D2 EZ M2 THE WASHINGTON POST.THURSDAY, JUNE 9 , 2022
GOLF
DeChambeau, Reed
set to join LIV series
Past major champions Bryson
DeChambeau and Patrick Reed
will join the LIV Golf
Invitational Series, according to
multiple reports, giving the
Saudi-funded competitor to the
PGA Tour two more big names
to go with Dustin Johnson and
Phil Mickelson.
LIV Golf’s first event is this
week outside London, but
DeChambeau and Reed are not
in the field. They reportedly will
take the course for the new
league at its next tournament, to
be held June 30 to July 2 outside
of Portland, Ore. Reed originally
was scheduled to play in this
week’s Canadian Open on the
PGA Tour but withdrew
Tuesday.
Both men have qualified to
play in next week’s U.S. Open,
which DeChambeau won in
- On Tuesday, the U.S. Golf
Association announced that
anyone who qualified for the
tournament would be allowed to
play.
PGA Tour Commissioner Jay
Monahan threatened to
permanently ban any player
who takes the course for LIV
Golf, though a number of LIV
golfers — including Johnson,
Kevin Na, Louis Oosthuizen,
Sergio Garcia, Charl
Schwartzel and Branden
Grace — preempted any
punishment by resigning from
the PGA Tour.
— Matt BonesteelPRO FOOTBALL
An ownership group led by
Walmart heir Rob Walton
reached an agreement to
purchase the Denver Broncos
for $4.65 billion, which would
shatter the record sale price for
an NFL franchise.
The purchase price was
confirmed late Tuesday night by
a person familiar with the
matter. The Broncos announced
the agreement, which is subject
to approval by the NFL’s finance
committee and other franchise
owners, without announcing the
price.
“We look forward to earning
the confidence and support of
the NFL as we take the next step
in this process,” Walton said in a
statement released by the
Broncos. “When the necessary
approval procedures are met,
our family is excited to share
more with Broncos fans, theorganization and the
community.”
Walton announced that
Mellody Hobson , the co-CEO of
Ariel Investments, agreed to join
his ownership group. Hobson,
who is Black, also is the chair of
the board of the Starbucks
Corporation and a director of
JPMorgan Chase.
The previous two NFL
franchises to be sold were the
Buffalo Bills, who were
purchased by Terry and Kim
Pegula from the Ralph Wilson
estate for $1.4 billion in 2014,
and the Carolina Panthers,
bought by David Tepper from
Jerry Richardson for
$2.275 billion in 2018.
Forbes, in its annual
estimates of NFL franchise
values, in August pegged the
worth of the Broncos at
$3.75 billion, 10th highest in the
league. The Dallas Cowboys led
the way at $6.5 billion in those
estimates.
— Nicki Jhabvala
and Mark Maske
Drew Brees is officially done
at NBC Sports after one year.
NBC Sports chairman Pete
Bevacqua said in a phone
interview with the Associated
Press that Brees will not be a
part of the network’s NFL andNotre Dame coverage this year.
The New York Post reported last
month that the former
quarterback would not be
coming back as a studio or game
analyst.
Following that report, Brees
took to social media and said he
had not decided his future.
Bevacqua said conversations
with Brees have centered
around him wanting to spend
more time with family....
The Chicago Bears had to
cancel an offseason workout this
week because they violated NFL
rules by having live contact in a
session last month, Coach Matt
Eberflus said.
Eberflus said the contact that
occurred was because of
overzealous players and not the
team’s practice structure. The
Bears were back on the field
Wednesday....
The Los Angeles Rams and
record-setting wide receiver
Cooper Kupp agreed to terms
on a three-year, $75 million
extension. The Rams announced
the deal two days after signing
defensive lineman Aaron
Donald to a massive extension.
The team also waived Travin
Howard , the inside linebacker
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Jack Bauerle , who won seven
NCAA women’s team
championships in his 43 years
as Georgia’s swimming coach,announced his retirement.
