Frye has an appendectomy

Lakers forward Channing Frye has undergone an appendectomy. The team announced Saturday that its new acquisition had the procedure Friday night in Cleveland.

The Lakers say Frye will be re-evaluated after he returns to Los Angeles next weekend.

Frye was spending the All-Star break in Ohio with his family.

“I’m pretty sure that i got my appendix removed I’ll be able to dunk at least 3xs a month now!” Frye tweeted.

Joe Durant birdied five of the last eight holes for a nine-under-par 63 to match Steve Stricker’s finish and take the second-round lead in the PGA Tour Champions’ Chubb Classic at Naples, Fla.

Durant rebounded from a three-putt bogey on the par-four 10th with birdies on the next two holes and also birdied Nos. 15-17. He had a 14-under 130 for a one-stroke lead over Stricker.

First-round leader Miguel Angel Jimenez was two strokes back. He birdied three of the last four holes in a 68 after opening with a 64.

Russian soccer players were protected from being caught doping under direct government orders that laboratory director Grigory Rodchenkov said he followed to ensure cheating was covered up as part of a far-reaching conspiracy.

Outlining his involvement in soccer for the first time to the Associated Press, Rodchenkov claimed an instruction to “avoid any scandal” came from then-sports minister Vitaly Mutko, now a deputy prime minister.

Rodchenkov fled Russia two years ago to confess to his role in a widespread doping coverup in his homeland, notably at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and by track and field athletes.

Amid mounting evidence of his role in the doping deception that turned his country into Olympic outcasts, Mutko recently stepped down as head of Russia’s soccer federation and the World Cup organizing committee. Mutko has been banned for life from the Olympics but has not faced any soccer sanctions and continues to oversee World Cup preparations and sports policy in Russia.