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Sports briefs
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Pitt loses Sibande for season
Pitt basketball senior guard Nike Sibande is out for the season after tearing his right ACL in an exhibition win over Gannon on Monday.
Sibande injured the knee in the first half of Pitt’s 89-64 win.
Sibande, who transferred to Pitt from Miami (Ohio) before the 2020-21 season, averaged 6.9 points and 3.0 rebounds for the Panthers. He was expected to take on a much larger role in the offense for Pitt, which lost its top three scorers from a year ago.
In the NFL
Former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III was driving at 156 mph with a blood-alcohol content twice Nevada’s legal limit before his sports car slammed into the rear of a vehicle that burned, killing a 23-year-old woman, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The Raiders released Ruggs late Tuesday, just hours after the crash and shortly after he was released from a hospital and booked into a Las Vegas jail.
The 22-year-old former first-round NFL draft pick remained seated in a wheelchair with a foam brace on his neck and jail guards at his elbows during his initial court appearance Wednesday on pending felony charges of driving under the influence of alcohol resulting in death and reckless driving.
Ruggs’ girlfriend, identified by police as Kiara Je’nai Kilgo-Washington of Las Vegas, was with him in the car.
In baseball
The Cincinnati Reds traded veteran Gold Glove catcher Tucker Barnhart to the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday in exchange for infield prospect Nick Quintana.
- The Philadelphia Phillies declined club options for next season on outfielders Odúbel Herrera and Andrew McCutchen. McCutchen hit .237 with 47 homers and 143 RBIs in three seasons in Philadelphia. He is a free agent.
In the NBA
Myles Turner scored 25 points, hitting 7 of 10 3-pointers, and had 13 rebounds in the Indiana Pacers’ 111-98 victory over the New York Knicks Wednesday night.
Fred VanVleet scored a season-high 33 points, OG Anunoby added 21 and the Toronto Raptors beat the Washington Wizards, 109-100.