LAFC's Tillman changing affiliation from Germany to U.S.
LAFC midfielder Timmy Tillman has been approved by FIFA to change his national team affiliation to the United States from Germany, following a move made by younger brother Malik a year earlier.
Timmy Tillman, 24, was born in Nuremberg, Germany, to a father in the U.S. military and a German mother. He played for Germany in qualifying for the 2018 European Under-19 Championship and joined LAFC this year after four seasons with Greuther Fürth. He has two goals in 10 MLS matches.
The Tillmans could become the ninth set of brothers to appear for the U.S., joining Brenden and Paxten Aaronson, John and Pedro DeBrito, Otto and Rolf Decker, Angelo and Paul DiBernardo, Charlie and Henry McCully, George and Louie Nanchoff, Steve and Ken Snow, and Archie and Tom Stark.
• The El Salvador soccer club whose fans pushed down an entrance gate setting off a stampede that left 12 people dead last weekend will play without supporters in its stadium for a year, the country's soccer federation said.
Club Alianza also will have to pay a $30,000 fine, the Salvadoran Soccer Federation's Disciplinary Committee decided late Monday.
Authorities said hundreds of fans were enraged when they weren't allowed to enter the stadium despite having tickets. They pushed until they knocked down an entrance gate, and people were crushed and suffocated under the pressure.
• Catarina Macario said she won't be ready in time to play for the United States in this summer's Women's World Cup as she recovers from an ACL injury.
The loss of the 23-yearold forward for the World Cup was not unexpected but is still a blow to the United States, which had already lost Mallory Swanson to a torn patellar tendon suffered during an exhibition game in April.
• Spanish police took action after the latest case of abuse against Vinícius Júnior, arresting seven people accused of racially insulting the Real Madrid player.
Spanish soccer officials also acted, fining Valencia 45,000 euros ($48,500) and closing part of the team's stadium for the next five games.
Three people were detained in Valencia for alleged abuse against Vinícius in Sunday's match between Valencia and Madrid. Four were arrested in Madrid for allegedly hanging an effigy of the player off a highway bridge in January.
The arrests came after an outpouring of support for Vinícius after he said he was abused in Valencia. The case prompted widespread reaction from sports figures and government officials in Spain and worldwide.
• The United States moved closer to reaching the knockout stage at the Under-20 World Cup with a 3-0 victory over Fiji.
With Fiji sitting back in defense in San Juan, the Americans didn't score until the 66th minute when Diego Luna curled in a shot from the edge of the box. Cade Cowell doubled the lead with a similar strike in the 88th before Caleb Wiley sealed it with a stoppage-time tap-in.
The United States has six points after two victories in Group B. The Americans can win the group with a win over Slovakia on Friday.
The top two teams of each group and the four best third-place teams at the 24team tournament will advance to the round of 16.
USC women in final
Brianna Navarrosa beat the world's top-ranked amateur, Rose Zhang, and USC knocked off reigning champion Stanford 3-1 in the NCAA women's golf semifinals.
In the other semifinal, Wake Forest beat Texas A&M 3-0 to earn its second trip to the national final.
Zhang capped off one of the greatest runs in NCAA history on Monday, becoming the first woman to win multiple national championships in golf with her second straight individual title.
But Zhang and Stanford ran into trouble in the semifinals against USC. Christine Wang beat Brooke Seay 2 and 1 and Cindy Kou beat Stanford's Megha Ganne by the same score. Freshman Kelly Xu got Stanford on the board with a 2-and-1 win over national co-runner-up Catherine Park.
With Sadie Englemann 2 up through 16 holes against Amari Avery, Stanford needed Zhang to rally from a 2-down deficit over the final four holes at Grayhawk Golf Club.
Navarrosa didn't give the individual champion a chance, dropping a birdie putt after Zhang hit it close on the par-3 16th and closing out her 2 and 1 victory with a par on 17.
USC beat South Carolina 3-1 in the quarterfinals earlier in the day.
U.S. wins Group A
Dylan Samberg scored in overtime and the United States beat Sweden 4-3 to finish the group stage with a perfect record at the IIHF World Championships.
Nick Bonino, Conor Garland and Lane Hutson also scored, helping the U.S. clinch Group A, two points in front of Sweden.
The Americans will play the Czech Republic in Thursday's quarterfinal round. Sweden will face co-host Latvia, which reached the quarterfinals by beating Switzerland 4-3 in overtime.
Canada defeated the Czechs 3-1 to finish second in Group B, setting up a quarterfinal game against defending champion Finland, which finished third in Group A. The Finns routed Denmark 7-1.
Germany shut out France 5-0 in its final group game to clinch a place in the quarterfinals, and will take on Group B winner Switzerland.
• The Calgary Flames promoted Craig Conroy to general manager, giving one of their former players his first opportunity lead an NHL front office after he had nine seasons of experience with the franchise as its assistant general manager.
Conroy played for Montreal, St. Louis, Los Angeles and had two stints as a player in Calgary. He helped the Flames reach the 2004 Stanley Cup Final.
Rahal in Indy 500
Graham Rahal will get a chance to keep his Indianapolis 500 start streak intact after all, replacing the injured Stefan Wilson in the Dreyer & Reinbold entry after failing to qualify for the race with his own team.
Wilson was hospitalized with a fractured vertebra following a crash in practice Monday. He was ruled out of the race, and that left car owners Dennis Reinbold and Don Cusick scrambling for a replacement less than a week before Sunday's green flag.
Rahal was their first choice despite spending his entire career in a Honda. Sunday's race will mark the first time in Rahal's 17 seasons as a professional he will compete in a Chevrolet.
Wilson qualified 25th in the 33-car field, but the driver change means Rahal, who has run in 15 straight Indy 500s, will start last, alongside his usual teammate Jack Harvey, who had bumped him in the final seconds of qualifying.