Briefly: Oskar Lindblom, stricken with cancer, skates with his Flyers teammates

Philadelphia Flyers forward Oskar Lindblom skated with the team Tuesday in one of the few times he's hit the ice since he was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer.

Lindblom has been ruled out of play should the NHL season resume. He said he was down to his final chemotherapy treatments.

Lindblom, 23, has Ewing's sarcoma, a cancerous tumor that grows in the bones. He had 11 goals and 18 points in 30 games this season.

"It's fun to be out there, but it's still tough to not be as good as used to be when you're like normal," Lindblom said of skating at the Flyers' complex in Voorhees, N.J.

Lindblom said he can see "light in the tunnel" when it comes to his treatments. "People have it worse," he said.

Flyers General Manager Chuck Fletcher said it was great that Lindblom could skate about six months after he was diagnosed with cancer.

"He looked really good on the ice, his hands are still there," Fletcher said. "It is remarkable to think that with all the treatments that he has had he was able to go out there today and still show the skill and still have the stamina to skate for about 35-40 minutes. It's a great sign for him and very exciting to think that with all going well in the future he's going to return to play for us."

"Marge Schott's record of racism and bigotry stands at stark odds with our university's core commitment to dignity, equity and inclusion," school President Neville G. Pinto said.

As Reds owner, Schott was repeatedly suspended and ultimately ousted by Major League Baseball for racist slurs and praise of Adolf Hitler.

West Virginia placed defensive coordinator Vic Koenning on administrative leave after a player alleged in a social media post that he made a series of insensitive remarks, including against Hispanics.

Kerry Martin, a sophomore, said he posted on Twitter about Koenning after Koenning talked to the team Monday about the nationwide racial justice protests. Martin said Koenning's "exact words were 'if people did not want to get tear gassed, or push back by the police then they shouldn't be outside protesting.' "

Two players at Liberty, an evangelical college in Virginia, entered the transfer portal, citing concerns about racial insensitivity by the school's leadership. Kei'Trel Clark and Tayvion Land, sophomore defensive backs who are black, announced their intentions on Twitter.

WNBA: Tiffany Hayes became the second Atlanta guard to announce she would skip the 2020 season. Hayes, a 2018 all-WNBA first-team selection, said sitting out "is in my best interest with everything going on right now."

NFL: Martha Firestone Ford is turning over ownership of the Detroit Lions to her daughter, Sheila Ford Hamp. Ford, 94, had been in charge of the Lions since 2014, when her husband, William Clay Ford, died. … New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, who retired after the 2019 season, won the Pro Football Writers of America's Good Guy Award for his cooperation with the media.