LaVine faces surgery on ACL
Minnesota Timberwolves shooting guard Zach LaVine will miss the rest of the season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. LaVine was injured the night before in the team’s loss at Detroit. He’ll have surgery at a yet-to-be-determined date.
The news was a devastating blow to a young team that had recently begun to find a groove. The 21year-old LaVine, who played at UCLA and won the dunk contest last season, was having a career season, averaging 18.9 points, 3.4 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 37.2 minutes per game.
Chino Hills’ 60-game basketball winning streak came to an end on Saturday night at the Nike Extravaganza when Mouth of Wilson (Va.) Oak Hill defeated the Huskies, 96-91, at Santa Ana Mater Dei.
Iowa State-bound Lindell Wigginton led Oak Hill’s comeback with 35 points. LaMelo Ball scored 36 for Chino Hills.
In an earlier game, Chatsworth Sierra Canyon junior center Marvin Bagley III set a Nike Extravaganza scoring record, finishing with 43 points in a 9872 victory over Las Vegas Bishop Gorman. The old record was 41 by Shabazz Muhammad. — Eric Sondheimer
The NCAA and 11 major athletic conferences announced Friday night they have agreed to pay $208.7 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit filed by former college athletes who claimed the value of their scholarships was illegally capped.
The settlement still must be approved by a judge and it does not close the antitrust case. The NCAA said in a statement the association and conferences “will continue to vigorously oppose the remaining portion of the lawsuit seeking pay for play.”
The settlement will be fully funded by NCAA reserves, the association said.
The original antitrust lawsuit was filed in 2014 by former West Virginia football player Shawne Alston. The case was later combined with other lawsuits and covers Division I men’s and women’s basketball players and FBS football players who competed from 2009-10 through 2016-17 and did not receive a cost-of-attendance stipend.
In January 2015, the five wealthiest college conferences — the Atlantic Coast Conference, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern Conference — passed NCAA legislation that allowed schools to increase the value of an athletic scholarship by several thousand dollars to the federally determined actual cost of attending a college or university. Cost of attendance includes expenses beyond tuition, room and board, books and fees.
Each member of the class will receive about $6,000, said Steve Berman, lead attorney in the case.
Jack Sock and Steve Johnson won their doubles match in three sets at Birmingham, Ala., sending the United States to the Davis Cup quarterfinals with a 3-0 victory over Switzerland. Sock and Johnson, bronze medalists in men’s doubles at the Rio Olympics, beat Henri Laaksonen and Adrien Bossel, 7-6 (3), 6-3, 7-6 (5).
Switzerland was without the country’s two best players this weekend: 18-time Grand Slam champion Roger Federer and three-time major champ Stan Wawrinka. Federer won the Australian Open last Sunday night.
The U.S. will travel to Australia for the April quarterfinals. Australia advanced with a 3-0 victory over the Czech Republic.
Irish War Cry led all the way to upset 3Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Classic Empire by 3 ⁄4 lengths in the $350,000 Holy Bull Stakes on Gulfstream in Hallandale, Fla. Ridden by Joel Rosario, Irish War Cry ran 11⁄16 miles in 1:42.52. Delta Downs Jackpot winner Gunnevera was second and Classic Empire was another five lengths back in third.