Reuters Sports News Summary


Reuters | Updated: 06-02-2019 10:27 IST | Created: 06-02-2019 10:27 IST
Reuters Sports News Summary

Following is a summary of current sports news briefs. NHL notebook: Leafs, Matthews ink five-year extension

Toronto Maple Leafs All-Star center Auston Matthews agreed to terms on a five-year, $58.17 million contract extension, the team announced Tuesday. The $11.634 million average is the second highest behind Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid ($12.5 million). Toronto's John Tavares, who signed with the Maple Leafs as a free agent in the offseason, dropped to third at $11 million. The 21-year-old Matthews currently is earning a base salary of $832,500 in the final season of a three-year, $11.325 million deal. MLB notebook: Astros' Correa wins arbitration case

Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa won his arbitration case Tuesday and will make $5 million in 2019. The Astros submitted a figure of $4.25 million, but arbitrators Elizabeth Neumeier, James Oldham and Gary Kendellen ruled in favor of Correa. Golf: 'Grow up', Koepka tells Garcia after Saudi meltdown

Three-times major champion Brooks Koepka has publicly rebuked Sergio Garcia for a temper tantrum at the European Tour's Saudi International on Saturday, and says it is time for the Spaniard to "grow up". Garcia was disqualified from the event after the third round for what the tour deemed "serious misconduct" under rule 1.2a. Fans pack Boston streets for Patriots' Super Bowl parade

Hundreds of thousands of football fans packed into Boston's streets on Tuesday to catch a glimpse of the New England Patriots after their record-tying sixth Super Bowl win. A parade of World War Two-era amphibious duck boats blasted confetti into the sky, while players including quarterback Tom Brady, linebacker Dont'a Hightower and famously taciturn head coach Bill Belichick, celebrated the team's 13-3 victory over the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday. NFL notebook: McVay says Gurley won't need surgery

Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay continues to insist his game plan was the reason for Todd Gurley's inactivity in Super Bowl LIII and not the running back's ailing left knee. Gurley underwent his season-ending physical exam on Tuesday but wasn't interested in discussing any details. A team official shadowed Gurley and told reporters the running back was not available for comment as the Rams cleaned out their lockers in Thousand Oaks, Calif. NBA: James passes 32,000 career points but suffers worst career loss

LeBron James endured the worst defeat of his NBA career on Tuesday when the Los Angeles Lakers were thumped by 42 points by the Indiana Pacers. The result was such a foregone conclusion that James sat out the entire fourth quarter in the 136-94 result in Indianapolis. Alpine skiing: Vonn crashes but Shiffrin wins Super-G gold at worlds

Lindsey Vonn's hopes of a gold medal in the penultimate race of her glittering career were ended by a high-speed crash but Mikaela Shiffrin claimed victory in a nailbiting Super-G on the first day of racing at the world championships on Tuesday. It was a day of starkly contrasting fortunes for the two figureheads of the U.S. ski team. LA coroner rules woman killed by foul ball at Dodger Stadium

A California woman died last August as a result of being hit in the head by a batted ball during a Major League Baseball (MLB) game at Dodger Stadium, according to a Los Angeles County coroner's report obtained on Tuesday. As stated in a copy of the coroner's report sent to Reuters, the 79-year-old woman died of "acute intracranial haemorrhage due to history of blunt force trauma" four days after she was struck in the head with a baseball during an Aug. 25 game. Osaka pulls out of Qatar Open with injury

World number one Naomi Osaka has pulled out of next week's Qatar Open with an unspecified back injury, tournament organizers said on Tuesday. Osaka, who was set play for the first time since her Australian Open triumph, has suffered with back problems in the past. ATP roundup: Wild card KOs Jarry in Cordoba

Argentinian wild-card entrant Juan Ignacio Londero recorded the first main-draw ATP Tour win of his career Tuesday, upsetting fifth-seeded Chilean Nicolas Jarry 6-2, 7-6 (5) in the first round of the Cordoba (Argentina) Open. Londero, 25, is ranked 125th in the world. He plays mostly on the second-tier Challenger circuit. Jarry, 23, is rated 41st in the world.

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