Agler resigns as Sparks’ coach

Brian Agler, who led the Los Angeles Sparks to the WNBA championship in 2016, resigned as coach after four years. Agler, 60, is the all-time winningest coach in U.S. women’s professional basketball with 315 regular-season wins. He is the first coach in league history to win titles with two different teams — Agler guided Seattle to the 2010 WNBA title. He had an 85-51 career mark with the Sparks, including 19-15 in the regular season this year before they lost in the second round of the playoffs. …

Beat Feuz of Switzerland found the ideal line through difficult conditions to win the World Cup downhill at Beaver Creek, Colo. Feuz finished in a time of 1 minute, 13.59 seconds on a course shortened because of weather.

Mauro Caviezel finished second, 0.07 seconds behind his teammate Feuz. Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway was third. American teammates

Steven Nyman and Bryce Bennett tied for ninth. …

Nicole Schmidhofer of Austria captured the downhill race at Lake Louise, Alberta, to earn her first World Cup victory. She finished in a time of 1 minute, 48.13 seconds to beat Michelle Gisin of Switzerland by 0.15 seconds. Kira Weidle of Germany was third in a race that was missing

Lindsey Vonn, who is recovering from a training crash that injured her knee. Although she planned to retire after the season, Vonn indicated that she intends to race at Lake Louise in 2019-20. Two-time World Cup overall champion Mikaela Shiffrin was ninth.