BASKETBALL

G League salaries will be on the rise for next season

G League salaries are going up next season, to $35,000 for most players and up to $385,000 for those on two-way contracts.

Salaries also can be enhanced through bonuses and call-ups. NBA teams called up 50 players a total of 60 times last season, generating just over $11 million in additional salary.

The G League also says about 25 percent of its players this past season earned an average of $44,000 in affiliate player bonuses. The maximum regular salary in the G League was around $26,000.

There also are pools for G League players who go to the playoffs and win end-of-season awards.

Two-way players next season will earn up to $77,250, topped on days where they’re called up by the prorated NBA rookie salary.

FOOTBALL

NFL: Browns owner Dee Haslam is stepping down as the CEO of her media company to focus more on the NFL franchise and community work in Cleveland.

RIVR Media, which is based in Knoxville, Tennessee, and co-founded by Haslam, announced that Rob Lundgren will become CEO.

• Defensive end Ezekiel Ansah signed his franchise tag, signaling his return to the Detroit Lions.

• Nick Mangold, 34, has made his final snap after 11 years of consistency, toughness and NFL-wide respect as one of the game’s best centers.

The former New York Jets’ star announced his retirement in a post on Twitter . He was selected to seven Pro Bowls and was twice a first-team All-Pro.

Mangold did not play last season after being released by New York in February 2017.

• The NFL, with the cooperation of the NFL Players Association, has prohibited players from wearing 10 models of helmets that performed poorly in laboratory testing of impact absorption, the league said.

SOCCER

GERMAN CUP: Thomas Mueller scored a hat trick as Bayern Munich booked its place in the final with a 6-2 win at Bayer Leverkusen.

Bayern will face Schalke or Eintracht Frankfurt – who meet in the other semifinal on Wednesday.

AUTO RACING

NASCAR: Ford is bringing its Mustang to NASCAR’s top series for the first time.

The American automaker said the Mustang will replace the Fusion in the Monster Energy Cup Series beginning next February at Daytona International Speedway.

This will be Ford’s fourth Cup model in NASCAR’s modern era (since 1972), following the Thunderbird, the Taurus and the Fusion.

ROAD RACING

BOSTON MARATHON: Cancer survivor Mary Shertenlieb wasn’t about to let rain, wind or cold stop her.

Shertenlieb crossed the Boston Marathon finish line at 12:18 a.m. Tuesday, about 13 hours after she started the race.

The leukemia survivor was at mile 15 on Monday when she went to a medical tent, shivering, with purple lips, thinking she had hypothermia.

She called her husband, Rich, and he suggested she come home, take a hot shower, put on dry clothes, then restart the run.

The couple later went back to the spot she stopped and finished together, holding hands.

She raised about $33,000 for cancer research.

– News service report