Donovan, Beasley make Hall of Fame
Landon Donovan and
DaMarcus Beasley were elected Saturday to the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame and will be inducted May 6, 2023 along with Lauren Cheney Holiday.
Donovan was picked on 46 of 48 ballots for 95.8% of the vote. Beasley appeared on 45 ballots (93.8%) and Cheney Holiday on 40 ballots (83.3%).
Donovan, 40, was a midfielder and forward who scored 57 goals in 157 international appearances from 2000 to 2014 and is tied with
Clint Dempsey for the U.S. scoring record. Donovan won four MLS titles with the Galaxy.
Beasley, 40, became the first American to play in four World Cups. A defender and midfielder, he scored 17 goals in 126 international appearances from 2001 to 2017.
ETC. Sun Devils close to hiring coach
Arizona State was finalizing a deal to make Oregon offensive
coordinator Kenny Dillingham the youngest head football coach in a Power Five conference.
A person with knowledge of the negotiations told the Associated Press that the 32-year-old Phoenix native was on the verge of becoming the head coach at the school he graduated from just 10 years ago.
Dillingham would replace the fired Herman Edwards.
Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin said he informed school officials he will be staying at Mississippi, putting an end to speculation that he was the leading candidate to fill the head coaching vacancy at
Auburn. Kiffin, who last week publicly denied a local report he was leaving, added he has not signed a contract extension with the school . ... Matt Rhule signed an eightyear contract to be Nebraska’s next coach and will be introduced Monday at a news conference . ... Florida Atlantic fired coach Willie Taggart, hours after the end of a third consecutive fivewin season.
Sofia Cook scored in the 98th minute to give the topseeded UCLA women’s soccer team a 2-1 overtime win against visiting No. 3 Virginia and a berth in the College Cup . ... The Bruins men’s soccer team lost to host Vermont 3-0 in a third-round match.
Undrafted rookie kicker Caleb Shudak will make his NFL debut on Sunday against Cincinnati after the Tennessee Titans scratched Randy Bullock for a second straight game with an injured right calf.
British Open champion Cameron Smith had a topsy-turvy round of twounder 69 that included six birdies and four bogeys to take a three-stroke lead into the final round of the Australian PGA. Liu Yanwei (70) and Masahiro Kawamura (71) were tied for second.
World champion Lara Gut-Behrami improved with her second run to win her first World Cup giant slalom in more than six years, with Mikaela Shiffrin finishing 13th, in Killington, Vt . ... Kim Kalicki and Anabel Galander of Germany won the opening women’s bobsled World Cup race of the season in Whistler, Canada, holding off the Swiss duo of Melanie Hasler and
Nadja Pasternack. In the four-man race, Germany’s
Francesco Friedrich got his second win of the weekend.
Felix Auger-Aliassime led Canada to its second Davis Cup final after winning both his singles and doubles rubbers in a 2-1 fightback over Italy in Malaga, Spain. Canada will face Australia on Sunday.
Doddie Weir, a former Scotland rugby player whose diagnosis with Lou Gehrig’s disease led to a widely praised campaign for more research into ALS, has died at 52.