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Jon Rothstein: Sources: Florida State's Luke Loucks will hire Jacksonville's Michael Fly, Cal's Amorrow Morgan, and LIU Brooklyn's Gerald Gillion as assistant coaches. Chris Kent --- who was with the Portland Trailblazers --- will serve as assistant coach/Director of Player Development.
Other known WNBA independent expansion candidates -- besides Austin, Nashville and St. Louis -- are Jacksonville and Kansas City. SBJ has learned that Des Moines, the hometown of Fever star Caitlin Clark, has had very informal discussions about pursuing a team at some point -- not in this expansion round -- but has no serious investors and may be priced out by the climbing $200M sales figure. The 15th WNBA franchise in Portland just paid $125M, which now appears to be a bargain.
O'Neal is set to perform in his first competitive match when he teams in All Elite Wrestling with Jade Cargill in a mixed tag to take on Cody Rhodes and Red Velvet at Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday's episode of "Dynamite." The seeds for a feud were set up last November when Cargill appeared on "Dynamite" and trash-talked Rhodes that O'Neal was the real giant-killer of pro wrestling. O'Neal responded on "Inside the NBA" and told Rhodes to name the place.
A UFC fighter and two of his cornermen had tested positive ahead of Saturday’s pay-per-view event in Jacksonville. Hours later, when the situation became known publicly, many people assumed the show would not go on. After all, the NBA immediately shut down in March when Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert became the first of its players to test positive. A zero-tolerance policy is understandable, then and now, but what Silver and UFC President Dana White came to realize is there is also likely no realistic pathway for the return of major sports competition if that is the benchmark.
Even if leagues create a “bubble,” as the UFC did this week in Jacksonville when it took over a hotel, tested everyone upon check-in and held all events at an adjacent arena, there is a good chance someone will test positive, especially when some people are asymptomatic, as Ronaldo “Jacre” Souza and his cornermen were. Without a vaccine, the question isn’t if someone will test positive, it’s what is the plan when someone does.
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Bucks Gaming player Timothy "oLARRY" Anselimo was released from University of Florida Health Jacksonville on Monday after sustaining three gunshot wounds during a mass shooting at a "Madden NFL 19" competition in Jacksonville, Florida, on Aug. 26.
A member of the Milwaukee Bucks' NBA 2K video game team was wounded Sunday in a shooting rampage during a Madden 19 video game tourney in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. Timothy Anselimo, who goes by "Olarry" and "Larry Legend" on the gamer circuit, was among the wounded, a Bucks spokesman said.
Dwyane Wade: It’s so sad hearing about what happened in Jacksonville 🤦🏾♂️. My family thoughts and prayers are with all the love ones!
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Jaren Jackson Jr.: Lots of prayers and love to the Jacksonville community. WE are with you❤️🙏🏾It’s messed up what evil is in this world. Stay strong.
Enes Kanter: What a horrific tragedy today in #Jacksonville My heart goes out to all those affected and theirs families.. 😔💔🙏
Karl-Anthony Towns: Praying for everyone involved in the shooting at the Madden tournament in Jacksonville I can’t believe we have to keep living with tragic violence like this with presumably no solution in sight.
John Denton: .@DukeMBB G Grayson Allen on comparisons to former @OrlandoMagic G JJ Redick, a mentor of his: “I don’t think JJ jumped 40 inches.” Allen hails from Jacksonville and attended Magic preseason games there.
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