LOS ANGELES — Former CNN communicate display host Larry King has been hospitalized with COVID-19 for greater than every week, the inside track channel reported Saturday. Citing an unidentified particular person with regards to the circle of relatives, CNN stated the 87-year-old King is present process remedy at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Hospital protocols have saved King’s members of the family from visiting him. The Peabody Award-winning broadcaster was once amongst America’s maximum outstanding interviewers of celebrities, presidents and different newsmakers right through a half-century occupation that integrated 25 years with a nightly display on CNN. He has had scientific problems in fresh a long time, together with middle assaults and diagnoses of diabetes and lung most cancers. Last 12
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Baseball Hall of Fame: Derek Jeter and Larry Walker elected
Derek Jeter’s passage into baseball’s Hall of Fame was as brisk and predictable as Larry Walker’s was arduous and dramatic. The final of the New York Yankees’ single-digit legends, Jeter on Tuesday simply missed changing into the second participant shipped off to Cooperstown in unanimous style, receiving 396 of 397 votes in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Teammate Mariano Rivera was the primary unanimous choice final yr. Walker, whose climb to the 75 % vote whole required for induction seemed not possible simply three years in the past, earned 76.6 % of the vote — getting in by 10 votes — incomes induction in his 10th and ultimate look on the poll.
Larry Bird, Robert Kraft Receive Standing Ovations At Celtics Game
BOSTON — Sunday afternoon was all concerning the Boston Celtics and Indiana Pacers’ first recreation of the NBA Playoffs — aside from a pair temporary moments. Celtics followers couldn’t ignore the truth that legend Larry Bird was within the constructing when his face popped up on TD Garden’s jumbotron early within the third quarter. Bird, who at the moment serves as president of basketball operations for the Pacers, smiled sheepishly on the digital camera earlier than standing and waving to the adoring crowd. TD Garden rapidly erupted with cheers. But Bird wasn’t the one acquainted face at Sunday’s recreation. Robert Kraft was in attendance, too. Kraft’s face additionally ended up on ... NESN.com
Kobe Bryant Kicks Larry Nance Jr. Off Bench, Makes Rookie Sit On Floor (Video)
When you’ve accomplished as much as Kobe Bryant, you earn the right to pull rank every once in a while. That’s exactly what Bryant did Tuesday night. The 37-year-old Los Angeles Lakers guard was inactive for his team’s game against the Dallas Mavericks with a sore right shoulder. But Bryant still was at Staples Center, and when he strolled along the sideline in the first quarter to take a seat on the bench, he realized every spot was taken. So, he decided to just kick a teammate out of his seat. That poor teammate was Larry Nance, Jr., the same rookie forward who had to apologize earlier this season for a nasty tweet he