Cavs near deal for Dekker
The Cleveland Cavaliers are nearing a trade to acquire forward Sam Dekker from the L.A. Clippers, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
Dekker, a former University of Wisconsin star, averaged 12.1 minutes per game with the Clippers last year after spending two seasons with the Houston Rockets.
He averaged 4.2 points and 2.4 rebounds in 2017-'18 after averaging 6.5 and 3.7 the year before in Houston.
Dekker was a key contributor to Wisconsin’s back-to-back Final Four teams in 2014 and 2015. He scored 16 points in a memorable national-semifinal win over then-unbeaten Kentucky in 2015.
SOFTBALL
Monica Abbott threw a no-hitter over four innings and struck out 10 batters as the United States overpowered the Netherlands, 11-0, on Sunday in Group A at the women’s softball world championship in Narashino, Japan, a qualifier for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Abbott issued only one walk while earning her second win of the tournament.
Janette Reed hit an RBI single in the third, then added a two-run homer in the fourth when the defending champions scored eight runs before the game was called on the mercy rule.
SWIMMING
Adam Peaty’s world record in the 100-meter breaststroke at the European Championships has been corrected to 57.10 seconds. That’s still a world record but one tenth of a second slower than the 57.00 time shown at Saturday’s race.
The European aquatics federation said there was “a problem with the race timing equipment” during the first nine races of Saturday’s afternoon session, which included the 100 breaststroke final where Olympic champion Peaty improved his own previous best mark of 57.13.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Chane Behanan, a member of Louisville’s 2013 men’s basketball national championship team, has been arrested on charges of possessing marijuana and receiving a stolen gun.
The 25-year-old Behanan was arrested Saturday night with three other men following a traffic stop.
The 6-foot-6, 220-pound forward was a key player in Louisville’s title run. Then-Cardinals coach Rick Pitino dismissed Behanan from the team the next season for a violation of team rules.
TENNIS
Svetlana Kuznetsova won her second title at the Citi Open, and first at any WTA tournament in two years, by erasing four match points to beat Donna Vekic, 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-2, in Washington.
The No. 7 seed Vekic was one point from victory four times in the second set but was not able to close it out.
Kuznetsova is a two-time Grand Slam champion, but she is currently ranked only 128th.
Alexander Zverev became the first man in nearly a decade to win consecutive titles at Washington’s hard-court tuneup for the U.S. Open, overpowering Alex de Minaur, 6-2, 6-4 in the final
NFL
The Philadelphia Eagles signed coach Doug Pederson and executive vice president of football operations Howie Roseman to contract extensions through the 2022 season.
Pederson is entering his third season. He originally signed a four-year contract with a club option for 2020.
Roseman began his career with the team as an unpaid intern in 2000, rose to become the youngest general manager in the NFL at age 34 in 2010, overcame a season in exile in 2015 after losing a power struggle to former coach Chip Kelly and returned to put together a championship team.
FIELD HOCKEY
Ireland’s first Women’s World Cup field hockey final ended in defeat as the Netherlands retained the title with an emphatic 6-0 victory in London.
Ireland, the second-lowest ranked country in the tournament, was unable to produce a fairy-tale ending at Lee Valley Hockey Center.