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Pili, the Utah scoring star the Minnesota Lynx took with the eighth pick in the WNBA draft last week, was introduced to her new home Monday.
Plus, the weekly scoreboard and a look at the action in the week ahead.
At the WNBA draft in New York, players Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese were expanding the ways in which women express their power, skill and ambition.
Clark will get around $76,500 on the court — and $3 million off it — during her first year as an WNBA player, in a rare example of a rookie able to bolster a low starting salary.
The former Dimond High multi-sport prep star becomes the sixth Alaskan to make it to the highest level of the sport.
Los Angeles chose Stanford’s Cameron Brink at No. 2. Chicago had the third pick and chose South Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso before the Sparks were on the clock again and and selected Tennessee’s Rickea Jackson.
Switzerland’s Marcel Hug righted himself after crashing into a barrier when he took a turn too fast and still coasted to his seventh win in the men’s wheelchair race.
Scheffler is simply unstoppable at the moment, and he had help from a faltering cast of contenders to make it look easier than it was.
Six players had at least a share of the lead at one point. There was a five-way tie for the lead early on the back nine. No one was safe.
There are several impact players up for grabs, but their talent is nearly eclipsed by their popularity among basketball fans.
The former longtime interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani has been charged with federal bank fraud for crimes involving gambling debts and theft of millions of dollars.
He was the first foreign-born wrestler to reach the level of “yokozuna” — or grand champion — in Japan.
Orenthal James Simpson was acquitted of charges he killed his former wife and her friend but wound up in prison years later in an unrelated case
World Athletics said Wednesday it would pay $50,000 to gold medalists in Paris.
The audience for the game between the number one seeds peaked at 24.1 million during the final 15 minutes.
Tristen Newton scored 20 points for the Huskies, who won their 12th straight March Madness game — not a single one of them decided by fewer than 13 points.
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics is believed to be the first college sports organization to take such a step.
Clark has become a crossover star during her four seasons at Iowa, opening up the women’s game to a new audience in the process.
Dawn Staley and South Carolina completed their perfect season, ending Caitlin Clark’s historic college career with an 87-75 win over Iowa in the NCAA championship game Sunday.
Clark, that perpetual figure of wonderment, was the difference in Iowa’s Final Four victory over UConn. The Hawkeyes meet South Carolina in the final on Sunday.
Caitlin Clark and Iowa beat Paige Bueckers and Connecticut at the Final Four, but not before a foul called in the final seconds helped decide the outcome.
Next up for the Hawkeyes is a rematch with unbeaten South Carolina.