Pacers fire head coach following playoff sweep

The Indiana Pacers fired head coach Nate McMillan after being swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Miami Heat. McMillan coached the Pacers for four seasons.

A pair of Major League Baseball games were postponed Aug. 26 as players across the sports landscape reacted in the wake of the weekend shooting by police of Jacob Blake, a Black man, in Wisconsin.

Games between the Cincinnati Reds and Brewers in Milwaukee and the Seattle Mariners and Padres in San Diego were called off hours before they were set to begin.

Other MLB games had finished, were in progress or just about to start when the announcements were made.

Blake was shot multiple times by police in Kenosha, about 40 miles south of Milwaukee.

NBA

PACERS FIRE MCMILLIAN FOLLOWING SWEEP» Nate McMillan won dozens of regular-season games despite the Indiana Pacers’ continual injuries.

The playoff losses cost him his job: On Wednesday, two days after enduring a second straight firstround sweep, president of basketball operations Kevin Pritchard fired McMillan.

The decision was a surprise, given Pritchard’s Aug. 12 announcement that McMillan had been given a one-year contract extension through the 2021-22 season.

NFL

BENGALS PLAYER ARRESTED WHILE SEARCHING FOR MISSING FATHER » Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Mackensie Alexander was jailed Wednesday on a charge of misdemeanor battery after deputies say he beat up a man shortly after returning to Florida to help search for his missing father.

Alexander, 26, and another man, 28-yearold Evins Clement, were arrested by Collier County sheriff’s deputies Aug. 25, not long after Alexander arrived back in southwest Florida where he grew up and his family still lives in the small farming community of Immokalee. Bail for the men was set at $2,000 each Aug. 26.