NFL probing new claims against Washington team

The Post report comes a month after 17 women made similar accusations to the newspaper about the team.

Snyder pushed back on the claims in a statement Wednesday.

“The Washington Post article reads like a ‘hit job’ relying on unnamed sources and allegations that are largely ten to twenty years old,” Snyder said. “We attempted to engage with the Washington Post to provide them with the facts, but those facts clearly didn’t align with their narrative.”

Pacers’ McMillan

fired after sweep

Two weeks after he received a one-year contract extension through the 2021-22 season, Indiana Pacers head coach Nate McMillan was fired. The move came two days after the Pacers were swept out of the first round of the NBA playoffs for the second year in a row.

McMillan was 183-136 in four years as the Pacers’ head coach.

Golf: Phil Mickelson closed with a 5-under-par 66 to reach 22-under, giving him a three-shot victory over runner-up Tim Petrovic in the Charles Schwab Series at Ozarks National in Ridgedale, Mo., in Mickelson’s debut on the PGA Tour Champions.

NHL: Alex Killorn scored two of his team’s four second-period goals and the Tampa Bay Lightning beat the Boston Bruins 7-1 in Toronto to take a 2-1 lead in an Eastern Conference semifinals series. ... Phillippe Myers scored 2:40 into overtime as the Philadelphia Flyers beat the New York Islanders 4-3 in Toronto to tie the East semifinals series at 1-1. ... The NHL stripped the Arizona Coyotes of their 2020 second-round pick and 2021 first-round pick for violating the scouting combine policy by conducting physical tests of draft-eligible players.

Tennis: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic prevailed 6-3, 6-1 over Jan-Lennard Struff to reach the semifinals of the Western & Southern Open in New York.

Naomi Osaka beat Anett Kontaveit 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 to reach the women’s semis, then withdrew a few hours later in a call for racial justice.

• Kei Nishikori, the 2014 U.S. Open runner-up, said he has tested negative for the coronavirus after having two positive tests but will withdraw from this year’s U.S. Open, which begins next week.

• Stanford alums Bob and Mike Bryan, twins who are the most successful men’s doubles team in history, announced their retirements. They are 42.

Soccer: Daryl Dike scored two goals in the second half and host Orlando City SC beat Nashville SC 3-1. Five other MLS games were postponed as players protested Sunday’s police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wis.