2:19 PM ET SAN ANTONIO — Gregg Popovich will not coach the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday for Game 4 of their first-round playoff series with the Golden State Warriors, the team announced. Popovich also did not coach Game 3 on Thursday after his wife, Erin, died Wednesday. A source told ESPN that the Spurs haven’t even addressed internally when Popovich might return. Just as he did in Game 3, Ettore Messina will fill in for Popovich for Game 4. The Spurs trail the Warriors 3-0 in the best-of-seven series. “I think, of course, that it’s a tough situation,” Messina

World number 10 Petra Kvitova is a two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova and Karolina Pliskova put 10-times champions the Czech Republic in control of their Fed Cup World Group semi-final against Germany. Kvitova beat Julia Goerges 6-3 6-2 and Pliskova defeated Angelique Kerber 7-5 6-3 victory in the opening singles. That gave the Czechs a 2-0 lead before Sunday’s reserve singles and potential doubles decider in the best-of-five tie in Stuttgart. In southern France, defending champions USA are level at 1-1 with the hosts. American Sloane Stephens beat Pauline Parmentier 7-6 (7-3) 7-5, but Kristina Mladenovic levelled the tie with

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9:00 AM ET This story appears in ESPN The Magazine’s May. 07 Mayhem Issue. Subscribe today! “Bonjour!” chef Clemence Gossett says. Clint Capela’s eyes nearly spring from his skull. “You’re French!” the Rockets’ 6-foot-10 Swiss center exclaims, before they jabber in their go-to tongue. He knew he’d be spending his day off in LA facing me in a bake-off at the Gourmandise School inside the Santa Monica Place mall — it was his idea — but he didn’t know it would be with a real live French person in charge. Now he feels confident. “You will get destroyed,” Capela tells

UPDATE 8:17 a.m.: Moments after arriving at Trump International Golf Course this morning the president lashed out at New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman for a story she co-authored on Friday indicating the Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, could end up cooperating with federal officials who are investigating him for activity that could relate, at least in part, to work he did for Trump.  Trump initially misspelled Haberman’s name in the tweets, then deleted and re-posted with the correct spelling. Haberman is a White House correspondent for the times. She joined the paper in February 2015 as a campaign correspondent and

Rafael Nadal has won 13 matches in a row on clay, not losing on the surface since last year’s Rome Open against Dominic Thiem Rafael Nadal produced another clay-court masterclass to beat Bulgarian fourth seed Grigor Dimitrov and reach his 12th Monte Carlo Masters final. World number one Nadal, 31, has won 34 straight sets on his favoured surface after a 6-4 6-1 semi-final victory. Nadal will play either German Alexander Zverev or Japan’s Kei Nishikori, who meet later on Saturday, in the final. Victory for the Spaniard will be a record-extending 11th triumph at the event and keep him

UPDATE 1:39 p.m.: Melania Trump sat beside former President Barack Obama at the funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush. Also in the front row were former first ladies Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton. Former president  Bill Clinton was also in attendance. According to an article in USA Today, it is customary for first ladies to attend the funerals of their predecessors, but presidents rarely do. President Barack Obama did not attend Nancy Reagan’s funeral in 2016, or Betty Ford’s in 2011. The last sitting president to attend a first lady’s funeral was John F. Kennedy, who attended Eleanor Roosevelt’s

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7:11 AM ET New York Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes wants to swing his way out of an early season slump, but with his golf clubs rather than his bat. “One of the things that I did before, years ago, when I was in a slump, was playing golf and trying to get out of my slump,” Cespedes told reporters through an interpreter after Friday’s 5-3 win against the Atlanta Braves. “I said this season I wouldn’t go to play golf. So one of the things that I’m doing now, that I didn’t do before, is watching the videos. That’s something