HOCKEY
Wyllum Deveaux, who had 13 goals and 11 assists as a rookie forward last year for the Maine Mariners, has signed to return to the team for a second season.
Deveaux was named the most improved player by the Mariners’ coaching staff and also led the team in community service hours.
Deveaux, who will turn 24 in late August, previously played for Harvard, and the Tri-Cty Storm and Des Moines Buccaneers of the United States Hockey League.
SOCCER
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: Substitute Mattia Zaccagni scored in the last minute of stoppage time for Italy to advance to the knockout stage after drawing Croatia 1-1 at Leipzig, Germany.
Luka Modric’s second-half strike looked like it would send Croatia through as the Group B runner-up, but Zaccagni swept a brilliant shot inside the far post in the eighth minute of added time to cap a furious finale from the defending champions.
• Spain changed almost its entire lineup and still remained undefeated with a 1-0 win at Dusseldorf, Germany, over Albania, which was eliminated.
MLS: The San Jose Earthquakes fired Coach Luchi Gonzalez after the team won only three of its first 19 games this season.
FOOTBALL
NFL: Ed Policy, the Green Bay Packers’ chief operating officer and general counsel, will take over as the team’s president and CEO next year following the retirement of Mark Murphy.
Policy, the son of former San Francisco 49ers and Cleveland Browns president Carmen Policy, will assume the role when the NFL’s only publicly owned franchise holds its shareholders meeting in July 2025. That’s when Murphy, the Packers’ president and CEO since 2008, reaches the mandatory retirement age of 70.
• The Kansas City Chiefs released defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs after two recent arrests in Alabama for animal cruelty.
COLLEGES
FOOTBALL: Iowa receiver Kaleb Brown was arrested for operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and possessing a fake driver’s license early Sunday, police said.
Iowa City police said in a report that Brown, 20, was seen driving a heavily damaged SUV that had a wheel turned “completely sideways.” The report said Brown backed the vehicle onto a lawn and spun the tires. It said he had “bloodshot watery eyes, slurred speech, poor balance and a strong odor of an ingested alcoholic beverage upon his breath.”
• Northwestern held a formal groundbreaking for a new Ryan Field on the site of the demolished stadium.
MARQUETTE: The school will pause its search for a new athletic director until it names a permanent president to replace Michael Lovell, who died two weeks ago.
BASEBALL: Texas parted ways with Coach David Pierce after eight seasons in which the Longhorns won the Big 12 three times but made only three appearances in the College World Series.
OLYMPICS
3×3 BASKETBALL: Dearica Hamby will replace her injured Los Angeles Sparks teammate Cameron Brink on the U.S. team.
Brink tore the ACL in her left knee last week while playing in a WNBA game against the Connecticut Sun.
AUTO RACING
FORMULA ONE: Two men who allegedly tried blackmailing the family of former driver Michael Schumacher were detained earlier this month, German prosecutors said. The suspects allegedly said they had files he wouldn’t want published.
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