Guard Ryan Cornish has transferred to USC from Dartmouth, where he played basketball for four seasons.

Cornish started 23 of 27 games for the Big Green as a senior, averaging 17.1 points and 4.9 rebounds to earn All-Ivy League first-team honors. He finished his time there with 1,014 points.

“Ryan is a combo guard that can give us versatility at both guard spots,” Trojans coach Eric Musselman said. “He is a proven scorer who can not only knock down the 3-ball, but he also does an excellent job of drawing free throw attempts.”

Cornish is the ninth player to sign with the Trojans as Musselman remakes his roster for next season.

Utah Valley is joining the Big West Conference for the 2026-27 athletic year, giving the league a presence in that state for the first time since Utah State ended a 27-year run in 2005.

The conference said it remained open to the possibility of adding a 12th member but anticipated being an 11-school league when Utah Valley and California Baptist officially join July 1, 2026.

The Big West doesn’t have football, and Hawaii and UC Davis are leaving to join the Mountain West Conference in 2026-27. Hawaii has been a football-only member of the Mountain West since 2012. UC Davis has been a football-only member of the Big Sky Conference.

Utah Valley is leaving the Western Athletic Conference, and the Wolverines will compete in 13 Big West-sponsored sports, including men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and softball.

Utah Valley will be the largest school in the Big West with an enrollment of 47,000. Barring further realignment, Utah Valley will replace Hawaii as the only school in the conference outside California.

NFL

The Chargers signed Bud Dupree to a two-year contract worth as much as $6 million in May 2024, with the goal of adding experience, leadership and skill to their stable of standout edge rushers.

The team announced it had signed him to a one-year contract extension for identical reasons.

Dupree’s new deal is reportedly worth up to $6 million for the 2026 season.

It became all the more important to retain Dupree after the Chargers released veteran edge rusher Joey Bosa earlier this year. Bosa, who had played each of his nine seasons in the NFL with the Chargers dating to his draft year of 2016, signed a one-season contract worth as much as $12.6 million with Buffalo.

Dupree, 32, spent six seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, two with the Tennessee Titans and one with the Atlanta Falcons before signing with the Chargers last year. He had six sacks and one interception in 17 games, playing a depth role beyond Bosa, Khalil Mack and Tuli Tuipulotu.

— Elliott Teaford

NBA

The Phoenix Suns hired Cleveland Cavaliers assistant Jordan Ott as their head coach, opting for a young, emerging leader to rebuild a franchise that has regressed over the past few seasons, multiple sources reported.

Ott will be the team’s fourth head coach in four seasons and replaces Mike Budenholzer, who was fired following a 36-46 season that ended without a trip to the playoffs despite the high-priced trio of Devin Booker, Kevin Durant and Bradley Beal.

Ott, 40, has worked for the Lakers, Atlanta Hawks, Brooklyn Nets, and the Cavaliers. He also worked as a video coordinator under Tom Izzo at Michigan State, which is where Suns owner Mat Ishbia played as a walk-on from 1999 to 2003.

NHL

Dan Muse is the new head coach of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The Penguins hired the former New York Rangers assistant, tasking him with helping the franchise navigate a rebuild during the twilight of longtime captain Sidney Crosby’s career.

Muse replaces Mike Sullivan. Sullivan and the Penguins split in April after a nearly decade-long tenure that included a pair of Stanley Cup titles. The Rangers quickly scooped up Sullivan, naming him their coach in early May.

Muse, 42, was hired after a monthlong search by Penguins general manager and director of hockey operations Kyle Dubas. Muse’s hiring leaves the Boston Bruins as the last of eight teams with offseason head coaching vacancies.

Nikita Kucherov of the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Ted Lindsay award as the NHL’s most outstanding player as chosen by his peers.

The NHL Players’ Association announced the honor. Kucherov and Colorado teammates Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar were the finalists for the trophy as voted on by members of the NHLPA.

Kucherov was the league’s leading scorer with 121 points on 37 goals and 84 assists. He is also a finalist for the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player along with Edmonton forward Leon Draisaitl and Winnipeg goalie Connor Hellebuyck.

