DODGERS BRING ON FIRST GM SINCE 2018
The Los Angeles Dodgers promoted former major league pitcher Brandon Gomes to general manager on Tuesday, filling a spot that had been vacant since 2018.
Gomes had been an assistant GM with the team since 2019. The Dodgers last had a GM in 2018, when Farhan Zaidi quit that November to join the rival San Francisco Giants.
In his new role, Gomes will continue working closely with Andrew Friedman, president of baseball operations, as he has since being promoted to director of player development in 2017. Gomes was named assistant GM in 2019.
The 37-year-old former pitcher first joined the team in 2016 as coordinator of pitching performance. He pitched for the Padres, Tampa Bay and the Chicago Cubs from 2007-16. He was first acquired by Friedman in 2011 when Friedman was working for the Rays.
NBA
Klay Thompson scored 21 points, Stephen Curry had 18, and the Golden State Warriors returned from a tough trip to beat the Detroit Pistons 102-86 on Tuesday night.
Andrew Wiggins scored 19 points for a Warriors team happy to be home for an extended stretch after having lost five of seven, including three of four on the road.
Karl-Anthony Towns converted a go-ahead three-point play with 29 seconds left and Minnesota edged host New York 112, 110.
Anthony Edwards scored 21 points and Towns had 20 for the Wolves. Evan Fournier scored 27 points and Julius Randle had 21 for the Knicks.
A Golden State Warriors minority owner who said “nobody cares” about the Uyghurs in China is under fire.
“Nobody cares about what’s happening to the Uyghurs, OK?” billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya said at the nearly 15minute mark of his All-In Podcast from Saturday.
“I’m telling you a very hard, ugly truth, OK, of all the things that I care about, yes it is below my line.”
Golden State swiftly reacted, saying Palihapitiya’s views aren’t reflective of those of the team.
The Indiana Pacers expect center Myles Turner to miss at least the next two weeks with an injured left foot.
Lusia Harris, who was the only woman to be drafted by an NBA team and scored the first points in women’s basketball history at the Olympics, has died, her family announced. She was 66.
Harris, who died in her native Mississippi, was officially drafted by the New Orleans Jazz in the seventh round in 1977, but didn’t try out for the team because she was pregnant at the time.
She helped Delta State University win three straight national titles in the 1970s and earned a silver medal at the Montreal Olympics in 1976.
Hockey
Alex Limoges scored at the 16:21 mark of the third period to give the Gulls the lead and Benoit-Olivier Groulx added a goal right at the horn as San Diego beat the host San Jose Barracuda 4-2 in American Hockey League action Tuesday night.
Trevor Carrick and Bryce Kindopp scored to give the Gulls a 2-1 advantage in the second period, but Joachim Blichfeld scored for San Jose to tie it in the final seconds of the period.
Olympics
Athletes at the Beijing Olympics are being urged by human rights activists to avoid criticizing China because they could be prosecuted.
The International Olympic Committee has said athletes will have freedom of speech at next month’s Winter Games when speaking to journalists or posting on social media. However, the Olympic Charter rule that prohibits political protests at medal ceremonies also requires “applicable public law” to be followed.
“Silence is complicity and that’s why we have concerns,” said Rob Koehler, the director general of the Global Athlete group. “We know the human rights record and the allowance of freedom of expression in China, so there’s really not much protection.”
Soccer
After a 1-1 draw at Brighton on Tuesday, the Premier League title is looking more unlikely for
Chelsea each passing week. Chelsea’s winless run in the league stretched to four games after Brighton defender Adam Webster’s powerful header from a corner in the 60th minute.
Defending champion Juventus reached the quarterfinals of the Italian Cup by beating Sampdoria 4-1.
St. Pauli knocked defending champion Borussia Dortmund out of the German Cup with a 2-1 win.
The Mexican Football Federation says any fan caught screaming a homophobic chant at its matches will face a fiveyear ban from national team games.
Sports and courts
Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end Lerentee McCray
made an obscene hand gesture at a police officer, fled a wouldbe traffic stop and reached speeds of 100 mph and crossed three lanes of traffic during an ensuing chase, authorities said. McCray, 31, was arrested, booked and charged with fleeing and attempting to elude law enforcement.
Cleveland Browns defensive tackle Malik McDowell,
who was given a second chance by the team after serving jail time, was arrested on charges of beating a police officer and public exposure.
Pro Football Hall of Famer Dan Hampton has been sentenced to one year of probation after pleading guilty to a drunken-driving charge in Indiana.