Sports Poets Society

En seize mois, Stan Kroenke, propriétaire multimilliardaire des Nuggets, a gagné la finale NBA, après le Super Bowl avec les Rams et la Coupe Stanley avec l’Avalanche. 14 Jun 2023 - L'Équipe DE NOTRE ENVOYÉ SPÉCIAL LOÏC PIALAT DENVER (USA) – Et « Stan le silencieux » a parlé. C’est la rançon du succès pour Stanley Kroenke (75 ans), le peu loquace propriétaire des Denver Nuggets. Comme le veut la tradition des sports américains, celui qui signe les chèques a touché le trophée avant tout le monde et été le premier à s’exprimer sur la scène installée sur le parquet. «Les fans dans cette ville sont incroyables, ça veut dire beaucoup pour nous d’avoir gagné » , a-t-il soufflé dans l’oreille de Lisa Salters, journaliste d’ESPN. Il devrait avoir l’habitude pourtant. Le multimilliardaire cumule les triomphes depuis un an et demi. En février 2022, ses Los Angeles Rams ont remporté le Super Bowl, en NFL. Quatre mois plus tard, c’était au tour du Colorado Avalanche, son équipe de NHL, de soul...

Touted big man a no-brainer for Spurs with top pick By ZACH BRAZILLER zbraziller@nypost.com 11 Jun 2023 - New York Post ONE OF the more intriguing NBA drafts in memory is less than two weeks away. To get you prepared for the festivities at Barclays Center, The Post’s Zach Braziller takes a swing at how he sees the first round going: Spurs 1 - Victor Wembanyama, France (F, 7-4, 230 pounds) Some experts have declared Wembanyama the best draft prospect ever — unprecedented hype in which anything but a Hall of Fame career would be a letdown. At the least, he’s the best since LeBron James broke into the league two decades ago. Hornets 2  - Brandon Miller, Alabama (F, 6-9, 200) There really is no wrong choice here for the Hornets. Scoot Henderson and Miller would be No. 1 picks most years. All the buzz has Charlotte going with the better fit in the uber-talented 6-foot-9 Miller, since LaMelo Ball is already entrenched as the franchise’s point guard. Trail Blazers 3 - Scoot Henderson, G-L...

Trent’anni fa, a causa di un tragico incidente stradale, moriva a soli 28 anni Dražen Petrović, molto probabilmente il più forte cestista europeo della storia di STEFANO MARELLI 7 giugno 2023 - la Regione Robert Redford, Sam Mendes e Mark Wahlberg, per motivi da loro stessi definiti men che futili, la mattina dell’11 settembre 2001 decisero in extremis di non salire sugli aerei che avrebbero dovuto prendere, tutti destinati a schiantarsi negli attentati contro le Torri Gemelle o contro il Pentagono. Il destino volle dunque che quei capricci dell’ultimo minuto salvassero la vita alle tre star hollywoodiane. Qualche anno prima invece, il 7 giugno del 1993 , Dražen Petrović scelse – quando si trovava già nella sala d’imbarco – di salutare i compagni di squadra e di uscire dall’aeroporto di Francoforte per rientrare a Zagabria, invece che volando, sull’auto guidata da Klara, la sua ragazza . E anche quella volta il fato – proprio come fece coi tre cineasti...

https://www.tycsports.com/al-angulo/carlos-carpaneto-banfield-historia-periodista-director-de-futbol-id389198.html "Acá somos como el productor agropecuario, mientras sembramos somos austeros con lo que comemos, pero cuando cosechamos nos ordenamos económicamente”, cuenta Carlos Carpaneto. Germán Bellizzi  - 08/11/2021 12:44 pm Su rutina durante mucho tiempo estuvo ligada al periodismo. Desde chico supo que quería dedicarse a la Comunicación. En él no hubo crisis vocacional, ya que su sueño era ser periodista. Estudió para esto y tuvo la posibilidad de trabajar por más de 20 años en distintos medios. Hasta que un día aceptó la convocatoria para cumplir un rol dirigencial en Banfield, el club de sus amores. Es que sus raíces tienen que ver con Peña y Arenales: su abuelo, su papá y su hermano mayor lo hicieron hincha del Taladro. El protagonista de esta nota es Carlos Carpaneto, actual Director de Fútbol Profesional de Banfield. Producto de su nueva función, ahora es quien recibe la...