The 31-year-old Russian winger is a back-to-back Art Ross Trophy winner after also leading the NHL in points last season. He took home the Hart in 2019 and helped Tampa Bay win the Stanley Cup in 2020 and ‘21.

Zach Hyman said his right wrist got dislocated late last round, an injury that is sidelining one of the Edmonton Oilers’ most valuable forwards for the Stanley Cup Final against the Florida Panthers.

Hyman sported a brace on his right arm after undergoing surgery last week to repair the damage caused by a hit from Dallas’ Mason Marchment in Game 4 of the Western Conference final.

“I knew it wasn’t good when I got hit,” Hyman said. “Right away, I just felt my wrist kind of go on me. ... Quickly realized when I saw the doctors it’s something that needed surgery and something that I wasn’t going to be able to play through.”

The Colorado Avalanche shored up their depth at center by bringing back Brock Nelson on a three-year deal. It is worth $22.5 million, multiple sources reported.

The extension keeps Nelson, 33, with the Avalanche through the 2027-28 NHL season at an annual salary cap hit of $7.5 million. Colorado picked up Nelson in a trade with the New York Islanders on March 6.

Nelson played in 19 games with Colorado to finish the regular season with six goals and seven assists, and had four assists in the team’s first-round playoff exit vs. Dallas.

SOCCER

Zack Steffen injured a knee and became the second goalkeeper dropped from U.S. training camp ahead of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

Steffen was hurt during training Tuesday, returned to the Colorado Rapids for more exams and will miss the tournament, the U.S. Soccer Federation said.

Columbus goalkeeper Patrick Schulte injured an oblique on May 24.

Matt Turner, the No. 1 American goalkeeper for the past three years, remains in camp along with Chris Brady and Matt Freese, who both have never played for the national team.

SWIMMING

Night 2 of the U.S. National Championships, which serve as the selection meet for the World Championships, wrapped up with a bang in the women’s 50 butterfly in Indianapolis.

In the final event of the night, Virginia’s Gretchen Walsh clocked an American record and U.S. Open record of 24.66, undercutting her own previous marks of 24.93 from last month. That swim had marked the first time in her career she’d broken the 25-second barrier, and it made her just the second woman ever to enter that time range.

Previously, Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom, the six-time defending world champion in the event, had been the only swimmer under 25 seconds. Sjostrom, who is sitting out this season after announcing her pregnancy, still holds the world record at 24.43 from 2014.

Walsh remains the second-fastest woman in history and now owns the fourth-fastest performance all-time, moving up from 13th in that department.

U.S. swimmer Claire Curzan made an emotional return to the U.S. trials, winning the women’s 200-meter backstroke from lane 1 to stamp her ticket to this summer’s World Championships and start to erase missing out on last year’s Olympic Games in Paris.

She clocked a 2:05.09 for the win, three-quarters of a second clear of Regan Smith, the Paris 2024 silver medalist in the event, who touched at 2:05.84. Leah Shackley rounded out the top three at 2:06.66.

A year ago, the 20-year-old entered the U.S. Olympic trials fresh off four medals at the 2024 World Championships in Doha but left heartbroken.

Curzan missed the U.S. Olympic team narrowly – recording a third-place finish in the 200 back finals and fourth in the 100m butterfly, when the top two advanced.

Claire Weinstein, 18, used a late kick to push past nine-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky in the women’s 200 freestyle final.

Fourth at the halfway mark, Weinstein turned it on in the second 100 to clock a 1:54.92, the fastest time globally in 2025, holding off Ledecky who had surged from fourth position after 50 meters.

The Olympic legend touched the wall at 1:55.26, while Torri Huske rounded out the top three at 1:55.71.

Ledecky, the women’s 200 meters Olympic champion in Rio, didn’t swim the individual 200 last summer at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 and is likely entered in Indy in order to contend for a spot on Team USA’s relay squad.

BOXING

The Kronk Gym where Detroit boxing royalty sweated on the road to glory is expected to reopen this summer in a building where Hall of Famer Joe Louis once trained.

The Brewster Wheeler Recreation Center will be the gym’s new home, city leaders and the team behind the project told reporters.