Basket, NBA: Tony Parker delivered a season-high 37 points as San Antonio Spurs completed a sweep of Memphis on Monday with a 93-86 victory that booked a trip to the NBA Finals. The Spurs started fast and finished strong as they seized the Western Conference Finals with a 4-0 best-of-seven triumph that put them back in the final for the first time since 2007. Parker was sensational in making 15 of his 21 field attempts. San Antonio thus earned an extended rest period as they now await the winner between Miami and Indiana for a championship match-up that does not begin until June 6.

Motorcycling: Japanese rider Yoshinari Matsushita died in an accident during a qualifying session on Monday for the Isle of Man TT, organisers said. He is the 21st rider to die at the circuit since 2000. “Japanese rider Yoshinari Matsushita, 43, was killed during the qualifying session at the 2013 Isle of Man TT Races in an incident at Ballacrye in the north of the island,” a statement said. The 43-year-old Tyco Suzuki rider, who first competed in the event in 2009, had been entered in the race earlier in the day.

Olympics: Former Olympic pole vault champion Sergei Bubka launched his bid for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Tuesday, the sixth candidate for world sport’s most influential post. “This was always natural for me. Sport is in my blood, it is in my genes,” the Ukrainian said when asked about his decision to run as the youngest candidate. The new president will be elected on September 10.

Golf: Tiger Woods is to compete in the inaugural Turkish Open in Antalya in November, the European Tour said yesterday. The $7 million event at the Montgomerie Maxx Royal course in Belek will form part of the new Final Series on the Race to Dubai, Europe’s lucrative end-of-season equivalent of the US Tour’s FedExCup competition.