AMERICAN WOMEN SEEK MORE THAN $66M IN DAMAGES
Players on the U.S. women’s national team are seeking more than $66 million in damages as part of their gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation.
The damages were included in a slew of papers filed Thursday night in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles ahead of a trial scheduled to start May 5.
Among the documents filed were the separate collective bargaining agreements of the U.S. men’s and women’s teams, which had not previously been made public.
A U.S. man who was on the roster for all 16 qualifiers during the failed effort to reach the 2018 World Cup earned $179,375 in payments from the U.S. Soccer Federation.
An American woman received $52,500 for being on the roster for the five World Cup qualifiers last year plus $147,500 for her time at the World Cup, including a $37,500 roster bonus and $110,000 for winning the title in France.
More soccer
The San Diego Sockers (12-6) dropped a MASL match 5-3 to the host Mesquite Outlaws (6-12).
• The Tijuana Xolos played 71 minutes of its Liga MX match down a man due to a red card and dropped a 1-0 decision to visiting Guadalajara.
• Napoli warmed up for its Champions League game against Barcelona by coming back from a goal down to beat relegation-threatened Brescia 2-1 in Serie A.
• Robert Lewandowski scored late for leader Bayern Munich to get a head start on its Bundesliga rivals after a hard-fought 3-2 win over bottom side Paderborn.
Local colleges
The 18th-ranked (Division II) UC San Diego softball team (16-5, 7-5 CCAA) swept a pair of games from visiting Stanislaus State (611, 5-7) by scores of 5-2 and 10-1.
• The San Diego State softball team lost its Friday opener to fifth-ranked Arizona (11-2), 10-0, in the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City. The Aztecs (10-5) were scheduled to play Wisconsin in a late game.
• The Point Loma Nazarene baseball team (4-6) lost a pair of nonconference games at Concordia-irvine (9-3) by scores of 5-4 and 5-3.
• Jaden Fein and pinchhitter Jacob Cruce hit backtop-back singles with two outs in the bottom of the seventh to drive in three runners, which broke a tie, as the San Diego State baseball team (4-1) beat visiting Iowa 4-1.
• The 10th-ranked UCSD men’s volleyball team (12-3, 2-0 Big West) beat No. 6 UC Irvine (7-6, 0-2) 25-22, 25-18, 25-23 at home.
Winter sports
In ski-crazy Switzerland, Lara Gut-behrami’s first World Cup victory in more than two years was quickly labeled “a resurrection” by broadcasters. The former teenage prodigy, an overall World Cup champion in 2016, led a 1-2 Swiss finish in a downhill race on the Mont Lachaux course at Cransmontana, Switzerland, beating discipline leader Corinne Suter by 0.80 seconds.
• Kaillie Humphries of the U.S. is the leader at the midway point of the women’s bobsled world championship, after posting the fastest time in each of Friday’s first two runs of the competition at Altenberg, Germany.
Track
Yulimar Rojas broke the indoor triple jump world record in Madrid. The twotime world champion from Venezuela had a jump of 15.43 meters, seven centimeters more than the previous record held by Tatyana Lebedeva since 2004.
• Ababel Yeshaneh set a world record in the women’s half marathon in the latest breakthrough by athletes wearing high-tech Nike shoes. The Ethiopian runner won the Ras Al Khaimah Half Marathon in 1 hour, 4 minutes, 31 seconds, knocking 20 seconds off the previous record set by Joyciline Jepkosgei in Valencia in 2017.
Also
Kyle Busch extended his NASCAR Truck Series victory record to 57 in his hometown, leading 108 of 134 laps at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
• Elena Rybakina will play her fourth final of the young WTA season at the Dubai Championships. Rybakina beat eighth-seeded Petra Martic 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2) in the semifinals. In today’s final, Rybakina will face topseeded Simona Halep, who dispatched American qualifier Jennifer Brady 6-2, 6-0.