Capitals’ Wilson given six-game ban over ‘reckless’ high-sticking incident

Washington right wing Tom Wilson was suspended six games without pay for his stick to Toronto right wing Noah Gregor’s face Wednesday in the Maple

Leafs’ win. The ban, tied for the longest issued this season by the NHL’S department of player safety, will cost Wilson $161,458 in salary. The department said Wilson swung his stick in “extremely reckless fashion.” The 29-year-old has been suspended six times since 2017 and fined three other times since 2015. Wilson’s new seven-year, $45.5 million deal starts next season.

■ Soccer: UEFA said it reached a confidential settlement to compensate Liverpool fans for personal injury claims from dangerous chaos at the 2022 Champions League final in Paris. The security failures at Stade de France before Liverpool played Real Madrid were a near “mass fatality catastrophe,” according to an investigation team appointed by UEFA.

■ Tennis: At Miami Gardens, Fla., playing four days after the death of a former hockey player she dated, second-ranked Aryna Sabalenka beat Paula Badosa

6-4, 6-3 in the Miami Open’s second round. Konstantin Koltsov, 42, who played 144 NHL games for Pittsburgh from 2002 to ’06, died Monday in Miami in an apparent suicide.

■ Football: Free-agent cornerback Kristian Fulton agreed to a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Chargers. Terms weren’t disclosed. The 25-year-old Louisiana State product spent his first four NFL seasons with Tennessee, totaling 150 tackles and four interceptions in 42 games.

■ Figure skating: At Montreal, Kaori Sakamoto of Japan became the first woman to three-peat as world champion since American Peggy Fleming from 1966 to ’68, finishing with 222.96 points - 10.8 better than runner-up Isabeau Levito of the United States.

■ Basketball: New Orleans forward Brandon Ingram is expected to be sidelined at least two weeks with a bone bruise in his left knee, the Pelicans said. The 26-year-old has averaged 20.9 points, 5.8 assists and 5.1 rebounds in 63 games this season.

■ Motor sports: At Pomona, Calif., Billy Torrence (Top Fuel), Daniel Wilkerson (Funny Car) and Erica Enders (Pro Stock) led qualifying for the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals.

■ Colleges: Fresno State athletic director Terry Tumey resigned after six years in what president Saul Jimenez-sandoval termed a mutual decision.

From staff and wire reports