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“THE SCOREBOARD”

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WNBA SCORES

INDIANA 88 DALLAS 78

ATLANTA 95 PHOENIX 72

CONNECTICUT 78 NEW YORK 62

GOLDEN STATE 73 CHICAGO 66

LOS ANGELES 108 SEATTLE 106 (2OT)

MLB SCORES

CINCINNATI 3 ATLANTA 2

CHICAGO CUBS 1 BALTIMORE 0

MILWAUKEE 16 WASHINGTON 9

PHILADELPHIA 5 DETROIT 4

KANSAS CITY 9 TORONTO 3

BOSTON 2 HOUSTON 1 (10)

CLEVELAND 3 MINNESOTA 2 (10)

MIAMI 13 NY YANKEES 12

SAN FRANCISCO 4 NY METS 3 (10)

LA DODGERS 5 TAMPA BAY 0

COLORADO 17 PITTSBURGH 16

CHICAGO WHITE SOX 6 LA ANGELS 3

SAN DIEGO 4 ST. LOUIS 1

LAS VEGAS 5 ARIZONA 1

SEATTLE 4 TEXAS 3

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MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

INDIANAPOLIS 8 IOWA 5

QUAD CITIES 5 SOUTH BEND 3

GREAT LAKES 9 FT. WAYNE 2

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MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER

NO GAMES SCHEDULED

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COLTS TRAINING CAMP SCHEDULE

SAT., AUG. 2: PRACTICE (10-11:35 A.M.)

SUN., AUG. 3: PRACTICE (10-11:30 A.M.)

SAT., AUG. 9: PRACTICE (4-5:10 P.M.)

SUN., AUG. 10: PRACTICE (4-5:30 P.M.)

MON., AUG. 11: PRACTICE (4-5:40 P.M.)

THUR., AUG. 14: PRACTICE (3-5 P.M.)

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2025 NFL PRE-SEASON SCHEDULE

*****WEEK 1*****

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7

INDIANAPOLIS AT BALTIMORE, 7:00
CINCINNATI AT PHILADELPHIA, 7:30
LAS VEGAS AT SEATTLE, 10:00

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8

DETROIT AT ATLANTA, 7:00
CLEVELAND AT CAROLINA, 7:00
WASHINGTON AT NEW ENGLAND, 7:30

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9

N.Y. GIANTS AT BUFFALO, 1:00
HOUSTON AT MINNESOTA, 4:00
PITTSBURGH AT JACKSONVILLE, 7:00
DALLAS AT L.A. RAMS, 7:00
TENNESSEE AT TAMPA BAY, 7:30
KANSAS CITY AT ARIZONA, 8:00
N.Y. JETS AT GREEN BAY, 8:00
DENVER AT SAN FRANCISCO, 8:30

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10

MIAMI AT CHICAGO, 1:00
NEW ORLEANS AT L.A. CHARGERS, 4:05

*****WEEK 2*****

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15

TENNESSEE AT ATLANTA, 7:00
KANSAS CITY AT SEATTLE, 10:00

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16

MIAMI AT DETROIT, 1:00
CAROLINA AT HOUSTON, 1:00
GREEN BAY AT INDIANAPOLIS, 1:00
NEW ENGLAND AT MINNESOTA, 1:00
CLEVELAND AT PHILADELPHIA, 1:00
SAN FRANCISCO AT LAS VEGAS, 4:00
BALTIMORE AT DALLAS, 7:00
L.A. CHARGERS AT L.A. RAMS, 7:00
N.Y. JETS AT N.Y. GIANTS, 7:00
TAMPA BAY AT PITTSBURGH, 7:00
ARIZONA AT DENVER, 9:30

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17

JACKSONVILLE AT NEW ORLEANS, 1:00
BUFFALO AT CHICAGO (FOX), 8:00

MONDAY, AUGUST 18

CINCINNATI AT WASHINGTON (ESPN), 8:00

*****WEEK 3*****

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21

PITTSBURGH AT CAROLINA, 7:00
NEW ENGLAND AT N.Y. GIANTS (PRIME VIDEO), 8:00

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22

PHILADELPHIA AT N.Y. JETS, 7:30
ATLANTA AT DALLAS, 8:00
MINNESOTA AT TENNESSEE (CBS), 8:00
CHICAGO AT KANSAS CITY, 8:20

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23

BALTIMORE AT WASHINGTON, NOON
INDIANAPOLIS AT CINCINNATI, 1:00
L.A. RAMS AT CLEVELAND, 1:00
HOUSTON AT DETROIT, 1:00
DENVER AT NEW ORLEANS, 1:00
SEATTLE AT GREEN BAY, 4:00
JACKSONVILLE AT MIAMI, 7:00
BUFFALO AT TAMPA BAY, 7:30
L.A. CHARGERS AT SAN FRANCISCO, 8:30
LAS VEGAS AT ARIZONA, 10:00

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WEEK ONE SCHEDULE

THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 2025
DALLAS COWBOYS AT PHILADELPHIA EAGLES	8:20P (ET)	8:20P	NBC
FRIDAY, SEPT. 5, 2025
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS VS LOS ANGELES CHARGERS (SAO PAULO)	9:00P (BRT)	8:00P	YOUTUBE
SUNDAY, SEPT. 07, 2025
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS AT ATLANTA FALCONS	1:00P (ET)	1:00P	FOX
CINCINNATI BENGALS AT CLEVELAND BROWNS	1:00P (ET)	1:00P	FOX
MIAMI DOLPHINS AT INDIANAPOLIS COLTS	1:00P (ET)	1:00P	CBS
CAROLINA PANTHERS AT JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS	1:00P (ET)	1:00P	FOX
LAS VEGAS RAIDERS AT NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS	1:00P (ET)	1:00P	CBS
ARIZONA CARDINALS AT NEW ORLEANS SAINTS	12:00P (CT)	1:00P	CBS
PITTSBURGH STEELERS AT NEW YORK JETS	1:00P (ET)	1:00P	CBS
NEW YORK GIANTS AT WASHINGTON COMMANDERS	1:00P (ET)	1:00P	FOX
TENNESSEE TITANS AT DENVER BRONCOS	2:05P (MT)	4:05P	FOX
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS AT SEATTLE SEAHAWKS	1:05P (PT)	4:05P	FOX
DETROIT LIONS AT GREEN BAY PACKERS	3:25P (CT)	4:25P	CBS
HOUSTON TEXANS AT LOS ANGELES RAMS	1:25P (PT)	4:25P	CBS
BALTIMORE RAVENS AT BUFFALO BILLS	8:20P (ET)	8:20P	NBC
MONDAY, SEPT. 8, 2025
MINNESOTA VIKINGS AT CHICAGO BEARS	7:15P (CT)	8:15P	ABC/ESPN

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TOP NATIONAL HEADLINES/PRESS RELEASES

NFL NEWS

JETS’ QUINNEN WILLIAMS IS SIDELINED WITH A CALF INJURY AND EXPECTED TO MISS 1-2 WEEKS

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — New York Jets star defensive tackle Quinnen Williams will be sidelined a week or two with a calf injury after getting hurt in practice Thursday.

Coach Aaron Glenn said sitting Williams was a “precautionary” move and the injury isn’t expected to be a long-term issue.

“We want to make sure this player is going to be good,” Glenn said after practice Friday. “We know what he’s all about. We know what he can do. We wanted to hold him out and we’ll see how that goes.”

Williams was participating in individual drills Thursday when he felt discomfort in his lower leg. He walked into the facility under his own power but sat out the rest of the session. Williams, a Pro Bowl selection the last three seasons, was not present on the field during practice Friday.

“He’s actually had this injury before, so he understands exactly how he has to operate and make sure he goes through the process of getting it healed,” Glenn said.

Left guard John Simpson also will be sidelined one or two weeks with what Glenn said is a back injury.

“He’ll be just fine,” Glenn said. “Again, another precautionary.”

MARV LEVY LOOKS FORWARD TO CELEBRATE TURNING 100 AT HALL OF FAME IN CANTON, OHIO

Marv Levy is realizing among the advantages of turning 100 is no longer having to fudge his age.

“Well, I’d prefer to be turning 25, to tell you the truth,” the Pro Football Hall of Fame coach said, with a laugh, his distinct booming voice resonating over the phone from his hometown of Chicago last week.

Acknowledging his age is actually a switch for Levy. It wasn’t until years after landing the Buffalo Bills head coaching job in 1986 when it was revealed how Levy shaved three years off his age out of fear NFL teams wouldn’t hire a 61-year-old.

“But no, I’m very appreciative,” Levy said of his milestone birthday, which is on Sunday. “I’ve been very fortunate with all the people I’ve associated with, including my dear wife Frannie and my daughter Kimberly.”

And many of those associates — family, friends, former players, coaches and executives — will all be on hand in Canton, Ohio, on Friday, when the Hall of Fame hosts a party to celebrate Levy’s 100th birthday.

He’ll be arriving in first class, with officials hiring what Levy called “a special vehicle” to make the six-hour drive.

“I’m overwhelmingly complimented. It’ll be fun to see so many of my former cohorts and enemies,” he said, laughing.

Hall of Fame festivities

The list is large, in part because there’ll be plenty of Hall of Famers already there, as his birthday coincides with the annual induction festivities. This year’s class features Antonio Gates, Jared Allen, Eric Allen, and Sterling Sharpe.

Among those making the trip specifically for Levy include former players, staff, and Mary Wilson, the wife of late Bills Hall of Fame owner Ralph Wilson.

“How could you miss it? I love him so much,” Wilson said. “What a gentlemen. He’s so gracious and I admire him. I’m so happy he had this wonderful relationship with Ralph, and I’m just thrilled I can be there.”

Levy’s career dates to coaching football and basketball at Country Day School in St. Louis, Missouri, in the early 1950s, before moving on to the college ranks with stops at New Mexico, California and William & Mary.

And while he moved on to the pros and won two Grey Cup titles with the CFL Montreal Alouettes in the 1970s, Levy’s claim to greatness began with his arrival in Buffalo.

Making his mark in Buffalo

It was during his 12-year stint when Levy made a lasting impression for overseeing a star-studded Jim Kelly-led team to eight playoff appearances and four consecutive Super Bowl berths, all ending in losses.

“Fortitude and resilience. He preached that continually,” said Hall of Fame executive Bill Polian, the Bills GM who hired Levy. “That message among the many that he delivered sunk in. His sense of humor and his eloquence just captured everybody from the day he walked into the meeting room.”

Levy’s more memorable messages included citing Winston Churchill by saying, “When you’re going through hell, keep on going.”

And his most famous line, which became the title of his autobiography and a rallying cry for the Bills and their small-market fans was: “Where else would you rather be than right here, right now.”

Author, poet and avid history buff, Levy can lay claim to having seen plenty of history over the past century as someone who served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and had a front row seat in seeing the NFL become North America’s dominant sports league.

His first NFL break came as a “kicking teams” coach with Philadelphia in 1969, and he spent five seasons as the Kansas City Chiefs head coach. After retiring in Buffalo following the 1997 season, he returned to the Bills for a two-year stint as GM in 2006, with Ralph Wilson referring to the then-octogenarians as “the two golden boys,” and Levy calling himself “an 80-year-old rookie.”

Levy has outlived many of his contemporaries, from coach George Allen, whom he worked under in Washington, to AFC East rival Don Shula. He’s among the few Cubs fans who can boast outlasting the team’s World Series drought in attending their Game 7 loss in 1945, before celebrating their World Series return and title in 2016.

The one thing missing is a Super Bowl title for his beloved Bills, who have returned to prominence under coach Sean McDermott and quarterback Josh Allen. Levy likes Buffalo’s chances this season, and stays in touch with McDermott, a former William & Mary player.

“I’ll take any advice he wants to give me. It’s been huge,” McDermott said. “It’s one of the great honors of coaching the Buffalo Bills is to follow a coach like Marv Levy.”

Campaigning for Tasker

This will be Levy’s first trip to Canton in two years, when at 98, he insisted on leading the seven-block Hall of Fame Walk. He was ready to make the walk back before being coaxed into a golf cart.

And Levy has an agenda upon his return in resuming his campaign for former Bills special teams star Steve Tasker’s induction.

“Marv’s a hall of famer in every sense of the word. He’s a hall of fame human being and a hall of fame coach,” Tasker said. “And if his campaign to get me in the hall of fame keeps him alive, I hope I never get in.”

Hall of Fame historian Joe Horrigan is from Buffalo and described Levy’s era as uplifting for turning around a losing franchise and spurring a Rust Belt community struggling through an economic downturn.

“To see the legacy he has left just makes you feel good to be there,” Horrigan said of celebrating Levy’s birthday. “You know, there’s no place I’d rather be than right there, right then.”

Levy is humbled by the attention, grateful people are still interested in his story, and ended the phone call with a familiar farewell: “Go Bills.”

STERLING SHARPE HASN’T FULLY EMBRACED HIS SELECTION INTO THE HALL OF FAME BECAUSE OF AN EYE ISSUE

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Maybe the magnitude of the accomplishment will hit Sterling Sharpe when he walks on stage Saturday and sees his bronze bust that will be displayed permanently in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

The former Green Bay Packers star wide receiver will be enshrined into football immortality along with cornerback Eric Allen, defensive end Jared Allen and tight end Antonio Gates as the Class of 2025.

But Sharpe hasn’t been able to celebrate the honor fully because he’s been dealing with problems in his right eye. He was still recovering from eye surgery when his brother, Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe, informed him in front of television cameras that he was selected.

“I had a detached retina, so I was dealing with not being able to see,” Sterling Sharpe said Thursday. “There’s still a chance I won’t be able to see out of my right eye, so for me, I never fully got involved in the process of joy and excitement and what it means and all that because if someone would’ve asked me when I had eye surgery in October: ‘You get to choose. You can have sight and keep your right eye or you can be a Pro Football Hall of Famer.’ I would’ve chosen sight and kept my right eye.

“So I never really in this journey got a chance because I’ve had four surgeries and just found out last week I have a hole in my retina, so I’m probably set up for another surgery, I never got the joy of being able to just deal with that because I’ve been dealing with surgeries, pressure, cataract, detached retina, torn retina, now a hole in my retina.”

Health issues are nothing new for Sharpe. A neck injury cut short his NFL career after seven seasons, delaying his entry into the Hall of Fame because there always was the question of whether he played long enough.

There’s no disputing anymore. He’s in. He’ll receive his gold jacket on Friday night. Sharpe averaged 85 catches and 1,162 yards in his career, finishing with 65 touchdowns. He was named to five Pro Bowls and earned first-team All-Pro honors three times.

Sharpe and his younger brother, who was inducted in 2011, will become the first brothers in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

“That’s hard for me (to grasp) because where we come from, two little Black boys from Glenville, Georgia, a town of about 2,500 people, this ain’t a dream you have on the farm,” Sterling Sharpe said. “This ain’t a dream you have baling hay and corralling chickens and chasing hogs and picking tobacco. You don’t have this dream. It is definitely truly an honor, truly a blessing from God.

“I honestly am a firm believer that everything doesn’t have to be articulated and explained and this is one of them that’s just a tremendous honor that you look at it the way you walk. But I would be doing us, I would be doing the Hall of Fame, I would be doing this honor a tremendous disservice by trying to talk about how elated, excited, championed we are to be the first brothers in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. This is a lot bigger than any goal or dream that either he or I had as kids.”

Eric Allen

The six-time Pro Bowl cornerback played seven seasons with the Eagles, three with the Saints and four with the Raiders. He had 54 career interceptions, including eight returned for touchdowns.

Allen also played baseball at Point Loma High School in San Diego. He credits that sport for helping him become one of the game’s elite cornerbacks.

“Yes, baseball is a team sport, but when you’re up to bat, it’s you and the pitcher,” Allen said. “That helped me play cornerback because if it’s third-and-7, third-and-8 and you know where they are going with the ball and you’re on that guy, it’s you and him so that skillset plus the coaches I had early on, I was able to play the game from the neck up and that’s an important part of playing cornerback.”

Jared Allen

Allen made five Pro Bowls, was a four-time All-Pro and had 136 sacks in 12 seasons with the Chiefs, Vikings, Bears and Panthers.

He had 22 sacks for Minnesota in 2011, just one away from breaking the all-time single-season record of 22 1/2 sacks set by Michael Strahan in 2001 and tied by T.J. Watt in 2021. Allen actually was credited with a sack on Aaron Rodgers during a game that season, but the official scoring of the play was changed to a team sack after the game. Rodgers dropped a shotgun snap, chased the ball, fell on it and Allen jumped on top of him.

He believes Allen is the record holder.

“Hey Jared, it’s Aaron Rodgers,” Rodgers, wearing a Steelers uniform, said in a video posted on social media by the Vikings. “You are the all time single-season sack leader. I don’t care what the numbers say, because that phantom … sack they took away from you would give you the record. So, in my book, and probably in most Vikings fan books, you’re the all time, single-season sack leader, my friend.”

