Sports News – The Los Angeles Tribune
- JC Tretter notes the higher rate of noncontact lower extremity injuries when playing on artificial turf.
- The NFL issued a strongly worded memo to NFL coaches, general managers and team executives that said "accountability measures" for coaches who don't wear masks on the sideline "may include … suspensions and/or forfeiture of draft picks."
- Chris Godwin is expected to miss Sunday's game due to a hamstring injury and could miss Week 5 vs. the Bears.
- The Lakers blew out the injury-riddled Heat in Game 1. Here's what it means for the rest of the series.
- The famous "Rocky" statue and museum steps is where an 8-year-old girl and her father began their relationship with each other and the city's NFL team.
- The 44th president of the United States was in "attendance" for the NBA Finals.
- Quarterback Derek Carr said Raiders players "weren't trying to be careless or reckless" when they removed their masks at a charity event Monday night.
- In his NBA Finals debut, the Lakers' Anthony Davis scored 34 points and added 9 rebounds and 3 blocks in a 116-98 win against the Heat.
- The UFC has formally offered Conor McGregor a non-title lightweight bout against Dustin Poirier, UFC president Dana White told Barstool Sports. Additional sources confirmed to ESPN that McGregor has been sent a physical contract.
- The Sixers will meet with former Clippers coach Doc Rivers in Philadelphia about the franchise's head-coaching job, sources said.