Roger Penske attempted to close the latest cheating scandal engulfing his race team — this one at his beloved Indianapolis 500 — by firing his top three executives at Team Penske after two of the Penske cars were found to be illegal.

Penske fired team president Tim Cindric, IndyCar managing director Ron Ruzewski and IndyCar general manager Kyle Moyer in the wake of this Indianapolis 500 cheating scandal.

“Nothing is more important than the integrity of our sport and our race teams,” Penske said in a statement. “We have had organizational failures during the last two years, and we had to make necessary changes. I apologize to our fans, our partners and our organization for letting them down.”

Penske is owner of the three-car team, IndyCar, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indy 500. He has won the Indy 500 a record 20 times.

The firings and Penske’s statement have been his first public reaction since two-time defending Indianapolis 500 winner Josef Newgarden and teammate Will Power were found to have an illegally modified spec part on their cars ahead of Sunday’s final round of qualifications for the 109th running of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.”

WOMEN’S COLLEGE GOLF

Northwestern captured its first NCAA women’s golf title in Carlsbad when Dianna Lee holed a 5-foot par putt on the 18th hole to beat Andrea Revuelta for a 3-2 victory over top-seeded Stanford to end a final hour of high tension.

Stanford advanced through stroke play with a record score to win by 27 shots and was poised to win its third NCAA title in four years and become the first team to win back-to-back since the move to match play in 2017.

Instead, the Wildcats were screaming with delight at at La Costa when Lee — who had twice before missed putts that would have won it — delivered the biggest putt of her life.

Stanford junior Megha Ganne had a 5-and-4 win in the lead match, while Hsin Tai Lin of Northwestern scored a 3-and-2 victory.

COLLEGE BASEBALL

Cal (24-30) held off a furious late-inning rally for a 14-12 win over Wake Forest (36-20) in a second-round ACC tournament game in Durham, N.C.

Ex-Benicia High star Jacob French led Cal’s offense with four hits, three runs and three RBIs to help the Bears take a 14-8 lead into the bottom of the ninth. Wake, though, scored four times and had the winning run at the plate before Cal’s Logan Piper came on to record the final out.

The Bears will play top-seeded and No. 16-ranked Georgia Tech in the quarterfinals at noon today.

MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL

President Donald Trump honored the 2025 NCAA basketball champion Florida Gators at the White House, proclaiming that “lesser teams would have crumbled” during its nail-biting title game victory.

“It was looking bad,” Trump said, noting that Houston led by as many as 12 points in a game Florida rallied to win 65-63 in San Antonio in April. ”Did you think you were going to win?”

Florida (36-4) delivered four come-from-behind victories in six March Madness wins. The Gators led the finale for a total of 64 seconds, including the last 46 ticks of a contest that was in limbo until the final sequence.

Trump recounted Alijah Martin making two free throws to put the Gators ahead to stay with 46.5 seconds left, and asked Martin if he was nervous.

“Lesser teams would have crumbled,” the president said.

The team gave Trump an autographed basketball and No. 47 jersey with his name on the back. The president also hailed the Gators’ 39-year-old coach, former USF coach Todd Golden, as “great” and “young” while joking, “Boy, would I like to be his agent.”

BOXING

Manny Pacquiao is coming out of retirement. The 46-year-old boxing great is scheduled to face WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on July 19, nearly four years after his last professional fight.

Pacquiao’s team announced the comeback last week, just hours after he conceded defeat in a bid for another seat in the Philippines Senate.

Pacquiao won 12 titles in a record eight weight classes from flyweight to super welterweight while becoming one of boxing’s biggest draws. He will be enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame on June 8.

Pacquiao previously planned to end his 26-year boxing career in 2021 with a record of 62-8-2 with 39 knockouts.

He had announced his retirement followed a disheartening defeat to Yordenis Ugas. In what was Pacquiao’s first fight in more than two years, a younger Cuban boxer beat him by unanimous decision to retain the WBA welterweight title.

TENNIS

Novak Djokovic finally won a match on clay this season, beating Marton Fucsovics 6-2, 6-3 in the second round of the rainy Geneva Open.

Djokovic lost his two previous matches on clay in the European spring season, and his next opponent at the warmup event for the French Open is one of those players who beat him.

In the quarterfinals scheduled today, the second-seeded Djokovic will play Matteo Arnaldi who defeated Fabian Marozsan 6-3, 7-6 (3). Arnaldi beat Djokovic at the Madrid Masters.