United States star Megan Rapinoe said Wednesday that the world is missing out on the "real potential of women's sports" due to inequalities that still exist, including pay and working conditions.

Rapinoe, who won gold for the U.S. in the 2012 London Summer Olympics, 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup, has been a powerful advocate for equal pay. Her remarks came via video testimony before the House Oversight Committee in Washington for Equal Pay Day.

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"With the lack of proper investment, we don't know the real potential of women's sports," Rapinoe, the captain of the National Women's Soccer League's OL Reign, told lawmakers. "What we know is how successful women's sports have been in the face of discrimination, in the face of a lack of investment in every level in comparison to men."

Rapinoe will join other USWNT members later Wednesday to meet with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden to mark Equal Pay Day.

Rapinoe's comments come on the heels of outrage over inequalities between the NCAA's men's and women's basketball tournaments. She called the discrepancies "completely unacceptable."

On Saturday, the NCAA improved the women's weight training facilities in San Antonio after pictures and videos on social media revealed a stark disparity compared to those at the men's event in the Indianapolis area. The NCAA also faced questions about differences in the "swag bags" given to the men's and women's players, the food options available and the type of COVID-19 testing being done for both. A review has since been promised by NCAA president Mark Emmert.

Rapinoe called out Emmert by name, saying he "and the executives at the NCAA, you just simply have to do better."

"For an organization like the NCAA, similar to the U.S. Soccer Federation, that's a nonprofit, it's just absolutely unacceptable," Rapinoe said. "To say that you value your student-athletes and to have your women's players show up for one rack of dumbbells is just completely unacceptable."

In her prepared opening statement, Rapinoe issued lawmakers a call for equal pay.

"One cannot simply outperform inequality of any kind. I am here today because I know firsthand that this is true," she said.

"The Women's National Team has won four World Cup championships and four Olympic gold medals on behalf of our country. We have filled stadiums, broken viewing records, and sold out jerseys. Yet despite all of this, we are still paid less than men -- for each trophy, each win, each tie, each time we play. Less. And if that can happen to us, to me, with the brightest lights shining on us -- it can, and it does, happen to every person who is marginalized by gender. And we don't have to wait. We don't have to continue to be patient. We can change that today. Right now. We just have to want to."

The USWNT has been in a legal battle with the United States Soccer federation for several years. In May 2020, a federal judge in California ruled in favor of the USSF in the wage discrimination lawsuit, which was filed first in 2019. In December 2020, members of the USWNT agreed to settlement terms for the portion of the lawsuit against U.S. Soccer relating to claims of unequal working conditions.

"Instead of lobbying with the women's team and our efforts for equal pay and equality in general, U.S Soccer Federation has continually lobbied against our efforts and the efforts of billions of people marginalized by gender in the United States," Rapinoe said.

Rapinoe's testimony comes after legislation introduced by U.S. Reps. Doris Matsui and Rosa DeLauro earlier this month that aims to "ensure the World Cup-winning USWNT are paid fair and equitable wages compared to the U.S. men's team."

England will extend its tours of West Indies in 2022, adding an extra Test and two more T20Is to their schedule.

The tour next January will now feature five T20Is - increased from three matches - to be followed by England returning to the Caribbean for three Test matches in March - increased from the original two games.

The possibility of extending the tour, expected to be worth nearly US$100m to the region, was reported by ESPNcricinfo last week, with CWI President Ricky Skerritt saying it would be an acknowledgement of West Indies' agreement to travel to England last year, which he said didn't earn the tourists anything, but which helped the ECB stage a complete international season in the middle of the pandemic and avoid a £380 million budget black hole.

Each Test match of the West Indies tour is estimated to be worth US$20-$25 million and each T20I US$4 million.

"This expansion of next year's England tour to the Caribbean is welcome news for West Indies Cricket and for the region's tourism economy," Skerritt said when the tour extension was confirmed on Wednesday. "It has come about because of the special relationship that has been developed between our respective boards.

