NBA reportedly set to cancel more games

The NBA is expected on Tuesday to cancel more than 100 more games from Nov. 15-28, the New York Daily News reported late Monday.

League and union officials did not immediately respond to The Times’ requests for confirmation of the report.

The cancellations would come about two weeks after the league on Oct. 10 scrapped 100 games from the Nov. 1 season openers through Nov. 14.

NBA owners have locked out their players since July 1; players and owners are trying to resolve issues that include how to split basketball-related income in the increasingly bitter labor dispute.

Losing the Nov. 15-28 games would cost the Clippers eight games, including home games against the Chicago Bulls and Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Lakers would lose five games, including a Nov. 17 home game against the New York Knicks and a Nov. 23 trip to Oklahoma City.

-- Lance Pugmire

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U.S. beats Cuba in baseball semifinal

The United States beat 10-time defending champion Cuba, 12-10, in the baseball semifinals at the Pan American Games in Guadalajara.

The Americans, who won their only Pan Am Games title in 1967, led 7-0 in the third inning and stretched their advantage to 12-2 before the Cubans rallied.

The Americans will face either Mexico or Canada in Tuesday’s final.

More than 300 major-college football and men’s basketball players are telling the NCAA and college presidents they want a cut of ever-increasing TV sports revenue to fatten scholarships and cover all the costs of getting a degree, with athletes picking up still more grant money when they graduate.

The National College Players Assn., an athletes’ advocacy group, provided the Associated Press with copies of the document for release Monday.

On Monday, NCAA President Mark Emmert told the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in Washington that he will recommend an increase of up to $2,000 to cover scholarship shortfalls. The NCPA petition urges a $3,200 increase and a mandatory effort, not optional as Emmert suggests.

The Lakers have hired a fourth assistant coach, adding ex-NBA player Darvin Ham to Mike Brown’s staff.

Ham, who played eight seasons in the NBA, coached the New Mexico Thunderbirds last season in the NBA’s Development League.

He joins Lakers assistant coaches John Kuester, Chuck Person and Quin Snyder.

-- Mike Bresnahan

UCLA sophomore center Anthony Stover and junior forward De’End Parker are recovering from concussions sustained in practice last week.

Parker is expected to be sidelined at least a week after taking an inadvertent elbow to the head during an intrasquad scrimmage Saturday. Stover should return to practice early this week after suffering his concussion Oct. 17.

-- Ben Bolch

The LPGA Tour’s Kia Classic will return to La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad in 2012 after a year away from that site. The tournament, which will be held March 22-25, was held at Industry Hills Golf Club at Pacific Palms in City of Industry last year.