Red Sox shut down Sale for rest of season Curry helps Howard University start Division I golf team
Boston Red Sox lefthand er Chris Sale is receiving treatment for inflammation in his elbow that will shut him down for the rest of the regular season.
Orthopedist Dr. James Andrews gave Sale an injection of platelet-rich plasma on Monday and said he will be re-evaluated in six weeks.
The treatment could be good news for the ballclub, who feared that Sale might need Tommy John surgery. That would likely have cost him all of the 2020 season. But losing Sale deals a blow to the defending World Series champions' already slim hopes for a repeat.
What started as an innocuous conversation during a public event has evolved into a golf partnership between NBA superstar Stephen Curry and Howard University.
The two-time NBA MVP announced Monday that he is helping Howard re- establish a golf program. Curry is providing a donation that will allow one of the country's most prominent historically black universities to launch Division I women's and men's teams for the 2020-21 academic year.
The 31-year-old Curry, who has won three NBA championships with the Golden State Warriors, has long been known asa passionate golf er. But the idea of partnering with Howard didn't start until January, when Curry went to the campus in Washington D. C. in January for a screening of the documentary “Emanuel.”
After watching the film — which chronicles the 2015 shooting of nine black worship per sat a church in South Carolina — Curry was approached by Howard student Otis Ferguson. The senior explained to Curry how he had been unsuccessfully trying to startup an official university golf team. Howard had previously fielded a Division II golf team but that was discontinued.
Former Cavaliers coach Blatt diagnosed with MS
Former Cleveland Cavaliers coach David Blatt has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
In a statement posted Monday on the website of Greek club Olympiakos, Blatt said he was diagnosed with the condition, which attacks t he central nervous system, “a few months ago” and has experienced fatigue, weakness in his legs and balance problems.
B lat twas appointed coach of Cleveland in June 2014 and was fired partway through the 2015-16 season. He has coached Olympiakos since June 2018.
Benson driving at `high rate' of speed before fatal crash
Police said Monday they are still investigating the weekend motorcycle crash that killed former Texas Longhorns running back and NFL player Cedric Benson and a woman passenger in Austin, Texas.
According to police, witnesses said Benson was driving his BMW motorcycle at a high rate of speed through a curving, hilly section of the city Saturday night when he collided with a van that was attempting a left turn.
Elsewhere
MLS: Russell Wilson, Ciara and Macklemore say they are honored to be a part of the Seattle Sounders ownership group. The Seattle Seahawks quarterback and his wife, along with the Grammy Award-winning hip hop artist, said at a Sounders event Monday that a sense of community drew them into joining the group. They are among several new investors who have bought into the franchise, taking up a share of the club previously owned by Hollywood producer Joe Roth.
MLB: Washington Nationals ace Max Scherzer is expected to come off the injured list to start Thursday against Pittsburgh. Scherzer has been on the injured list for most of the past six weeks because of a strained muscle in his back.