Paris Saint-Germain, Champions League winner.

At long last the club that was transformed by Qatari billions and bought and sold a succession of the world’s greatest players in an extravagant bid to get to the top has its hands on the big one.

European club soccer’s grandest prize has a new home after PSG thrashed Inter Milan 5-0 in Saturday’s final in Munich.

The trophy that not even Lionel Messi, Neymar or Kylian Mbappe could deliver to the French club was finally claimed by Luis Enrique, the Spanish coach who has overseen PSG’s shift from the era of galactico signings to one of genuine team-building.

French teenager Désiré Doué scored twice and set up Achraf Hakimi for the opening goal.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and substitute Senny Mayulu completed the rout, which was the biggest winning margin in a Champions League final.

SOCCER

U.S. women beat China in friendly at Allianz

Naomi Girma returned to the national team and Lo’eau LaBonta became the oldest player to make her international debut for the U.S. in a 3-0 win over China at Allianz Field in St. Paul.

Catarina Macario, Sam Coffey and Lindsey Heaps scored while goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce got her second shutout in as many appearances.

LaBonta, the 32-year-old midfielder for the Kansas City Current in the National Women’s Soccer League, came on as a second-half substitute.

The match also marked Girma’s first appearance for the national team this year. The 24-year-old defender has been nursing injuries but recently returned to help Chelsea win the Women’s Super League title and the FA Cup.

Girma commanded a record $1.1 transfer fee when she moved from the San Diego Wave to Chelsea earlier this year.

Tullis-Joyce, who plays for Manchester United, started in goal in just her second U.S. appearance as Hayes looks to replace Alyssa Naeher, who retired from the national team last year.

Macario scored her 11th international goal after Alyssa Thompson kept the ball alive in a tumble in front of the net in the 28th minute.

Coffey made it 2-0 in the 35th minute, taking a pass from Macario out front and banging her second goal for the U.S. past goalkeeper Pan Hongyan with her left foot.

Heaps, the U.S. captain, scored on a header in the 54th minute.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

NAIA champ is first to finish unbeaten season

LSU Shreveport became the first college baseball team on record to go unbeaten, finishing 59-0 when it won the NAIA championship in Lewiston, Idaho.

The Pilots’ perfect season ended with a 13-7 victory over Southeastern (Florida) on Friday night and gave the 10,000-student school in northwest Louisiana its first national title in any sport.

For 25 years LSU Shreveport has been one of the top programs in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, which governs sports at 241 mostly small colleges across the country.

The Pilots have appeared in the NAIA national tournament every year since 2005 and the NAIA World Series in 2021, 2022 and 2025. They’re 270-49 in six seasons under coach Brad Neffendorf, including 142-13 in Red River Athletic Conference play.

LSU Shreveport played only four games decided by one run this season, ranked second in the NAIA with 11.3 runs per game and third with a .361 batting average.

NHL

Thousands attend Gaudreau memorial race

Thousands of people attended the inaugural Gaudreau Family 5K Walk, Run and Family Day, with plenty more taking part in the event virtually.

The event was held at Washington Lake Park in southern New Jersey, a place John and Matthew Gaudreau went hundreds of times as kids and around the corner from Hollydell Ice Arena, where they started playing hockey. They died in August while riding bicycles on the eve of their sister’s Katie’s wedding when they were struck by a driver.

Their family and friends hosted the event in their memory and to raise money for an accessible playground at the school where sister Kristen and mother Jane work. NHL players Brady Tkachuk and Erik Gudbranson were among those involved.

Roughly 1,100 people took part in a walk or run in person, along with more than 1,300 virtually in the U.S., Canada and around the world.

CYCLING

Yates closes in on Giro d’Italia title

Simon Yates produced one of the greatest rides of his career on one of cycling’s most grueling climbs to all but win the Giro d’Italia.

Yates started the penultimate stage in third, one minute, 21 seconds behind previous leader Isaac Del Toro, but the British cyclist launched a solo attack on the beyond-category climb to Colle delle Finestre — the same mountain that spelled heartbreak for him seven years ago — to ride clear of his overall rivals.

With just the mostly ceremonial finish in Rome left on Sunday, Yates moved into the lead of the three-week race and is all but certain to lift the Trofeo Senza Fine (Trophy With No End) for the first time.

Yates, who won the 2018 Spanish Vuelta, is 3 minutes, 56 seconds ahead of Mexico’s Del Toro and 4:43 ahead of Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz.

MILB

Storm Chasers snap Saints’ 3-win streak

Omaha beat St. Paul 5-2, breaking the Saints’ three-game winning streak in their road series.

The Saints got just one of the night’s home runs, when Ryan Fitzgerald got a homer on a fly ball to right field in the fourth and Edouard Julien scored. Andrew Morris (2-2) had the loss, allowing four earned runs on eight hits over five innings.

Briefly

Swimming >> American three-time Olympic swimming star Lilly King has announced the upcoming Toyota National Championships in Indianapolis will be her final meet on U.S. soil as she prepares to call it a career at the conclusion of the 2025 season.

— From news services