Siakam, Raptors agree to a deal
Forward Pascal Siakam and the Toronto Raptors agreed on a four-year, $130million maximum extension, a person with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the signing had not been announced.
Siakam was the NBA’s most improved player last season, averaging career highs of 16.9 points, 6.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists. He is entering his fourth season.
He averaged 19 points and 7.1 rebounds in 24 playoff games as Toronto went on to win its first title.
The Heisman Trophy won by Ricky Wiliams in 1998 at Texas was sold at auction for $504,000, setting a record for college football’s most recognizable award.
Williams, who received the trophy for the season in which he set the thenNCAA career record with 6,592 yards rushing, sold it to a collector in 2014.
Guard Kelechi Osemele was fined an undisclosed amount by the New York Jets for conduct detrimental to the team after he did not practice, a person with knowledge of the situation told AP on condition of anonymity.
Osemele says he needs a season-ending shoulder operation and is waiting for the team to authorize the procedure. The team wants him on the field.
The two-time Pro Bowl selection said Friday that the team doctor and an independent doctor in California recommended the surgery for a torn labrum. But a person with knowledge of the situation told AP that the doctors determined it was a preexisting injury and cleared Osemele to play through it.
Justin Thomas was looking at a three-stroke lead after three rounds at the CJ Cup at Jeju Island, South Korea, with one hole to play. But South Korean-born New Zealander Danny Lee holed a long eagle putt to finish with a 68. Thomas, who won the inaugural CJ Cup in 2017, bogeyed the 18th for a 70 and he and Lee were tied with a three-round total of 15-under 201.
Scott Parel shot his second consecutive six-underpar 66 for a share of the lead with Tommy Tolles in the Dominion Energy Charity Classic at Richmond, Va., the first of three tournaments in the PGA Tour Champions’ Charles Schwab Cup playoffs.
Jessica Korda shot a sixunder 66 in the third round, with eight birdies and two bogeys, to take a one-shot lead at the Buick LPGA Shanghai.
Korda, who has a 15under total of 201, is making her first start since the Solheim Cup, where she went 30-1 last month in Scotland in the United States’ loss to Europe.
Defending champion Danielle Kang is in second place after a 66. The American had bogeys on her first two holes to fall behind by four strokes. Second-round leader Brooke Henderson (73) dropped to third place. Brandon Jones raced to his first career Xfinity Series victory after a lapped car wrecked what was shaping up as an entertaining duel between playoff contenders Chase Briscoe and Christopher Bell.
It wasn’t the end of the drama at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City.
Fellow playoff contenders Cole Custer and Tyler Reddick got into a pit-road melee after getting out of their cars. Custer was upset at the way Reddick raced him in the closing laps of the first race in the round of eight in NASCAR’s version of the playoffs.
Reddick finished second and Briscoe rallied to third, and playoff drivers Michael
Annett and Justin Allgaier rounded out the top five. Custer was 11th with Bell right behind him.
Andy Murray of Britain is back in an ATP tour final for the first time since March 2017 after beating Ugo Humbert of France 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 in a semifinal match of the European Open at Antwerp, Belgium.
Murray will face fellow three-time Grand Slam event champion Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland, who beat 18-year-old Janik Sinner of Italy 6-3, 6-2.