Antonio Gates

A college basketball star at Kent State, Gates signed with the San Diego Chargers as a free agent and became an All-Pro by his second season. He’ll become the first player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame without playing the sport in college.

He played all 16 of his NFL seasons with the Chargers, finishing with 955 catches for 11,841 yards and 116 TDs.

“I was very fortunate and lucky,” Gates said. “I was doing it one year at a time. I never let my past reflect on my present. I never let my future reflect on my present. I lived in the moment every year. Every year I had to make the team, every year I had to be the best version of Antonio Gates. Every year I had to improve. Ultimately, I ended up tallying 16 years. … It’s a testament to the respect the organization had for myself and the sacrifices that I was able to make.”

RAIDERS DEFENSIVE LINE LOOKS TO PROVE ITSELF AFTER RELEASE OF CHRISTIAN WILKINS

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — Christian Wilkins’ expected impact on the Raiders’ defensive line was in question long before he was shockingly released last week, which if nothing else provided clarity on what kind of front Las Vegas can take into the season.

Jonah Laulu has showed some promise he could take over Wilkins’ spot at tackle next to Adam Butler, who comes off a career season. Maxx Crosby is an elite edge rusher, and Malcolm Koonce on the other side has shown the ability to disrupt opposing passing games.

Not that replacing one of the game’s top interior linemen will be simple, but the Raiders might be able to absorb such a change reasonably well.

“We’re not necessarily the biggest group, but across the board everybody moves really well,” coach Pete Carroll said. “So we’re going to play to that. … That’s a real competitive group, and that’s going to take us all camp. It’s going to take us through the games and all of that to figure that out. There’s no rush.

“But it’s a good spot because there’s enough guys that have something to show you, so we just got to give them the right opportunities and see if we can draw out the best in them.”

Crosby is the group’s star, and in practice he has resembled the player who in 2022 and 2023 had 27 sacks and 45 tackles for loss. He played through injury last season in totaling 7 1/2 sacks and 17 tackles for loss over 12 games before finally being shut down to undergo ankle surgery.

At the other end, Koonce missed the entire season because of a torn ACL. It was a major setback to a player trying to build on a 2023 season in which had six sacks over the final four games. The Raiders signed him to a one-year, $12 million prove-it contract this season.

“We’re counting on Malcolm to be a big factor,” Carroll said. “He’s really athletic and he’s really natural player, and he’s got good instincts.”

Butler and Laulu occupy the two inside spots.

The Raiders have a known quantity in Butler, an eight-year veteran coming off back-to-back seasons in which he had five sacks each season. He was especially effective last season, starting a career-high 16 games. Butler didn’t start any games in 2023, though he played in all 17.

“You only got one chance to do this,” Butler said. “I don’t get to do my career over again. I changed my attitude, changed my approach to the game, and I just decided that I wasn’t going to be just a third down player anymore. I decided that I am a starter. I’m going to prove myself in this league, and anybody that says I’m not, I’m going to do everything in my power to shut them up.”

Laulu takes on the burden of being the player expected to step in for Wilkins. The second-year pro played in all 17 games last season, starting seven after Wilkins broke his foot in Week 5.

Though Laulu had just three tackles for loss and one sack, he has used the extra snaps in practice this year to make a case for a bigger role, something Carroll said hasn’t gone unnoticed.

“Coming in late to training camp, I came here the week before we played Week 1 and was just trying to learn the plays,” Laulu said. “I was trying to learn our philosophy on the defense, how we operate, and how do we attack offenses.

“Being able to now transition to this year where I’m still under the same coaches on defense and being able to stack on top of last year, I’m very comfortable in the defense, even though we changed some things.”

Notes

By not holding out, left tackle Kolton Miller doesn’t have any catching up to do in training camp after signing a three-year, $66 million extension Wednesday, including $42.5 million guaranteed.

“Each day is an opportunity, and I feel like if you’re not in it, you’re taking a step back and it’s really not helping you,” Miller said. “So I’m glad this all worked out, and I wouldn’t want to do it any other way.”

2024 second-round draft pick Jackson Powers-Johnson came out of minicamp as the expected starting center, but shared the position with third-year pro Jordan Meredith in camp. That is until Thursday when Meredith lined up at center and Powers-Johnson at right guard. … Jakorian Bennett started seven games at cornerback last season before going out with a shoulder injury, but has mostly been running with the second and third teams. Bennett pointed to not starting in high school until his senior season, going to a junior college and then to Maryland. “I always feel like the underdog,” Bennett said. “Not saying I’m an underdog right now, but I always had to get out the mud, and that’s nothing I shy away from.”

REPORT: TENSION BETWEEN MICAH PARSONS, COWBOYS INTENSIFYING OVER CONTRACT

Star pass rusher Micah Parsons is considering requesting a trade from the Dallas Cowboys or even “severing his relationship with the team” over his prolonged contract standoff, The Athletic reported Friday.

Parsons, 26, is at training camp with the team but not taking part in on-field activities. He is entering his fifth season in the NFL, and the Cowboys picked up his $24 million option but have yet to sign him to an extension that undoubtedly would put him among the league’s high-paid defensive players.

The Cowboys and the two-time All-Pro are not currently negotiating, with their contract numbers “far apart,” per The Athletic.

Parsons, selected with the No. 12 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft, was the defensive rookie of the year that season.

Per The Athletic, Parsons and team owner Jerry Jones talked directly in the spring, and the Cowboys believe their conversations were negotiations with a deal for an extension in place. The Parsons’ camp instead portrayed the meetings as just talks and not negotiations, and that the Cowboys have declined to negotiate with his agent because team officials believed an agreement already was in place.

Defensive end Myles Garrett signed a four-year, $160 million extension with the Cleveland Browns, and Maxx Crosby inked a three-year, $106.5 million extension with the Las Vegas Raiders this year. A Parsons extension likely would be in the same ballpark — or more.

Speaking in April at the NFL’s annual league meeting, Jones acknowledged his conversation with Parsons, saying the two spoke for “five or six hours” to work out a long-term extension.

“Most of the issues we are in agreement on. We discussed it all,” Jones said April 1. “But we obviously don’t have an agreement relative to the new contract.”

The Dallas Morning News reported in March that Parsons was seeking a record-setting $200 million contract extension that would make him the highest-paid non-quarterback in the NFL.

Parsons recorded 12 sacks, 43 tackles and two forced fumbles in 13 games (all starts) last season.

A Pro Bowl selection in each of his first four seasons in the league, Parsons has totaled 256 tackles (63 for loss), 112 quarterback hits, 52.5 sacks, nine forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries in 63 career games (all starts).

CHIEFS WR XAVIER WORTHY RETURNS AFTER DIAGNOSIS CHANGE

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Xavier Worthy returned to practice Friday after further evaluation revealed he did not sustain a concussion, coach Andy Reid said.

Worthy’s head hit the ground during training camp practice on Tuesday, and he was placed in concussion protocol the next day. Reid said the diagnosis changed after additional testing on Thursday.

His return was welcome news for the Chiefs with fellow wide receivers Hollywood Brown (ankle) and Skyy Moore (hamstring) still sidelined on Friday.

Worthy, 22, had 59 catches for 638 yards and six touchdowns and also rushed for three TDs in 17 games (13 starts) last season after being selected with the 28th overall pick in the 2024 NFL Draft.

The rookie added three touchdown receptions in the playoffs, including two in the second half of the Chiefs’ 40-22 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX.

The Chiefs open the preseason at Arizona on Aug. 9 and kick off the regular season against the visiting Los Angeles Chargers on Sept. 5.

BEARS TO HONOR VIRGINIA HALAS MCCASKEY, STEVE MCMICHAEL

The Chicago Bears will honor late team owner Virginia Halas McCaskey with a jersey patch this season and late Hall of Fame defensive tackle Steve McMichael with a football-shaped helmet decal.

McCaskey, owner of the Bears for more than 40 years, died on Feb. 2 at the age of 102.

She will have her initials displayed on the left breastplate of the Bears jersey. The patch is nearly identical to the design worn by the 1983 club when her Hall of Fame father George Halas died.

She assumed ownership upon his death on Oct. 31, 1983. Her son, George, has run the franchise since he became chairman in 2011.

“We thought it would be appropriate if her patch mirrored her dad’s from 1983,” George McCaskey said. “So it’s the same size, the same color combination. The only thing that’s different, of course, is the initials. We thought that was the right thing to do.”

McMichael died on April 23 after a long battle with ALS. He was 67.

The Bears will honor McMichael by wearing a decal of his No. 76 on their helmets. The team also will honor the Super Bowl XX champion team with a logo on the grass at Soldier Field.

“We wanted to have the decal, and we’ll also have a field stencil at every home game this season,” George McCaskey said. “This is the 40th anniversary of our Super Bowl team, so we want to properly acknowledge and honor Steve at that celebration.”

A two-time Pro Bowler and two-time All-Pro, McMichael enjoyed a 15-year career in the NFL as a defensive lineman. Originally selected by the New England Patriots in the third round of the 1980 NFL Draft, McMichael spent the next 13 years in Chicago, where he rose to stardom, becoming a regular starter in 1983.

REPORT: BUCCANEERS QB BAKER MAYFIELD (HAND) TO MISS PRACTICE

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield will sit out practice on Friday while dealing with a contusion on his throwing hand, multiple media outlets reported.

Mayfield is considered day-to-day by the team.

Per the Tampa Bay Times, Mayfield sustained the injury during practice on Thursday after hitting his right hand on a shoulder pad during his follow through.

Kyle Trask and Connor Bazelak will handle the quarterbacking duties in place of Mayfield, who has yet to miss a game during his two Pro Bowl seasons with the Buccaneers.

Mayfield, 30, set career-high totals in passing yards (4,500) and touchdowns (41) in 17 games last season. He also completed a personal-best 71.4 percent of his passes.

He has thrown for 24,832 yards, 171 TDs and 90 interceptions in 106 regular-season games (103 starts) for the Cleveland Browns (2018-21), Carolina Panthers (2022), Los Angeles Rams (2022) and Buccaneers.

The Browns made him the first overall pick of the 2018 NFL Draft out of Oklahoma.

CINCINNATI BENGALS AND HAMILTON COUNTY FINALIZE NEW LEASE, $470M DEAL TO RENOVATE PAYCOR STADIUM

The Cincinnati Bengals and Hamilton County finalized a new 11-year lease on Friday that includes $470 million in renovations to Paycor Stadium.

Hamilton County commissioners approved a version of the lease on Thursday but the Bengals did not sign because they had not seen the version that county officials approved. Both sides negotiated through the night before the Bengals signed off and commissioners approved during a special meeting on Friday.

The lease keeps the team at their downtown home through at least 2036. It also includes 10 additional option years that could extend it through June 2046.

“The Bengals thank Hamilton County and its Commissioners for demonstrating leadership and taking steps that continue moving Cincinnati forward,” Bengals Executive Vice President Katie Blackburn said in a statement. “It solidifies the future of the Bengals in Cincinnati, our beloved home, for many years to come. Today’s deal embodies a responsible approach for the future, while at the same time keeping Paycor Stadium a great venue that can provide our great fans the great gameday experience they deserve.”

The county will contribute $350 million toward the renovations, and the Bengals will pay $120 million. The plan is far less than the $830 million the Bengals originally proposed.

The Bengals and Hamilton County will also work to secure state funding. The Cleveland Browns are receiving $600 million from unclaimed funds in Ohio’s budget recently signed by Gov. Mike DeWine. The Browns are planning to build a new domed stadium in Brookpark, Ohio, near Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.

The Bengals have proposed improvements to the club lounges, stadium suites, concessions and scoreboards. A permanent indoor facility is also on the long-term wish list. Cincinnati was the only northern NFL team without an indoor practice facility for many seasons until 2022, when it added an indoor practice bubble across the street from its outdoor fields.

Owner Mike Brown said on July 21 that the planned improvements and requests were in line with other medium- to small-market NFL franchises.

“We aren’t looking for fancy, new things,” Brown said. “We’re going to try to spruce up the club area. There are some areas around and about in the concession area. There are things that are going to be improved but we aren’t going to put a dome over the top. We aren’t going to put a mammoth scoreboard in. It is going to be what it has been, pretty much, and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.”

The Bengals have called Paycor Stadium home since 2000. It was originally named Paul Brown Stadium until the team sold the naming rights in August 2022.

The finalized lease wraps up what had been a long and at times contentious period of negotiations between Hamilton County and the Bengals. The original 1996 lease has been cited by many as what city, county or state governments should not do when trying to build a new stadium or arena for a team and giving that franchise too much control of the process.

“We stood firm on what we thought was best. I think that this lease agreement is good for the people and the team. This I feel is the people’s lease and I feel proud of that,” Stephanie Summerow Dumas, one of Hamilton County’s three commissioners, said on Friday.

BROCK PURDY’S MILESTONE YEAR: A $265M DEAL AND A NEW BABY FOR THE 49ERS QB

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — Long before he has thrown his first official pass of the 2025 season, it’s been a milestone year for Brock Purdy.

He signed a $265 million extension that solidified his spot as the franchise quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers in May and became a father for the first time last week when his wife gave birth to Millie Joleen Purdy.

“I still really can’t describe it, just how awesome it is coming home and seeing little baby girl and holding her and her sleeping on me,” Purdy said Friday, a week after his wife Jenna gave birth to his daughter. “There’s nothing better. No gift can compare. And seeing Jenna and how she’s been awesome as a mom, just all of it all together. It’s so good.”

With his financial future set and his family growing, Purdy can now focus on his performance on the field as he and the 49ers try to get back to their 2023 form when Purdy had one of the most prolific passing seasons in team history when he set a franchise record for yards passing (4,280) and became the first Niners QB in more than two decades to throw at least 30 TD passes (31).

That helped him finish fourth in the NFL in MVP voting and helped the team reach the Super Bowl before losing in overtime to Kansas City.

That success was harder to come by in 2024 as Purdy was hampered by injuries to key offensive players like Christian McCaffrey, Trent Williams and Brandon Aiyuk. His passer rating dropped nearly 17 points to 96.1, he had only 20 TD passes and 12 interceptions on the season, and also came up short in several late-game scenarios when the 49ers had a chance for a comeback win.

“Obviously, there’s so much stuff that has happened in my life off the field for sure, but to come in the building and keep it simple and play football, I feel like it’s really good for me,” he said. “I come here and I get my mind back on what matters and stepping out on the field and competing and playing the game that I love. Obviously there’s a new goal with a new team this year, so there’s a chip on all of our shoulders right now so when I come here to work I hone in on what my job is and it feels good. Obviously when I go home it’s great seeing my family too.”

Purdy has looked like his old self early in camp, even showing off his deep ball when he connected on downfield shots to both Demarcus Robinson and rookie Jordan Watkins in the past week

The Niners attempted only 35 passes thrown at least 30 yards downfield the past two seasons — tied for sixth fewest in that span. But Purdy has been extremely efficient when he has taken the opportunity with his 46.9 completion rate ranking first in NFL in that span.

“I think Brock’s always had it,” coach Kyle Shanahan said. “It’s just about recognizing when it’s the right look, being able to get your body into it and anticipate it and see it. Deep balls, I think, can be a tough thing when you don’t anticipate it, when you don’t see it right. I think the more Brock gets used to coverages, the more when to take those shots and when not to is something that’s to me where he’s improved.”

BROWNS QUARTERBACK KENNY PICKETT RETURNS TO THE PRACTICE FIELD AFTER HAMSTRING INJURY

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Quarterback Kenny Pickett returned to the field for the Cleveland Browns on Friday after missing three practices because of a hamstring injury.

Pickett did only individual work and did not participate in any team drills. It was still a step forward for the four-year veteran, who was expected to be out at least a week after getting hurt during a red-zone drill late in practice on July 26.

“Disappointed that he’s not full go, but he’s very much involved in everything we’re doing,” coach Kevin Stefanski said.

Pickett is vying with Joe Flacco, Dillon Gabriel and Shedeur Sanders for the starting quarterback spot. Cleveland opens the season on Sept. 7 against Cincinnati.

The Browns have three more practices scheduled before traveling to Charlotte, North Carolina, for a joint practice with the Carolina Panthers on Wednesday. Stefanski did not say if he anticipated Pickett would be full go for the joint workout.

During the first four practices of training camp, Pickett and Flacco received most of the snaps with the first team.

Even though Flacco has experience with the Browns after leading them to a playoff spot in 2023, Stefanski is eager to see what Pickett can do. The coaching staff likes Pickett’s mobility and ability to create plays on the run.

Pickett was acquired from Philadelphia in March. A 2022 first-round draft selection by Pittsburgh, Pickett has 25 career starts with 15 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.

Stefanski did not say if he anticipated narrowing the quarterback field before he got to Carolina for the joint workouts and the first preseason game on Aug. 8. If Pickett is healthy, it is likely he and Flacco would get the work in the joint workouts, with Gabriel and Sanders then playing in the preseason game.

“I think for all of our positions, every single day is an important part of getting ready for the season and part of the evaluation. All of it is in an effort to get ready for Week 1 and evaluate our players,” Stefanski said.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

MLB ALL-STAR GAME AWARDED TO CUBS IN 2027

The Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field will host the 2027 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, commissioner Rob Manfred announced Friday.

Manfred made his announcement at Wrigley Field with Cubs executive chairman Tom Ricketts, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Hall of Fame member and eight-time All-Star Andre Dawson and two-time All-Star Shawon Dunston among those in attendance.

The game will be played July 13, 2027, as the culmination of All-Star Week festivities.

The 97th Midsummer Classic will be the fourth hosted at Wrigley Field. The American League won the previous meetings at Wrigley Field in 1947, 1962 and 1990.

“I applaud the Ricketts family, the entire Cubs organization, the City of Chicago and the Chicago Sports Commission for presenting an impressive vision for 2027 All-Star Week,” Manfred said. “The hard work put in to transform all of Wrigleyville into an outstanding destination deserves to be celebrated and shared on a national stage.

“We look forward to bringing the Midsummer Classic back to historic Wrigley Field and working alongside the Cubs, city and state officials, and the local organizing group to bring an extraordinary experience to the baseball fans of Chicago.”

The 2026 contest will take place in Philadelphia to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence. The Phillies’ former home, Veterans Stadium, hosted the All-Star Game in 1976 to honor the nation’s bicentennial.

PADRES MAKE WAVES AT TRADE DEADLINE AGAIN, UNAFRAID TO DEAL AWAY ONE OF BASEBALL’S TOP PROSPECTS

For the second time in four years, A.J. Preller turned the San Diego Padres into the biggest stars of baseball’s trade deadline.

In 2022, the San Diego general manager snagged slugger Juan Soto, sending James Wood, MacKenzie Gore, CJ Abrams and three others to Washington in an eight-player blockbuster.

Then on Thursday, the aggressive Preller pulled off a slightly less seismic version of that deal, trading top prospect Leo De Vries to the Athletics and bringing back closer Mason Miller.

Prospects that highly touted are rarely dealt anymore. De Vries, a shortstop, is ranked No. 3 overall by MLB Pipeline. Last year at the deadline, none of Baseball America’s top 100 prospects were traded.

By the time this year’s deadline passed, Preller had traded 14 players and acquired eight. Left-handers JP Sears and Nestor Cortes, first baseman Ryan O’Hearn and outfielder Ramón Laureano were among those the Padres landed in addition to Miller, an All-Star last season who is under team control through 2029.

Here’s a division-by-division look at this year’s deadline:

AL East

TORONTO leads the division by 3 1/2 games, but the Blue Jays have dropped four of five. They took a gamble, albeit one with some upside, in acquiring 2020 AL Cy Young Award winner Shane Bieber, who has made several rehab starts as he works toward a return from Tommy John surgery. The second-place YANKEES added All-Star relievers David Bednar and Camilo Doval to their bullpen and acquired some more power in third baseman Ryan McMahon. BOSTON’s deadline was less inspiring, unless oft-injured right-hander Dustin May can get hot down the stretch.

BALTIMORE has shown it can build a strong farm system of position players, but poor pitching has the Orioles in last place this year. They did add some interesting minor league arms over the past week while selling off more than a half-dozen players. TAMPA BAY is 3 1/2 games out of a playoff spot and added reliever Griffin Jax and starting pitcher Adrian Houser, but the Rays also traded away a dependable starter in Zack Littell. Just assume the unorthodox Rays know what they’re doing and move on.

AL Central

KANSAS CITY is a half-game behind CLEVELAND in the standings, and both have about a 13% chance of making the postseason according to FanGraphs. But they went in opposite directions at the deadline. The Royals largely stayed the course, making some under-the-radar additions like outfielder Mike Yastrzemski and left-hander Bailey Falter, while the Guardians — who are three games out of a playoff spot — dealt away Bieber and reliever Paul Sewald. Of course, that’s nothing compared to the way MINNESOTA tore apart its roster, trading Jax, infielder Carlos Correa, reliever Jhoan Durán and more than a half-dozen others.

DETROIT didn’t have a terribly sexy deadline but added starters Charlie Morton and Chris Paddack along with a few bullpen arms. The WHITE SOX held onto outfielder Luis Robert Jr. He has club options for the next two years, so perhaps we haven’t heard the last about his potential trade value.

AL West

SEATTLE threw down the gauntlet Wednesday night by acquiring slugging third baseman Eugenio Suárez. Then HOUSTON answered Thursday by bringing Correa back to the team that drafted him. The difference between these two moves is that Correa is under contract through at least 2028, while Suárez can become a free agent this offseason. But the Mariners can worry about that later.

TEXAS, which is five games behind the first-place Astros but just a game behind Seattle for the final wild card, added Merrill Kelly to its rotation. He may have been the best starting pitcher dealt — but pitching hasn’t been the problem for the Rangers this year.

The ANGELS are the worst team in the American League that didn’t make a clear move toward selling. And they didn’t do anything likely to move the needle much as they try to make up ground. The ATHLETICS are finally making news for reasons other than their nomadic existence. Add De Vries to an organization that already has two of the game’s top rookies in the majors, and the future looks a little brighter.

NL East

The METS lead PHILADELPHIA by a half-game atop this division, and both teams went big on bullpen help. New York went for quantity with Gregory Soto, Tyler Rogers and Ryan Helsley, while the Phillies made one huge move in adding Duran. MIAMI held onto Sandy Alcantara. Perhaps his value will improve by the offseason — right now he has a 6.36 ERA in his first season back from Tommy John surgery.

WASHINGTON sold in fairly predictable fashion, but ATLANTA — currently 16 games under .500 — curiously held onto Raisel Iglesias despite no shortage of teams looking for late-inning relievers.

NL Central

MILWAUKEE and the CUBS boast the game’s two best records, and they appear reasonably satisfied with what they have. Both added some bullpen help. CINCINNATI was more aggressive, acquiring Littell from the Rays and Gold Glove third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes from PITTSBURGH. Trading Hayes within the division was a gamble by the Pirates, given that he’s under team control through 2030, but he has an OPS well under .600 for the second straight year. Pittsburgh is under pressure to improve while Paul Skenes is young and cheap.

ST. LOUIS looked like a buyer a month ago, but the Cardinals have lost 17 of 25 and are now a .500 team.

NL West

SAN DIEGO’s flurry of moves didn’t draw a particularly brazen response from the DODGERS, who were actually on the prospect-receiving end of the deal that sent May to Boston. SAN FRANCISCO certainly looked like a buyer when it acquired Rafael Devers earlier this season, but now the fading Giants are under .500 and will hope the haul of prospects they received — particularly from the Mets and Yankees for Rogers and Doval — pan out.

ARIZONA had two of the best trade chips on the market in Suárez and Kelly and cashed in both. COLORADO’s assets were less enticing, but the Rockies did unload McMahon and his contract.

MLB ROUNDUP: DOWN 9-0 IN FIRST, ROCKIES SHOCK PIRATES 17-16

Brenton Doyle capped a five-run ninth inning with a two-run home run, and the Colorado Rockies rallied after giving up nine runs in the first to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 17-16 on Friday night in Denver.

Hunter Goodman also went deep in the ninth, Warming Bernabel had four hits — including a three-run home run and his first career triple — and Ezequiel Tovar tied a franchise record with four doubles for Colorado.

For the Pirates, Oneil Cruz hit a grand slam, Andrew McCutchen homered and finished with three hits and five RBIs, Nick Gonzales had four hits and Bryan Reynolds and Isiah Kiner-Falefa finished with three hits apiece.

Colorado starting pitcher Antonio Senzatela was chased from the game after recording just two outs, allowing seven runs on eight hits.

Marlins 13, Yankees 12

With one out in the ninth, Xavier Edwards scored from third base on a swinging bunt by Agustin Ramirez as host Miami rallied for a wild walk-off win over New York.

The Marlins trailed 9-4 before scoring six runs in the seventh inning. They also entered the bottom of the ninth down 12-10. All-Star Kyle Stowers led Miami with a grand slam, and Javier Sanoja homered twice.

The Yankees acquired three relief pitchers at Thursday’s trade deadline — Jake Bird, David Bednar and Camilo Doval — and they combined to give up nine runs on Friday. Doval (4-3) took the loss and blew his fifth save of the season, allowing three ninth-inning runs, one of which was earned.

Brewers 16, Nationals 9

Blake Perkins homered twice and William Contreras had five hits, including his third homer in two games, as visiting Milwaukee beat Washington in a slugfest.

Andrew Vaughn had a home run among his three hits and Andruw Monasterio had four hits for Milwaukee, which pounded out 25 hits and has won four of five. The Brewers had two five-run innings, getting enough cushion to stave off a five-run Washington ninth.

Paul DeJong homered and CJ Abrams had three hits for the Nationals, who lost their third straight despite delivering 15 hits of their own.

Cubs 1, Orioles 0

Carson Kelly had two hits and Ian Happ drove in the lone run of the game as host Chicago made quick work of Baltimore for its fourth win in six games.

Cade Horton allowed just two hits over five shutout innings for Chicago, striking out three and extending his shutout streak to 17 2/3 innings over his past three starts. With Horton dealing, the Cubs put away the Orioles in one hour and 49 minutes, which tied the fastest game in MLB this season.

Adley Rutschman doubled to lead Baltimore, which could not take advantage of a strong start by Trevor Rogers. The left-hander put forth his best start of the season, giving up one run on just four hits over eight innings while striking out a season-best eight against no walks.

Reds 3, Braves 2

Will Benson had a rare home run among his two hits to lead Cincinnati over visiting Atlanta in the second game of the three-game series.

Benson, who scored twice, drove in a pair of runs and stole a base before he crossed the plate on a Matt McLain two-out single in the sixth for the game’s first run.

Reds right-hander Brady Singer (9-8) set a season high with 10 strikeouts while allowing just four hits and a walk over six shutout innings. Braves right-hander Bryce Elder (4-8) gave up two runs on four hits over 6 2/3 innings with two walks and five strikeouts.

Phillies 5, Tigers 4

Bryson Stott logged just one hit, but it delivered his second RBI of the day to help Philadelphia rally past visiting Detroit.

Trailing 4-3 heading into the bottom of the eighth, Otto Kemp doubled in the tying run before Stott beat out an infield single to score what became the game-winning run. Kemp and Nick Castellanos each had two hits for Philadelphia.

Gleyber Torres had a three-run homer for the Tigers, whose four-game winning streak came to an end. Wenceel Perez added two hits, including a solo home run.

Royals 9, Blue Jays 3

Michael Wacha pitched eight strong innings, Bobby Witt Jr. hit a three-run homer and visiting Kansas City defeated Toronto.

Wacha (5-9) allowed one run and three hits, finishing with seven shutout innings after Vladimir Guerrero Jr. tagged him for a first-inning home run.

Witt Jr. was one of four Royals who homered as Mike Yastrzemski, Adam Frazier and Salvador Perez also had home runs in the victory.

Guardians 3, Twins 2 (10 innings)

Kyle Manzardo had two hits, including a walk-off RBI single to left field to lift Cleveland to a home win over Minnesota.

Jose Ramirez singled in a run and had a stolen base to become the first primary third baseman, and 17th-ever player, with 275 steals and 275 home runs in a career. Steven Kwan and Brayan Rocchio each had two hits for the Guardians, who won for the 15th time in 21 games.

Austin Martin went 3-for-5 to lead the way for the Twins, who dropped their third straight and lost for the sixth time in eight games.

Dodgers 5, Rays 0

Freddie Freeman hit a solo homer and doubled in two runs, Clayton Kershaw tossed six shutout innings, and visiting Los Angeles opened a three-game series with a win against Tampa Bay.

Freeman went 2-for-4 and homered in back-to-back games and reached base safely in 17 straight contests.

Christopher Morel and Jonny DeLuca each had two hits, leading the way for a Rays team that has dropped four straight games and 10 of 14 since the All-Star break.

Giants 4, Mets 3 (10 innings)

Dominic Smith entered as a pinch-hitter in the top of the 10th inning and delivered a run-scoring single that allowed visiting San Francisco to escape with a win over New York.

The Giants snapped a six-game losing streak with the victory despite blowing a three-run lead and the Mets loading the bases in the home half of the 10th.

Casey Schmitt and Patrick Bailey each had RBI doubles for San Francisco, while New York’s Pete Alonso recorded a home run and two RBIs.

Red Sox 2, Astros 1 (10 innings)

Roman Anthony’s single in the bottom of the 10th inning drove in Wilyer Abreu with the game-winning run as Boston extended its winning streak to three games by beating visiting Houston.

Abreu started the inning at second base as the automatic runner and moved to third on a fielder’s choice before Anthony singled against Bennett Sousa (5-1). Cooper Criswell made his first start of the season for the Red Sox and limited Houston to one run on seven hits in seven innings.

Astros shortstop Jeremy Pena collected three singles after being activated from the 10-day injured list (ribs) Friday. He was in the lineup for the first time since June 27. Carlos Correa started at third base and went 0-for-4 in his first game back with the Astros after being acquired from Minnesota at the deadline.

Padres 4, Cardinals 1

Nick Pivetta allowed just one hit in seven innings and Jackson Merrill capped a four-run fifth inning with a two-run single as San Diego beat visiting St. Louis for its sixth straight win.

Pivetta walked none and struck out five as he lowered his ERA to 2.73. New acquisition Mason Miller pitched a scoreless eighth and MLB saves leader Robert Suarez worked the ninth for his 31st save in 35 chances. The Padres took advantage of two St. Louis errors in the decisive fifth.

Matthew Liberatore (6-9) matched Pivetta pitch-for-pitch for four innings. Willson Contreras gave the Cardinals a 1-0 lead when he cracked his 15th homer of the year to start the top of the fifth.

Mariners 4, Rangers 3

J.P. Crawford hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning as Seattle rallied to defeat visiting Texas.

Dominic Canzone led off the inning with a single and Crawford lined a 2-0 fastball from Robert Garcia (1-6) over the right field wall to give the Mariners the walk-off victory. Eduard Bazardo (5-0) pitched a scoreless inning of relief.

The Rangers did all their damage in the third inning, a three-run burst capped by Marcus Semien’s RBI double.

White Sox 6, Angels 3

Andrew Benintendi homered and doubled, and Chicago hit four home runs en route to a victory over Los Angeles in the opener of a three-game series in Anaheim, Calif.

Lenyn Sosa went 2-for-3 with a home run, a walk and two RBIs and Colson Montgomery and Josh Rojas also homered for the White Sox, who won their second straight game while improving to 9-4 since the All-Star break. Miguel Vargas added two hits and scored a run.

Gustavo Campero hit a two-run homer and Nolan Schanuel had two hits for the Angels.

Athletics 5, Diamondbacks 1

Shea Langeliers had three hits, including a two-run homer during a four-run first inning, to lead the Athletics over Arizona in West Sacramento, Calif.

Tyler Soderstrom had two hits and an RBI and Brent Rooker and Carlos Cortes also drove in runs as the Athletics won their third consecutive game and the seventh in their past eight. Jacob Lopez tossed five shutout innings for the A’s.

Corbin Carroll had an RBI and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Alek Thomas each had two hits as Arizona extended its season-worst losing streak to six games. The Diamondbacks have dropped nine of their past 10 games.

A BASEBALL FIELD IN A RACETRACK? MLB’S SPEEDWAY CLASSIC MAKES HISTORY

BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — A 110-foot Ferris wheel. Race cars painted in MLB team colors. Food trucks. Live music. Pitching tunnels and batting cages. A chance for photos with the Commissioner’s Trophy. And Clydesdales.

Of course, there’s merchandise available for any fans who forgot to grab their gear supporting the Atlanta Braves or Cincinnati Reds or simply commemorating a spectacle unlike any other.

“My sister’s already texted me asking for a t shirt,” said Marcia Lorenzo, 39, from Charleston, South Carolina.

After about four years in the planning, it’s finally time for the MLB Speedway Classic to play ball Saturday night on the diamond constructed on the infield at Bristol Motor Speedway at the place called the “Last Great Colisseum!”

“When you walk up to Bristol Motor Speedway, much like many of our venues, you know you’re at a big iconic sports location,” said Jeremiah Yolkut, MLB’s senior vice president of global events. “You feel it. You walk into Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, you feel it. And that’s what Bristol Motor Speedway is for NASCAR.”

The MLB Speedway Classic was first announced nearly a year ago as part of Commissioner Rob Manfred’s push to take MLB to places where baseball isn’t played every day live. MLB played a game at the movie site in Iowa in both 2021 and 2022. Alabama, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, too.

