NBA
The River runs all the way from Boston to Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES – Doc Rivers is the Los Angeles Clippers’ new coach and senior vice president of basketball operations.
The Clippers finalized the championship-winning coach’s move from the Boston Celtics on Tuesday after weeks of negotiations and reversals.
Boston will get a future first-round pick from the Clippers for Rivers, who went 416-305 and won the 2008 NBA title during nine seasons with the Celtics.
The 51-year-old Rivers is replacing Vinny Del Negro, who wasn’t re-signed after going 56-26 and winning the Pacific Division title.
College basketball
The Big 12 now is stacked with big-time coaches
Every Big 12 coach has been to NCAA tournament.
Tubby Smith joined what was already an impressive roster of men’s basketball coaches in the Big 12.
With Smith now coaching at Texas Tech, the Big 12 is the only league able to boast that all of its head coaches have taken teams to the NCAA tournament. Smith is the sixth Big 12 coach who has been to the Final Four and joins Kansas’ Bill Self as a national champion.
West Virginia coach Bob Huggins twice went to the NCAA Final Four before his Mountaineers joined the league last year.
NFL
Hernandez investigation: Mass. court seals documents
ATTLEBORO, Mass. – A Massachusetts court said Tuesday it has sealed documents related to the killing of a semi-pro football player found dead a mile from the home of Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez.
Attleboro District Court officials said documents related to the case, including search warrants, have been impounded, meaning the public can’t see them. No charges have been filed.
Odin Lloyd, who played for the semi-pro Boston Bandits, was found slain June 17.
Olympics
From Misty to April: Walsh picks 2016 volleyball partner
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jennings needs a new teammate for her attempt at a fourth Summer Games. She’s asked London silver medalist April Ross to be her partner for 2016.
Walsh Jennings was teamed with Misty May-Treanor for the plast three Olympics. But May-Treanor has retired.
NHL
Stanley Cup ratings get a big boost in Game 6 clincher
NEW YORK – The Blackhawks’ Stanley Cup-clinching win was watched by almost two-thirds more viewers than last year’s Game 6.
Chicago’s 3-2 victory Monday night over the Bruins had 8.16 million viewers on NBC, up from 4.93 million for the Los Angeles Kings’ clincher over the New Jersey Devils last year.
It was down slightly from the 8.28 million for Game 6 between the Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers in 2010.
The series averaged 5.76 million viewers on NBC and NBC Sports Network, making it the most-watched Stanley Cup Final since records started being kept in 1994.
Auto Racing
Bobby Labonte’s start streak to end at 704 this weekend
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Bobby Labonte’s consecutive start streak will come to an end at 704 races.
Labonte is not entered to race this weekend at Kentucky Speedway, which will bring an end to the second-longest active starts streak in NASCAR behind Jeff Gordon’s 705 starts.
Labonte confirmed his status on a chat with fans on the JTG Daugherty Racing website. The team will use A.J. Allmendinger in the No. 47 Toyota.
Labonte has not missed a start since he began racing full-time in the Cup Series in 1993. Ricky Rudd holds the NASCAR record of 788 consecutive starts.
Associated Press
