USC picks freshman to be starting QB

Freshman J.T. Daniels has won the competition to start at quarterback for No. 15 USC. Head coach Clay Helton announced his decision Sunday night. Daniels will be the first true freshman to start at quarterback for USC since Matt Barkley in 2009. Daniels graduated from Mater Dei-Santa Ana one full year early to enroll at USC. Motor sports: Sebastian Vettel made a crucial early overtaking move on Lewis Hamilton and won the crash-marred Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps.

Hamilton started from pole position, with Vettel second on the grid, but Vettel nudged his Ferrari past Hamilton’s Mercedes on the first lap. Legal matters: Milwaukee’s city attorney said officers did nothing wrong when they used a stun gun on Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown during his arrest over a parking violation in January — a contradiction to the positions of the police chief and mayor.

The city attorney’s assertion comes in response to a lawsuit Brown filed in June alleging that officers targeted him because he is black and that their use of force was unwarranted.

Police Chief Alfonso Morales apologized to Brown and in May announced that 11 of the officers involved in the Brown’s arrest were disciplined or retrained.

Mayor Tom Barrett said, “I think it’s counterproductive for anybody to turn up the heat with rhetoric like this.” Hockey: Though a Los Angeles judge dismissed a misdemeanor domestic-abuse conviction against former Los Angeles Kings defenseman Slava Voynov last month, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said Voynov has not been cleared for an NHL return.

Daly said Voynov’s status will be reviewed by the league, which banned him in 2015 after Voynov pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge of corporal injury to a spouse following an October 2014 arrest in Redondo Beach (Los Angeles County). The Kings terminated Voynov’s $25 million contract in 2015 and he played in Russia the past three seasons.