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MLB: Casilla signs across the Bay
Relief pitcher Santiago Casilla is crossing the bay again, rejoining the Athletics with a two-year contract Friday after seven seasons with the Giants. The right-hander lost his job as closer last season for the Giants, going 2-5 with a 3.57 ERA and 31 saves after posting a 4-2 mark record with a 2.79 ERA and a career-best 38 saves in 2015.
Right-hander Trevor Cahill and the Padres finalized a $1.75 million, one-year contract. He went 4-4 with a 2.74 ERA in 50 games, including one start, for the Cubs in 2016.
NBA: KD,Warriors blast Rockets
Kevin Durant scored 32 points and the Warriors coasted to their sixth straight victory, 125-108 over the Rockets in Houston on Friday. Clint Capela had 22 points and
James Harden added 17 points with 11 assists for the Rockets.
In Philadelphia, Robert Covington scored 22 points and made two 3-pointers in the final 40 seconds to lead the streaking 76ers, who have won four straight and eight of 10, past Portland 93-92.
NCAA: Satellite camps banned
The Power Five conferences voted Friday to stop coaches from taking teams off-campus during any vacation period outside a sport’s season for practice, a rule proposed after Jim Harbaugh took his Michigan football team to Florida last year. In West Long Branch, N.J., Justin Rob
inson had 27 points, Micah Seaborn added 20 and Monmouth beat Manhattan 82-71 for its fifth straight victory. Zane Waterman scored a game-high 28 for the Jaspers.
In New Rochelle, Jordan Washington scored 30 points, Jon Severe added 16 points and Iona held off Fairfield 96-89.
Indiana forward OG Anunoby will undergo surgery on his right knee and will miss the rest of the season. The sophomore was injured late in the first half of the Hoosiers’ victory at Penn State on Wednesday.
Point guard Allonzo Trier will be available to play in Arizona’s game against UCLA on Saturday after begin informed by the NCAA his recent drug test was negative, the school announced. Richard Allan Newsome Jr., a 17-yearold suspected of shooting and killing Rich
ard J. Nelson, a Missouri State University football player during a fight involving their sisters in Las Vegas has been charged as an adult with murder. A judge scheduled a Feb. 6 preliminary hearing of evidence in the case.
GOLF: Swafford atop Careerbuilder
Hudson Swafford shot his second straight 7-under 65 on Friday to take a one-stroke lead in the Careerbuilder Challenge in La Quinta, Calif. Dominic Bozzelli and Danny Lee are tied for second. Bozzelli followed his opening 64 with a 67. Lee had a 64. Phil Mickelson followed an opening 68 with a 66 to sit in a tie for sixth place at 10 under in his return from two sports hernia surgeries.
ETC.: Chape resumes play
On Saturday, Chapecoense’s 20,000-capacity Arena Conda will host the team’s first match since the air crash that killed 19 players and nearly all members of the club’s staff and board of directors. Chape’s reconstructed team will play Brazilian champion Palmeiras in a friendly match.
In Boston, Marian Hossa scored with 1:26 left to give the Blackhawks a 1-0 victory over the Bruins. Scott Darling stopped 30 shots for his second shutout of the season.