NFL-BROWNS-WATSON
Watson settles with 20 girls
HOUSTON (AP) — An lawyer says Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has reached an settlement to settle 20 of the 24 civil lawsuits that had been filed by girls who had accused him of sexual assault and harassment.
However an individual conversant in the NFL’s investigation tells The Related Press that the settlement could not dissuade the NFL from giving him a prolonged suspension.
Watson has been accused by therapeutic massage therapists of harassing or assaulting them throughout appointments when he performed for Houston. The lawyer for all 24 girls stated paperwork has been filed to shut 20 of the instances.
Two separate Texas grand juries declined to indict Watson on felony complaints.
The Browns, who signed the three-time Professional Bowler to a totally assured, five-year, $230 million contract in March, had no speedy touch upon the settlements.
NFL-GRONKOWSKI RETIRES
Rob Gronkowski retires, received’t be a part of Tom Brady for third season
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — 4-time All-Professional tight finish Rob Gronkowski has introduced he’s retiring and received’t be a part of Tom Brady for a 3rd season in Tampa Bay. The jovial four-time Tremendous Bowl champion with the Patriots and Buccaneers thanked his teammates and coaches over time in a put up on Instagram and stated he’s going again to “chilling out.”
The 33-year-old retired in 2019 after 9 seasons with the Patriots. He returned in 2020 when Brady went to Tampa and the shut pals teamed as much as assist the Buccaneers win a Tremendous Bowl in 2021. Gronkowski had 621 catches for 9,286 yards and 92 touchdowns within the common season and 98 receptions for 1,389 yards and 15 TDs within the postseason.
MLB-NEWS
Dodgers add Trayce Thompson
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers have added outfielder Trayce Thompson to the lively roster after buying him from the Detroit Tigers for money. Thompson is the youthful brother of Golden State Warriors star Klay Thompson.
Trayce Thompson returns to the Dodgers after spending components of the 2016 and 2017 seasons with them. He had been at Triple-A Toledo, the place he was batting .299 with eight homers and 19 RBIs in 25 video games. Thompson figures to assist fill the void left by proper fielder Mookie Betts, who’s on the injured checklist with a cracked rib.
Elsewhere within the majors:
— St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Paul Goldschmidt is out of the lineup for the sport in opposition to the Milwaukee Brewers on account of what supervisor Oliver Marmol described as again tightness. Marmol was optimistic this might solely be a one-day challenge. The Cardinals moved Goldschmidt from first base to designated hitter simply earlier than Monday’s sport to attempt to preserve the six-time All-Star off his toes as a lot as attainable. Goldschmidt was named the NL participant of the week Tuesday. He leads the NL in batting common, on-base share and OPS.
— Aid pitcher Albert Abreu is again with the Yankees, two months after he was traded to Texas as a part of the deal that introduced catcher Jose Trevino to New York. The 26-year-old right-hander was claimed off waivers from the Kansas Metropolis Royals. The Yankees opened a roster spot by designating pitcher David McKay for project. Abreu has a 3.46 ERA this season for the Rangers and Royals, permitting 10 hits, three of them homers, in 13 innings with 12 strikeouts and 16 walks.
— Pitcher Max Fried grew to become the fifth member of the World Collection champion Atlanta Braves to go to wage arbitration, asking for $6.85 million whereas the crew argued for $6.6 million. The 28-year-old left-hander was 14-7 with a 3.04 ERA final yr and was 2-2 within the postseason. After shedding Sport 2 of the World Collection in opposition to Houston, Fried pitched six shutout innings in Sport 6 because the Braves received their first title since 1995. Shortstop Dansby Swanson received his case in opposition to the Braves, whereas outfielder Adam Duvall, third baseman Austin Riley and injured reliever Luke Jackson misplaced.
— Main League Baseball is standardizing procedures for rubbing baseballs and their removing from humidors in an effort to ascertain extra consistency amid complaints about slickness that adopted the crackdown on sticky substances. MLB has been engaged on requirements over the course of the season in response to suggestions from gamers and despatched a memorandum outlining the modifications, a duplicate of which was obtained by The Related Press. MLB is mandating a ball be saved in a humidor for at the very least 14 days earlier than sport use, and ball storage have to be recorded in a signed type by the clubhouse supervisor.
