The Gophers football program picked up another transfer commitment from within the Big Ten Conference.

Purdue defensive tackle Mo Omonode announced his commitment to the U on Tuesday. He follows Iowa cornerback John Nester, who pledged to Minnesota over the weekend.

Omonode played in 33 total games for the Boilermakers over three seasons and appears to have one year of eligibility remaining for Minnesota.

The 6-foot, 286-pound defensive tackle posted 11 tackles and one sack across 286 defensive snaps last season. The West Lafayette, Ind., native also served as captain in three games.

Omonode had 14 tackles and two sacks in 12 games in 2023 and seven tackles in 11 games in his freshman year in 2022.

The Gophers have experienced tackles Deven Eastern and Jalen Logan-Redding in the middle of their defensive front but felt the need to add veteran help going into 2025.

— Andy Greder

Minor league baseball

Saints hit four homers, two grand slams in win

The Saints hit four home runs, two of them were grand slams, in a 16-4 victory over Indianapolis in front of 4,797 fans at CHS Field.

Eight of the Saints’ nine batters recorded hits, five of them at least two, and eight scored runs as St. Paul won for the third time in six games.

Carson McCusker drilled a grand slam to right field, his sixth homer of the season, to give the Saints a 5-1 lead in the first inning, and Ryan Fitzgerald hit one in the eighth to make it 16-4.

Armondo Alvarez and Mickey Gasper also homered, and starter Zebby Matthews danced around seven hits to allow one earned run in 3 2/3 innings. Kyle Bischoff (1-0) earned the victory with one-third of an inning of relief, and Travis Adams pitched four scoreless innings for his second save.

— Staff report

NFL

Kittle no-shows 49ers offseason program

Brock Purdy reported to the start of the offseason program for the San Francisco 49ers, while star tight end George Kittle stayed away from the start of the voluntary program.

Purdy and Kittle are both entering the final years of their contracts and are seeking extensions, leading to speculation about whether they would report for the offseason program.

The Niners have had contract disputes last into the summer the past three seasons.

basketball

Celtics’ star Tatum doubtful for Game 2

The Boston Celtics have listed Jayson Tatum as doubtful for Game 2 of their first-round playoff series against the Magic with a right distal radius bone bruise in his wrist. He suffered the injury late in Game 1 on Sunday on a hard foul from Orlando guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.

Tatum has not missed a playoff game in his eight NBA season.

Boston’s Pritchard wins NBA sixth-man award

Payton Pritchard of the Boston Celtics was the NBA’s sixth man of the year this season.

He was the only player in the NBA with more than 1,000 points in games that he didn’t start. He set the league record for 3-pointers made by a backup.

Pritchard edged out Detroit’s Malik Beasley and Cleveland’s Ty Jerome.

Storm’s Muhl to miss season with ACL tear

Seattle Storm guard Nika Muhl will miss the entire 2025 WNBA season after tearing her ACL while playing in Europe.

The Storm placed Muhl on the suspended list, which allows the team to retain her rights while not having her salary count against the cap and roster limit.

Muhl was chosen with the 14th overall pick in last year’s WNBA draft. She went overseas to play with Turkish club Besiktas, but suffered the torn ACL in her first game.

Media

Patrick, ESPN’s 1st NFL play-by-play man, dies

Mike Patrick, ESPN’s first play-by-play announcer for its NFL coverage, has died. He was 80.

Patrick’s physician confirmed that Patrick passed away in Fairfax, Virginia, on Sunday due to natural causes.

Patrick joined ESPN in 1982, and was with the network for 35 years.

He is best known for his work on ESPN’s “Sunday Night Football” from 1987 through 2005.

hockey

Lamoriello out as Islanders’ GM

Lou Lamoriello is out as president and general manager of the New York Islanders.

The team announced that the longtime NHL executive’s contract was not being renewed. Managing partner John Collins will lead a search to find the Islanders’ next GM.

Lamoriello spent the past seven seasons running their hockey operations with a close connection to ownership. They missed the playoffs this season but qualified five times under Lamoriello’s watch.

The 82-year-old worked as president and GM of the New Jersey Devils from 1987-2015. The Devils won the Stanley Cup three times during that stretch.

Canadians plead not guilty at assault trial

Five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team pleaded not guilty of sexual assault.

Dillon Dube, Carter Hart, Michael McLeod, Cal Foote and Alex Formenton were charged with sexual assault last year for an incident that allegedly took place in June 2018 when they were in London, Ontario, for a Hockey Canada gala celebrating their gold-medal win at that year’s world junior tournament.

McLeod is facing an additional charge of being a party to the offense of sexual assault.

tennis

Agassi to play in US Open pickleball tourney

Andre Agassi, a winner of eight Grand Slam tennis titles before retiring in 2006, will line up alongside teenager Anna Leigh Waters in the mixed pro division at the U.S. Open Pickleball Championships next week.

This will be his first professional pickleball appearance for Agassi, who turns 55 next week.

— From news services