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An American basketball player arrested in Indonesia for alleged drug smuggling
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) â An American basketball player for the Indonesian league was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle illegal drugs to the country, police said Thursday. The Southeast Asian country has extremely strict drug laws, and convicted smugglers are sometimes executed by firing squad. Jarred Dwayne Shaw, 34, from Dallas, Texas, was arrested May 7, after police raided his apartment in Tangerang regency, just outside the capital, Jakarta, and seized 132 pieces of cannabis candies, said Ronald Sipayung, the Soekarno-Hatta Airport police chief. The arrest followed a tip from the airportâs customs that reported Shaw had received a suspicious airway package from Thailand, Sipayung said. Cannabis has been decriminalized in Thailand since November 2024. Under Indonesiaâs anti-drug laws, Shaw ... Read MoreDodgers call up top prospect Dalton Rushing and cut loose veteran catcher Austin Barnes
LOS ANGELES (AP) â Dalton Rushing's phone rang at 1 a.m. Wednesday, startling the Los Angeles Dodgers' top prospect and worrying him that it wasn't anything good. âI was almost asleep,â he said. âYou get a call in the middle of the night, you freak out at first. It ended up being some of the best news Iâve ever heard." It was his Triple-A manager telling the 24-year-old catcher to pack his bags. He was being called up to the big leagues. âI called every family member,â Rushing said in the dugout at Dodger Stadium. âMy mother just so happened to be the one that didnât answer after 55 calls. She's a deep sleeper.â The Dodgers havenât been sleeping on ... Read MoreJeremy Peña’s RBI single in 8th inning lifts the Astros to a 4-3 win over Royals
HOUSTON (AP) â Jeremy Peña had a season-high four hits, capped by a tiebreaking RBI single in the eighth inning, to give the Houston Astros a 4-3 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. The Astros trailed by 1 when Zach Dezenzo singled with one out in the eighth and was lifted for pinch-runner Chas McCormick. Mauricio DubĂłnâs second double of the game dropped into the left field corner and scored McCormick, tying the game and chasing Michael Lorenzen (3-4). Carlos EstĂ©vez took over and Peña lined his third pitch into left field, sending DubĂłn home and putting the Astros on top. Josh Hader walked one in a scoreless ninth for his 10th save after Bryan King (1-0) ... Read MoreRockies fall 8-3 to Rangers and become 1st team to start season 7-36 in modern era
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) â The Colorado Rockies lost 8-3 to the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night to become the first team in baseball's modern era to lose 36 of their first 43 games. Wyatt Langford and Adolis GarcĂa hit opposite-field, two-run home runs and Patrick Corbin struck out six consecutive batters among a season-high nine for the Rangers. The Rockies became the first team to start 7-36 in the modern era (since 1901). They were swept for the seventh time and are 0-3 under interim manager Warren Schaeffer, who replaced Bud Black on Sunday. The Rangers (23-21) have won five consecutive games to match a season-best winning streak. Langford homered in a four-run first inning. GarcĂa homered in the sixth. ... Read MoreNBA playoff guide: Who plays when, how to watch, what the odds are
The Indiana Pacers are headed to the Eastern Conference Finals. The Oklahoma City Thunder are one win away from the Western Conference Finals. The New York Knicks and Minnesota Timberwolves could lock up trips to the NBA's final four on Wednesday as well. And the injury bug that has hit these NBA playoffs keeps getting worse. The Pacers eliminated top-seeded Cleveland on Tuesday night, winning that East second-round series 4-1. The top-seeded Thunder finished with a flourish to beat Denver and take a 3-2 lead in their West second-round series. Those results came after the news that Boston's Jayson Tatum had surgery Tuesday to repair his ruptured right Achilles â meaning his season is over and his 2025-26 season is ... Read MoreMurray ‘very confident’ Nuggets can force Game 7, Thunder on verge of 1st West finals since 2016
DENVER (AP) â Jamal Murray didn't quite guarantee a Game 7. He alluded to it, though, in between sips of his blueberry-colored postgame recovery smoothie. âVery confident,â the Denver Nuggets guard said of a return to Oklahoma City. Before then, there's the matter of Game 6, which is Thursday night in Denver. For the Nuggets, there's also the matter of finding a way to protect a fourth-quarter lead after the Thunder won the last two with late surges to take a 3-2 advantage in the second-round series. The young Thunder are gaining experience by the moment in their quest to make the franchise's first appearance in the Western Conference finals since 2016. The Nuggets have shown that depth remains a ... Read MoreThe T-wolves are back in the Western finals, after staying patient and confident with their new look
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) â The staff had a simple question for the players who helped the Minnesota Timberwolves make their deep run last year. âWere you a Western Conference finals team, or were you a team that just happened to make the Western Conference finals?â coach Chris Finch said, recalling the preseason conversation. âAnd thereâs only one way to prove that: Go out and do it again. And that was our mission all year." The Timberwolves filled in that blank by beating the Los Angeles Lakers and the Golden State Warriors in five games in each of their first two series in these NBA playoffs, finalizing their return to the penultimate round where they lost last season to the Dallas Mavericks. ... Read MoreChiefs-Eagles Super Bowl rematch in Week 2, Allen-Jackson showdown in Week 1 highlight NFL schedule
Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs will be featured in at least eight stand-alone games during the upcoming NFL season. Their Super Bowl rematch against the Philadelphia Eagles wonât be one of them. The teams will meet Week 2 in Kansas City in the late afternoon game on Fox. Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley and the Eagles dominated the Chiefs 40-22 to capture their second Vince Lombardi Trophy in February. Philadelphia is getting seven stand-alone games. Along with Kansas City, Dallas and Washington also have eight stand-alone games, which is the most in the NFL. There wonât be a long wait for a Josh Allen-Lamar Jackson showdown. Allen and the Buffalo Bills visit Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens ... Read MoreHurricanes and Stars ride stellar special teams to the verge of the conference finals
Before starting the second round against the Carolina Hurricanes, Washington Capitals coach Spencer Carbery had a good sense of what would determine the series between the top two teams in the Metropolitan Division, fierce rivals who are very familiar with each other. âSpecial teams, goaltending, secondary scoring,â Carbery said. âThose are three things that I look at when teams are evenly matched, when itâs an even series, when the margins are very, very thin.â While goaltending and secondary scoring have certainly factored into going up 3-1 in their series for Carolina and the Dallas Stars against the Winnipeg Jets, the biggest reason each team has gotten to this point is some of the best special teams play in the NHL ... Read MoreU.S. backup Oettinger outplaying starter Hellebuyck in NHL playoffs with Stars up 3-1 over Jets
DALLAS (AP) â Winnipeg Jets fans have showered Jake Oettinger with chants referring to his role as the USA Hockey backup goalie to Connor Hellebuyck during the 4 Nations Face-Off earlier this year. Well, that âU.S. backupâ has Dallas on the verge of its third consecutive trip to the Western Conference Final. Oettinger has mostly outplayed Hellebuyck throughout these NHL playoffs and in the second-round Western Conference series that the Stars lead 3-1 over the top-seeded Jets. âNot personal at all. Just trying to beat a good team. Thereâs a lot of other things going on other than me versus Connor,â Oettinger said after his 31-save performance in a 3-1 win at home in Game 4. âHeâs been good and ... Read MoreACC commissioner Jim Phillips feels good about the league’s newfound stability after chaos
AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. (AP) â The Atlantic Coast Conference is entering a period of stability. How long it lasts is anyoneâs guess. Not even commissioner Jim Phillips knows for sure. âI still live one day at a time,â Phillips quipped. The ACC wrapped up its spring meetings Wednesday at the Ritz-Carlton in Amelia Island, with athletic directors and coaches having spent three days discussing wide-ranging issues affecting football and basketball. The event came amid the backdrop of the pending $2.8 billion NCAA settlement, which would allow schools to share up to $20.5 million annually directly with their athletes. The ACC spent the past two years tracking that legal battle while also wading through contentious litigation from two of its top ... Read MoreJokic’s 44 points, 15 rebounds not enough as Thunder top Nuggets to go up 3-2 in West semis
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) â Nikola Jokic was nearly unstoppable against Oklahoma Cityâs gritty, aggressive defense. The Thunder made a valiant effort to disrupt him, as they have all series. Denverâs superstar center still had 44 points and 15 rebounds on Tuesday night. He made 17 of 25 shots, with many of them closely contested. It wasnât enough. Oklahoma City beat Denver 112-105, and now the Nuggets will return home trailing their Western Conference semifinal series 3-2 and facing elimination in Game 6 on Thursday. Jokic said Oklahoma City still played the same kind of defense that bothered him in Games 2 through 4, when he shot just 33% from the field and 18.2% from 3-point range. He again mostly dealt ... Read MoreAnother hat trick by a Finnish player Dallas got in a trade. This time, it’s Granlund
DALLAS (AP) â Another playoff hat trick for a Finnish forward the Dallas Stars acquired in a trade during the regular season. This time, it was a first for Mikael Granlund. Not yet another three-goal game for Mikko Rantanaen, though he did have one of the assists. Granlund's first career postseason hat trick accounted for all the goals for the Dallas Stars in their 3-1 win Tuesday night that put them up 3-1 in their second-round Western Conference series against the top-seeded Winnipeg Jets. âWhen you pass all the time, you know, youâre gonna surprise the goalie maybe once in a while to shoot the puck,â Granlund said. âItâs good to shoot every once in a while.â It certainly was ... Read MorePete Rose among players removed from MLB’s banned list, eligible for Hall of Fame
Rich Pilling/MLB via Getty Images(COOPERSTOWN, NY) -- Pete Rose, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and 15 other deceased baseball players have been removed from MLB's permanent list of banned players, according to a memo from the league's commissioner.The decision allows Rose, who accepted a ban for life from MLB in 1989 for gambling on games, to be eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame posthumously.The decision only applies to dead players who have been placed on the ineligible list."The National Baseball Hall of Fame has always maintained that anyone removed from Baseballâs permanently ineligible list will become eligible for Hall of Fame consideration," Hall of Fame Chairman Jane Forbes Clark said in a statement. "Major League Baseballâs decision to remove deceased individuals ... Read More
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