GOLF-SAUDI LEAGUE-KOEPKA
Brooks Koepka indicators on with Saudi golf sequence
CROMWELL, Conn. (AP) — The Related Press has discovered Brooks Koepka (KEHP’-kuh) is the newest PGA Tour participant to signal on with the Saudi-backed LIV Golf sequence.
Koepka offers LIV one other massive identify due to his 4 majors. He’s additionally the primary participant who initially denounced the thought of assured cash and restricted fields. Koepka advised the AP in March 2020 that he has a tough time pondering golf ought to be about 48 gamers.
Koepka remains to be listed within the discipline this week on the Vacationers Championship.
GOLF-WOMEN’S PGA
Girls’s PGA Championship doubles prize cash to $9 million
UNDATED (AP) — The KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship is doubling the scale of its purse to $9 million.
It’s one other enhance to the ladies’s sport that brings prize cash for the 5 majors to just about triple the quantity from a decade in the past. It’s additionally a 300 p.c enhance from the 2014 Girls’s PGA Championship. That was the yr earlier than KPMG and the PGA of America partnered with the LPGA Tour. The concept was to extend the prize cash and the profile of the second-oldest LPGA main by taking it to fabled programs.
NHL-STARS-DEBOER
Stars rent 2-time Cup Last coach DeBoer to exchange Bowness
DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Stars have employed Peter DeBoer as their new coach. The transfer comes a month after he was fired by the Vegas Golden Knights after they missed the playoffs for the primary time within the franchise’s five-season historical past. DeBoer beforehand led New Jersey and San Jose to the Stanley Cup Last in his first season with each of these golf equipment.
Dallas was within the Stanley Cup Last two summers in the past with Rick Bowness as their interim head coach earlier than he bought a two-year contract that went by means of this season. Bowness was 89-62-26 with two playoff appearances in his practically three seasons.
Elsewhere within the NHL:
— The Edmonton Oilers have given coach Jay Woodcroft a three-year contract extension for main them to the NHL Western Convention closing. Woodcroft was named the crew’s interim head coach after Dave Tippett was fired in February following a 7-13-3 run that had the Oilers in fifth place within the Pacific Division. The 45-year-old Toronto native led them to a 26-9-3 mark in closing 38 regular-season video games and so they completed second within the Pacific Division. They beat the Kings and Flames within the playoffs earlier than being swept by Colorado within the convention closing.
TENNIS-WIMBLEDON-DRAW
Djokovic, Nadal on reverse sides of the draw for Wimbledon
WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Novak Djokovic (NOH’-vak JOH’-kuh-vich) and Rafael Nadal can be on reverse sides of the draw this time.
The seedings for Wimbledon have been introduced with Djokovic and Nadal being Nos. 1 and a pair of, respectively, within the males’s draw due to the absence of Daniil Medvedev and Alexander Zverev.
The highest-ranked Medvedev of Russia can’t participate on account of the All England Membership’s choice to not enable gamers from Russia or Belarus to enter the occasion over the invasion of Ukraine. The No. 2-ranked Zverev is out due to an ankle harm. Which means Djokovic and Nadal have been bumped as much as being the highest two seeded gamers and can’t now meet till the ultimate.
There can be a 23-time Grand Slam winner within the girls’s attract Serena Williams, however she is not going to be seeded.
TENNIS-EASTBOURNE-WILLIAMS
Serena Williams wins 1st match of comeback
EASTBOURNE, England (AP) — — Serena Williams has received the primary match of her comeback. The 23-time Grand Slam singles champion partnered Ons Jabeur (ahnz jah-BOOR’) to victory over Sara Sorribes Tormo and Marie Bouzkova within the first spherical of the ladies’s doubles on the Wimbledon warmup event on England’s south coast.
Williams and Jabeur recovered from shedding the primary set 6-2 to win the second 6-3 after which the match tiebreaker 13-11 on their third match level.
Williams is assured to have at the very least yet one more aggressive match earlier than enjoying singles at Wimbledon as a wild-card entry. Foremost-draw play on the All England Membership begins Monday.
