Sports Briefs
By Associated Press
Argentina soccer
says its Olympic training base was robbed
Argentina men’s soccer coach Javier Mascherano said the team’s Olympic training base was robbed before its chaotic tournament-opening loss to Morocco on Wednesday. The Argentina delegation filed a police complaint in Lyon, the prosecutor’s office of nearby Saint-Etienne said Thursday. Mascherano said a watch was among the items taken. It has been a troubled start to the Olympics for Argentina, which took gold in 2004 and 2008.
Amazon Prime Video’s global reach was a major factor in 11-year agreement with NBA
Amazon’s 11-year agreement with the NBA includes 66 regular-season games, including a doubleheader on Thursday nights after the NFL’s regular season is over. It also includes all six NBA Play-In Tournament games, about one-third of the games in the first two rounds of the playoffs and the knockout rounds of the NBA Cup in-season tournament. It will also carry one of the conference finals series for six seasons. The more intriguing parts may be what Prime Video gets internationally. It will be the global distributor for NBA League Pass as well as an expanded package of games for Mexico, Brazil, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Britain and Ireland.
Kershaw makes 2024 debut with Dodgers
LOS ANGELES | Clayton Kershaw made his season debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday, striking out six and allowing two runs and six hits in his return from offseason shoulder surgery. With his return to the lineup against the San Francisco Giants, Kershaw became the only pitcher to play for the Dodgers in at least 17 seasons and ended his longest absence from the big leagues. The 36-year-old left-hander worked four innings, walking two and throwing 47 of his 72 pitches for strikes. The three-time NL Cy Young Award winner exited the game with the Dodgers leading the Giants 3-2. He didn’t figure in the decision because he didn’t pitch five innings.
Winfield Jr. picked as
the top safety in the AP’s NFL Top 5 rankings
Antoine Winfield Jr.’s stellar play on the field earned him a lucrative contract this offseason that was the richest ever for any defensive back. That play also led Winfield to be selected as the top safety in the NFL by The Associated Press. Winfield got six of the eight first-place votes from a panel of AP Pro Football Writers to beat out Baltimore’s versatile safety Kyle Hamilton for the top spot. Hamilton got one first-place vote to come in second and Minkah Fitzpatrick got the other first-place vote and finished third. Jessie Bates III and Jevon Holland rounded out the top five.
