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The NBA suspended Sacramento Kings centre DeMarcus Cousins for one game and fined him $20,000 on Thursday for punching an opposing player and verbally abusing an official in a game earlier this week. Tim Hardaway Heat Jersey . The league suspended Cousins for punching Houston Rockets guard Patrick Beverley in the stomach with 9:44 remaining in the first quarter of the Kings 129-103 loss on Tuesday night in Sacramento. Cousins was fined for verbally abusing official Courtney Kirkland and failing to leave the court in a timely manner following an ejection with 8:21 remaining in the third quarter. Cousins will serve his suspension when the Kings visit the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night. New Kings owner Vivek Ranadive had hoped Cousins could clean up his act when he signed the centre to a four-year, $62 million contract extension before the season. Instead, Cousins leads the NBA with 15 technical fouls this season and will be suspended one game by the NBA if he gets another one. The last two seasons Cousins has needed to have a technical foul rescinded by the league to avoid the automatic suspension that comes when a player reaches 16 technicals. In the Houston game, Cousins was called for a technical after getting whistled for a foul against Dwight Howard and arguing against it. Cousins picked up his fifth personal foul moments later, then got called for another technical foul -- earning an automatic ejection -- after screaming in the face of Kirkland during a timeout. Cousins had to be held back by coaches and teammates, pointing his finger and screaming at Kirkland. He flicked his headband into the stands on his way to the locker room. Cousins has since apologized for his behaviour, which has become a troubling trend through his career, even going back to high school and his one season at Kentucky. The 23-year-old centre has mixed in dramatic and astonishing plays with outbursts against players, coaches and referees. He has dazzled at times during his first four NBA seasons, and at other times struggled with defence and discipline. Last season alone, Cousins drew multiple reprimands for his behaviour. He was suspended one game without pay by the NBA for striking O.J. Mayo in the groin during a loss at Dallas. Following a defeat at San Antonio, the league suspended Cousins two games without pay for confronting Spurs announcer Sean Elliott in a "hostile manner." Finally, the Kings suspended Cousins for one game for "unprofessional behaviour and conduct detrimental to the team" after he shouted at Kings coach Keith Smart in the locker room during halftime of a loss at the Los Angeles Clippers. His behaviour aside, Cousins is having the best season of his career and is blossoming into one of the NBAs best big men. Hes averaging career highs of 22.3 points, 11.5 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.6 steals per game. Hes also shooting a career-best 48.3 per cent. James Johnson Jersey . It was the most lopsided loss in Lakers history. Darren Collison had a team-high 24 points while starting at shooting guard for the injured Jamal Crawford. Chris Paul added 13 points and 11 assists for the Clippers, who apparently are trying to make up for decades of humiliation at the hands of the Lakers all in one season; theyve won the last two meetings by a combined 84 points. Dion Waiters Jersey . Four years after winning gold on home ice in Vancouver, the Canadians will get a chance to make it two in a row Sunday against Sweden after beating the United States 1-0 in the Olympic semifinals Friday at Bolshoy Ice Dome.CALGARY - Dave Dickenson says he doesnt mind waiting another year to get his first opportunity as a CFL head coach.John Hufnagel announced Wednesday he will be back on the sidelines next season as he tries to guide the Calgary Stampeders to a second straight Grey Cup title, but he said he will hand the reins over to Dickenson, the teams offensive co-ordinator, in 2016.I have one more year left on the field coaching, Hufnagel said on Wednesday afternoon. Then, Dave in Year 2 will become the head coach and Ill move up to just be the general manager. With that program in place, I dont think that theres a whole lot of talking necessary about another team.When asked if hed still consider talking to B.C. general manager Wally Buono about the vacant head coaching position with the Lions, Dickenson said hes not even considering that option.Im not leaving, said Dickenson, who was announced as a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fames 2015 class last Friday. Ive said that a million times. Im staying here. I dont know if hes planning on calling or not. I respect Wally, love what hes done. Hes been really good to me, but Im locked in here in Calgary. Im very happy to do that.The Stampeders are coming off a 20-16 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Sundays Grey Cup final. Its Calgarys second CFL title since Hufnagel took over as head coach in 2008.We put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this one man and (its great) for Huff to finally get one again, said linebacker Keon Raymond, who referred to Hufnagel as probably the best coach Ive ever played for in my life.I appreciate and I admire coach Hufnagel so much, Raymond added. To have this opportunity to make this run with him — seven years — Im overjoyed with.When told of Raymonds comments, Hufnagel said he appreciated the compliment.It was very flattering, he said. One thing I try to do is build a relationship within the locker-room of trust and part of that trust is them trusting me and it goes from there.Dickenson also had high praise for the man he referred to as one of his coaching mentors.This is Huffs team and hes done just such a great job, Dickenson said. Im glad hes coming back. I told him that after the game, Dont do anything crazy now. Come back here. Hes just really, to me, a guy that we can all lean on and he showed what a great coach he was this year. I want to keep working with him for many, many years.Runniing back Jon Cornish wasnt shocked to hear of the plan to have Dickenson to take over as coach in 2016. Tim Hardaway Jersey. I think that a lot of players were surprised, Cornish said. I wasnt. Hes been the associate head coach and has sort of been the No. 2 guy here for quite some time now, so its just nice to see it official.Now that hes had time to celebrate the Grey Cup win with his staff and players, Hufnagel said hes going to turn his attention to more pressing matters related to helping the Stamps defend their title next season.Right now its full steam ahead and trying to get some players signed up and talking to their agents, Hufnagel said. Hopefully we can have some good luck with that over the next couple weeks.Among the list of prospective free agents on the Stamps is Brett Jones, the CFLs Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman.Brett has a lot of things on his table right now, Hufnagel said. He is getting NFL interest. He wants to try to pursue that. Thats going to be a wait-and-see game. If things dont blossom down south, then hopefully hes wearing the red and white next year.Defensive end Shawn Lemon confirmed that he already has a dozen workouts scheduled with NFL teams, the first on Friday with the Washington Redskins.I wouldnt play for another CFL team but Calgary, so well go from there, said Lemon, who could test the free-agent market. Ive expressed that to the management already. I want to do those workouts and see what happens.Other potential free agents include Stanley Bryant, Brandon Smith, Micah Johnson, Edwin Harrison, Keenan MacDougall, Glenn Love, Simon Charbonneau-Campeau, Brad Sinopoli, Matt Walter, Hugh Charles as well as 11-year veteran receiver Nik Lewis.Obviously were not going to have everybody back, said quarterback and Grey Cup MVP Bo Levi Mitchell. We wish we would. We have a great team, we have a great mesh and we have a great locker-room. Theres going to be some surprises for sure — none that I know of yet. When they come, Im sure theyll hurt, but Im sure well go out and get people too.Like Hufnagel, Mitchell said he enjoyed being able to celebrate the championship win, but that hes ready to start preparing for next season.Its over, we won it, so back to work for the next one, he said. We know that theres a lot of hard work that we have to put in and I know that Im going to push myself that much harder to become that much better. ' ' '