Mike Bibby and Jason Williams are among at least eight former Kings players set to take part in Big3, a 3-on-3 league of former NBA players which will debut this summer. Entertainer Ice Cube and 11-time NBA All-Star Allen Iverson are putting on the league.
James Harden scores 35 points and the Houston Rockets overcome 51 points from Russell Westbrook in a triple-double, clawing back from a double-digit deficit for a 115-111 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Wednesday. Houston leads the series 2-0. Game 3 is Friday in Oklahoma City.
Christian Arroyo, the Giants’ top infield prospect, is batting .442 through his first 11 games in Triple A with the River Cats. The infielder was a first-round draft pick out of high school by the Giants in 2013 and has climbed steadily through the minors.
Trevor Brown, the San Francisco Giants’ backup catcher last season, was sidelined late this spring by a series of ailments. He went 1 for 3 in his season debut Tuesday night against Triple-A Salt Lake and caught seven innings.
Giants: Vargas pitches Kansas City past Bumgarner, S.F.
Jason Vargas dazzles for the third consecutive start, the Royals finally score off Giants ace Madison Bumgarner and Kansas City beats San Francisco 2-0 on Wednesday to split their two-game series.
Khris Davis hits his seventh home run of the season, Yonder Alonso and Chad Pinder also went deep, and the A’s rout the Texas Rangers 9-1 on Wednesday.
The 49ers host a large crew of draft prospects Wednesday, including LSU running back Leonard Fournette, Iowa tight end George Kittle, Michigan safety Jabrill Peppers and Florida cornerback Teez Tabor.
With the NFL draft a week away, a fresh round of predictions reveals new candidates at No. 2, an aligned ESPN brain trust, and some analysts wavering from Stanford defensive lineman Solomon Thomas, once the prohibitive favorite and now just the favorite.
The NFL will announce the 2017-18 regular-season schedule Thursday. While the Raiders and 49ers know their opponents, they will learn when the games will be played.
President Donald Trump welcomes the New England Patriots to the White House, noting the parallels between his own upset victory and their stunning Super Bowl win. He avoids discussing of the apparent prison suicide of their former teammate, Aaron Hernandez, earlier in the day.
Massachusetts prison officials say former NFL star Aaron Hernandez hangs himself in a cell where he was serving a life sentence for murder.
Tennis superstar on Wednesday posts a side selfie of herself on Snapchat with the caption “20 weeks,” sparking talk that the 23-time Grand Slam winner is pregnant. Williams, 35, quickly deleted the post, but it was captured before it was taken down.