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A’ja Wilson racks up 37 points, Aces stave off Wings’ late charge


A’ja Wilson poured in a season-high 37 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to help the Las Vegas Aces hold on for a 90-86 win over the Dallas Wings on Wednesday in Arlington, Texas.

The Aces (11-11) led by six points at halftime and expanded that advantage to 20 after three quarters as Dallas was held to 4-of-20 shooting in the period. Wilson scored nine points in the quarter and had 21 of her points in the second and third period combined as Las Vegas outscored the Wings 50-30 over the middle two quarters.

Dallas got back in the game by scoring nine of the first 10 points in the fourth quarter. The Wings trimmed their deficit to two points after Paige Bueckers’ floater with 27 seconds left, but Wilson responded with a layup with 23.9 seconds to play. Chelsea Gray then canned a pair of free throws with 8.4 seconds remaining to cap the victory.

Jewell Loyd added 14 points and Aaliyah Nye had 13 off the bench for Las Vegas, which has won two straight games and is back to the .500 level for the first time since July 6.

Bueckers led Dallas (6-17) with 20 points and eight assists while JJ Quinerly scored 17, Luisa Geiselsoder hit for 14, Haley Jones added 12 and Li Yueru finished with 10. The Wings dropped their fourth consecutive outing and remain in the cellar of the Western Conference.

The game was tied at 22 after the first 10 minutes of play. The Aces quickly moved ahead early in the second quarter and pushed their lead to 39-34 on a basket by Loyd nearly six minutes into the period. Wilson’s jumper with 5.7 seconds left stoked Las Vegas’ advantage to eight points before a layup by Quinerly allowed the Wings to cull their deficit to 47-41 at the break.

Wilson’s 20 points before halftime led all scorers while Geiselsoder paced Dallas with 14 points.

Nye’s 3-pointer at the 4:01 mark of the third quarter expanded the Aces’ lead to 61-48. Wilson knocked down a pair of free throws and a jumper, and Nye followed with another 3-pointer with 1:45 left in the third for a 68-48 margin as Las Vegas built a 72-52 advantage heading into the final quarter.

–Field Level Media

MLS News: Denis Bouanga fuels LAFC to surprise road win over Minnesota United

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Denis Bouanga scored on a first-half penalty kick and Los Angeles FC held on for a 1-0 victory over Minnesota United on Wednesday night in Saint Paul, Minn.

Hugo Lloris finished with three saves for his third consecutive shutout and ninth of the season for LAFC (10-5-5, 35 points). It was the first-ever win in seven tries in Minnesota for Los Angeles, and also just its second road win of the season.

Dayne St. Clair made five saves for Minnesota United (11-5-7, 40 points), which had a four-match unbeaten streak (3-0-1) snapped.

Both goaltenders had to make diving two-handed saves to prevent goals in the first 22 minutes and keep the game scoreless. St. Clair’s came in the eighth minute when he turned away Bouanga’s curling free kick outside the box that was headed for the left corner, while Lloris stopped Joaquin Pereyra’s left-footed try from outside the middle of the box by the right post.

Bouanga put Los Angeles ahead, 1-0, in the 42nd minute when he roofed a right-footed penalty kick into the top left corner for his 11th goal. The score was set up when Minnesota defender Nicolas Romero was called for a foul in the middle of the box, knocking down Jeremy Ebobisse as he dribbled toward the net.

LAFC, playing its first match without team captain and star center-back Aaron Long, who ruptured his left Achilles tendon in a 2-0 victory over FC Dallas on Saturday, employed a five-man back line that shut down the Loons in the second half. Minnesota’s best scoring chance came in the 71st minute when Joseph Rosales tried a sharp-angle shot from the left side of the box that Lloris easily saved.

Bouanga twice had chances to add an insurance goal late in the game, but his one-on-one chip try against St. Clair from the middle of the box in the 87th minute went wide and St. Clair made a sliding kick save on his breakaway right-footed try in the 90th minute.

–Field Level Media

NCAAF News: Reports: Donald Trump to sign executive order for NIL standards


President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order setting national standards to better control the name, image and likeness landscape in college sports, according to multiple reports Wednesday.

