The best of Palm Beach County high school sports: Winter 2024 All-County honorees

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 29, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, High School Sports, Sports.

The winter 2024 All-County honorees, covering top high school athletes from Palm Beach County in basketball, soccer, wrestling, girls weightlifting and cheerleading. The section will be published in the newspaper on Sunday. BOYS BASKETBALL Palm Beach 7A-6A boys basketball player of the year: Hedrens Bartelus, Lake Worth senior Palm Beach 7A-6A boys basketball first team, second team, honorable mention, coach of the year Palm Beach 5A-1A boys basketball player of the year: Ian Smikle, Suncoast senior Palm Beach 5A-1A boys basketball first team, second team, honorable mention, coach of the...

The best of Broward County high school sports: Winter 2024 All-County honorees

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 29, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, High School Sports, Sports.

Here are the winter 2024 All-County honorees, covering top high school athletes from Broward County in basketball, soccer, wrestling, girls weightlifting and cheerleading. The section will be published in the newspaper on Sunday. BOYS BASKETBALL Broward 7A-6A boys basketball player of the year: Jeremy Elyzee, Pembroke Pines Charter senior Broward 7A-6A boys basketball first team, second team, honorable mention, coach of the year Broward 5A-1A boys basketball co-players of the year: Alexander Lloyd, Westminster Academy junior, and Alex Constanza, Westminster Academy sophomore Broward 5A-1A...

FAU hires Baylor associate head coach John Jakus as its coach, gives him 5-year deal

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 28, 2024. Posted in College Sports, FAU Owls, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Sports.

By TIM REYNOLDS (AP Basketball Writer) Florida Atlantic is hiring Baylor associate head coach John Jakus as its coach, a move that comes four days after Dusty May capped his six-year run with the Owls and took over at Michigan. Jakus and the school have agreed on a five-year contract. Financial terms were not immediately released and the school was planning to hold an introductory news conference on Friday. “This program has been in such great hands, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for what Dusty May, his staff, and the players have accomplished,” Jakus said. “FAU has been one of the...

Australian Open champ Sinner advances to third Miami semi in four years in 6-4, 6-2 win over Machac

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 28, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Sports, Tennis.

MIAMI GARDENS — Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner won his 20th match of 2024 to reach the Miami Open semifinals for the third time in the past four years with a 6-4, 6-2 victory over Tomas Machac on Wednesday. Sinner, seeded second, will take on either No. 3 seed Daniil Medvedev or No. 22 seed Nicolas Jarry, who play later. Sinner reached his fourth final four of the season and moved to 20-1 overall. He reached the finals of this event in 2021 and 2023, losing both times. “It was a really tough match, but I was happy about the performance,” Sinner said. Sinner, 22, said Machac served well...

Panthers give up two late goals, fall to Bruins

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 27, 2024. Posted in Florida Panthers, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, NHL, Sports.

By COLBY GUY SUNRISE — Pavel Zacha scored the winning goal with 2:21 to go in regulation and the Boston Bruins defeated the Florida Panthers 4-3 on Tuesday night. The Bruins also broke a tie with Florida atop the Atlantic Division and now hold a two-point lead although the Panthers have played one less game. Charlie McAvoy, David Pastrnak and Trent Frederic also scored for the Bruins and Jeremy Swayman made 18 saves. Evan Rodrigues, Sam Reinhart and Carter Verhaeghe scored for the Panthers while Sergei Bobrovsky made 17 saves. Florida lost for the fifth time in its last six games, going 1-4-1...

Winderman’s view: Heat learn that sometimes we-have-enough isn’t enough

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 27, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Heat, Miami Heat Blog, NBA, Sports.

MIAMI — Observations and other notes of interest from Tuesday night’s 113-92 loss to the Golden State Warriors: – Basically this simple: The Warriors had weapons, the Heat didn’t. – Or at least not enough available. – It’s not that the Heat don’t, just that they weren’t in uniform. – Which kind of matters. – Not only again without Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson and Kevin Love. – But this time without Jimmy Butler, as well, due to illness. – Not exactly how you want to go into it against Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Andrew Wiggins, Draymond Green and the rest of the Warriors who showed up. – Patty...

No Butler and not much of a shot for Heat in 113-92 loss to Curry, Warriors

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 27, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Heat, NBA, Sports.

MIAMI — One team arrived Tuesday night to Kaseya Center fully loaded, the other significantly shorthanded. It played out as expected. On a night the Miami Heat not only were without Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson and Kevin Love, but this time also lacked Jimmy Butler, Erik Spoelstra’s team ultimately was no match for Stephen Curry and his fully ambulatory friends. So Golden State Warriors 113, Heat 92. “We could never get it to the moment of truth,” Spoelstra said. It basically a night of Heat center Bam Adebayo looking for a friend and most of his friendly faces out of view, Butler due to illness,...

Caroline Garcia edges Naomi Osaka to push into fourth-round Miami Open matchup against Coco Gauff

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 25, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Sports, Tennis.

Caroline Garcia defeated Naomi Osaka 7-6 (4), 7-5 on Sunday in a third-round Miami Open match in which the pair combined for 28 aces. Osaka, a four-time Grand Slam champion and one-time South Floridian, came up short despite playing some of her best tennis of the season in Miami. She beat 17th-ranked Elina Svitolina 6-2, 7-6 (5) on Saturday, which was her second win over a top-20 opponent in her previous four matches. Garcia advances to play No. 3 Coco Gauff, the 20-year-old who grew up in Delray Beach, in the fourth round. In other women’s matches, fifth-ranked Jessica Pegula defeated No. 35...

Sam Reinhart scores twice to reach 50 goals, leading Panthers past Flyers 4-1

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 25, 2024. Posted in Florida Panthers, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, NHL, Sports.

By AARON BRACY (Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA — Sam Reinhart scored two goals to reach 50 on the season, Brandon Montour added three assists and the Florida Panthers snapped a four-game losing streak with a 4-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday night. “Very cool,” Reinhart said. “It’s obviously a number I never really thought about.” Vladimir Tarasenko and Carter Verhaeghe also scored for the Panthers, who tied Boston with 97 points atop the Eastern Conference’s Atlantic Division. Florida will host the Bruins on Tuesday night. Bobby Brink scored for the Flyers. “I thought we played...

Winderman’s view: Heat in two nights go from infuriating to inspiring

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on March 25, 2024. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Heat, Miami Heat Blog, NBA, Sports.

MIAMI — Observations and other notes of interest from Sunday night’s 121-84 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers: – This is how the Heat can be both inspiring and infuriating at the same time. – Inspiring because of the bounceback after Friday night’s no-show against the Pelicans. – Infuriating because of losses like that game against New Orleans, when it seemed as if they simply could not be bothered. – A little more of what the Heat offered Sunday, and a little less of what was on display on Friday night, and there wouldn’t be this desperate scramble in the play-in bracket. – No excuses this...

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