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Shohei Ohtani brings his dog and addresses crowd in English as Dodgers celebrate World Series title LOS ANGELES (AP) The Los Angeles Dodgers have celebrated their eighth World Series championship with a downtown parade and a stadium gathering featuring Shohei Ohtani and other star players.

The Japanese superstar typically speaks in his native Japanese but he briefly spoke English to the stadium crowd.

Seven double-decker buses filled with players, their families and the coaching staff traveled a 45-minute route.

Ohtani was holding his dog, Decoy.

Some players were smoking cigars and drinking beer on the sun-splashed day.

The Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in five games, clinching the title with a 7-6 victory in the Bronx on Wednesday.

Grant Williams: 'No malicious intent' behind hard foul on former Celtics teammate Jayson Tatum CHARLOTTE, N.C.

(AP) The Boston Celtics stayed cool while Charlotte Hornets lost theirs.

Grant Williams and Miles Bridges were ejected in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter and LaMelo Ball was called for a flagrant-1 foul in the Hornets' loss to the Celtics on Friday night.

Williams was ejected after it was deemed he aggressively ran over former teammate Jayson Tatum when they collided near half court.

Tatum appeared upset as he got to his feet, but simply walked toward the foul line as officials reviewed the play.

Williams says there was no malicious intent.

Tatum declined to speak to the media.

Garland scores 25 points, Cavaliers improve to 6-0 with 120-109 win over Banchero-less Magic CLEVELAND (AP) Darius Garland scored 25 points, Donovan Mitchell added 22 and the Cleveland Cavaliers improved to 6-0 with a 120-109 victory over the Orlando Magic, who played their first game without injured star Paolo Banchero.

The Cavs are the only unbeaten team in the Eastern Conference.

The last time Cleveland started 6-0 was in 2016.

The early meeting between Orlando and Cleveland was a rematch of last season's tense opening-round playoff series won by the Cavs in seven games.

Banchero is expected to miss at least a month and maybe longer with a torn right oblique.

Jalen Suggs scored a career-high 28 points for the Magic.

SEC cracks down on coaches and teams faking injuries to slow hurry-up offenses The Southeastern Conference is cracking down on its players falling down and feigning injuries.

In a letter to league coaches and athletic directors that was shared with The Associated Press, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is telling teams to stop any and all activity related to faking injuries to create timeouts.

Yahoo Sports first reported the letter.

The league also tweaked an existing rule to give it more leeway in punishing coaches and programs for violations.

Now, if the national coordinator for football officiating says its more likely than not that a feigned injury occurred, then it will be considered a feigned injury and subject to a penalty.

Anthony Richardson needs more time to develop raw talent: Analysis Anthony Richardson got fewer starts than Bryce Young before he was sent to the bench.

The Indianapolis Colts benched their second-year quarterback this week after his 10th career start, including six this season.

The Colts are turning to 39-year-old Joe Flacco because coach Shane Steichen believes the veteran gives the team the best chance to win right now.

Hes not wrong.

Flacco, a Super Bowl MVP with the Ravens more than a decade ago, is 2-1 in three appearances with the Colts.

He was 4-1 with Cleveland last year, helping the Browns reach the playoffs.

The 22-year-old Richardson threw just 393 passes in college at Florida before the Colts selected him with the fourth pick overall in last years NFL draft.

Indiana hires Stephanie White as coach to lead Caitlin Clark and the Fever INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The Indiana Fever have hired Stephanie White as head coach.

White takes over a team led by WNBA Rookie of the Year Caitlin Clark.

White spent the past two seasons as head coach of the Connecticut Sun before parting ways with the team earlier this week.

The former star at Purdue served on the Fever coaching staff from 2011-16, including as head coach for the final two of those seasons.

White replaces Christie Sides, who led the Fever to a 20-20 record last season and the franchises first playoff berth since 2016.

Embiid out on Saturday but 76ers' All-Star center moves closer to return from knee injury CAMDEN, N.J.

(AP) Joel Embiid and Paul George will each miss a fifth straight game with left knee injuries when the Philadelphia 76ers host Memphis on Saturday night.

The oft-injured Embiid has yet to play this season, though he was a full participant at Fridays practice.

That included 5-on-5 scrimmages with the team.

Embiid skipped the entire preseason and has not played any basketball that matters since he helped Team USA win gold in the Paris Olympics.

Embiid has officially been out with what the 76ers call left knee management.

Kyle Larson heads to Martinsville looking for 7th win of season to have shot at NASCAR title CHARLOTTE, N.C.

(AP) Kyle Larson has rung the Hendrick Motorsports victory bell six times this season and yet he's on the outside looking in of NASCAR's championship four.

Larson is below the cutline heading to Martinsville Speedway in Virginia this weekend.

The final two spots in the winner-take-all final four will be decided Sunday.

Joey Logano and Tyler Reddick are already locked in and Larson sits seven points below the cutline.

But the 2021 NASCAR champion has won the elimination races in the first two rounds of these playoffs and will try to do the same again Sunday.

Trainer Bob Baffert's horses finish 1-2 in $2 million Juvenile in Breeders' Cup at Del Mar DEL MAR, Calif.

(AP) Citizen Bull has won the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile by 1 1/2 lengths at Del Mar.

The colt earned 30 qualifying points for next year's Kentucky Derby, where trainer Bob Baffert will return for the first time since 2021.

His three-year ban by Churchill Downs ended in July.

Citizen Bull ran 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.07 and paid $33.80 to win at 15-1 odds.

Gaming, also trained by Baffert, was second.

His other horse, Getaway Car, was fourth.

Brandon Aubrey thought being the Cowboys kicker would mean no jury duty.

A judge said otherwise FRISCO, Texas (AP) Brandon Aubrey was pretty sure being the kicker for the Dallas Cowboys was going to get him out of jury duty.

Its safe to say he was surprised to end up serving on a domestic violence case that lasted a week and ended with the jury sentencing the defendant to 65 years in prison.

Aubrey says it was an eye-opening, long, frustrating, depressing experience.

Aubrey thought his need to prepare for a game would be enough to get him excused.

The judge decided otherwise..

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