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That was the goal of every NBA team, and with good reason. The former Duke star and presumptive has an uncanny skill set that combine athleticism, hoops IQ and a preternatural calm TOP DRAFT PICK JULY 2025 • SI .COM • 25 photograph by CLAY PATRICK MCBRIDE txt by CHRIS MANNIX In April, minutes after Duke’s collapse in the NCAA semifinal against Houston, a contingent of Blue Devils motored down a back hall of the Alamodome on a golf cart. Coach Jon Scheyer, flanked by freshman wing Kon Knueppel, was stuffed in the middle row. As the cart hummed down the quiet hallway, Cooper Flagg appeared on the back, still in his sweat-soaked uniform, staring vacantly in the direction he came. The images, captured by dozens of camera phones, quickly went viral. Flagg can’t recall what he was thinking in that moment. Just that, whatever it was, he didn’t want anyone to know it. “It was an incredible season,” Flagg later told reporters. “Didn’t end the way we wanted to.” Weeks later Flagg still struggles...

Le 11 juillet, le Tour de France traversera Yffiniac, dans les Côtes-d’Armor, le village natal de Bernard Hinault. Quels souvenirs y a laissés le quintuple vainqueur de l’épreuve ? “Il était mignon.  Et pas fainéant avec son vélo.  Il gagnait tout le temps"    - MARIE-THÉRÈSE,  HABITANTE  D’YFFINIAC 1 Jul 2025 - L'Équipe YOHANN HAUTBOIS (TEXTE) PIERRE LAHALLE (PHOTOS) YFFINIAC (CÔTES-D’ARMOR) – Pendant des années, on a entendu parler d’Yffiniac, sans jamais y avoir mis les pieds, bien que la maison familiale se trouve à un peu plus d’une heure de route. Savoir cette commune si proche suffisait à notre bonheur dans la mesure où on l’associait à Bernard Hinault. Le champion l’a placée sur la carte de France et « peut-être du monde » , ajoute en souriant Michel Hinault. L’ancien maire de ce village de 4500 habitants est le cousin germain – « par nos mamans, des Guernion qui étaient soeurs, mais nos pères étaient cousins germains » – et il peut témoigner, au gr...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUaL1KW_Ag0 By Sam Goldaper March 22, 1979 The New York Times Archives March 22, 1979, Section D, Page 17 A 20‐foot jump shot by Butch Carter with 4 seconds left enabled Indiana to edge Purdue, 53‐52, in the final round of the National Invitation Tournament last night before a crowd of 14,889 at Madison square Garden. Before the Hoosiers' victory brought their season won‐lost mark to 22‐12. Alabama defeated Ohio State, 96‐86, for third‐place honors. Carter's basket earned him a share of the most‐valuable‐player honors with his teammate, Ray Tolbert. Ironically, the 6‐foot‐5‐inch Carter, a senior backcourt man, could easily have been the goat in a game dominated by tough defense and coaching strategy. It took 8 minutes to play the final 16 seconds, during which six timeouts were called, four by Indiana. With Purdue ahead, 52‐51, and the Hoosiers in a stall for 3 minutes 25 seconds in an effort to get the Boilermakers to come out of their zone defe...

BERNARD HINAULT RÉDACTEUR EN CHEF: «JE ME SERAIS BIEN PASSÉ DE CE RECORD» Pour le quarantième anniversaire de sa cinquième et dernière victoire sur le Tour de France, le Breton de 70 ans pose son regard sur tous les sujets de l’actualité et fait du Slovène Tadej Pogacar le favori de la Grande Boucle, qui s’élancera samedi de Lille. Bernard Hinault ne ressent aucune fierté d’être le dernier Français vainqueur du Tour de France, il y a quarante ans. Très cash sur les chances « nulles » de victoire d’un Tricolore cette année, il cherche à comprendre les raisons de cette longue disette. “Le cyclisme a aussi commencé à se mondialiser.  On n’était plus seuls avec les Belges,  les Italiens et les Espagnols à dominer le cyclisme" “Julian Alaphilippe aurait dû servir d’exemple à pas mal de Français.  On a des puncheurs très performants capables de gagner des classiques.  Pourquoi les brider à viser un top 10 du Tour?" “Lui ( Tadej Pogacar), il aborde en plus le Tour  ave...

Il celebre bacio della vittoria sul Giappone scattato da Alfred Eisenstaedt a Times Square  il 14 agosto 1945: nella foto divenuta icona immortalati un marinaio e un'infermiera  durante i festeggiamenti per la fine della guerra  © Alfred Eisenstaedt / The LIFE Picture Collection / Shutterstock  ©RIPRODUZIONE RISERVATA. Ottant'anni fa la foto scattata a Times Square da Alfred Eisenstaedt alla fine della guerra Storia, non senza colpi di scena, di un'icona MICHELE SMARGIASSI La Repubblica  Lunedì 30 Giugno 2025  Pagina 32 Spiace per Humphrey Bogart e Ingrid Bergman, ma un bacio non è mai solo un bacio. Soprattutto se ambisce a diventare il bacio per antonomasia, l'icona del baciare, l'epitome della bacità. Gara non semplice, da Hayez in poi. Compirà fra poco ottant'anni uno dei pretendenti più accreditati al trono; il VJ-Day Kiss di Alfred Eisenstaedt , il bacio appassionato fra il marinaretto e la crocerossina, sorpreso in mezzo a una Times Square in festa d...

HIGH STANDARDS Under Popovich, the Spurs could be creative,  versatile  and even unpredictable on offense,  but a commitment to tough D was nonnegotiable. When he became the Spurs’ coach three decades ago, no one imagined would be one of the NBA’s defining figures. As he steps away, raise a glass—a nice Château d’Yquem, ideally—to a man whose impact goes far beyond wins and rings by Jack McCallum photograph by Greg Nelson Sports Illustrated - July 2025 THE NBA was in a transitional state when Gregg Popovich was named general manager of the San Antonio Spurs before the 1994–95 season, a transaction that was big news only in Alamo City. The holy triumvirate upon which the NBA had built its brand over the past decade was gone: Michael Jordan to minor league baseball, Larry Bird to the Celtics’ front office, Magic Johnson to a kind of purgatory owing to his HIV-positive condition. With those exits (Jordan returned for five complete seasons, as we all know, and Magic had a...