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Clippers sign three-time All-Star Bradley Beal after Suns buyout

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Clippers have signed three-time All-Star guard Bradley Beal after the final two years of his contract were bought out by the Phoenix Suns earlier this week. The team announced his signing on Friday. Beal agreed to an $11 million, two-year deal, his agent ...

Damian Lillard returns to the Trail Blazers

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Damian Lillard is back where he started. Lillard signed a three-year deal worth $42 million to return to the Portland Trail Blazers, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Thursday. The person spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity ...

Former Eagles special teams ace Braman dies from rare form of cancer

Bryan Braman, a key special teams player for the Philadelphia Eagles' first Super Bowl championship team, has died from a rare and aggressive form of cancer. He was 38. Braman was diagnosed earlier this year and had multiple surgeries in recent months in an attempt to treat the illness. He ...

British Open has 5-way tie for the lead

PORTRUSH, Northern Ireland (AP) — Sunlight streaked through a few low-hanging clouds when Padraig Harrington opened the British Open with a piercing 3-iron into the wind. Darkness began covering Royal Portrush nearly 16 hours later Thursday night when the final group trudged off the 18th ...

Swing-off sensation: Schwarber earns the All-Star MVP award

ATLANTA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber was nervous. He had played in Game 7 of the World Series, homered for the United States in the World Baseball Classic. But he had never walked up to the plate in an All-Star Game swing-off. No one had. "That's kind of like the baseball version of a shootout," ...