Beavers will have to wait

WHEELING, W.Va. — Beaver Local’s softball team will have to wait a bit for its OVAC Class 4A championship game.

Due to wet field conditions at the I-470 Complex, the top-seeded Beavers and No. 3 seed Weir will play on Monday. A game time was not assigned.

Fuline to join Calhoun in Cincy

CINCINNATI –University of Mount Union head men’s basketball coach Mike Fuline resigned on Thursday to take an assistant coaching position under new University of Cincinnati head coach Jerrod Calhoun.

Fuline served in his role at Mount for 15 years where he won a program record 285 games including five NCAA Div. III tournament appearances and a national-runner up finish in 2023.

Mount Union said it would announce a new coach in the coming weeks.

Fuline is the nephew of former Lisbon boys and girls basketball coach Joe Fuline.

Whitecaps on the move

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — An investment group has come forward to buy the Vancouver Whitecaps and relocate the Major League Soccer club to Las Vegas.

The group is led by Grant Gustavson, grandson of B. Wayne Hughes, the founder of Public Storage. The Whitecaps were put up for sale 16 months ago, but no potential buyers had emerged publicly until Thursday.

“In the coming weeks and months, we look forward to the opportunity to share more, however, out of respect for the league’s deliberations and community stakeholders, we are refraining from sharing details of our proposal,” Gustavson said in a statement. “We look forward to continuing to work for a positive outcome for the game, the fans, the league and Las Vegas.”

Gustavson said the investment group will privately finance the deal to buy the team and relocate it and it is “not connected to any of the recently announced arena ideas in Las Vegas.”

LIV Golf funding pulled

Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund officially pulled the plug on future funding for LIV Golf on Thursday, leaving the rival league to find a new path without the largesse that helped it launch four years ago as a threat to the golf establishment.

Staff and players have been aware for the last two weeks the Public Investment Fund was only going to support LIV Golf through the end of this year. LIV responded with a new board and a plan to diversify into an investment model with hopes of finding long-term partners.

Yasir Al-Rumayyan, the PIF governor who was behind the creation of LIV Golf, is no longer listed as chairman of LIV Golf amid reports he has resigned from that role.

“PIF has made the decision to fund LIV Golf only for the remainder of the 2026 season,” PIF said in a statement. “The substantial investment required by LIV Golf over a longer term is no longer consistent with the current phase of PIF’s investment strategy.”