basketball
Mac McClung hit a long 3-pointer with 2.6 seconds remaining as the Delaware Blue Courts rebounded in the fourth quarter to beat the Maine Celtics 125-123 in Wilmington, Delaware, on Tuesday night.
After two straight losses to the main, the Blue Coats outscored the Celtics 38-23 in the fourth quarter.
Luka Samanic, who had a season-high 35 points, gave the Mains a 123–122 lead on a 3-pointer, but the Blue Coates went down to win the game.
Maine lost just the second time in nine games this season.
Julien Champagny leads Delaware with 34 points.
WNBA: The Connecticut Sun hired Darius Taylor as the team’s general manager and added assistant GM to Morgan Tuck’s title.
Taylor will replace Kurt Miller, who served as Connecticut’s coach and general manager before leaving to take a coaching job in Los Angeles last month.
Taylor has been with Atlanta since 2017 and has been promoted from assistant coach to interim head coach and assistant GM in 2021.
golf
Hero World Challenge: Tiger Woods painted an uncertain picture of how much golf he could play, saying, “There’s not much left in this leg.”
Woods strictly hosts the tournament at the Albany Golf Club in Nassau, Bahamas. He had to withdraw on Monday after plantar fasciitis in his right foot made it difficult to walk 72 holes, even on a relatively flat course for a holiday event.
Woods said he had been scoring low at his home in Florida while he was in the cart. and next weekend’s PNC Championship with my son) will allow karting.
“I can hit a golf ball, I can hit any shot,” he said. “I just can’t walk.”
He said the plantar fasciitis was related to injuries sustained in a car accident in Los Angeles in February 2021, ending his hopes of playing regularly.
tennis
Davis Cup: US Davis Cup team coaches Mardy Fish and Bob Bryan have each been fined $10,000 for promoting gambling operators via social media.
The International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) announced the suspension, saying Fish and Bryan cooperated fully with the investigation and immediately removed the offending posts.
They were provisionally removed and given a four-month ban that would only come into effect if there was another offense by Fish or Bryan during the four-month probation period that began Nov. 11. .
“Bob and I were promoting the Draft Kings during the US Open and were unaware it was not allowed,” Fish wrote in an email to the Associated Press. and cooperated with the ITIA.”
baseball
Major: Jose Abreu and the World Series champion Astros have agreed to a three-year deal worth $58.5 million, adding another strong bat to Houston’s lineup.
Abreu, the 2020 AL MVP, will earn $19.5 million each over the next three seasons.
• The Pittsburgh Pirates signed veteran first baseman/designated hitter Carlos Santana to a one-year deal.
The transaction value is $6.75 million.
The 36-year-old addition makes the young Pirates an experienced hitter that the team hopes to set an example for in 2023.
• The Major League Baseball Players Association has decided to extend Executive Director Tony Clarke’s contract through 2027.
Clark, 50, had a 15-year big league career, primarily with the Tigers and Diamondbacks, and helped broker players’ current employment contracts with MLB. The MLBPA and he said MLB agreed to a new contract in March after months of negotiations, completely saving the 162-game season.
The five-year extension means Clarke is well positioned to lead the players on their next contract. The current contract is set to expire after the 2026 season.
Clark has been busy over the last few years, helping guide his players through the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season. He also helped the union add thousands more players after the minor leagues voted to join his MLBPA earlier this year.
auto race
Formula One: Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto will leave the team at the end of next month after four years of struggling to keep up with F1’s leaders.
Binotto has been with Ferrari for 28 years and took over the role of team principal in 2019.
The team failed to win in 2020 and 2021, but 2022 got off to a promising start with Charles Leclerc winning two of the first three races.
Ferrari was criticized for its botched pit and tire strategy while Binotto was in charge. A failed pit stop at the Dutch Grand Prix in September was initially seen as a symbol of Ferrari’s difficulties, with Carlos Sainz Jr.’s car fitted with only his three tires.
Ferrari did not immediately name a successor, but said the choice “will be finalized in the new year”.
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