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Flames roll in Game 4, draw level with Stars

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May 10, 2022

Flames roll in Game 4, draw level with Stars

Johnny Gaudreau scored a penalty-shot goal and contributed an assist as the visiting Calgary Flames evened their first-round Western Conference playoff series against the Dallas Stars with a 4-1 victory on Monday in Game 4.

Rasmus Andersson, Elias Lindholm and Mikael Backlund also scored for the Flames. Jacob Markstrom made 34 saves for the win.

Tyler Seguin replied with a late goal for the Stars, who received a 50-save performance from Jake Oettinger. The Dallas goalie surrendered as many goals as he had in the first three games, but through four playoff outings this year, he has stopped 143 of 149 shots.

Game 5 of the best-of-seven series will be played Wednesday in Calgary.

The Flames set a franchise record for shots on goal in a non-overtime playoff game with 54. They had 19 in a dominant first period but didn’t open the scoring until just past the game’s midway point.

With Calgary on a five-on-three power play, Andersson played catch with Matthew Tkachuk until he received the pass where he wanted it and unloaded a top-corner one-timer from the top of the right circle. It was Calgary’s 31st shot of the game.

Gaudreau doubled the lead with a penalty-shot goal 7:47 into the third period, a chance awarded after John Klingberg hooked his hands while on a breakaway. Gaudreau faked a shot and then tucked home a deke for his first goal of the series.

It was the second penalty-shot goal in Flames playoff history, with an Al MacInnis tally in 1990 the other. Gaudreau had a penalty-shot chance in the 2019 playoffs but didn’t convert.

Lindholm made it a 3-0 game by burying his team’s 50th shot of the game from the slot at 11:53 of the third. It was his third of the playoffs.

Seguin scored a power-play goal with 4:57 remaining, which snapped his 18-game playoff goal drought, but Backlund’s empty-net goal with 21.9 seconds left sealed the game.

–Field Level Media

Al Horford helps Celtics pull even with Bucks

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Al Horford helps Celtics pull even with Bucks

Al Horford poured in a career-playoff-high 30 points as the visiting Boston Celtics earned a 116-108 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday night to even their Eastern Conference semifinal series at two games apiece.

The 15-year NBA veteran shot 11 of 14 from the field, including a 5-of-7 mark from 3-point range, to swing homecourt advantage back in Boston’s favor. The Celtics overcame an 11-point, third-quarter deficit.

Game 5 in the best-of-seven series is scheduled for Wednesday in Boston.

Jayson Tatum also had 30 points and grabbed 13 rebounds for the Celtics, and Jaylen Brown and Marcus Smart both tallied 18 points. Smart dished out eight assists.

Giannis Antetokounmpo was outstanding once again, pacing Milwaukee with 34 points, 18 rebounds and five assists. He shot 14 of 32 from the floor.

Jrue Holiday contributed 16 points, seven rebounds and nine assists, and Brook Lopez supplied 17 points and seven rebounds.

Boston went on a 10-0 run spanning the third and fourth quarters to tie the game, and the Celtics outscored the Bucks 43-28 in the final period. It was the Celtics’ highest-scoring quarter through eight postseason games this year.

Horford scored two buckets in the opening 2:09 of the fourth quarter, including a dunk that tied it at 80-80. He later made two go-ahead 3-pointers, putting Boston ahead 88-85 and later giving the Celtics a 95-94 edge that it never relinquished.

The Bucks had made their move in the third quarter behind 13 points from Antetokounmpo, leading by as much as 76-65. The Celtics pulled within seven by the start of the fourth.

After once leading by 10 in the first half, the Bucks went into the break with a narrow 48-47 lead.

Antetokounmpo led all scorers with 15 points and 11 rebounds before halftime and was the only Milwaukee scorer in double figures.

The Bucks were extremely active on defense in the opening half, turning seven Boston turnovers into 11 points. Milwaukee also won the battle on the glass prior to halftime, hauling in 29 rebounds compared to the Celtics’ 21.

Brown and Horford each went for 11 points, and Tatum added nine despite going just 1-of-6 from beyond the arc.

Tatum finished 3 of 10 from long distance, while the rest of the Celtics were a respectable 11 of 27 (40.7 percent). The Bucks hit 9 of 27 (33.3 percent) from 3-point range, and they wound up with a 48-38 rebounding advantage.

–Field Level Media

Warriors coach Steve Kerr (COVID protocol) out for Game 4

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Warriors coach Steve Kerr (COVID protocol) out for Game 4

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr entered COVID-19 health and safety protocol and will miss Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal series against the visiting Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night.