Bauerle, 70, the longest-
tenured coach of any sport in
Georgia history, also coached
the 2008 U.S. Olympic women’s
team to 14 medals.
— From news services
a nd staff reportsDIGESTYou again?
The Mystics and Sky met for the
second time in four days — the
Mystics fell, 91-82, on Sunday in
Chicago — in what both coaches
said gives the schedule a playoff
feel. Scouting the other team be-
comes a bit easier with the quick
turnaround.
“It’s weird,” Sky Coach James
Wade said. “It gives you a little bit
of a playoff feel, but it’s not. You
always have that in mind. I don’t
really like them. I think the assis-
tant coaches like them because it’s
easier to do scout. The last couple
of years, we’ve tended to have
done well. It’s just something I’m
not a big fan of.”Commish in the house
WNBA Commissioner Cathy
Engelbert was in attendance as
part of her tour of the league. Her
goal is to visit each team before the
all-star break.Sun stops Fever again
In Uncasville, Conn., Brionna
Jones scored 18 points and Jon-
quel Jones added 16 to help the
Connecticut Sun beat the Indiana
Fever, 88-69, for its fourth straight
victory.
DeWanna Bonner added
12 points and Alyssa Thomas had
11 points, nine rebounds and five
assists for Connecticut (10-3).
D iJonai Carrington went 5 for 5
from the field and finished with
12 points.
Bonner moved into a tie for 17th
in WNBA history in three-pointers
with a make early in the third
quarter.
Rookie NaLyssa Smith led Indi-
ana (3-11) with a season-high
19 points. Danielle Robinson add-
ed 12 points, and Queen Egbo had- The Fever shot just 37.5 percent
from the field, including 3 for 21
(14.3 percent) from three-point
range.
Indiana has lost all three meet-
ings with Connecticut this year.
— Associated Press
Clark said after the win that her
foot was “a little sore, but it’s the
new norm.”
“I finally felt like I took another
step toward feeling normal,” she
added. “New normal — whatever
that looks like. I felt good. I felt like
I was moving well. I felt confident
being out there.”
The Mystics came out of half-
time with a 12-2 stretch to take a
57-42 lead. They didn’t trail the
rest of the way, but Chicago (7-4)
drew even in the final minute
when Candace Parker converted a
three-point play. Cloud hit a pair
of free throws with six seconds
remaining, and Parker missed a
contested layup as time expired.
Atkins finished with a game-
high 19 points to go with seven
rebounds and five assists. Austin
chipped in 14 points and six re-
bounds. Parker led Chicago with
16 points and nine rebounds.
Here’s what else to know about
the Mystics’ win:
Mix and match
Whether because of injuries,
the health and safety protocols or
overseas commitments, the right
lineup combinations have been
elusive for Thibault. Tianna Haw-
kins got more playing time
Wednesday and started the sec-
ond half in place of Delle Donne,
but that left Shatori Walker-Kim-
brough out of the rotation. Thiba-
ult said the Mystics won’t play all
11 every night, so that leaves at
least one player out of the mix.
“We have 11 really good players.
Finding the right minutes, it’s
hard,” Thibault said before the
game.
“There’s nobody playing bad
enough to be the one sitting. But
one of the ways you solidify your
playing time is to not be up and
down about that. You’ve got to be
the same every day. So what I’m
looking for is consistency offen-
sively.”
MYSTICS FROM D1
More back issues sideline
Delle Donne in home win
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The Mystics’ Alysha Clark had 18 points on 7-for-9 shooting during Wednesday night’s victory over Candace Parker and the visiting Sky.BY MATT BONESTEEL
AND CINDY BORENA group of 90 women that
includes former U.S. Olympic
team gymnasts Simone Biles,
M cKayla Maroney and Aly Rais-
man filed a lawsuit against the
FBI, alleging it mishandled its
investigation of former Team
USA doctor Larry Nassar, allow-
ing him to continue to sexually
abuse them even after they had
reported him to the bureau in
2015.
