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Toe injury forces Griffin out of playoffs
From staff and wire reports

Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin is out for the remainder of the playoffs after injuring his big toe during Friday night’s win against the host Utah Jazz. The team announced Saturday that the five-time All-Star was diagnosed with an injury to the plantar plate of his right big toe. Griffin left Game 3 with 3:18 remaining in the second quarter after landing awkwardly following a transition layup. At the time the injury was called a bruised toe. X-rays at the arena were negative, but Griffin was evaluated after the game. Griffin averaged 25 points, 6 rebounds, and 2.5 assists in the first two games . . . The NBA is investigating an incident between Houston Rockets guard Patrick Beverley and an Oklahoma City Thunder fan, a person familiar with the situation told the Associated Press. ESPN.com said multiple sources identified the fan as Stuart Scaramucci, son of minority Thunder owner Jay Scaramucci. The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the league has not released details of its review. The incident occurred Friday night when the Rockets played in Oklahoma City. Video shows Beverley falling in front of the fan in the first half, then getting up and pointing at him before teammate Nene redirected him. Beverley exchanged words with the fan after the game. Beverley said at practice Saturday that the Rockets are taking care of the situation, and he would talk after the investigation.

Soccer

Impact tie with Union

Anthony Jackson-Hamel scored his second goal of the game in the 87th minute, rallying the Montreal Impact to a 3-3 draw with the Philadelphia Union in a Major League Soccer match in Chester, Pa. . . . Brandon Vazquez scored his first MLS goal in the closing seconds of stoppage time to secure Atlanta United’s win over host Real Salt Lake . . . Darlington Nagbe scored a spectacular goal and Darren Mattocks added his first of the season as the host Portland Timbers defeated the Vancouver Whitecaps, 2-1. Nagbe’s highlight-reel strike came in the 18th minute when he received a pass 30 yards from goal and danced away from two Vancouver defenders. Moving toward the penalty area, he shrugged off a challenge by Kendall Waston, who has an 8-inch and 50-pound advantage. Nagbe finished the play by blasting a right-footed shot from 20 yards out over Vancouver goalkeeper David Ousted and off the bottom of the crossbar for his second goal of the season . . . Erick Torres scored his MLS-leading seventh goal of the season and the Dynamo beat the San Jose Earthquakes, 2-0, in Houston . . . Saki Kumagai scored a penalty inside two minutes to set titleholder Lyon on its way to beating host Manchester City, 3-1, in the first leg of their Women’s Champions League semifinal. Paris Saint-Germain also took a big step toward an all-French final after winning at Barcelona 3-1. Kumagai’s spot kick resulted from a penalty against US national team star Carli Lloyd, the world player of the year who handled the ball.

St. Petersburg’s stadium for the 2018 World Cup in Russia held its first game with much fanfare, a ragged pitch and three red cards. The 69,000-seat arena started construction in 2007 but was repeatedly delayed and experienced several scandals, including corruption cases and workers’ deaths.

WNBA

Sun’s Ogwumike gets extension

The Connecticut Sun signed Chiney Ogwumike to a multiyear extension, even though she is sitting out the season to recover from Achilles’ tendon surgery. The WNBA does not have an injured reserve list, leaving a team with limited options in dealing with players who will miss the year because of injuries. The Sun, in strictly a procedural move, suspended Ogwumike to free a roster spot. The team opens training camp Sunday and can have only 15 active players. She injured her left Achilles’ while playing in China last winter and had surgery Nov. 30.

Tennis

Nastase tossed at Fed Cup

Romania Fed Cup captain Ilie Nastase was thrown out of the playoff between his host country and Great Britain after abusing players and the umpire. The 70-year-old Nastase also publicly hurled insults at a British journalist, a day after apparently making racially offensive comments about Serena Williams’s pregnancy. International Tennis Federation president David Haggerty condemned Nastase for his ‘‘unacceptable behavior,’’ and the body also began an investigation. The ITF said referee Andreas Egli asked Nastase to leave the court ‘‘for unsportsmanlike conduct,’’ having already received two official warnings . . . CoCo Vandeweghe beat Marketa Vondrousova, 6-1, 6-4, to give the United States a 1-0 lead over defending champion Czech Republic in the Fed Cup semifinals. The winner will play Belarus or Switzerland for the title. That semifinal is 1-1 . . . Defending champion Rafael Nadal beat David Goffin, 6-3, 6-1, to move within one win of a 10th Monte Carlo Masters title and first of the season. Nadal will play 15th-seeded Albert Ramos-Vinolas in an all-Spanish final after the latter beat Lucas Pouille, 6-3, 5-7, 6-1.

Miscellany

Tigers place Cabrera on DL

The Detroit Tigers placed first baseman Miguel Cabrera on the 10-day disabled list with a strained right groin. Cabrera was injured while diving for a ground ball in the sixth inning of the Tigers’ game Friday against the Twins . . . Sergei Bobrovsky of the Blue Jackets, Braden Holtby of the Capitals. and Carey Price of the Canadiens are the finalists for the Vezina Trophy, given to the NHL’s best goalie . . . Former Giro d’Italia cycling champion Michele Scarponi died after a collision with a van while training near his home in Itlay. He was 37 . . . Quarterback Camden Bohn completed 10 of 13 passes for 128 yards and one touchdown as the Crimson team shut out the White team, 30-0, at Harvard’s annual spring football game . . . US Olympic silver medalist Shakur Stevenson has won his professional debut, beating Edgar Brito by technical unanimous decision in the sixth round in Carson, Calif. Stevenson largely controlled his debut bout, which was stopped moments after the sixth round began when the ringside doctor ruled Brito was cut too badly to continue after an earlier collision.

. . . Mai Mihara placed second in the women's free skate to help Japan win figure skating’s World Team Trophy. Russia finished second and the United States third . . .