Wyndham Clark’s apology wasn’t enough for Oakmont Country Club.

The 2023 U.S. Open champion has been temporarily banned from the prestigious Pittsburgh golf course that hosted its record 10th U.S. Open in June after Clark damaged two lockers in the men’s locker room when he missed the 36-hole cut. Pictures of the damage went viral on social media following Clark’s exit from the tournament.

Clark’s ban from Oakmont, first reported by fantasy sports and sports betting expert Pat Mayo, is not necessarily permanent. Golfweek, part of the USA TODAY Network, reported that Clark would have to make a donation to the charity of the club’s choice, pay for the damages and take anger management classes to be considered for reinstatement.

John Lynch, the president of Oakmont Country Club, confirmed the club’s sanctions against Clark in a letter to members obtained by the USA TODAY Network and noted they were determined after multiple discussions between the USGA and the Oakmont board.

‘A decision has been made that Mr. Clark will no longer be permitted on OCC property,’ Lynch wrote. ‘This decision will remain in effect unless formally reconsidered and approved by the Board. Reinstatement would be contingent upon Mr. Clark fulfilling a number of specific conditions.’

Clark, 31, publicly apologized for the locker room incident at Oakmont the following week during the Travelers Championship without specifically discussing what happened.

‘I’ve had a lot of highs and lows in my career, especially this year some lows. I made a mistake that I deeply regret. I’m very sorry for what happened,’ Clark said at the time. ‘But I’d also like to move on, not only for myself but for Oakmont, for the USGA, and kind of focus on the rest of this year and things that come up. I still want to try to make the Ryder Cup team. I still am on the outside looking in for the FedEx Cup. So I’m starting to move on and focus on those things.’

Oakmont and the USGA came to the agreement banning Clark from the property, according to Golfweek. Oakmont is set to host the U.S. Open again in 2033, which is final year of Clark’s 10-year exemption for winning his only major at Los Angeles Country Club’s North Course two years ago.

Clark has struggled in 2025, with just one top-10 finish on the PGA Tour going into the Open Championship. He currently sits in 64th in the FedEx Cup standings and the U.S. Open wasn’t the first time his frustration boiled over at a major. At the PGA Championship in May, Clark caused damage to a T-Mobile sign when he aggressively threw his club after a bad tee shot.

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Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese will not play in Wednesday afternoon’s game against the Atlanta Dream, the team announced.

The Sky said Reese has a leg injury, but didn’t designate which leg is injured or how she was injured. Sky head coach Tyler Marsh said Reese will sit out for ‘precautionary’ reasons. Reese scored 22 points and 10 rebounds in her last game against the Minnesota Lynx

Reese is scheduled to play for Team Napheesa Collier in the WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday against Team Caitlin Clark in Indianapolis. Clark’s availability for the game is also in question following a right groin injury late in Tuesday’s game against the Connecticut Sun.

Reese is averaging 14 points, a WNBA-leading 12.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists, and 1.6 steals per game this season, shooting 45% from the field for Chicago (7-14).

His second appearance with the Dallas Mavericks in Las Vegas went a lot smoother than when the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft played his unofficial first game against Bronny James and the Los Angeles Lakers. After Flagg had an uneven performance in which he shot 5 for 21 from the field facing the Lakers, Flagg finished with 31 points in a showdown against the San Antonio Spurs and No. 2 pick Dylan Harper on Saturday, July 12.

It may have been the last glimpse of Flagg in a game until the NBA preseason this fall. He did not play in the Mavericks’ next summer league game against the Charlotte Hornets on Monday, July 14, and that’s likely to be his status for the remainder of NBA Summer League play in Las Vegas.

Here are the latest updates on Flagg ahead of the Mavericks’ NBA Summer League game against the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday, July 16:

Is Cooper Flagg playing tonight vs. 76ers?

No. Flagg is not expected to play in the Mavericks’ NBA Summer League game against the Philadelphia 76ers in Las Vegas on Wednesday, July 16. The Mavericks elected to shut Flagg down for the rest of summer league play after two games, according to multiple reports, and made the decision official following Monday’s game against the Charlotte Hornets when Flagg watched from the bench in street clothes.

