King, a former U.S. road race champion, became the first American stage winner in the event since Taylor Phinney two years ago in Santa Barbara.
Former 49ers running back Jarryd Hayne is eligible to play for the Fiji sevens rugby team at the Olympics and can play as early as the world series event in London this weekend, World Rugby said.
A former Australian Sports Anti-Doping Agency official had expressed doubts on Monday that Hayne would be able to make an immediate transition to rugby because the NFL was not compliant with World Anti-Doping Agency testing requirements.
World Rugby required a player to be in a registered drug-testing pool for six months before becoming eligible, but said the six-months rule does not apply to a player “if they are being selected for international competition for the first time.”
The U.S. opens its tournament schedule against Colombia on June 3 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.
An estimated 240,000 people turned out to watch Leicester’s players parade the Premier League trophy in an open-top bus tour through the streets of the city in central England.
Jim McMillian, who helped the Los Angeles Lakers to a 33-game winning streak and the 1972 NBA championship, died from complications of heart failure in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 68.
Mr. McMillian averaged 15.3 points in three seasons with the Lakers, and later played for the Buffalo Braves, Knicks and Trail Blazers.
Sammy Ellis, an All-Star pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds who forged a second career as a pitching coach for five big-league teams, died of cancer in Florida.
