SJ inks former Harvard star Thrun
The San Jose Sharks signed defenseman Henry Thrun to a two-year contract on Saturday after his final college season at Harvard ended.
The Sharks traded a 2024 third-round pick to Anaheim last month to acquire the rights to Thrun. San Jose had until Aug. 15 to sign him or he would have become an unrestricted free agent.
Thrun will immediately join the Sharks' roster and the contract will run through next season.
The 22-year-old had seven goals and 26 assists with a plus-20 rating in 33 games for Harvard as a senior this season. The Crimson's season ended with an 8-1 loss Friday to Ohio State in the NCAA Tournament.
Golf
MATCH PLAY SEMIFINALS SET >> Defending champion Scottie Scheffler twice had to rally from deficits to win both matches and reach the semifinals of the WGCDell Technologies Match Play for the third straight year. Rory McIlroy joined him by making 17 birdies in two matches that went the distance.
The final version of the Match Play lived up to its edge-of-the-seat reputation, with wild turns of momentum until four players remained.
Sam Burns advanced by beating Patrick Cantlay in 17 holes and then overcoming an early deficit to beat Mackenzie Hughes of Canada, 3 and 2.
PAIR TIED IN DOMINICAN >> Nicolai Hojgaard of Denmark played bogey-free for a 6-under 66 and shared the lead with PGA Tour rookie Sam Stevens in the Corales Punta Cana Championship.
They were at 14-under 202, one shot ahead of a large group that included 36-hole leader Matt Wallace of England, Thomas Detry of Belgium and Tyler Duncan, who won his only PGA Tour title at Sea Island in 2019.
Tennis
GAUFF FALLS IN MIAMI >> Coco Gauff let a big lead slip away and wound up dropping the last five games of a mistake-filled 6-7 (8), 7-5, 6-2 loss to Anastasia Potapova in the third round of the Miami Open.
The No. 6-seeded Gauff, a 19-year-old from nearby in Florida, heard chants of “Let's go, Coco!” from spectators at the hard-court tournament as she overcame a 5-2 deficit in the opening set, then erased a pair of set points for Potapova in that tiebreaker. Gauff grabbed the set on her second chance with a cross-court backhand winner.
Soccer
PLAYER COLLAPSES IN GAME
>> A third-division game in Spain was abandoned after Serbian defender Dragisa Gudelj suffered a cardiac arrest.
Doctors performed CPR on the field to resuscitate the 25-year-old Gudelj. The player was conscious when he was put in an ambulance and taken to a hospital in Cordoba.
The club later said Gudelj was in stable condition and undergoing tests in an intensive care unit.
Motor sports
PIQUET FINED IN BRAZIL >> Retired Formula One champion Nelson Piquet has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay $950,000 in “moral damages” for making racist and homophobic comments about Lewis Hamilton.
The 70-year-old Brazilian had referred to seventime champion Hamilton as “neguinho,” a racially offensive term which means “little Black guy,” in 2021. In another interview, Piquet used racist and homophobic language.
The court in Brasilia on Friday ordered Piquet to pay 5 million Brazilian reals “in collective moral damages, to be allocated to funds for the promotion of racial equality and against discrimination of the LGBTQIA+ community.”
The charges were filed by several human rights groups, including Brazil's National LGBTI+ Alliance.
Figure skating
UNO REPEATS AS WORLD CHAMPION >> Shoma Uno prevailed in a quad showdown in the free skate to become the first Japanese man to defend his title at the figure skating world championships.
Uno, skating to a selection of music that included Bach, attempted five quadruple jumps at Saitama Super Arena. He landed all of them except the quad salchow which he under-rotated for a total of 301.14 points.
South Korean skater Cha Jun-hwan was second with 296.03 points followed by American teenager Ilia Malinin, who became the first skater to land a quadruple axel at the world championships and finished with 288.44 points.