“We just took it game-by-game and kind of just wanted to feel out how everything was going,” Mavericks summer league coach Josh Broghamer told reporters. “And then (coach Jason Kidd and general manager Nico Harrison) made the decision from there. It was just more a day-by-day thing.”

Dallas has at least one game remaining in NBA Summer League following Wednesday’s matchup with the 76ers.

Cooper Flagg summer league stats

Here are Flagg’s stats through two games of NBA Summer League action with the Dallas Mavericks:

Points: 20.5 points per game
Rebounds: 5 rebounds per game
Assists: 2.5 per game
Blocks: 0.5 per game
Steals: 1.5 per game
FG: 35.7%
3-point: 21.4%

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Audun Grønvold, a Norwegian skier who won Olympic bronze in ski cross in 2010, died July 15 after being struck by lightning over the weekend. He was 49.

The Norwegian Ski Federation confirmed Grønvold’s death in a statement July 16, indicating Grønvold was struck by lightning while on a trip to his family’s cabin July 12. He was quickly taken to a hospital to receive treatment, the federation said, but succumbed to his injuries a few days later.

‘Norwegian skiing has lost a prominent figure, who has meant so much to both the alpine and freestyle communities,’ federation president Tove Moe Dyrhaug said in a statement. ‘… There will be a big void after Audun.’

Grønvold was born in Hamar, a lakeside town about 80 miles north of Norway’s capital city, Oslo. He first got his start in alpine skiing, also known as downhill skiing, and established himself a rising talent in one of the country’s most popular sports. According to the ski federation, he spent more than a decade on Norway’s alpine national team before switching to ski cross, in which skiers race directly against one another through a course with jumps and turns.

Grønvold won bronze in ski cross’ Olympic debut at the 2010 Vancouver Games, then went on to become a national team coach and board member for the federation, according to its statement. He also worked as a skiing broadcaster.

‘It’s just terribly sad and tragic,’ Marius Arnesen, who coached Grønvold in the early 2000s, told Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang. ‘(He was) a thoughtful and wonderful boy who, when it comes to skiing, had a fantastic feeling for the surface in the snow.’

Grønvold is survived by his wife, Kristin Tandberg Haugsjå, and three children. According to Norwegian national broadcaster NRK, Haugsjå also confirmed her husband’s death in a Facebook post, describing him as ‘my great love and my best friend for 20 years.’

‘The loss of you is enormous,’ she wrote, according to NRK.

Contact Tom Schad at tschad@usatoday.com or on social media @tomschad.bsky.social.

Who are the top 10 quarterbacks of all time? Does that list include current Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes?

Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff doesn’t think so.

Goff did not include Mahomes when listing his top 10 quarterbacks of all time, ‘in no particular order,’ in a social media clip Netflix Sports posted on Tuesday. The clip was an advertisement for the second season of Netflix’s ‘Quarterback’ documentary series, in which Goff is a featured quarterback.

The video of Goff’s top quarterbacks list appears to be a snippet only for social media; it was not included in the show.

Jared Goff’s top 10 quarterbacks of all time

Goff listed these 10 quarterbacks as his greatest ever, in no particular order:

Tom Brady

Goff cited his seven Super Bowls as the reason he’s ‘the greatest.’

Peyton Manning
Joe Montana

The reason Goff wears No. 16, he says, as a kid who grew up in the Bay Area.

John Elway
Drew Brees
Philip Rivers
Eli Manning
Ben Roethlisberger
Brett Favre
Aaron Rodgers

Notably, Pittsburgh Steelers newcomer Aaron Rodgers is the only active quarterback Goff included on his top-10 list. The Steelers gunslinger is 41 years old and preparing for his 21st season in the league – and his first with his third team.

Goff’s list includes five of the 11 players who have won multiple MVP awards in their careers: Brady, Peyton Manning, Montana, Favre and Rodgers. It does not include the two other active players who have won multiple MVPs: Mahomes and Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson.

