Sports Digest: Dallas becomes latest WNBA team to fire coach

BASKETBALL

Latricia Trammell, who went 31-49 in two seasons with the Dallas Wings of the WNBA, including 2-3 in playoff appearances, was fired Friday.

This past season the team went 9-31 and missed the postseason for the first time since 2020.

Trammell is the fourth coach to be let go in the last month. She joined Curt Miller of Los Angeles, Tanisha Wright of Atlanta and Teresa Weatherspoon of Chicago. None of the four had more than three years with the organization.

GOLF

EUROPEAN: Jorge Campillo stayed bogey-free with a 7-under 65 to take a four-shot lead at the halfway stage of the Andalucia Masters at San Roque, Spain.

LPGA: Rain washed out much of the second day of the BMW Ladies Championship in Paju, South Korea, with none of the players completing their rounds. Hannah Green of Australia, Ashleigh Buhai of South Africa and Jenny Shin of South Korea led after Thursday’s first round with scores of 8-under 64.

BROADCASTING

NAME CHANGE: The Diamond Sports Group, which is going through bankruptcy proceedings, will be branded as FanDuel Sports Network starting Monday.

Diamond’s channels had been Bally Sports since baseball’s Opening Day in 2021. The Bally Sports regional networks host eight major league teams, eight NFL teams and 13 NBA teams.

WAGERING

POLICY SET: BetMGM Sportsbook, in light of the lifetime banishment of Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter, will not take NBA proposition under bets on players on two-way or 10-day contracts, joining several others, including FanDuel, DraftKings and ESPN BET.

Porter was on a two-way contract at the time, which meant his salary was $410,000, and a standard NBA contract would have been more than $2 million. He was banned April 17 after a league investigation determined he disclosed confidential information to sports bettors and wagered on games that included betting on the Raptors to lose.

COLLEGES

BOSTON COLLEGE: Boston College will honor former hockey players Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, and Tony Voce with uniform patches, a sign on the boards in front of the team bench and other tributes this season.

All three died this summer: The Gaudreau brothers were hit by a car while bicycling in New Jersey the day before their sister’s wedding. Voce, a member of the Eagles’ 2001 national championship team, died suddenly at age 43; no cause of death has been released.

CLEMSON: The school’s board of trustees approved an athletic fee of $150 per semester for students starting the next academic year.

SOCCER

ADAMS RETURNS: Bournemouth midfielder Tyler Adams, the U.S. captain at the 2022 World Cup, remains on track to make his season debut Saturday against Arsenal in the Premier League.

“He lacks some game time but that is normal,” Manager Andoni Iraola said. “He is feeling very well, doing well, has good sensations and has trained very well this (international) break with us.”

YACHTING

AMERICA’S CUP: Emirates Team New Zealand built a 6-2 lead over INEOS Britannia in the finals at Barcelona, Spain, to move one point away from successfully defending the oldest trophy in international sport.

New Zealand’s yacht Taihoro won both of the day’s regattas in view of the Barcelona beachfront by wide margins. That delivered a strong hit to the British crew’s attempt at a comeback after they had won the last two races held Wednesday.

CRICKET

WOMEN’S WORLD CUP: Suzie Bates held her nerve in the final over as New Zealand advanced to the final for the first time in 14 years with an eight-run victory over West Indies. New Zealand will meet South Africa Sunday at Dubai.

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