(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Boston 107, Minnesota 105 Indiana 115, Washington 103 LA Clippers 125, Philadelphia 99 Miami 123, Dallas 118 (OT) Cleveland 122, Toronto 108 Brooklyn 108, Sacramento 103
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Toronto 3, Utah 2
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Dallas 34, Washington 26 Detroit 24, Indianapolis 6 Kansas City 30, Carolina 27 Final Miami 34 New England 15 Minnesota 30, Chicago 27 (OT) Tampa Bay 30, NY Giants 7 Tennessee 32, Houston 27 Denver 29, Las Vegas 19 Final Green Bay 38 San Francisco 10 Seattle 16, Arizona 6 Philadelphia 37, LA Rams 20
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Wisconsin 81, Pittsburgh 75 Georgia 66, St. John’s 63 Kennesaw St. 79, Rutgers 77
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER Orlando City 1, Atlanta 0 LA Galaxy 6, Minnesota 2
(NEW YORK) — American gymnast Simone Biles has added another title to her resume.
The 11-time Olympic medalist was named Thursday by Sports Illustrated as its 2024 Sportsperson of the Year.
The honor comes after a year in which Biles took the 2024 Paris Olympics by storm, adding four new medals to her collection in team, all-around, vault and floor exercise.
After her performance in Paris, Biles, 27, is now tied for the second-most decorated female gymnast in Olympic history, according to the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.
Biles won three gold medals and a silver medal in Paris just a few years after withdrawing from the team final at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics when she suffered from “the twisties,” a disorienting condition when a gymnast’s mind and body feel dangerously out of sync.
“Simone Biles is Sports Illustrated’s 2024 Sportsperson of the Year because she won gold, and then another gold, and then another; because she changed the face of her sport and the conversations around athletes in general; because she continues to speak out about issues that matter to her,” the magazine wrote of Biles. “And perhaps most of all because after she wondered aloud to [teammate Jordan] Chiles whether she was about to relive the darkest period of her career, she took a deep breath, she saluted the judges and she broke into a run.”
Biles will receive the 2024 Sportsperson of the Year award in person on Jan. 7, when Sports Illustrated holds its annual awards ceremony in Las Vegas.
This year’s ceremony, held at Wynn Las Vegas, will be hosted by actor Keegan-Michael Key.
Sports Illustrated has awarded its Sportsperson of the Year award annually since 1954.
In 2023, the award was presented to University of Colorado head football coach and former NFL star Deion Sanders.
(DALLAS) — Jake Paul won the highly anticipated boxing match on Netflix by unanimous decision 80-72, 79-73, 79-73 as Paul landed 78 punches to Mike Tyson’s 18.
Once known as “The baddest man on the planet,” former heavyweight champion “Iron” Mike Tyson (50-7, 44 knockouts), returned to the boxing ring Friday to take on YouTube star-turned-professional fighter Jake Paul (11-1, seven knockouts).
The two have traded verbal barbs for months ahead of the delayed fight, but things escalated Thursday when video showed the 58-year-old Tyson slapping Paul, 27, in the face during the weigh-in for the prime-time fight.
The Tyson-Paul fight was originally scheduled for July before it was pushed back several months after Tyson had an ulcer issue.
Tyson, 58, tried to push the pace early on in the bout, but Paul was able to overcome the early onslaught and kept hitting the former heavyweight champion with shots from a distance as Tyson slowed down the further the fight went on.
“Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is a once-in-a-lifetime dream matchup and we hope it will be the most-watched boxing event in modern boxing history,” Nakisa Bidarian, founder of Most Valuable Promotions, who is partnering with Netflix to put on the fight, said in a release.
Before the fight, Tyson said he planned to “finish” the “kid” despite the 31-year age gap.
“I’m very much looking forward to stepping into the ring with Jake Paul at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas,” Tyson said in a release. “He’s grown significantly as a boxer over the years, so it will be a lot of fun to see what the will and ambition of a ‘kid’ can do with the experience and aptitude of a GOAT. It’s a full circle moment that will be beyond thrilling to watch; as I started him off on his boxing journey on the undercard of my fight with Roy Jones and now I plan to finish him.”
Paul said Tyson will be his biggest challenge yet.
“It’s crazy to think that in my second pro fight, I went viral for knocking out Nate Robinson on Mike Tyson’s undercard. Now, less than four years later, I’m stepping up to face Tyson myself to see if I have what it takes to beat one of boxing’s most notorious fighters and biggest icons,” Paul said in a statement.
Tyson was heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990 and began his career by winning his first 37 matches. He won his first 19 professional fights by knockout. Tyson’s first loss was a huge upset against Buster Douglas in 1990.
Paul, who began fighting professionally in 2020, has previously defeated UFC star Nate Diaz and MMA fighter and Olympic wrestler Ben Askren. He started his boxing career 6-0 before losing to Tommy Furry in 2023.