Associate head coach Mike Brown — who, earlier Monday, was formally announced as the next head coach of the Sacramento Kings — will coach the Warriors in Game 4.

Reports indicated that Kerr tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday. The 56-year-old has coached the Warriors since 2014 and guided the franchise to NBA titles in 2015, 2017 and 2018.

Kerr has a 429-200 career record in the regular season and an 83-30 mark in the postseason.

Brown, former head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Los Angeles Lakers, owns a 347-216 record as a head coach. The 52-year-old has worked on Golden State’s staff since 2016 and was part of two Warriors title teams (2017 and 2018).

–Field Level Media

Sidney Crosby’s 3-point game fuels Penguins’ rout of Rangers

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Sidney Crosby’s 3-point game fuels Penguins’ rout of Rangers

Sidney Crosby had a goal and two assists Monday to reach 200 career playoff points and help the Pittsburgh Penguins clobber the visiting New York Rangers 7-2.

The victory gives Pittsburgh a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven, first-round Eastern Conference playoff series. The Penguins could close out the series in Game 5 on Wednesday in New York.

Jake Guentzel added a goal and an assist for the Penguins, who scored five goals in the second period. Mike Matheson, Mark Friedman, Danton Heinen, Jeff Carter and Evgeni Malkin scored while Kris Letang had two assists.

Pittsburgh goaltender Louis Domingue made 22 saves.

Alexis Lafreniere and Adam Fox scored for the Rangers.

New York goaltender Igor Shesterkin, who was pulled following one period in Game 3, got yanked after the second on Monday. He gave up six goals on 30 shots. Sub Alexandar Georgiev stopped 10 of the 11 shots he faced.

The Rangers struck first. Lafreniere, from above the right hash marks, used Letang as a screen and placed the puck under Domingue’s glove at 2:06 of the first period.

Crosby tied it on a power play at 11:17 of the first. From the right post, he whacked the puck under Shesterkin’s pad after a Letang shot. The play required a review to confirm the goal.

At 3:14 of the second, Crosby won a faceoff back to Matheson, whose shot from the center point went in off the stick of New York’s Frank Vatrano to make it 2-1.

Guentzel scored 24 seconds later to extend the lead to 3-1. He directed the puck in on a backdoor feed from Crosby. That gave Guentzel five goals in the series’ first four games.

Friedman scored at 11:22 of the second when his shot from the slot was another that went in off Vatrano, pushing the Penguins’ lead to 4-1.

At 14:04 of the second, Fox pulled the Rangers within 4-2 when his shot from the far side of the left circle went in off Matheson’s skate.

Heinen scored on a backhanded redirect of a Letang shot with 1:07 left in the middle period. Carter redirected a Jason Zucker shot with 32 seconds remaining to put the Penguins in control 6-2 going into the third.

At 12:22 of the third, Malkin roofed a feed from Kasperi Kapanen.

–Field Level Media

NCAA looks to relax conference title game restrictions

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NCAA looks to relax conference title game restrictions

The NCAA took a major step toward updating rules surrounding conference title games for the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), reports said Monday.

The NCAA Football Oversight Committed put forward new recommendations on April 28 that, among other things, would remove a longstanding requirement for conferences to be split into divisions in order to stage a championship game.

Conferences with 12 or more members are currently obliged to have two divisions that play a round-robin schedule during the regular season, with the division winners meeting in a conference title game. Conferences without divisions, such as the 10-team Big 12, must play a full round-robin.

The oversight committee voted to recommend removing the requirements altogether, which would give individual conferences more freedom to decide which teams will play in their conference championship game.

Some conferences are expected to eliminate divisions in favor of alternative scheduling formats. ESPN reported Monday that the ACC has discussed eliminating divisions as early as the 2023 football season.

The Division I Council will meet later this month to ratify the updated rules, with multiple media reports indicating that the recommendation is expected to pass.

–Field Level Media

Grizzlies star Ja Morant (knee) ruled out for Game 4

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Grizzlies star Ja Morant (knee) ruled out for Game 4

Memphis Grizzlies star Ja Morant will miss Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals Monday night against the host Golden State Warriors.

Shortly after he became an official scratch, Morant took to Twitter to express his frustration, saying in part, “God wouldn’t put something hard in your life if he thought you weren’t strong enough to get thru it.”

stand tall. stay solid.
– God wouldn’t put something hard in your life if he thought you weren’t strong enough to get thru it ??

