The semifinals and final of the 2025 and 2027 CONCACAF Nations League will be played at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.

The site was announced Wednesday by CONCACAF, the governing body of North and Central American and Caribbean soccer. Next year’s event will take place from March 20-23.

SoFi Stadium is scheduled to host eight matches during the 2026 World Cup. It was the site of the 2023 CONCACAF Gold Cup final.

The Nations League final four was held in Denver in 2021, Las Vegas in 2023 and Arlington, Texas, this year.

The United States won the first three editions of the event, which has increased competitive matches for the less-strong nations in the region but for the United States, Mexico and Canada has limited international fixture dates for friendlies against top countries.

The American team will play its first competitive matches under new coach Mauricio Pochettino in the Nations League quarterfinals next month.

Mavericks’ Exum |has wrist surgery

Dallas Mavericks guard Dante Exum had surgery on his injured right wrist, the team announced without saying how long he will be sidelined.

The injury to Exum came during training camp in Las Vegas. Exum had the surgery on Tuesday. The 29-year-old Australian averaged 7.8 points in 55 games with 17 starts last regular season.

Goaltender Ullmark, Senators reach deal

The Ottawa Senators signed goaltender Linus Ullmark, the 2023 Vezina Trophy winner, to a four-year contract extension worth $33 million. The contract was announced the day before the Senators season opener against the Florida Panthers.

Panel approves shorter transfer portal windows

The NCAA’s Division I Council approved changes that will shorten the transfer portal windows for football and basketball from 45 to 30 days while keeping an additional 30-day window in all sports after the departure of a head coach.

Football’s current fall portal window runs Dec. 9 to Jan. 7, 2025 and April 16-30 in the spring. The new fall window will be 20 days after Bowl Subdivision conference championships from Dec. 9-28, with the remaining 10 days occurring from April 16-25 next spring.

Basketball’s current window of March 17-April 30, 2025, will shorten to 30 days after the second round of the NCAA Tournament.

• Georgia coach Kirby Smart placed wide receiver Colbie Young on indefinite suspension, one day after Young’s arrest following an altercation with a woman.

Young was arrested Tuesday on two charges of battery and one charge of assault on an unborn child following the altercation with a 20-year-old woman who described herself to Athens-Clarke County Police as Young’s ex-girlfriend.

“I got to speak to him this morning, you know, and he’s been suspended indefinitely until this legal matter is resolved,” Smart said on the weekly Southeastern Conference coaches conference call.

“We can’t really comment any further on the specifics of it,” he said, “but had a good meeting with him this morning, and we’re committed to continuing to educate our players and and do the best job we can of making sure they understand the the serious nature of these incidents. And it’s very unfortunate.”

Young was released from the Athens-Clarke County jail on $3,800 bond Tuesday afternoon. He is not expected to be available when No. 5 Georgia plays Mississippi State on Saturday as he faces the misdemeanor charges.

Sinner advances over Shelton in Shanghai

Jannik Sinner avenged his defeat to Ben Shelton in the fourth round of last year’s Shanghai Masters with a 6-4, 7-6 (1) to spoil the 22-year-old American’s birthday.

Sinner will play fifth-ranked Daniil Medvedev, who earlier beat long-time rival Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-6 (3), 6-3, in a match where the Greek player launched into a minutes-long rant against the chair umpire Fergus Murphy over a time violation call and initially refused to continue playing.

“You have never played tennis in your life. You have no clue about tennis, it seems like,” Tsitsipas said to Murphy. “Definitely you’ve had no career. You probably played serve-and-volley every single time.

“Anyways, tennis is a physical sport and we need some time over there. You have to show some compassion because you aren’t showing any. It’s a physical sport. We are not throwing darts out here, OK?

“If it’s going to be unfair, I need to talk to the supervisor. You seem like you have no idea what you’re doing,” Tsitsipas continued as the crowd began to slow clap.

Second-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, who won the China Open in a thriller over Sinner last week, made it 12 straight wins with a testing 6-4, 7-5 victory over French veteran Gael Monfils to advance to the quarterfinals.