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Sports briefs
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Pens sign defenseman
The Pittsburgh Penguins have signed defenseman Yannick Weber to a one-year contract. The two-way contract will run through the 2020-21 season and is worth $700,000 at the NHL level.
Weber, 32, has played in parts of 12 seasons in the NHL with Montreal, Vancouver and Nashville. Most recently, Weber spent the last four seasons with the Predators. Last season, he recorded one goal, two assists and three points in 41 games.
The defenseman has 28 career goals, 66 assists and 94 points in 497 games. Weber set career highs with 11 goals and 21 points in 2014-15 with Vancouver.
Dukes rout Fordham
Chad Baker had 23 points as Duquesne routed Fordham 86-62 Wednesday night in a men’s basketball game.
Marcus Weathers had 19 points and 12 rebounds for Duquesne (4-5 Atlantic 10 Conference, 5-6 overall). Michael Hughes added 13 points, 11 rebounds and six assists, and Tyson Acuff had 11 points.
Duquesne posted a season-high 25 assists, and scored a season-high 48 points in the second half.
Chris Austin had 19 points for the Rams (1-8, 1-8), who have now lost six straight games. Ty Perry added 13 points, and Joel Soriano had 10 points and 10 rebounds.
The Dukes improve to 2-0 against the Rams for the season. Duquesne defeated Fordham 48-45 on Jan. 9.
In baseball
Left-handed starter Jon Lester and the Washington Nationals finalized a $5 million, one-year contract Wednesday, giving the team a fourth member of a rotation led by Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg and Patrick Corbin.
Lester and the team had an agreement in principle in place last week, pending the successful completion of a physical exam.
- The retooling New York Yankees finalized a $90 million, six-year contract to retain AL batting champion DJ LeMahieu on Wednesday and completed an $11 million deal to add right-hander Corey Kluber.
The Yankees also reached a $2.5 million, one-year deal with submarining right-handed reliever Darren O’Day.
- The Hammer made one last trip to the spot where he hit No. 715.
After a nearly three-hour funeral service Wednesday that featured two former presidents, a long-time baseball commissioner and a civil rights icon, the hearse carrying Hank Aaron’s body detoured off the road bearing his name to swing through the former site of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
That’s where Aaron broke an iconic record on April 8, 1974, eclipsing the home run mark established by Babe Ruth.
The stadium was imploded in 1997 but the outer retaining wall of the old stadium remains, along with a modest display in the midst of the nondescript lot that marks the exact location where the record-breaking homer cleared the left-field fence.
In the NBA
Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Wednesday for a shot to the groin area of Dallas’ Tim Hardaway Jr.
Murray was ejected after the apparently intentional act in the third quarter of a game Monday night. The Nuggets won 117-113.
Murray stumbled backward after colliding with Hardaway as Denver was setting up on offense. Murray got up and reached between Hardaway’s legs with his right arm, prompting Hardaway to double over.