Taurasi still has basketball plans
Diana Taurasi’s USA Basketball career isn’t done just yet. The fivetime Olympic gold medalist will take part in a national team training camp in Minnesota next month.
Taurasi told The Associated Press last summer that she would consider playing with USA Basketball if she was healthy enough. She injured her quad shortly after and didn’t participate in the FIBA World Cup that the Americans won in Australia.
While Taurasi will be at the camp, Brittney Griner won’t. Griner is part of the pool that the 2024 Olympic team will be chosen from, but she hasn’t been out in public much since a prisoner swap in December brought her home from Russia after a 10month ordeal.
Griner said she plans on playing in the WNBA this year.
Taurasi is a free agent now, but is expected to return to the Phoenix Mercury — the only team she’s played for in her WNBA career. She turns 41 in June and would be 42 at the time of the Paris Olympics in 2024.
Transfer bolsters German soccer
DÜSSELDORF, Germany — Portugal left back João Cancelo’s switch to Bayern Munich brought excitement to the last day of the winter transfer period in Germany, while a surprise deal for five-time Champions League winner Isco Alarcón to join Union Berlin collapsed.
Albert exits Notre Dame for PSG
PARIS — American midfielder Korbin Albert has signed a contract with French club Paris Saint- Germain until 2025 after forgoing her remaining eligibility at Notre Dame.
Brazilian player’s poll takes a toll
SAO PAULO — Brazilian volleyball club Cruzeiro suspended Olympic gold medalist Wallace de Souza on
Tuesday after he conducted a social media poll asking his fans whether they would shoot Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the face.
Zverev won’t be punished
LONDON — German tennis player Alexander Zverev will not face disciplinary action after an investigation into domestic abuse allegations against him found “insufficient evidence” to substantiate the claims, the men’s professional tour said Tuesday.
Kenyan runner given 4-year ban
NAIROBI, Kenya — Kenyan runner Georgina Rono, who was third at the Boston Marathon in 2012, was banned for four years on Tuesday for evading a doping test. Rono, who also has podium finishes at the Eindhoven and Frankfurt Marathons, was banned until Jan. 25, 2027. She had all her results since May 27 stripped from her record in a ruling by the Antidoping Agency of Kenya.