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Th e only junior that participated in the 19th Steinlager I’a Lapo’a Game Fishing Tournament – Women & Junior Day, was Jade Cox who took 1st place overall in the Juniors category aft er she lured in three yellowfi n tuna (51.6lb., 45.8lb., and 19.2lb.) this past Wednesday. [photo: courtesy]

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Loosey from Double Hook took 1st Place and 2nd Place in the Yellowfi n cat-egory of the 19th Steinlager I’a Lapo’a Game Fishing Tournament – Women’s & Juniors Day aft er luring in her winning fi sh at 63.8lbs. Her second place yellowfi n catch weighed 63.4lbs. [photo: courtesy]

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NEW YORK (AP) — David Fizdale is coming back to coaching as the latest pick of the New York Knicks to turn around their franchise.

The Knicks agreed to hire Fizdale on Thursday, a person with knowledge of the details said.

The former Memphis Griz-zlies coach will replace Jeff Hornacek, who was fi red last month after two seasons.

The Knicks then conducted a lengthy search before agreeing Thursday to a deal in principle with Fizdale, the person told The Associated Press on con-dition of anonymity because the deal was not offi cially announced.

ESPN fi rst reported the agreement with Fizdale.

Fizdale led the Grizzlies to the playoffs in his fi rst season before being fi red early last season following a clash with star center Marc Gasol.

That did little to diminish the respect of Fizdale, who had been an assistant to Erik Spoel-stra in Miami when the Heat won two NBA championships and developed strong relation-ships with superstars LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.

The Knicks will hope he will have the same effect on their young team, which has missed the playoffs the past fi ve sea-sons and could struggle again next season while All-Star Kri-staps Porzingis recovers from a torn knee ligament.

Fizdale went 43-39 and led the Grizzlies to the playoffs in his lone full season in Mem-phis. He lasted just 19 games into the following season, when Gasol publicly objected to being left on the bench in the fourth quarter of a game.

Fizdale then did some work in TV and was mentioned as a candidate for nearly every job that became available this offseason,

He ends up becoming the 11th Knicks coach since Jeff Van Gundy resigned in the 2001-02 season.

Hornacek went 60-104 and the Knicks fi red him at the air-port upon returning from Cleve-land after their season fi nale. Team president Steve Mills and general manager Scott Perry said at the time they wanted someone who could better com-municate with today’s NBA players and said they were searching for someone who would mold the team over the next three to fi ve years.

That seemed to be the situ-ation that was developing in Memphis, where he opened up the offense of what had long been a defensive-minded team in his fi rst season. He then endeared himself to the city during a fi ery rant after a playoff loss to San Antonio, when he was fi ned $30,000 for a tirade against the offi cials during which he said “Take that for data!” and “They’re not going

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FILE - In this April 25, 2017, fi le photo, Memphis Grizzlies head coach David Fizdale directs his players during the fi rst half of Game 5 in a fi rst-round NBA basketball playoff series against the San Antonio Spurs in San Antonio. A person with knowledge of the details said Th ursday, May 3, 2018, that the New York Knicks have agreed to hire Fizdale as their new coach. Th e former Grizzlies coach will replace Jeff Hornacek, who was fi red last month aft er two seasons. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball intends to announce next week the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox will play two games at London’s Olympic Stadium on June 29-30 next year, a person familiar with the planning told The Associated Press.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because no public comments had been authorized.

“I’m excited about going over there,” Yankees slugger Aaron Judge said.

Boston will be the home team for both of MLB’s fi rst regular-season games in Europe.

“One of the biggest rivalries in all of sports,” Red Sox pitcher Joe Kelly said. “We’ll see how the players recover. And that’s always going to be big to take into account travel-wise.”

London Mayor Sadiq Khan scheduled a news conference for Tuesday with baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred but did not announce the subject matter.

“I’ve never been to London, so I’m looking forward to that,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “Can grow our game, obvi-ously, in Europe and hopefully getting two big teams out there will be a great thing for the sport.”

Baseball offi cials have long hoped for games in London and settled last year on Olympic Stadium, which is in its second season as home of soccer’s West Ham of the Premier League. Because it originally was built for a 400-meter track, Olympic Stadium is wider than other large stadiums in the London area and can best accommodate the dimensions of a baseball fi eld.

Each player on the trip will get an extra $60,000 for partici-pating in the games, according to baseball’s collective bargaining

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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — An internal audit has found extensive mismanagement within the budget-challenged Washington State ath-letic department, including the possible infl a-tion of home football attendance fi gures and the improper distribution of free tickets to football games.

“The environment within Athletics ... did not support a culture of compliance or fi scal respon-sibility,” according to the audit, which was com-pleted in mid-April.

The document comes as leaders of the school grapple with a $67 million athletic budget defi cit built up over recent years.

The audit was initially intended to examine the distribution of tickets and passes to Wash-ington State football games to ensure regulations were being followed. But it expanded as prob-lems were discovered with contract management, ethics training, attendance data, benefi ts for ath-letic department employees and other issues.

The school responded to the audit by saying changes were coming because of the hiring of a new athletic director and other top administrators.

“All aspects of the organization structure of WSU Athletics are being evaluated and will be restructured as appropriate by the new Director of Athletics,” the university said in its manage-ment response to the audit. “A new culture and work climate are already being implemented.”

