Inside: Raiders fined $50,000 for COVID-19 violation last week, News+Notes,

The Las Vegas Raiders have been fined $50,000 for allowing an unauthorized team employee into the locker room following a game this season.

A person familiar with the punishment told The Associated Press that the fine was issued for violating COVID-19 protocols following a win over New Orleans on Sept. 21.

This is the second time this season the Raiders have been sanctioned by the league for violating COVID-19 protocols. Coach Jon Gruden was fined $100,000 and the team docked $ 250,000 when Gruden didn’t properly wear his mask on the sideline during the game against the Saints.

Horse racing

FI LLY SWISS SKY DIVE R BEATS AUTHENTIC TO WIN PREAKNESS >> Swiss Skydiver beat favored Authentic in a stretch duel in the Preakness Stakes run without fans, making her the sixth filly and first since Rachel Alexandra in 2009 to win the race, which this year served as the third leg of the Triple Crown for the first time.

Swiss Skydiver upset favored Authentic, going off at odds of 11-1 and finishing just ahead of 3-2 favorite Authentic and thirdplace Jesus’ Team, who was 40-1. The 145th running of the Preakness at a mostly empty Pimlico Race Course came four weeks after the Kentucky Derby and 3½ months since the Belmont as they were held out of order for the first time since the 1930s.

Trainer Kenny McPeek won the Preakness for the first time for his second Triple Crown victory after capturing the 2002 Belmont with Sarava. Swiss Skydiver was the first filly to run the race since 2014, when Ria Antonia finished last.

Tennis

DJOKOVIC INTO ROUND OF 16 AT FRENCH OPEN >> No. 1- seeded Novak Djokovic reached the round of 16 for the 11th consecutive year when he defeated 153rdranked Daniel Elahi Galan 6- 0, 6-3, 6-2 at the French Open.

Djokovic is 34-1 in 2020 as he bids for a second French Open championship and 18th Grand Slam title in all.

No. 2- seeded Rafael Nadal, the 12-time champion in Paris, and No. 3 Dominic Thiem, the runner- up to him the last two years, both play in the fourth round Sunday against 20-year- old opponents who are ranked outside the Top 200. Nadal faces Sebastian Korda, the American who went through qualifying, while Thiem meets Hugo Gaston, the Frenchman who got in via a wild card.

Daniel Altmaier, the 22-year- old German who is ranked 186th, hasn’t dropped a set through three main-draw matches, including a surprisingly simple 6-2, 7- 6 (5), 6- 4 humbling of No. 7 seed Matteo Berrettini.

Now comes another seeded foe for Altmaier: No. 17 Pablo Carreño Busta. The other fourth-round men’s matches Monday: Djokovic vs. No. 15 Karen Khachanov, No. 5 Stefanos Tsitipas vs. No. 18 Grigor Dimitrov, No. 13 Andrey Rublev vs. Marton Fucsovics.

The women’s matchups established Saturday: Australian Open champion Sofia Kenin against Fiona Ferro; two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova against Zhang Shuai; Paula Badosa against Laura Siegemund; and No. 30 Ons Jabeur vs. Danielle Collins.

College football

PAC-12 STARTS NOV. 7 >> The Pac-12 football season will begin with a morning start on Nov. 7 — Arizona State at Southern California.

The conference schedule includes eight Friday games, at least one every week after the first weekend of the season. Each Pac-12 team has six opponents scheduled, five from its division and from across the conference.

The Nov. 7 opener kicks off at 9 a.m. local time. The conference has been toying with morning starts to boost nationwide exposure.

The Pac-12 championship game will match division winners and be played Dec. 18. The other teams in the conference will also play a cross- division game that weekend for a total of seven games each.

Baseball

KLENTAK OUT AS PHILS GM >> Matt Klentak has stepped down as general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies after a third straight September collapse left the team out of the postseason for the ninth consecutive season.

Klentak will be reassigned to another position in the organization and Ned Rice will serve as interim general manager until the Phillies hire someone to run baseball operations.

Klentak was hired in October 2015 by team President Andy MacPhail after serving as assistant general manager for the Los Angeles Angels for four seasons.