Diana Taurasi is retiring after 20 seasons, ending one of the greatest careers in women’s basketball history.

The WNBA’s career scoring leader and a three-time league champion, Taurasi announced her retirement on Wednesday in an interview with Time magazine.

With her taut hair bun and supreme confidence, Taurasi inspired a generation of players while racking up records and championships.

Taurasi led UConn to three straight national titles from 2001-04 and kept on winning after the Mercury selected her with the No. 1 overall pick of the 2004 WNBA draft.

The 42-year-old won her sixth Olympic gold medal at the Paris Games and finishes her WNBA career with 10,646 points, nearly 3,000 more than second-place Tina Charles.

In addition to her three WNBA championships with the Mercury, Taurasi won six Euroleague championships while playing year-round most of her career. She was the 2009 WNBA MVP and is one of four players to earn WNBA Finals MVP honors more than once (2009, 2014).

NFL

Bills extend Shakir >> Buffalo Bills receiver Khalil Shakir agreed to a four-year contract extension worth up to $60.2 million that locks him up through the 2029 season, $32 million of the contract is guaranteed.

The 25-year-old Shakir led Buffalo with 76 catches and 821 yards — both career highs — while scoring four touchdowns last season, helping fill a major void after the Bills traded Stefon Diggs to Houston in April.

Overall, Shakir has 125 catches for 1,593 yards and seven touchdowns in 46 games, including 21 starts.

Browns GM ‘no interest’ on trading Garrett >> Cleveland Browns general manager Andrew Berry insisted the team is not interested in trading star defensive end Myles Garrett despite his request to be dealt.

Berry had previously said the team would not deal Garrett, adding he anticipated Garrett going directly from the Browns to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Garrett went public with his trade request just over three weeks ago, saying he wanted “to compete for and win a Super Bowl.” The Browns finished last in the AFC North at 3-14 this past season.

Garrett, the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 2023, was a finalist for the award again. His 14 sacks ranked second in the league, and he became the first player in NFL history to have 14 or more sacks in four consecutive seasons.

Commanders give Allen permission to seek trade >> The Washington Commanders have given two-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Jonathan Allen permission to seek a trade.

General manager Adam Peters confirmed the decision at his news conference in Indianapolis at the NFL scouting combine. Peters said he wanted to give Allen and agent Blake Baratz a chance to figure out the best path forward.

Allen is going into the final season of a four-year, $72 million extension signed in 2021. There is no guaranteed money owed to the 30-year-old veteran, making him a candidate to be released this spring if an extension is not in place to reduce Allen’s 2025 salary cap hit of more than $22 million.

2 time All-Pro Peters retires, joins Seahawks front office >> Nine-time Pro Bowler and two-time first-team All-Pro offensive tackle Jason Peters is retiring after 21 NFL seasons and transitioning into a front office role with Seattle, Seahawks GM John Schneider said.

Speaking at the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, Schneider said Peters will serve as an assistant to Mo Kelly, the Seahawks’ vice president of player affairs. The 43-year-old Peters spent the past two years in Seattle, where he appeared in eight games in 2023 and spent last season on the practice squad before landing on injured reserve in December.

Dolphins’ Hill has surgery on wrist >> Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill recently had surgery to repair ligament damage in his wrist but is expected to be available for training camp, coach Mike McDaniel said at the NFL scouting combine.

McDaniel clarified that Hill’s wrist wasn’t broken, as his agent had said earlier, but rather had a “ligament issue” that required surgery.

NBA

Heat’s Jovic out at least 4 weeks >> Nikola Jovic will miss at least the next four weeks with a broken bone in his right hand, a blow to the team’s hopes of securing a guaranteed playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.

Jovic broke the second metacarpal in his hand during Sunday’s game at Milwaukee and was diagnosed with the fracture at halftime. He didn’t play on Monday at Atlanta and was evaluated by Heat chief of hand surgery Elizabeth Ann Ouellette and team physician Harlan Selesnick on Tuesday, after which the four-week timetable was determined.

College football

Hall of Fame coach Fusco dies at 87 >> College Football Hall of Fame coach Joe Fusco, who won four NAIA Division II national championships in 19 years at Westminster College, has died at 87.

Fusco coached Westminster from 1972-90 and won national titles in 1976, 1977, 1988 and 1989. The Titans won 21 of 22 games in the 1976-77 seasons and had the nation’s longest winning streak with 27 consecutive victories over the 1988-89 seasons.

Baseball

Dodgers deferred money reaches over $1 billion >> The Los Angeles Dodgers owe $1.051 billion in deferred pay to eight players from 2028-46 following Tanner Scott’s $72 million, four-year contract and Teoscar Hernández’s $66 million, three-year deal.

Los Angeles’ high payment point is $100.95 million in both 2038 and ‘39, according to details obtained by The Associated Press.

Major League Baseball proposed during collective bargaining on June 21, 2021, to put an end to the practice, but the players’ association rejected the change.

College sports

Stanford athletic director Muir steps down >> Stanford athletic director Bernard Muir plans to resign after 13 years on the job.

Muir took over from Bob Bowlsby in July 2012 and oversaw an athletic department that won dozens of national titles but struggled in recent years in the high-profile sports of football and men’s basketball.

Muir also oversaw the Cardinal’s transition to the ACC this past year after the school’s long-term home, the Pac-12, broke apart.

Tennis

Three days after Doha title Rublev exits Dubai Championships >> Third-seeded Andrey Rublev followed up his Qatar Open title with a first-round exit at the Dubai Championships, losing to qualifier Quentin Halys 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

For the 77th-ranked Halys, who next faces Roberto Bautista Agut, it was his first victory over a top-10 opponent.

The ninth-ranked Rublev had won the Dubai title in 2022. On Saturday, he beat Jack Draper to win the Qatar Open.

Also Tuesday, top-seeded Daniil Medvedev beat Jan-Lennard Struff 6-4, 7-6 (4) and will next face Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.