Pat Chun was hired by school President Kirk Schulz in January to be the Cougars’ new AD. He replaced Bill Moos, who was in charge during the period covered by the audit.

Moos, who surprised Cougars fans by leaving for Nebraska last October, said Thursday that he had not seen the audit results.

Washington State, located in Pullman, a town of 30,000 far from the state’s major population centers, has the smallest football stadium (32,700 seats) and smallest athletic budget and revenues in the Pac-12 Conference.

The school spends about $70 million per year on athletics.

The department has run a defi cit of up to $13 million per year in recent years. The defi cit is now down to about $9 million per year and the school is developing a plan to balance the sports budget. The $67 million defi cit was largely caused by spending on renovations to Martin Stadium and a new football operations building, and lower-than-expected television revenues.

The audit initially focused on complimentary tickets for a 2016 home football game against Arizona.

Auditors determined that the Cougar Athletics

Compliance Offi ce did not receive complete information on who got free tickets, a situation which could result in NCAA violations.

In one case, four premium club seats for the Arizona game were given away to “cultivate donors.” But the department was unable to say who received those free tickets, the audit found.

“We put people up there in unused seats to encourage them to purchase seats,” Moos said.

The audit also found mismanagement in the school’s major marketing contract.

Washington State has contracted since 2006 with a company called IMG for sports broad-casting, advertising and marketing. The audit found that IMG was given $40,000 more worth of free football tickets than was required by their contract.

The audit also found the IMG contract was improperly amended, in some cases verbally, by athletics staff.

Management of the university agreed the verbal deals were improper. “We used those instances as training opportunities,” the manage-ment response said.

The audit also found that the department was infl ating home football game attendance fi gures.

For the 2016 Arizona game, the program reported a near sellout, when only about 26,000 tickets were scanned for entry, the audit said.

Later that season, athletics offi cials said the annual Apple Cup game against archrival Wash-ington was a sellout, when scanned attendance was only around 27,000. The audit said accurate attendance numbers were important for bud-getary and facility planning purposes.

Management responded that not all ticket buyers showed up for games, and that it had trouble with faulty scanners and errors by tempo-rary staff manning the gates in the past.

“We released attendance as to sold tickets,” Moos said Thursday.

The audit found potential violations of state law in cases where athletics staff used discounts to upgrade to the premium club seating area of Martin Stadium. Those discounts weren’t offered to the public or to any other university employees, which could make them an illegal special privi-lege, the audit found.

Auditors calculated that the discounts, in place since 2012, potentially cost Washington State over $130,000 in lost revenue for the 2016 football season.

The audit also discovered that over half of ath-letics staff who took advantage of the discount in 2016 didn’t fully pay for their seats. The athletics department has since ended the discount.

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FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2017, fi le photo, fans and players celebrate Washington State’s 30-27 win over Southern California in an NCAA college football game in Pullman, Wash. An internal audit has found extensive mismanagement within the budget-challenged Washington State athletic department, including the possible infl ation of home football attendance fi gures and the improper distribution of free tickets to football games. (AP Photo/Young Kwak, ƒile)

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TORONTO (AP) — LeBron James had 43 points and 14 assists, Kevin Love added 31 points and 11 rebounds, and the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Toronto Raptors 128-110 on Thursday night to take a 2-0 lead in their second-round playoff series.

J.R. Smith scored 15 points, Jeff Green had 14 and George Hill 13 as the Cavaliers posted their eighth consecutive post-season victory over the Raptors and halted Toronto’s four-game winning streak in Game 2s. The Raptors entered 6-1 all-time when playing Game 2 at home.

James had eight rebounds, narrowly missing his second straight triple-double. He con-nected on 19 of 28 attempts, while Love shot 11 for 21.

DeMar DeRozan scored 24 points and Kyle Lowry had 21 for the Raptors. Toronto won a team-record 59 games and fin-ished as the top-seeded team in the Eastern Conference this season, but was easily shoved one step closer to a third straight postseason exit at the hands of James and the Cavs.

Jonas Valanciunas had 16 points and 12 rebounds and Fred VanVleet scored 14 points, but the Raptors lost back-to-back home games for the first time all season.

Toronto matched Houston by going 34-7 at home in the regular season, and went 3-0 at home against Washington in round one. The Raptors had not lost consecutive home games since dropping Games 3 and 4 of the second round to Cleve-land last May.

The series shifts to Ohio for Game 3 on Saturday night. Toronto has gone 0-5 at Cleve-land over the past two post-seasons, losing by an average margin of 24.2 points per game.

The Cavaliers are 21-3 at home against Eastern Confer-ence opponents in the playoffs over the past four years.

The Raptors, who let a 10-point lead slip away in a 113-112 overtime loss in Game 1, were up 54-45 midway through the second quarter but saw their lead dwindle to 63-61 at halftime.

Cleveland took control as Smith scored six points in an 18-5 spurt to begin the third quarter. The Cavs outscored the Raptors 37-24 in the third to take an 11-point edge into the fourth, and Toronto didn’t chal-lenge again.

Lowry made all four of his field goal attempts in the first and scored 10 points as Toronto led 29-26. Love scored 10

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Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James (23) shoots against the Toronto Raptors during the second half of Game 2 of an NBA basketball playoffs second-round series Thursday, May 3, 2018, in Toronto. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

HOUSTON (AP) — Even when things got really, really tense — bottom of the ninth, one-run game, Jose Altuve vs. Aroldis Chapman — Yankees manager Aaron Boone stepped back to marvel in the moment.

