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 Beaubois undergoes surgery - Dallas Mavericks guard Roddy Beaubois has undergone surgery for the second time since fracturing his left foot while training with the French national team last summer. Beaubois had the procedure Monday. The team didn't offer a time frame for what it said would be a full recovery. The injury cost Beaubois most of his second season, when he was expected to be a key component for the Mavericks. Dallas won the NBA title without him playing in the postseason. READ MORE
Wurzburg set to honor Dirk Nowitzki - The second parade of the month for Mavs star Dirk Nowitzki takes place Tuesday in his hometown of Wurzburg in Bavaria. Nowitzki flew home over the weekend after his first-pitch duties at Friday night's Rangers game and will be honored by his countrymen in a city hall ceremony and afternoon procession through the city. READ MORE
McHale has ability to lead by example - I found Kevin McHale lying on a training table getting his left ankle and hip worked on Monday afternoon. Is this guy making an effort to fit in or what? "Arthritic ankle," he said. Been there, done that, buddy. Torn this. Broken that. We've had our share. Besides, McHale's new team will be perfectly happy if he's the only guy using those training tables at Toyota Center next season. "Too many sprained ankles," he said. "I played on it a couple of times when I shouldn't have. It's nothing really major — just an inconvenience." McHale had spent the morning on the practice court with his new team, beginning very gradually to evaluate what he has. READ MORE
Rockets Pick Up Option For Goran Dragic - NBA sources told FOX 26 Sports the Houston Rockets picked up the option on guard Goran Dragic's contract for the 2011-2012 season. Dragic will make $2,108,000. READ MORE
Ginobili Initiates Lawsuit Against Apple Over Incessant Autocorrect - With the NBA heading toward a league-wide lockout this week, many NBA players are taking advantage of the impending free time by scheduling extra vacations or changing their names to political statements in order to stoke their own jersey royalties. With limited time available before his international schedule begins however, Spurs Guard Manu Ginobili has begun filing preliminary paperwork on a lawsuit indicting Apple over the constant auto-correcting of his name by the company's best selling products. A native Argentinian, Ginobili informed reporters that initial instances of the spell-checking gaffe were initially discovered by his teammates, who in turn informed him. "It's important that my fans know first and foremost that I'm not like, constantly typing my own name all the time or something." Ginobili offered in his charmingly broken english. "It's just that with my twins being such a priority in my life, I have to protect any business opportunities that might arise, even in the long term." With his complaints stemming from a valid concern, but with further details of the suit being scarce at this early stage, reporters turned to fellow members of the Spurs to help shed light on the issue. READ MORE
Parker says he saw Hill as his ‘little brother’ - Speaking to a French website Monday, point guard Tony Parker said he would miss backup George Hill, who was traded to Indiana on draft night for a package that included Kawhi Leonard. “I have confidence in (the front office’s) ability to make good choices,” Parker told 20minutes.fr. “It was still very difficult to separate from George Hill, because everyone loved him. Personally, I considered him my little brother. But the NBA is a business.” In the same interview, Parker reiterated his desire to join the French national team for the ?EuroBasket tournament in Lithuania in August, but says he will not play if a lockout prevents him from obtaining insurances against injury. “If there’s no insurance, I won’t play, because the Spurs are No. 1 on my list,” Parker said. “But if I’m insured, I’ll definitely play.” READ MORE
Young is AL player of week - The Texas Rangers went 3-3 in their past two series. Good thing they had Michael Young to get them that far. The American League selected the Rangers utility player as its player of the week for the seven-day window beginning June 20 after he hit .481 and led baseball in slugging percentage (1.037) and total bases (28). Young hit four home runs and is riding a personal-best three-game streak with a homer. He went 13 for 27 with nine RBIs in six games against Houston and New York. The award is the third in Young's career and the first since Aug. 24, 2009. The last Rangers player to win was Bengie Molina last season after the slow-footed catcher hit for the cycle in the second game after the All-Star break. READ MORE
Cedeno's 14K's spoil Wieland's debut - Lefty fans first nine and perfect through 5 2/3, but Hooks fall. Xavier Cedeno has baffled hitters at times this year. On Monday night in a record-setting outing for Double-A Corpus Christi, he was downright dominant. Cedeno (4-5) struck out a franchise-high 14 batters and allowed a lone sixth-inning single over 6 2/3 shutout innings as the Hooks fell to Frisco, 6-3. He outdueled the RoughRiders' Joe Wieland, who was making his Double-A debut. READ MORE
