Proposal made for girls’ flag football
With support from the Rams and Chargers, a proposal was made at a Southern Section Executive Committee meeting to create flag football for girls as an official CIF sport.
It would first need to be recommended by the Southern Section Council, then approved by the CIF Federated Council. The earliest it could happen would be 2023-24, Southern Section Commissioner Rob Wigod said.
— Eric Sondheimer
UCLA-bound Amari Bailey and USC-bound Kijani Wright, both from Chatsworth Sierra Canyon, were selected for the McDonald’s All-American game on March 29 in Chicago. UCLA-bound Gabriela Jaquez of Camarillo was selected for the girls’ game.
— Eric Sondheimer
Defending champion Patrick Reed is among 156 golfers participating this week at Torrey Pines in the Farmers Insurance Open that debuts a Wednesday-through-Saturday schedule.
Major League Baseball withdrew its plan for more limited salary arbitration a day after the union withdrew its demand for greater free-agent eligibility.
Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Keith Yandle broke the NHL record by playing in his 965th consecutive game . ... San Jose Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson is expected to miss at least two months because of an injury to his left forearm . ... Longtime NHL forward Eric Staal, 2021 No. 1 pick Owen Power and Northeastern goalie Devon Levi were among the players named by Hockey Canada to the 25-man roster for the Beijing Olympics.
Former Tour de France champion Egan Bernal remained in intensive care in Colombia on Tuesday after undergoing what his team described as “two successful surgeries.”
The 2019 Tour champion from Colombia hit a bus parked on the shoulder of a road outside Bogota on Monday morning while training with his team Ineos Grenadiers.
Bernal’s team said he fractured his right femur, right kneecap, several ribs and a vertebrae and suffered a punctured lung and chest trauma.
Sara Hector won the final World Cup giant slalom before the Beijing Olympics, with 2018 gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin in fifth in San Vigilio Di Marebbe, Italy . ... Germany’s Linus Strasser won the final slalom before the Beijing Games, finishing a slim 0.03 seconds ahead of Atle Lie McGrath of Norway in the prestigious event under the lights labeled “The Night Race” in Schladming, Austria.