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Craig Sager was a king who dressed like a court jester and mixed with royalty and commoners alike.He also was a reporter. Lets not forget that.It will get lost amid all the tributes and colorful video now that he succumbed to cancer, but Sager could gather information and tell stories with the best of them.We were both covering an NBA playoff game in Denver in 2012, when a woman wandered onto the court while the ball was in play. By the time I made my way from my seat down to the court level to poke around and learn more, Sager had already spoken to police and arena personnel and had all of the details and background. Then Sager, being Sager, proceeded to share everything he knew with me. He had provided his update on air, so he was willing to help out another reporter working for another company.Id like to think this was because of our Northwestern bond (he was class of 1973; I was 1992), but he probably would have done it for anybody. He saw everyone who was in and around the league as part of the NBA family. That included the fans, for whom he always took time to take pictures and talk NBA.Ive known him for much of the time Ive been covering the NBA. To have gone to big games over the past 2? decades was to have spent time with Sager. It doesnt feel like our friendship evolved over that time, because it seemed like he was as warm and friendly with me from the beginning as he was so many years and job changes (for me) later.But outside of Sagers wife and children, his colleagues at Turner Sports were closest to him, and they are feeling his loss in ways the rest of us cant imagine.He never had a bad day, Turner Sports Vice President of Talent Relations Tara August said via text message. He once drove me around the ropes in a golf cart at the PGA Championship and told me the entire story of how he fell in love with Stacy on their first date and slept on her couch until she fell in love with him. He always had a story.August doles out the assignments for Turners on-air talent. She bosses around the likes of Charles Barkley and Shaquille ONeal, gets them to move at her whim in a way that a generation of NBA big men failed to do. (Shaq jokingly calls her She-del Castro.) Their obedience often comes with a lot of grumbling. That wasnt the case with Sager.I loved him very much. He was always great to me, August said. Never complained about working a game, no matter how big or small.For one game, we at ESPN called Sager a colleague. Turner loaned him to the Mouse to give him the chance to work Game 6 of the NBA Finals in June.?We should elevate Sagers performance alongside LeBrons when we look back on the 2016 Finals. The reason Sager couldnt work the earlier games -- the guaranteed games -- was because he was getting eight days of chemotherapy treatment in Houston. He came back from eight days of poisonous IVs to do his job when it was an optional assignment. In the ranking of gutsy Finals performances, Im going with Sager grabbing the mic first, Willis Reed limping out of the tunnel second.To see that man ... , said Doris Burke, ESPNs sideline reporter for the series who gladly shared duties with Sager for this special event, with those marks on his face -- lesions, whatever they were -- to know he had to be in extraordinary pain, and to fight through that and to want to be a part of an NBA game. ...If that doesnt tell you about the passion and the drive he had for what he did, I dont know what could.It makes those of us who do NBA sideline reporting more appreciative of what we do. But his mere existence was a little intimidating, because we knew wed never match up to him. Only Sager was getting a hug and a love ya from Pop.Burke had long admired Sagers work from afar and had a unique understanding of how good he was from having done the same job herself.He had such great love for the game of basketball that it allowed him to pull off the outlandish clothing and giant personality, while still commanding the utmost respect from every player and every coach, Burke said. I dont know if people understand how hard that is to do. Theres only one person that I know thats been able to do it, and thats him.When she walked around Quicken Loans Arena with Sager, it reminded Burke of entering an NBA building with Hubie Brown. There was a similar reverence from everyone they came across. Then she saw Sager go to work in the pregame meetings with the coaches.It probably shouldnt have surprised me, but he took it so seriously, Burke said. He embraced the opportunity to work a Finals game. He went into work mode, but it was really cool for me to watch him in work mode. My man started firing questions, and they were all on point. For somebody I had watched work for so long and who I had admired for so long, it was an incredibly special chance to watch him do