Cal’s Vaughn is U.S. Player of Week

Two walk-off home runs earned Cal freshman Andrew Vaughn honors as National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball newspaper and Pac-12 Player of the Week.

In four games, he had seven hits, three homers and 12 RBIs. In a three-game sweep of USC, he had a game-winning grand slam Friday night and a tworun shot in the 10th inning Sunday. He leads the Pac-12 in home runs with 11 and is tied for the conference lead with 43 RBIs. College basketball: North Carolina juniors Joel Berry II and Theo Pinson will join freshman Tony Bradley in declaring for the NBA draft, though they won’t hire agents. ... Louisville junior Jaylen Johnson will hire an agent and stay in the NBA draft. Jurisprudence: Aaron Hernandez’s family and friends bid farewell to the former NFL tight end at a private funeral in Bristol, Conn., and a judge ordered that three suicide notes he left be turned over to his fiancee by the time he is buried. Soccer: Roma boosted its bid for second place in Serie A and automatic entry into the Champions League with a 4-1 win at Pescara, which was mathematically relegated. Motor sports: Tomasz Gollob, the 2010 world speedway champion, is in an induced coma after injuring his spinal cord in an accident while training in Poland. Track and field: Russian heptathlete Tatyana Chernova has been stripped of her 2008 Beijing Olympics bronze medal for doping with an anabolic steroid.