Now it’s time for Tennessee, which has teams in the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLS but no MLB team even as a group chases an expansion franchise for Nashville. This game mixes the rich racing history of both Bristol, which hosts a pair of NASCAR races each year, and Tennessee.

“So we quickly worked to make it so that we could viably create this magic moment and give fans that don’t get regular season baseball all the time, an opportunity to see it right there in their backyard in Tennessee,” Yolkut said.

The Reds, chasing an NL wild-card berth, split the first two games in this series with Atlanta. The rubber match will be a part of history as the first Major League Baseball game played in the state of Tennessee.

They will play before the largest crowd ever to see an MLB regular-season game, too.

Reds outfielder Austin Hays said this will be a fun game and can’t wait to see how loud it gets.

“I used to go to the truck races and the (Daytona) 500, the Rolex. I went to high school near Daytona,” Hays said Friday after the Reds’ 3-2 win over Atlanta. “It is the only track I’ve ever been to. It’s a pretty big track. I imagine it’s going to be similar standing on the infield, but it will be a baseball field this time.”

MLB didn’t try to sell every ticket inside the speedway that drew 156,990 for the Battle of Bristol college football game in 2016. The track with a racing capacity of 146,000 could host 90,000 or more even with sections blocked off.

Officials announced Monday more than 85,000 tickets had been sold — topping the previous paid attendance of 84,587 set Sept. 12, 1954, when Cleveland Stadium hosted the New York Yankees.

Sean Casey, a three-time All-Star now on the MLB Network, sees this as two super powers coming together in a perfect partnership. NASCAR and baseball already cross over in the Atlanta and Cincinnati markets, and this crossover exposes fans to the other sport.

“It’s such a unique situation,” Casey said Friday after broadcasting from the field with MLB Network. “Kudos to (Commissioner) Rob Manfred of Major League Baseball and also NASCAR and Bristol Motor Speedway for putting this event together because it’s going to be one of a kind.”

Once the time comes for fans to move inside Bristol, the schedule features a pre-game concert with Jake Owen joining stars Tim McGraw and Pitbull. A flyover by Navy jets, and a pair of Hall of Famers in Atlanta’s Chipper Jones and Johnny Bench of the Reds will handle the ceremonial first pitch.

Hunter Greear from Charleston, South Carolina, bought tickets with three friends a year ago. They arrived Thursday camping out and enjoying the weekend. Greear said they really didn’t know what to expect from MLB putting a baseball field in the infield of a racetrack.

“We had an idea,” Greear said. “But everything that’s been leading up to (the game) really has been making that idea even bigger than we could possibly expect it to be.”

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NBA NEWS

REPORT: JOHNNY JUZANG REACHES 1-YEAR DEAL WITH TIMBERWOLVES

Free-agent guard Johnny Juzang has agreed to a one-year contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves, ESPN reported Friday.

Juzang, 24, averaged 8.9 points, 2.9 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 64 games (18 starts) last season with the Utah Jazz.

He averaged 7.9 points, 2.5 boards and 1.0 assist in 102 career games (23 starts) with the Jazz.

After playing college ball alongside Tyrese Maxey and Immanuel Quickley at Kentucky, Juzang transferred to UCLA. The Los Angeles native was undrafted.

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WNBA NEWS

DEARICA HAMBY, SPARKS OUTLAST STORM IN 2OT THRILLER

Dearica Hamby was one of four Los Angeles scorers with at least 21 points, notching her final two on what proved to be the game-winner for the Sparks in their 108-106 defeat of the host Seattle Storm in double overtime on Friday.

Hamby muscled through a double-team to put in a layup with 4.7 seconds remaining, set up by a one-handed bounce pass from Kelsey Plum. The dish was the last of seven assists for Plum, whose 22 points were crucial for Los Angeles (12-15).

As critical to the Sparks scoring their sixth win in the last seven games was Plum’s defense of Skylar Diggins. She forced Diggins to miss at the buzzer, avoiding a third overtime.

The closing stop capped a back-and-forth affair highlighted by a variety of standout performances and heroics. Rickea Jackson scored a team-high 27 points for the Sparks, and she was huge down the stretch of regulation to lead Los Angeles to the first extra frame with a pair of game-tying scores in the final minute.

Jackson’s performance, which included nine rebounds, helped Los Angeles weather a 37-point effort from Seattle’s Nneka Ogwumike. She finished one point shy of matching her career high while also grabbing 12 rebounds for the Storm (16-12).

Diggins added 18 points, Erica Wheeler scored 15 points and each dished six assists. Gabby Williams chipped in another 14 points to go with eight assists and five steals.

As balanced as Seattle was behind Ogwumike’s explosive scoring night, Los Angeles answered with significant contributions from Azura Stevens, who scored 21 points and shot 3-of-5 from 3-point range. The last of her triples came on a sequence in the second OT that began with Plum penetrating into the lane off the dribble, finding an open Julie Allemand on the wing, and Allemand hitting Stevens in the corner with a perfectly placed touch-pass as the Storm defense rotated.

Stevens sank the 3-pointer to give Los Angeles a 106-101 cushion, providing some key breathing room before the Storm rallied to tie it on Williams’ 3-pointer with 16.4 seconds left.

That set the stage for the game-winner from Hamby, who also had a game-high 13 rebounds.

MARINA MABREY, SUN HAND LIBERTY FOURTH STRAIGHT LOSS

Marina Mabrey racked up 18 points, 10 rebounds and eight assists as the Connecticut Sun extended the New York Liberty’s misery with a 78-62 victory Friday night in Uncasville, Conn.

The defending champion Liberty dropped their fourth straight game and set a season low for points scored. It is their longest losing streak since 2022. Sabrina Ionescu scored 23 points, but New York (17-10) shot just 33.9 percent from the field and committed 23 turnovers.

It was the worst loss yet for the Liberty, considering it came against the last-place team in the league, the Sun (5-21), who entered the night in a 1-5 rut.

Olivia Nelson-Ododa and rookie Leila Lacan had 16-point games off the bench for Connecticut, each shooting 6-of-8 from the floor. Tina Charles added 15 points.

An off-balance 3-pointer by Lacan lifted the Sun to a 67-55 advantage with 7:28 in the fourth quarter. A tip-in by Aneesah Morrow off Charles’ miss gave the Sun a 69-57 lead.

The Liberty trimmed the deficit to seven with 5:08 remaining after a 3-pointer by Jonquel Jones and a driving layup from Stephanie Talbot. The Sun regained control down the stretch with nine combined points from Nelson-Ododa and Mabrey.

A Mabrey transition 3-pointer gave the Sun a 56-46 lead with 3:36 to go in the third quarter. Jones blocked Charles but she recovered for an offensive rebound and layup, plus the ensuing free throw, to put the Sun up 63-53 with 2:05 in the third.

The Liberty led 20-15 at the end of the first quarter, but the Sun went on a 14-2 run, capped by a buzzer-beating jumper by Charles, to take a 44-37 lead into halftime.

The Liberty came into the contest 10-1 in their last 11 games vs. the Sun, most recently a 100-52 victory on June 1.

The Sun controlled the glass as they outrebounded the Liberty by 13.

KELSEY MITCHELL LEADS BALANCED ATTACK AS FEVER BEAT WINGS

Kelsey Mitchell poured in 23 points to lead a balanced attack as the visiting Indiana Fever pulled away from the Dallas Wings in the second half for an 88-78 win on Friday.

The Fever (16-12), playing their sixth straight game without injured star guard Caitlin Clark, won their fourth consecutive outing. Indiana led by six points at halftime, by 13 after three and never let Dallas closer than six points in the fourth quarter.

After Paige Bueckers’ floating bank shot with 5:33 to play pulled the Wings to within 75-69, Indiana answered with a 5-0 run and was never threatened down the stretch. The Fever outshot the Wings 45.2 percent to 40.6 percent and made 12 3-pointers to Dallas’ two.

Aari McDonald added 15 points for the Fever while Aliyah Boston (12 points and 11 rebounds) and Natasha Howard (11 points, 16 rebounds) both had double doubles.

Bueckers led the Wings (8-21) with 22 points. Dallas has dropped two in a row and four of its past five games.

The Fever led for much of the first quarter before Dallas rallied to tie the game at 17 when DiJonai Carrington hit a layup at the 2:07 mark. The game was tied at 22 at the end of the period, with the Wings getting back into the game by outscoring Indiana 8-0 at the free-throw line.

After a ragged start by both teams in the second quarter, Indiana regained its stride, reeling off a 7-2 run capped by Chloe Bibby’s 3-pointer with 5:40 to play to go up 33-28. The Wings stretched the margin to eight points after McDonald’s three with 2:27 remaining and settled for a 48-42 lead at the break.

Bueckers led all scorers with 15 points before halftime while Mitchell and Howard had nine points apiece to pace the Fever.

Indiana expanded its advantage to 68-55 on a Lexie Hull steal and layup with 1:49 to play in the third quarter and led 70-57 heading into the final 10 minutes of play.

The game was played at the Mavericks’ American Airlines Center rather than the Wings’ usual home in Arlington, Texas.

VALKYRIES WIN ON BACK-TO-BACK DAYS WITH VICTORY OVER SLIDING SKY

Veronica Burton scored 18 points and Janelle Salaun added 16 as the visiting Golden State Valkyries turned up their defensive pressure in the fourth quarter to earn a 73-66 victory over the Chicago Sky on Saturday.

Iliana Rupert had 14 points and Carla Leite added 11 for the expansion Valkyries, who played on consecutive days for the first time and won both games after facing Washington on Thursday.

Golden State (14-13) shot just 36.9 percent from the floor and still won for the fourth time in five games while moving above .500 for the first time since July 9.

Elizabeth Williams scored 15 points while Kamilla Cardoso had 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Sky (7-20), who saw their season-long losing streak reach seven games. Rachel Banham also had 14 points, while Kia Nurse added 10.

The injury report was extensive with the Valkyries without leading scorer and rebounder Kayla Thornton (knee) and second-leading scorer Tiffany Hayes (leg), as well as Monique Billings (ankle) and Cecilia Zandalasini (foot).

The Sky were without leading scorer and rebounder Angel Reese (back) for the fourth time in six games. Ariel Atkins (back) and Hailey Van Lith (ankle) also were out, while Courtney Vandersloot (knee) is done for the season.

In her Valkyries debut, Kaila Charles scored five points with five rebounds, while Sevgi Uzun scored five points with four rebounds in her Sky debut.

The Sky led by as many as eight points in the third quarter and went into the fourth with a 54-52 lead. The Valkyries opened the final quarter on a 12-2 run to take a 64-56 lead with 5:01 remaining.

Chicago pulled within 67-66 on a layup by Cardoso with 2:23 remaining. Salaun scored for Golden State with 2:13 remaining for a 69-66 lead before the Valkyries forced Nurse into a turnover with 44.3 seconds left. Burton made two free throws with 34.6 seconds left for a 71-66 lead.

The Valkyries shot just 35.3 percent in the first half to 48.3 percent for the Sky but were even on the scoreboard 37-37 at the break.

DREAM POUR IT ON EARLY AS THEY ROUT MERCURY

Allisha Gray scored a game-high 26 points on 7-for-9 shooting from 3-point range on Friday to help the Atlanta Dream post a 96-72 victory over the visiting Phoenix Mercury in College Park, Ga.

Naz Hillmon added 18 points and nine rebounds for Atlanta (17-11), which won for the fourth time in five games. Brionna Jones chipped in 16 points and eight boards, Maya Caldwell had 14 points, and Jordin Canada led the team with 11 assists.

Phoenix (16-11) dropped its fifth game in six tries and trailed by as many 35 points on Friday. Kahleah Copper led the team with 19 points, while Alyssa Thomas added 12 points and 10 rebounds.

Leading by 16 at halftime, the Dream’s commanding advantage ballooned to 23 on Hillmon’s consecutive layups and Gray’s 3-pointer, forcing a Mercury timeout with 7:24 remaining in the third.

Atlanta held Phoenix scoreless the final 2:43 of the third while scoring the final eight points of the quarter to take an 84-50 lead into the fourth. After Phoenix was outscored 26-8 in the third, DeWanna Bonner scored seven points and Kalani Brown had six in the final quarter that saw the Mercury take by a 22-12 margin.

After the Mercury jumped out to an early 15-7 lead, the Dream answered with 13 straight points, including Caldwell’s back-to-back 3-pointers, giving Atlanta a 20-15 edge with 4:25 left in the first quarter.

Te-Hina Paopao’s triple and Caldwell’s third 3-pointer of the opening quarter extended Atlanta’s lead to 34-23 entering the second.

Thomas’ layup pulled Phoenix within eight at the 6:44 mark of the second before an 8-0 Dream run gave Atlanta its largest lead to that point at 48-32.

After Jones’ hook shot pushed the advantage to 18, Sami Whitcomb’s layup cut the Mercury’s halftime deficit to 58-42. Gray led all scorers with 16 first-half points, while Caldwell added 14 as the duo combined to make 8 of 9 3-point attempts.

GOLF NEWS

CAMERON YOUNG ON TOP AS WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP HALTED BY LIGHTNING

Cameron Young held a one-stroke lead over defending champion Aaron Rai of England when the second round of the Wyndham Championship was suspended due to lightning on Friday in Greensboro, N.C.

The PGA Tour’s regular-season finale was halted at 4:32 p.m. local time with lightning in the area of Sedgefield Country Club. Two hours later, the tour said play would resume Saturday at 7:30 a.m.

Once the second round is completed, the third round will tee off in threesomes at Nos. 1 and 10 in order to fit in the next 18 holes.

Young and Rai were among those still on the course when play was called. Young had just birdied Nos. 14 and 15 to get to 7 under for the round and 14 under for the tournament. Rai had six birdies through 13 holes completed.

“Obviously I played some nice golf through 32-33 holes, whatever it is,” said Young, who’s seeking his first win on the PGA Tour. “Yeah, I’m really just trying to build on what I’ve done throughout the course of the year. Nothing really changes (on the weekend).”

Rai is in a familiar position after earning his first PGA Tour win at the Wyndham last year, when weather delays early in the week meant he and others had to play 36 holes on Sunday.

“I don’t think it’s quite going to be the same situation this year,” Rai said. “I hope not, anyway. That was a lot of golf.”

South Korea’s Sungjae Im shot 64 for the second straight day and shares the clubhouse lead with Mac Meissner at 12 under. Meissner fired a 7-under 63 to climb the leaderboard.

Mark Hubbard is alone in fifth at 11 under following a 66.

It is the final week for PGA Tour players to secure a spot in the top 70 of the FedEx Cup standings to qualify for the playoffs. Meissner, for instance, is a distant No. 152 in the standings and must win in order to crack the top 70. Meissner feels he’s in a “not much to lose” sort of scenario.

“If I happen to win this week, then I’ll be able to play the playoffs and that would be a dream,” he said. “If not, I’ll get to take some time off, some much needed time off, recoup and get ready for the fall. There’s obviously always pressure, always pressure to have good finishes to help my position a little bit more. I’m kind of in that position where I don’t really have much to lose at this point so that’s kind of nice.”

Another name to watch is former major winner Gary Woodland, who is attempting to make the playoffs for the first time since taking time away in 2023 to have a brain tumor removed.

Woodland entered the week No. 75 in the FedEx Cup standings and has a great chance of entering the top 70. He is 9 under par thanks to a 64 on Friday that featured an albatross from 190 yards away at the par-5 fifth hole.

“I hit a nice drive, had 186 (yards to the) hole, we were trying to land it 183 and the wind was a little in so we thought it was a perfect 7-iron and it came off right where we were looking, landed 183, landed three short,” Woodland said. “Nice to see the crowd go nuts to make sure it went in.”

Joel Dahmen, the first-round leader thanks to a white-hot 61, was even par through 10 holes Friday to remain at 9 under.

Notables include Tony Finau at 5 under following a 65, Rickie Fowler at 3 under after a 68 and U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley likely to miss the cut after a 72 dropped him to even par. The projected cut line is 3 under par, but subject to change Saturday morning.

CHARLIE WOODS STUMBLES AT JR. PGA, FALLS SHORT IN RYDER CUP QUALIFYING BID

Charlie Woods dropped into a tie for ninth on the final day of the Junior PGA Championship, which took him out of the running for a qualifying spot for the U.S. Junior Ryder Cup team on Friday.

The 16-year-old son of Tiger Woods shot back-to-back 66s in the second and third rounds at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex in West Lafayette, Ind., and was tied for second place entering the final round.

But he posted a final-round 74 at the Ackerman-Allen course on Friday, with three bogeys and a double bogey over his final 10 holes.

The Junior Ryder Cup will take place Sept. 23-25 at Bethpage Black and Nassau Country Club, just ahead of the senior event between the U.S. and Team Europe that weekend.

