UConn’s Bueckers suffers torn ACL
Connecticut women’s basketball star Paige Bueckers tore the ACL in her left knee and will miss the entire 2022-23 season, the school announced Wednesday. Bueckers suffered the injury Monday during a pickup game.
Bueckers was named the national player of the year in 2021, becoming the first freshman to earn that honor. She missed 19 games last season after suffering a left knee tibia plateau fracture and torn meniscus in December. She returned to lead the Huskies to the national final, where they lost to South Carolina.
GOLF
LIV players file suit against tour
Eleven golfers on the fledgling LIV Golf Invitational Series have filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the PGA Tour, arguing that their careers were hurt when the Tour suspended them after they joined the Saudi-funded breakaway league. The move has been expected since LIV arose this year to challenge the PGA Tour.
Unlike some of the other players who left for LIV Golf, the 11 players who filed the lawsuit — Phil Mickelson, Bryson DeChambeau, Talor Gooch, Hudson Swafford, Matt Jones, Ian Poulter, Abraham Ancer, Carlos Ortiz, Pat Perez, Jason Kokrak and Peter Uihlein — have not forfeited their PGA memberships But the PGA Tour did not give them permission to play in LIV tournaments and issued suspensions after they did so.
The lawsuit alleges the PGA Tour has not only threatened golfers who sought to play in LIV, but it also “threatened sponsors, vendors, and agents to coerce players to abandon opportunities to play in LIV Golf events”; “orchestrated a per se unlawful group boycott with the European Tour”; and “leaned on” golf ’s four major championships, pressuring them into banning LIV players.
A temporary restraining order is being sought by Gooch, Swafford and Jones to compete in the FedEx Cup playoffs. They are among the top 125 in the standings and would be eligible for the start of the PGA Tour’s postseason next week.
NFL
Cowboys sign LB Barr for year
The Dallas Cowboys and four-time Pro Bowl linebacker Anthony Barr agreed to a one-year deal. The 32-year-old Barr, a Pro Bowler in 2015-18, played eight seasons with Minnesota.
Elsewhere: Arizona wide receiver Marquise Brown was arrested on a charge of criminal speeding on a Phoenix highway, with multiple local media outlets reporting he was traveling 126 mph. … New Orleans safety Tyrann Mathieu reported to training camp and participated in practice after being excused for a personal matter.