Feb 16, 2022 4 min read

Vulcans sweep DH

The California University baseball swept a season-opening doubleheader Wednesday against Ohio Dominican, 1-0 and 8-0, at Wild Things Park.

Dylan Brosky pitched six shutout innings in the opener and Jackson Miller matched in the second game.

Jacob McCaskey, Louden Conte and Patrick Brogan each homered for Cal in the second game.

The Vulcans won the opener with a solo home run in the bottom of the first inning by Anthony Venezia.

In baseball

Negotiations aimed at ending Major League Baseball’s lockout will resume Thursday.

The players’ association notified management Wednesday that it is ready to respond to the offer MLB made last weekend, proposals that were received coolly by the union.

In college basketball

Tubby Smith has announced he is stepping down as head coach of the High Point University men’s basketball team.

Smith, who once won a national championship while coaching at Kentucky, will be replaced by his son and current associate head coach G.G. Smith for the remainder of this season and next season.

High Point said in a release that Smith feels after contracting COVID-19 for a second time in less than a year and having been away from the program for an extended period that the timing is right for this change. Smith will remain at High Point to assist with alumni, community engagement, fundraising for athletics and other university priorities.

Smith has struggled to find success at High Point.

In four seasons, the Panthers are 45-68 with Smith at the helm, including an 11-15 mark this season. They have never won the Big South Conference title and have failed to reach the NCAA Tournament.

In the NBA

Some of the players who gave the NBA its global bounce will be in attendance when the league celebrates its 75th anniversary team during a special halftime ceremony at Sunday’s All-Star Game.

Members of the diamond anniversary team will be inside Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse for the ceremony as the league honors its best players and the cornerstone moments since the NBA was founded.

The official list of players has not yet been announced. There are 61 living members among the players selected to the 75th team.

In the NFL

The Dallas Cowboys paid $2.4 million to four members of the team’s cheerleading squad who accused a team vice president of watching them undress in a locker room during a 2015 event at AT&T Stadium, ESPN reported Wednesday.

Each of the women received $399,523, the network reported, citing documents and unidentified people as sources.

One of the cheerleaders said she saw Rich Dalrymple, the Cowboys’ longtime senior vice president for public relations and communications, standing behind a partial wall in the locker room with his iPhone extended toward them while they were changing, ESPN reported. He later told team officials he did not know the women were there and left immediately.

Dalrymple, who retired earlier this month after more than three decades of work with team owner Jerry Jones, issued a statement to ESPN denying the allegations.

• Las Vegas police have arrested two more suspects who turned themselves in to authorities in connection with the earlier arrest of New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara on charges accusing him of beating a man at a nightclub on the Las Vegas Strip.

Darrin Young and Percy Harris were booked into the Clark County Detention Center Monday on suspicion of felony battery resulting in substantial bodily harm and conspiracy to commit battery, police said in a statement Wednesday.

Detectives said the two participated in the Feb. 5 battery at the nightclub. Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of an additional suspect who remained at large.

Police said at the time of Kamara’s arrest on Feb. 6 that at least three other men were with him when he’s accused of punching and badly injuring a man in an attack at the rooftop nightclub Drai’s at the Cromwell hotel-casino.