HOT CORNER

1 COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Temple University will review reports that show at least one game involving its men’s basketball team has been flagged by gambling watchdog company U.S. Integrity for unusual betting activity. The betting line for Thursday night’s game between Temple and UAB surged from the Blazers opening as a two-point favorite to reaching as high as eight points, per tracking website Covers.com. UAB covered the spread with a 100-72 win at Temple. The Owls wrap up the regular season Sunday at UTSA in San Antonio before next week’s league tournament.

2 PRO FOOTBALL: The younger brother of Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has been sentenced to six months’ probation. That came after he pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of battery in a case where prosecutors said he assaulted a woman. Twenty-three-year-old Jackson Mahomes’ sentencing Thursday came more than two months after prosecutors dismissed three felony aggravated sexual battery counts. Those charges accused him of grabbing a woman by the neck and kissing her against her will inside an Overland Park, Kansas, restaurant in February 2023.

3 AUTO RACING: Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen has qualified on pole position for the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. It extends his strong start to the season amid turmoil at the Red Bull team. Verstappen was fastest by 0.319 seconds from Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. The second Red Bull of Sergio Perez is .016 further back. The 18-year-old British driver Oliver Bearman qualified 11th for Ferrari on his competitive F1 debut. It was just hours after the team announced he was the last-minute replacement for Carlos Sainz Jr. He needed surgery for appendicitis.

4 PRO SOCCER: Ryan Reynolds’ Wrexham is headed back to the United States. The lowlevel Welsh club that has gained global recognition after being bought by Hollywood duo Reynolds and Rob McElhenney, will play English Premier League side Chelsea on July 24. The game is at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Wrexham also played Chelsea and Manchester United on an offseason U.S. tour last year.

5 SKIING: Mikaela Shiffrin is no longer challenging for a women’s record-tying sixth World Cup overall title this month as she prepares her comeback to racing from injury. The American star also praised standings leader Lara Gut-Behrami’s“stunning” skiing. Shiffrin plans to start just two or three of the six races left and cannot close the gap. In an online call from Sweden where she races a slalom Sunday, Shiffrin spoke of being out injured since January at the same time as her boyfriend, Aleksander Aamodt Kilde. She says his severe laceration from crashing in downhill had been a“life and death situation.”