BASKETBALL

Sterling sues wife — Donald Sterling opened a third legal front in his battle with his wife and the NBA over control of the Los Angeles Clippers, charging his wife, the NBA and commissioner Adam Silver with defrauding him when they moved to sell the team. In a lawsuit filed in Tuesday afternoon, Sterling asked for an injunction to freeze the $2 billion sale and for unspecified damages. The action claims that Donald Sterling’s dismantling of the Sterling Family Trust on June 9 precluded his wife, Shelly Sterling, from taking any action to sell the team. Her moves to have him declared mentally incapacitated and to sell to Ballmer before that relied on fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract and inflicted emotional distress on the longtime Clippers owner, his lawsuit contends.

Blazers F Robinson has surgery — Portland Trail Blazers forward Thomas Robinson has undergone surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right thumb. Robinson hurt his thumb last week during NBA Summer League play. He is expected to return in time for the Blazers’ fall training camp. The 6-foot-10 forward averaged 4.8 points and 4.4 rebounds in 70 games this past season with the Blazers.

FOOTBALL

Winona State player dies during workout — Campus officials say a football player at Winona State in Minnesota who recently transferred from Illinois has died while working out with teammates. Winona State said in a news release that Shawn Afryl, 22, died Monday during a workout on campus. Information about his cause of death was not immediately available. School officials said the 6-foot-3, 310-pound offensive lineman had recently enrolled after his transfer.

Paterno’s son sues Penn State — Joe Paterno’s son is suing Penn State, saying that his reputation was destroyed when the school fired him and another assistant football coach in the midst of the Jerry Sandusky investigation. In the suit, filed Monday, Joseph “Jay” Paterno and Bill Kenney argue that they were collateral damage from the siege of bad publicity for the university after Sandusky was indicted for child sex abuse in November 2011 and the elder Paterno was dismissed after decades as head coach. Jay Paterno and Kenney were fired in January 2012, shortly after the announcement that the school had hired a new head coach, the suit alleges. At the time, it had been reported that Jay Paterno chose to leave Penn State. The lawsuit, which is seeking at least $1 million in damages for emotional distress and loss of earnings, argues that although the assistant coaches were never implicated of wrongdoing in the Sandusky investigation, the timing of their firings stigmatized them in the eyes of potential employers.

BASEBALL

A’s sign 10-year lease to remain in Oakland — After months of wrangling and public spats, the Oakland Athletics and the city they have called home for nearly a half century agreed to a lease extension that could keep the team at Oakland County Coliseum through 2024. The deal must still win approval next week from the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, but the county’s support has never been in doubt.

— From wire reports