"We have already begun discussions on how the ECB can help us in our development programs and I am pleased that ECB has been showing so much appetite and goodwill to assist."

Ian Watmore, the ECB Chair, said: "We hugely appreciated the support of Cricket West Indies, and all its men's and women's players, in helping us host a full season of international cricket in the summer of 2020. Following the conclusion of those tours to England we have been in discussions with CWI to understand how we can best support them moving forward and one way was to extend our existing England men's tours to the Caribbean in 2022."

The three Tests will form part of the next ICC World Test Championship, while the additional T20Is will make it the biggest series between the sides in the shortest format, providing extra preparation ahead of the T20 World Cup in Australia the following October.

The Test series will be the first in which England and West Indies compete for the newly commissioned Richards-Botham Trophy, named in honour of West Indies' batting icon Sir Vivian Richards and England's great allrounder Lord Ian Botham.

New Zealand batsman Will Young will join Durham for the early part of the 2021 Championship season.

Young, the 28-year-old right-hander, will arrive in the UK ahead of Durham's second game of the season, at Essex starting on April 15, and will be available for three games before Australian Cameron Bancroft returns to the county he represented for the 2019 season in May, after his Sheffield Shield commitments with Western Australia end.

Young, who made his Test debut at home against West Indies in December and scored 43 in his second Test, has scored 5,138 career first-class runs at an average of 42.81, including 10 centuries and 29 fifties with a highest score of 162. A former New Zealand Under-19s captain, having led the side at the 2012 World Cup, Young also played his first two ODIs during the on-going series with Bangladesh.

"I'm happy to say I've signed with them and I'll be heading over at the conclusion of this season to join Durham up in the cold and play three first-class games for them, which will be an awesome opportunity to get over to England and be exposed to those conditions and face the new Dukes ball, " Young said.

"It will be a fun opportunity to meet a new bunch of guys and experience county cricket, which is something I've always wanted to do."

Marcus North, Durham's director of cricket, said: "We're delighted to have secured the signing of Will Young for the early part of the season. In the absence of Cameron Bancroft, Will will add further strength to our batting line up, along with a wealth of experience.

"He is in a great place with his cricket having just broken into the Test and One Day sides with New Zealand. We look forward to welcoming Will to Durham in a few weeks' time."

Lunch Sri Lanka 359 for 5 (Nissanka 74*, Dickwella 38*) and 169 lead West Indies 271 (Cornwall 61, Lakmal 5-47) by 257 runs

A morning session that had started off in nightmarish fashion, with the loss of the set Dhananjaya De Silva, ended with Sri Lanka in near-dreamland as the pair of Pathum Nissanka and Niroshan Dickwella dug deep to wrestle back control of the game. The pair's unbroken 100-run stand in a brisk 147 deliveries - a positively express rate in terms of the match - ballooned what was a fledgling 153-run lead at the start of the day to a rather more imposing 257.

But in many ways the equation for the teams hasn't changed much. Starting off the fourth day there could hardly have been clearer debriefs for both sets of players. For West Indies, the aim would have been to pick up the two wickets needed to expose Sri Lanka's long tail. For Sri Lanka, the plan would have been to score as many runs as possible, but more importantly to put as much value on their wickets as possible.

So far, both sides have taken turns in partially accomplishing what they set out to do; Sri Lanka have accumulated runs but will only feel comfortable once that lead breaches the 300-mark, while West Indies will be keenly aware of the very real potential for a collapse if they can break this partnership.

The first to draw blood were the hosts, as Alzarri Joseph was surprisingly given first crack with the new ball ahead of Kemar Roach. Joseph, though, repaid the faith shown in him by Kraigg Brathwaite, removing the dangerous de Silva, who had brought up his eighth Test fifty just a few balls prior with a deft flick behind square leg for four.

