Brian Martin

2 weeks ago | nba.com | Brian Martin

• Download the NBA App• 2024-25 NBA Awards: Complete coverage• Hustle Award: All-Time WinnersGolden State Warriors forward Draymond Green has been named the winner of the 2024-25 NBA Hustle Award, the league announced on Friday. Green — the 2017 Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year and a finalist again in 2025 – becomes the second former Defensive Player of the Year to win the Hustle Award, joining three-time Hustle winner and 2022 DPOY winner Marcus Smart.

1 month ago | pressenterprise.com | Brian Martin

Aaron Pico ‘starving to show’ what he can do in the UFC The former St. John Bosco High wrestling star fulfills a lifelong dream by signing with the premier MMA promotion

1 month ago | ocregister.com | Brian Martin

Before he was even a teenager, Aaron Pico would sit with his father in the backyard of their Whittier home and regale him with his dreams. “I’d just tell him that I want to be in the UFC one day and a UFC champion. I want to be boxing. Like, I can do it, you know?” Pico remembered in a phone interview Tuesday night. “And my dad would be like, ‘Of course, son, you can do it. You just keep working hard.”But first came combat sports reality, with its set of peaks and valleys.

1 month ago | sports.yahoo.com | Brian Martin

Thanks to "Dallas Day" and the players the Dallas Cowboys are bringing in for their league allotted 30 pre-draft visits, more and more information is rolling in as to which players have piqued their interest in the 2025 NFL Draft set to kick off later this month (April 24-26). With that information, we can more accurately predict their potential draft selections. AdvertisementToday, we attempt to predict what the team would view as being an ideal draft haul in the first three rounds.

1 month ago | ocregister.com | Brian Martin

INGLEWOOD — So much for the rap that Dodgers fans show up late for games. The first “Let’s go, Dodgers!’” chant started about 2:20 a.m. outside the shared reality venue known as Cosm. While the Dodgers were preparing to start their season against the Chicago Cubs nearly 5,500 miles away in Tokyo at 7 p.m. local time Tuesday, hundreds of hardcores lined along District Drive in Inglewood, at a dark and brisk 50 degrees, for what many believed was the next best thing to being there.