“I said: ‘This is pretty good, isn’t it?’ This is great,” Boone said, recalling a quick dugout conversation with a coach. “This is what you live for, right? This is our best against the reigning MVP, a game on the line. Embrace that, love it. And our guys do.”

Chapman struck Altuve on three straight 101 mph fastballs with two runners on base to end the game, and New York got a key hit from rookie Gleyber Torres during a three-run rally in the ninth inning to seesaw past the Houston Astros 6-5.

The Yankees won a wild one to take three of four from the team that beat them in Game 7 of the AL Championship Series last October.

“Winnable game, obviously frustrating because we were behind for so long in this entire series and we (still) could have split,” manager A.J. Hinch said. “Split’s not necessarily some-thing to celebrate, but we should have won today.”

Astros closer Ken Giles, who punched himself in the face after a rough outing earlier in this series, didn’t pitch during New York’s late comeback. Hinch was asked why he didn’t use Giles, who hadn’t allowed a run in eight outings before giving up four runs on Tuesday night.

“I thought (Will) Harris could get those guys out due to matchups,” he said.New York took a 3-0 lead into the seventh, trailed 5-3 going into the ninth and let a bounced third strike give the Astros their final chance.

Pinch hitter Evan Gattis fanned but reached on Chapman’s two-out wild pitch that catcher Gary Sanchez couldn’t find near the plate, and George Springer followed with a single.

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ably the best fastball hitter in the league,” Boone said. “Just a great job by Aroldis.”

Altuve went down swinging, giving Chapman his seventh save and the Yankees a 6-1 record on their road trip against the top two teams in the AL West.

“Our whole road trip, going to Anaheim and getting three wins on a team that’s one of the

best in the game right now and then to come here in Houston and battle back after a tough fi rst loss against them, that just kind of shows what kind of team we are,” said Aaron Judge, who drove in the go-ahead run.

Houston, which had been shut out two days in a row, scored four times in the seventh and Carlos Correa added a solo homer in the eighth.

points for Cleveland in the fi rst, while James had just four points and two shots in the opening quarter.

The Raptors connected on 13 of 18 attempts in the second quarter, overcoming 12 points by James. Toronto coach Dwane Casey was called for a technical foul for arguing after Lowry was called for a foul on a driving James late in the second. Love made the technical free throw but James missed both of his attempts.

James was on target in Cleve-land’s game-changing third quarter, connecting on seven of 10 attempts and scoring 15 points. Love added nine as the Cavs took a 98-87 lead to the

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Cavaliers: The 24 combined points by James and Love in the third matched Toronto’s total for the quarter. ... The Cavaliers are 18-1 in playoff series when they win Game 1.

Raptors: Lowry made his fi rst six shot attempts. ... Serge Ibaka shot 0 for 5 and scored just two points in 12 minutes. He has nine total points in the series so far. ... Toronto made 11 turnovers and has 25 in the series, compared to nine by the Cavs. ... Lowry led Toronto with eight assists.

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to rook us!” — quotes that both ended up on T-shirts.

But it abruptly ended last November when the Griz-zlies fell to 7-12 after a loss in which Gasol remained on the bench the entire fourth quarter. Fizdale was fi red the next day,

though the Grizzlies said it was because of the team’s overall performance, not the specifi c incident with Gasol.

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agreement.The NFL has played reg-

ular-season games annually in London since 2007, holding 18 games at Wembley and three at Twickenham.

Three more NFL games are scheduled for this year, including one at Tottenham’s new stadium.

The NBA has played eight regular-season games at Lon-don’s O2 Arena since 2011. The NHL opened its 2007-08 season at the O2 Arena with two games between the Los Angeles Kings and the Anaheim Ducks.

MLB has put renewed emphasis on international games since Manfred became commissioner in 2015.

Cleveland and Minnesota played a two-game series last month in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego meet in a three-game series at Monterrey, Mexico, that starts Friday. MLB announced Tuesday that Oak-land and Seattle will open next season at the Tokyo Dome on March 20-21.

Baseball started its season at

Monterrey in 1999 (Colorado vs. San Diego); at Tokyo in 2000 (Chicago Cubs-New York Mets), 2004 (Tampa Bay-Yan-kees), 2008 (Boston-Oakland) and 2012 (Seattle-Oakland); and at Sydney in 2014 (Los Angeles Dodgers-Arizona).

Additional regular-season games were played at Mon-terrey in 1996 (San Diego-Mets); and at San Juan in 2001 (Toronto-Texas), 2003-04 (a total of 43 Montreal home games) and 2010 (Mets-Florida Marlins).

Current Red Sox manager Alex Cora was part of Bos-ton’s team that went to Tokyo in 2008 as part of a trip that included seven regular-season games, two exhibitions against Japanese clubs plus a pair of exhibitions at the Dodgers that included one at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum attended by a record crowd of 115,300.

“It was a long one,” Cora recalled. “We went to Japan, then LA for two days, then we went to Oakland and then we went to Toronto, and we sur-vived April.”

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FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Jason Witten mostly held it together while announcing he was retiring after 15 years with the Dallas Cowboys to go into TV.

One wavering moment came when the tight end turned to owner Jerry Jones on a stage in front of his family, teammates and club employees in what normally serves as the dining room in the team’s practice facility.

