The college softball world said goodbye to a legend Thursday night, as Jocelyn Alo’s career at Oklahoma came to a close with a second-straight Women’s College World Series title. The Sooners beat Texas 10-5 to sweep the championship series.

While Alo has been a slugger for her entire career, she made an appearance in left field last night – her first of the season – and received a standing ovation. The star, who usually appears as designated player, made an out on the next pitch.

“Everyone was kind of surprised, but I do practice defense at practice,” Alo told ESPN’s Holly Rowe postgame. Of the standing ovation, she added that she doesn’t “think anything will ever compare to that.”

Jocelyn Alo received a standing ovation in left field and then made the out on the very next pitch 👏#WCWS pic.twitter.com/UsOwqMDIFT

— ESPN (@espn) June 10, 2022

Coming off the field a short while later, she received a hug from every one of her teammates as she exited for the final time in her college career.

Jocelyn Alo's teammates hugged her after she was taken out of the game with one out left in the final inning ❤️ #WCWS pic.twitter.com/NQhowcVE9Z

— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) June 10, 2022

A utility player, Alo’s presence has always been felt at the plate as she has cemented herself as the best hitter in the sport of softball. A two-time USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year, she’s racked up nearly all of the accolades the sport has to offer.

With 122 home runs in her career, Alo holds the record across NCAA softball and baseball. At 280 runs total, her slugging percentage is an astounding .990 with 776 total bases reached. The one record that she didn’t manage to break? Runs batted in. She ends her career with 323 RBIs while the record, set by former Arizona player Jenny Dalton-Hill, stands at 328.

Alo’s popularity has only risen over the past week as she’s finished making her mark on the WCWS.

“They pay to see Jocelyn Alo,” Oklahoma coach Patty Gasso said. “… She keeps saying, ‘I want to leave my mark.’ She’s left her mark. She’s done it. Right now it’s just icing on the cake for her.”

That icing includes celebrating her second career national title and Oklahoma’s sixth. At this point, there’s not much else that can be said of her career that hasn’t already.

“I love this game,” said Alo, tearing up. “I’m sad to be walking away from it but I’m happy that I ended on top. I’m just so blessed for this journey that God has blessed me with.

“To all the Hawaii girls and the little girls watching, anything is possible if you work hard. You can come and play on this stage if you work hard and stay the course. Thank you for following me.”

The PWHL is continuing to break records, as Sunday's 2025/26 Takeover Tour stop in Washington, DC, saw 17,228 fans pack into Capital One Arena to see the No. 2 New York Sirens top the No. 4 Montréal Victoire 2-1 — setting a new US women's hockey attendance record in the process.

The benchmark surpasses the previous US record set this past November, when the Seattle Torrent welcomed 16,014 fans to their inaugural home opener.

Sunday's DC crowd also sees the US mark inch closer to the overall professional women's hockey attendance record, set in April 2024 when 21,105 PWHL fans sold out Montréal's Bell Centre to watch the Victoire take on the Toronto Sceptres.

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"Washington, DC, showed up in such a big way, and the energy our fans brought into the arena turned this game into something truly special," PWHL EVP of business operations Amy Scheer said of the first-ever PWHL game in the nation's capital. "Moments like this capture the joy of our sport and the momentum behind the league."

The third-year league is currently racing through its best-attended month on record, drawing more than 154,000 fans across the last 16 games while averaging crowds of 8,726 across all 49 games so far this season.

The Kansas City Current delivered some concerning news this week, with the NWSL club revealing that star striker Temwa Chawinga remains sidelined with an hip adductor injury while the league's 2026 preseason gets underway.

The team currently lists the reigning back-to-back NWSL MVP under a season-ending injury (SEI) designation, a category earned after Chawinga picked up the injury in mid-October, leaving the Kansas City attacker benched for the Current's quarterfinal loss to eventual 2025 NWSL champions Gotham FC.

"It's hard because of the nature of the injury," incoming Kansas City head coach Chris Armas told The Athletic last week. "With Temwa, we've got to be very careful, but she's looking great and doing lots of good work on the return to play."

Also on the Current's SEI list is standout winger Michelle Cooper, with the 23-year-old rising USWNT star suffering a foot injury in Kansas City's final regular-season match of 2025.

"It was a little bit of a tough ending here after, honestly, an amazing historic season," said Armas. "Hopefully they are back as soon as possible, but it's still unclear."

Both Chawinga and Cooper will have some time to recover before Kansas City kicks off their 2026 NWSL regular season against the Utah Royals on March 14th — with teams allowed to lift a player's SEI status any time once the season begins.

The world's top tennis stars are rolling in Melbourne, as the first round of the 2026 Australian Open wrapped early Tuesday morning with only a few ranked seeds suffering early defeats.

World No. 15 Emma Navarro was the highest-ranked US player to fall in the first round, with the 24-year-old exiting the season's first Grand Slam in a 6-3, 3-6, 3-6 loss to Poland's No. 50 Magda Linette on Sunday.

No. 11 Ekaterina Alexandrova also stumbled in the first round, with her Melbourne run ending in a three-set loss to Turkey's No. 112 Zeynep Sönmez on Saturday before No. 68 Peyton Stearns ousted fellow US star and 2020 Australian Open champion No. 30 Sofia Kenin in straight sets on Sunday.

Many contenders still remain in the hunt, however, as the entire WTA Top 10 cruised through their opening matchups to advance to the Slam's second round.

That said, fans will miss out on one highly anticipated showdown, as wild card entry Venus Williams's first-round loss ended the 45-year-old tennis icon's path to a second-round clash with US favorite No. 3 Coco Gauff.

How to watch the second round of the 2026 Australian Open

The 2026 Australian Open continues when the Slam's second round kicks off with a Tuesday night slate that features stars like No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, No. 3 Coco Gauff, and No. 7 Jasmine Paolini.

Tuesday's action begins at 7 PM ET, with all Melbourne matches airing live across ESPN platforms.

The ongoing dominance of UConn basketball has started to break records, as the top-ranked Huskies humbled unranked Notre Dame 85-47 on Monday — keeping their perfect 2025/26 NCAA season intact.

Monday's 38-point margin of victory marked the largest in the teams' 20-year rivalry, with the win also snapping the Huskies' three-game head-to-head losing streak against the Fighting Irish.

"UConn showed why they're the best team in the country," Notre Dame head coach Niele Ivey said postgame.

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Even more, UConn sophomore forward Sarah Strong added her own individual history to Monday's tally, becoming the third-fastest Husky to reach 1,000 career points, with the 19-year-old trailing only program legends Maya Moore and Paige Bueckers — who each did so in 55 games to Strong's 59 — in the race to reach that stat.

"I would love to see if anybody has scored 1,000 points by taking less shots than she's taking," said UConn head coach Geno Auriemma. "She's so efficient."

"It means a lot to me I guess, but I wouldn't be able to do it without my teammates," Strong said after leading the Huskies with an 18-point, 11-rebound double-double on Monday night.

How to watch UConn basketball this week

UConn now returns to Big East play, with the No. 1 Huskies taking on unranked Georgetown at 7:30 PM ET on Thursday, airing live on TNT.