Sports briefly: Ndamukong Suh signs with Rams

March 27, 2018 at 4:33AM

Defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh, who had been the most sought-after free agent still on the market, agreed to a one-year contract with the Los Angeles Rams on Monday.

Suh was released by the Dolphins earlier this month when he declined to restructure his contract after three seasons in Miami. He became the highest-paid defensive player in NFL history when he signed his six-year, $114 million deal with the Dolphins.

Suh's deal with the Rams is worth $14 million, according to the NFL Network and ESPN.

Suh is a five-time Pro Bowl selection during his eight-year career. He has 51 sacks and has never missed a game because of injury. He was suspended for two games in 2011 for stomping on an opponent's head.

Bennett turns himself in

• Philadelphia All-Pro defensive end Michael Bennett surrendered to authorities in Houston on a charge that he injured a paraplegic woman as he tried to get onto the field after last year's Super Bowl to celebrate with his brother. He made a brief court appearance Monday where the judge set his bond at $10,000 on a felony count of injury to the elderly.

Pro basketball

G League player collapses, dies

Zeke Upshaw, a swingman for the Detroit Pistons' G League affiliate who collapsed on the court during a game over the weekend, died Monday in Grand Rapids, Mich. He was 26.

No cause of death was disclosed. Upshaw collapsed Saturday night near the end of a game against the Long Island Nets.

Upshaw was a 6-6 swingman who played at Illinois State and Hofstra in college.

Crime

Arrest made in Nassar case

William Strampel, a former dean who oversaw Larry Nassar at Michigan State, was arrested amid an investigation into the handling of sexual-assault complaints against the now-imprisoned former sport doctor.

Strampel, 70, is the first to be charged in the scandal besides Nassar. The Ingham County sheriff declined to say what charges Strampel was facing because the probe is being led by the Michigan attorney general's office.

AROUND THE HORN

Tennis: Sloane Stephens took her biggest victory since winning last year's U.S Open, beating No. 3-ranked Garbine Muguruza 6-3, 6-4 to reach the quarterfinals at the Miami Open.

College athletics: Louisville made Vince Tyra its permanent athletic director, removing an interim tag. He took the interim job when Tom Jurich was fired in the wake of a federal corruption investigation of college basketball.

Basketball: Ohio State forward Keita Bates-Diop said he will leave school for the NBA. He was the Big Ten's player of the year, averaging 19.8 points and 8.7 rebounds. …Missouri forward Michael Porter Jr., who appeared in only three games, said he will enter the NBA draft. … Michael Finke and Te'Jon Lucas, each starters at times this season, announced plans to transfer from Illinois.

Yachting: After a 12-hour search, Volvo Race officials said late Monday they were unlikely to find John Fisher, a sailor who had fallen overboard in harsh Southern Ocean conditions 1,400 miles west of Cape Horn. He fell off Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag's sloop.

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