College basketball:
Former LSU men’s coach Dale Brown was honored Saturday by his North Dakota hometown of Minot when the city named the basketball courts at a local park in his honor. Brown, 80, was on hand for the ceremony.
Brown spent a quartercentury coaching at LSU and retired after the 1996-97 season as the winningest coach in program history, with nearly 450 victories. He is a member of several halls of fame.
France’s Alexandre Geniez held off an attack by the title favorites on a brutal final climb to win the 109.6-mile third stage of the Spanish Vuelta. Spain’s Ruben Fernandez crossed 21 seconds later and took the overall lead. Alejandro Valverde was third, just ahead of Tour de France champion Chris Froome.
Former USC and Los Angeles Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich, 47, was arrested Friday night after being found naked with marijuana and another substance in a stranger’s backyard in Irvine, Calif. Marinovich was the Raiders’ firstround draft pick in 1991, but drug problems drove him from the NFL after two seasons.
Cycling: Football: Hockey:
Mikko Koivu will serve as Finland’s captain for the upcoming World Cup of Hockey. Koivu, 33, has been the Minnesota Wild’s captain since 2009. He was captain for Finland at three world championships, winning in 2011. He represented Finland at the 2010 Olympics.
The German football federation is investigating an incident during which fans of home team Dynamo Dresden allegedly threw a severed bull’s head in front of RB Leipzig supporters during a German Cup match Saturday.
The Leipzig team is sponsored by the Austrian energy drink maker Red Bull and has met with hostility from other clubs’ fans because of its financial clout. The Leipzig club called the incident “simply tasteless.”
Soccer:
Will Power LONG POND, PA. — chalked up his latest milestone to experience. There’s nothing like it with a championship on the line.
Power continued his stirring late-season run on Monday, holding pole-sitter Mikhail Aleshin at bay after a final restart to win the rain-delayed IndyCar race at Pocono Raceway.
It was the fourth win in six races for Power and the 29th of his career, cutting 38 points off the lead in the standings held by Penske teammate Simon Pagenaud. Pagenaud finished 18th after a late crash and Power trails by 20 with three races remaining in the season.
“It feels normal. It’s not like I’m doing anything special. That’s the funny thing,” said Power, who missed the first race of the season with concussion symptoms and watched Pagenaud mount a commanding lead in the points with a similar earlyseason surge. “I’m very seasoned on how races play out, when to take risks and when not to. That’s how I’ve been doing it. Now, I’m feeling good.”
Power’s surge has moved him into a tie in all-time wins with Rick Mears and Scott Dixon, and also includes second-place finishes at Iowa and Mid-Ohio.
On this day, unlike his early years, the 35-year-old Australian was methodical, slowly working his way forward as the crew made change after change in the pits. He led 55 of 200 laps.
“It’s another example of just hanging out all day, adjusting on the car and getting the car right, and then booming at the end,” said Power, who started eighth. “The older you get, the more you let the race happen.”
Defending race winner Ryan Hunter-Reay finished third, Josef Newgarden was fourth and Sebastien Bourdais fifth thanks to late-race pit strategy.
A year ago, Hunter-Reay won a crash-filled race at Pocono that took the life of 37-year-old Englishman Justin Wilson. Pocono Raceway painted “JW” on the track at the finish line and Union Jacks flew at half-staff in his honor.
Both Wilson and openwheel driver Bryan Clauson, who was killed two weeks ago in a crash in Kansas, were remembered in the pre-race prayer and with a moment of silence.
Hunter-Reay and Aleshin took turns in the lead for the first two-thirds of the race. The complexion of the race and the points race changed after Pagenaud crashed to bring out a caution.
Hunter-Reay took the lead on the restart, and after zooming through the first turn began to slow with electrical problems and fell a lap down.
Power then regained the lead, and after a debris caution