A.I. and Grizzlies meet; deal near?
The owner of the Memphis Grizzlies and the team's staff met yesterday with Allen Iverson, and moved closer to a deal to bring the veteran guard to a young team.
"I want to help them develop a winner," Iverson said on Twitter on Sunday.
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Allen Iverson celebrates in a preseason game during his rookie season.
The meeting was in Atlanta, where the 34-year-old has been working out with former Sixers teammate Eric Snow. The Grizzlies confirmed the meeting but declined to comment further. No other NBA team has shown public interest in Iverson.
The Commercial Appeal newspaper reported that the Grizzlies have offered the Iverson a 1-year contract worth at least $3.5 million. The deal could increase to $4.4 million if Memphis renounces its rights to guard Juan Carlos Navaro, of Spain.
Horse Racing
* Runnning Brook Gal, a 2-year-old Utah filly, won the $2 million All American Futurity at Ruidoso Downs, N.M., the biggest event in quarter horse racing.
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Sport Stops
* Serbia upset world champion Spain, 66-57, on the opening day of the European basketball championship in Warsaw, Poland. Serbia tops Group C along with Slovenia, which beat Britain, 72-59.
* The International Boxing Association has reduced the number of men's weight categories from 11 to 10 for the 2012 London Olympics. The move was made to accommodate women's boxing at the Games. The IOC would not allow the AIBA to add to its total number of boxers, so the addition of 36 females necessitated 36 fewer males, and the AIBA condensed its four lightest weight categories into three. * Philadelphia light flyweight Miguel Cartagena dropped a 19-7 decision to Spain's Jose Kelvin de la Nieve Linares, ending his bid for a world amateur boxing title at the AIBA Championships in Milan, Italy.
* Vintage Master ran away with the $325,000 Cane Pace in record time at Freehold Raceway.
