COLLEGES

Hall of Fame coach Kim Mulkey has left Baylor to return home and take over the LSU women’s basketball team.

Mulkey, who won three national championships at Baylor, is a native of Tickfaw, Louisiana. She helped Baylor win the 2019 NCAA championship, and the Bears lost in the regional finals to UConn last month.

“Kim Mulkey is a champion and a Hall of Famer, and we are thrilled to welcome her home,” LSU Athletic Director Scott Woodward said. “Her accomplishments are unprecedented, her passion is unrivaled, and her commitment to winning in all aspects of life – in the classroom, on the court, and in the community – is unparalleled. We look forward to working with her as she instills that championship culture at LSU.”

Mulkey replaces Nikki Fargas, who stepped down earlier this week.

In 21 years at Baylor, Mulkey led the Bears to four Final Fours. Her teams reached the Elite Eight six times and the Sweet 16 on five other occasions.

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SOCCER

ENGLAND: A rare goal from Aymeric Laporte produced a familiar outcome: Manchester City winning the League Cup.

For the fourth successive season, Pep Guardiola’s side triumphed in the final of English football’s second-tier competition with a 1-0 victory over Tottenham.

Laporte, a center back, headed in his second goal of the season in the 82nd minute from Kevin De Bruyne’s free kick.

What was less familiar for the finalists was officially being allowed to play in front of supporters from both teams. That hasn’t happened since March 2020, but pandemic restrictions were eased to allow a crowd of 7,773 inside Wembley to see the first piece of silverware of the season handed out.

Leeds continued its exploits against the Premier League’s “Big Six” with a 0-0 draw against Manchester United.

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Leeds stretched its unbeaten run to six games and left Manchester United 10 points behind first-place Manchester City with five matches remaining.

• Chris Wood scored a first-half hat trick and set up the other goal as Burnley routed Wolverhampton, 4-0.

FRANCE: Veteran striker Burak Yilmaz scored twice and set up a goal by Jonathan David as Lille came back from 2-0 down to win 3-2 at rival Lyon, reclaiming first place from Paris Saint-Germain by one point with four games left.

SPAIN: Antoine Griezmann scored a pair of first-half goals as Barcelona came from behind to beat Villarreal 2-1 and move within two points of first-place Atletico Madrid, which stumbled with a 2-1 loss to Athletic Bilbao.

GERMANY: Leipzig kept Bundesliga leader Bayern Munich waiting for its title with a 2-0 win over 10-man Stuttgart.

Leipzig cut the gap on Bayern to seven points with three rounds remaining.

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WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: Hanna Glas scored a goal and set up another as Bayern Munich beat Chelsea 2-1 after Barcelona drew 1-1 at Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of their semifinals.

TENNIS

BARCELONA OPEN: Rafael Nadal saved a match point on his way to beating Stefanos Tsitsipas, 6-4, 6-7 (6), 7-5, winning the title for a record 12th time.

It was the first title of the year for the third-ranked Nadal, who has been struggling to find his best form. He secured the clay-court title by converting on his third match point.

The match lasted 3 hours, 38 minutes, making it the longest best-of-three set ATP final since stats started being tracked in 1991. It was also the longest best-of-three ATP match so far this year.

PORSCHE GRAND PRIX: Top-ranked Ash Barty beat Aryna Sabalenka 3-6, 6-0, 6-3 in Stuttgart, Germany, to win her first title on clay since the 2019 French Open.

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AUTO RACING

INDYCAR: Colton Herta started from the pole and led a race-record 97 of the 100 laps as he won on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida, for his fourth career victory, matching the total won by his father, Bryan Herta.

Josef Newgarden finished second as he was denied a third consecutive victory in St. Petersburg. He was followed by Team Penske teammate Simon Pagenaud.

GOLF

EUROPEAN TOUR: South African Garrick Higgo won the Gran Canaria Open by three shots in Las Palmas, Spain, for his second European Tour victory.

Higgo, 21, shot a 7-under 63 for the second consecutive day to hold off a charge by Maximilian Kieffer, who finished second after an 8-under 62 that included seven birdies and an eagle.

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The overnight leader by two shots, Higgo had five birdies and an eagle in his final round at Meloneras Golf Course in the Canary Islands, ending the tournament at 25 under. His other European Tour win came last season at the Portugal Open.

PGA: Cameron Smith and Marc Leishman outlasted Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel to win the Zurich Classic in a playoff in Avondale, Louisiana.

Smith and Leishman won with a par on their second trip up the par-5 18th after Oosthuizen pushed his tee shot into the water and narrowly missed an 11-foot putt for par.

The Australians forced the playoff by shooting a 2-under 70 in alternate-shot play at the PGA Tour’s lone regular-season team event. Oosthuizen and Schwartzel began the round with a one-stroke lead, but shot a 71 with three pars and two bogeys.

CYCLING

LIEGE-BASTOGNE-LIEGE: Slovenian rider Tadej Pogacar outsprinted Frenchmen Julian Alaphilippe and David Gaudu to win the one-day classic in Belgium.


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