Having been offered a few 130kph-ish sighters, de Silva found himself rushed by an inswinger hitting 143kph, and was unable to connect with his attempted flick as the ball clattered into the stumps off the front pad.

At that point, the lead stood at 157, and Joseph and Roach were full of energy, clearly sensing another collapse around the corner. In hindsight though, perhaps it was this urgency to pick up another wicket that gave Sri Lanka more of a foothold.

While much of the previous day had been defined by Sri Lankan batsman overcoming the obdurate lines and lengths of the home side's bowlers, this morning saw those same lines and lengths bookended by far more loose deliveries. A 104 runs in the session in 25 overs at 4.16, tells a story. Though it's no coincidence this increase in scoring rate coincided with Dickwella arriving at the crease.

While his innings was still rather conservative by usual Dickwella standards, there were glimpses of what he's capable of in his 63-ball 38. Two back-to-back boundaries off Joseph - the first whipped through the leg side, the next caressed square on the off - stood out, though it was a nonchalant uppercut over a packed slip cordon that will give the home side more cause for concern; if that Dickwella comes out to play, West Indies had best watch out.

At the other end, Nissanka was reaping the rewards of the home side's increasing desperation for a breakthrough - as well an easing of the pitch in favour of the batsmen. Having struck just one boundary last evening, he notched four more in the morning - his favourite undoubtedly the dab down to the backward point fence to bring up his fifty, the 21st Sri Lankan to achieve the feat on debut. He was unbeaten on 74 - if he reaches his first Test hundred, it will have also gone much of the way to securing his side victory.

Former Tennessee Titans offensive lineman Isaiah Wilson was arrested and charged with multiple offenses after a high-speed car chase in Georgia on Jan. 7.

According to the Barrow County Sheriff's Office incident report, an officer was operating a stationary radar system on University Parkway when he noticed a dark-colored Dodge Charger zoom by him.

The vehicle registered a speed of 123 mph on radar, causing the officer to turn on his sirens and begin the pursuit. The chase was called off because it reached dangerous speeds as high as 140 mph.

Wilson's car had crashed, and he was eventually arrested by an undercover ICE officer who had witnessed the wreck moments after the chase was called off. The officer placed Wilson under arrest after approaching the car and seeing him standing in the vehicle with his upper torso extending out of the sunroof.

After being apprehended, Wilson was asked why he fled from the police. He said that he had past experiences with law enforcement that scared him and he was afraid that he'd go to jail. Wilson also stated that there wasn't anything illegal in the vehicle.

A female identified as Grace Barnett was also in the vehicle and was arrested after a metal grinder with 3.4 grams of marijuana was found in the vehicle despite her telling police there were no drugs in their possession. Both Wilson and Barnett were taken to the Barrow County Detention Center. A small bag containing 0.2 grams of Acid was found in Barnett's purse during the booking process at the jail.

Wilson was charged with felony fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, speeding in a construction zone, reckless driving, reckless conduct, possession of less than 1 ounce of marijuana and possession and use of drug-related objects.

Tennessee traded Wilson along with a seventh-round pick in the 2021 draft to the Miami Dolphins last week in exchange for a seventh-round pick. The Dolphins waived Wilson on Saturday after the team realized that he was not receptive to its offers to help him.

The Dolphins did have some knowledge of Wilson's January arrest before the trade was finalized, but they weren't aware of the full scope of it at that time, a team source told ESPN's Cameron Wolfe.

The Titans declined to comment on Wilson's arrest in January.

Wilson has had other run-ins with the law since being selected with the 29th overall pick in the 2020 draft.

The first came when police at Tennessee State broke up an off-campus party Wilson had attended during training camp. In their report, the police documented that Wilson went to the second-floor balcony, where he appeared to briefly consider jumping. He received a trespass warning.

Wilson was arrested and charged with DUI in September when he lost control of his vehicle and struck a concrete wall.

Wilson played only four snaps in his rookie season, which culminated in his being placed on the non-football injury list in December. Before that, Wilson was twice on the reserve/COVID-19 list -- during training camp and in October.