– Ja Morant (@JaMorant) May 10, 2022

Morant was listed as doubtful entering the day after suffering an apparent right knee injury near the end of Game 3 on Saturday. Amid an already chippy series, Golden State guard Jordan Poole came under scrutiny for grabbing Morant’s knee while they both went for a loose ball.

According to multiple media outlets, there will be no discipline handed down for the play.

After the Grizzlies’ shootaround Monday afternoon, Memphis coach Taylor Jenkins said Morant had undergone an MRI but declined to share more about his status. Reporters at the shootaround noted that Morant was visibly limping.

Morant averaged 27.4 points, 5.7 rebounds and 6.7 assists per game in his third season on his way to winning the NBA’s Most Improved Player Award. He is averaging 38.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 8.3 assists through the first three games of the semifinals.

The second-seeded Grizzlies trail the third-seeded Warriors 2-1 in the best-of-seven series entering Monday.

–Field Level Media

NCAA releases new NIL guidelines regarding boosters

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NCAA releases new NIL guidelines regarding boosters

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors on Monday sent member schools guidelines to govern name, image and likeness (NIL) rights.

NIL has become the primary avenue college athletes have been able to explore to generate revenue for themselves since that practice became legal from an NCAA perspective last summer.

The new guidelines, which arrive 10 months after the NCAA lost its Supreme Court case pertaining to student revenue, dictate that boosters should not have contact with prospective college athletes nor their family or other representatives, a clear attempt to limit incentivizing athletes to sign with schools.

Per the official documentation, “NCAA rules preclude boosters from engaging in recruiting activities, including recruiting conversations, on behalf of a school. Further, NCAA recruiting rules preclude boosters from providing benefits to PSAs and preclude institutional staff members from being involved, directly or indirectly, with the provision of benefits to a PSA (prospect student athlete).

“Recruiting conversations between an individual or entity that has triggered booster status and a PSA are not permissible.

“NIL agreements must be based on an independent, case-by-case analysis of the value that each athlete brings to an NIL agreement as opposed to providing compensation or incentives for enrollment decisions, athletic performance, achievement or membership on a team.”

The NCAA’s guidance, therefore, arrives with the suggestion that NIL payments to entice recruits has never been acceptable, not even in light of the rules changes last summer, and could result in sanctions retroactively.

“While the NCAA may pursue the most outrageous violations that were clearly contrary to the interim policy adopted last summer, our focus is on the future,” board chair and University of Georgia president Jere Morehead told ESPN.

That statement provides some of the sharpest teeth the NCAA has yet displayed throughout this process, though the risk of antitrust lawsuits levied by boosters remains a deterrent against the NCAA providing a heavy hand in enforcement.

NCAA sanctions against violating schools are more likely to focus on institutional punishment rather than player eligibility, per reporting from Sports Illustrated, though it remains unclear what that might entail.

–Field Level Media

Carter Verhaeghe’s OT goal lifts Panthers past Capitals

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Carter Verhaeghe’s OT goal lifts Panthers past Capitals

Carter Verhaeghe scored his second goal of the game 4:57 into overtime as the visiting Florida Panthers defeated the Washington Capitals 3-2 on Monday to level their first-round Eastern Conference playoff series at two wins apiece.

On the winning goal, Verhaeghe got his own rebound and fired the shot in off the right post. The play was reviewed for possible interference on Jonathan Huberdeau, but it was ruled a good goal.

The Panthers will host Game 5 of the best-of-seven series on Wednesday night.

Sam Reinhart scored Florida’s other goal, and Aaron Ekblad had two assists. Florida goalie Sergei Bobrovsky made 14 saves for the win.

T.J. Oshie had a goal and an assist and Evgeny Kuznetsov also scored for the Capitals. Washington goalie Ilya Samsonov made 29 saves.

The eighth-seeded Capitals went 1-for-5 on the power play. For the series, they are 5-for-16 with the man advantage.

Florida, which led the NHL in goals scored and also had the best record in the league in the regular season, won despite going 0-for-4 on the power play.

For the series, the Panthers are 0-for-13 with the man advantage.

Washington opened the scoring on a power-play goal with 7:15 gone in the first as John Carlson’s shot from the point deflected in off Oshie’s shin pads. The power play was set up when Sam Bennett was called for tripping Dmitry Orlov.

