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• SPORTS BRIEFS

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  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.
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