Boston headlines women’s All-America team
South Carolina women’s basketball star Aliyah Boston was honored for the third consecutive year as an All-American by The Associated Press —just the 10th player to earn that honor three times.
Boston was joined on the first team by Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, Villanova’s Maddy Siegrist, LSU’s Angel Reese and Indiana’s Mackenzie Holmes.
Boston helped South Carolina go undefeated in the regular season and enter the NCAA tournament as the top overall seed. She averaged 13.3 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.0 blocks. She is a big reason the Gamecocks went wire-to-wire as No. 1 in the AP poll for the second season in a row.
South Carolina’s A’ja Wilson, Baylor’s Brittney Griner, Tennessee’s Chamique Holdsclaw, Duke’s Alana Beard, Oklahoma’s Courtney Paris, Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu and Connecticut’s Breanna Stewart and Maya Moore are the only other players to earn first-team honors at least three times. Paris and Moore did it four times.
Auto racing
NASCAR levied the largest combined fine on one team in series history, hammering Hendrick Motorsports for modifying air-deflecting pieces last weekend at Phoenix Raceway. Hendrick was issued a combined $400,000 in fines — $100,000 to each of its four crew chiefs, along with four-race suspensions for the quartet — and docked the drivers 100 regular-season points and 10 playoffs points each. Hendrick said it would appeal. Team driver William Byron has won back-to-back races, and Alex Bowman was the Cup Series points leader prior to his 100-point deduction.
Soccer
Gio Reyna, whose parents tried to oust U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter after the 20-yearold midfielder was sparingly used at the World Cup, was selected by interim coach Anthony Hudson for CONCACAF Nations League matches against Grenada and El Salvador.
• Riverhounds SC signed defender Trevor Zwetsloot to a one-year deal with a team option for 2024. Zwetsloot, 23, is a 6-foot-2 defender/defensive midfielder who joins the Riverhounds after playing last season with New England Revolution II in MLS NEXT Pro.
Tennis
Rafael Nadal is aiming to make his comeback from a hip injury at the clay-court Monte Carlo Masters next month. Nadal has been sidelined with a left hip flexor injury since the Australian Open, and pulled out of hardcourt tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami. The Monte Carlo Masters begins on April 8.
Track & field
Raven Saunders, the U.S. silver-medal shot putter who used her triumph at the Tokyo
Olympics to bring attention to social injustice, was suspended for 18 months for failing to show up for doping tests.
Winter sports
Ilka Stuhec completed her downhill season by edging Sofia Goggia for victory at the World Cup finals in Soldeu, Andorra. Stuhec, a two-time world champion, finished 0.51 seconds ahead of Goggia, who was the dominant downhill racer this season.
•Vincent Kriechmayr won the men’s World Cup finals downhills, edging Romed Baumann by 0.09 seconds.