A woman is suing former Lakers player and coach Byron Scott, accusing him of sexually assaulting her during a team event at her high school in 1987, when he was 26 and she was 15.

The lawsuit first filed in December 2022 and amended on May 1 accuses Scott of sexual battery and false imprisonment. Scott, 64, fought to have his name removed from court documents, but a judge denied his request to be identified only as “John Doe.” The updated complaint named him publicly for the first time.

During a visit from the Lakers, the alleged victim was attending summer classes at Campbell Hall High in Los Angeles when “she was sexually assaulted by Byron Scott in a locked janitor’s closet in the high school gymnasium,” according to the court filing. Scott was a Lakers player at the time.

The lawsuit was filed in 2022 under a California law that temporarily allowed older cases to be filed for underage plaintiffs. That law required the defendant to remain anonymous until certain thresholds were crossed.

Scott’s attorney, Linda Bauermeister, said her client doesn’t deny that sexual contact occurred, but maintains he thought the girl was of legal age.

“Our client is devastated by this complaint,” Bauermeister said in a statement Wednesday. “Our client believed the plaintiff to be over 18 and had no idea she would claim otherwise until 35 years later. He respects girls and women, and the claims have blindsided him and his family.”

Scott was married to his first wife, Anita Scott, at the time of the alleged assault. They had three children and divorced in 2014.

The lawsuit said the alleged assault occurred in the summer of 1987 when the Lakers were at the school to film an instructional basketball video in the gym and meet with students, parents and faculty members.

A judge ruled last August that Scott could be identified, and last week the plaintiffs’ attorneys filed the amended complaint naming him. The suit also names Campbell Hall High, accusing school officials of negligence for failing to protect the girl. It demands a trial by jury and over $25,000 for damages including loss of earnings and attorney fees to be paid by Scott and the school. A message was sent Wednesday to school officials seeking comment on the lawsuit.

NFL

The Pittsburgh Steelers have run out patience with wide receiver George Pickens, agreeing on a trade that sends the talented but mercurial 24-year-old to the Dallas Cowboys. The Steelers will get a third-round pick in the 2026 draft and a fifth-rounder in 2027. The Cowboys get a sixth-round choice in two years.

The Jacksonville Jaguars released veteran receiver Gabe Davis, moving on nearly 14 months after signing him to a three-year, $39 million contract in free agency. Davis, 26, is still recovering from a torn meniscus in his left knee sustained in mid-November and likely would have started the season on the physically unable to perform list.

The Rams announced their plan to hold their mandatory minicamp in Maui, Hawaii’s second-largest island, on June 16-19. The camp will feature two days of on-field workouts at War Memorial Stadium in Wailuku, with one day open to the public.

The Rams will also host a football clinic for local youth teams, and Rams players and staff will join Habitat for Humanity to rebuild four homes in Lahaina, which was largely destroyed by wildfires in 2023.

COLLEGE SPORTS

Guard Rodney Rice is joining USC after reaching the Sweet 16 with Maryland this past season. Rice started 32 of 36 games, averaging 13.8 points for the Terrapins.

Utah quarterback Cam Rising is giving up football — at least for the foreseeable future — because of his struggle to recover from a hand injury early last season.

“I have been advised by two orthopedic surgeons that I will never be able to return to playing football,” Rising wrote in a social media post in which he announced that he “will be forced to medically retire from the game I love.”

Rising added that he will seek a third medical opinion and proceed with recommended surgery and rehab, but stopped short of indicating that he foresees a path to playing again.

Rising, a former Newbury Park High standout, played parts of four seasons at Utah between 2020 and 2024. He passed for 2,493 yards and 20 touchdowns in 2021 and followed that up with 3,034 and 26 TDs in a 2022 season that landed the Utes in the Rose Bowl. But a knee injury in the bowl game sidelined Rising for all of 2023.

Police have charged Florida cornerback Dijon Johnson with two felonies, including possession of a firearm, and two misdemeanors after his arrest over the weekend while driving a car in Tampa.

Police said they pulled over the car Friday for surpassing a stop signal. Officers detected a “strong odor of burned marijuana” and said Johnson was argumentative during the traffic stop, refusing to exit the gray Dodge Challenger, according to the criminal report filed in Hillsborough County.

Johnson was removed from the car and placed into custody. They searched the vehicle and found marijuana and 8 grams of synthetic marijuana inside a backpack. A black Glock 19 loaded with 17 rounds in a magazine also was found in the car, according to the report.

SOCCER

Paris Saint-Germain weathered one attack after another and showed remarkable adaptability to hold off and defeat an inspired Arsenal 2-1 to reach the Champions League final. Deprived of the ball possession it usually enjoys, PSG looked shaky early on but found answers by relying on counter-attacks and goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma to advance 3-1 on aggregate.

PSG reached the final of Europe’s elite tournament for just the second time in club history — it was runner-up five years ago — and did so in the first season following superstar Kylian Mbappé’s departure to Real Madrid.

Police carried out an overnight raid at a Buenos Aires health clinic to seize Diego Maradona’s complete medical records following a court order during the trial of seven healthcare professionals accused of negligence in the former soccer star’s death.

Pablo Dimitroff, the medical director at Los Olivos clinic, testified that Maradona underwent pre-surgical studies, and the operation was performed by a neurosurgeon at that center without complications. Those studies were not included in Maradona’s medical history and trial judges ordered the raid to seize all Maradona files dated between Nov. 3 and 11, 2020.

Maradona had surgery for a hematoma that formed between his skull and brain and stayed in intensive care at Olivos between Nov. 4-11. He then was sent recover to a private home where he died on Nov. 25 of 2020 at age 60.

U.S. women’s national team forward Mallory Swanson is expecting her first child with husband Dansby Swanson, shortstop for the Boston Red Sox. The couple announced the pregnancy on Instagram. Mallory Swanson, 27, was on the U.S. team that won the 2019 Women’s World Cup, and the gold medal at last summer’s Paris Olympics. She scored the lone goal in the 1-0 victory over Brazil in the Olympic final for the gold medal.