Florida tied the score 1-1 with 14:08 expired in the first as Verhaeghe and Ekblad got loose on a two-on-one rush. By the time Eklbad’s pass reached Verhaeghe, he was all alone at the doorstep, and he stuffed the puck in five-hole.

Neither team scored in a second period that was mostly dominated by the Panthers, who outshot Washington 12-4 for those 20 minutes. Both teams failed on three power plays in that second period.

The Capitals took a 2-1 lead with 10:29 left in the third as Kuznetsov outwaited Bobrovsky, holding the puck until he hit the far side of the net from a sharp angle.

Just prior to that goal, Oshie had perhaps the game’s most controversial play as his high hit on Bennett was not called. The Capitals scored their go-ahead goal just a few seconds later.

However, after pulling Bobrovsky for an extra attacker, the Panthers tied the score on Reinhart’s goal from the slot with 2:04 left in the third. Huberdeau and Aleksander Barkov earned assists as Reinhart knocked in a loose puck.

–Field Level Media

Grizzlies’ Dillon Brooks remorseful over foul that injured Gary Payton II

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Grizzlies’ Dillon Brooks remorseful over foul that injured Gary Payton II

Memphis Grizzlies forward Dillon Brooks said Monday that he didn’t mean to injure Gary Payton II of the Golden State Warriors during Game 2 of their Western Conference semifinal series.

Brooks was assessed a flagrant-2 on a foul that fractured Payton’s elbow. He was suspended for Game 3 and will return Monday night for Game 4 in San Francisco.

“It’s in the past,” Brooks said after Memphis’ shootaround. “I didn’t mean for it to hurt somebody. If I were to take it back in a moment, I would. But it’s in the past.”

Brooks went for a foul from behind on a breakaway, leveling Payton as he went up from the left side for a layup. Brooks’ right arm hit Payton in the neck and head and propelled Payton to the floor.

Payton is out for up to four weeks as a result.

It led Warriors coach Steve Kerr to say after the game, “That wasn’t physical. That was dirty … Dillon Brooks broke the code. He broke the code.”

Brooks, who said Monday he was trying to make a play on the ball, didn’t understand Kerr’s position.

“I don’t really even know what that means,” Brooks said. “It’s the playoffs. Every bucket, every possession, every play counts. So I didn’t understand what he meant by that.”

Brooks’ encounter with Payton was just one piece of an increasingly chippy playoff series. Each game has featured one ejection, including the Warriors’ Draymond Green in Game 1 and the Grizzlies’ Kyle Anderson in Game 3. Anderson was ejected for arguing a foul call with officials.

Warriors guard Jordan Poole received blowback for a play in Game 3 that left Grizzlies star Ja Morant limping. As of Monday evening, Morant’s status for Game 4 was doubtful.

–Field Level Media

State of Mississippi suing Brett Favre, others over welfare funds

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May 10, 2022

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State of Mississippi suing Brett Favre, others over welfare funds

A civil lawsuit has been filed in Mississippi that attempts to recoup lost welfare money earmarked to address poverty, and former NFL quarterback Brett Favre is among 38 entities named in the suit.

The Mississippi Department of Human Services is suing Favre, as well as three former pro wrestlers, as it attempts to recover millions of misspent welfare dollars.

Favre, a longtime Mississippi resident, received $1.1 million from the state agency in exchange for speeches and public appearances that were never delivered. The Hall-of-Famer paid back the full amount, but the state remains committed to collecting interest, which amounts to $228,000.

The three wrestlers in question, Brett DiBiase, Ted DiBiase Sr. (aka “The Million Dollar Man”) and Ted DiBiase Jr., ran an organization called “Heart of David Ministries Inc.,” which received $1.7 million in grant money in 2017-18.

The lawsuit was filed shortly after Nancy New and Zachary New, a mother and son who ran a nonprofit group charged with misspending, pled guilty to state criminal charges and reached an agreement to testify against others.

–Field Level Media

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Flames roll in Game 4, draw level with Stars

Al Horford helps Celtics pull even with Bucks

Warriors coach Steve Kerr (COVID protocol) out for Game 4

Sidney Crosby’s 3-point game fuels Penguins’ rout of Rangers

NCAA looks to relax conference title game restrictions

Grizzlies star Ja Morant (knee) ruled out for Game 4

NCAA releases new NIL guidelines regarding boosters

Carter Verhaeghe’s OT goal lifts Panthers past Capitals

Grizzlies’ Dillon Brooks remorseful over foul that injured Gary Payton II

State of Mississippi suing Brett Favre, others over welfare funds

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