5 elected to U.S. soccer Hall
Brad Friedel, the goalkeeper who helped lead the U.S. men’s national team to the quarterfinals of the 2002 World Cup, and two players from the historic 1999 Women’s World Cup champions — Tiffeny Milbrett and Cindy Parlow Cone — were among the five elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame on Thursday.
Also elected were MLS Commissioner Don Garber and former U.S. Soccer President Bob Contiguglia.
Friedel, the New England Revolution head coach, was the starter in 2002 on a team with Landon Donovan and Brian McBride scoring goals. The U.S. achieved its best World Cup result since making the semis in 1930.
Parlow Cone scored 75 goals for the U.S. and is the youngest American player to win both a World Cup title and Olympic gold. Milbrett scored 100 goals and played in three World Cups and two Olympics. ⏩ Zinedine Zidane surprisingly quit as Real Madrid coach five days after leading the team to its third straight Champions League title.
College football: The start times of four Stanford and three Cal games were announced.
The Cardinal’s opener at home against San Diego State is 6 p.m. Aug. 31; Stanford then hosts USC at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 8; a Sept. 15 game against UC Davis begins at 11 a.m., the earliest start time ever for a Stanford home game; and a Thursday game at ASU is 6 p.m. Oct. 18.
Cal opens by hosting North Carolina at 1 p.m. Sept. 1, then will travel to BYU for a 7:15 PDT game Sept. 8, before returning to host Idaho State at 3 p.m. Sept. 15.
San Jose State’s game at Washington State begins at 8 p.m. Sept. 8. The Spartans have a 2 p.m. start at Oregon on Sept. 15.
College basketball: The WCC announced which two “misses” each men’s team will have next season as the conference switches from an 18-game to a 16-game schedule. St. Mary’s won’t host Loyola Marymount and won’t play at Portland. USF won’t host Pacific and won’t play at LMU. Santa Clara won’t host BYU and won’t play at San Diego. — Steve Kroner Softball: Washington freshman Gabbie Plain threw 52⁄3 shutout innings, and the Huskies defeated two-time defending national champion Oklahoma 2-0 in the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City.
The Sooners (55-4) had won 16 straight but now face Arizona State in an elimination game Saturday. Washington (50-8) will play Oregon on Friday.
The top-ranked Ducks (53-8) defeated the Sun Devils 11-6 as Shannon Rhodes’ three-run homer in the sixth lifted Oregon. Miranda Elish increased her career record to 37-1.
Another Pac-12 team, UCLA, scored six times in the sixth — highlighted by Kylee Perez’s threerun homer — to rally for a 7-4 victory over Florida State. Rachel Garcia, the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, pitched a complete game to earn the win. She gave up four hits and struck out 15.
UCLA (57-5) next plays Florida (56-9), an 11-3 winner over Georgia in five innings.
WNBA: Breanna Stewart scored 21 points, Jewell Loyd added 20 points and the Seattle Storm set a WNBA record with 17 three-pointers in a 101-74 romp over the visiting Las Vegas Aces.