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Celtics say trading Jaylen Brown was about money

BOSTON — Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Brad Stevens and team owner Bill Chisholm want to make one thing clear: The decision to trade perennial All-Star Jaylen Brown wasn’t arrived at lightly. But from their perspective, it was necessary to give the franchise the ...

Rolling Stones will meet some NASCAR names

JOLIET, Ill. — The first Rolling Stones album was released in 1964. NASCAR driver Connor Zilisch was born in 2006. Of course, when it comes to Mick Jagger and company, time seems almost irrelevant. “No matter who you are or where you’re from or how old you are, you know who the Rolling ...

Spain moving on to quarters in World Cup soccer

ARLINGTON, Texas — Mikel Merino was still on the bench in the final minutes of regulation, with Spain coach Luis de la Fuente worried about hanging on to his substitutes as long as possible because of looming extra time. The Arsenal forward made all that fretting moot. Merino scored in the ...

Ex-collegian in big trouble

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. –– Former college basketball player Kerr Kriisa has been accused of fraudulently obtaining nearly $2.2 million from two victims. A federal grand jury in West Virginia indicted him last month. The case was unsealed Monday after his arrest in Kentucky on Friday. Kriisa is a 6-foot-3 guard from Estonia. He began his college career in 2020 at Arizona and later transferred to West Virginia. He is expected to appear in federal court in West Virginia this week on five counts of wire fraud. The indictment alleges he posed as other people, including his mother, to ...

Flavio Cobolli, Jasmine Paolini among Wimbledon winners

LONDON — On his first match point, Flavio Cobolli stepped up and unleashed a 135 mph first serve down the T that landed on the line and sent a puff of chalk into the air on No. 1 Court at Wimbledon. Fifth-seeded opponent Alex de Minaur could barely touch the serve and the Australian’s ...

US soccer star Folarin Balogun given OK to play against Belgium

SEATTLE — U.S. President Donald Trump intervened on behalf of American star forward Folarin Balogun, whose red-card suspension was lifted in a decision that allows him to play in a World Cup match against Belgium tonight. Balogun, the American leader with three goals in the tournament, ...