the behind-the-scenes work.Ive been fortunate enough to see the non-work side of Sager as well. You could usually find him at the bar following the game. Or the night before the game.?One of my enduring memories of Sager comes from after the 2008 All-Star Game in New Orleans. Sunday night had turned into Monday morning, and I had an early flight looming. We crossed paths on Canal Street, chatted a bit, and then I called it a night, while Sager, 19 years my elder, marched off into the French Quarter to see what awaited.Thats the way I prefer to think of him now. Not departed, but moving on, in search of another adventure, in search of another story.Kwon Alexander 49ers Jersey .Y. - Nelson Mandela will be honoured by the New York Yankees with a plaque in Monument Park. 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Laudrup revealed Thursday he was notified of his dismissal in "the briefest of letters which gave no reasons why such hasty and final action was deemed necessary.CHENEY, Wash. -- Beau Baldwin could not remember ever being a part of a playoff shutout.In college football these days that doesnt happen, Baldwin, the Eastern Washington coach, said.His Eagles came close last week, when they held Central Arkansas scoreless after the first quarter. But Saturday, Gage Gubrud finished 21 for 32 for 287 yards and three touchdowns, all three in the first half, to lead the second-seeded Eagles past Richmond 38-0 in the FCS quarterfinals on Saturday.EWU forced five turnovers and scored on all five trips to the red zone.Samson Ebukam finished with eight tackles (four for loss), an interception and a forced fumble and Cooper Kupp had six receptions for 128 yards and a touchdown for the Eagles. Kupp became college footballs all-time leading receiver with 6,284 yards, passing Chris George of NAIA Glenville State (1991-1994).Richmond fumbled four times in the first half and Eastern Washington went up 21-0 at halftime.I dont think Ive been a part of a playoff shutout in my life, let alone if you really think about it thats seven quarters of scoreless football by our defense, Baldwin said.The Eagles (12-1) scored first midway through the first quarter when Gubrud found Nsimba Webster for a 7-yard touchdown pass. The touchdown came eight plays after EWU safety Mitch Fettig forced a fumble at the Spiders 45-yard line.Gubrud hit Kupp for 68 yards after eluding a safety after a Spiders punt pinned Eastern on its 8. Kupp left the game momentarily after being hit, then returned to catch a 20-yard touchdown pass to put the Eagles up 14-0 with 7:45 left in the second quarter.One play after Jonah Jordan recovered an unforced Richmond fumble at opposing 23 Gubrud hit Shaq Hill for a touchdown with 5:35 to go in the half.Four of five Richmond first half drives ended in a fumble.I felt we had a good plan for the game on both sides of the ball. Early on we really couldnt get a break, we turned the ball over four times in the firrst half, Richmond coach Danny Rocco said.dddddddddddd When it was all said and done I think it was a little too much to ever really overcome.The Eagles scored twice on the ground in the second half, one from Jabari Wilson and the other from Antoine Custer Jr.Offensively on a day thats tough, its cold, were just executing and taking care of the football, grinding out drives, hitting plays when we need to, Baldwin said. Sometimes when youre up 21-0 it can be really easy to take, not purposefully, a little gasp and wait for the game to finish and our offense went right down and scored on that first drive of the second half.Richmond quarterback Kevin Johnson went 20 for 31 for 157 yards and an interception. He was sacked six times in his third start. Johnson burned a redshirt on the last game of the regular season after the Spiders starter Kyle Lauretta suffered a season-ending knee injury,BIG PICTURERichmond: The Spiders (10-4) are one of three FCS schools to play in the quarterfinals in each of the last two season. The Eagles are the second Big Sky team Richmond faced in as many weeks, as it came back from 17 down to defeat North Dakota in the second round of the playoffs.Eastern Washington: Two Eagles, senior wide receiver Cooper Kupp and sophomore quarterback Gage Gubrud, and were named Big Sky Conference co-MVPs this week. The same two led the charge Saturday. Kupp is the fourth player in conference history to be named first team all-league four years in a row.GOOSE EGGSEastern Washington shutout an opponent for the first time since Sept. 19, 2009, when it defeated Northern Colorado 16-0. The Spiders were last shutout on Oct. 9, 2010 against New Hampshire.UP NEXTEastern Washington plays Youngstown State in the FCS semifinals at Roos Field on either Friday, Dec. 16 at 4 p.m. or Saturday, Dec. 17 at 3:30 p.m.Cheap Jerseys China NFL Jerseys[/u6-0. The Spiders were last shutou Jerseys ' ' '