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NEW YORK – They pitched against each other in the first regular-season game played in Yankee Stadium, and afterward, CC Sabathia(notes) brought Cliff Lee(notes) home with him for dinner. The friends and former teammates met again Wednesday night, on another occasion of note – the first World Series game played in the House That George Bought. But given the hour, and the outcome, you can safely assume Lee was on his own for a postgame meal.

MIAMI — Isiah Thomas told SI.com that he is “really hurt” over criticisms levied by Magic Johnson in a new book chronicling the careers of Johnson and Larry Bird.
“I’m really hurt, and I really feel taken advantage of for all these years,’‘ Thomas told SI.com. “I’m totally blindsided by this. Every time that I’ve seen Magic, he has been friendly with me. Whenever he came to a Knick game, he was standing in the tunnel [to the locker room] with me. He and [Knicks assistant coach] Herb [Williams] and I, we would go out to dinner in New York. I didn’t know he felt this way.’‘

COPENHAGEN — After more than a century on the sidelines, golf will return to the Olympics at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro. Rugby, last played in 1924, is coming back as well.

Florida State coach Bobby Bowden will not be asked to step down this season, a source told ESPN’s Shaun King on Tuesday.