Kalen DeBoer needs this Nick Saban rumor like a drowned man needs a drink.

It was a matter of time before a media member introduced the rumor that Saban, DeBoer’s predecessor at Alabama, wants to return to coaching. Greg McElroy did the honors.

McElroy, one of Saban’s former players, said Monday morning on his radio show that he’d heard from someone “in the know” that Saban will coach again. McElroy later said “a couple of people” told him Saban returning to coaching remains a possibility.

McElroy ultimately denounced the rumor he introduced, saying he didn’t believe it.

Too late.

By then, the rumor had gained the necessary oxygen and made the rounds at SEC media days. Never mind the veracity of this speculation. This becomes catnip for the SEC’s four-day televised talkathon.

SEC football coaches run with Nick Saban rumor

Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin dubbed it “malpractice” for Saban to not be coaching. LSU’s Brian Kelly told On3 that Saban returning to coaching would be “a great day.” (The adage, “Careful what you wish for,” comes to mind.)

Georgia’s Kirby Smart quipped he’d have loved to hire Saban, if only Saban wasn’t so overqualified for an assistant job.

Media types mused whether Saban would resurface at an SEC school or reprise his role as coach of the Miami Dolphins.

What’s more likely is Saban, who will turn 74 this year, will keep teeing it up on the golf course and in his role on ESPN’s “College GameDay,” when he’s not posing for photos.

Multiple blue-chip recruits posted photos with Saban this summer while on recruiting visits. Who could blame them for wanting a quick pic with the GOAT, who retains an advisory job within Alabama athletics and an office on campus? As you can imagine, those photos laid groundwork for rival fans to introduce the theory that Saban remains the engine behind Alabama – and DeBoer’s just the guy who lost to Vanderbilt.

Auburn might need Nick Saban more than Alabama does

None of this is fair to DeBoer. He steered Alabama throughout a smooth offseason that included excellent recruiting, better gains than losses in the transfer market, and the smart hire of offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb.

Will anyone want to discuss those developments when DeBoer takes the media days stage Wednesday in Atlanta? Not while the Saban rumor draws breath. Eighteen months after Saban’s retirement, he magnetizes attention like no other college football figure.

But, then, none of this was ever going to be fair to DeBoer, was it? This is why Kiffin once told me replacing Saban would be “the dumbest” move a coach could make.

DeBoer didn’t make the challenge any easier by missing the College Football Playoff and losing four games in his debut season.

“This is a program that expects to be front and center,” DeBoer told me in April, reaffirming that he understands the lofty expectations he failed to meet in Year 1. “That’s what I expect.”

Truth is, Alabama’s aura of invincibility started to wane throughout the years since its undefeated 2020 season.

An average Texas A&M team starting a below-average quarterback toppled Alabama in 2021. A year later, Alabama lost to Tennessee for the first time since 2006. Texas smashed Alabama inside Bryant-Denny Stadium in Saban’s final season.

Saban soured on an evolved college sports landscape within which coaches lost their omnipotence and athletes gained freedom and power, plus bigger-than-ever paychecks.

Still, it’s hard to imagine Saban, in this era or any other, blowing a playoff opportunity by losing to Vanderbilt or to a team as bad as Oklahoma looked throughout most of last season.

Those losses in DeBoer’s debut season helped create a breeding ground for rumors of a Saban comeback, unfounded though they may be.

The best DeBoer can do is ignore this rumor, keep securing commitments from blue-chip prospects, let the recruits take photos with Saban if they like, and play to the standard this season. He must reaffirm his quarterback development chops by making something of Ty Simpson. Instill the discipline and toughness Alabama lacked the past few years, after they once served as pillars of Saban’s dynasty.

Defend Alabama’s home turf against Tennessee and LSU. Smash Auburn and its embattled coach Hugh Freeze in the Iron Bowl. Make the playoff.

Even if DeBoer does all that, he can’t ensure the spotlight won’t find Saban.