Astros seeking another second-half turnaround - Wade confident players have what it takes to win consistently. If you've paid any attention to the Astros in recent years, you know second-half turnarounds have sort of been their trademark. They did it during the memorable 2004 and '05 seasons when they rose from the ashes and clinched the National League Wild Card on the final day of the season, and the Astros even posted a strong second half last year following a tumultuous first two months. As they near the midpoint of their 162-game schedule -- the Astros will play their 81st game on Wednesday -- the type of surge they're hoping to see this year has more to do with finding more consistency and playing up to their capabilities. READ MORE
Rosenthal thinks the Astros should trade Pence to Atlanta - Smilin Ken Rosenthal wonders, while admitting the chances of this are slim: The Astros need to rebuild around pitching. They’ve got right-handers Bud Norris and Jordan Lyles in place. What if they could move Pence to the Braves for a package built around one or more of Atlanta’s many appealing young arms? READ MORE
Impatient Texans work as lockout lingers - Houston Texans middle linebacker DeMeco Ryans has assumed a pivotal dual role for his team as the NFL lockout stretches into its fourth month. Ryans is one of the Texans’ player representatives, along with right tackle Eric Winston, responsible for keeping his teammates abreast of developments in the ongoing labor dispute. And since coaches aren’t allowed to have contact with players for now, Ryans has undertaken the job of teaching new coordinator Wade Phillips’ 3-4 scheme to the defense—which ranked as one of the league’s worst in 2010. READ MORE
For Jackson, workouts an escape from offseason - Texans CB plunges into preparations, calls unwanted publicity a learning experience. After making news for the wrong reasons during the offseason, second-year cornerback Kareem Jackson returned to Houston to participate in the second unofficial minicamp involving Texans players at Rice Stadium. Jackson, who started 16 games as a rookie last season, has been working out in Florida during the lockout. He appeared in excellent shape Monday when covering receivers for more than an hour in the heat. Thirty-five players attended the first day of the unofficial minicamp, five fewer than participated in the first session two weeks ago. Afterward, Jackson sat on a bench and answered questions from reporters about the two incidents that caused him to issue public apologies — tweeting photos of cockfights while on vacation in the Dominican Republic and allowing his name to be used by promoters for a launch party in Miami for Exxxotica Expo 2011. READ MORE
McCann has that itch for football - Cowboys cornerback Bryan McCann is anxious for a return to the football field. The SMU product saw action in nine games as a rookie last season and feels he will be much improved with a year under his belt. "I'm ready to get back out on the field," he said Saturday. "Ever since you've been in high school, even when you weren't in season, you still had your offseason, spring ball workouts, and we were deprived of that this year. This is the longest I've gone without football since high school, so I'm getting that itch." McCann joined teammates Dez Bryant and Martellus Bennett on the basketball court Saturday for Josh Howard's celebrity game at the P.C. Cobb Complex in Dallas. READ MORE
Tomlinson enjoying break, back in camp this week - LaDainian Tomlinson is enjoying the extended summer break from the rigours of minicamp and other off-season activities. After 10 NFL seasons, the New York Jets running back has been able to spend more time with family and a nearly year-old son while resting his body. That doesn't mean Tomlinson hasn't been on the football field during the NFL lockout. READ MORE
The Week That Was: Game Changer - At some point in everyone’s life the question gets asked, “Where do you see yourself in five years?” The same query can also be applied to a rebuilding sports franchise. For the 2016-17 season my hope is the Dallas Stars will: 1. Be playing in a division comprised mainly of teams from the Central Time Zone. 2. Wear their white jerseys for all home games. 3. Play every NHL team at least twice a year (home and away). 4. Have their fifth consecutive year of stable and supportive ownership. 5. Look to build on their recent trips to the NHL Playoffs. 6. Be considered legitimate contenders to WIN the Stanley Cup. The first three items are league issues. The fourth is still waiting to be played out but the foundation for items five and six is being created right now. When fans look for a time frame when the Stars created a new future, they will look at the week of June 20-26, 2011 as the definitive moment, a week that consisted of bookend events to form the future of the franchise. From a new coach to a draft that carried the mantra “Go Big or Go Home” this week had it all and more. READ MORE
Stars hoping to enhance growing prospect pool with 14th pick in draft - It may not sound like a very high pick, but the Dallas Stars are confident that they will select a player that will eventually have a big impact on their fortunes when they step up to the podium for the 14th overall choice in Friday’s NHL Entry Draft. Jack Campbell was selected 11th overall in 2010. As the club has transitioned to a younger core group over the last few seasons, it has also begun to build a better base of prospects to feed into the pipeline. That became evident this past season when the squad ran into injuries late in the year and was forced to call up numerous players from AHL Texas as replacements. READ MORE
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