Soccer

Timbers U23 playing in Bend — The Portland Timbers U23 team will play Lane FC United at Summit High School in Bend on Thursday. The game begins at 7 p.m. The Timbers, who are based in Salem, are an amateur team affiliated with Major League Soccer’s Portland Timbers. The team is made up of collegiate players and competes in the United Soccer League’s Premier Development League. Tickets cost $9 for adults and $5 for children and are available at www.timbersu23.com/product/june-14th-vs-lane-bend-or.

COLLEGE

NCAA eases rules on athlete transfers — College athletes will no longer need permission from their coach or school to transfer and receive financial aid from another school. The NCAA Division I Council on Wednesday approved the change, effective Oct. 15. The council also decided that Division I football players will be allowed to play in up to four games in a season without losing a year of eligibility if they can no longer play because of injuries “or other factors.” The long-awaited transfer reform ended up being a narrow change, but it should provide more freedom for athletes to transfer when and where they want. Under the new rule, athletes would be permitted to be contacted when they notify their current coaches, who have two days to enter the names into a database created and managed by the NCAA that will alert schools who can be recruited. The change will come with stricter tampering rules to help appease coaches who worry that illegal recruiting could rise. Even with the new rule, conferences could still restrict athletes from transferring within the league.

BOXING

Last-ditch efforts revive Golovkin-Alvarez rematch — Less than two hours after saying Gennady Golovkin-Canelo Alvarez II was off the table, Alvarez’s promoter, Oscar De La Hoya, reversed course and said a last-ditch effort to stage the rematch worked. After months of bickering, the two prize fighters have agreed to terms and will finally square off on Sept. 15. The rematch is scheduled to come nearly a year to the day of their first meeting, a draw at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, the planned site for the rematch. De La Hoya’s announcement late Wednesday capped an afternoon of suspense – real, imagined, perhaps both. Golden Boy had given Golovkin a 3 p.m. ET deadline to accept what the promoter called its final offer. “No fight. There is no fight,” De La Hoya told ESPN shortly after the deadline passed. Around the same time, Tom Loeffler, Golovkin’s promoter, told the Los Angeles Times the two fighters “haven’t come to a deal.” Despite the tough talk from Alvarez’s camp, the two sides did not break off communication, and two hours later, the fighters had apparently ironed out their differences. Terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed, but both likely stand to earn comfortable eight-figure purses when all the tickets are sold and pay-per-view buys counted.

FOOTBALL

Terps lineman dies after being hospitalized — Jordan McNair, a University of Maryland football player hospitalized after an organized team workout two weeks ago, died Wednesday. Maryland executive athletic director Damon Evans said McNair was hospitalized May 29. He was 19. The school would not disclose the cause of death. McNair was a 6-foot-4, 325-pound offensive lineman preparing for his sophomore season. A graduate of McDonogh High School, McNair played one game last season. After leading McDonogh to an 8-3 record as a senior, McNair chose Maryland over Ohio State, Auburn, Penn State and Rutgers. In a statement, Maryland coach D.J. Durkin said, “Our team is heartbroken with the loss of Jordan McNair. Jordan was an incredible young man, and his passion and enthusiasm made him an invaluable and beloved member of our team.”

GOLF

PGA president arrested on DUI charge — PGA of America President Paul Levy is facing a misdemeanor DUI charge after veering off a road in California and hitting a sign last week. The PGA of America says it will support Levy as he seeks counseling and deals with the consequences of his arrest. Palm Desert police says Levy was on Highway 111 late Thursday when he veered off the road and struck the sign. A report from the sheriff’s office says he was not injured, but police said he showed symptoms of being under the influence of alcohol. He was taken to a hospital as a precaution, and then booked into the Riverside County Jail. He faces an Aug. 2 court date. Levy, who was general manager of Toscana Country Club in Indian Wells, took over as PGA president in November 2016. This is his final year of a two-year term.

— From wire reports