Titans general manager Jon Robinson said during a virtual news conference last month that he had not spoken to Wilson since putting him on the NFI list in December. Robinson suggested that Wilson needs to "make a determination on whether he wants to do what it takes to play pro football."

The Dallas Cowboys have informed free-agent pass-rusher Aldon Smith that they are not going to re-sign him after one season, a source told ESPN's Ed Werder on Wednesday.

After serving an indefinite suspension from 2016 to 2019 for multiple off-field incidents and violations of the league's substance abuse policy, Smith joined the Cowboys in 2020 on a one-year deal that could have paid him up to $4 million based on certain incentives.

The 31-year-old Smith finished the season with five sacks -- including three in Week 3 against the Seattle Seahawks. He was second to DeMarcus Lawrence on the Cowboys with 33 quarterback pressures and had 48 tackles, 5 tackles for loss and 2 fumble recoveries, returning one for a touchdown.

The decision not to bring back Smith was reinforced by the Cowboys' signing of veteran free-agent defensive end Tarell Basham.

ESPN's Todd Archer contributed to this report.

Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder will gain almost complete control of the franchise after the NFL's finance committee cleared the way for him buying out his minority investors.

The finance committee approved Snyder's application for a $450 million debt waiver, an NFL spokesperson confirmed. The other owners will vote at the league's annual meeting next week on whether to approve the deal. Snyder needs 24 of the 32 owners to vote in favor of the transaction. The news was first reported by Tyler Dunne of GoLongTD.com.

This move does not impact the independent investigation into the franchise by attorney Beth Wilkinson. The investigation stems from a series of Washington Post articles detailing sexual harassment allegations in the organization over 15 years by past employees. No report has been turned in to the league.

If the deal goes through, Snyder would end up buying another 40.5% of shares in the organization from minority owners Fred Smith, Robert Rothman and Dwight Schar. Those three had purchased their shares in 2003. Snyder currently owns 40.59% of the team, with his mother, Arlette, owning 6.5% and his sister, Michele, owning 12.55%.

The total amount of the deal for the remaining shares would come to $875 million, according to The New York Times. Snyder would have to repay the debt by 2028. The Washington Post reported in November that a group of investors had offered the minority shareholders $900 million to sell but that Snyder blocked the move.

The battle among the minority owners and Snyder spilled into the public eye this summer and continued into the winter, with numerous court filings as the sides accused each other of bad-faith dealings and spreading misinformation.

Washington also is in the middle of a rebrand, having decided to retire its previous name last summer. It hasn't yet settled on a new name or logo, but there will be a permanent one in place for the 2022 season. It will continue as the Washington Football Team this season.

The organization set out to improve its culture shortly after the Post's articles. Among other moves, it hired Jason Wright as the first Black team president and Julie Donaldson as the senior vice president of media and the first woman to be part of an NFL team's radio broadcast.

A public relations firm representing Snyder couldn't be reached for comment.

Members of the Los Angeles Lakers organization are expected to receive a vaccine for COVID-19 this week, sources told ESPN.

It was not clear which players or staffers were planning to receive the vaccine as HIPAA regulations preclude anyone from the team from commenting on the situation.

The New Orleans Pelicans, Atlanta Hawks, Portland Trail Blazers and Miami Heat have previously acknowledged receiving the vaccine.

The NBA has not required players or staffers to be vaccinated, but has encouraged them to do so once they are eligible and indicated it will relax health and safety protocols for those who are vaccinated.

After Tuesday's loss to the Pelicans, Lakers coach Frank Vogel said of the potential of members of the team being vaccinated, "there's been some talk about trying to get it, but we're not there yet."

ESPN's Dave McMenamin contributed to this report.

Leicester's Kobus van Wyk and Gloucester's Matt Banahan have been banned after receiving red cards.

