BASKETBALL

NCAA adopts college basketball reforms for draft — College basketball players who go undrafted by the NBA will be allowed to return to school and play as part of sweeping NCAA reforms in the wake of a corruption scandal. The NCAA announced Wednesday that its Board of Governors and Division I Council adopted a “series of significant policy and legislative changes, setting in motion actions to change the structure of the NCAA fundamentally.” The changes reflect the recommendations made in April by the Rice Commission and will target summer recruiting camps, agent access for players and stiffer penalties for rule breakers. The Rice Commission, led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, was formed in response to an FBI investigation into payments from shoe companies to coaches for steering players to certain schools.

GOLF

Australian golfer Jarrod Lyle dies after cancer battle — Australian golfer Jarrod Lyle has died after a long struggle with cancer. He was 36. Golf Australia released a statement from Briony Lyle on Thursday, saying her husband had died overnight. Briony Lyle says “It breaks my heart to tell everyone that Jarrod is no longer with us. He passed away peacefully at 8:20 p.m. last night having spent his final week among his family and close friends.” Lyle, who won twice on the Nationwide Tour in 2008, was first diagnosed with leukemia as a teenager and suffered recurrences of the disease in 2012 and 2017. Earlier this month Briony Lyle said her husband had “reached his limit” and had opted not to seek further treatment.

TENNIS

Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal win in Toronto — Four-time champion Novak Djokovic and top-seeded Rafael Nadal advanced to the third round of the rainy Rogers Cup on Wednesday. Djokovic, coming off his fourth Wimbledon title, beat Canadian wild-card Peter Polansky 6-3, 6-4. The Serb had seven aces and never faced a break point in the one-hour, 25-minute match that just beat the afternoon rain. Nadal, playing for the first time since a five-set loss to Djokovic in the Wimbledon semifinals, topped France’s Benoit Paire 6-2, 6-3 at night after a series of rain delays. A former world No. 1, Djokovic is seeded ninth in the event he last won in 2016. “I thought I served well in the moments when I really need it,” Djokovic said. “I thought I found pretty good accuracy and angles with the first serve, and also my second serve worked pretty well. Overall, my game was so-and-so. In the moments when I probably needed to step it up, I did.”

— From wire reports