Since 2021, and under pressure from states and the courts, the NCAA has allowed student-athletes to profit from their name, image and likeness (NIL). Student-athletes can now be compensated for merely showing up to play and can earn a profit for spokesperson gigs, clothing and autograph sales and more.

Additionally, a legal ruling on June 6 allowed colleges to directly pay players via revenue sharing for the first time. The settlement of House v. NCAA marked the end of the NCAA’s previous model of amateurism, in which athletes were not allowed to earn money while in school. Schools can now share up to $20.5 million of their revenues with their athletes.

The reports of an upcoming executive order come one day after a House subcommittee advanced a bill along party lines that would establish national standards for student-athlete sponsorships. Called the SCORE Act, the proposed legislation would supersede current state laws regulating NIL.

The White House has not commented on the latest report of an NIL-related executive order, but President Trump has a long history of expressing interest in sports. He has attended many major sporting events, including several prominent college football games like the Army-Navy football game last December.

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said Wednesday on “SEC This Morning” that he had no details or further information about an executive order but that he believes the President is generally supportive of college sports.

“It’s not a secret, I had a chance to visit with the President … his interest is real. My takeaway, he wants to be supportive of college athletics, make sure that it’s sustainable, the Olympic program and the Olympic development,” Sankey said.

“The President clearly has an interest in sports, big picture, has an interest in college sports, has been at our games. The notion of an executive order has been mentioned before. There were some reports of a commission or an executive order back to like, April, I think, is when that started to bubble. So we’ll wait and see.”

Reports surfaced in May that Trump had asked his aides to begin researching the idea of an executive order related to NIL after a meeting with former Alabama football coach Nick Saban in Tuscaloosa, Ala., where Trump was the school’s commencement speaker.

Saban has been critical of the NIL funding in the past, largely because he was concerned about the effect on college football. The NIL era also has brought a rise to the transfer portal era, with thousands of students across all sports seeking to move schools — some of them for bigger paydays.

“Each year, it’s gotten a little worse,” Saban said last December on “The Pat McAfee Show” on ESPN. “The first year we had name, image and likeness four, five years ago, we had a $3 million (roster), and everybody was happy. Then the next year it was $7 million, then the next year it’s $10 million. Then this year it’s $13 million. Now they’re looking at $20 million. I mean, where does it end?”

Per a report by The Wall Street Journal in May, Saban told the president that he wasn’t trying to put an end to NIL funding for players but instead wanted to see the creation of a more level playing field between the schools with deep pockets and those that didn’t have as much money available.

Saban has previously said the current model is unsustainable for college sports, and Trump apparently agreed.

–Field Level Media

Breanna Stewart’s big game helps Liberty rout Caitlin Clark-less Fever


Breanna Stewart scored 24 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and dished out seven assists, and the host New York Liberty pulled away for a 98-77 win over the Indiana Fever on Wednesday night.

Stewart made 10 of 15 shots from the field and added four blocked shots as part of her dominant performance for New York (15-6), which won its third game in a row. Sabrina Ionescu finished with 15 points and nine assists, and Natasha Cloud scored 14.

Kelsey Mitchell scored 16 points on 5-for-11 shooting to lead Indiana (12-11), which saw its four-game winning streak end. Sophie Cunningham contributed 12 points.

New York shot 57.8 percent from the field (37 of 64) and 51.9 percent from 3-point range (14 of 27). Indiana shot 36.8 percent overall (28 of 76) and 25 percent from deep (8 of 32).

Indiana played without All-Star Caitlin Clark, who was ruled out shortly before tipoff because of a groin injury. It marked the 11th game, including the WNBA Commissioner’s Cup final, that she has missed because of injury this season.

The Liberty built a 32-24 lead at the end of the first quarter. Isabelle Harrison sank a 3-pointer and Ionescu made a basket in the final minute to complete their 16-8 run.

In the second quarter, New York outscored the Fever 21-14 to increase their lead to 53-38 at the break.

Kennedy Burke made a 3-pointer to give the Liberty a double-digit lead at 39-28 with 7:04 remaining in the first half. Burke’s shot was part of a 15-4 run as New York increased its advantage to 49-32 on Rebekah Gardner’s basket with 1:35 left in the half.

