle, the ankles, the arm swing, the slide. What 1,406 stolen bases looks like.

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

98+ MPH pitches thrown by Paul Skenes in each of his 78 career big league starts:

32, 38 34, 30, 46, 42, 32, 33, 21, 32, 21, 44, 22, 23, 14, 24, 30, 33, 40, 35, 31, 21, 11, 19, 26, 12, 29, 21, 25, 10, 22, 17, 26, 35, 27, 35, 29, 34, 29, 32, 40, 28, 30, 30, 25, 49, 35, 26, 27, 27, 35, 37, 7, 22, 17, 7, 15, 0, 11, 3, 20, 0, 9, 1, 7, 2, 8, 2, 3, 2, 1, 1, 0, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0

[Dr. Nirav Pandya, M.D. @DrNiravPandya]

New research: We studied every NBA Achilles tear from 2014-2025 (19 players) to find out what happens in the games right before the injury.

The finding: minutes played spiked significantly in the 10-15 games before rupture — even though season-long workload looked totally normal.

7 Achilles tears in 2024-25 alone.
3 of those tears occurred in the playoffs.

This is a real, growing problem in the league.

Full paper: https://t.co/xIcfJJRxui

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

GOODFELLAS but with the FAMILY MATTERS intro 😂
internet nonsense of my favorite

[Tom Garry @TomJGarry]

It's now four men's World Cups in a row won by the team that won the first semi-final and had 24 hours extra rest before the final.
(And four men's Euros in a row, three Women's World Cups in a row, and three Women's Euros in a row (aside from 2017 when the semis the same day)).

[Uğur Aktan @uguraktan]

Şimdi size kan dondurucu bir bilgi vereyim.

İngiltere’nin Arjantin karşısında 66:05 - 84.42 arasındaki 18 dakika 37 saniyedeki isabetli pas sayısı sadece 2.

Bu iki isabetli pas da kaleci Jordan Pickford ile stoper John Stones'un aynı pozisyonda birbirleriyle paslaşması.

30 yıldır bilinçli olarak futbol izliyorum hayatımda ilk defa böyle bir şey gördüm. Mahalle maçında bile olamaz böyle bir şey. Acaba ben mi yanlış bakıyorum diye birkaç farklı siteyi bile inceledim hayatımda ilk defa. İnanılmaz bir şey.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Turkey v USA is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ biggest city is divided by a saltwater strait.

Istanbul straddles the Bosporus. New York is split by the East River which, despite the name, is a tidal strait, not a river.

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Tancredi Palmeri @tancredipalmeri]

Only Congo fan in the mid of gigantic Colombian fans sea is singing his anthem.

Colombian fans respectfully stay quiet and at the end celebrates with him.

This makes you feel better and better as more as you watch it

[Andrew Claudio @AndrewJClaudio_]

Damn… this got me good 🥹

[Ten Years Ago Today @tenyearsnow]

Cleveland Cavaliers defeat the Golden State Warriors 93-89 in Game 7 of the NBA Finals.

This marks Cleveland's first NBA championship in franchise history.

[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

Cumulative record of all teams in history (not including the 2026 Knicks) in games in which they trailed by 20+ points in the 4th quarter of a playoff game in the NBA’s modern era:
3-732

Record of the 2026 Knicks when trailing by 20+ points in the 4th quarter of a playoff game:
2-0

[Rob Perez @WorldWideWob]

53 years.
One Shining Moment.

[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

This.

This is the one I was waiting for

The Comeback Rocky edit

[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

Not only does KAT lead all NBA players in +/- this postseason (+262) and all players in the Finals (+48), Towns has posted a positive plus/minus in every single one of the 18 games the Knicks have played in these playoffs.

That’s the longest such streak in NBA postseason history

Seems pretty good for a "soft" center who can wing big games