Indiana Fever guard Marissa Coleman (Maryland) made the WNBA All-Star team for the first time Tuesday night when she was voted onto the Eastern Conference team as a reserve. The All-Star Game will be Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in Uncasville, Conn. Coleman leads the Fever with 13 points per game and is averaging 4.0 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 1.4 steals while shooting 44.8 percent from the field and 39.6 percent on 3-point attempts. "It means more than I can probably express in words, honestly," Coleman said of making the team. "It's been such a bumpy road for me since I entered the league. Having such high expectations and not feeling like I was living up to them, all the internal struggles I had, to becoming an All-Star." Coleman, the second overall draft pick in 2009 by the Mystics, spent three seasons with Washington, two with the Los Angeles Sparks and is in her second season with the Fever. The Eastern Conference reserve squad also included Mystics frontcourt players Stefanie Dolson and Emma Meesseman. Atlanta Dream forward-guard Angel McCoughtry (St Frances) was voted among the starters earlier in the month.
WNBA games: Dolson scored 18, Ivory Latta added 14 points and Tierra Ruffin-Pratt had 13 to help the visiting Washington Mystics beat the Tulsa Shock, 76-69. Emma Meesseman added 10 points for the Mystics (9-6), who won their third in a row. A 3-pointer by Natasha Cloud, who started her college career at Maryland, sparked a 12-4 Washington run and gave the Mystics the lead for good. Tulsa (10-8) has lost four straight. ... McCoughtry (St. Frances) scored 14 points and went over 4,000 for her career in the Atlanta Dream's 97-92 loss to the host Chicago Sky. ... Kristi Toliver scored 10 points to help the host Los Angeles Sparks (3-12) earn a 70-65 victory over the Phoenix Mercury (9-7) on Tuesday night to end a five-game losing streak.
NBA
Wizards' Dudley has surgery, out 3-4 months
Washington Wizards forward Jared Dudley underwent surgery to repair a herniated disk in his back and is expected to return in approximately three to four months, the team announced Tuesday night. In a statement, general manager Ernie Grunfeld said Washington knew that Dudley played through back pain last season with the Milwaukee Bucks before the Wizards decided to acquire him for a protected future second-round pick this month. Dudley, who is with his fourth team in four seasons, missed four games last season because of back pain. Dr. Drew Dossett executed the procedure in Dallas on Dudley, who celebrated his 30th birthday last week. The three-to-four month timetable for recovery means Dudley is expected to be ready to return to game action around the start of the regular season.
—Jorge Castillo, The Washington Post
More Wizards: Second-round draft pick Aaron White has agreed in principle to a one-year contract with Germany's Telekom Baskets Bonn, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. White, 22, struggled with Washington's summer league team in Las Vegas.
—Jorge Castillo, The Washington Post
Men's college basketball
CCBC-Catonsville promotes Greate White to head coach
Greate White joined CCBC-Catonsville as a men's basketball assistant coach last season and took on more responsibility as the year went on. On Monday, White was named head coach of the program. The job opened when Randy Gregory, who had been at the helm for 16 seasons, retired a few weeks ago. Gregory was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2011, but he continued his coaching duties. In January of last season, though, White assumed in-game coaching responsibilities while Gregory remained on the sideline. What essentially became a trial period gave the program what it needed to see to name White as Gregory's successor. White has previous head coaching experience at the high school level with Forest Park.
For more of Ryan Baillargeon's article on White, go to baltimoresun.com/collegebasketball.
Division I: Maryland native Trevor Quinn (Goucher, Severna Park) will join the Loyola Maryland men's basketball coaching staff as an assistant coach. Quinn spent last season as an assistant coach at Mount Carmel, which went 32-10 and won the program's first Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association A Conference championship. He worked from 2007-08 to 2013-14 at Jacksonville, where he was an assistant coach for six seasons after serving as director of basketball operations for a year, and previously at Florida State as a graduate assistant.
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Pan Am silver for Team USA and Walker-Kimbrough
Guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough (Maryland) scored eight points as the United States (4-1) lost the gold-medal basketball game of the Pan Am Games, 81-73, to host Canada (5-0) in Toronto. Walker shot 3-for-6 from the field and had two rebounds and one assist. Team USA led by as many as 11 points early in the second quarter, but Canada rallied to tie the game at 36 at halftime and went ahead for good with a 26-15 third-quarter advantage. Four U.S. players scored in double digits, but 17 points and 11 rebounds from Connecticut's Breanna Stewart were not enough to help the Americans overcome 33 points from rising Connecticut sophomore Kia Nurse, who also was 11-of-12 from the free-throw line.
More Pan Am Games: Melo Trimble (Maryland) had five points on 2-for-5 from the field as the United States rallied from a 41-33 halftime deficit to earn an 85-62 victory over Venezuela in its first men's basketball preliminary-round game at the Pan American Games on Tuesday night in Toronto. The American outscored the Venezuelans 26-12 in the third quarter and 26-9 in the fourth quarter. Playing 12 minutes off the bench, Trimble had one assist and three turnovers and three personal fouls.
Baseball: Former Orioles right-handed pitcher Preston Guilmet was designated for assignment by the Los Angeles Dodgers after less than two weeks with the club. Los Angeles claimed Guilmet, 27, off waivers from the Tampa Bay Rays on July 10. Guilmet did not appear in the big leagues with the Dodgers, but he made three appearances with Triple-A Oklahoma City, allowing one run in three innings of relief.
Sailing: The National Sailing Hall of Fame announced its 2015 class of inductees: sailing school founder Steve Colgate (Fort Myers, Fla.), Olympic medalist Paul Foerster (Rockwall, Texas), Olympic medalist and author JJ Fetter (San Diego), boat building innovators and brothers Meade and Jan Gougeon (both Bay City, Mich.) and U.S. Olympic Yachting Committee director Samuel V. Merrick (Medford, N.J.), the recipient of the Hall's Lifetime Achievement Award.
Major League Lacrosse: Boston Cannons midfielder Scott Ratliff (Loyola Maryland) was named Defensive Player of the Week.