UM basketball a finalist for George Mason’s Miller
The University of Miami, which lost four players to the transfer portal, is expected to land highly touted George Mason combo guard Jordan Miller, one of eight players transferring out of the Patriot program after the firing of coach Dave Paulsen.
Miller, who has two years left of eligibility, was the Patriot’s leading scorer (15.8 ppg) and rebounder (6.6 rpg) this past season and averaged two assists. He shot 46.3 percent from the field and 33.3 percent from threepoint range (24-of-72).
According to a college basketball source, UM has been in serious talks with Miller and is one of his finalists. Miller is known as a slasher and aggressive rebounder, and was the Virginia 4A State Player of the Year coming out of Loudon Valley High School. He is a lefty with a similar build and playing style as Earl Timberlake,
who left UM for Memphis last week.
Miller did not play in the big shoe AAU circuit, so he was a bit of a sleeper coming out of high school, but proved to be a key player for George Mason. UM coach Jim Larrañaga has deep ties to George Mason, as he used to coach there.
— MICHELLE KAUFMAN Elsewhere: Texas
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Tech junior guard Kyler Edwards has decided to transfer, new head coach
said.
ETC.
NFL: The brain of Phillip ●
Adams, the former NFL player identified as the gunman who fatally shot six people Wednesday in Rock Hill, South Carolina, will be examined for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease found in dozens of former players.
Soccer: Inter Milan
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continued the march to its first Serie A title in more than a decade as it beat relegation-threatened Cagliari 1-0. Defender Matteo Darmian scored the only goal of the match in the 77th minute as Inter found it tougher than expected against a side fighting for Serie A survival . ... Juventus beat Genoa 3-1 but the nine-time defending champion remained 12 points behind Inter, which is bidding for a first league title since 2010 . ... Atletico Madrid stumbled again in its bid to win a first Spanish league title in seven seasons after drawing 1-1 at Real Betis, leaving it narrowly ahead of secondplace Real Madrid and Barcelona. Yannick Carrasco put Atletico ahead five minutes into the match in Seville. But Cristian Tello struck back for Betis in the 20th, and the struggling front-runners needed goalkeeper Jan Oblak to make several saves to protect a point.David
Tennis: Goffin
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beat an erratic Marin Cilic
6-4, 3-6, 6-0 to reach the second round of the claycourt Monte Carlo Masters at Monaco. Although the 2014 U.S. Open champion Cilic had 10 aces and led the match 3-0, he made 52 unforced errors and also dropped serve six times against the 11th-seeded Belgian. The day’s only other match lasted three hours as Australian player Jordan Thompson overcame Frenchman Benoit Paire 6-4, 6-7 (3-7), 7-6 (7-5) in an error-strewn match with 17 service breaks . ... Lorenzo Sonego became the first Italian for 15 years to capture an ATP tour clay-court title on home soil after fighting back to beat Laslo Djere of Serbia and win the Sardegna Open. Third-seeded Sonego had to dig deep in the second set before prevailing 2-6, 7-6 (7-5), 6-4 in a final lasting just over three hours . ... Striker Wissam Ben Yedder came off the bench to score twice as Monaco beat last-place Dijon 3-0 to stay third in the French league. Fourthplace Lyon beat Angers 3-0 to remain one point behind Monaco in the chase for third and a slot in the Champions League qualifying rounds . ... Edinson Cavani set up Fred’s equalizer before scoring with a diving header as Manchester United beat Tottenham 3-1, strengthening its grip on second place in the Premier League and dealing a further blow to former manager Jose Mourinho’s Champions League qualification hopes.
Auto racing: Josh
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Berry passed star rookie
Ty Gibbs with 28 laps to go at Martinsville (Virginia) Speedway and earned his first career NASCAR Xfinity Series victory in the completion of a race that started Friday night.
Olympics: Athletes at
● the Tokyo Olympics who come down with minor symptoms of COVID-19 could be isolated in a hotel lined up by local organizers of the games. The Japanese news agency Kyodo said organizers are working to secure 300 rooms in a hotel near the Athletes’ Village. The rooms would be for athletes and staff who do not need to be hospitalized. The measures underline the risk of trying to hold the Olympics and Paralympics during a pandemic.