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Mike Krzyzewski, the Duke University coach who guided the US collection of NBA stars to three Olympic and two world titles, underwent successful lower back surgery Friday, the school announced. Krzyzewski, who turns 70 next month, had a fragment of a herniated disc removed at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, and is expected to spend the next four weeks recovering. "Coach K" has a 1,056-323 record over more than 41 seasons, the first five at Army before taking over the Blue Devils in 1980 and guiding Duke to five national titles, the most recent in 2015. Continue to Article

January 06, 2017 3:03:pm EST

Mike Krzyzewski, the Duke University coach who guided the US collection of NBA stars to three Olympic and two world titles, underwent successful lower back surgery Friday, the school announced. Krzyzewski, who turns 70 next month, had a fragment of a herniated disc removed at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina, and is expected to spend the next four weeks recovering. "Coach K" has a 1,056-323 record over more than 41 seasons, the first five at Army before taking over the Blue Devils in 1980 and guiding Duke to five national titles, the most recent in 2015. Continue to Article

January 06, 2017 3:03:pm EST

Matt Bonner has retired from professional basketball. The longtime San Antonio Spurs sharpshooter, who was working in 2016-17 without an NBA team, decided to announce the news via his new Twitter page on Friday in the form of a video. Continue to Article

January 06, 2017 2:28:pm EST

Kawhi Leonard identifies another player to boss around. Kawhi Leonard does not need to do much to convince people he’s an elite defender. The San Antonio Spurs superstar has won the NBA’s last two Defensive Player of the Year awards, gets plenty of notice as the league’s unofficial best perimeter defender, and takes his man out of the game so effectively that he arguably makes it harder for the other four players to defend as a team. Continue to Article

January 06, 2017 2:13:am EST

Mariah Carey performs in Michael Jordan’s Washington Wizards jersey at halftime of the 2003 All-Star Game. In the perfect ending to 2016, Mariah Carey suffered an epic fail of a performance on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest,” as she talked over technical problems while the background tracks of her decades-old No. 1 singles “Emotions” and “We Belong Together” played to the hundreds of thousands gathered in Times Square for the ball drop and millions more watching at home. It took less than 24 hours for the Indiana Pacers to launch a “lip sync cam” set to Carey’s “Emotions,” with fans at Bankers Life Fieldhouse trying to sing along to the song, just as the rangy pop queen did. Continue to Article

January 04, 2017 1:48:pm EST