Sports Roundup: Saudi Boxing Ambitions, USA Basketball Roster Announced, and More!

This sports roundup covers a variety of current events including Saudi Arabia's plans to create a boxing league, the Palestinian Olympic Committee seeking wildcards for the Paris Games, and USA Basketball revealing its women's roster for the Paris Olympics. Additional highlights include MLB results, tennis updates, and the passing of NBA legend Jerry West.

Following is a summary of current sports news briefs.

Exclusive-Boxing-Saudi wealth fund holding talks to create boxing league, sources say

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is in discussions with multiple boxing stakeholders to create a league, potentially reshaping the competitive landscape of the sport, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. PIF is looking to invest in a joint venture with some of the sport's stakeholders that would feature more boxing bouts, the people said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Olympics-Palestinians banking on wildcards for Paris Games

The majority of Palestinian Olympic hopefuls are counting on wildcards from the International Olympic Committee to take part in the Paris Games amid the ongoing war in Gaza, the President of the Palestinian Olympic Committee said on Wednesday. One Palestinian athlete -- in taekwondo -- has qualified in his own right while others are training to meet the IOC standards in their sports to have priority for wildcards.

USA Basketball names 12-member women's roster for Paris

USA Basketball announced a veteran roster for the upcoming Paris Olympics, boasting a squad where each member has at least an Olympics or World Cup gold medal. The Phoenix Mercury's Diana Taurasi was named to her sixth Olympics, with 38 Olympics basketball games to her credit, the most of any women's player in USA Basketball history. She is second in Olympics points scored (414) behind Lisa Leslie (488).

MLB roundup: Dodgers' 4-homer inning sinks Rangers

Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Teoscar Hernandez and Jason Heyward homered in a seven-run sixth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers rolled to a 15-2 victory over the visiting Texas Rangers on Tuesday. Will Smith added a three-run home run, Mookie Betts hit a three-run double and James Paxton (6-1) gave up one run over six innings as the Dodgers improved to 9-4 following a season-worst, five-game losing streak late last month.

Olympics-Boxing-A refugee in the ring, Ngamba takes her fight to Paris

Cindy Ngamba had hoped to be boxing for Britain at the Olympics but instead the medal contender will step out in Paris as a refugee in the ring. The 25-year-old, who arrived in Manchester from Cameroon at the age of 10 to join her father and step-siblings, is still waiting for citizenship and a passport from the country she knows as home.

Golf-Scheffler able to laugh after arrest at PGA as he focuses on U.S. Open

World number one Scottie Scheffler says he is fully focused on the U.S. Open and picking up a sixth win of the season in Pinehurst, North Carolina, having put his arrest at the PGA Championship behind him. Since March Scheffler has played eight events and won five, including the Masters. On two other occasions he was runner-up.

Jets' Aaron Rodgers, Haason Reddick not at mandatory minicamp

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers and edge rusher Haason Reddick did not report to the start of the New York Jets' two-day mandatory minicamp on Tuesday, leaving both players subject to fines. Reddick, 29, who came over in a March trade with the Philadelphia Eagles, skipped all voluntary offseason workouts due to a contract dispute. In the final season of a three-year, $45 million contract he signed in 2022 with the Eagles, he's slated to earn a non-guaranteed $14.25 million in base pay.

Tennis-Nadal, Alcaraz to play Olympic doubles, Badosa to skip Games

Spain's Rafa Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz will team up to play doubles at this year's Olympics in Paris, the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation (RFET) said on Wednesday, but former world number two Paula Badosa will skip the Games. Nadal won an Olympic singles gold medal in 2008 and a doubles gold in 2016, but the Paris Games will be Alcaraz's first as he returns to Roland Garros where he was crowned French Open champion on Sunday.

Celtics F Kristaps Porzingis, Mavs F Luka Doncic face injury concerns ahead of Game 3

DALLAS -- Celtics forward Kristaps Porzingis walked without a limp into Boston's media availability one day before Game 3 of the NBA Finals, but his status for Wednesday's game with the Mavericks was unclear due to a new lower leg injury unrelated to the calf issue that sidelined him for more than a month of the playoffs. "It's a serious injury," Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla said Tuesday afternoon. "At the end of the day, the medical team is not going to put him in any bad situations. We've taken the decision to play out of his hands."

Jerry West, all-time great and inspiration for NBA logo, dies aged 86

Jerry West, widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all-time whose silhouette was the inspiration for the National Basketball Association's logo, has died at the age of 86. The Los Angeles Clippers, where he worked as an executive, confirmed the death on Wednesday, saying the 14-times NBA all-star passed away peacefully with his wife Karen by his side.

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