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Liberty part ways with coach Sandy Brondello one season after winning WNBA championship

Liberty part ways with coach Sandy Brondello one season after winning WNBA championship

Just one season after winning a WNBA championship, the New York Liberty are letting go of head coach Sandy Brondello. The franchise announced on Tuesday that it will not renew Brondello’s contract. Brondello learned that she would not be the Liberty’s coach on Tuesday morning, league sources not authorized to discuss the decision publicly told The Athletic, on the same …

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New York Liberty part ways with coach Sandy Brondello

New York Liberty part ways with coach Sandy Brondello

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Liberty will not renew coach Sandy Brondello’s contract for next season, the organization announced Tuesday. Brondello led the Liberty to its first WNBA championship in 2024, but the team struggled with injuries to star players Breanna Stewart, Jonquel Jones and Sabrina Ionescu this year. New York earned the No. 5 seed in the …

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Liberty fire Sandy Brondello just one year after winning WNBA title

Liberty fire Sandy Brondello just one year after winning WNBA title

Just one year after leading the Liberty to a breakthrough WNBA championship, Sandy Brondello is out as head coach. The Liberty fire Brondello, the winningest coach in the franchise’s history, on Tuesday, making the veteran coach the scapegoat for a title defense that fell well short of expectations. New York decided not to renew Brondello’s contract, which expired after this …

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Liberty coach Sandy Brondello out after early playoff exit

Liberty coach Sandy Brondello out after early playoff exit

Sep 23, 2025, 10:59 AM ET The New York Liberty announced that coach Sandy Brondello’s contract was not being renewed on Tuesday, four days after the defending champions were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs. “We would like to thank Sandy Brondello for her everlasting impact,” Liberty GM Jonathan Kolb said in a statement. “Sandy finishes her tenure …

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Alex Jones asks US Supreme Court to hear appeal of $1.4B Sandy Hook award

Alex Jones asks US Supreme Court to hear appeal of .4B Sandy Hook award

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his appeal of the $1.4 billion judgment a Connecticut jury and judge issued against him for calling the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax staged by crisis actors. The Infowars host is arguing that the judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction …

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60 years later, Sandy Koufax’s perfect game is still amazing : NPR

60 years later, Sandy Koufax’s perfect game is still amazing : NPR

Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches to Chris Krug of the Chicago Cubs in the top of the ninth inning, en route to his perfect game in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sept. 9, 1965. Harold P. Matosian/AP hide caption toggle caption Harold P. Matosian/AP LOS ANGELES — For baseball aficionados, the name Sandy Koufax is almost mythical. In …

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Giant sandy ‘slug’ crawls through floodplains in Kazakhstan, but it could soon be frozen in place — Earth from space

Giant sandy ‘slug’ crawls through floodplains in Kazakhstan, but it could soon be frozen in place — Earth from space

A large field of sand dunes located alongside the village of Oyyl in the Kazakh Steppe bears a striking resemblance to a giant slug. (Image credit: NASA/ISS program) QUICK FACTS Where is it? Oyyl dune field, Kazakhstan [49.0485097, 54.776320616] What’s in the photo? A large field of sand dunes in the shape of a slug Who took the photo? An …

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Benches clear after Sandy Alcantara hits Mark Vientos

Benches clear after Sandy Alcantara hits Mark Vientos

NEW YORK — The Mets and Marlins’ benches cleared in the bottom of the seventh inning of Sunday afternoon’s series finale at Citi Field after Mets DH Mark Vientos was hit by a pitch from Miami starter Sandy Alcantara. With the Marlins ahead 5-0 and Alcantara holding the Mets scoreless into the seventh, Alcantara’s running 90.4 mph changeup caught Vientos …

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Here’s how close Hurricane Erin was to being another Sandy – The Washington Post

Here’s how close Hurricane Erin was to being another Sandy  The Washington Post NC Highway 12 on Hatteras reopens after Hurricane Erin’s impact on Outer Banks  WRAL.com Lifeguards in Massachusetts on high alert due to rough seas and rip currents from Hurricane Erin  CBS News Hurricane Erin exits stage right as new systems bubble in Atlantic  Yale Climate Connections Cape Hatteras Motel shares aftermath …

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