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LeBron signs $100 million deal with Cavs

LeBron James has signed his three-year, $100 million contract with the NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers.

James will make $31 million next season and $33 million in 2017-18, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Friday. James has an option for the third season worth $36 million, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because financial terms were not disclosed.

In his third season back in Cleveland, James led the Cavs to the title, the first for one of the city’s three professional sports teams since the Browns won the NFL championship in 1964.

The Cavs rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the finals to stun Golden State, winning Game 7 on the road. Late in that game, James raced back to block a shot by Andre Iguodala, a rejection that has become the signature play of the three-time champion’s career.

Ex-NFL center charged with assaulting two

BOCA RATON, Fla.

A former NFL player with a history of mental illness has been charged with assaulting a woman and her daughter outside a Florida hotel.

Palm Beach County court documents show that 42-year-old Barret Robbins is facing two felony battery counts. Authorities say Robbins allegedly approached the woman and her daughter randomly outside the hotel Monday and began punching them repeatedly. Robbins then sat down on a bench.

Robbins was an All-Pro center for the Oakland Raiders who missed the team’s 2003 Super Bowl game after disappearing the day before. He was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder. In 2005, he was shot several times during a brawl with police in Miami Beach and pleaded guilty to five charges.

The court documents did not list an attorney for Robbins, who has a court hearing Friday.

Messi returns to national team

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina

Lionel Messi says he has reconsidered his decision to quit international soccer and will continue playing for Argentina’s national team.

Messi says there are “a lot of problems in Argentine football” but he prefers “to help from within and not criticize from the outside.”

Messi had said he was done with the national team after Argentina lost to Chile in the Copa America final in the United States in June.

Football player dies from enlarged heart

CHADRON, NEB.

Preliminary autopsy results show an enlarged heart in the football player at a small college in western Nebraska who died following the team’s practice Thursday.

The Dawes County Attorney’s office said Friday the enlarged heart likely contributed to the death of 20-year-old freshman defensive lineman Eric Goll of Haines City, Florida. Additional testing and toxicological screening are being performed as part of the investigation.

Goll was taken from the Chadron State practice field to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead at about 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Temperatures were in the mid-70s when the team was practicing.

Seahawks, Texas A&M renew ‘12th Man’ deal

COLLEGE STATION, Texas

Texas A&M and the Seattle Seahawks have extended a deal allowing the NFL team’s limited use of the university’s “12th Man” trademark to describe fans.

The school says the Seahawks will no longer use “12th Man” references on social media or on the Ring of Honor at CenturyLink Field.

Texas A&M secured the trademark in 1990, and reached an agreement with the Seahawks in 2006 after the university sued.

The Aggies trace the “12th Man” to 1922 when student E. King Gill came out of the stands to help the injury-plagued roster. Gill never took the field, but the story came to signify fan commitment to the team.

Both sides announced the five-year agreement Thursday.

Staff/wire report