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NEW YORK (AP) – The New York Jets and guard Joe Tippmann have agreed to terms on a four-year contract extension, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Monday.

The move keeps the versatile and durable Tippmann, a second-round draft pick in 2023, with the Jets through the 2030 season. It also continues a recent trend by general manager Darren Mougey of signing the team’s young, promising players to long-term deals.

NFL Network, which first reported the extension, said it’s worth $66.4 million and includes $34.9 million guaranteed. The person confirmed the deal to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team didn’t announce it.

The 25-year-old Tippmann, who was entering the final year of his rookie deal, was a starter at center in his first season after being drafted out of Wisconsin. He moved from center to right guard because of injuries on the offensive line during the 2024 season and was the full-time starter at right guard last year.

Tippmann, an Indiana native, has missed just one game in his first three NFL seasons while starting 48 of 50 games during that span. He has developed into a key piece of the Jets’ long-term plans on the offensive line, along with left tackle Olu Fashanu, a first-rounder in 2024, and right tackle Armand Membou, a first-rounder last year. Center Josh Myers was signed late last season to a two-year, $11 million extension, and the Jets brought in free agent left guard Dylan Parham on a two-year deal worth $16 million in March.

Mougey and the Jets have made it a clear priority to sign many of their ascending homegrown players. They signed running back Breece Hall to a three-year contract last month that can be worth as much as $45.75 million.

Last summer, New York gave wide receiver Garrett Wilson and cornerback Sauce Gardner massive extensions — although the Jets later traded Gardner during the season to Indianapolis for two first-round picks and wide receiver Adonai Mitchell. Tight end Jeremy Ruckert was given a new two-year contract worth $10 million late last season.

TORONTO (AP) — Angel Reese had 15 points and 17 rebounds — which included a career-high 11 offensive, one short of tying the WNBA single-game record — and the Atlanta Dream beat the Toronto Tempo 102-77 on Sunday.

Reese, who came in averaging 14.6 points and a league-leading 11.9 rebounds, has nine double-doubles this season and 59 in her career, the most in WNBA history through 76 games. Reese, acquired April 6 from Chicago in a trade for two first-round picks, has 17 rebounds in three of the past four games.

Reese’s 11 offensive rebounds were one shy of the franchise mark set by Sancho Lyttle, who shares the WNBA’s single-game record with Glory Johnson, Nneka Ogwumike and Cheryl Ford.

Allisha Gray added 26 points and seven assists for the Dream (9-4) and Rhyne Howard had 24 points and three blocks. Rookie second-round pick Isobel Borlase shot 5 of 6 from the field and scored a career-high 17 points.

Gray made five 3-pointers and moved past Angel McCoughtry (233) into third place in franchise history with 235 career 3s. Howard, who made four from behind the arc, has a franchise-record 408 career 3-pointers.

Atlanta — which shot just 6 of 25 (24%) from the field, including 1 of 12 from behind the arc, in the first quarter as the Tempo opened a 12-point lead — shot 64% (11 of 17) overall, made each of its four 3-point shots and had nine assists in the second.

Gray had 11 points and four assists as Atlanta outscored the Tempo 34-14 in the second period, the Dream’s highest-scoring quarter this season.

Toronto’s Isabelle Harrison scored 17 points before she was called for a flagrant foul 2 and ejected about four minutes into the third following a hard foul on Reese.

Julie Allemand had 13 points, six assists, two steals and two blocks for the Tempo (7-7).

Toronto’s Nyara Sabally (hamstring) missed her second consecutive game.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) – Logan Stankoven was 7 years old and Jackson Blake on the verge of his seventh birthday when Taylor Hall was the No. 1 pick in the 2010 NHL draft.

Fast-forward more than a decade and a half later, and the “Kids and the Hall” line was a huge reason the Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup.

“Great all playoffs, all year,” coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “Their game really hasn’t changed for months.”

Offsetting power-play struggles through the first three rounds and sagging production from the top line of Seth Jarvis, Sebastian Aho and Andrei Svechnikov for much of the playoffs, Hall, Stankoven and Blake combined for 29 of the Hurricanes’ 66 goals in their title run.

That included the two scored on Carter Hart in Game 6 against Vegas to close out the final.

“Those two just work so hard,” Blake said. “They make it a whole lot easier on me to play out there, for sure. They were unbelievable all playoffs long, and it was so fun and to cap it off with this is very special.”

Hall had what will go down as the Game 6 winner, completing at 18 seasons the longest stretch between getting picked first and winning the Cup. The 34-year-old winger who was NHL MVP in 2017-18 while playing for New Jersey thrived as a role player with Carolina, his seventh team in the league.

“You never know what kind of turn your life’s going to take,” said Hall, who joined Carolina from Chicago as part of a three-team trade in January 2025 and signed an extension a few months later. “I got fortunate coming here. A special group to do it with. They allowed me, personally, just to come in and have success and that says a lot.”

In that same deal, the Hurricanes got big winger Mikko Rantanen from Colorado. He lasted just 13 games with them before getting flipped to Dallas.

The centerpiece of that return was Stankoven, who was most of the way through his first season with the Stars.

“I didn’t see it coming,” Stankoven said. “It was tough at first just to kind of swallow it and realize that I was getting shipped out.”

Stankoven became the center Carolina needed and led the team in playoff goals with 11. Blake assisted on Hall’s goal and scored the second one Sunday night, showing up big as the youngest player to lift the Cup this time.

“I have no words right now,” the 22-year-old Blake said. “I’m out of breath. But this is the greatest feeling I’ve ever had in my life. It’s unbelievable. And to do it with these guys, my family here and everyone here supporting us, it’s unbelievable.”

It all worked because Stankoven was able to fill the void in the middle that had prevented the Hurricanes from getting over the hump.

Hall became the muscle. Blake was the distributor. Stankoven turned out to be the finisher, while also creating the offense at even strength.

“It’s what you dream of as a kid is to obviously, one, win a Stanley Cup, but you want to be a difference-maker in the NHL,” the 23-year-old Stankoven said. “I know that I’m not a finished product. I still have work to put in, and I’m still a young guy. I just want to keep working at my game and just being a sponge.”

While the Stars are more than happy to have Rantanen in his prime, Stankoven made the best of the move 15 months ago. Last summer, he signed a $48 million contract through 2034 and already looks to be worth every penny.

“Everything kind of happens for a reason,” Stankoven said. “Dallas got their player, and I just want to become the best version of myself here in Carolina.”