NBA Commissioner Adam Silver finalizing contract extension, source tells AP

LAFC’s season opener is less than a month away, yet the team opened training camp this week with just 16 players under contract. “You only need 11,” one team executive said. Although that’s true, general manager John Thorrington said Thursday he’s making progress on filling the 14 vacant roster spots just the same. “Nobody [more]…

Doubts have shadowed Dylan Andrews like a sticky defender. He’s not really a point guard, the refrain goes. He’s insanely athletic and can get to the basket, but he’s not much of a passer. How could UCLA go from Tyger Campbell to this guy? With one perfectly placed pass after another Sunday, Andrews delivered his…

TUCSON, Ariz. —  He’s questioned his players’ understanding of the game. He’s lamented his lack of name, image and likeness resources. He’s threatened to overhaul his young roster. For much of the season, Mick Cronin has sounded like someone on the verge of a basketball crisis, if not an existential one. The UCLA coach said he…

Adrián Beltré was considered a teenage prodigy when he signed with the Dodgers for $23,000 in 1994, but there was little about his early career, marred by a birth-certificate issue and his slow recovery from a botched appendectomy in the Dominican Republic, which screamed “surefire Hall-of-Famer.” Beltré was a good-but-not-yet-great player during his first five…

Sports Illustrated is getting hit with major layoffs, the venerable publication’s union said Friday. The cuts affect “a significant number, possibly all” of the magazine and website’s unionized staff, the Sports Illustrated Union and the NewsGuild of New York said in a statement posted to X (formerly Twitter). The latest layoffs come after Sports Illustrated’s…

DETROIT —  He was the prodigal bum. They didn’t throw him a parade, they marched all over him. They didn’t pop champagne, they uncorked sprays of pain. Eminem cursed at him. Barry Sanders led cheers against him. Fans screamed so loud he once tripped over his feet as if knocked backward by the boos. Matthew Stafford…