Stars sign goalie Bishop to six-year deal
The Dallas Stars signed goaltender Ben Bishop to a six-year, $29.5-million deal.
General manager Jim Nill announced the terms Friday, less than a week after acquiring rights to the 30year-old Bishop from the Kings for a fourth-round pick in next month’s draft. Bishop was set to be an unrestricted free agent this summer.
The 6-foot-7 Bishop played only seven games after the Kings acquired him from Tampa Bay to back up Jonathan Quick. Since-fired Kings general manager Dean Lombardi engineered the trade to create an elite goaltending duo that would allow the Kings to rest Quick, who was returning from a major injury.
The San Jose Sharks have signed forwards Melker Karlsson and Joonas Donskoi to new contracts before they become restricted free agents. The Sharks announced a three-year deal with Karlsson and twoyear contract for Donskoi.
Top-seeded UCLA and No. 3 USC advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA women’s water polo championships in Indianapolis. The Bruins crushed Wagner 17-2 on Friday and the Trojans beat Michigan 12-6. In semifinals on Saturday, UCLA will face California, which got past UC Irvine with a 9-7 win Friday, and USC will play second-seeded Stanford, a 13-6 winner over Pacific. The winners will play in the final Sunday at noon PDT.
Katie Hall caught and passed Olympic champion Anna van der Breggen in the last mile to win the second stage of the Woman’s Tour of California and take the overall race lead. Hall will take a three-second lead on Van der Breggen into Saturday’s third stage, which takes riders 73 miles from Elk Grove to Sacramento. Megan Guarnier is 29 seconds back in third.
An early-morning accident in Louisiana claimed the lives of two people, including former NFL player Michael Jackson. Police said it happened about 1 a.m. Friday on U.S. 51, south of the Village of Tangipahoa. Jackson served as the mayor of the village from 2009 to 2012.
Police said Jackson, 48, was riding a motorcycle north on U.S. 51 at high speed, when 20-year-old Destiny Gordon, of Kentwood, La., backed her car from a parking space into the motorcycle’s path. Gordon was also killed.
Jackson played eight NFL seasons with the Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Ravens from 1991 to 1998.
Former Angels third baseman Doug DeCinces was convicted Friday in a Santa Ana courtroom of insider trading for a stock buy that earned him more than $1 million. The former Baltimore Orioles and Angels star was convicted of 13 federal charges and could face years in prison.
DeCinces was tipped off in 2009 that a Santa Ana-based medical device firm, Advanced Medical Optics, was going to be sold. The information came from the company CEO, James Mazzo, who was DeCinces’ neighbor in Laguna Beach, prosecutors argued.
DeCinces bought more than 90,000 shares in the company days before Abbott Laboratories bought the firm, and he sold the shares for a profit of about $1.3 million, prosecutors said. Fourteen other people made another $1.3 million after DeCinces passed on the tip to friends and family members, prosecutors alleged.
One friend, David Parker, was convicted of three counts of tender-offer fraud. But the jury deadlocked in Mazzo’s case and a mistrial was declared. DeCinces, 66, and Parker will remain free until they are sentenced. A hearing date was not immediately set.
Chelsea clinched the English Premier League, beating West Bromwich Albion 1-0 on Michy Batshuayi’s 82ndminute goal to take an unassailable 10point lead.
Ryan Blaney earned his first career pole for Saturday’s NASCAR Cup race at Kansas Speedway, taking advantage of a traffic jam at inspection that kept 11 cars from getting on the track. Kyle Busch won the Truck Series race at the Kansas City, Kan., track Friday night. Johnny Sauter finished second.