Help for Curry – point guard Schroder traded to Golden State

LAS VEGAS>> By adding Dennis Schroder, the Golden State Warriors believe they have found the perfect backcourt mate to complement Stephen Curry.

Golden State has landed Schroder in a trade with the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for injured guard De’Anthony Melton and guard Reece Beekman, the teams announced Sunday.

“I’m thrilled. I told Dennis today he’s kicked my (butt) on three different continents,” Warriors coach Steve Kerr said. “Watching him in FIBA the last two summers, Philippines and we played them in London in an exhibition game. He’s a gamer, he’s a competitor, pick-and-roll player, two-way player.”

Schroder is expected to join the team Monday to undergo his physical and have a couple of practices ahead of Thursday’s game at Memphis.

Kerr said he and his staff will discuss Schroder’s role but considers him a likely starter considering “we’ve been changing our starting lineup almost nightly, searching.”

Giants owner Mara gets another aerial message

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.>> New York Giants co-owner John Mara received another aerial message trashing his woeful team before Sunday’s 35-14 loss to the Baltimore Ravens.

A small plane circled MetLife Stadium roughly two hours before kickoff, trailing a banner that read: “Mr Mara Enough — We won’t stop until you fire everyone.”

The most obvious people on the chopping block after two straight losing seasons are coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen.

It was the second straight week that a plane was hired to circle the stadium in protest of the Giants’ seventh losing season since 2017. Sunday’s loss was the ninth straight for New York (2-12), a franchise record-tying skid.

Love wins World Cup women’s bobsled bronze

SIGULDA, Latvia>>— Kaysha Love is going into the World Cup bobsled holiday break on a high note.

Love and Jasmine Jones paired up to win bronze for the U.S. in a women’s bobsled race Sunday, the final day of sliding on the World Cup circuits before all three tours — bobsled, skeleton and luge — take some time off for Christmas.

It was Love’s sixth World Cup medal in women’s bobsled, the second since she became a driver last season. She also has three medals — two gold, one silver — in World Cup monobob events.

German sleds took gold and silver in the women’s race.

Referee briefly stops French league match after homophobic chants

A French league soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon was briefly interrupted Sunday because of homophobic chanting by PSG fans.

Referee Benoît Bastien stopped play in the 53rd minute at the Parc des Princes in Paris with host PSG leading 2-1 after the chants were heard.

PSG captain Achraf Hakimi approached fans in the Auteuil stand behind one of the goals to ask them to stop. A message reminding fans that discriminatory chants are forbidden was then displayed on the stadium’s giant screens.

“The match could be stopped or even lost for the club,” the message read.

Play eventually resumed after a few minutes.

The chants were just the latest in a long series of similar incidents as French soccer authorities struggle to tackle the issue.