New Clipper Reed busted for battery
New Los Angeles Clippers center Willie Reed was jailed yesterday in Miami on a battery charge.
His wife told police that he dragged her across the apartment while wrestling for a purse and later pulled her hair and grabbed her by the wrist during an argument Saturday night, according to the police report.
Reed told police that he never put his hands on his wife, but he did acknowledge grabbing her shirt and her purse, according to the police report. He also told police that he touched his wife as she was getting on the elevator.
Police said Reed’s wife had red marks on her left wrist, right biceps, back and chest.
Reed spent last season with the Miami Heat and had been working out in the city in recent days. The 27-year-old finalized a $1.5 million, one-year contract with the Clippers last week despite his hopes for a longer-term, more lucrative contract in NBA free agency.
Tennis: Keys takes victory to Bank
Third-seeded Madison Keys outslugged No. 6 CoCo
Vandeweghe 7-6 (4), 6-4 to win the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, Calif., in a thrilling display of power and serving by the two young American stars in their first career matchup.
Keys won her third career singles title and first on hardcourt playing under cloudless skies. She finally got her chance in the ninth game of the second set, when Vandeweghe surrendered her first service game all week after she saved two break points during that game. . . . Eighth-ranked Alexander Zverev easily dispatched
Kevin Anderson 6-4, 6-4 to win the Citi Open in Washington for his fourth ATP title of the year.
Misc.: Lochte dives back in nicely
Ryan Lochte set a meet record with a time of 1:59.24 in the finals of the men’s 200 meter individual medley at swimming’s U.S. Open in East Meadow, N.Y. Lochte bested the previous mark of 1:59.26 set by
Michael Phelps on Nov. 30, 2006. Xavier Mohammed finished second in 2:00.47, and Sam Stewart was third in 2:01.51. . . .
Arsenal collected the Community Shield after beating Chelsea 4-1 in a penalty shootout at Wembley Stadium that used an experimental format mixing up the order of the spotkicks.
After the traditional curtain-raiser to the English season ended 1-1 after 90 minutes, Olivier Giroud scored the winning penalty. It was a meeting at English soccer’s national stadium in March that saw the sport’s lawmakers agree to test out a new pattern that would see the order mixed up between teams A and B to ABBAABBAAB.
Victor Moses gave Chelsea the lead in the 46th minute, but Arsenal tied it after Pedro Rodriguez was sent off, and Granit Xhaka’s ensuing free kick was headed in by Sead Kolasinac. ...
Darren Daulton, the 14-year MLB catcher who was a three-time All-Star, the leader of the 1993 National League champion Phillies and won a World Series in his final season with the 1997 Marlins, lost his fouryear long battle to brain cancer. He was 55.