Wooden Award to Dayton’s Toppin

Obi Toppin of Dayton won the John R. Wooden Award as the nation’s outstanding men’s college basketball player. Toppin, along with Saddiq Bey of Villanova, Luka Garza of Iowa, Myles Powell of Seton Hall and Peyton Pritchard of Oregon, also won positional awards from the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Toppin (20 points, 7 rebounds per game) is the first player from Dayton to win the Wooden Award.

Chris Smith, UCLA’s leading scorer (13.1 points per game) and a firstteam AllPac12 selection, declared for the NBA draft after the end of the 6foot9 guard’s junior season.

Also declaring for the draft were Arizona freshman point guard Nico Mannion (14 points, 5.3 assists), Duke freshman guard Cassius Stanley (12.6 points, 4.9 rebounds) and Maryland sophomore forward Jalen Smith (15.5, 10.5 rebounds).

Obituary: Timmy Brown, a running back and kick returner who won an NFL championship with the Philadelphia Eagles in 1960, has died. He was 82. The Eagles announced that Brown died Saturday. Brown is sixth on the franchise’s list for touchdowns (62), seventh in total yards from scrimmage (7,049) and eighth in rushing yards (3,703). NFL: The Las Vegas Raiders signed defensive back Damarious Randall to a oneyear contract. Randall passed a physical after the $3.25 million deal was agreed to last week. Randall, 27, was a firstround pick by Green Bay in 2015. NHL: The Edmonton Oilers said Tuesday night that forward Colby Cave was out of emergency surgery after suffering a brain bleed. The team posted on Twitter that doctors removed a colloid cyst that was causing pressure on Cave’s brain. He remains in a medically induced coma at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto.