ETC.: A-Rod, Lore buy into T’wolves

Former Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez and Walmart CEO Marc Lore

were approved by the NBA for a 20 percent minority share of the Timberwolves and the deal includes an ownership of the WNBA’s Lynx according to an ESPN report. The sale price was $1.5 billion.

A quarantine placed on a barn at Saratoga Race Course due to a positive case of equine herpesvirus will be lifted at the end of the month. The New York Racing Association announced the plan, provided none of the horses housed in the barn test positive.

U.S. defender Walker Zimmerman will miss the rest of the CONCACAF Gold Cup because of a strained hamstring that he hurt in a 1-0 win Sunday over Canada.