Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark is not on the roster for the U.S. Olympic women’s basketball team. Noah K. Murray/Associated Press
BASKETBALL
Caitlin Clark won’t be headed to the Paris Olympics as a member of the U.S. women’s basketball team, according to a person familiar with the decision.
The person, who provided the full roster to The Associated Press, spoke on condition of anonymity Saturday because no official announcement has been made.
The decision was first reported by The Athletic.
Clark does have some international experience with USA Basketball at a younger level, but she couldn’t attend the national training camp in Cleveland after she was invited because she was leading Iowa to the Final Four. Clark finished as NCAA’s Division I all-time scoring leader.
While Clark won’t be headed to Paris, the U.S. is expected to take five-time gold medalist Diana Taurasi for a sixth Olympics. Taurasi will be joined by Phoenix Mercury teammate Brittney Griner.
WNBA: Sabrina Ionescu scored 24 points, Jonquel Jones added 22 and the New York Liberty handed the Connecticut Sun their first loss of the season, 82-75, in Uncasville, Connecticut.
COLLEGES
BASEBALL: James Tibbs III went 5 for 6 with three home runs and six RBI, including a two-run homer in the top of the 12th inning as Florida State beat UConn 10-8, sweeping the Tallahassee Regional for a berth in the College World Series.
Windham graduate Brady Afthim pitched a season-high 3 2/3 innings for UConn. He allowed two runs on Tibbs homer in the 12th, struck out out two, walked two and allowed two hits.
Tibbs’ dramatic home run was his third two-run shot of the game. It was his 31st home run of the season, and his 100 RBI are tied for first in the nation.
SOCCER
U.S. MEN: Colombia scored three goals in an 11-minute span late in the second half to rout a sloppy United States 5-1 in Landover, Maryland, in a Copa America warmup match.
Jhon Arias, Rafael Santos Borré, Richard RÃos, Jorge Carrascal and Luis Sinisterra scored for Colombia, which has won seven straight games and is unbeaten in 22.
Tim Weah got a 58th-minute goal for the U.S., which has six losses and two draws against the Colombians since 2005.
HOCKEY
PWHL: Natalie Darwitz’s tenure is over as general manager of the PWHL champion Minnesota franchise following an internal and external review, vice president of hockey operations Jayna Hefford said Saturday.
Without going into detail on the findings, which included input from players and staff, Hefford called the decision a difficult but eventually necessary one for the betterment of the PWHL.
BASEBALL
MLB: New York Mets pitcher Kodai Senga won’t make his season debut until after the All-Star break, Manager Carlos Mendoza said.
The 31-year-old Senga has been sidelined by a capsule strain in his pitching shoulder. But he has started long-tossing.
• Bryce Harper celebrated with a soccer slide after his tying home run, Ranger Suárez became the season’s first 10-game winner and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Mets 7-2 in the opener of Major League Baseball’s third London Series.
GOLF
PGA: Scottie Scheffler hit out of a bunker over the green and into the water. He hit a tee shot over a boundary fence and made a triple bogey. He three-putted his last hole. All that, and he posted a 1-under 71 and increased his lead in the Memorial in Dublin, Ohio.
In his final start before the U.S. Open, Scheffler seized control despite a couple of blunders on a tough Muirfield Village course. He still built a four-shot lead, moving closer to his fifth PGA Tour victory of the year.
Scheffler was at 10-under 206, four shots ahead of Collin Morikawa, who played bogey-free for a 68, and Adam Hadwin, who made all his mistakes on one hole and shot 72.
LPGA: Jenny Shin shot a 2-under 69 and will take a one-shot lead into the final round of the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Galloway, New Jersey, as she seeks her first victory since 2016.
With the wind kicking up and making conditions tougher at the Bay Course at Seaview Resort, the 31-year-old from South Korea had six birdies and four bogeys to post a two-day total of 10-under 132.
Albane Valenzuela, who is trying to become the first Swiss player to win on tour, shot at 68 at was alone in second, a shot ahead of Ssu-Chia Cheng, Narin An, Megan Khang and Wei-Ling Hsu.
LIV: David Puig of Spain had a 6-under 66 to join a four-way share of the lead going into the final round of LIV Golf Houston in Humble, Texas, that no longer includes Jon Rahm.
Rahm withdrew after playing six holes because of an infected left foot. He pulled out just five days before the start of the U.S. Open.
AUTO RACING
INDYCAR: Linus Lundqvist earned his first career pole on a rainy day at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, after posting a lap of 1 minute, 45.1519 seconds on the 14-turn, 4.014-mile road course. He’s the first rookie to win a pole since Romain Grosjean in the Indianapolis Grand Prix in May 2021.
The unpredictable conditions caused problems for the drivers. Late in the final qualifying session, Indy 500 winner Josef Newgarden spun off the track and crashed the side of his Chevrolet into a barrier on Turn 2.
FORMULA ONE: George Russell edged Formula 1 points leader Max Verstappen on a tiebreaker for the pole position in the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.
Russell and Verstappen had identical laps of 1 minute 12.000 seconds at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, with the Mercedes driver getting the top spot Sunday by setting the time first. It’s the second time F1 qualifying has ended in a tie since the start of three-decimal timing.
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