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Cavaliers trade for scorer Williams to give LeBron help

staff and wire reports
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 08.14.2008
MILWAUKEE — The Cleveland Cavaliers are getting some help for LeBron James.
High-scoring Milwaukee point guard Mo Williams is headed to Cleveland as part of a three-team trade that also involves Oklahoma City.
The six-player deal completed Wednesday reshapes the rebuilding Bucks while giving Cleveland an additional scoring threat and Oklahoma City an instant fan favorite in Desmond Mason in the first year of the franchise's move from Seattle.
In exchange for Williams, who averaged 17.2 points per game last season in the first year of a six-year, $51.5 million contract, the Bucks receive Damon Jones from Cleveland along with guard Luke Ridnour and forward Adrian Griffin from Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City gets Mason from Milwaukee and former No. 1 pick Joe Smith from Cleveland.
● The Atlanta Hawks signed free agent guard Ronald "Flip" Murray on Wednesday.
HORSE RACING
Top horses unlikely to meet
The chances of Big Brown and Curlin meeting on the race track is starting to look like a longshot.
The owners of both horses outlined their tentative fall plans for racing's two superstars on Wednesday, and neither horse's schedule appears to leave room for the other.
Curlin owner Jess Jackson said the 2007 Horse of the Year will run in the Woodward Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on Aug. 30 then probably head to the post for the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont on Sept. 27.
Big Brown owner Michael Iavarone declined an invitation from Jackson to run in the Woodward, and it's unlikely the Kentucky Derby and Preakness champion will run in the Gold Cup. Iavarone said his focus this fall is getting his 3-year-old star ready for the Breeders' Cup Classic at Santa Anita on Oct. 25.
MISCELLANEOUS
Southern back at Darlington
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Southern 500 is back at Darlington Raceway.
Track president Chris Browning said Wednesday the historic name will return to Darlington for next May's Sprint Cup race, restoring at least part of more than a half-century of tradition to the old country track.
● Former Arizona Wildcats standout golfer Alison Walshe was selected to represent the United States at the Women's World Amateur Team Championship. The match will be played Oct. 8-11 in Adelaide, Australia.
Includes information from a news release