



PARIS >> Paris Saint-Germain players walked into a wall of noise at their home stadium on Sunday and brandished aloft the Champions League trophy that their fans have waited so long to savor.
Coach Luis Enrique, the architect of PSG’s astonishing 5-0 destruction of Inter Milan in Munich on Saturday night, received a huge ovation at Parc des Princes, as did the influential Ousmane Dembélé and his teammates when they came onto the field one by one.
Their faces were shown on a giant screen and, when Dembélé’s face was displayed, fans inside the 49,000-capacity stadium broke out into chants of “Dembélé, Ballon d’Or” in the hope he wins the most coveted individual award in world soccer.
But the loudest cheer of the night was for long-serving captain Marquinhos, who walked with club president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi alongside him and with the Champions League trophy between them.
Al-Khelaïfi and Dembélé were both tossed into the air by PSG’s players, who then did a lap of honor after the greatest success in the club’s 55-year history.
Balogun to miss the CONCACAF Gold Cup >> Forward Folarin Balogun will miss the CONCACAF Gold Cup because of an ankle injury and was among three players dropped from a roster already without Christian Pulisic, Weston McKennie, Tim Weah, Antonee Robinson, Yunus Musah and Gio Reyna.
Defender DeJuan Jones (lower body) and midfielder Sean Zawadzki (knee) also were let go by coach Mauricio Pochettino, who added defenders Walker Zimmerman and Nathan Harriel along with forward Paxten Aaronson.
Four players have been replaced from the 27-man group announced May 22. Goalkeeper Patrick Schulte injured an oblique and was replaced on Wednesday by Chris Brady.
Golf
Sweden’s Maja Stark wins the U.S. Women’s Open >> Maja Stark continued the steady play she had demonstrated all week to win the U.S. Women’s Open and claim her first major championship at Erin Hills.
Stark carded a final round 72 and finished with a four-round total of 7-under 281 to beat top-ranked Nelly Korda and Japan’s Rio Takeda by two strokes.
Stark received a $2.4 million winner’s prize in the biggest event of the women’s golf season.
The 25-year-old Stark became the sixth Swede to win an LPGA major.
College baseball
ST. MARY’S OUT of REGIONALS >> Wilson Weber, Trent Caraway and Tyce Peterson all homered to back a strong start by Ethan Kleinschmit and No. 8 overall seed Oregon State eliminated Saint Mary’s in the Corvallis Regional with a 20-3 romp.
Saint Mary’s got within 5-2 in the fifth on RBI singles by Eddie Madrigal and Cody Kashimoto.
Saint Mary’s (36-26) only other tournament appearance came in 2016.
Wright State knocks No. 1 national seed Vanderbilt out of NCAA regionals >> Griffen Paige gave up two runs on one hit across eight-plus innings, Boston Smith and Luke Arnold hit back-to-back homers early, and Wright State held off Vanderbilt in the ninth to knock the No. 1 national seed out of the NCAA Tournament with a 5-4 victory in the Nashville Regional.
The Commodores (43-18) became the first No. 1 national seed to fail to reach their regional final since the tournament went to its current format in 1999.
Wright State (39-20), the No. 4 regional seed out of the Horizon League, played Louisville in the final Sunday night.
Motor sports
Blaney wins in Nashville >> Ryan Blaney kicked off the second half of the NASCAR season by running away down the stretch for his first Cup Series race of the year at Nashville Superspeedway.
The 2023 Cup champ had been racing well with five top-five finishes over the first half of this season. He finally got to Victory Lane in the No. 12 Ford Mustang for Team Penske for his 14th career victory and first since Martinsville in November.
He became the ninth different winner this season and the fifth driver to win in as many races at Nashville.
Piastri and Norris score McLaren 1-2 at Spanish GP >> McLaren pair Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris moved closer to making this Formula 1 season a simple question of which one of them will come out on top after finishing the Spanish Grand Prix one-two.