There is also one captain’s pick for the team, although Woods is likely not in line to be selected for it.

Lunden Esterline was the runaway winner of the Junior PGA Championship with a final score of 19-under-par 266 (featuring a second-round 62).

Giuseppe Puebla shot a final-round 64 to rocket into a tie for second at 13 under with Tyler Mawhinney (69). In doing so, Puebla received the other automatic qualifying spot for the Junior Ryder Cup.

Esterline, from Andover, Kan., is a 2027 Auburn commit. Puebla, from Royal Palm Beach, Fla., is also part of the Class of 2027 and uncommitted for college.

Charlie Woods finished 9 under for the week, 10 off Esterline’s pace and four strokes out of the running for a Ryder Cup qualifying spot.

MIYU YAMASHITA RIDES STELLAR 65 INTO WOMEN’S OPEN LEAD

Miyu Yamashita of Japan shot the round of the week so far, a 7-under-par 65, to jump out to a three-stroke lead at the AIG Women’s Open on Friday in Porthcawl, Wales.

Yamashita held third place after the first round at Royal Porthcawl and took control Friday with a bogey-free, seven-birdie round. She hit 13 of 14 fairways in regulation and had four of her birdies in a five-hole stretch from Nos. 9-13.

“Today was good overall, and my tee shots were very consistent, so I was able to hit from the fairway,” Yamashita said. “I played really consistent golf today.”

Yamashita is halfway home at 11-under 133, and her closest pursuer is countrywoman Rio Takeda — one of the first-round co-leaders — whose 69 brought her to 8 under par for the week. After them, no player is better than 4 under.

The four-way tie at 4 under features Lindy Duncan (70 Friday), Germany’s Laura Fuenfstueck (71), Pajaree Anannarukarn of Thailand (69) and Chiara Tamburlini of Switzerland (69).

None of the top six players on the leaderboard have won a major, so the door appears wide open for Yamashita, a 23-year-old whose 13 professional wins have come on the Japanese tour.

“I haven’t particularly worried about expected scores until now,” Yamashita said of the tournament to date. “I’m always thinking about competing for a high ranking in each tournament, and I just played with my day in mind. So I’m glad that my score and ranking worked out.”

Takeda, a two-time LPGA Tour winner, eagled the par-5 ninth hole Friday after making a double bogey there Thursday.

“My shots were a little crooked today, but I was playing, hoping I could correct that early,” Takeda said. “The eagle putt was close, so I’m glad I was able to get an eagle. I was able to play calmly today, and I hope to focus on my game and play calmly again tomorrow.”

English phenom Lottie Woad was having an impressive day through 15 holes before disaster struck on the par-4 16th. She lost her second shot in thick rough, and she couldn’t advance it on her third stroke before opting to take an unplayable lie penalty.

Woad was 5 under for her round and the tournament up until that hole, but the resultant triple bogey sent her backward. She finished with a 70 and sits at 2 under.

“I think it’s probably the toughest hole on the course,” Woad said. “The tee shot is hard to hit the fairway, and then you’ve got 3-wood into a very strong wind. Anything that’s missing the target is going to be exaggerated. So (I) pushed it and got a pretty unlucky lie.”

Woad, 21, won the Women’s Irish Open by six shots last month as an amateur, then turned pro and won last week’s Women’s Scottish Open in her professional debut.

Also part of a large tie at 2 under are World No. 1 Nelly Korda and Darcey Harry of Wales, each of whom shot an even-par 72. Harry is a member at Royal Porthcawl and is dealing with the nerves of performing for her home nation. She had five birdies on her card Friday, but one bogey and two doubles as well.

“I think I keep forgetting that this is actually my home course and I’ve played it before,” Harry said. “I have to keep reminding myself I know the course, so I don’t know why I’m stressing. Yeah, and just enjoy the atmosphere.”

At least Harry can say she has made the cut and has a faint chance on the weekend. Notable names to miss the cut of 2 over par included Allisen Corpuz (3 over), Canada’s Brooke M. Henderson (3 over), Rose Zhang (4 over), Jennifer Kupcho (6 over), Lilia Vu (7 over) and South Korea’s Jin Young Ko (7 over).

Japan’s Eri Okayama, who shared the lead with Takeda after Thursday’s opening round, followed a 67 with a 9-over 81 and missed the cut by two shots. Defending champion Lydia Ko of New Zealand made the cut on the number.

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NASCAR NEWS

COULD THE IOWA CORN 350 YIELD ANOTHER SURPRISE NASCAR WINNER?

The NASCAR postseason shaped up Sunday in a significant way, and the task of racing for a championship became a little more difficult for drivers gathered around the 16th-place cut line.

With a full August of racing that starts Sunday at Iowa Speedway with the Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol, Tyler Reddick, Alex Bowman and Chris Buescher are anxious to add as many points as possible while hoping there is no repeat of what happened last weekend in Indianapolis: A surprising new winner.

In the wake of Bubba Wallace’s dramatic victory in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis, the NASCAR Cup Series standings have been jostled a bit.

However, the No. 23 23XI Racing driver, who was having a good season in points, basically just advanced his position with the win from 16th to ninth — right in the middle of the nine one-race winners this season, starting with Chase Elliott (fifth place) and ending at Josh Berry (13th).

RFK Racing’s Buescher sits 16th in his No. 17 Ford with 17th-place Ryan Preece down 42 points, which marks the largest gap on the playoff bubble this season. Kyle Busch (-81) and Ty Gibbs (-95) are in hot pursuit.

Kaulig Racing’s A.J. Allmendinger, who rides in 20th, could be the biggest spoiler waiting to pounce in the group.

The No. 16 Chevrolet road-course ace trails Buescher by 124 points, but Allmendinger will be in full “win-and-you’re-in” mode when the twisting Watkins Glen road course rolls around next weekend.

23XI Racing’s Reddick, who stands 14th on the points list, is perhaps the most puzzling non-winner so far.

The Corning, Calif., racer displayed hints of future glory and maybe a title after earning all eight of his career wins from 2022-24.

The No. 45 Camry wheelman said this season when the few chances to win races have arisen, he or his team have come up short because of a bad moment or two.

“Unfortunately, when those opportunities have been there (to win), we haven’t executed,” said Reddick, who was one lap down and finished 22nd at last year’s inaugural Iowa race. “We’ve made a mistake, we’ve done something along the way that either makes that much more difficult to win or takes us out of it.”

So Reddick can take nothing for granted as the regular season winds down.

Plus, Wallace taking the checkers before his Toyota teammate at a prestigious speedway like Indy, no less, is a feat few would have predicted or had on their bingo card as the 2025 season opened.

Denny Hamlin said he and co-owner Michael Jordan have put the right kind of pressure on Wallace, now a three-time winner who had not won in 100 races dating back to 2022.

“We want to win and we put a lot of resources into doing that,” said Hamlin, who leads the Cup Series with four victories. “So he’s felt pressure. I think he’s felt the pressure not only from me but Michael and everyone.”

At Iowa this Sunday, the field will likely have to contend with some of motorsports’ heaviest hitters — defending winner Ryan Blaney, Hamlin and Kyle Larson. The trio has won 11 of the past 14 short-track races.

When the NASCAR Cup Series visited Iowa Speedway’s 0.875-mile short track for the first time in June 2024, Blaney scored his 11th career victory and first of the season by taking two tires and leading the final 88 laps in front of a large group of family and friends.

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SOCCER NEWS

NWSL ROUNDUP: TEMWA CHAWINGA LIFTS FIRST-PLACE KC PAST LOUISVILLE

Temwa Chawinga scored her ninth goal of the season and the visiting Kansas City Current picked up where they left off before the midseason break, defeating Racing Louisville 2-0 on Friday night.

First-place Kansas City (12-2-0, 36 points) won its final six matches before the league’s international break in July. Chawinga helped the Current make it seven in a row when she sprinted into the box to smash Michelle Cooper’s low cross into the net in the 65th minute.

Elizabeth Ball scored seven minutes later to celebrate her 100th career match. She headed in a free kick from Izzy Rodriguez.

Jordyn Bloomer saved four shots for Louisville (6-6-2, 20 points) in a losing effort. Laurel Ivory only had to make one save for Kansas City.

Gotham FC 1, Stars 1

Ally Schlegel had the equalizer for host Chicago to salvage a draw with Gotham in Bridgeview, Ill.

Julia Grosso collected the ball following a short corner and sent it into the box, where Schlegel headed it home for the Stars (1-9-4, 7 points) in the 68th minute.

Khyah Harper had a header goal of her own to put Gotham (5-5-4, 19 points) on the board first in the 39th. Ann-Katrin Berger made four saves for Gotham, while the Stars’ Alyssa Naeher had one.

Reign 2, Angel City 0

Jess Fishlock broke a scoreless tie in the 66th minute and host Seattle went on to beat Angel City 2-0.

At the end of a run, Fishlock initially headed the ball down in the box and Angel City goalkeeper Angelina Anderson punched it back her way. Fishlock one-timed the ricochet into the net. The Reign’s lead was doubled in the 86th minute thanks to Alanna Kennedy’s own goal.

Claudia Dickey turned in a six-save clean sheet as the Reign (7-4-3, 24 points) elevated into a tie for third in the league standings with San Diego. Anderson made one save for Angel City (4-7-3, 15 points).

LEAGUES CUP ROUNDUP: PAULINHO, TOLUCA STAY HOT WITH WIN OVER CF MONTREAL

Paulinho scored on an acrobatic bicycle kick in the 26th minute to put Toluca ahead in a 2-1 victory over CF Montreal in their Matchday 2 clash in Phase One of the Leagues Cup on Friday night in Harrison, N.J.

Jesus Angulo leveled for Toluca (1-0-1, 5 points) three minutes earlier, after Efrain Morales’ header from a corner kick gave Montreal (0-1-1, 2 points) the lead in the 20th minute.

Paulinho’s third goal of the tournament then lifted Toluca to its second positive result after falling behind. In their Leagues Cup opener on Tuesday, the Diablos Rojos rallied from two down to a 2-2 draw at Columbus and earned an extra point via penalty shootout.

Montreal striker Prince Owusu received a red card after the final whistle and will be suspended for his side’s Phase One finale against Puebla.

Morales’ goal was his first playing for an MLS team. The 21-year-old center back joined Montreal from Atlanta United in a July 23 trade.

Tigres UANL 2, San Diego FC 1

Angel Correa scored his third and fourth goals of the tournament and his Tigres UANL career to punish a pair of San Diego mistakes and put his visiting side closer to the knockout phase.

In only the Argentine’s fourth appearance in all competitions since his move from Atletico Madrid, Correa put Tigres (2-0-0, 6 points) in front in the 31st minute on a rebound of Juan Brunetta’s shot, one goalkeeper Pablo Sisniega should’ve held.

Brunetta then assisted Correa’s winner in the 67th minute immediately following a turnover by San Diego (0-2-0, 0 points) in its own half.

The winning goal came 12 minutes after Tomas Angel pulled the hosts level with a deflected effort from near the penalty spot.

LAFC 1 (4), Pachuca 1 (2)

Thomas Hasal saved two penalties and host Los Angeles converted all four of its shots to earn the extra point and keep its knockout phase hopes alive following its draw against Pachuca.

Both teams finished regulation with 10 men, though LAFC (0-0-2, 3 points) played short-handed for far longer.

Denis Bouanga put LAFC in front in the 10th minute before teammate Nathan Ordaz was sent off in the 29th for throwing an elbow into the chest of Pachuca defender Sergio Barreto.

Elias Montiel leveled with a low half-volley from just beyond the penalty area three minutes after Ordaz’s dismissal. But Pachuca (1-0-1, 4 points) couldn’t turn their advantage into another goal, then saw their own ranks reduced in the 83rd minute when Jhonder Cadiz’s bicycle-kick attempt caught Nkosi Tafari in the head.

Columbus Crew 3, Puebla 1

Diego Rossi scored his second tournament goal and assisted another as Columbus won comfortably over visiting Puebla.

Malte Amundsen and Andres Herrera also scored for Columbus (1-0-1, 4 points) in a match where all the goals came before halftime.

The 18-year-old Taha Habroune had two assists for the Crew, who drew with Toluca 2-2 in their first match before losing the ensuing penalty shootout.

Esteban Lozano pulled a goal back in first-half stoppage time for Puebla (1-1-0, 3 points), which has allowed multiple goals in three of five matches across all competitions since the 2025 Liga MX Apertura began.

Mazatlan FC 2, Houston Dynamo 0

Fabio Gomes scored his second goal of the tournament after halftime as visiting Mazatlan boosted its chance of advancing to the knockout phase for a third consecutive tournament.

Facundo Almada also scored before the break for Mazatlan (1-0-1, 5 points), which reached the round of 32 in 2023 and the quarterfinals last year.

Ricardo Gutierrez made six saves to keep his second clean sheet since the Apertura started, after he was the victorious goalkeeper in a penalty shootout following Mazatlan’s 1-1 draw at LAFC to open the tournament.

Houston (0-2-0, 0 points) has now lost seven of its last 10 in all competitions, with six of those defeats coming by multiple goals.

New York City FC 2, Club Leon 0

Alonso Martinez and Agustin Ojeda scored before halftime and New York City completed a dominant victory over Leon in Harrison, N.J.

Matt Freese saved a second-half penalty kick by James Rodriguez and made four total stops to keep a clean sheet and help NYCFC (1-1-0, 3 points) rebound after absorbing a 3-0 loss to Puebla in their opening match.

It was Freese’s seventh clean sheet in all competitions and the Pigeons’ eighth.

Leon (0-1-1, 1 point) is now scoreless in its last 169 minutes and has scored only three goals in five games since opening Liga MX Apertura play last month. They drew CF Montreal 1-1 in their opener before losing the ensuing penalty shootout.

TENNIS NEWS

ANDREY RUBLEV, FRANCES TIAFOE EARN THIRD-ROUND WINS IN TORONTO

Sixth-seeded Andrey Rublev of Russia shrugged off a first-set loss to defeat No. 28 Lorenzo Sonego of Italy 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 in third-round action on Friday at the National Bank Open in Toronto.

Rublev had six aces among 29 winners in the victory.

“The main thing today, I was able to be mentally really good,” Rublev told the Tennis Channel. “After the first set, I didn’t (go) down. I was, like, OK, let’s keep fighting, keep being positive … then I was able to create more things, like to go to the net.”

Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina pulled off an upset as the No. 20 seed knocked out 12th-seeded Jakub Mensik of Czechia 6-2, 6-4. The Spaniard converted all four of his break points as he won 49.1 percent of his returns (28 of 57) compared to Mensik’s 29.2 percent (14 of 48). His reward is a fourth-round match versus Rublev.

Czechia’s Jiri Lehecka earned the day’s other upset as the No. 19 seed rallied to take down No. 15 Arthur Fils of France by a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 count. Lehecka stacked up 12 aces to Fils’ three on the hard court.

No. 7 Frances Tiafoe beat Australia’s Aleksandar Vukic 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to advance to a fourth-round match with another Aussie, ninth-seeded Alex de Minaur, on Sunday. No. 13 Flavio Cobolli of Italy maxed out his serve at 135 mph during his 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Hungary’s Fabian Maroszan.

ANASTASIJA SEVASTOVA OUSTS TWO-TIME DEFENDING CHAMP JESSICA PEGULA IN MONTREAL

Anastasija Sevastova saved nine of 13 break points on Friday while recording a 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 victory over two-time defending champion Jessica Pegula in the third round of the National Bank Open in Montreal on Friday.

Sevastova of Latvia had a first-serve percentage of 71 percent while rallying to upend the third-seeded Pegula.

Sevastova, 35, had a hard time explaining what happened.

“Somehow, I was down 2-0 in the second set and started to play better and better,” Sevastova said. “Third set, I played really good. Just trying to stay on the court as long as possible.”

Pegula appeared to be sailing when she won eight of the first 11 games. But Sevastova won the next four games to jumpstart her comeback.

After winning the second set, Sevastova lost the opening game of the third set before steamrolling Pegula the rest of the way.

Pegula was perplexed over her collapse.

“It was a strange match for me,” Pegula said. “I felt like I was in complete control, and then I played a couple of terrible games.”

Sevastova was ranked as high as No. 11 in 2018 before injuries hampered her career. She was ranked No. 396 entering Friday’s match.

In 2018, Sevastova advanced to the U.S. Open semifinals before losing to eventual runner-up Serena Williams.

She will next face the winner of that 2018 U.S. Open — Naomi Osaka.

Osaka, a former No. 1 player, moved into the fourth round with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over No. 22 Jalena Ostapenko of Latvia.

Osaka of Japan had five aces and converted 6 of 9 break-point opportunities.

Ostapenko trailed 3-1 in the second set when she attempted to rally. She moved within one game before Osaka closed it out.