The ex-England winger was sent off by referee Ian Tempest for direct head contact in Gloucester's loss on Saturday, a challenge that saw Banahan need medical treatment on the pitch.

Tigers centre van Wyk was also given a four-week suspension after a dangerous tackle on Exeter's Jack Maunder.

Both players accepted the RFU's charges.

South African van Wyk will miss Leicester's Premiership matches against Newcastle, Bath and Northampton as well as their Challenge Cup game against Connacht.

The RFU is yet to decide when Banahan's suspension will start.

"The panel will consider when [Banahan's] suspension will be served once further updated medical evidence has been received," they added in a statement.

Chris Harris, Ali Price and George Turner return for Scotland in Friday's Six Nations finale against France.

Captain Stuart Hogg returns to full-back - with Sean Maitland not in the squad - after deputising for Russell.

Huw Jones, Scott Steele and Dave Cherry move to the bench, where they are joined by Adam Hastings after his ban.

The Glasgow fly-half has not featured in the tournament this year due to injury and suspension.

Cherry touched down twice in the 52-10 win over Italy on his first international start but Turner wins his place back at hooker, despite a horribly malfunctioning line-out against Ireland.

Scrum-half Steele also made his first start in the rout of Italy while in-form centre Jones scored a try, but head coach Gregor Townsend has chosen to restore Price and Harris.

Only five England-based players could be selected following an agreement with the Premiership, with Saracens winger Maitland among those left out.

France need a big win to leapfrog Wales at the top of the table, while Scotland could finish second in the championship if they win in Paris for the first time in 22 years.

Fly-half Romain Ntamack, the leading points scorer in last year's championship, replaces the injured Matthieu Jalibert as the hosts make five changes.

Second-row pair Bernard Le Roux and Swan Rebbadj, flanker Anthony Jelonch and centre Arthur Vincent have also been recalled.

Paul Willemse begins a two-match ban after being sent off for making contact with the eye of Wales prop Wyn Jones, while fellow lock Romain Taofifenua drops to the bench, along with flanker Dylan Cretin and wing Teddy Thomas.

Gael Fickou has been moved from inside centre to the left wing to accommodate Vincent, while Damian Penaud has switched flanks.

"Both teams have needed to manage a short six-day turnaround and we have used this week to regroup and focus on putting in our best performance of the competition so far, which we will need to deliver if we are to leave Paris with a victory," said Townsend.

The game was originally scheduled for 28 February but was called off after an outbreak of Covid-19 in the France camp, with head coach Fabien Galthie and 11 players testing positive for the virus.

France: 15-Brice Dulin, 14-Damian Penaud, 13-Virimi Vakatawa, 12-Arthur Vincent, 11-Gael Fickou, 10-Romain Ntamack, 9-Antoine Dupont; 1-Cyril Baille, 2- Julien Marchand, 3-Mohamed Haouas, 4- Bernard Le Roux, 5-Swan Rebbadj, 6-Anthony Jelonch, Charles Ollivon (capt), 8-Gregory Alldritt.

Replacements: 16-Camille Chat, 17-Jean-Baptiste Gros, 18-Uini Atonio, 19-Romain Taofifenua, 20-Dylan Cretin, 21-Baptiste Serin, 22-Anthony Bouthier, 23-Teddy Thomas.

Scotland: 15-Stuart Hogg (capt), 14-Darcy Graham, 13-Chris Harris, 12-Sam Johnson, 11-Duhan van der Merwe, 10-Finn Russell, 9-Ali Price; 1-Rory Sutherland, 2-George Turner, 3-Zander Fagerson, 4-Sam Skinner, 5-Grant Gilchrist, 6-Jamie Ritchie, 7-Hamish Watson, 8-Matt Fagerson

Replacements: 16-Dave Cherry, 17-Oli Kebble, 18-Simon Berghan, 19-Alex Craig, 20-Nick Haining, 21-Scott Steele, 22-Adam Hastings, 23-Huw Jones