Bucks finalizing deal to hire Raptors' Griffin as head coach

The Milwaukee Bucks are finalizing a deal to make Adrian Griffin their head coach after he spent the past five seasons as a Toronto Raptors assistant, multiple sources reported. .

Griffin would replace Mike Budenholzer, who was fired earlier this month after the top-seeded Bucks' stunning loss to the Miami Heat in the first round of the playoffs.

Griffin had been an assistant on a Toronto staff headed by Nick Nurse, who was fired last month after the end of the Raptors' season. Griffin was an assistant on the Raptors' 2019 NBA championship team that beat the Bucks in the Eastern Conference finals.

His hiring would enable Griffin, 48, to return to the place where he started his coaching career. He was a Bucks assistant from 200810 when Scott Skiles was Milwaukee's head coach. Griffin began that first Milwaukee coaching stint after a nine-year NBA playing career that included stops with the Boston Celtics, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Chicago Bulls and Seattle SuperSonics. He also was an assistant at Chicago, Orlando and Oklahoma City before joining Toronto's staff.

OL Reign top ACFC

Claire Emslie gave Angel City FC the lead midway through the first half, but it was all OL Reign after that in a 4-1 loss in an NWSL game in Seattle.

Emslie curled in a corner kick in the 27th minute, giving ACFC (2-4-3, 9 points) a 1-0 lead.

Less than 10 minutes later, OL Reign (5-3-1, 16 points) tied it on an goal from Elyse Bennett, sending the game into halftime tied at 1-1.

Veronica Latsko scored back-to-back goals to put OL Reign ahead and Quinn scored late for the final margin.

U.S. falters, loses trip to final to Germany

Germany scored a late equalizer and then upset the United States in overtime to set up a final against Canada at ice hockey world championship in Tampere, Finland.

Frederik Tiffels scored with 2:28 left in overtime to give Germany a 4-3 win over the Americans in the semifinals.

Earlier, teenage forward Adam Fantilli scored the go-ahead goal as Canada edged Latvia 4-2 in the other semifinal.

Germany reached the final for the first time since 1992, when the playoff format was introduced at the world championship.

The Germans pulled goaltender Mathias Niederberger when they were 3-2 down late in the third period and Marcel Noebels euqualized with a backhand shot with 1:23 remaining to force overtime.

Alex Touch and Rocco Grimaldi had given the Americans a 2-0 lead less than 4 minutes into the semifinal. The Germans replied with the goals from Frederik Tiffels and Maksymilian Szuber still in the first period to make it 2-2.

Michael Eyssimont put the U.S. ahead 3-2 on a rebound midway through the second period. The U.S. outshot the Germans 33-26.

Canada had to twice come from a goal down to reach its fourth straight final.

Sooners' 48th win in a row sets record

Kinzie Hansen hit a dramatic, tying three-run home run in the seventh inning, Tiare Jennings led off the ninth inning with a solo blast and Oklahoma set an NCAA record with its 48th straight win, a thrilling 8-7 decision over Clemson to win the Norman (Okla.) Super Regional.

The two-time defending national champions were down to their final strike twice after the Tigers had rallied to take a 7-4 lead into the final inning.

Rylie Boone singled to open the seventh and with two outs Haley Lee singled to right on a 1-2 count. Hansen then belted an 0-2 pitch over the wall in left.

Jennings took the first pitch in the ninth to deep center to send the six-time defending national champion Sooners to their seventh-straight Women's College World Series (not counting the COVID-cancelled 2020 season) and push them past Arizona's winning streak set over two seasons in 1996-97.

• No. 6 seed Oregon defeated No. 8 Arizona, 5-4, in the Pac-12 Tournament championship in Scottsdale, Ariz., to earn the automatic bid to the College World Series.

Late Friday night, Chase Davis and Tommy Splaine combined for six hits and nine RBIs and Arizona pounded top-seeded Stanford 14-4 in a seven-inning semifinal of the tournament.

Jarry wins in Geneva

Unseeded Nicolás Jarry raced past Grigor Dimitrov to win the Geneva Open final 7-6 (1), 6-1 and is poised to rise to his best ranking in a career that was stalled by a doping case.

The former No. 3-ranked Dimitrov was seeking his first title since the 2017 ATP Tour Finals, which lifted him to that careerbest ranking. Instead, the 54th-ranked Jarry eased to his second title this season.

• Two-time Grand Slam semifinalist Elina Svitolina won her first WTA title in nearly two years — and first since becoming a mother — by beating Anna Blinkova 6-2, 6-3 in the final at the Internationaux de Strasbourg (France).

• Arthur Fils, an 18-yearold from France, won his first ATP title by beating Francisco Cerundolo 6-3, 7-5 in the final of the Open Parc Auvergne-RhoneAlpes Lyon.

He is the youngest champion on the men's tennis tour in 2023 and earned a spot in the Top 100 for the first time — just one of two teenagers in that elite group.

Roglic set to win Giro

Primož Roglic all but secured the Giro d'Italia title by overtaking leader Geraint Thomas on the penultimate stage despite having a mechanical problem on the mountain time trial.

Roglic started the stage 26 seconds behind Thomas — who was trying to become the oldest Giro champion in history at 37 — but finished the route 40 seconds quicker than the British cyclist after the demanding climb of the Monte Lussari.

That saw Roglic move into the leader's pink jersey, 14 seconds ahead of Thomas going into the race's mainly ceremonial final stage.

Two more horses die at Churchill Downs

Two horses have died the past two days following injuries at Churchill Downs, the 11th and 12th fatalities over the past month at the home of the Kentucky Derby.

Filly Kimberley Dream was euthanized after sustaining a distal sesamodean ligament rupture to her front leg during Saturday's first race. Lost in Limbo was euthanized following a similar injury just before the finish line in Friday's seventh race.

The track stated in a release that both injuries were “inoperable and unrecoverable.”

As team members mourn the loss of the animals, the statement added, the track is working to determine cause and appropriate investments to minimize risk to the sport and its property.

“We do not accept this as suitable or tolerable and share the frustrations of the public, and in some cases, the questions to which we do not yet have answers,” the statement added. “We have been rigorously working since the opening of the meet to understand what has led to this spike and have yet to find a conclusive discernable pattern as we await the findings of ongoing investigations into those injuries and fatalities.”