BASEBALL
Price sorry for swearing
Cincinnati Reds manager Bryan Price apologized for his profanity-filled media session before Monday’s game, a five-and-a-half-minute tirade the Cincinnati Enquirer said included at least 88 curse words. Price said on the Reds’ Twitter page that he used “wholly inappropriate language” to describe the media coverage of the team. Price said he is sorry for his choice of words, yet stands by the content of his message. Price’s rant to about 10 reporters before Monday’s 6-1 win in Milwaukee on Monday was about sharing roster information with the media that could be used to an opponent’s advantage. He also voiced frustration that Reds’ personnel moves had been reported on Twitter before the coaching staff had a chance to inform the players involved. The Reds have a 6-7 record this season, Price’s second as the Major League Baseball club’s manager.
BASKETBALL
Budenholzer coach of year
Mike Budenholzer, who led the Atlanta Hawks to a franchise-record 60 wins this season, has been named the NBA’s coach of the year, the league announced on Tuesday. Budenholzer received 67 first-place votes and a total of 513 points from a nationwide panel of sportswriters to beat out Golden State’s Steve Kerr for the award. Atlanta won the Southeast Division and earned the top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs. The Hawks had a 19-game winning streak during the season, including a perfect 17-0 record in the month of January, which helped a team-record four Hawks make the All-Star game.
ICE HOCKEY
Olympic recruiting starts
The process of getting NHL players to travel to the 2018 Winter Olympics has begun. International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) president Rene Fasel on Tuesday said that he has been consulting players and officials over a deal to ensure the NHL’s best are available to play at the Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. “We are working on that. It will not be easy for sure, but our goal is to bring the NHL to [South] Korea,” Fasel said on the sidelines of the SportAccord convention. “It’s a long way. We started one year ago. It’s a long process. We have so many partners involved, so many, so it takes time.” The IIHF must reach a deal with NHL officials, the NHL Players’ Association and the International Olympic Committee to get the players on board for the Games. Insurance for player injuries is a perennial sticking point. For the last Winter Olympics in Sochi, a deal was reached seven months before the Games. Fasel also said he did not consider next year’s revived World Cup, organized by the NHL, to be a threat to the IIHF’s annual world championship. The World Cup will be played in September next year, four months after the world championship, which usually lacks many major NHL names.
CRICKET
Khan to replace Khan
Fast bowler Imran Khan will replace Sohail Khan, who has not recovered sufficiently from his back injury, for the two-Test series in Bangladesh, the Pakistan Cricket Board said. The 31-year-old Sohail suffered back spasms and missed the three-match one-day international series, which Pakistan lost, having gone down in the first two matches. Imran, 27, has played three Tests for Pakistan, who have also lost batsman Sohaib Maqsood, and leg-spinner Yasir Shah for the Bangladesh tour through injuries. The first of the two Tests start in Khulna on Tuesday, with the second match in Dhaka starting on May 6.
A sumo star was born in Japan on Sunday when 24-year-old Takerufuji became the first wrestler in 110 years to win a top-division tournament on his debut, triumphing at the 15-day Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in Osaka despite injuring his ankle on the penultimate day. Takerufuji, whose injury had left him in a wheelchair outside the ring, shoved out the higher-ranked Gonoyama at the Edion Arena Osaka to the delight of the crowd, giving him an unassailable record of 13 wins and two losses to claim the Emperor’s Cup. “I did it just through willpower. I didn’t really know what was going
The US’ Ilia Malinin on Saturday produced six scintillating quadruple jumps, including a quadruple Axel, in the men’s free skate to capture his first figure skating world title. The 19-year-old nicknamed the “Quad god,” who is the only skater to land a quadruple Axel in competition, dazzled with an array of breathtakingly executed jumps starting with his quad Axel and including a quadruple Lutz in combination with a triple flip and a quadruple toe loop in combination with a triple toe. He added an unexpected triple-triple combination at the end to earn a world-record 227.79 in the free program for a championship
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter is being criminally investigated by the IRS, and the attorney for his alleged bookmaker said Thursday that the ex-Los Angeles Dodgers employee placed bets on international soccer — but not baseball. The IRS confirmed Thursday that interpreter Ippei Mizuhara and Mathew Bowyer, the alleged illegal bookmaker, are under criminal investigation through the agency’s Los Angeles Field Office. IRS Criminal Investigation spokesperson Scott Villiard said he could not provide additional details. Mizuhara, 39, was fired by the Dodgers on Wednesday following reports from the Los Angeles Times and ESPN about his alleged ties to an illegal bookmaker and debts well
HSIEH MAKES QUARTERS: Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei and Elise Mertens of Belgium won in the women’s doubles and face Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Sofia Kenin of the US Top-ranked Iga Swiatek and US Open champion Coco Gauff were knocked out of the women’s singles at the Miami Open on Monday, while Taiwan’s Hsieh Su-wei advanced in the women’s doubles. Swiatek lost to Ekaterina Alexandrova 6-4, 6-2, hours after third seed Gauff fell in three sets to No. 23 Caroline Garcia 6-3, 1-6, 6-2. Alexandrova beat a top-ranked player for the first time and advanced to face Jessica Pegula, a 7-6 (7/1), 6-3 winner over Emma Navarro, in the quarter-finals. Alexandrova recorded her second win over Swiatek, following a 2021 victory in Melbourne. Swiatek had won their three matches since. “We played quite