Russian track team hit with sanctions

Russia’s track team was limited to 10 athletes for the Tokyo Olympics and the country’s federation was fined $10 million by the sport’s governing body.

World Athletics passed the latest package of sanctions after the Russian track federation’s new president accepted charges that fake documents were used under the previous management to give an athlete an alibi for missing a doping test.

Russia has been suspended by World Athletics since 2015 for widespread doping and was threatened with possible expulsion because of the documents case.

“Clearly the previous measures were not enough to change the culture in Russian athletics. We hope this further measure will be sufficient to provoke real change,” World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said. The Russian track federation said it accepted the punishment.

Grand Canyon fired basketball coach Dan Majerle after seven seasons. The school announced the former Phoenix Suns star’s firing Thursday, hours after the Western Athletic Conference and NCAA tournament were canceled because of concerns over the coronavirus.

Del Shofner, the wide receiver who combined with Hall of Fame quarterback Y.A. Tittle to give the New York Giants one of the NFL’s most prolific passing threats in the early 1960s, died. He was 85. Shofner’s daughter, Laurie Shofner Corwin, confirmed the death in a telephone call to the Associated Press. Shofner was the Rams’ first-round draft pick in 1957.