“The hardest part of this decision was knowing that I would never be able to hand you that Lom-bardi Trophy,” Witten said during his 15-minute speech Thursday. “I told you back in 2006 that I would not let you down. I hope that in your eyes, I held up my end of the bargain.”

Just days away from turning 36, Witten is leaving to be the analyst for ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” telecast, a move the network con-fi rmed after Witten’s retirement announcement.

The decision by the franchise leader in games, catches and yards receiving is the same one friend and longtime teammate Tony Romo, the club passing leader in yards and touchdowns, made last year with CBS.

They joined the Cowboys together in 2003 — Witten a third-round pick out of Tennessee and Romo the undrafted quarterback three years from becoming the starter. They left without get-ting Dallas to an NFC championship game, and the Super Bowl drought for a franchise with fi ve titles is at 23 years and counting.

“Jason has given so much to this team, to this franchise. He emptied the bucket here,” Jones said, responding to a question about that missing Super Bowl after speeches by all three on stage: Witten, Jones and coach Jason Garrett.

“When I look at where we were with the great legacy of our fans that have had 56 years of being around some of the greatest people and names of players ever ... to me, no one has ever given more of himself and no one has ever made any bigger impact.”

The circumstances for Witten and Romo were different. The Cowboys were anticipating a 16th season, which would have been a club record, from their 11-time Pro Bowl player. Romo had lost his job to Dak Prescott while injured and was deciding last offseason whether to play elsewhere.

As recently as two weeks ago, Witten sug-gested he might play until he was 40 and said he “absolutely” was returning. He acknowledged the offer from ESPN changed things.

“In those moments, those other things didn’t exist,” said Witten, set to call the Cowboys’ home game against Tennessee on Nov. 5. “I was certain

when I went through it that I wanted the blessing of Jerry and his family, an opportunity I have to stay around the game.”

Dozens lined Witten’s walk from the entrance to the team’s headquarters, down some stairs and a long hallway to the dining room.

His retirement ceremony, with Prescott and star running back Ezekiel Elliott watching from the same row, came not far from a huge picture of Witten’s signature moment — a 2007 game when he ran nearly 30 yards and was tackled without a helmet after it was knocked off.

The Cowboys hung that picture over the entrance to their indoor practice fi eld long before Witten pondered retirement. He spent two sea-sons walking under it.

“Whenever young kids come up to me and ask me, ‘How do you grow up and play for the Dallas Cowboys, and have that type of career?’” Witten said. “My answer was always the same, the secret is in the dirt. I was never the most talented, never the fl ashiest, I relied on grit.”

Witten was also known for durability, holding club records for consecutive games (235) and starts (179).

tHe missed one game, the fi fth of his rookie season because of a broken jaw, and returned 23 days after rupturing his spleen in a preseason game to play the 2012 opener.

With 1,152 catches for 12,448 yards, Witten joins Tony Gonzalez as the only NFL tight ends with at least 1,000 catches and 10,000 yards. His 15 seasons are tied for the most in Dallas with defensive end Ed “Too Tall” Jones, safety Bill Bates and late offensive lineman Mark Tuinei.

“He’s one of the best and most complete tight ends ever to play this game,” Garrett said. “The stats and the credentials speak for themselves. They don’t really begin to tell the story. Over the last 15 years, he’s played virtually every play.”

Witten is third on the Cowboys’ list with 68 touchdown catches. He trails Dez Bryant, released last month with 73 TDs, and Hall of Famer Bob Hayes (71).

Without Witten and Bryant, the Cowboys are missing their top two receivers from last year and essentially for the past six seasons. Among the tight ends left behind, only one has a catch in a regular-season game: Geoff Swaim with nine over three seasons.

The Cowboys are high on Blake Jarwin and hope that former Baylor basketball player Rico Gathers can develop after missing his entire second season with a concussion. Dallas drafted Stanford’s Dalton Schultz in the fourth round last week.

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tATLANTA (AP) — Matt Ryan is the NFL’s fi rst $100 million man.

The Atlanta Falcons quarterback became the league’s highest-paid player Thursday by agreeing to a fi ve-year contract extension that could be worth as much as $150 million.

A person familiar with the deal, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the terms were not released, confi rmed that Ryan is assured of receiving at least $100 million. That surpasses the total compensation of the $84 mil-lion, three-year guaranteed deal that quarterback Kirk Cousins received from the Minnesota Vikings.

If Ryan receives the full terms of the contract, he would receive an average of $30 million a year, also more than Cousin’s $28 mil-lion yearly payout.

Cousins’ stunning deal set the target for Ryan’s negotiations with the Falcons, though it might be a short stay at No. 1.

The Green Bay Packers are trying to complete a new deal with their franchise quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, who will likely be looking to surpass Ryan’s fi gure.

That’s of no concern to the Falcons, who took care of their major offseason priority by locking up Ryan once his current deal expires after the 2018 season. He’ll make $19.25 million in the fi nal year of that contract.

“This extension was our primary focus this offseason,” general manager Thomas Dimitroff said in a statement. “Matt has been a pillar of stability for this franchise for a decade, and it is a great feeling knowing that he will remain at our helm for fi ve more years.”

Ryan was the third overall draft pick in 2008 and has been the Falcons’ starting quarterback ever since. He has only missed two starts over the fi rst decade of his career, passing for 41,796 yards with 260 touchdowns while begin voted to the Pro Bowl four times.

