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Suspended Browns Herrada

RB Hunt undergoes wins 6th

sports hernia surgery Vuelta
stage,

By TOM WITHERS eligible to return to their Teuns takes
AP Sports Writer roster for the Nov. 10 game
CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns against Buffalo. overall
running back Kareem Hunt On Wednesday, the league
will spend part of his NFL said Hunt is not allowed in- lead
suspension rehabbing after side the team's facility dur-
surgery. ing his suspension, which Cleveland Browns running back Kareem Hunt (27) tries to get
past Indianapolis Colts strong safety Clayton Gathers (26) dur-
Hunt, who will serve an goes into effect Saturday ing the first half of an NFL preseason football game in Indianap- ARES DEL MAESTRAT, Spain
eight-game ban for two at 4 p.m. The Browns had olis, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019. (AP) — A day after seeing
physical off-field alter- asked for an exemption so Associated Press his older brother miss out
cations in 2018 while he Hunt could be around his on a stage victory, Jesus
played for Kansas City, had teammates while serving was Kansas City's GM. released him in the final Herrada came through
a sports hernia operation his penalty. Hunt was punished by Com- weeks of their playoff push with a strong late charge
Thursday — hours before Hunt, who is from the Cleve- missioner Roger Goodell last season. The team was on the final climb to win
the Browns played Detroit land area, will now have to for violating the league's upset that Hunt had lied the sixth leg of the Spanish
in their exhibition finale. rehab his injury elsewhere. personal-conduct policy to them about his involve- Vuelta on Thursday, with
Hunt had been expected The Browns signed the following an investigation ment in the incidents. Belgian rider Dylan Teuns
to play in what would have league's 2017 rushing into the two incidents, one Hunt gained 1,327 yards coming in second to take
been his last game until his leader in February on the in which he shoved and rushing as a rookie. He had the overall lead.
ban ends in November. The recommendation of gen- kicked a woman during an 824 yards rushing and 378 Herrada moved past
Browns said the 24-year- eral manager John Dorsey, argument in a hotel hall- yards receiving in 11 games Teuns with about 200 me-
old is expected to be fully who drafted Hunt in the way in Cleveland where in 2018 before the Chiefs ters (yards) to go on the
recovered by the time he's third round in 2017 while he he was staying. The Chiefs cut ties with him.q 198.9-kilometer (123.6-
mile) stage that finished
on a mountain top in Ares
Yankees join Amazon, del Maestrat in eastern
Spain. The team Cofidis rid-
Sinclair to buy YES from er finished seven seconds
ahead of his opponent
Disney from team Bahrain-Merida.
José Herrada was in the
breakaway group on
The Blackstone Group and network and airs Yankees Wednesday but could not
Mubadala Capital. games, Brooklyn Nets keep up with stage winner
Asked how the deal might basketball games, Major Angel Madrazo.
affect the digital streaming League Soccer's New York "This victory is for my broth-
rights to Yankees games City FC games and others, er, who came close to
within the team's mar- along with more program- taking the victory yester-
ket, club president Randy ming specific to the Yan- day," said Jesus Herrada,
Levine said he expected kees. who couldn't hold back
In this June 20, 2019, file photo, New York Yankees, from left, tears after crossing the
Didi Gregorius, Brett Gardner, Cameron Maybin, and Giancar- Major League Baseball to The network was owned
lo Stanton celebrate after defeating the Houston Astros in a announce changes to its by Yankee Global Enter- finish line. "It was hard to
baseball game in New York. policy soon. Teams cannot prises, Goldman Sachs, get the break going. Half-
currently sell digital rights Providence Equity and NJ way through the stage we
By JAKE SEINER Global Enterprises' right- to local broadcasts. Holdings (a company then didn't know if we were go-
AP Sports Writer of-first-refusal to buy back "I think you should just stay controlled by former New ing to make it. When Teuns
NEW YORK (AP) — The New YES Network shares. That tuned because I think Jersey Nets owners Louis accelerated, I stuck to his
York Yankees have reac- deal closed in March. the commissioner will be Katz and Ray Chambers) wheel and saved energy
quired the YES Network, Sinclair said it would buy speaking about that in the when YES sold a 49% stake for the sprint."
joining Amazon and the 21 of the regional sports near future," Levine said. to Rupert Murdoch's News It was the first Grand Tour
Sinclair Broadcast Group networks in May, but the MLB declined to com- Corp. in late 2012. News win for Herrada, who last
to buy an 80% stake in the 80% stake in YES was sold ment. Corp. split into two com- year wore the leader's
channel from The Walt Dis- separately. Yankee Global Yankees games have panies the following year, red jersey on two Vuelta
ney Co. Enterprises already held a been streamed on the Fox with broadcast properties stages. "This victory was my
The deal announced 20% stake in YES. The Asso- Sports Go app, and Levine spun off to 21st Century goal for the year, to get
Thursday values YES at ciated Press reported the believes that arrange- Fox. 21st Century Fox raised my first Grand Tour win,"
$3.47 billion, nearly $500 preliminary YES Network ment will last through the its stake to 80% in early the 29-year-old rider said. "I
million less than when 21st deal in March. season but "we expect it 2014 and Yankee Global can go home with peace
Century Fox acquired a Yankees Global Enterpris- to" change. Levine said Enterprises reduced its in my mind, but I'll be look-
majority stake in 2014. Dis- es will hold a 26% share in the network already has stake from 26% to 20% in a ing for more opportuni-
ney was required to sell YES, with Sinclair owning programming in the works deal that valued the net- ties and they'll come." The
off Fox's regional sports 20%, Amazon getting 15% related to Amazon's role in work at $3.9 billion. 27-year-old Teuns was look-
networks as part of its $71 with the right to purchase the deal, but "the specifics YES Network President Jon ing for his second Grand
billion deal to acquire more, and the rest split will come in the future." Litner signed a new con- Tour stage win this year. He
Fox's entertainment assets, among the deal's other in- YES is the country's most tract and will continue to won the sixth stage of the
which triggered Yankee vestors — RedBird Capital, watched regional sports lead the network.q Tour de France in July.q