OSAKA-LEBRON
Naomi Osaka, LeBron James crew up for leisure enterprise
LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeBron James and Naomi Osaka have gotten teammates within the leisure world. Tennis star Osaka and her agent and enterprise associate are forming a media firm known as Hana Kuma in partnership with an organization created by NBA star James and Maverick Carter.
Tuesday’s announcement comes shortly after Osaka and her agent, Stuart Duguid, began an athlete illustration company. The 24-year-old Osaka is a four-time Grand Slam champion who additionally has reached No. 1 within the WTA rankings.
Osaka not too long ago stated she could be skipping Wimbledon for the second yr in a row.
NBA-SUNS-CATO
Suns rent first lady of shade to NBA assistant GM job
PHOENIX (AP) — The Phoenix Suns have employed Morgan Cato as an assistant common supervisor and vp of basketball operations. She turns into the primary lady of shade to carry an assistant GM title for an NBA franchise.
Cato involves Phoenix after spending practically a decade with the NBA league workplace, the place she most not too long ago labored because the affiliate vp of enterprise operations for NBA’s league operations division.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL-MINNESOTA-FOX
Minnesota’s Parker Fox suffers one other offseason knee harm
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota ahead Parker Fox has suffered one other severe knee harm. This places the standing of a possible starter in query for the upcoming season. Coach Ben Johnson introduced the harm occurred throughout summer season follow.
Fox tore the ACL in his left knee in the course of the 2021 offseason and redshirted his first yr with the Gophers. The newest harm was to his proper knee. Fox transferred from Northern State College in South Dakota. He was an NCAA Division II All-American in his third and closing season there.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL-OBIT-SWANIGAN
Coroner: Former Purdue star Caleb Swanigan dies at 25
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Former Purdue basketball star Caleb Swanigan has died at age 25. The Allen County Coroner’s workplace confirmed Tuesday that Swanigan died Monday of pure causes at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The coroner’s workplace senior investigator Rebecca Maze says a personal physician can be dealing with his dying certificates. Purdue Males’s basketball tweeted Tuesday: “Devastated.”
The 6-foot-9 heart was from Fort Wayne and attended Homestead Excessive Faculty earlier than enjoying for the Boilermakers from 2015-2017, the place he averaged greater than 14 factors and 10 rebounds for Purdue. Swanigan was chosen The Related Press participant of the yr within the Huge Ten Convention in 2017 when he averaged greater than 18 factors. He was a first-round draft decide in 2017 by the Portland Path Blazers.
SWIMMING-WORLDS-DRESSEL
Defending champ Dressel drops out of 100 freestyle at worlds
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Two-time world champion Caeleb Dressel just isn’t defending his title within the males’s 100 freestyle on the swimming world championships after withdrawing earlier than the semifinals. Dressel was included within the preliminary begin checklist for Tuesday’s semifinals in Budapest however he was not in an up to date model with reserve Hwang Solar-woo of South Korea taking his place.
U.S. Swimming advised The Related Press in a press release that Dressel had withdrawn for medical causes.
Additionally on the world championships:
— Hungary’s Kristóf Milák set a world file within the males’s 200 butterfly on the swimming world championships. The 22-year-old Milák clocked 1 minute, 50.34 seconds to shave 0.39 seconds off the earlier file he set on the final worlds in Gwangju, South Korea on July 24, 2019. Milák completed 3.03 seconds forward of French swimmer Leon Marchand and three.27 forward of Japan’s Tomoru Honda. It’s Hungary’s first medal in swimming at this worlds version and Milák is the primary swimmer to win the lads’s 200 butterfly at a worlds in entrance of a house crowd.
— Elite swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk doesn’t know if his father was capable of see him successful a medal for Ukraine on the swimming world championships. Romanchuk’s father is preventing within the east of Ukraine the place pockets of resistance are nonetheless denying Russia full army management. Romanchuk doesn’t dare discuss to his dad out of concern his father’s location might be tracked by means of the decision. The 25-year-old Romanchuk received a bronze medal within the males’s 800-meter freestyle race as we speak. He virtually by no means made it to Budapest for the competitors.
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