Soccer pay under fire

Five members of the World Cup-champion U.S. women’s soccer team filed a wage-discrimination action against U.S. Soccer on Thursday, saying women’s players were paid as much as 62% less than their male counterparts for the same work.

Using figures from U.S. Soccer’s 2015 financial report, the filing charges that while the women’s team generated millions more in revenue than the men’s team last year, the women continue to be paid less for everything from appearances and wins to sponsorship appearances.

Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo filed the action.

FIGURE SKATING

Gracie Gold leads after the short program at the world championships in Boston on Thursday as she seeks to become the first American woman to win a world championship in a decade.

No U.S. woman has even finished on the podium since Kimmie Meissner took gold and Sasha Cohen bronze in 2006.

Gold scored 76.43 points, followed by Russian teens Anna Pogorilaya (73.98) and Evgenia Medvedeva (73.76).

BASEBALL

Texas coach Augie Garrido and former major-leaguers J.D. Drew, Rick Monday and Tom Paciorek are among this year’s inductees into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.

The seven-member class announced will be inducted in July in Lubbock, Texas.

AUTO RACING

McLaren driver Fernando Alonso will miss this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, and possibly the following race in China, as a result of broken ribs and other injuries sustained during a crash in the season opener.

OLYMPICS

Marathon runner Lisa Nemec and Belarusian race walker Hanna Drabenia, who both competed at the 2012 Olympics, have been banned for doping, the IAAF said.

Nemec, formerly known as Lisa Stublic, grew up in Connecticut and raced for Columbia University but competes for Croatia, where she has set numerous records.

Drabenia picked up a two-year ban following a failed test at a competition last year.