Hall of Famer Majors, 85, dies

College Football Hall of Famer Johnny Majors, the coach of Pittsburgh’s 1976 national championship team and a former coach and star player at Tennessee, died Wednesday. He was 85. Majors compiled a 185-13710 record in 29 seasons as a head coach at Iowa State (1968-72), Pitt (1973-76, 199396) and Tennessee (1977-92).

J.R. Henderson, the last active member of UCLA’s 1995 national championship basketball team, announced his retirement from SeaHorses Mikawa of the Japan Professional Basketball League. — Ben Bolch

The NHRA will resume its season in July with backto-back events at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis with limited spectators allowed. Events will be on July 11-12 and July 18-19.

The Galaxy were flooded with angry calls and messages demanding the team release midfielder Aleksandar Katai after his wife, Tea, made inflammatory posts on social media that appeared to make light of the protests and looting that occurred in the wake of George Floyd’s death in police custody last week in Minneapolis. The first post is a screenshot from a video of police attempting to drive an SUV through protesters in New York with text, written in Serbian, that translates as “kill the ... !” The second shows what appears to be a looter running away with boxes of Nike shoes below an English-language caption reading “Black Nikes Matter.”

Both posts, which appeared to go up late Tuesday, have been removed. — Kevin Baxter