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The doors of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame will swing open today to welcome Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant. Bryant, who played 20 years for the Lakers, is the fourth all-time leading scorer in the National Basketball Assn. He had 33,643 points in his career, with 60 of them coming in his final…

Phil Niekro, the only knuckleball pitcher to win 300 Major League Baseball games, died in his sleep Saturday night after a long battle with cancer, the Atlanta Braves announced. He was 81. Niekro pitched for 24 seasons, with the first 20 of them as a Brave before moving on to the New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays…

New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford, a Hall of Famer and the all-time victories leader for the team and World Series hurlers, died at age 91, the team announced. A family member told The Associated Press on Friday that Ford died at his Long Island home Thursday night. Ford had dementia for the last few years and died…

Tom Seaver, who was known as “The Franchise” during his time pitching for the New York Mets, has died. He was 75 and passed away in his sleep from complications of dementia and Lyme disease, according to the Mets. "We are heartbroken to share that our beloved husband and father has passed away," wife Nancy Seaver…

President Donald Trump knows that pitchers and catchers report soon. So he’s thumping the tub for one all-time great to be reinstated to Major League Baseball. Because of the recent sign-stealing scandals involving tainted championships by the Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox, a new clamor has arisen to get Rose…

Lamar Jackson's debut as a member of the Baltimore Ravens flew high and not so high last night for the quarterback in the NFL Hall of Fame game's unofficial start to a new season of football but ratings for the NBC broadcast match-up with the Chicago Bears definitely went down. With a 4.7/9 in metered market results…

The National Football League’s pre-season kicked off tonight with the annual Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio. The big winner may be the NFL, as no national anthem protests were observed. The Chicago Bears and Baltimore Ravens players all stood for the song at the game’s start. The NFL has recently said it would not…