No. 6 Madison Keys struggled early before recovering for a 2-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Catherine McNally.

No. 16 seed Clara Tauson of Switzerland notched a 6-3, 6-0 triumph over Yuliia Starodubtseva.

No. 2 seed Iga Swiatek of Poland plays Germany’s Eva Lys on Friday night.

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TOP INDIANA HEADLINES/PRESS RELEASES

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BRADY RAY, SCECINA

CARLOS LEON, CHESTERTON

BREYTON MELLOR, BLOOMINGTON SOUTH

LUKE GRAHAM, PENDLETON HEIGHTS

COLTON ROBERTSON, GREENFIELD-CENTRAL

JACOB HOOVER, GREENFIELD CENTRAL

ZION HANEY, BISHOP CHATARD

KRYSTIAN OAKLEY, BREBEUF

DAN FLEMMING, CRISPUS ATTUCKS

LUCAS JOST, RITTER

PAXTON TRUMP, DANVILLE

ANDREW TRAHIN, BISHOP DWENGER

HUNTER SHIRE, EAST NOBLE

PARKER ANDERSON, TRI-WEST

TUCKER BURNS, KNOX

THANE JONES, OAK HILL

RILEY DAVIS, INDIAN CREEK

GABE JACKSON, HERITAGE HILLS

AIDEN HUNT, GARRETT

NATE GEERKEN, ADAMS CENTRAL

AIDAN TORBESON, BOONE GROVE

LOGAN FREDRICKSON, BREMEN

BRODY DUNCAN, CASCADE

LEVI HOLLIFIELD, SULLIVAN

JACK ROACH, TIPTON

JORDAN SIMON, NORTH MIAMI

LIAM ROUCH, PIONEER

JOSEPH SCHROEDER, FRONTIER

KADEN JOHNSON, NORTH JUDSON

PARKER ZIMPLEMAN, CASTON

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INDIANAPOLIS COLTS

ROOKIE TIGHT END TYLER WARREN IS STARTING TO FIND HIS FIT AT INDIANAPOLIS COLTS TRAINING CAMP

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Tyler Warren still appreciates the blue-and-white team colors.

Everything else has changed — his number, the shade of blue he wears, even his new decals-laden helmet.

This is what happens when the best tight end in college football turns pro. Warren, Penn State’s most versatile player in 2024, now finds himself on a steep, speedy and increasingly steady learning curve at training camp with the Indianapolis Colts.

“I think it’s been kind of normal installing and learning the offense, just taking your time and trying to understand it,” he said after just a couple of workouts. “It does take stuff (to do) on my own, right? We go through it in the meeting, but when I go back to the hotel room looking over it again, doing walk-throughs with somebody is, I think, is the most helpful.”

Starting over isn’t easy for anyone, though Warren seems uniquely suited to make a smoot transition.

He played center and quarterback as a prep star in Virginia. He played fullback at Penn State before moving to tight end. Then last season the Nittany Lion coaches threw out the vanilla playbook and tailored it to Warren’s unusual skill set.

It seemed there was nothing he couldn’t do.

Warren set a single-season school record with 104 receptions, topped the 1,000-yard mark, emerged as a short-yardage rushing beast and became the first Big Ten tight end to rush for four scores in one season since 1956. He even threw a TD pass and returned a kickoff.

The resume was so impressive, he earned the John Mackey Award and All-American honors, helped Penn State reach the CFP Playoffs all while improving his draft stock.

Indy took him No. 14 overall in the draft and it hasn’t taken long for Warren to showcase his skills in camp, including Thursday night when he made an off-balance, one-handed stab while falling down for a first down. The play drew a loud roar from the crowd and praise from coach Shane Steichen.

“It was an incredible catch,” Steichen said. “But I did get some backlash because some of the guys thought it was a sack and it might have been. I’ll take that back. It probably, definitely was, but I was watching the route. It was a heck of a catch, and you saw that on his college tape.”

It’s a major improvement from Warren’s first few practices when he struggled to hold onto the passes thrown by Anthony Richardson and Daniel Jones, who are battling to be the Colts starting quarterback.

Indy has plenty of depth with seven tight ends on the roster and five with NFL experience, but they’ve not had a reliable go-to player at the position since two-time Pro Bowler Jack Doyle retired following the 2021 season.

Just how much do the Colts think of Warren?

Because linebacker and four-time captain Zaire Franklin, last year’s league tackling leader, wears Warren’s college number, 44, they gave him No. 84, Doyle’s old number, and started experimenting with the playbook — just like the Penn State staff.

“We’re putting a lot on his plate, and sometimes you push them a little bit beyond their threshold,” offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter said. “I think he’s going to be a very versatile piece for us. We’re going to try a bunch of different stuff with him, give him a bunch of shots at a bunch of different aspects playing offensive football.”

Now, Warren is starting to figure out exactly where he fits in this offense.

He’s starting to make the explosive and wow plays Colts scouts envisioned after watching him in college. He’s already lined up in the backfield, too, and it’s unclear just what else might have happened behind closed doors. Warren isn’t dropping any hints, either.

Next up is his first big test: At Baltimore, not far from his aptly named hometown of Mechanicsville, Virginia, or the campus in State College, Pennsylvania, where he wore dark blue.

The Colts and Ravens square off Tuesday in a joint practice and again two nights later in royal blue.

Steichen said the coaching staff anticipates determining who plays and how much in the Indy’s preseason opener by Monday, and Warren can’t wait to start showing the NFL his true colors.

“The biggest difference between being a pro compared to college, I mean everybody’s a pro, right? Everybody’s really good and it’s tough competition,” he said. “But that’s a blessing. Great competition is a gift. Being around really good players is only going to make me better.”

COLTS SIGN CB CHRIS LAMMONS, RELEASE CB COREY BALLENTINE

Westfield, Ind. – The Indianapolis Colts today signed free agent cornerback Chris Lammons and released cornerback Corey Ballentine.

Lammons, 5-10, 190 pounds, re-joins the Colts after spending time on the team’s active roster and practice squad last season. He was originally signed by Indianapolis as a free agent on July 27, 2023. Lammons has played in 60 career games (two starts) in his time with the Colts (2023-24), Kansas City Chiefs (2019-22), Miami Dolphins (2018-19), New Orleans Saints (2018) and Atlanta Falcons (2018). He has compiled 32 tackles (19 solo), 1.0 tackle for loss, 1.0 sack, four passes defensed, one interception, two forced fumbles, three fumble recoveries and 12 special teams stops. Lammons has also appeared in three postseason contests and has registered two special teams tackles. In 2024, he saw action in 14 games (one start) and tallied 10 tackles (eight solo), 1.0 tackle for loss, 1.0 sack, one forced fumble, two fumble recoveries and two special teams stops.

Ballentine, 5-11, 196 pounds, was signed by Indianapolis as an unrestricted free agent on March 14, 2025. He has played in 69 career games (11 starts) in his time with the Colts (2025), Green Bay Packers (2022-24), Arizona Cardinals (2022), Falcons (2022), Detroit Lions (2021), New York Jets (2020-21) and New York Giants (2019-20). Ballentine has registered 77 tackles (57 solo), nine passes defensed, one interception, two forced fumbles and 23 special teams stops. He has compiled 37 kickoff returns for 876 yards (23.7 avg.).

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INDIANA FEVER

MITCHELL SCORES 23, BOSTON AND HOWARD HAVE DOUBLE-DOUBLES AS FEVER BEAT WINGS 88-78

DALLAS (AP) — Kelsey Mitchell had 23 points, Aliyah Boston and Natasha Howard had double-doubles and the Indiana Fever beat the Dallas Wings 88-78 on Friday night for their season-high fourth-straight win despite playing without Caitlin Clark for the sixth straight game.

The game was moved to American Airlines Center in anticipation of a Clark-Paige Bueckers showdown but Clark missed her 15th game overall and the Fever improved to 8-7 without her. Bueckers did not disappoint the crowd of 17,857 — second-highest in Dallas history — with 22 points, her 12th 20-point game as she increased her WNBA record for double-figure games to start a career to 23 games.

Boston had 12 points and 11 rebounds, Howard 11 points and a career-high tying 16 rebounds and both had five assists for the Fever (16-12), who are 3-0 against the Wings. Aari McDonald also had 12 points.

Bueckers was the only player in double figures for the Wings (8-21). Arike Ogunbowale had eight points and did not play in the fourth quarter.

Indiana, which tied a season high with 19 turnovers, had 12 3-pointers while Dallas didn’t hit one until the fourth quarter and finished 2 for 15. The Wings went 24 for 25 from the foul line for a 14-point advantage but the Fever were a plus-14 on the boards, plus-10 on the offensive end.

With a 9-0 burst in the second quarter the Fever pulled away from a 22-22 tie at the end of the first quarter to lead 48-42 at the half.

The Fever upped the lead to 70-57 after three quarters. Dallas cut it to 75-69 in the middle of the fourth quarter but Indiana scored the next five to all but seal it.

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INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS

BILLY COOK PROPELS INDIANS PAST I-CUBS IN EXTRA INNINGS

DES MOINES, Iowa – Billy Cook‘s 10th-inning single propelled the Indianapolis Indians to an 8-5 win over the Iowa Cubs on Friday night at Principal Park. Indians pitchers struck out 19 batters, their most in a game since 19 punchouts on July 30, 2017, vs. Pawtucket.

Ronny Simon opened the top of the 10th inning at second base as the automatic runnner, and the Indians (21-10, 63-42) loaded the bases after Ji Hwan Bae walked and Nick Solak reached on an infield single. That set the stage for Cook who smashed a 107 mph single to center field to score Simon and Bae. The throw to the plate was well short and missed by multiple I-Cubs (14-17, 53-52). It rolled into the dugout and enabled Solak to score a third run.

The game was full of twists and turns, with Iowa striking first with three runs in the opening frame. The rally was highlighted by a single from Kevin Alcántara and a two-run double from Ben Cowles. Indy would move to within one run, tallying a pair in the fourth, but Iowa’s lead held firm until the later stages of the game.

Tsung-Che Cheng tied the game with a sacrifice fly in the sixth, and it was Cook who put the Indians in front in the seventh. With Bae aboard, Cook lined a double into the left field corner to advance Bae home. Cook would later score in the inning on an infield hit by Nick Yorke.

The I-Cubs would force extras with one swing of the bat in the bottom of the eighth. After a leadoff walk to Cowles, James Triantos belted a two-run home run to left-center field to knot the game up at five.

Cook’s big hits were just two of his three knocks on the night. He finished just a homer shy of the cycle and drove home four of the Indians’ eight runs. Solak reached base twice and extended his on-base streak to 35 games, the longest by an Indian since Chris Richard’s 46-game run from May 13-July 6, 2006.

Cam Sanders (W, 2-1) earned the win for Indy, covering the ninth and 10th innings, recording all six outs via strikeout in the team’s 19-punchout affair.

Nate Pearson (L, 3-2) entered the game in the 10th and surrendered the winning runs.

The six-game series is now even at two games apiece. Iowa and Indy will square off on Saturday night at Principal Park in the penultimate game of the series, and first pitch is set for 7:08 p.m. Both teams are yet to name a starting pitcher.

INDY ELEVEN

INDVTBR PREVIEW

• Indy Eleven vs. Tampa Bay Rowdies
  Sat., Aug. 2, 2025 – 7:00 p.m.
• Carroll Stadium – Indianapolis
• Follow Live
• Watch:  WRTV 6
• Stream:  ESPN+
• In-game updates: IndyEleven
  Stats: #INDvTBR MatchCenter at USLChampionship.com

2025 USL Championships Records
Indy Eleven: 5-6-5 (-2), 20 pts; #7 in Eastern Conference
Tampa Bay Rowdies: 4-10-2 (-8), 14 pts; #12 in Eastern Conference

Setting the Scene

Indy Eleven returns to USL Championship play vs. Eastern Conference rival Tampa Bay Rowdies on Saturday at 7:00 pm on WRTV 6 and ESPN+.

IND		TBR
16	Games	16
26	Goals	17
64	SOT	57
17	Assists	15
28	Goals Conceded	25
68	Shots Faced	68
4	Clean Sheets	1

Series

Saturday marks the 21st meeting with Tampa Bay holding a 7-3-10 series lead.

TBR Leads 7-3-10  | GF 20, GA 29

Last Meeting

Maalique Foster scored an exquisite goal in stoppage time of the first half that made ESPN SportsCenter Top 10, but the host Tampa Bay Rowdies rallied with three second-half goals to earn a 3-1 victory on a stormy and humid night on ESPN2 on June 25.

Boys in Blue goalkeeper Hunter Sulte recorded two impressive saves in the first half, getting a piece of an Aaron Guillen shot in the 12th minute to deflect it into the crossbar.  Then in the 13th, Sulte dove to his left to stop a blast from Danny Crisostomo.

Indy Eleven had to make two injury substitutions in the first half with James Murphy entering for Brem Soumaoro in the 29th minute and Pat Hogan replacing Ben Ofeimu in the 32nd.  It was Hogan’s 100th career appearance in the USLC regular season.

Late in the first half, midfielder Jack Blake found midfielder Oliver Brynéus on a break on the left side, but Brynéus’ shot was saved by Tampa Bay goalkeeper Ethan Bandré.

Then, in the first minute of first-half stoppage time, captain Aodhan Quinn slid to center the ball to Blake.  Blake fed Foster outside the area on the right side.  Foster took three quick touches and uncorked a left-footed banger that found the top left corner of the goal for his second of the season and the 21st in his USL Championship career.  It was Blake’s third assist in 2025 and the 24th of his USLC career.

The first-half goal was the 12th this season for the Boys in Blue.  That total ranks third in the league.

Trailing 2-1 late, Indy Eleven applied the offensive pressure with Blake having his shot deflected to earn a corner kick in the 90th minute where he set up Quinn for a scoring chance.

• USL Championship
• Indy Eleven 1:3 Tampa Bay Rowdies
• Wed., June 25, 2025 – 9:00 p.m.
• Al Lang Stadium | St. Petersburg, Fla.
• Weather: Cloudy, 76 degrees
• Scoring Summary
• IND – Maalique Foster (Jack Blake) 45’+1
• TBR – Blake Bodily 60’
• TBR – Nick Moon (Luis Álvarez) 69’
• TBR – Laurence Wyke (Ollie Bassett) 90’+3
• Discipline Summary
• IND – Edward Kizza (caution) 43’
• IND – Bruno Rendon (caution) 45’+4
• TBR – Aarón Guillén (caution) 56’
• IND – Maalique Foster (caution) 66’
• IND – Pat Hogan (caution) 68’
• TBR – Manuel Arteaga (caution) 73’
• IND – Cam Lindley (caution) 82’
• TBR – Woobens Pacius (caution) 90’+5

Indy Eleven line-up: Hunter Sulte, Finn McRobb, Ben Ofeimu (Pat Hogan 32’), Josh O’Brien, Oliver Brynéus (Cam Lindley 71’), Bruno Rendon (Hayden White 71’), Aodhan Quinn (captain), Brem Soumaoro (James Murphy 29’), Jack Blake, Edward Kizza (Elvis Amoh 71’), Maalique Foster.

Indy Eleven Subs not used:  Elliot Collier, Reice Charles-Cook.

Tampa Bay Rowdies line-up: Robert Castellanos, Laurence Wyke, Aarón Guillén (captain), Ethan Bandré, Blake Bodily (Nick Moon 69’), Danny Crisostomo (Forrest Lasso 87’), Thomas Vancaeyezeele (Joey Skinner 69’), Woobens Pacius, Lewis Hilton, Manuel Arteaga (Ollie Bassett 73’), Luis Álvarez (Endri Mustali 87’).

Tampa Bay Rowdies subs not used:  Nicolas Campisi, Leo Fernandes.

Jagermeister Cup Group 3 Winners

Indy Eleven won the USL Jägermeister Cup Group 3 with a 2-1 victory over FC Tulsa in the final round of group play at Carroll Stadium.  The Boys in Blue advance to the quarterfinals of the 38-team tournament on Wed. Aug. 20 vs. Group 6 winner Greenville Triumph SC of USL League One.

Coach Sean McAuley has guided his Indy Eleven teams to the 2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup semi-finals and now to the 2025 USL Jägermeister Cup quarterfinals in their first-ever appearance.  The Boys in Blue are 4-0-2 in Cup play this season (Open Cup & Jägermeister Cup).

In the Jager Cup, Indy Eleven recorded a 3-0-1 mark in group play for a league-best 11 points, including a key shootout victory over eventual wildcard Birmingham Legion FC on June 28.

With his team leading 2-1, Boys in Blue goalkeeper Hunter Sulte made a key play in the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time, deflecting a cross from FC Tulsa’s Harvey St Clair out of the area with his right foot.  Sulte made a key stop in the 15th minute off a header from Kalil ElMedkhar inside the six with a reflex save with his left arm inside the right post.

