Body found at Giant’s house
A body has been found at a New Jersey home where New York Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins lives.
The Bergen County prosecutor’s office says it is investigating a death at the house in Fair Lawn, about 10 miles north of Met Life Stadium. Property records show Jenkins has lived at the house the past two years.
Authorities have identified the dead man as 25-year-old Roosevelt Rene, a family friend of Jenkins.
The prosecutor’s office didn’t say where Jenkins was when the death occurred.
A spokesman for the Giants says the team is monitoring the situation but didn’t comment further.
Jenkins played at Florida from 2008-10 before finishing his college career at North Alabama. He was drafted in the second round by the St. Louis Rams in 2012. He played four seasons with the Rams and the last two seasons with the Giants.
Clippers trade Doc’s kid
The Washington Wizards traded Marcin Gortat, their starting center, to the Los Angeles Clippers for guard Austin Rivers, the son of Clippers coach Doc Rivers.
Both players are entering the final season of their contracts and are set to earn similar salaries, making a straight-up exchange work under NBA rules.
The 34-year-old Gortat is a durable, screen-setting big man who has played 12 years in the NBA, the past five with Washington. He averaged 8.4 points and 7.6 rebounds last season, his lowest numbers since 2009-10, when he was with the Orlando Magic. The Wizards finished eighth in the Eastern Conference and lost in the first round of the playoffs to No. 1 seed Toronto.
Rivers, who turns 26 in August, averaged a career-best 15.1 points and four assists last season while playing for his father . . . .
Magic Johnson is betting his job on his free agent recruiting skills for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Johnson declared he will step down as the Lakers’ president of basketball operations if he can’t persuade an elite free agent to sign with the 16-time NBA champions within the next two summers.
“Next summer, if nobody comes and I’m still sitting here like this, then it’s a failure,” Johnson said after a news conference to introduce draft picks Moe Wagner and Svi Mykhailiuk.
Arkansas takes Game 1
Arkansas scored four fifth-inning runs against a faltering Luke Heimlich and moved a step closer to its first national championship in baseball with a 4-1 win over Oregon State in Game 1 of the College World Series finals in Omaha, Neb.
The finals opener, delayed a day because of rain, seemed to have a little bit of everything — a fly ball lost in the sun that went for a ground-rule double, a runner interference call against Oregon State and an overturned foul call on a ball hit down the right-field line.
Then there was the sudden collapse of Heimlich, who looked so good, and then so bad.
After failing to get out of the third inning in both of his previous CWS starts, the Beavers’ ace was in full command while striking out five and limiting the Razorbacks to one hit through four innings.
In the fifth, though, the senior left-hander issued a walk, hit two batters, gave up two hits and got a bad break when second baseman and first-round draft pick Nick Madrigal fumbled the ball trying to make a throw.
Arkansas starter Blaine Knight (14-0) went back to the mound with a 4-1 lead, pitched another inning and left having allowed seven hits with six strikeouts. Barrett Loseke and Matt Cronin combined to pitch three scoreless innings of relief.
Lightning re-sign Miller
The Tampa Bay Lightning resigned forward J.T. Miller to a fiveyear contract worth $26.25 million.
Miller will count $5.5 million against the salary cap through 202223. General manager Steve Yzerman announced the deal with the pending restricted free agent . . . .
The Pittsburgh Penguins resigned forward Bryan Rust to a four-year deal that runs through the 2021-22 campaign.
The deal carries an average annual value of $3.5 million . . . .
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s father has been acquitted in Las Vegas of a misdemeanor battery charge after a trial before a judge.