https://www.denverpost.com/2009/07/01/theres-only-one-no-7-in-colorado-and-its-not-chauncey/ By THE DENVER POST | newsroom@denverpost.com PUBLISHED: July 1, 2009 at 6:13 p.m. | UPDATED: May 6, 2016 at 9:34 p.m. PARKER — One by one, the kids at Parker Fieldhouse strode to the table where a Chauncey Billups autograph awaited them on Wednesday. Close examination revealed that Billups’ beard isn’t the only new thing about the Nuggets leader. Billups signed some of the autographs “Chauncey Billups #1” — the new number on his Nuggets jersey next season. The superstar guard is letting go of No. 7, which was good to him last season in his return to Denver. Billups chose No. 7 as a tribute to former Broncos quarterback John Elway, a man he idolized growing up in Denver. Elway introduced Billups to the Pepsi Center crowd on May 3, prior to a Nuggets-Mavericks playoff game. “It was in the plan the whole time,” Billups said. “I just felt like No. 7 was great for me. . . . But there’s really just ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/sports/basketball/24billups.html “It’s a dream come true,” Billups said about returning to Denver in an early-season trade for Allen Iverson. “On all levels of my life, it’s just awesome.” By John Branch The New York Times - May 23, 2009 DENVER -- The basketball courts were about a mile from the tidy brick house on Poplar Street, where Ray Billups, Chauncey’s father, was mowing the lawn Friday afternoon. The streets run in alphabetical order, two for every letter, and when Chauncey Billups was a boy he could be heard coming and going to Skyland Recreation Center on Holly Street . The bounce, bounce, bounce of his basketball was part of the Park Hill neighborhood’s daily rhythm section. Between games, he would walk a few doors up to his grandparents’ house for refreshment . Or he would visit his other grandparents, a block over on Ivanhoe Street . The trip to Billups’s basketball playground is longer now, but not by much. The Nuggets play in an arena a...

MATTHEW STOCKMAN/GETTY IMAGES Miami’s Gabe Vincent was relentless as he  battled  Denver’s Jamal Murray for the ball during Game 2. Denver puts on a show; Miami puts up a fight by JERRY BREWER 6 Jun 2023 - The Washington Post Denver — Through two games, it’s clear the Denver Nuggets are better than the Miami Heat . And how much does that matter? Way less than you would think. This is not a basketball beauty pageant . The NBA Finals will be decided, as Heat Coach Erik Spoelstra keeps preaching, within those four lines on the court . The dimensions resemble a rectangle, but the way Miami competes, it seems like the UFC octagon. The Heat players are fighters , and they scrap with their minds and skills as much as their physicality. The Nuggets are taller and more versatile, longer and more explosive . They have Nikola Jokic, currently the best player in the world . But as Miami showed during a 111-108 road victory Sunday in Game 2 to even the series, such logic means nothing. The...

Calme, tranquille... Sorti d’une longue année de galères où il n’a eu d’autre choix que de laisser passer les critiques, le Francais de Soudal-Quick Step a signé son retour en décrochant hier la deuxième étape du Dauphiné, à moins d’un mois du Tour. “Cette victoire, c’est la preuve que j’ai la tête dure      - JULIAN ALAPHILIPPE 6 Jun 2023 - L'Équipe DE NOTRE ENVOYÉ SPÉCIAL GAÉTAN SCHERRER  Un long cri de rage et des premiers mots tout simples, si spontanés, à l’adresse de son équipier Florian Sénéchal en fond de ligne – « pouah, je suis trop content » – ont marqué hier le retour au premier plan du plus grand distributeur de frissons du cyclisme français ces dernières années. En levant les bras hier à La Chaise-Dieu, petit bourg perché sur un promontoire de granit à plus de 1000 m d’altitude, Julian Alaphilippe a fait étalage de sa puissance retrouvée, mis du baume sur les plaies laissées par quinze mois de malheurs et profité pour adresser coquinement, en baissant s...

