BASKETBALL
Mac McClung hit a protracted 3-pointer with 2.6 seconds left because the Delaware Blue Coats rallied within the fourth quarter to beat the Maine Celtics 125-123 Tuesday night time at Wilmington, Delaware.
The Blue Coats, who had misplaced two straight to Maine, outscored the Celtics 38-23 within the fourth quarter.
Luka Samanic, who had a season-high 35 factors, gave Maine a 123-122 lead with a 3-pointer, however the Blue Coats got here all the way down to win the sport.
Maine misplaced for simply the second time this season in 9 video games.
Julian Champagnie led Delaware with 34 factors.
WNBA: The Connecticut Solar employed Darius Taylor because the staff’s normal supervisor and added assistant GM to Morgan Tuck’s title.
Taylor takes over for Curt Miller, who served as Connecticut’s coach and normal supervisor earlier than he left to take the teaching job with Los Angeles final month.
Taylor had been with Atlanta since 2017, rising from assistant coach to interim head coach and assistant GM in 2021.
GOLF
HERO WORLD CHALLENGE: Tiger Woods painted an unsure image about how a lot golf he can play, saying that “I don’t have a lot left on this leg.”
Woods is at Albany Golf Membership in Nassau, Bahamas, strictly because the event host. He needed to withdraw on Monday due to plantar fasciitis in his proper foot that makes it too tough to stroll over 72 holes, even on a comparatively flat course for a vacation occasion.
Woods mentioned he was posting low scores at residence in Florida whereas using in a cart. And his subsequent two occasions – a made-for-TV match over 12 holes on Dec. 10, and the PNC Championship together with his son the next weekend – enable for carts.
“I can hit the golf ball and hit no matter shot you need,” he mentioned. “I simply can’t stroll.”
He mentioned the plantar fasciitis was associated to accidents he suffered within the Los Angeles automobile crash in February 2021, which ended any hope of him enjoying frequently.
TENNIS
DAVIS CUP: U.S. Davis Cup staff coaches Mardy Fish and Bob Bryan had been fined $10,000 apiece for selling a playing operator by way of social media.
The Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company (ITIA) introduced the punishments, saying Fish and Bryan cooperated absolutely with its investigation and eliminated the problematic posts instantly.
They got four-month bans that had been provisionally put aside and shall be enforced provided that there’s one other breach by Fish or Bryan throughout a four-month probationary interval that started on Nov. 11.
“Bob and I did a DraftKings promo through the U.S. Open that we had been unaware we weren’t allowed to do,” Fish wrote in an e-mail to The Related Press. “As quickly as we came upon, I deleted the posts and cooperated with the ITIA.”
BASEBALL
MAJORS: Jose Abreu and the World Sequence champion Astros agreed to a $58.5 million, three-year contract, including one other highly effective bat to Houston’s lineup.
Abreu, the 2020 AL MVP, will get $19.5 million in every of the following three seasons.
• The Pittsburgh Pirates have signed veteran first baseman/designated hitter Carlos Santana to a 1-year contract.
The deal is value $6.75 million.
The arrival of the 36-year-old offers the younger Pirates an skilled hitter who the staff hopes will function a job mannequin in 2023.
• Infielder Jeimer Candelario agreed to a one-year cope with the Washington Nationals, giving the membership somebody to compete for the beginning job at third base.
The 29-year-old Candelario is a switch-hitter who’s coming off a down 12 months for the Detroit Tigers, hitting simply .217 with a .272 on-base share in 2022.
However in 2021, he tied for the main league lead with 42 doubles and batted .271 with a .351 on-base share, 16 homers and a career-best 67 RBI.
• The Main League Baseball Gamers Affiliation voted to increase the contract of government director Tony Clark by way of 2027.
The 50-year-old Clark – who had a 15-year huge league profession, largely with the Tigers and Diamondbacks – helped dealer the gamers’ present labor cope with MLB. After a number of contentious months of negotiations, the MLBPA and MLB agreed to the brand new deal in March, which saved a full 162-game season.
The five-year extension means Clark is in place to guide the gamers by way of their subsequent deal, too. The present contract is about to run out after the 2026 season.
Clark has had a busy previous few years, serving to information the gamers by way of the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season. He additionally helped the union add hundreds of extra gamers after the minor leagues voted to affix the MLBPA earlier this 12 months.
AUTO RACING
FORMULA ONE: Ferrari staff principal Mattia Binotto is leaving the staff on the finish of subsequent month after 4 years by which they typically struggled to maintain up with Components One’s leaders.
Binotto has been with Ferrari for 28 years and took over the staff principal function in 2019.
The staff was winless in 2020 and 2021, however began 2022 promisingly as Charles Leclerc gained two of the opening three races, just for his title problem to fizzle out as Pink Bull’s Max Verstappen gained the championship with ease.
Ferrari got here beneath criticism for blunders in its pit and tire methods throughout Binotto’s time in cost. A botched pit cease on the Dutch Grand Prix in September noticed solely three tires initially fitted to Carlos Sainz Jr.’s automobile and was seen as an emblem of Ferrari’s difficulties.
Ferrari didn’t instantly title a successor however mentioned its selection “is anticipated to be finalized within the new 12 months.”
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