Maryland hires ex-Wake coach Danny Manning as assistant

Maryland hired former Wake Forest coach Danny Manning as an assistant on Mark Turgeon’s staff on Monday, reuniting a couple of old college teammates.

Manning, who played with Turgeon at Kansas in the 1980s, spent the past year as an analyst for ESPN. He was fired by Wake Forest after his team finished with a losing record in five of six seasons and just one NCAA Tournament appearance.

“I’ve known Danny for a long time going back to our days as teammates at Kansas, and I cannot say enough about him as a coach and as a human being,” Turgeon said in a university statement. “He has seen it all in the game of basketball and will bring unparalleled experience to our program.”

Mulkey celebrates emotional homecoming at LSU introduction

BATON ROUGE, LA. >> Hall of Fame coach Kim Mulkey’s introduction at LSU had an overriding theme that echoed constantly under the domed roof of the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. It was the word, “home.” “When you grow up, you don’t forget where you come from,” said Mulkey, who is leaving a Baylor women’s basketball program she built into a threetime national champion to return to her native Louisiana. “This state made us who we were . ... It’s so unbelievably comfortable for me to come back to my roots.”

A native of Tickfaw, Louisiana, Mulkey won state championships at Hammond

High School, about 45 miles east of LSU,. She then won national titles as both a player and assistant coach at Louisiana Tech before spending 21 years in Waco, Texas.

Tokyo Olympics: More tests, no quarantine in updated rules

TOKYO >> Tokyo Olympic organizers and the IOC are to unveil new plans this week to explain how 15,400 Olympic and Paralympic athletes can compete in Japan when the games open in three months in the midst of a pandemic.

The rollout of the second edition of the “Playbooks” — an IOC guidebook explaining how the games can be pulled off — comes as Tokyo, Osaka and several other areas have been placed under a third state of emergency as coronavirus cases surge.

Japan, which has attributed about 10,000 deaths to COVID-19, has also been slow with local vaccination with about 1% so far getting shots.

Organizers are expected to announce daily testing for athletes. They are also expected to drop a 14-day quarantine requirement, allowing athletes to train when they arrive. Athletes will be required to stay within a “bubble” consisting of the Olympic Village on Tokyo Bay, and venues and training areas.

Australian swimming great John Konrads dies at age 78

SYDNEY >> John Konrads, who set 26 individual freestyle swimming world records and won an Olympic gold medal in 1960, has died, the Sport Australia

Hall of Fame announced Monday. He was 78.

Konrads was born in Latvia in 1942 and moved to Australia with his parents, his two sisters and a grandmother in 1949.

“As a swimming sensation in the 1950’s and 60’s, John Konrads dominated the world swimming scene, breaking every freestyle world record between 200 meters and 1,500 meters by the time he was 15,” Sport Australia Hall of Fame chairman John Bertrand said in a statement. “His career tally of 26 individual world records is an incredible record.”

At the age of 14, Konrads was a reserve for Australia’s Olympic swim team at the 1956 Melbourne Games.

Millman overcomes Popyrin in 3 hours to start Munich Open

MUNICH >> John Millman won an all-Australian match against Alexei Popyrin 7-6 (3), 3-6, 7-5 to move into the second round of the Munich Open on Monday.

The eighth-seeded Millman saved 13 of 15 break points as he needed almost three hours to overcome Popyrin.

Millman is coming off three consecutive secondround losses since the European clay season began, and will face Guido Pella in the second round. Pella was leading 6-0, 2-0 in his first-round match with Egor Gerasimov when the Belarusian retired.

Lucky loser Ricardas Berankis earned a secondround meeting with topseeded Alexander Zverev after beating wild card Maximilian Marterer 7-6 (10), 6-3.