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THE BULLETIN • THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2022
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NFL
49ers WR Samuel
asks for trade
SANTA CLARA, Calif.
— All-Pro receiver Deebo
Samuel told ESPN on
Wednesday that he has
requested a trade from
the San Francisco 49ers
as the two sides have
been unable to negotiate
a long-term deal for one
of the league’s top play-
makers.
Samuel is entering the
final year of the rookie
deal he signed after be-
ing drafted in the second
round in 2019 and is look-
ing to take advantage of
the exploding market of
receiver contracts.
Samuel is set to be
paid nearly $4 million this
season after being a first-
team All-Pro in 2021. Eight
receivers have gotten new
contracts this offseason
worth at least $18 million
a year, including Tyreek
Hill and Davante Adams
after trades from their old
teams.
If the Niners give in
to Samuel’s demand he
would be the latest star re-
ceiver to switch teams this
offseason. Green Bay got
a first- and second-round
pick from the Raiders for
Adams, while Kansas City
got a first-, a second- and
three lower-round picks
from Miami for Hill.
Samuel didn’t give a
reason to ESPN for his de-
mand and the Niners and
his agent didn’t imme-
diately comment on the
request.
The NFL draft starts
next Thursday and San
Francisco could look to
add a first-round pick after
trading theirs away last
season to move up for
quarterback Trey Lance.
— Associated Press
Haskins ran out of
gas before killed
FORT LAUDERDALE,
Fla. — The wife of Pitts-
burgh Steelers quarter-
back Dwayne Haskins
called Florida 911 dis-
patchers shortly after he
was fatally struck by a
dump truck earlier this
month, saying his car
had run out of gas and
she was worried because
he wasn’t answering
the phone, according
to recordings released
Wednesday.
Kalabrya Haskins, who
was calling from Pitts-
burgh and unaware of
the accident, told a Flor-
ida Highway Patrol dis-
patcher on April 9 that
her 24-year-old husband
had called from near Fort
Lauderdale to say he
was walking to get gas
and would call her back.
When the former Ohio
State star didn’t, she told
the dispatcher she tried
to call him but he wasn’t
answering.
“I just want somebody
to go in the area and see
if his car is there and if
he’s OK and if anything
happened to him,” she
said, her voice breaking.
“It’s not like him” to not
call back, she said.
The highway patrol
had already received nu-
merous panicked calls
about the accident that
happened about dawn
on Interstate 595 near
Fort Lauderdale-Holly-
wood International Air-
port. But the dispatcher
did not appear to know
yet that paramedics
had arrived and found
Haskins dead. He had
been in South Florida
training with Steelers
teammates.
The accident report
released Wednesday says
witnesses told investiga-
tors Haskins was trying to
cross the highway when
he went into the path of
the dump truck. The truck
knocked him into the
path of a car, which also
struck him.
— Associated Press
TENNIS
A tough
decision
Wimbledon bans players from Russia, Belarus over Ukraine war
Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP file
Russia’s Daniil Medvedev plays a return to Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz during a second-round match at Wimbledon in London July 1, 2021.
BY CHRIS LEHOURITES
Associated Press
LONDON — Tennis players from Russia
and Belarus will not be allowed to play at
Wimbledon this year because of the war in
Ukraine, the All England Club announced
Wednesday.
Among the prominent men’s players affected by
the ban are reigning U.S. Open champion Daniil
Medvedev, who recently reached No. 1 in the ATP
rankings and is currently No. 2, and No. 8 Andrey
Rublev. The women’s players affected include No.
4 Aryna Sabalenka, who was a Wimbledon semi-
finalist last year; Victoria Azarenka, a former No.
1 who has won the Australian Open twice; and
Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, the French Open run-
ner-up last year.
Medvedev, Rublev and Pavlyuchenkova are
from Russia; Sabalenka and Azarenka are from
NBA PLAYOFFS
Belarus.
Wimbledon begins on June 27. The All
England Club confirmed in March that it was
having discussions with the British government
about whether Russians should be able to play in
the grass-court Grand Slam tournament.
“It is our responsibility to play our part in the
widespread efforts … to limit Russia’s global in-
fluence through the strongest means possible,” the
All England Club said in a statement first posted
on Twitter.
See Wimbledon / A7
GOLF
Pebble Beach is now a USGA anchor
site with 4 men’s and women’s Opens
Lynne Sladky/AP
Miami Heat’s Jimmy Butler walks off the court during the second half
of Game 2 of a first-round playoff series against the Atlanta Hawks
Tuesday night in Miami. The Heat won 115-105.
Bubble Jimmy, or a new
version, back at right
time for Miami Heat
BY TIM REYNOLDS
AP Basketball Writer
MIAMI — These are Jimmy
Butler’s three highest-scoring
games in a Miami uniform: 40
points against Milwaukee, 40
points against the Los Angeles
Lakers, 45 points against At-
lanta. And those efforts have
quite a bit in common.
He had at least 20 shot at-
tempts and 12 free throws in
each of those games.
The Heat won all three con-
tests.
And all three happened in
the playoffs.
Butler’s best Miami mo-
ments tend to come when
it matters most — the post-
season. His 45-point effort
against the Hawks on Tuesday
night gave top-seeded Miami
a 2-0 series lead in their East-
ern Conference first-round
matchup that resumes on
Friday in Atlanta. He said af-
terward that he simply took
what the defense gave him.
His teammates and coaches
said it was far more impressive
than that.
“Jimmy is a max guy, a go-
guy, a killer,” Heat coach Erik
Spoelstra said.
See Heat / A6
Eric Risberg/AP file
Daniel Berger putts on the seventh green of the Pebble Beach Golf Links during the Pebble Beach
Pro-Am in 2021 . Pebble Beach is the third course to become an anchor site for the U.S. Open.
BY DOUG FERGUSON
AP Golf Writer
Pebble Beach is the third
course to become an an-
chor site for the U.S. Open,
with the USGA announcing
Wednesday four U.S. Opens
and four U.S. Women’s Opens
over the next 26 years.
Pebble Beach joins Pine-
hurst No. 2 and Oakmont
Country Club as anchor sites,
a strategy that allows the
USGA to return to its most
famous U.S. Open courses
more frequently.
The USGA made sure the
women were not left behind.
The U.S. Women’s Open
will be held on America’s most
famous seaside course for the
first time next year, and then
it will return three more times
in 2035, 2040 and 2048.
Pebble Beach, which
opened in 1919 and first
hosted a USGA event in 1929
with the U.S. Amateur, was
the first public course to host
the U.S. Open in 1972. That
Open was famous for Jack
Nicklaus hitting the pin with
a 1-iron on the par-3 17th on
his way to victory.
John Bodenhamer, the
USGA’s chief championships
officer, recalled a conversa-
tion with three-time major
champion Nick Price who
told him it matters where a
player wins a U.S. Open.
“There are certain places
you go and stand out on
them, they’re meant for a
U.S. Open or a U.S. Wom-
en’s Open. You play Pebble
Beach, it is a bit of a religious
experience,” Bodenhamer
said at a news conference
overlooking the 18th hole.
“We’re going where players
want to win.”
Other big moments at Peb-
ble Beach include Tom Wat-
son chipping in on the 17th
to beat Nicklaus in 1982, and
Tiger Woods delivering his
greatest performance when
he won the 2000 U.S. Open
by 15 shots, the widest mar-
gin in major championship
history.
See Pebble / A6