The women are collectively
seeking more than $1 billion
from the FBI in a lawsuit filed
under the Federal Tort Claims
Act, a 1946 law that makes the
United States liable for injuries
“caused by the negligent or
wrongful act or omission of any
employee of the Government
while acting within the scope of
his office or employment.” They
join 13 others who in April filed a
similar lawsuit against the FBI,
citing a July report released by
the Justice Department’s inspec-
tor general that found the bureau
failed to properly investigate se-
rious sex-abuse allegations
against Nassar.
“The FBI knew that Larry
Nassar was a danger to children
when his abuse of me was first
reported in September of 2015.
For 421 days they worked with
USA Gymnastics and USOPC to
hide this information from the
public and allowed Nassar to
continue molesting young wom-
en and girls. It is time for the FBI
to be held accountable,” former
Team USA gymnast Maggie Nich-ols said in a statement released
by lawyers representing the
group of women.
The FBI declined to comment,
referring to FBI Director Christo-
pher A. Wray’s remarks before
the Senate Judiciary Committee
made in September 2021.
The Justice Department re-
port found that USA Gymnastics
contacted the FBI’s Indianapolis
field office in July 2015 about the
allegations against Nassar, but
that office’s inaction led USA
Gymnastics to again report Nas-
sar in May 2016 to a Los Angeles
FBI field office. That office put
more work into an investigation
but took no action against Nas-
sar.
According to the report, Nas-
sar victimized about 70 women
and girls between the time when
the FBI was first told of the
allegations and when Michigan
officials arrested him in the fall
of 2016 on the basis of separateinformation.
Inspector General Michael
Horowitz found that “senior offi-
cials in the FBI Indianapolis
Field Office failed to respond to
the Nassar allegations with the
utmost seriousness and urgency
that they deserved and required,
made numerous and fundamen-
tal errors when they did respond
to them, and violated multiple
FBI policies” before attempting
to blame others when confronted
with their shortcomings.
After the inspector general’s
report, which the FBI accepted,
the agency issued multiple state-
ments in which it called its
actions “inexcusable and a dis-
credit to this organization” and
said that “this should not have
happened.” However, the FBI an-
nounced late last month that the
agents who mishandled the Nas-
sar investigation would not be
charged with a crime. The FBI
did fire one of the agents inSeptember, while the other re-
tired during the Justice Depart-
ment’s investigation. Both were
found to have lied about their
roles in the Nassar case to federal
investigators.
“My fellow survivors and I
were betrayed by every institu-
tion that was supposed to protect
us — the U.S. Olympic Commit-
tee, USA Gymnastics, the FBI and
now the Department of Justice. I
had some hope that they would
keep their word and hold the FBI
accountable after we poured out
our hearts to the U.S. Senate
Judiciary Committee and begged
for justice. It is clear that the only
path to justice and healing is
through the legal process,”
M aroney said in the statement.
In a letter Wednesday to Attor-
ney General Merrick Garland,
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) criti-
cized the Justice Department’s
decision not to prosecute the
special agents. Wicker, the rank-ing Republican of the Senate
Committee on Commerce, Sci-
ence and Transportation, called
the decision “egregious,” adding
that it “severely calls into ques-
tion the Department’s judgment.
I am particularly concerned this
lack of accountability will fur-
ther erode confidence in law
enforcement among victims of
sexual abuse, making it less likely
abuse will be reported in the
future.
“The right of Olympic athletes
to compete and train in an envi-
ronment free from abuse of any
kind is of the utmost importance.
In this instance, young women,
mostly minors, were sexually
abused by an individual entrust-
ed with their care and
w ell-being,” Wicker wrote.
Wicker called on the Justice
Department to brief the Com-
merce Committee on its review
process and to respond to a series
of questions by June 22.Gymnasts sue the FBI, alleging its inaction allowed Nassar to continue his abuse
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