Indy Eleven scored first in the 38th minute with midfielder James Murphy initiating the scoring sequence with a long diagonal ball to Bruno Rendon on the right side.  Rendon showed his speed going deep inside the area, delivering a cross to forward Romario Williams.  Williams stopped the ball with his right foot and finished with a toe ball off FC Tulsa keeper Johan Penaranda inside the left post.

Early in the second half, the Boys in Blue nearly extended their lead in the 48th minute with midfielder made a nifty move inside the area to create space for a left-footed toe ball chip that caromed off the crossbar.

In the 51st, the second goal came for Indy Eleven when midfielder Cam Lindley played a ball outside to Rendon on the right side.  Rendon took one touch and played it into the six where it was deflected by defender Lamar Batista for an own goal that gave the Boys in Blue a 2-0 lead.

Sulte made another key save in the 55th, punching away a blast from inside the area by Patrick Seagrist heading toward the left corner of the goal.

• Indy Eleven Appearances (All Competitions)
• 1.         Ayoze               126       2018-22
• 2.         Brad Ring         115       2014-18
• 3.         Karl Ouimette    108       2018-22
• 4.         Don Smart        101       2014-17
• 5.         Cam Lindley      99       2020, 2023-25

USLC 50+ Regular Season Goals Best Strike Rate

3. Romario Williams – 64 goals, 158 app., 155.2 mins/goal

• Indy Eleven USL Championship Goals (All Competitions)
• 1.         Tyler Pasher                 24        2018-20
• 2.         Jack Blake                   18        2023-
• 3.         Sebastian Guenzatti      16        2023-24
• 4.         Manuel Arteaga             15        2021-22
• 5.         Aodhan Quinn             13        2023-
• Aodhan Quinn USLC All-Time Rankings
• Games Started | 264 | 1st
• Minutes | 23,147 | 2nd
• Assists | 56 | 3rd
• Appearances | 278 | 4th
• USL Championship Regular Season Goal Contributions
• 3.         Aodhan Quinn (IND)    113       (57 goals & 56 assists)*
• 4.         Solomon Asante            110       (52 goals, 58 assists)
• USL Championship Regular Season 55 Goals & 30 Assists
• 1.Enzo Martinez (BHM) – 76 goals, 52 assists
• 2.         Aodhan Quinn (IND) – 57 goals, 56 assists
• USL Championship Assists in Consecutive Games Streaks
• 2.         Aodhan Quinn (PHX)     5          2021
• 4.         Aodhan Quinn (OC)       4          2018
•             Aodhan Quinn (IND)    4          May 3-28, 2025
• Indy Eleven Goals in a 5-Game Stretch
• Elvis Amoh      7          Apr. 19-May 10, 2025
• Tyler Pasher     6          Nov. 2, 2019-July 22, 2020
• Augi Williams    5          May 8-22, 2024
• Manuel Arteaga   5          June 4-18, 2022
• Eamon Zayed   5          July 13-Aug. 3, 2016
• Eamon Zayed   5          May 21-June 11, 2016
• Blake Smith      5          May 28-June 17, 2014
• Indy Eleven Goals in Consecutive Games Streaks
• Tyler Pasher                 6          Nov. 2, 2019-July 22, 2020
• Elvis Amoh                  5          Apr. 19-May 10, 2025
• Augi Williams                4          May 8-22, 2024
• Sebastian Guenzatti      3          Aug. 26-Sept. 15, 2023
• Stefano Pinho               3          May 28-June 8, 2022
• Tyler Pasher                 3          June 1-15, 2019
• Dane Kelly                    3          Apr. 15-28, 2019
• Dane Richards              3          Aug. 19-29, 2015
• Kleberson                     3          July 19-Aug. 2, 2014
• Indy Eleven Saves, Game
• 11, Yannik Oettl at Chicago Fire FC II, 4/17/24, USOC 3rd Round
  10, Sean Lewis at Birmingham Legion FC, 10/12/22
  10, Reice Charles-Cook at Philadelphia, 5/7/25, USOC Rd. of 32
  9, Jon Busch at Minnesota United, 7/16/16
  8, Owain Fon Williams at Louisville City, 10/13/18
  8, Bobby Edwards at Sporting KC II, 6/20/21
• 8, Kristian Nicht vs. San Antonio Scorpions, 5/30/14
• 8, Kristian Nicht vs. Minnesota United, 10/11/14

USL Championship Stats

• Individual
• Category           Player               Rank    Total
• Assists              Aodhan Quinn   T3        6
•                         Jack Blake        T9        4
• Clearances                   Pat Hogan        4          103
•                                     James Musa     9          95
• Saves                           Hunter Sulte      T8        37
• Clean Sheets                Hunter Sulte      T9        4
• Shots                            Jack Blake        11        27
• Interceptions                 James Musa     T14      19
• Goals                           Jack Blake        T14      5
• Chances Created          Jack Blake        T20      20

Team

• Category                       Rank    Total
• First-Half Goals             2          15
• Goals                           T3        26
• Conversion Rate           T5        18%
• Clean Sheets                T13      4
• Shots                            16        175

USL Career Regular Season Rankings

Individual Rankings

• Goals
• T14.     Romario Williams (IND) – 64
• T21.     Aodhan Quinn (IND) – 57
• Assists
• 2.         Solomon Asante – 58
• 3.         Aodhan Quinn (IND) – 56
• Games Started
• 1.         Aodhan Quinn (IND) – 264
• 2.         Sean Totsch (LOU) – 258
• 26.       James Musa (IND) – 204
• Minutes
• 1.         Sean Totsch (LOU) – 23,249
• 2.         Aodhan Quinn (IND) – 23,147
• 26.       James Musa (IND) – 17,980
• Appearances
• 4.         Aodhan Quinn (IND) – 278

Team Leaders

• Stat                              Player                           Number
• Goals                           Jack Blake                    5
• Assists                          Aodhan Quinn               6
• Shots                            Jack Blake                    27
• Shots on Target             Jack Blake                    13
• Chances Created          Jack Blake                    20
• Crosses                        Aodhan Quinn               41
• Fouls Won                    Jack Blake                    26
• Duels Won                    Elvis Amoh                   71
• Aerial Duels Won          Pat Hogan                    38
• Clearances                   Pat Hogan                    103
• Blocks                          Pat Hogan                    8
• Interceptions                 James Musa                 19
• Tackles Won                 James Murphy              18
• Passes                         James Murphy              696
• Minutes                         James Murphy              1371

USL CHAMPIONSHIP HONORS

• Elvis Amoh
• Jägermeister Cup Team of the Round-Bench (4/29)
• USL Championship Team of the Week (Week 8/9 – 5/6)
• Jack Blake
• USL Championship Team of the Week (Week 2 – 3/18)
• USL Jägermeister Cup Team of the Round (4/29)
• USL Player of the Week (Week 17/18-7/7)
• USL Team of the Week (Week 17/18-7/7)
• Maalique Foster
• USL Team of the Week – Bench (Week 4 – 4/1)
• USL Team of the Week (Week 5 – 4/8)
• USL Goal of the Week nominee (Week 17/18-7/7)
• Pat Hogan
• USL Championship Team of the Week (Week 2 – 3/18)
• Ben Ofeimu
• USL Championship Team of the Week (Week 15 – 6/17)
• Aodhan Quinn
• USLC Goal of the Week nominee (Week 4 – 4/1)
• USLC Team of the Week – Bench (Week 17/18 – 7/7)
• Bruno Rendon
• USL Championship Team of the Week (Week 3 – 3/25)
• Hunter Sulte
• USL Championship Team of the Week (Weeks 13/14 – 6/10)
• USL Jägermeister Cup Team of the Round (7/1)
• USL Jägermeister Cup “Save of the Round” nominee (7/1)
• Romario Williams
• USL Championship Team of the Week (Weeks 13/14 – 6/10)

COACH SEAN McAULEY

Head coach Sean McAuley earned the USLC “Coach of the Month” last May and he was a nominee for USLC Midseason “Coach of the Year” after leading his team to a 12-match unbeaten streak in a two-month span from April 17 through June 15.

The Sheffield, England, native led Indy Eleven to the 2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup semifinals with four straight wins, including a 2-1 victory at MLS-side Atlanta United.

McAuley is in his second season in Indy after previously serving as interim head coach/assistant at MLS-side Minnesota United FC. McAuley helped Minnesota to playoff appearances in his first three seasons, including a trip to the Western Conference Finals in 2020.

In 2015, he hoisted the MLS Cup with the Portland Timbers. McAuley began his playing career with Manchester United and played for Portland Timbers and the Scottish U-21 National Team.

USLC:  19-17-14  |  USOC: 5-1-1  |  OVERALL: 27-18-16 (.574)

TEAM HIGH/LOWS

• Single-Match Highs
• Shots: 17 | May 28 vs HFD
• SOT: 8 | Mar. 15 at MIA
• Possession: 58.4% | May 28 vs HFD
• Corners: 11 | Mar. 29 vs COS
• Single-Match Lows
• Shots: 4 | June 4 at BHM
• SOT: 1 | June 4 at BHM
• Possession: 30.2% | May 10 at SAC
• Corners: 1 | Mar. 22 at LEX, May 10 at SAC, June 4 at BHM
• Opponent Highs
• Shots: 21 | June 28 vs. BHM^
• SOT: 9 | July 18 at NC
• Possession: 69.8% | May 10 at SAC
• Corners: 9 | June 28 vs. BHM^
• Opponent Lows
• Shots: 4 | June 14 vs PIT
• SOT: 0 | June 14 vs PIT, July 12 vs. RI
• Possession: 41.6% | May 28 vs HFD
• Corners: 2 | May 16 at ELP

USL Championship Regular-Season Player Milestones

• 60 Goals
• Romario Williams – 64
• 50 Goals
• Aodhan Quinn – 57
• 40 Goals
• Elvis Amoh – 44
• 30 Goals
• Jack Blake – 37
• 20 Goals
• Maalique Foster – 21
• Edward Kizza – (19)
• Elliot Collier – (18)
• 50 Assists
• Aodhan Quinn – 56
• 20 Assists
• Cam Lindley – 28 (T25 on USLC All-Time List)
• Jack Blake – 25
• 15 Assists
• Maalique Foster – 16
• James Murphy – 16
• Aedan Stanley – 15
• 110 Goals+Assists
• Aodhan Quinn – 113 (57 goals, 56 assists)
• 70 Goals+Assists
• Romario Williams – 75 (64 goals, 11 assists)
• 60 Goals+Assists
• Jack Blake – 62 (37 goals, 25 assists)
• 50 Goals+Assists
• Elvis Amoh – 53 (44 goals, 9 assists)
• 30 Goals+Assists
• Maalique Foster – 37 (21 goals, 16 assists)
• Cam Lindley – 33 (5 goals, 28 assists)
• 20 Goals+Assists
• Elliot Collier – 25 (18 goals, 7 assists)
• Edward Kizza – 21 (19 goals, 2 assists)
• 10 Penalties Converted (attempted)
• Aodhan Quinn – 25 (28)
• Jack Blake – 13 (15)
• Romario Williams – 8 (10)
• 250 Appearances
• Aodhan Quinn – 278
• 200 Appearances
• James Musa – 217
• 150 Appearances
  Jack Blake – 185
  Cam Lindley – 174
• Romario Williams – 158
• 100 Appearances
• James Murphy – 148
• Elvis Amoh – 145
• Ben Ofeimu – 140
  Aedan Stanley – 138
• Elliot Collier – 121
• Pat Hogan – 103
• 250 Games Started
• Aodhan Quinn – 264
• 200 Games Started
• James Musa – 204
• 150 Games Started
• Jack Blake – 157
• 100 Games Started
• Cam Lindley – 149
• Aedan Stanley – 134
• James Murphy – 122
• Romario Williams – 117
• 20,000 Minutes
• Aodhan Quinn – 23,147
• 15,000 Minutes
• James Musa – 17,980
• 10,000 Minutes
• Jack Blake – 13,340
  Cam Lindley – 13,021
• Aedan Stanley – 12,025
• James Murphy – 11,045
• Ben Ofeimu – 10,485
• Romario Williams – (9,933)

ROSTER BREAKDOWN

Goalkeepers (3):  Reice Charles-Cook, ^Ryan Hunsucker, Hunter Sulte

Defenders (9):  Pat Hogan, ^Maverick McCoy, Finn McRobb, James Musa, Josh O’Brien, Ben Ofeimu, Bruno Rendon, Aedan Stanley, Hayden White

Midfielders (7):  Jack Blake, Oliver Brynéus, Cam Lindley, James Murphy, Logan Neidlinger, Aodhan Quinn, Brem Soumaoro

Forwards (5):  Elvis Amoh, Elliot Collier, Maalique Foster, Edward Kizza, Romario Williams

^USL Academy Contract

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INDIANA MEN’S SOCCER

INDIANA, CLEMSON SET FOR TOP-15 OPENING NIGHT CLASH

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — An opening night battle of bluebloods at Bill Armstrong Stadium is officially a top-15 matchup as United Soccer Coaches announced its preseason poll late Thursday (July 31).

No. 11-ranked Indiana men’s soccer, coming off its 10th consecutive Sweet 16 appearance, will host No. 9 Clemson in the premier matchup of men’s college soccer opening night, set for August 21 at 8 p.m. ET.

The two programs have combined for 12 national titles, 32 final fours, 86 NCAA Tournament appearances and 12 MAC Hermann Trophy winners. 

Indiana men’s soccer single-match and season tickets are on sale now. Indiana University faculty/staff and students receive free admission to home matches with a valid Crimson Card. Faculty and staff can claim their tickets through one.iu.edu by searching “IU Faculty & Staff Complimentary Athletics Tickets.”

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PURDUE CROSS COUNTRY

PURDUE ANNOUNCES 2025 CROSS COUNTRY SCHEDULE

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue cross country announced its 2025 schedule that features seven races and is set to begin on Aug. 29.

The slate features three races in Indiana, two in Michigan and two in Missouri. Four regular-season races run between late August and mid-October before three postseason races run from late October through late November.

Purdue begins the season on Aug. 29 at the Winrow Valparaiso Open for the fifth consecutive season. The Boilers follow with a trip to East Lansing, Mich., the site of the 2025 Big Ten Cross Country Championships, for the Big Ten Preview on Sept. 12.

Competition continues in October with the Joe Piane – Notre Dame Invitational on Oct. 3 and the regular-season concludes on Oct. 18 at the Pre-Nationals Invitational hosted by Missouri.

Postseason competition begins on Oct. 31 with the Big Ten Championships hosted by Michigan State. The NCAA Great Lakes Regional follows on Nov. 11 in Evansville, Ind. before qualified Boilermakers conclude the season at the NCAA Cross Country Championships on Nov. 22, hosted by Missouri.

Douglas Buckeridge leads the way for Purdue after he took a runner-up finish at the Great Lakes Regional and finished 43rd at the NCAA Championships last season. The men’s team features seven returners and three newcomers, while the women’s team features nine returners and two newcomers.

After the conclusion of the cross country season, Purdue gears up for the indoor and outdoor track & field seasons that will run from January to June.

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BUTLER WOMEN’S GOLF

BUTLER ANNOUNCES 2025-26 WOMEN’S GOLF SCHEDULE

Coach Christie Cates has built a strong schedule that will prepare her Bulldogs for a season-long run toward the 2026 BIG EAST Women’s Golf Championship, scheduled for April.

A number of events return to the Bulldogs’ schedule, including the season-opening Redbird Fall Invitational hosted by Illinois State. That event is set to begin Sunday, Sept. 7.

The team will also host the Butler Fall Invitational Sept. 29-30 on the Bulldogs’ home Highland Golf Course.

Repeat appearances on the Butler schedule from a year ago include the Redbird Invitational, the Dayton Flyer Invitational (Oct. 13-14), the Rio Verde Invitational (Feb. 20-22), and the Boilermaker Spring Classic (April 12-13).

Butler will participate in both the Rio Verde Invitational and the Lake Oconee Invitational Feb. 20-22, sending separate groups to each tournament.

The season culminates in Callawassie Island, S.C. for the 2026 BIG EAST Championship. The 54-hole event will be played April 25-27.

The 2025-26 roster for Cates includes four of the five Bulldogs who represented Butler at the 2025 BIG EAST Championship: Kelli Scheck, Cybil Stillson, Sophie McGinnis, and Treva Dodd.

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SOUTHERN INDIANA WOMEN’S GOLF

WOMEN’S GOLF ADDS TIMINSKY FOR 2025

EVANSVILLE, Ind.– University of Southern Indiana Women’s Golf has added junior transfer Tora Timinsky to the roster for 2025-26.

Timinsky, from The Dalles, Oregon, comes to USI after spending the first two years of her career at Northwest Nazarene University.

