Cavaliers’ James joins elite group

NBA: LeBron James has joined one of the NBA’s most exclusive clubs.

Cleveland’s superstar was voted the league’s MVP for the second straight year, a person familiar with the announcement told the Associated Press on Friday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the league has not announced the results of the vote.

James, who averaged 29.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and 8.6 assists this season, will receive the trophy Sunday at the University of Akron. The presentation by commissioner David Stern will come in front of Cleveland’s fans.

James is the 10th NBA player to be the MVP in consecutive seasons. He joins Bill Russell, Wilt Chamber- lain, Kareem Abdul- Jabbar, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan and Steve Nash. Russell, Chamberlain and Bird won three in a row.

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Now who looks like a big twit?

NFL: Chad Ochocinco was insulted when the Cincinnati Bengals’ newest receiver didn’t respond to his congratulatory tweet on draft day.

Turns out there was no reason to be upset. The Twitter account set up for Jordan Shipley wasn’t his.

The receiver from Texas was drafted by the Bengals in the third round last week, prompting Ochocinco to tweet congratulations to what appeared to be Shipley’s Twitter account.

The problem: Shipley doesn’t use Twitter.

“Somebody had a fake Twitter account,” Shipley said Friday, after his first minicamp practice with the Bengals. “It’s not me. That is the dangerous thing nowadays because people can get on those deals and make up fake accounts and act like they’re you and get you in trouble.”

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Bears hire former Seattle president

NFL: The Chicago Bears hired former Seahawks president and general manager Tim Ruskell as their director of player personnel.

Ruskell presided over Seattle’s only Super Bowl appearance. He also let Pro Bowl blocker Steve Hutchinson leave in free agency after he gave him a transition tag instead of the more restrictive franchise label for 2006.

That move accelerated the Seahawks’ decline and ultimately cost Ruskell his job in December, with the team at 4-7.

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