AP Sports SummaryBrief at 6:25 p.m. EST

Trump will lead task force preparing for 2026 World Cup President Donald Trump created a task force Friday to prepare for the 2026 World Cup, which will bring the globes premier soccer tournament to North America at a time when Trumps on-again-off-again tariffs have ratcheted up tensions across the continent.

The task force, which Trump will chair, will coordinate the federal governments security and planning for the tournament, which is expected to draw millions of tourists to the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Officials from FIFA, the international soccer governing body, met with Trump in the Oval Office and gave him a personalized game ball.

Mark Cuban tells Dallas TV station he would have asked for more in return for Doncic DALLAS (AP) Former Dallas Mavericks majority owner Mark Cuban says he wouldnt have traded Luka Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers without receiving much more in return.

Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison has come under heavy criticism after sending Doncic to the Lakers in a shocking three-team deal on Feb.

1 that sent Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round draft pick to Dallas.

The Lakers have put themselves in position to be title contenders and the Mavericks are in danger of missing the playoffs after Davis and then Kyrie Irving were injured.

Washington Commanders release defensive tackle Jonathan Allen The Washington Commanders have released two-time Pro Bowl defensive tackle Jonathan Allen.

The move Friday comes less than two weeks since they gave Allen's camp permission to talk to other teams around the NFL about a potential trade.

There was no guaranteed money owed to the 30-year-old veteran going into the final season of his contract.

That made him a candidate to be released to save the Commanders roughly $20 million against the salary cap.

Releasing Allen comes a day after they agreed to terms with six-time All-Pro linebacker Bobby Wagner on a contract for next season.

Mikko Rantanen lands 8-year contract with Dallas Stars as West teams load up at NHL trade deadline Mikko Rantanen is heading back to the Western Conference.

The Dallas Stars paid a big price in money and assets, agreeing to acquire the prolific playoff performer from the Carolina Hurricanes before the NHLs trade deadline.

Dallas dealt promising rookie forward Logan Stankoven and two first-round and two third-round picks to acquire Rantanen.

That doesnt include Dallas agreeing to an eight-year, $96 million contract after both the Hurricanes and Colorado Avalanche failed in their attempts to sign the player to a long-term deal.

Central Division rival Winnipeg added Brandon Tanev and Luke Schenn.

Ottawa acquired Dylan Cozens in four-player trade with Buffalo.

Florida Panthers add veteran Brad Marchand as they gear up for run at a another Stanley Cup title SUNRISE, Fla.

(AP) The Florida Panthers welcomed the arrival of Boston Bruins captain Brad Marchand in a Friday trade that adds even more grit and experience to the Stanley Cup champions roster.

Marchand, traded by the Bruins after 16 seasons in Boston will give the Panthers more depth as they battle for first place in the Atlantic Division.

Marchand is another huge acquisition for the Panthers, who brought in veteran defenseman Seth Jones in a trade with the Chicago Blackhawks last Saturday, and needed a boost after losing the veteran forward Tkachuk for the foreseeable future because of an upper body injury, Xander Schauffele makes a late push and extends his PGA Tour cut streak to 58 in a row ORLANDO, Fla.

(AP) Xander Schauffele met at least one goal in his return from injury at the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

He made the cut for the 58th consecutive time on the PGA Tour.

That's the longest streak since Tiger Woods set the record at 142.

And the 58 in a row is the sixth-longest streak in history.

It wasn't easy.

Schauffele is coming off a rib injury that kept him out for two months.

He opened with a 77.

He was going well Friday until back-to-back double bogeys.

But he ran off three birdies in four holes and made it on the number.

Shaun White kicks off new league with visions of snowboarding riches on the halfpipe ASPEN, Colo.

(AP) This week in Aspen marks the debut of Shaun White's Snow League.

It's a four-contest circuit that the retired three-time Olympic gold medalist hopes can alter the trajectory of halfpipe snowboarding.

White's league promises $1.6 million in prize money, and $50,000 first prizes for men and women.

It also offers Olympic qualifying points with the Milan-Cortina Games less than a year away.

Top names competing this week include defending Olympic champion Ayumu Hirano on the men's side and Maddie Mastro for the women.

White says he sees the league as a long-needed way to bring the best riders together more than every four years for the Olympics.

Lake Placid awaits word on whether it'll be picked as the Olympic sliding site for 2026 Games LAKE PLACID, N.Y.

(AP) Picture this: A sliding athlete wins an Olympic medal in Lake Placid next winter, then is chauffeured down to New York for an award ceremony at Rockefeller Center a few days later with thousands of people there to cheer on both moments.

It could happen.

The element of incorporating New York into the Olympics is just one of the unique details inside Lake Placids plan if the two-time Olympic host gets asked to be the site of the sliding events for next winters Milan-Cortina Games.

Daylight saving time is coming and the golf industry can't wait OMAHA, Neb.

(AP) Every year, bills are introduced in state legislatures across the country seeking to end the changing of clocks twice a year.

Now with a growing number of states weighing bills that would do away with daylight saving time, many in the golf industry are pushing back.

They say that extra hour of daylight at the end of the day is needed for those who can only find time to golf after work or school.

A recent survey of stakeholders by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America shows the vast majority favor either keeping the status quo or make daylight saving time permanent.

IOCs Bach sees new world order ahead of LA Olympics and says Trump will 'fully support' Games LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) Thomas Bach says he feels a rare calm in his final weeks as IOC president even as a new world order gains speed ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Bach led the International Olympic Committee through two locked-down Games in a global pandemic and several affected by Russian doping and military aggression, among other crises.

His successor will be elected on March 20.

The biggest event for the next IOC president, the L.A.

Games, could yet challenge Bachs faith in the Olympics power to unite the world in peaceful competition and mutual acceptance.

Bach says We have a new world order in the making..

This article has been shared from the original article on recorderonline, here is the link to the original article.