Miami sends Flowers back to Washington
The Miami Dolphins agreed to trade veteran guard Ereck Flowers back to the Washington Football Team in a deal Tuesday that also included a swap of late-round draft picks.
The Dolphins will pay Flowers $6 million as a signing bonus for a restructured contract this year, and Washington will pay him a $3 million base salary, said his agent, Drew Rosenhaus.
Flowers signed a threeyear, $30 million deal with the Dolphins a year ago and started 14 games at left guard in his only season with them. He started 16 games in 2019 for Washington under that team’s previous coaching regime and is expected to return to that starting spot.
In other pro football news
• Geno Hayes, a former NFL linebacker who starred at Florida State, died at 33. He had liver disease and had been in hospice care at his parents’ home in Valdosta, Ga.
Hayes spent four seasons with Tampa Bay, who drafted him in the sixth round in 2008. He then played one year with Chicago and two with Jacksonville.
Hayes told ESPN earlier this year that he was diagnosed with chronic liver disease two years ago and had been placed on a waiting list for a transplant. He said he believed his use of over-the-counter pain medications while in the NFL, as well as his family’s history of liver disease, led to his condition.
• Ravens quarterback
Lamar Jackson will have the fifth-year team option on his contract picked up, coach John Harbaugh said. The 2019 NFL MVP will be paid $23.1 million in 2022.
NCAA boss gets 2-year extension
The NCAA Board of Governors voted to give president Mark Emmert a two-year contract extension through 2025.
Emmert’s contract was set to expire in 2023, but the board voted unanimously to extend his deal, the NCAA said in a statement.
NHL is leaving NBC for TNT
The NHL and Turner Sports formally announced a seven-year agreement that begins next season and will put three Stanley Cup Finals on the TNT cable network.
NBC’s run of covering the league since 2005 will end after after this season’s playoffs. It’s in the final season of a 10-year contract.
In other news: • Miroslav Frycer, who defected from Czechoslovakia and spent most of his eight seasons in the NHL with the Toronto Maple Leafs, has died after a brief illness. He was 61.
The forward was an All-Star in 1985 with the Maple Leafs.
Pulisic makes history with goal
Real Madrid and Chelsea drew 1-1 in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals on Tuesday, with Christian Pulisic becoming the first American to score in the tournament’s final four with a nice finish in the 14th minute.
Karim Benzema equalized for Madrid 15 minutes later on a rainy night at Alfredo Di Stefano Stadium.
Manchester City hosts Paris Saint-Germain in the other semifinal Wednesday.
In other news: • Arsenal owner Stan Kroenke said he’s “100 percent committed” to the Premier League club and won’t sell it despite interest from the founder of music streaming service Spotify. Arsenal fans have called for Kroenke to leave after he was one of the instigators of the ill-fated Super League.
Mayweather set for exhibition
Floyd Mayweather Jr. and YouTube personality-turned-amateur boxer
Logan Paul are set to fight in an exhibition at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on June 6.
Mayweather (50-0) hasn’t fought professionally since 2017, when he beat UFC star Conor McGregor. In other news: • Rashed Al-Swaisat, an 18-year-old boxer from Jordan, has died after being injured in a bout at the world youth championships, the International Boxing Association said.
He was treated in the ring and then hospitalized after being knocked out in his preliminary-round light heavyweight fight against Estonia’s Anton Vinogradov on April 16 in Kielce, Poland.
Polish broadcaster Radio Zet Sport reported that Al-Swaisat died Monday at a hospital in Kielce.