All-Pro Donald gets raise to stay with Rams
All-Pro defensive tackle Aaron Donald is getting a big raise to stay with the Los Angeles Rams under a reworked contract through 2024.
The Super Bowl champions announced Donald’s return Monday. The team didn’t disclose terms of the deal, but NFL Network reported Donald is getting a $40 million raise that will make him the highest-paid defensive player in the league.
Donald was already under contract for the next three seasons, but he contemplated retirement after he won his first ring with the Rams in February.
⏩ A 24th woman filed a civil lawsuit alleging sexual misconduct by Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson.
Coughlin, Phelps make Hall of Fame
Vallejo native Natalie Coughlin, the Cal alum who became the first U.S. female athlete in modern Olympic history to win six medals in one Olympiad at the 2008 Beijing Games, joined fellow record-setting swimmer Michael Phelps as inductees in the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Hall of Fame. Others to be inducted June 24 at the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Museum in Colorado Springs include Lindsey Vonn (alpine skiing), Michelle Kwan (figure skating), Mia Hamm (soccer), Billie Jean King (tennis) and the late Pat Summitt (basketball).
College football: Tim Tebow, who led Florida to two national championships and won the 2007 Heisman Trophy, and former 49ers quarterback Alex Smith, who went 21-1 as a starter for Utah, are among the 11 former players making a first appearance on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot.
Also among the 80 former FBS players on the ballot are three from Cal — tight end Tony Gonzalez, running back Marshawn Lynch and linebacker Ron Rivera — and Stanford running back Toby Gerhart.
College softball: At the Women’s College World Series in Oklahoma City, all-time NCAA home run leader Jocelyn Alo hit two homers, including a grand slam, to reach 120 and defending champion Oklahoma beat No. 5 UCLA 15-0 to advance to the Women’s College World Series finals.
The Bruins had to beat the Sooners twice to advance, and won the first game 7-3 thanks to two homers from Maya Brady, the niece of Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady.
Oklahoma (57-3) will defend its title against either No. 7 seed Oklahoma State or Texas in a best-of-three championship series starting Wednesday. College baseball: Matthew Gretler hit a go-ahead solo home run in the bottom of the seventh inning, Cooper Hjerpe pitched around a leadoff walk in the ninth and No. 3 overall seed Oregon State edged Vanderbilt 7-6 to win the Corvallis Regional and earn a berth in the super regionals.
East Carolina, Louisville and Auburn also wrapped up regional titles. Stanford played for a regional title late Monday.
Golf: Joseph Bramlett, who grew up in Saratoga and played at Stanford, shot 66-70 in the Rockville, Md., sectional to earn medalist honors and qualify for next week’s U.S. Open. Michael Thorbjornsen, who just completed his sophomore year at Stanford, also advanced to the Open by posting rounds of 67 and 71 at the sectional in Purchase, N.Y.
NHL: The Boston Bruins fired head coach Bruce Cassidy.