No quarterback has passed for more yards in the fi rst 10 sea-sons of his career.

“It’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years already,” said Ryan, who will turn 33 in a couple of weeks. “While we have accomplished a lot, our goal remains what it was the day I got drafted, and that’s to bring a championship to our city and fans.”

Ryan was the league MVP in 2016, guiding Atlanta to only the second Super Bowl appearance in franchise history. But the Fal-cons infamously squandered a 28-3 lead late in the third quarter, losing to the New England Patriots 34-28 in overtime.

This past season, the Falcons earned a wild-card berth and pulled off a fi rst-round upset of the Rams in Los Angeles before falling to the eventual Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round.

The offense struggled at times under fi rst-year coordinator Steve Sarkisian, though Ryan still managed to surpass 4,000 yards passing for the seventh year in a row. His touchdowns slipped sig-nifi cantly, however, going from a career-best 38 during his MVP season to just 20 — the lowest total since he was a rookie.

With the contract talks out of the way, Ryan looks forward to spending the rest of his career with the Falcons. He will be 38 at the end of the contract.

“We know there is a lot of work to do, but being able to ensure I can end my career where I started it, is something that I am very fortunate to be able to do,” he said.

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — When Stephen Curry’s shot needs a little something, he dives into “The Menu.” War-riors teammate Klay Thompson might put up a few extra shots after an off night. If Kevin Durant is trying to rediscover his rhythm, he does some studying that usually means watching his made shots.

Golden State boasts some of the world’s best shooters and each has his own way of bouncing back from a poor performance.

For Curry, there is no actual list or book for “The Menu.” The two-time MVP and his right-hand shooting man, Bruce Fraser, keep all the details in their heads for what the record-breaking 3-point sharpshooter could use work on any given day. It comes in especially handy when the shots aren’t falling, though Curry certainly found his touch fast in returning

from nearly six weeks on the sidelines with a knee injury to score 28 points in a Game 2 win against New Orleans on Tuesday night. Golden State leads the series 2-0 going into Friday.

Maybe Curry needs more catch and shoots one day. Or off-the-dribble work. Some-times, it’s ballhandling into his shot. Perhaps a look at bal-ance, rhythm and core, or just focusing on spot shooting from various places.

“We collaborate. It’s like going to dinner with your wife, maybe. Maybe some people’s wives tell them what they want,” said Fraser, a Warriors player development coach. “Different restaurant, different menu. We have a lot of things to pull from and it’s usually based one day, need. What does Steph need that day? ... The Menu has all sorts of creative pieces in it that get the workout you want.

Sometimes we’ll piece things together and go a la carte, some-times we’ll make it a simple meal. I’m kind of having fun with it.”

On the opposite end of the defending champions’ practice fl oor, Thompson’s shooting plan might be nearly as precise as he works back from a bad night — he went 4 for 20 and 2 of 11 on 3s Tuesday. Thompson will usually put up a few extra shots after a poor performance. Depending largely on how he feels physically, he might take as few as 50 shots, or well more than 200. Either way, it typi-cally doesn’t take Thompson long to feel right again.

The belief Thompson has in his shooting ability is unwav-ering and he ignores any critics when it comes to his shot, con-sidering they aren’t “in the gym with me shooting every day.”

“I will never doubt myself when it comes to shooting. I put too much effort into it,” he said, adding, “I know what it takes.”

In a Game 4 loss to San Antonio in the Warriors’ fi rst-round series, Thompson fi n-ished 4 for 16 and scored 12 points. He was 42 of 71 — 59.2 percent — over the other four games against the Spurs.

“They make up for the bad shooting nights on the days before the bad shooting nights. They can’t get out of it by going into the gym and just shooting,” said Chris Webber, a TNT ana-lyst who played 15 NBA sea-sons. “They’re great shooters and all the thousands of shots they’ve been taking since col-lege is what makes them bounce back.”

Webber believes coach Steve Kerr’s offensive system allows players to keep shooting and break out of ruts. “Knowing where you’re going to get your shots, how you’re going to get your shots, and you have the freedom,” Webber said, “but it’s all because of how hard and how many shots they take and put in the work when no one’s looking.”

After that Game 4 against the Spurs, Thompson took a heavy shooting day.

“Probably a couple hun-dred, nothing serious,” he said matter-of-factly.

Kerr, a talented 3-point shooter in his own right, con-siders the psychological com-ponent to the process as well.

“Sometimes the best thing to do if you have a bad game is to not shoot,” he said. “And you have to feel that, and as a player once you’ve been in the league a few years you get it. You start to understand, ’OK, maybe I feel a little tired so I’m going to go walk Rocco (Thompson’s bulldog) today instead down at the park and enjoy some sun-shine. Or go play golf or some-thing. Or there’s a mechanical fl aw and it’s almost like a golfer, you go to the range and you go, ‘I’ve got to fi nd it.’

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FILE - In this April 14, 2018, fi le photo, Golden State Warriors’ Klay Th ompson shoots against the San Antonio Spurs during the fi rst half in Game 1 of a fi rst-round NBA basketball playoff series in Oakland, Calif. Th ompson ignores any critics when it comes to his shot considering they aren’t “in the gym with me shooting every day.” He always believes the ball will go through the net. “I will never doubt myself when it comes to shooting. I put too much eff ort into it,” he said, adding, “I know what it takes.”

