Baker slated to testify before Senate on NIL

NCAA president Charlie Baker is expected to testify in front of a Senate committee next week during the 10th hearing on Capitol Hill over the last three years on college sports. The Senate Judiciary Committee announced it has scheduled a hearing on NIL (Name, Image, and Likeness) and the Future of College Sports for Tuesday. Baker is expected to be joined by Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti.

GOLF

No points for LIV

LIV Golf is playing for cash, not world ranking points, after the Official World Golf Ranking board determined Tuesday it could not fairly measure the 48-man league with the other 24 tours around the world. Peter Dawson, chairman of the OWGR, said the board could work around some of the requirements, such as a 36-hole cut and having an average field size of 75 players. But the committee could not get past LIV Golf using the same 48 players for the entire season . . . The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship is returning to Hazeltine in Chaska, Minn., which hosted the PGA Championship in 2002 and 2009.

SOCCER

Hazard hangs it up

Eden Hazard is putting an end to a 16-year injury-riddled career marked by great success at the club level and unfulfilled promise with the Belgium national team’s “Golden Generation.” The 32-year-old Hazard announced his retirement from soccer after more than 700 matches and two Premier League titles during his time with Chelsea. Hazard won eight trophies with Madrid, including the Champions League and two Spanish League titles . . . UEFA picked the United Kingdom and Ireland to host soccer’s 2028 European Championship. Italy and Turkey will stage Euro 2032.

TENNIS

Shelton into quarters

Ben Shelton advanced to his first Masters quarterfinal by beating fourth-ranked Jannik Sinner, 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5). The 21-year-old American, a semifinalist at the US Open, had 15 aces at the Shanghai Masters. The 19th-seeded Shelton will play Sebastian Korda, who advanced to his second Masters quarterfinal with a 7-5, 7-6 (8-6) victory over Francisco Cerundolo ...The Western & Southern Open, the nation’s longest-running tennis tournament, is staying in Cincinnati for another 25 years.

MISCELLANY

Defensive guru dies

Brendan Malone, father of Denver Nuggets coach Michael Malone and orchestrator of the vaunted Detroit Pistons defenses in the late 1980s and ’90s, died at the age of 81. Malone served as an assistant coach in the NBA for 30 years, most notably with the Pistons from 198895, when he helped create and popularize “The Jordan Rules.” Malone was fired after leading the Toronto Raptors to a 21-61 record in their inaugural season of 1995-96 . . . Zion Williamson had 12 points, 5 rebounds, and 5 assists in the Orlando Magic’s 122-105 preseason victory over the New Orleans Pelicans. It was Williamson’s first appearance since injuring his hamstring last Jan.2... Mary Lou Retton ,who won the all-around women’s gymnastics competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, has pneumonia and is “fighting for her life” in the intensive care unit, her daughter said. Retton’s daughter, McKenna Lane Kelley, said on Instagram that her 55-year-old mother “is not able to breathe on her own” . . . A Superior Court judge ordered star Memphis recruit Mikey Williams to stand trial on six felony gun charges, which puts his immediate basketball future in doubt.