Indiana kept it closer in the third quarter but still was outscored 21-19 to fall behind 74-57 entering the final 10 minutes.

The Liberty pulled ahead by 20 points when Nyara Sabally knocked down a jump shot to make it 81-61 with 6:36 to play.

New York rested Stewart, Burke and other key players in the final five minutes with the score well out of reach for the Fever.

–Field Level Media

MLS News: Whitecaps blank Dynamo, move up to 2nd place in West table

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Brian White scored a goal and added an assist Wednesday night as the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps dominated the Houston Dynamo for a 3-0 win.

Emmanuel Sabbi and Sebastian Berhalter chipped in first-half markers for Vancouver (12-5-5, 41 points), which won for just the second time in six fixtures. It outshot Houston 14-13 and needed only two saves from goalie Yohei Takaoka to earn its ninth clean sheet.

The Dynamo (7-11-5, 26 points) missed an opportunity to jump into the West playoff picture. Wednesday’s game marked the second straight time they were blanked.

The Whitecaps’ domination started almost as soon as the clock did. They attacked with and without the ball, establishing a big advantage in possession early.

Just four minutes into the match, a crossing pass from the right side by Edier Ocampo found the head of Vancouver defender Mathias Laborda in the box. Houston goalie Jonathan Bond made a fine save on Laborda but couldn’t get in position quickly enough to contest Sabbi’s lefty strike into the right corner of the net, his third goal of the season.

Berhalter made it 2-0 in the 42nd minute via some good work by White. Allowing the attack to patiently build, White got the ball back from a teammate and teed up Berhalter for his second marker, a right-footed blast that deflected off a defender and past a helpless Bond.

At halftime, Vancouver owned a 9-4 advantage in shots and a 5-0 margin in shots on frame. That only expanded in the 56th minute with White’s 11th tally of the year.

Sabbi was fouled in the box by Dynamo defender Felipe Andrade for a penalty kick. White took it and Bond managed to make the stop, but the rebound caromed right back to White for a tap-in goal that ended the match’s competitive phase.

The result enabled the Whitecaps to jump Minnesota United, a 1-0 loser to LAFC, for second place in the Western Conference standings.

–Field Level Media

NCAAF News: Kalen DeBoer, Crimson Tide count on continuity in 2025


Kalen DeBoer begins his second season at Alabama with a tone-setting theme common from the end of the 2024 season until the Crimson Tide kick off fall camp in two weeks: Let’s get physical.

“When it comes to just overall as a program, physicality is the name of the game when it comes to playing football. You wear pads for a reason, right? Physicality comes through the work to build your body, but that also comes through toughness mentally as well,” DeBoer said Wednesday morning in Atlanta, the site of SEC Media Days.

“I love, again, the work that we’re focused on right now is the main thing, keeping it that. I love the mindset. Doesn’t guarantee anything but gives you a great chance.”

Talent gives the Crimson Tide a great chance, too.

And while Alabama subtracted three prominent underclassmen to the draft — quarterback Jalen Milroe (Seattle Seahawks), guard Tyler Booker (Dallas Cowboys) and linebacker Jihaad Campbell (Philadelphia Eagles) — and several seniors from DeBoer’s first season on the job in Tuscaloosa, he has a few players ready to pick up the hammer as tone-setters this season.

“The offensive line is where it really starts,” DeBoer said. “Really six guys that are strongly in the rotation with a lot of others that are up-and-coming, developing quickly, that I can see competing for spots as the season goes along as well.”

The featured talent on the line is Kadyn Proctor, an offensive tackle who can block out the sun, who is also on pace to earn his degree in December. NFL draft experts view Proctor as a likely first-round talent in the 2026 draft if he opts to leave. DeBoer said he loves everything about the 6-foot-7, 360-pounder.

“You look at the guy and he’s massive. Man, just does everything on a high level when it comes to his training,” said DeBoer.

Replacing Milroe is a clear focus in fall camp. DeBoer said Ty Simpson “would be the guy that would take the first snaps and be our starter” if Alabama was lining up to play a game right now.

