Super Bowl L, LI locations chosen

The NFL will celebrate its 50th Super Bowl in Northern California, where its newest, most high-tech venue is being built.

That makes South Florida, in the midst of a spat over expensive stadium renovations, a loser for the 2016 game.

And Miami took a double defeat when Houston was awarded the 2017 championship game.

In separate votes, NFL owners Tuesday went with the San Francisco Bay Area and Houston on the first ballot at their spring meetings. The 49ers’ new home is set to open next year in Santa Clara and will host the first Super Bowl in the area since 1985.

Houston staged the 2004 Super Bowl.

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UCLA loses tennis final to Virginia

Mitchell Frank rallied in the decisive match, and second-seeded Virginia defeated top-seeded UCLA, 4-3, at Urbana, Ill., to win its first NCAA men’s tennis championship.

After finishing as the national runners-up the previous two seasons, the Cavaliers finished the season at 30-0. Virginia lost in the championship match to USC in each of the last two years.

Virginia won the doubles point to gain early momentum and led 2-0 and 3-2 before UCLA tied the match. Frank lost the first set at No. 3 against Adrien Puget but bounced back to win 0-6, 6-4, 7-5.

The Cavaliers had reached the national semifinals in six of the last seven seasons. UCLA (29-2) was seeking its first championship since 2005.

No. 12-seeded Stanford defeated third-seeded Texas A&M; to win the NCAA women’s tennis championship at Urbana.

Stanford won the national title for the 17th time. Stanford (22-4) also earned its seventh title under Coach Lele Forood.

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USC and San Jose State shared the lead at four-under-par 284 after the first round of the NCAA women’s golf championships at Athens, Ga.

USC, which won titles in 2003 and ’08 and was runner-up to Alabama last year, came in as the top-ranked team in the country; San Jose State — seeking its first team title in 21 years — was 48th.

San Jose State freshman Regan De Guzman leads the field at five-under 67. USC’s Annie Park was tied for fourth at two under.

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New York will get a second Major League Soccer team, called the New York City Football Club, that will be jointly owned by Manchester City FC of the English Premier League and the New York Yankees.

The team is expected to start playing in 2015 and will give the league 20 teams overall. Some media reports put the club’s expansion fee at $100 million.

Executives of the new team said they plan to build a stadium somewhere within New York City. In the meantime, they’re looking for an interim home for the club to start the 2015 season.

MLS already has the New York Red Bulls, but their home stadium is in Harrison, N.J.

—Jim Peltz

Bryan Colangelo is still president of the Toronto Raptors, but he’s no longer the club’s general manager.

The Raptors announced that although Colangelo’s contract as team president is being extended, a new general manager will be hired within 30 days.

The changes were announced by Tim Leiweke, who is the incoming chief executive of team owner Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment.

Leiweke also said he is moving up his start date from July 1 to June 3.

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Free-agent defensive back Charles Woodson signed a one-year contract with the Oakland Raiders to return to his original team.

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Andy Murray withdrew from the French Open because of a chronic back injury.