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LeBron James moved to New York this offseason, but Madison Square Garden made it crystal clear he is not welcome. During Tuesday night's Knicks banner-raising ceremony, the crowd broke into a full-throated chant of "we don't want you" while LeBron stood at the free-throw line. The Sixers won the game, which only sharpened the sting for New York fans already uneasy about the city's most complicated new resident.
Meanwhile, down in Gqeberha, Australia's batting order fell apart in stunning fashion against South Africa. Dismissed for just ninety-nine runs, the Aussies were forced to follow on for only the third time in thirty-eight years. Marco Jansen was the wrecker-in-chief, taking five for thirty-three, while South Africa sit on four hundred twenty-five declared. Australia trail by four hundred twenty-two runs with the match still alive. It is a stark, ugly collapse from a side that expects far more of itself.
And in college football, Oklahoma is standing firm behind quarterback John Mateer despite a painful home loss to Kentucky. Offensive coordinator Ben Arbuckle is owning the turnover problems, calling the mistakes backbreaking and catastrophic. Mateer threw for two hundred seventy yards but the Sooners offense still sputtered. The question now is whether Arbuckle's adjustments come fast enough to matter.
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