But he kept the door open for Austin Mack, a 6-6, 235-pound redshirt freshman who followed DeBoer from Washington, and true freshman Keelon Russell to shift the depth chart in the next six weeks before Alabama begins the season at Florida State. DeBoer — who also brought in his former offensive coordinator with the Huskies, Ryan Grubb — said Mack and Russell are capable of “big jumps” in fall camp because of the high repetition count.

“But they have the tools. Ty throws a catchable ball. He’s smart. He’s been in college football now going into year four,” DeBoer said. “He’s seen the ups and downs. He’s got great relationships with the team. He’s a leader that way. He’s really owned things on another level.”

There might be even more talent and tenacity on DeBoer’s defense in 2025.

Two fifth-year starters, linebacker Deontae Lawson and defensive tackle Tim Keenan, are geared up to boost the targeting takeaway total from 2024 when Alabama ranked fifth in the nation with 2.1 takeaways per game.

DeBoer expects to take the field with a total of 17 seniors on the roster — up from eight last season — but underscored their importance in maintaining continuity after a year of mass introductions in 2024.

He presented Lawson, returning from a season-ending knee injury in November, as the case in point.

“Probably thought a year ago at this time he’d be wearing an NFL jersey. Circumstances as they may be, just coming back from an injury, seeing him attack it, seeing him and his mindset … understanding the circumstances he can’t control and what he can,” DeBoer said. “Man, it’s just amazing seeing him take over not just the defense but be a leader on our football team.

“I walked into a meeting looking for a coach actually. I walked in. It was (Lawson) holding a meeting with the linebackers. Listened for about 30 seconds. I knew that meeting was in a good position. Coaching it like a coach. When you have guys on the field that are like him — understand the depth, the details — you know you’re headed in the right direction and have a chance.”

–Field Level Media

Caitlin Clark declared out for Fever’s game vs. Liberty


Indiana’s Caitlin Clark has been declared out for Wednesday night’s road contest against the New York Liberty due to a right groin injury.

The Fever star guard’s availability for All-Star Weekend in Indianapolis is questionable. She was to compete in Friday’s 3-point contest, then start and serve as a team captain for Saturday’s All-Star game.

Clark aggravated the injury in the final minute of Tuesday’s 85-77 victory over the Connecticut Sun in Boston. Clark previously missed four regular-season games and the Commissioner’s Cup final with a groin issue.

Indiana’s game versus the defending champions will be the 11th absence of the season for Clark, who dressed for every game in her collegiate career and her WNBA rookie season in 2024.

The Fever are 8-5 with Clark in the lineup this season and 4-5 when she does not dress. She is averaging 16.5 points, 8.8 assists and 5.0 rebounds per game in her second professional season.

–Field Level Media

MLS News: After withstanding early barrage, New York City FC rallies to beat Orlando

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Andres Perea pressured his former team into an own goal in the 87th minute and Alonso Martinez scored the winner in second-half stoppage time as visiting New York City FC rallied to a stunning 2-1 win over Orlando City on Wednesday night.

Martinez’s winner on the counter sealed only the second road win of the season for NYCFC (10-8-4, 34 points) and extended a winless run for Orlando (9-6-8, 35 points) to four matches.

It was his ninth goal of the season, tying Hannes Wolf for the team lead and sealing an improbable victory after Orlando dominated the first half and early portions of the second.

Matt Freese made six saves to keep NYCFC in the match despite struggling early.

Robin Jansson scored his first goal of the season and sixth in his seven-year MLS career for wasteful Orlando, which outshot NYCFC 14-3 overall and 4-0 in shots on target in the first half.

NYCFC finally crawled into the game in the final half-hour, showing the potential to punish the hosts’ inefficiency.

In the 63rd minute, Martinez reached Perea’s excellent cross from the left, but with Orlando City goalkeeper Pedro Gallese beaten, he struck the left post with his first-time effort.

Twenty-four minutes later, Perea’s powerful corner kick header forced Gallese into an exceptional sprawling denial to his right.

But as defender Rodrigo Schlegel tried to clear the danger, he instead hammered a half-volley off teammate Kyle Smith and into his own goal.

Then, as Orlando tried to regain their advantage, it was caught with too many numbers forward following a corner kick.

