IN BRIEF
The purported comments by Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling urging his girlfriend to not bring black people to his team's games drew protests on Sunday, ranging from his players wearing their jerseys inside out to Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan saying “I'm completely outraged.”
Jordan released a statement Sunday addressing the matter, saying that as an owner, “I'm completely disgusted that a fellow team owner could hold such sickening and offensive views.”
Magic Johnson had some of the strongest condemnation.
“He shouldn't own a team anymore,” Johnson said.
Even President Barack Obama weighed in on the issue at a news conference in Malaysia.
“When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk,” Obama said.
NEW YORK — Steve Kerr said Sunday he spoke with Phil Jackson twice over the weekend and that they will continue discussing the possibility of him becoming coach of the New York Knicks.Kerr said he had dinner with Jackson, his former coach with Chicago and the new Knicks team president, on Friday night and they talked again Saturday.
RENO, Nev. — A Nevada man who claims an illegal ticket policy kept him from attending San Francisco's NFL playoff game at Seattle in January is suing the league and others for $50 million for alleged “economic discrimination.”John E. Williams III of Las Vegas says in a federal lawsuit against the NFL, the Seahawks, Ticketmaster and others that he was denied a chance to buy tickets to the NFC Championship Game under a sales policy that made them available only in selected markets.
CHICAGO — White Sox slugger Jose Abreu set a major league rookie record for RBIs through the end of April.Abreu drove in four runs Sunday, giving him 31 RBIs this season. He homered and singled against Tampa Bay. He began the day tied for the record with Albert Pujols, who had 27 RBIs in early 2001 for St. Louis.Abreu's 10th homer extended his own record for home runs by a rookie through April.
TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have set a major league record by fielding a starting lineup with six players from the Dominican Republic.The Blue Jays did it Sunday at home against the Boston Red Sox.
DALY CITY, Calif. — Lydia Ko birdied the final hole for her third LPGA Tour victory and first as a professional, holding off Stacy Lewis and Jenny Shin in the inaugural Swinging Skirts LPGA Classic.It went down to the final shots, and the teen made a 6-foot birdie putt moments before Lewis knocked in a 4-footer of her own to finish one stroke back.