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The economics of North America’s three-nation bid to host the 2026 World Cup can outweigh politics in next month’s vote, according to the U.S. Soccer Federation president.

“We feel we’re going to get strong support across Europe regardless of the geopoli-tics,” Carlos Cordeiro said on Thursday at a campaign event in Denmark that was also attended

by rival bidder Morocco.The United States-Canada-

Mexico bid could struggle to win over Russia and its allies in the June 13 vote of FIFA member federations in Moscow.

Morocco also counts on France and Spain for support, due to shared historical ties in North Africa.

The majority Muslim nation also hopes U.S. President Donald Trump’s public com-ments will infl uence voters from countries in Africa and Central America that he has criticized.

Trump stepped directly into the campaign in the past week. He wrote on Twitter it would be “a shame if countries that we always support were to lobby against the U.S. bid,” then used a White House news conference with Nigeria’s president to call on African countries for votes.

However, Cordeiro said the bid leaders’ meeting on Wednesday with 12 South-east Asian voters in Indonesia sug-gested Trump was not a nega-tive factor.

“I wasn’t expecting him to say what he said,” Cordeiro said in Copenhagen before adding: “But look, I am pleased that my head of state is as focused and committed as he is and wants us

to win.”Up to 207 FIFA member fed-

erations can vote in Moscow, while the four candidates are barred.

Cordeiro hoped voters “for the most part will make their decisions based on football considerations.

“If they look at it on that basis, I think the merits of our bid speak for itself,” he said.

A North American tourna-ment promises higher income for FIFA that is likely to run into billions of dollars, including from a much larger domestic market.

Bigger stadiums for the 80-game tournament led to projected ticket revenue $1.3 billion higher than Morocco’s forecast for venues which must all be built or renovated.

FIFA will also collect $300 million from North American broadcasters who will pay extra for 2026 rights they already hold if the tournament is at home.

Cordeiro acknowledged fi nances were “a strong part of the bid” as FIFA seeks to develop the game worldwide.

“Ultimately that requires funding, and where is the funding going to come from?” he said.


Quin Snyder walked into his news conference after Game 2 of the Western Conference semifi nals with a stoic look, slowly rubbing his forehead, barely if ever cracking anything that would resemble a smile.

And he was on the winning side.

This much is clear about the Utah Jazz: They are not sur-prising themselves by being in this position. A team that was written off by Vegas oddsmakers and alleged experts coming into the season after losing Gordon Hayward in free agency won 48 games, ousted reigning MVP Russell Westbrook and Okla-homa City in the fi rst round, and now have the Houston Rockets in a bit of trouble.

The Jazz stole home-court from Houston with a win on Wednesday night, and now look to take a 2-1 lead when the series shifts to Salt Lake City for Game 3 on Friday night.

“When guys have confi dence in each other, it allows them, I think, the confi dence individu-ally to step up,” Snyder said.

Confi dence is not an issue for the Jazz. Even on a night where Donovan Mitchell shot 6 for 21 and fellow rookie back-court starter Royce O’Neale shot 2 for 5, the Jazz won thanks largely to a great start and a great bench. Utah’s reserves outscored Houston’s 41-22 in Game 2 and that, combined with a 27-point night from Joe

Ingles, was enough for the Jazz.There’s a pair of Game 3s

on the schedule Friday, both out West, and the other being Golden State going to New Orleans. The Warriors lead that matchup 2-0, the 11th time in Golden State’s last 14 series that they’ve opened with a pair of victories. “No pressure for us,” New Orleans star Anthony Davis said. “We just go out there and play, have fun, enjoy the moment and embrace it. The rest will take care of itself. We’re going to make shots here at home and it’s going to be a lot tougher for them.”

Even down 2-0, the Pelicans insist that they can play freely.

Same goes for the Jazz.Hardly anyone outside of

Salt Lake City a few months ago probably expected the Jazz to be in the second round of these playoffs, or to have grabbed home-court away from Houston. Snyder never con-ceded anything, though, and the Jazz holdovers from the Hay-ward years say the franchise has improved even in what was sup-posed to be a transition year.

“I feel like we’re a better team,” Jazz center Rudy Gobert said.

A look at Friday’s games:WARRIORS AT PELICANS

Warriors lead 2-0. Game 3, 8 p.m. EDT, ESPN.

NEED TO KNOW: While Warriors star Stephen Curry is back from a fi ve-week injury

layoff and is expected to start Game 3, New Orleans looked far more competitive after Curry’s return in Game 2. New Orleans had won nine straight — their last fi ve regular season games and a fi rst-round sweep of third-seeded Portland — before a Game 1, 22-point drub-bing. New Orleans regrouped for Game 2 and lost by just fi ve points. “Of course, we wanted to get one up there, but I think the thing that we took out of it was: Game 1, we got punched in the mouth and Game 2 we came back and responded,” Pel-icans All-Star forward Anthony Davis said. “We didn’t win, but we showed a lot of great signs — and Game 3 we’ll be back at home.”

KEEP AN EYE ON: War-riors forward Draymond Green and Pelicans guard Rajon Rondo. Both veteran players have demonstrated a proclivity toward engaging in mind games and were nose-to-nose at one point in Game 2. Rondo also grabbed the ball and wiped his sweat on it before one Green’s free throws (which Green made anyway).

