University of Connecticut women’s basketball announced a five-year contract extension for Coach Geno Auriemma on Tuesday that will keep the Huskies’ legend in Storrs through April 2029.

Auriemma’s deal, valued at $18.7 million over its life, will make him the highest-paid college women’s basketball coach in the country in 2024-25. He will make a total of $3.34 million next season, surpassing LSU head coach Kim Mulkey who made $3.26 million in 2023-24. Auriemma’s base salary of $400,000 will increase by $200,000 annually. He made $3.2 million in 2023-24.

“I never said I was gonna retire. Everybody else wanted me to retire and I wasn’t quite ready to do that,” Auriemma said at the UConn Coaches Road Show on Tuesday.

BASEBALL

NECBL: Connor Ball pitched six scoreless innings, allowing three hits and striking out four to lift the Sanford Mainers to a 2-0 win over the Vermont Mountaineers in their NECBL opener on Tuesday in Montpelier, Vermont.

Matt Miceli hit an RBI triple and scored on a passed ball as Sanford took a 2-0 lead in the fifth inning.

Chris Gallagher pitched two scoreless innings and Aidan Colagrande closed it out for the Mainers.

HOCKEY

NHL: Joe Pavelski says he has no plans to play any more in the NHL after 1,533 games over 18 seasons, and never getting to raise the Stanley Cup.

“This was it for me, like it was known for a while probably,” Pavelski said, two days after the Dallas Stars lost in Game 6 of the Western Conference final for the second year in a row.

Selected 205th overall in the seventh round by the Sharks in the 2003 draft, Pavelski made his NHL debut during the 2006-07 season and went on to score 476 goals with 592 assists in 1,332 regular-season games. This season ended with him being fifth among active players for goals and seventh with 1,068 points.

BASKETBALL

NBA: The Dallas Mavericks have signed General Manager Nico Harrison to a multi-year contract extension with the club headed to the NBA Finals for the first time in 13 years.

The deal for Harrison was announced two days before Game 1 at the Boston Celtics. The Mavs have reached at least the Western Conference finals twice in Harrison’s three seasons.

Dallas extended Harrison’s contract just less than a month after doing the same with Coach Jason Kidd.

GOLF

SCHEFFLER ARREST: Masters champion Scottie Scheffler said he knew five days in advance that charges related to his arrest during the PGA Championship were going to be dismissed. In his mind, that wasn’t the end of the saga but rather the beginning of trying to put it behind him.

Criminal charges were dismissed on May 29, nearly two weeks after images emerged of the world’s No. 1 golfer being arrested and handcuffed outside Valhalla Golf Club in Louisville, Kentucky. Scheffler said his attorney told him on May 24 that dropping the charges had become a formality because “we had a lot of evidence on our side.” But that didn’t mean he had moved past it.

“The charges are dropped, but I still … now it’s almost more appropriate for people to ask me about it,” Scheffler said ahead of the Memorial. “And to be honest with you, it’s not something that I love reliving, just because it was fairly traumatic for me being arrested going into the golf course.

“It was definitely a bit of a relief, but not total relief because that’s something that will always kind of stick with me,” he added. “That mug shot, I’m sure is not going anywhere anytime soon.”