The ball eventually fell to Martinez on the break, and he finished low and hard past Gallese, who could only charge off his line and hope for the best.

Jansson opened the scoring in the 36th minute. David Brekalo won the initial header from Martin Ojeda’s corner to the back post and found Jansson in the middle of the box.

Jansson deftly took the ball off his chest, then fired in a low finish past Freese from about nine yards.

–Field Level Media

Nneka Ogwumike guides Storm past Valkyries


Nneka Ogwumike saved 11 of her game-high 22 points for a tense fourth quarter Wednesday afternoon and the Seattle Storm beat the visiting Golden State Valkyries for the first time this season, holding on for a 67-58 victory in a defensive struggle.

Erica Wheeler chipped in with 15 points and Skylar Diggins had a game-high six assists to complement 10 points for the Storm (14-9), who had lost two previous matchups with the expansion Valkyries, with both of those games having taken place in San Francisco.

After having fallen eight points behind in the second minute of the final period, an interior hoop by Veronica Burton had the Valkyries (10-12) within 56-54 with 4:48 remaining before Ogwumike took control of the game.

She hit one free throw with 3:07 left for a three-point lead, a layup that extended the margin to five with 2:09 to play and two free throws with 1:18 to go that put Golden State in a seven-point hole from which it never recovered.

Wheeler, Ogwumike and Diggins dropped in two late free throws apiece to ice the win, which was Seattle’s fourth in its last six games.

The Storm won despite shooting just 32.8 percent. Ogwumike went 7-for-15, but her teammates were a combined 14-for-49 (28.6 percent).

The Valkyries were no better. They finished at 31.7 percent, with their top scorers — Cecilia Zandalasini (12 points on 3-for-10) and Janelle Salaun (10 points on 3-for-9) going a combined 6-for-19.

Ogwumike also found time for eight rebounds, matching teammate Ezi Magbegor and Golden State’s Burton for game-high honors.

Ogwumike had totaled just 14 points on 5-for-16 shooting in the earlier games against the Valkyries, who prevailed 76-70 and 84-57 in those contests.

Both teams also struggled from beyond the 3-point arc, with the Valkyries going 7-for-31 (22.6 percent) and the Storm hitting 7 of 29 (24.1 percent).

Burton also had eight points and a team-high four assists for Golden State, which will go into the All-Star break on a three-game losing streak.

–Field Level Media

MLS News: Union hold off CF Montreal to remain atop MLS standings

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Olwethu Makhanya scored the go-ahead goal early in the second half to lift the host Philadelphia Union to a 2-1 win over CF Montreal on Wednesday.

The victory kept the Union (14-5-4, 46 points), who have won two straight after losing two in a row, atop the MLS standings.

Montreal (3-14-6, 15 points) is winless in its past three after winning two of three.

Makhanya’s first career MLS goal came off a corner in the 50th minute. With Kai Wagner serving from the right side, the South African defender jumped and headed the ball down off the pitch, leading the ball to bounce back up past the outstretched arm of goalkeeper Sebastian Breza.

Montreal then pressed hard for the equalizer. In the 58th minute, Prince Owusu had an opportunity on a 2-on-1 with Hennadii Synchuk but just missed the target. Two minutes later, Dante Sealy missed just wide left on a feed from Owusu.

Owusu came within inches of tying the game in the 77th minute, only to hit the post. And in the 84th minute, Owusu slipped as he took a feed from Sealy but managed to get his foot on the ball to lift a shot on target, but Union goalkeeper Andre Blake, off his line, got across to get his hands on it and deflect it away.

Tai Baribo gave Philadelphia a 1-0 lead in the 37th minute. Danley Jean Jacques managed the ball from near midfield to inside the box. Montreal midfielder Samuel Piette knocked the ball loose and defender Joel Waterman tried to push it away, but it rolled to Quinn Sullivan, who centered it for Baribo at the top of the goalmouth for a quick right-foot strike past Breza.

Owusu’s team-leading 10th tally of the season pulled Montreal level just before halftime. Waterman volleyed a pass for Owusu heading into the box. The German striker got his right foot on the ball in the air to send it into the far side in the second minute of first-half stoppage time.

–Field Level Media