After all, if Alabama wins the Iron Bowl, Auburn might find itself in the market for a new coach, and the rumor mill churns indefatigably during coaching searches.

Know anyone who’s proven himself in the SEC, who’s already left one SEC job only to be hired years later by a rival school?

Saban couldn’t possibly meet the bar he set at Alabama. But, reviving a proud SEC program that’s lost its way? That sounds up his alley. If only Saban would drag himself off the golf course.

Blake Toppmeyer is the USA TODAY Network’s national college football columnist. Email him at BToppmeyer@gannett.com and follow him on X @btoppmeyer.

Adam Silver once called NBA expansion manifest destiny.

It was Dec. 21, 2020, at the start of the 2020-21 season and shortly after the conclusion of the 2019-20 season in the Orlando bubble amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

But even manifest destiny comes with a murky timeline.

Nearly five years later, the NBA is not ready for imminent expansion.

The commissioner wasn’t wrong then. There will be NBA expansion at some point. There’s just not a definitive process today.

Silver told reporters on Tuesday, July 15, that the NBA will form a committee to explore the financial and on-court competitive issues around expansion and go from there. He called owners’ appetite for expansion “more as curiosity and more let’s do the work.

‘We also have this greater obligation to expand, if we do so, in a very deliberate fashion in a way that makes sense holistically for the league,’ Silver said.

Why – when there are markets, notably Seattle and Las Vegas, clamoring for an NBA franchise – has the NBA not moved faster on expansion?

To start, the league has been deliberate in its actions. Even when Silver made that “manifest destiny” comment in 2020, he said expansion was not on the front-burner of the league’s agenda.

In those five years, much has changed financially, especially with skyrocketing franchise valuations and the influx of money from the league’s 11-year, $76 billion TV deal that starts with the 2025-26 season.

The Boston Celtics have been sold on a $6.1 billion valuation, and with the way that sale is structured, there is a strong possibility that figure increases. The Los Angeles Lakers are being sold on a $10 billion valuation.

The NBA’s committee on expansion needs to determine the cost of an expansion franchise. Will it be $6 billion? $7 billion? Then, owners need to decide if that infusion of money is worth it in the long term because as Silver noted with expansion, ‘you are selling equity, and if for every additional team you add, you’re diluting the economics of the current league.’

The league would have to split its revenue with two extra teams, reducing the amount for each team. Here is crude mathematics: If 30 team owners are splitting $10 billion a year, that’s $333.3 million per team. Divide $10 billion by 32, that’s $312.5 million per team. That $20 million a year difference over several seasons adds up quickly.

It’s far more complicated than that, as Silver noted, but you get the idea. ‘It’s just one other factor we have to look at as we are trying to think what is the value of expansion, what does it mean to dilute the existing equity and how additive is this potentially to the league by adding an additional team,’ Silver said.

Adding two teams also means adding another 36 players which adds to Silver’s concern about spreading rosters too thin. ‘How it could potentially affect competition around the league, if we were to expand. How you would stock those teams, all those related issues,’ Silver said.

Silver also mentioned another form of expansion – the creation of an NBA-backed league in Europe, which potentially creates another revenue stream.

‘The fact that we would be creating new basketball teams in Europe is related,’ Silver said. ‘It’s separate but related to this notion around building additional organizations in the league. … Part of what we look at is how can we continue to grow this game on a global basis and how can we take advantage of the NBA brand to do that.’

Silver also mentioned the league needs to figure out where local broadcasting is headed as regional sports networks have struggled. ‘We would be malpracticing if we didn’t figure out how local and regional television is going to work before expanding. … Many of our teams have now taken significant cuts in regional television,’ he said.

Las Vegas, Seattle (or some other city), it’s not your time for expansion. Not yet anyway. There is one other option to monitor, and that’s relocation of a current franchise. That would come with a relocation fee that is less than a fee for an expansion team but still splits revenue among 30 teams.

‘A lot of analysis still needs to be done,’ Silver said. ‘Nothing has been predetermined one way or the other, and without any specific timeline. We’re going to be as thorough as possible and look at all the potential issues.’