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CLARK EARNS ALL-STAR SPOT
NEW YORK (AP) -- Caitlin Clark was voted to start her third straight All-Star Game and will be joined by Indiana Fever teammates Kelsey Mitchell and Aliyah Boston, the WNBA announced Thursday.
It’s the second time in four years that three players from the same team were chosen to start the game, with Las Vegas doing it in 2023. Clark wasn’t able to play in last year’s game that the Fever hosted because she was injured right before the All-Star break.
Clark and Mitchell will be joined this year in the backcourt by Dallas’ Paige Bueckers and Minnesota rookie Olivia Miles. It’s the fourth consecutive year that a rookie was chosen as an All-Star starter. Bueckers played last season.
A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart, Jessica Shepard, Natasha Howard and Gabby Williams were selected for the frontcourt for the game that will be played in Chicago on July 25. It will be Wilson’s and Stewart’s eighth All-Star appearance while Shepard will be making her first.
Starters were chosen by a mixture of fan, player and media votes. The fan vote counted for 50% while media and player votes were 25% each. Each player’s score was calculated by averaging their weighted rank from all three areas.
WOODS RECORDS SOUGHT
STUART, Fla. (AP) -- Prosecutors are allowed to review medical records related to Tiger Woods ‘ March vehicle crash and subsequent arrest in Florida on suspicion of driving under the influence, a judge has ruled.
Judge Darren Steele approved an agreement last week between Woods’ defense attorney and the State Attorney’s Office that allows prosecutors to request records from Cleveland Clinic Martin South Hospital, where Woods was taken following the March 27 crash. The case is being tried in Martin County circuit court, just north of Palm Beach County.
The judge signed off on a similar agreement in May that grants prosecutors access to all prescription medication records for the legendary golfer at a Palm Beach pharmacy from the start of the year through the end of March. For both hospital and prescription records, prosecutors have agreed to defense attorney Doug Duncan’s request for a protective order limiting the release of records only to prosecutors, law enforcement officers, state experts and Woods’ defense team.
Woods has pleaded not guilty to driving under the influence. A sheriff’s office report said deputies found two pain pills in his pocket, and he showed signs of impairment after his SUV clipped a truck’s trailer and rolled onto its side.
BLUE JACKET STAYS PUT
COLUMBUS (AP) -- Zach Werenski decided in less than an hour to reject a trade from the Columbus Blue Jackets to the Dallas Stars.
It took a couple of days, however, for the star defenseman and his team to make sure they were on the same page moving forward.
General manager Don Waddell and Werenski met Wednesday to clear the air and then both issued statements proclaiming all was well, with both sides focusing on the upcoming season.
Waddell said Thursday after the conclusion of Columbus’ rookie development camp that Werenski’s veto of a trade to Dallas was more about staying with the Blue Jackets than going to the Stars.
The Norris Trophy winner has two years remaining on his contract, including a full no-trade clause this year. That clause gets reduced to 10 teams on July 1, 2027.
“Him and his family have been talking about and thinking about it (being traded) and now you get put where you have to make a decision,” Waddell said. “I thought they might think about it overnight but I got the answer back. It had to be right around an hour that he wants to be a Blue Jacket.”