Sports briefs
Sadler on series co-champions
Infielder Jimmy Sadler, who recently completed his senior year at Chartiers-Houston High School, was a member of the Youngstown, Ohio, team that advanced to the championship game of the Palomino League World Series Monday in Laredo, Texas.
The title game, which matched Youngstown and Puerto Rico, was rained out. Because the teams had to catch return flights and could not play Tuesday, they were declared co-champions.
Sadler is a West Virginia recruit.
In the NBA
Ricky Rubio’s Olympics ended on the same day his time with the Cavaliers began.
The veteran point guard was acquired in a trade with Minnesota that was finalized on Tuesday, filling one of the Cavs’ biggest needs.
Cleveland sent forward Taurean Prince, a rotational player last season, along with a 2022 second-round draft pick and cash to the Timberwolves for the 30-year-old Rubio, who has spent 10 years in the NBA.
The teams agreed to the deal last week prior to the draft, but had to wait for league approval and because Rubio was in Japan playing for Spain at the Tokyo Games.
- The Chicago Bulls made another major upgrade, acquiring high-scoring small forward DeMar DeRozan a day after adding point guard Lonzo Ball.
The Bulls agreed to a three-year, $85 million contract with DeRozan as part of a sign-and-trade with San Antonio.
In college sports
The Ohio Valley Conference has sued Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State, contending they have not paid $1 million exit fees after both schools left the league this year for the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Eastern Kentucky and Jacksonville State joined the ASUN on July 1 after announcing their respective departures in January and February. The OVC said in a statement to The Associated Press on Tuesday that the lawsuit was filed in circuit courts in Franklin County, Kentucky and Calhoun County, Alabama.
The league says the schools have refused to pay exit fees agreed upon by conference members.
OVC commissioner Beth DeBauche said both schools benefited from being OVC members and expects them “to do the right thing” by fulfilling contractual obligations. She said league presidents regret filing the suit but called it necessary to enforce payment.
- A former Iowa State University football player has been arrested in connection with an assault of a University of Iowa basketball star in May.
Nicholas Kron, 29, of Nashville, Tennessee, faces an assault causing bodily injury charge for allegedly attacking Jordan Bohannon, a Hawkeye guard, outside a downtown Iowa City bar. Bohannon suffered a serious head injury. Kron turned himself in Saturday, was booked into the Johnson County Jail and was released.
Bohannon filed a lawsuit against Kron a few days earlier, alleging that the former Cyclone defensive end “brutally, unlawfully and intentionally” assaulted him.
In golf
Gone are two World Golf Championships from the PGA Tour schedule. New to the schedule is the first PGA Tour-sanctioned tournament in Scotland that doesn’t involve a claret jug.
Even the biggest prize is changing: The FedEx Cup champion will get $18 million.
The PGA Tour released next season’s schedule Tuesday that gives a glimpse of its strategic partnership with the European Tour. Of the changes large and small, what stood out was the Genesis Scottish Open, one week before the British Open. The field will be split between European Tour and PGA Tour members.