Spurs get fined $25,000
The NBA fined the San Antonio Spurs $25,000 on Sunday for violating the league's player resting policy – in a game the Spurs won by 26 points.
The Spurs sat DeMar DeRozan, Patty Mills and Jakob Poeltl to give them rest on Saturday night in Phoenix. It didn't matter, as six Spurs players scored in double figures in a 111-85 rout of the Suns.
According to the league's resting policy, teams should not rest multiple healthy players for the same game. When they do rest healthy players, it is supposed to be in home games.
Under Gregg Popovich, the Spurs have long rested players even when they are healthy, one of the reasons the league first implemented a resting policy in 2017. Teams can be fined $100,000 for violating it.
SOCCER
Jenny Cape scored in the 63rd minute and the Iowa women's team edged Wisconsin, 1-0, in the Big Ten Tournament championship match in University Park, Pennsylvania.
Cape, a former standout at Brookfield Central, fired a shot through the top of the net, sending the ball just past the fingertips of Wisconsin goalkeeper Jordyn Bloomer. It was her first goal of the season.
Iowa (6-8-1) made its second consecutive NCAA Tournament.
The Badgers (8-4-2) will find out their NCAA tournament fate as the NCAA women's soccer selection show will take place at noon on Monday.
NFL
Kansas City Chiefs tight end Fred Arbanas, a key member of their first two Super Bowl teams in the 1960s and '70s who later had a long career in county politics, has died. He was 82.
The Jackson County Democratic Party in Missouri, for which Arbanas was a major player for more than four decades, announced his death in a brief statement. No cause was given.
Arbanas, a member of the Chiefs' Hall of Fame, was a six-time all-AFL selection and was picked to the All-Time AFL Team by the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was a member of the Dallas Texans team that won the 1962 AFL title and, after the club moved to Kansas City, helped the rechristened Chiefs reach the Super Bowl in 1967 and 1970.
BASEBALL
The Washington Nationals placed right-handed pitcher Stephen Strasburg on the 10-day injured list because of right shoulder inflammation.
Strasburg, 32, is 0–1 with a 6.30 ERA in two starts this season. He gave up three homers and seven earned runs in four innings in his last start, a 14-3 loss at St. Louis on Tuesday. His move to the IL was retroactive to Thursday.
TENNIS
Stefanos Tsitsipas won the Monte Carlo Masters without dropping a set, beating Andrey Rublev, 6-3, 6-3, for his first title this year and sixth overall.
Fourth-seeded Tsitsipas was in dominant form as he edged 4-3 ahead of the sixth-seeded Russian in their career meetings, having also beaten him on clay last year in the French Open quarterfinals.
BOXING
YouTube star Jake Paul scored a first-round TKO over former UFC fighter and Hartland native Ben Askren in their main event clash Saturday night at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
Paul (3-0) knocked Askren to the canvas midway through in the first round of their cruiserweight fight. Askren got up, but referee Brian Stutts eventually called the fight at 1:59.