Sports Digest: Isaac Coffey hits 11, Sea Dogs beat Curve

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Isaac Coffey struck out 11 in five scoreless innings and Alex Binelas hit a two-run home run in the fifth as the Portland Sea Dogs beat the Altoona Curve, 7-0, in an Eastern League game on Tuesday at Hadlock Field in Portland.

Coffey allowed five hits and didn’t walk well to get his ninth shutout of the season for Portland. has won 10 of the last 11 games.

Blaze Jordan was 2 for 4 with two runs and four RBIs for the Sea Dogs. Roman Anthony added two shots and scored two points.

Kristian Campbell had one game, a walk and two runs scored, extending his hitting streak to 22 games.

MLB: Billy Bean, who became the second former Major League Baseball player to come out as gay in 1999 before becoming the sport’s vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion, has died. He was 60. Bean died at home on Tuesday after a long battle with acute myeloid leukemia.

SERVED

NBA: Charles Barkley is set to stay with TNT Sports for the remainder of his contract.

The Hall of Fame player announced Tuesday that he will not retire next season, reversing an announcement he made in June during the NBA Finals.

Barkley said at the time that the 2024-25 season would be his last on television, regardless of what happened with the NBA’s media coverage. He signed a 10-year contract extension with TNT Sports through 2022.

Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of TNT Sports, sued the NBA in New York federal court after the league rejected the company’s similar offer for one of the packages in its new deal of media rights of 11 years, will start with. 2025-26 season

FOOTBALL

NFL: Detroit Lions linebacker Emmanuel Moseley is out indefinitely after being injured in practice against the New York Giants.

Lions coach Dan Campbell said Moseley could return late in the season.

ESPN reports that Moseley tore a pectoral muscle.

• Cleveland quarterback Deshaun Watson will miss Saturday’s exhibition opener against the Green Bay Packers as the Browns continue to take a conservative approach after undergoing right shoulder surgery in November.

Coach Kevin Stefanski announced his plans with Watson before Tuesday’s practice, which was moved indoors due to rain and high winds. There were several tornado warnings in place across Northeast Ohio.

Jameis Winston will start at quarterback for the Browns and make his debut with the team after signing as a free agent in March.

• Kyler Murray will miss three of the Arizona Cardinals’ preseason games as the team tries to keep the two-time Pro Bowl selection healthy heading into next season.

Coach Jonathan Gannon told reporters he likes “the way the offense is running and I think he’s going to do everything he needs to do to be the best he can be on opening day.”

The 26-year-old Murray missed nearly 11 months over the past two seasons after tearing the ACL in his right knee in the 2022 season. He missed the first nine games of last season before returning.

WORKERS

NBA: The New York Knicks have appointed Jalen Brunson as their general manager, the team’s first in six years.

Brunson quickly became one of the team’s leaders after arriving in 2022 and on Tuesday was named the 36th manager in franchise history. The Knicks haven’t had one since Lance Thomas’ 2018-19 season.

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BALL: Nebraska offensive lineman Teddy Prochazka suffered his third knee injury in four years, Coach Matt Rhule announced.

The 6-foot-10, 315-pound junior was in line to start at left tackle. He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee Monday while hitting a single.

GOLF

RYDER CUP: Europe has updated its Ryder Cup qualifying system for the 2025 games at Bethpage Black, creating a single point list for the top six players that gives them access to points in PGA Tour events .

The previous system allowed three players to qualify with world class points earned a year from the Games, and three players from the Race to Dubai with points earned in European tour events.

Previously Europeans could only earn world rankings at PGA Tour events.

Players who switched to Saudi-sponsored LIV Golf, such as Jon Rahm and Tyrrell Hatton, could score more points in the majors. They can also be available for six captain’s votes as long as they are members of the European tour by paying penalties to play LIV events.

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