Miami finds its range in Game 2, hands Denver first home playoff loss Heat draws even with Nuggets at a game apiece by BEN GOLLIVER 5 Jun 2023 - The Washington Post Denver — The Miami Heat made Michael Malone’s worst fears come true, pouring in open threepointers as the inattentive Denver Nuggets couldn’t find an answer. In the aftermath of the Nuggets’ resounding win in Game 1 of the NBA Finals, the Denver coach spent more time worrying about his team’s porous perimeter defense than he did celebrating . Sure enough, the Heat’s shooters, cold throughout the opener, came alive in a 111-108 victory in Game 2 on Sunday night at Ball Arena to even the series at a game apiece. “If we would have won this game tonight, we would have stolen one,” Malone said. “The threepoint line was a huge concern coming in. Tonight, the Heat buried us.” During a grinding contest in which the re-energized Heat jumped out to a hot start and finished strong, Miami’s shooters, who went cold in Game 1, roared ba...

Competitive balance benefits playoffs, but what about the regular season? Enhanced NBA competition is refreshing, but parity has a few issues Jerry Brewer 5 Jun 2023 - The Washington Post Denver — For the fifth straight season, the NBA will crown a new champion . Keep up the madness, and even the Charlotte Hornets will need to keep their June schedule open. The pursuit of sustained competitive balance might be the greatest experiment in league history . The character-driven sport didn’t need it to become a global success, but the superteam era made rival franchises determined to codify parity . A half-decade into the massive shift, change feels strangely normal. As the first-timer Denver Nuggets and the eighth-seeded Miami Heat tussle for glory, the NBA Finals are neither the sexiest matchup nor the Connecticut-San Diego State insomnia fest that ended this year’s anarchic NCAA men’s tournament. There are superstars who belong on this stage, diverse playing styles and storylines that c...

Ilkay  Gündoğan  was voted in as Manchester City’s captain by his teammates,  which speaks volumes  He is no stranger to giving others the floor, flashier or more prolific names often stealing the show Nick Ames 5 Jun 2023 - The Guardian It might have felt slightly too good to be true for Ilkay Gündoğan when, in the 71st minute of the FA Cup final, he gobbled up a rebound to beat David de Gea for the third time that afternoon . He wheeled away anyway but the flag went up immediately and there were no complaints from the scorer, who smiled knowingly and could reflect that he had not quite returned quickly enough from an offside position.  Stan Mortensen’s record as the only player to complete a hat-trick in this fixture at Wembley was preserved and it was one of those rare moments, in recent months, when  Gündoğan ’s timing had erred from perfection. Everything else has met the moment and there is something poetic about the transformation of Pep Guardiola’s...

Imperious Spain midfielder is key to Guardiola’s treble chasers with European success the last leg of journey ‘I’ve never played better. I feel in the best moment.  I try to grow every game, try to learn’ David Hytner 5 Jun 2023 - The Guardian Rodri has the gleaming gold of an FA Cup winners’ medal around his neck and the lettering on his dark Manchester City T-shirt frames it all: “June 3rd 2023. CUP WINNERS. Kings of the City.”  It is Saturday evening at Wembley and what most people had foreseen – and not just the City kit guys – has come to pass. With Rodri imperious in midfield again, luxuriating in the form of his life, City have beaten Manchester United to complete the league and Cup Double. It is a sensational achievement and yet one which nobody has properly stopped to acknowledge. That is because City are not finished. They are the kings of England for the fifth time in six seasons and how their supporters enjoyed letting everybody know that Manchester was blue after...