PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Luke Clanton could’ve picked anybody. As the star freshman on American Heritage’s varsity boys golf team, Clanton had first dibs in selecting his junior-varsity partner for a big match against the Patriots’ South Florida rival, The Benjamin School. Only Clanton didn’t go with the best available player; he chose instead … Read more
(Grant Thomas/Yahoo Sports Illustrated) In the NBA’s free-agency period of 2016, as Kevin Durant left the Oklahoma City Thunder for the team that had beaten them in the Película del Oeste Conference finals, selecting the Golden State Warriors over the Boston Celtics and other suitors, Al Horford did the opposite. He left the Atlanta Hawks … Read more
Somewhere in the Miami area is a youth football coach who unknowingly fueled the rise of a record-breaking wide receiver. This is the coach who told Jeremiah Smith he didn’t make the Miami Gardens Ravens after the 7-year-old tried out to play football for the first time. Much like the high school baloncesto coach who … Read more
Darius Garland cocked his head to the side, took a second, considered. A statement had been presented to him and discussed with several of his teammates earlier in the day, at morning shootaround ahead of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ season opener one year ago — a binary proposition capping a conversation about the growth of Garland’s … Read more