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Tyrese Haliburton gets warning from NBA for dance, but no fine, AP source says Tyrese Haliburton did the dance.

He will not pay a fine.

Haliburton, the Indiana guard who expected to be fined for his dancing celebration after Game 2 of the Pacers win at Cleveland in the Eastern Conference semifinals on Tuesday night, received only a warning from the league office instead, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because the decision had not been revealed publicly.

Last-place Pirates fire manager Derek Shelton, promote bench coach Don Kelly PITTSBURGH (AP) The Pittsburgh Pirates fired manager Derek Shelton following a rocky opening month to the season that saw Pittsburgh quickly slip into last place in the NL Central.

General manager Ben Cherington made the announcement Thursday.

Bench coach Don Kelly will take over for Shelton.

The decision comes with Pittsburgh riding a seven-game losing streak that saw its record fall to 12-26.

Shelton, hired by Cherington in November 2019 as part of a franchise-wide reset by owner Bob Nutting, went 306-440 in five-plus seasons with the Pirates.

The year of the NBA playoff comeback continues.

A look at how these 20-point rallies keep happening New York down by 20 on Monday.

Indiana down by 20 on Tuesday.

New York down by 20 again Wednesday.

No problem.

For the first time since play-by-play began being digitally tracked across the NBA about 30 years ago, there have been three consecutive days where the winning team in a playoff game came from at least 20 points down to win.

Olympic great Sue Bird to be first managing director of USA Basketball women's national team NEW YORK (AP) Sue Bird is giving another assist to USA Basketball, becoming the managing director of the womens national team.

The five-time Olympic champion was named to the newly created position Thursday and it marks a major change in the way the organization creates its roster and coaching staff.

Before the change, a committee made those decisions, but now in a move similar to what the USA mens national team does, Bird will be the one responsible for putting things together.

Grant Hill has the same role on the mens side.

PGA CHAMPIONSHIP '25: Rory McIlroy and Jordan Spieth pursue different grand slams at Quail Hollow The Masters is still fresh in the minds of golf fans.

And now the PGA Championship is next to the plate with possibilities just as compelling.

Rory McIlroy is the Masters champion and latest player to complete the career Grand Slam.

The PGA is at Quail Hollow.

That's a course where McIlroy has won four times.

Is a calendar slam out of the question? Jordan Spieth gets another crack at the career Grand Slam.

And then there's Scottie Scheffler, Bryson DeChambeau and Justin Thomas.

All have registered important victories in the weeks leading up to the PGA Championship.

PSG vs.

Inter Milan in the Champions League final? Few expected that Its a Champions League final few could have predicted.

No Real Madrid, no team from the mega-rich Premier League, no rejuvenated Barcelona and no Harry Kane-inspired Bayern Munich.

Instead it will be Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan facing off to be a somewhat unlikely winner of the biggest prize in club soccer.

Neither club was among the favorites when the new-look, 36-team league phase of the competition rolled out in September.

Munichs Allianz Arena will host the final on May 31.

Winning the final will see PSG or Inter earn at least 150 million euros ($170 million) across the Champions League campaign.

Sinner 'not naming names' for messages he did and didn't receive during doping ban ROME (AP) Jannik Sinner was just as surprised by which fellow players sent him messages of support at the start of his three-month doping ban as those who sent nothing.

The top-ranked player is returning to tennis at the Italian Open this week.

His settlement with the World Anti-Doping Agency raised questions since it conveniently allowed Sinner not to miss any Grand Slams and come back at his home tournament.

Sinner says "At the start of the suspension I received some surprising messages from some players whereas there were others who I would have expected to hear from that didnt send anything.

He adds but Im not going to name names.

Mikko Rantanen and other trade deadline additions are having big impacts on the NHL playoffs Mikko Rantanen has shown exactly why Dallas was willing to pay a hefty price to acquire him.

Logan Stankoven has fit in perfectly going from the Stars to Carolina, with Taylor Hall and Mark Jankowski also playing well.

From Brandon Carlo and Scott Laughton in Toronto and Seth Jones and Brad Marchand and Seth Jones in Florida to Anthony Beauvillier in Washington and Jake Walman and Trent Frederic in Edmonton, just about every team left in the NHL playoffs has gotten a boost from moves made ahead of the trade deadline.

Crosby and MacKinnon back together for Canada at the ice hockey worlds after 10 years Sidney Crosby and Nathan MacKinnon are joining forces to play for Canada at the ice hockey world championship after 10 years.

The two major stars are in Europe for the tournament opening on Friday across the Swedish capital of Stockholm and Denmarks city of Herning.

It is the final international test before the 2026 Winter Games in Italy where NHL players return to the Olympics after 12 years.

The two friends and neighbours in Halifax, Nova Scotia, were on the team that Crosby captained to gold at the 2015 worlds.

Canada, the 4 Nations Face-Off champion in February, is a favorite again.

NCAA settlement plan for roster limits gets do-over to save players who lost spots on teams Attorneys handling the $2.8 billion NCAA settlement are proposing a massive do-over when it comes to roster limits.

They want schools to offer athletes who lost their spots a chance to be on teams without counting against the new caps for as long as they have eligibility.

Those players can be invited back to compete for roster spots or go to new schools.

The proposal would also give this exemption to high school recruits who were promised spots that were later rescinded and would last for as long as those players are eligible in college..

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