BASKETBALL
Aaron Best scored 24 points and Raptors 905 beat the Maine Celtics 128-92 in an NBA G League game on Tuesday night in Mississauga, Ontario.
Ashton Hagans added 18 points and seven assists, while Isaac Bonga had nine points and 11 rebounds for Raptors 905 (16-6). David Johnson and Justin Smith each added 12.
Jaysean Paige had 17 points and five assists for Maine (8-11), which has lost four straight games. Deng Adel added 12 points, five rebounds and three assists.
Matt Ryan, who signed a two-way contract with the Boston Celtics on Monday, and Chris Clemons each scored 11 points for Maine.
MIXED MARTIAL ARTS
UFC: Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a shooting that injured a man in Northern California, police said.
Velasquez, 39, was arrested Monday in San Jose and is being held without bail at Santa Clara County Main Jail, records show. He is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday. It was not immediately known if he has an attorney who can speak on his behalf.
The San Jose Police Department said officers responded to a shooting Monday and found a man with at least one gunshot wound. The man was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, the department said on Twitter. Velasquez was arrested hours later. What led to the shooting is still under investigation, police said.
Velasquez transitioned to pro wrestling after retiring from his MMA career in 2019. A former two-time UFC heavyweight champion, he earned title belts in 2010 and 2012.
SOCCER
TELEVISION: The U.S. Soccer Federation has reached an eight-year multimedia rights agreement with Turner Sports that will put broadcasts of both men’s and women’s national team games on TNT, TBS and HBO Max.
The broadcast deal starts in 2023 and runs through 2030. Turner Sports is a division of Warner Media.
The primary home for national team games will be HBO Max, which will livestream more than 20 matches each year, with about half of those games also broadcast on TNT or TBS.
U.S. Soccer’s current broadcast deal with ESPN, FOX and Univision expires at the end of this year.
The agreement does not include the upcoming men’s World Cup in Qatar, the 2023 Women’s World Cup, or the men’s 2026 World Cup. FOX Sports owns those broadcast rights.
RUSSIAN COACH QUITS: Markus Gisdol of Germany quit his job as coach of Russian soccer club Lokomotiv Moscow in protest at Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Lokomotiv said simply that Gisdol was “removed from the post of head coach” after less than four months in charge. He told German tabloid Bild it was a gesture of protest at working in a country “whose head of state is responsible for a war of aggression in the middle of Europe.”
MLS: Atlanta United midfielder Luiz Araujo will miss about four weeks after sustaining a hamstring injury while scoring the team’s first goal of the season.
The 25-year-old Brazilian began the Major League Soccer season by scoring the opening goal Sunday in a 3-1 victory over Kansas City.
Araujo came up hobbling after flicking the ball into the net in the 20th minute, grabbing his right hamstring. He attempted to stay in the game, but lasted only a brief period before dropping to the turf in obvious pain.
PREMIER LEAGUE: Burnley missed a chance to climb out of the Premier League’s relegation zone by losing 2-0 at home to Leicester.
James Maddison and Jamie Vardy came off the bench to score second-half goals for the visitors at Turf Moor.
HORSE RACING
LAWSUIT: Bob Baffert has sued Churchill Downs and track leadership in federal court, seeking to overturn the embattled Hall of Fame trainer’s two-year suspension on grounds it violated his due process rights.
The suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court names Churchill Downs Inc., CEO William C. Carstanjen and board chair R. Alex Rankin. The historic track suspended Baffert last spring through 2023 and cited a recent spate of failed drug tests by his horses including now-deceased colt Medina Spirit after he won the Kentucky Derby. A postrace drug test revealed the corticosteroid betamethasone in his system, which is allowed in Kentucky but prohibited on race day.
Kentucky racing stewards last week disqualified Medina Spirit and handed Baffert a 90-day suspension and $7,500 fine. Churchill Downs recognized runner-up Mandaloun as winner soon after. Kentucky Horse Racing Commission director Marc A. Guilfoil on Friday denied the trainer’s request to stay the suspension that is scheduled to begin on March 8.
TENNIS
COACH: Novak Djokovic and coach Marian Vajda are no longer working together, splitting up after 15 years and 20 Grand Slam titles.
A statement that went up on Djokovic’s website said that the two men “agreed to end their partnership” after last year’s season-ending ATP Finals.
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