INJURY UPDATE: War-riors wing player Patrick McCaw hasn’t played since the end of March because of a lumbar spine bruise. It remains unclear when he’ll be ready. Curry has been back for only one game from his sprained left knee.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — John Peterson started his rookie season on the PGA Tour about the time Tiger Woods started to experience back problems.

One of them is closer to walking away than the other.

Peterson, the 29-year-old free spirit who has pledged to retire from golf’s vagabond life-style if he doesn’t earn enough money to keep his card in three events, made back-to-back eagles late in the opening round Thursday for a 6-under 65 that gave him a two-shot lead in the Wells Fargo Championship.

Woods had an unspectacular round of 71 in his return to Quail Hollow after a six-year absence — mostly due to his balky back — and fi gured it would keep him and everyone else fairly close to the lead on a course that made it tough for anyone to get separation.

That was before Peterson came to life late in his round.

He holed a bunker shot from just under 60 feet away on the par-5 seventh hole. Then he holed a 56-degree wedge from 107 yards in the fairway for eagle on the next hole. It almost got even better. From the trees left of the ninth fairway, his approach cleared the bunker and was headed for the fl ag as the crowd — “seven or eight people and a Golden Retriever in the grandstands back there,” he said — began to cheer in anticipation.

It missed. He missed from 8 feet. All was well.

Peterson had never led after any round in 89 starts on the PGA Tour, and he didn’t seem all that worked up over it.

“I’m kind of free-wheeling it at this point,” he said.

“I know a little bit has been said about me retiring if I don’t make the necessary money for my medical starts, and all that’s true. If I don’t make it, I’m not playing golf anymore.”

He made clear on more than one occasion he wants to win the Wells Fargo Championship, or the two tournaments he has left. Because of surgery on his left hand two years ago, Peterson started the year needing to make $375,165 in eight tournaments to keep his card. Five events later, he still needs $318,096 and has this week, and then the FedEx St. Jude Classic and Travelers Championship.

He loves golf. He also is a father — his son was born in October — and he would be just as happy in real estate develop-ment with a few friends in Fort Worth, Texas, than chasing around birdies and bogeys from one coast to the other.

If he wins this week? Or even if he makes enough money to keep his card?

“Either way is fi ne with me,” Peterson said. “I’ve got every-

thing in place for both sides of it, so I’m not going to be both-ered if I make it. Obviously, I would never be bothered to win a golf tournament out here.”

But it’s early, and he knows that from experience. Peterson was in the fi nal group going into the weekend at the Sony Open, three shots out of the lead, when he shot 74-69 and tied for 47th.

Peterson was only part of the show on a warm and breezy day at Quail Hollow, site of the PGA Championship last summer.

Johnson Wagner, a member at Quail Hollow, also had back-to-back eagles when he drove the green on the par-4 14th to 6 feet, and then hit the green on the par-5 15th hole and made a 45-foot putt. He wound up in the group of fi ve players at 67 that included PGA Tour rookie Keith Mitchell and Tyrrell Hatton.

Rory McIlroy, a two-time winner at Wells Fargo, was among 10 players at 68. Paul Casey and Jason Day were among seven players at 69.

Even with Peterson’s big fi nish, there was some truth to Woods’ assessment when he fi nished at 71.

“The way this golf course is set up and the way it’s playing right now, the guys are going to be stacked,” Woods said. “We’re all going to be close. There’s going to be probably, I’m guessing, 15 guys or so with a chance on Sunday.”

Woods had back-to-back birdies on the holes where Peterson made his eagles, get-ting him to 1 under. But he hit a poor wedge that led to bogey on the par-5 10th, atoned for that with a birdie on the par-5 15th, only to give back that shot with a three-putt bogey from 15 feet on No. 16.

It was a tough adjustment for Woods and everyone else.

The greens were fi rm, with balls bouncing high upon landing.

But the surface was a little on the slow side, and several players left putts extraordinarily short.

“I hit the ball fi ne today,” Woods said.

“If I just make a few putts, I should be 2- or 3-under par, which is fi ne. I just didn’t make anything today.”

He was tied for 35th, his worst position after the opening round since he was tied for 61st at Riviera in February.

This is his seventh PGA Tour start since returning from a fourth back surgery, and Woods said he now is used to the rhythm and fl ow of tourna-ment golf.

He has four months left in the season.

“I don’t see him retiring any-time soon,” Peterson said with a smile. “He can obviously still play with everybody out here.”

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NEW YORK (AP) — After a three-game wipeout of the New York Mets, the Atlanta Braves were flying — and not just because they were heading home.

The first-place Braves — that’s right, the NL East-leading Braves — just might be starting to convince a jaded fan base to believe again.

Julio Teheran took a no-hit bid into the seventh inning , 20-year-old Ronald Acuna Jr. hit his second big league home run and a 11-0 rout Thursday completed a 7-3 trip that vaulted the young Braves atop their division.

Players and manager Brian Snitker were looking ahead to a weekend series against San Francisco at SunTrust Park, where just two of the first 12 home games sold out this season.

“I think they’re going to be pumped. I think they’ll be rockin’ tomorrow night,” Snitker said. “After the road trip we had, the style, the way these guys are playing — I mean, they’re leaving it out there every night.”

