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Ole Miss Football Players
Lakers Earn Series Win,
LeBron James' Son Bronny Joins Esports Organization FaZe Clan
BRONNY JAMES
Bronny James, 15, joined FaZe Clan, a professional es- ports organization, the group announced on Sunday in a video showing both Bronny’s basketball highlights and clips from him playing Fortnight and Call of Duty.
Cliff Robinson, ‘Survivor’ Contestant And NBA All-Star,
CLIFF ROBINSON
Cliff Robinson, a former NBA All-Star and contestant on the reality show “Survivor,” has died. He was 53.
The cause of death has not been given, but Robinson had recently experienced several is- sues with his health. He suf- fered a stroke in 2017, had a tumor removed from his jaw in 2018 and underwent surgery for cancer in March 2019.
A 6-foot-10 forward, Robinson began his basket- ball career at UConn in 1985 and was instrumental in the team winning the 1988 NIT championship. He was selected as the 36th NBA draft pick in the second round by the Port- land Trail Blazers in 1989 and played there for eight seasons, leading the team to the playoffs each year and the NBA finals in 1990 and 1992.
Robinson won the Sixth Man of the Year Award for the 1992-1993 season, during which he averaged 19.1 points, 6.6. rebounds and 1.99 blocks per game. Robinson was named an All-Star with the team in 1994. In the remaining years of his career, Robinson went on to play for the Phoenix Suns, the Detroit Pistons, the Golden State Warriors and the New Jersey Nets.
Robinson is survived by his wife, Heather Lufkins, and son, Isaiah Robinson.
March To The Square In Protest
And Charles Barkley Earns
Against Police Brutality
$100,000 By Breaking Broom
The Ole Miss football team has joined in on the wave of activism that has spread across college and professional sports this week.
Instead of their regularly scheduled practice on Friday morning, players marched and gathered on The Square in downtown Oxford in sup- port of the Black Lives Matter movement. The players gath- ered in front of the monu- ment on The Square that commemorates Confederate soldiers. Players were vocal about wanting to see the monument removed or relo- cated this summer.
Players posted videos from the event. In one video the team chanted "Black Lives Matter" and "Hands up,
The Los Angeles Lakers earned a series win on Satur- day night, and Charles Barkley earned himself some cash.
The Lakers beat the Port- land Trail Blazers 131-122 in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series in Orlando, Fla. LeBron James and An- thony Davis were monsters in the win.
James had 36 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, ex- tending his NBA record with his 13th 30-point playoff triple- double, according to TNT. Davis scored 43 points on 14- of-18 shooting and made four of six 3-pointers.
Barkley originally pre- dicted on TNT that the Blazers would sweep the Lakers after winning Game 1 of the series. So after the Lakers won Game 2, Shaquille O’Neal snapped Barkley’s sweep broom.
LeBron James had 36 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, extending his NBA record with his 13th 30-point playoff triple-double.
Shaq repeated the stunt again on Saturday night and then challenged Barkley to break a broom for $100,000. He came through.
That was easy money for Barkley, and a smooth path to series victory for the Lakers after dropping the first game of the series.
Dies At 53
Ole Miss football players protesting on the morning of Aug. 28, 2020.
don't shoot" as some players raised their fists in the air.
In a video posted by tight end Kenny Yeboah, defen- sive end Ryder Anderson gave a passionate speech where he said: "We're out here for something bigger than the statue. We're out here because we're dying."
John Thompson, Coach
Who Built Georgetown
Basketball Into National
Power, Dies At 78
JOHN THOMPSON, JR.
Legendary Georgetown coach John Thompson, Jr., known simply as "Big John" throughout college basketball, has died at age 78.
Thompson, who led Georgetown to the 1984 na- tional championship, built the program into a juggernaut, taking the Hoyas to three Final Fours in the 1980s while also winning seven Big East titles and leading the 1988 United States national team to a bronze medal in the Olympics.
"We are heartbroken to share the news of the passing of our father, John Thomp-
son, Jr.," the Thompson family said in a statement re- leased by Georgetown. "Our father was an inspiration to many and devoted his life to developing young people not simply on, but most impor- tantly, off the basketball court. He is revered as a his- toric shepherd of the sport, dedicated to the welfare of his community above all else.”
Thompson's coaching legacy includes the recruit- ment and development of four players in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo and Allen Iverson.
"This is a person that, when I came to college -- I was 18 -- helped me to grow," Ewing, the current George- town coach, said during Big East media day last October. "Even though my mom and dad were always there, he was always a person I could pick up the phone and call if I had a problem or if I had a ques- tion."
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