Kurt Suzuki , Acuna and Nick Markakis homered as the Braves built a 6-0 lead by the fifth inning against Jason Vargas (0-2), and 21-year-old Ozzie Albies went deep off an equally shaky Matt Harvey in a five-run seventh. Atlanta has won five in a row and opened a 1½-game division lead, the latest in a season the Braves have been in first place since July 20, 2014.

“If the fan base wasn’t already excited, I don’t know what will,” said Freddie Freeman, the only Atlanta player left from the group that walked off the field in first place against the Phillies that afternoon.

Atlanta is coming off three straight 90-loss seasons and four straight years with sub-.500 records. The rebuild has gone faster than expected, sparked by the two youngest position players in the major leagues. Albies’ 10th homer tied for the NL lead. Acuna, playing just his eighth big league game, hit a drive into the second deck in left field that would have gone 451 feet unimpeded, according to MLB Statcast. Atlanta is 7-1 since the arrival of Acuna, who is hitting .382.

“It’s that energy that these guys bring,” Suzuki said. “Seeing them come up here and do their thing, it’s pretty fun to be around.”

Atlanta outscored the Mets 21-2 in the series and outhit them 41-15, pitching consecu-tive shutouts for the first time since the final three games of 2015 against St. Louis.

Teheran (2-1) was virtu-

ally untouchable until Asdrubal Cabrera doubled into the right-field corner with two outs in the seventh on a 1-2 curveball. Michael Conforto walked and Adrian Gonzalez loaded the bases with an infield hit before Amed Rosario popped up.

Pitching on five days’ rest after cutting a start short at Phil-adelphia because of a tight tra-pezius muscle in the right side of his back, Teheran allowed two hits in seven innings, struck out six and walked two. He retired his first 11 batters, walked Yoenis Cespedes on a 3-1 count in the fourth, then got nine more outs in a row before Cabrera’s hit.

Teheran’s velocity topped out at 92.3 mph, 4.8 mph higher than against the Phillies.

“I know that it was something bothering me. That’s why I was throwing that slow,” Teheran said. He also had two hits and a sacrifice fly, and every Braves starter except Teheran scored a run. Jesse Biddle and Max Fried finished a three-hitter.

On a summer-like afternoon with a game-time temperature of 90 at Citi Field, the Braves improved to 9-1 in day games.

New York was shut out for consecutive games for the first time since the Chicago Cubs blanked the Mets on June 30 and July 1, 2015. Before Cabre-ra’s double, 40 of New York’s previous 42 batters had made out.

New York has lost 11 of 17 after an 11-1 start. “I’m sure there’s guys scrambling,” first-year manager Mickey Callaway said. “They’re still playing the game the right way.”

Vargas lowered his ERA

from 22.09 to 16.20 despite giving up six runs and 11 hits in 4 2/3 innings during his first home start for Mets since May 17, 2007, at Shea Stadium. Sidelined since late spring training by a broken hamate bone in his right hand, the left-hander allowed nine runs over 3 2/3 innings at San Diego last weekend in his big league season debut.

Markakis hit a go-ahead double and scored on Suzu-ki’s two-run homer as Atlanta increased its major league-leading total of first-inning runs to 32. Acuna homered leading off the fifth, and Markakis hit a two-run shot. “I’m throwing quality pitches early in the count and then just not making the quality pitch to put the hitter away,” Vargas said.

Harvey made his fourth relief appearance after losing his starting spot and gave up Albies’ three-run homer in a five-run seventh. Callaway thought Harvey looked stiff.

“There’s some positives out of today other than obvi-ously the numbers,” Harvey said. “Still trying to figure out the workout schedules and the throwing programs and all that stuff to be ready.”

MOVESBraves: Claimed INF/OF

Phil Gosselin off waivers from Cincinnati.

Mets: Agreed to a minor league contract with INF Cody Asche.

TRAINER’S ROOMBraves: Snitker said SS

Dansby Swanson likely will miss his second straight game Friday because of a sore left wrist.

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DEAR ABBY: When I met my husband, he dressed impeccably -- suits, sharp sport coats, mono-grammed shirts, freshly pressed dress slacks, top-of-the-line leather shoes. Even when we went out with friends for a casual night or a movie, he still dressed well in current, fashionable clothing. I fell in love with a man who dressed beautifully (my father was known for his attire as well, which is perhaps why I like the successful look).

Now that he’s retired, his jeans always look dingy (they’re not dirty; they just look like they are), his sneakers look worn, and he just doesn’t care about his appearance like he once did. When we go out together, I’m embarrassed.

I love the man who used to care about his appearance, not this retired, sloppy-looking guy. If I complain, he tells me I’m being ridiculous. I don’t expect him to look like he once did (offi ce attire), but he should at least look current, crisp and clean. Am I wrong to be embarrassed? -- LIKES THE OLD LOOK

DEAR LIKES: I wish you had mentioned how long you and your husband have been married, because over the last 40 years styles have changed. People of both sexes dress much more casually. Your husband may have dressed more formally years ago because there was a dress code at work and it was expected with the crowd with whom you socialized or the places you went. At this point, he may feel that because he’s retired he has earned the right to dress “comfortably.”

Yes, you are wrong to be embarrassed. What is important is how your husband feels about him-self. How he presents himself is a refl ection only on him -- not you. You might suggest a shopping trip so the two of you can update those jeans and sneakers, but if he won’t bite, you would be wise to let him off the hook.

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