Timinsky is coming off a solid sophomore campaign where she averaged 80.2 strokes per round over the 19 rounds that she played. She finished top 20 three times, with a top finish of 13 at the Southwest Minnesota State Classic in March.

“While being in the transfer portal, I was approached by multiple different schools about their golf programs, but my interest in USI kept growing stronger after my first phone call with Coach Sullivan,” Timinsky said. “I could hear in her voice her strength and determination to build a great team, which was one of the key factors I was looking for.”

After her sophomore season concluded, Timinsky took on the Idaho Golf Association Four-Ball Championship over the summer. She competed with a former teammate from Northwest Nazarene, winning the tournament after an impressive 138 (68, 70) two-round score.  

Timinsky helped Dufur School win a district championship in 2023, along with a second-place finish in the state tournament.

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VALPO MEN’S GOLF

VANARRAGON, DELISANTI BACK ON SAME COURSE AT NV5 INVITATIONAL

For one weekend, it was just like old times again.

Caleb VanArragon and Anthony Delisanti. Anthony Delisanti and Caleb VanArragon. Two names that were synonymous with one another throughout their three shared seasons as members of the Valparaiso University men’s golf program and will forever be connected in Valpo lore.

The dynamic duo of Beacon golf shared the course once again at the NV5 Invitational, held at The Glen Club in Glenview, Ill. from July 24-27. VanArragon’s professional golf career is well underway as part of the Korn Ferry Tour, while Delisanti entered the field as an amateur. VanArragon played his fifth and final season at Valpo in Spring 2024, while Delisanti wrapped up his time with the Brown & Gold this past spring.

“I wouldn’t be on the Korn Ferry Tour if it wasn’t for him,” VanArragon said. “He’s very meticulous and has been since his freshman year. He thinks through everything really well. He’s an incredibly hard worker and is diligent with his process. It was great to be surrounded by that for another week, to talk through the course with him and hear how he’s thinking through the week. He’s one of my best friends and anytime I can hang out with him for a week, it’s awesome.”

Although both players have walked across the graduation stage and exhausted their collegiate eligibility, much about this past weekend’s tournament made them feel as if they were back at Valpo. Thanks in part to the tournament’s close proximity to Northwest Indiana, familiar faces roamed the course in support of them, including head coach Dave Gring, some of their former teammates and former Director of Athletics Mark LaBarbera. The former college roommates even rekindled that aspect of their bond during the event as Delisanti and VanArragon shared an Airbnb.

“We did a lot of practicing together leading up to the event,” Delisanti said. “It was fun going through the golf course together. We played nine holes together on Tuesday, game planning for the golf course like we did in college. I hadn’t played with him since the U.S. Open Qualifier in Ontario early last summer, so this was a good time.”

There was yet another aspect of the NV5 Invitational that made it feel like a Valpo tournament of old – low scores for VanArragon and Delisanti. VanArragon finished tied for seventh in a highly competitive field with a 72-hole score of 263 (-21, 63-66-64-70). He finished the tournament by eagling the 18th hole in Round 4.

“The first 17 and a half holes of that round were pretty frustrating,” VanArragon said. “I feel like I’d been playing pretty well but I couldn’t get any putts to fall. I think I had eight putts burn the edge, missing by a couple inches or so. I was hitting a lot of good approach shots, but none of them were coming up really close. I was trying to land that last shot five yards short of the hole, and it took a pretty big hop and fell in. That was huge in terms of results, moving me up from a big tie for 14th into a two-way tie for seventh. I don’t think I’ve made a shot like that before, and it was the perfect time for it.”

Delisanti was the lone amateur to make the cut and finished at t-30 with a 72-hole score of 267 (-17, 67-67-67-66).

“I was very excited to have an opportunity on a level like this,” Delisanti said. “I knew I was playing in early April, so right after the conference championship, Yianni (Kostouros, a fellow Valpo men’s golf alum) and I drove on a Monday afternoon and played it before finals week and regionals. I went up and checked it out and got the lay of the land. It was a very good golf course to play your first professional event at, and I felt really comfortable on the course. I was super happy with how I was able to control myself out there and take care of business.”

Both players have moved onto their next events, with VanArragon teeing off the first round of the Korn Ferry’s Utah Championship, while Delisanti played in the Western Amateur in Glencoe, Ill. earlier this week. VanArragon is ranked 62nd in points on the Korn Ferry Tour and the top 75 keep their full card for next year. If he could somehow win two tournaments, he would earn a PGA Tour card.

“NV5 was easily the coolest week out of the year for me and probably the coolest tournament I’ve ever played in,” VanArragon said. “I don’t think I had that many people come out to watch me play in a golf tournament before. To play pretty well the way I did, I couldn’t be more grateful for the experience.”

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“SPORTS EXTRA”

TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY

Aug. 2

1906 — The “Hitless Wonder” Chicago White Sox began their AL record 19-game winning streak with a 3-0 win over Boston. The record would be tied by the 1947 New York Yankees.

1907 — Walter Johnson made his major league debut with the Washington Senators and lost 3-2 to the Detroit Tigers. The first hit he yielded was a bunt single by Ty Cobb. The Tigers beat “The Big Train” 7-6 exactly 20 years later on Walter Johnson Day in the nation’s capital.

1933 — Mickey Cochrane of the Philadelphia A’s hit for the cycle, the second of his career, in a 16-3 win over the New York Yankees.

1938 — The Brooklyn Dodgers and the St. Louis Cardinals used a yellow baseball in the first game of a doubleheader as an experiment. The two teams went back to the white ball in the second game as the Dodgers swept the doubleheader 6-2 and 9-3.

1940 — Joe Cronin of the Boston Red Sox hit for the cycle in a 12-9 win over the Detroit Tigers. It was the second cycle for Cronin. Cronin cycled in 1929 to become the first player ever to cycle in two different games a decade apart.

1959 — Bill Bruton of Milwaukee hit three triples, including two with the bases-loaded, to lead the Braves to an 11-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the nightcap of a doubleheader.

1979 — New York Yankees captain Thurman Munson died in the crash of his private plane while practicing takeoffs and landings at the Canton, Ohio, airport.

1982 — Oakland’s Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season in a 6 – 5 win over Seattle, tying the American League record he set last season and leaving him with 56 games to break Lou Brock’s single-season record of 118. Henderson is the first player ever to steal 100 bases twice since the modern definition of a stolen base was put in place.

1987 — Kevin Seitzer went 6-for-6, hit two homers and drove in seven runs to pace a 20-hit Kansas City attack as the Royals beat the Boston Red Sox 13-5 in 102-degree heat.

1998 — The Cuban national team claimed its 22nd gold medal at the World Baseball Championships, beating South Korea 7-1 and extending its winning streak at the event to 41 games since 1986.

2007 — Jermaine Dye homered twice and doubled twice, including a go-ahead drive that led the Chicago White Sox to a 13-9 victory over the New York Yankees. The White Sox and Yankees each scored eight runs in the second inning. It was the second time in major league history both teams scored eight or more in an inning.

2009 — Melky Cabrera became the first Yankees player in 14 years to hit for the cycle, leading New York to an 8-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

2010 — Travis Snider hit two of an AL record-tying six doubles in a seven-run fifth inning to give the Toronto Blue Jays an a 8-6 victory over the New York Yankees. Snider began the barrage of doubles with a leadoff hit against A.J. Burnett and finished it with a drive off Sergio Mitre. In between, Fred Lewis, Jose Bautista, Vernon Wells and Aaron Hill all doubled off Burnett.

2011 — New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira set a major league record when he homered from both sides of the plate in a 6-0 win over the Chicago White Sox. It was the 12th time the switch-hitting Teixeira has homered from both sides in a game, breaking a tie with Eddie Murray and Chili Davis. Teixeira hit a two-run homer batting right-handed against John Danks in the third and added a slot shot batting left-handed against Jason Frasor in the seventh.

2018 — Cody Bellinger hit a grand slam, Joc Pederson and Yasiel Puig hit two homers each, and the Los Angeles Dodgers cruised past the Milwaukee Brewers 21-5. Brian Dozier and Justin Turner also went deep as the Dodgers finished with their highest scoring total at Dodger Stadium. Los Angeles hit a season high-tying seven homers, and also set season highs for runs in a game, and in an inning when they had nine in the seventh.

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Aug. 3

1901 — Cleveland pitcher Ed Scott pitched a complete game and hit a solo home run off Bill Reidy in the top of the 10th for an 8-7 win against Milwaukee. It was the last game of Scott’s major league career.

1906 — Washington pitcher Tom Hughes hit a solo home run off Fred Glade in the tenth inning for 1-0 win over the St. Louis Browns. He became the first pitcher to win a 1-0 extra-inning game with his own home run.

1914 — New York Yankee catcher Les Nunamaker threw out three Detroit Tigers trying to steal second base on one inning. It will be the only time a backstop has accomplished this feat this century.

1923 — Major League Baseball canceled all games following the death of U.S. President Warren G. Harding in San Francisco on Aug. 2.

1933 — Lefty Grove of the Philadelphia A’s became the first pitcher since Aug. 2, 1931 — a span of 308 games — to shut out the New York Yankees, winning 7-0.

1944 — Tommy Brown, 16 years and 8 months old, played shortstop for the Brooklyn Dodgers in both games of a doubleheader loss, 6-2 and 7-1, to the Chicago Cubs. He had a double and scored a run.

1948 — Cleveland’s Satchel Paige made his first major league start and went seven innings to lead the Indians to a 5-3 victory over the Washington Senators.

1959 — The second game of All-Star play this year was won by the AL 5-3 at Los Angeles’ Memorial Stadium. Nellie Fox of the Chicago White Sox singled in the deciding run in the seventh inning.

1961 — The Pittsburgh Pirates scored a 19-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals for the largest shutout score in an NL night game.

1969 — The Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 19-17 in a wild game at Connie Mack Stadium. Trailing 9-6, the Reds scored 10 runs in the fifth inning to take a seven-run lead. The Reds tacked on two more runs in the sixth inning for an 18-9 lead. The Phillies responded with seven runs on the home half of the sixth and another run in the seventh to get within one run. Cincinnati’s Tony Perez homered in the eighth to make it 19-17. The Phillies two-out rally in the ninth ended with Ron Stone lining out to right with runners on first and second.

1969 — Pinch-hitter Rich Reese hit a grand slam to power the Minnesota Twins to a 5-2 victory over the visiting Baltimore Orioles and end Dave McNally’s 15-game winning streak. His two victories at the end of 1968 had given him 17 straight wins.

1982 — Frank White of the Kansas City Royals hit for the cycle in a 6-5 win over the Detroit Tigers. It was the second cycle of his career.

1987 — Minnesota’s Joe Niekro was caught with a file on the mound and was ejected during the fourth inning of the Twins’ 11-3 win over the California Angels. Niekro would be suspended for 10 games by American League president Bobby Brown, who didn’t believe Niekro’s story that he had been filing his nails on the bench and stuck the file in his back pocket when the inning started.

2004 — Tony Batista hit a grand slam in the 12th inning after tying the game with a two-run homer in the ninth, leading Montreal over St. Louis 10-6.

2006 — Chase Utley singled in the first inning of Philadelphia’s 8-1 win at St. Louis to extend his hitting streak to 35 games.

2006 — Matt Murton tied a major league record with four doubles and drove in five runs to help the Chicago Cubs salvage a split of a doubleheader with Arizona 7-3.

2015 — Adrian Beltre became the first major leaguer since the 1930s to hit for his third career cycle and the Texas Rangers held on for a wild 12-9 victory over Houston. Beltre hit a solo homer in the fifth inning for the Texas Rangers, completing the cycle in his first four at-bats.

2024 — By stealing three bases in a 10 – 0 Dodgers win over the Athletics, Shohei Ohtani becomes the first member of the 30-30 club this season (he has already hit 33 homers). In reaching the two marks in 108 games, he is the third fastest to do so in history, beaten only by Eric Davis (90 games in 1987) and Alex Rodriguez (107 games in 1998).

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Aug. 4

1884 — Pud Galvin pitched the most lopsided no-hitter in major league history as the Buffalo Bisons routed the Detroit Wolverines 18-0. It is the second career no-hitter for Galvin.

1910 — Jack Coombs of the Philadelphia A’s and Ed Walsh of the Chicago White Sox hooked up in a 16-inning scoreless tie. Coombs struck out 18 and allowed three hits.

1945 — Bill Salkeld of Pittsburgh hit for the cycle in a 6-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. The Pirate catcher went 5 for 5 and drove in all five runs.

1945 — Boston’s Tom McBride became the third player to drive in six runs in an inning as the Red Sox pounded Washington 15-4. McBride had a bases-loaded double and triple during the Red Sox’s 12-run fourth inning.

1953 — New York’s Vic Raschi set a record for a pitcher by driving in seven runs in a 15-0 win over the Detroit Tigers.

1963 — New York’s Mickey Mantle, batting for the first time in two months after breaking his left foot, hit a pinch home run as the Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles 11-10 for a split of a doubleheader.

1973 — John Briggs of the Milwaukee Brewers went 6-for-6 in a 9-4 win over the Cleveland Indians.

1979 — Atlanta knuckleballer Phil Niekro set modern major league records with four wild pitches in one inning (fifth) and six in one game. The Braves lost to Houston 6-2.

1982 — Joel Youngblood became the first player in major league history to play and get a base hit for two different teams in two different cities in the same day. In the afternoon, his hit drove in the winning run for the New York Mets in a 7-4 victory at Chicago. After the game, he was traded to the Montreal Expos and played that night in Philadelphia. He entered the game in right field in the fourth inning and later got a single.

1985 — Tom Seaver, 40, became the 17th 300-game winner in major league history with a six-hitter — all singles — as the Chicago White Sox defeated the New York Yankees 4-1 on Phil Rizzuto Day.

1985 — Rod Carew of the California Angels got his 3,000th hit in a 6-5 win over the Minnesota Twins, his first major league team.

2006 — Chase Utley went 0-for-5 night in Philadelphia’s 5-3 victory over the New York Mets, ending a 35-game hitting streak that tied him for the 10th longest in major league history and the fourth longest in National League history.

2007 — In the 2nd inning of a 3 – 2 loss to the Padres, Barry Bonds hits his 755th career home run to tie Hank Aaron for the all-time record.

2007 — Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player in major league history to hit 500 home runs with a first-inning homer in a 16-8 victory over Kansas City.

2010 — Alex Rodriguez hit his 600th home run and became the youngest player to attain the milestone. His two-run, first-inning drive off Toronto’s Shaun Marcum put New York ahead, and the Yankees coasted to a 5-1 victory over the Blue Jays.

2021 — Japan moves into the gold medal game in the Tokyo Olympics.

2022 — The Angels tie a record by hitting seven homers but still losing the game, 8 – 7 to the A’s, also setting a record for most runs scored in a game, all on solo homers. Shohei Ohtani hits a pair, followed by Kurt Suzuki, Taylor Ward, Jo Adell, Jared Walsh and Mickey Moniak. However, Oakland scores six times in the 3rd and adds a two-run blast by Ramon Laureano in the 4th to negate the Angels’ long balls.

2024 — With a 13 – 7 loss to the Twins, the White Sox’s losing streak reaches historic proportion at 20 games. It is a new franchise record and tied for third all-time, trailing only the 21 losses by the 1988 Baltimore Orioles to start that season, and the 23 consecutive losses by the 1961 Philadelphia Phillies.

Aug. 5

1921 — Pittsburgh radio station KDKA and announcer Harold Arlin provided listeners with the first broadcast of a major league game. The Pirates beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5.

1927 — Philadelphia’s Cy Williams hit for the cycle, drove in six runs and scored three times to lead the Phillies to a 9-7 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1931 — For the second time in his career, Jim Bottomley got six hits as the St. Louis Cardinals beat Pittsburgh 16-2 in the second game of a doubleheader.

1932 — Detroit pitcher Tommy Bridges lost his bid for a perfect game on a bloop single by the 27th Washington batter, pinch-hitter Dave Harris. The Tigers beat the Senators 13-0.

1933 — Sammy West of the St. Louis Browns had four extra-base hits in a 10-9, 12-inning win over the Chicago White Sox.

1942 — Don Kolloway’s two-out steal of home in the fifth inning was the only run as the Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 1-0.

1969 — Pittsburgh’s Willie Stargell became the only player to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium. Stargell’s shot off of Los Angeles’ Alan Foster cleared the right-field pavilion and landed 506 feet from home plate.

1973 — Phil Niekro of the Atlanta Braves pitched a 9-0 no-hitter against the San Diego Padres. He walked three and struck out four in recording the first no-hitter by the franchise in Atlanta.

1975 — The first eight batters for Philadelphia Phillies got hits for a major league record, en route to a 13-5 win over the Chicago Cubs.

1984 — Cliff Johnson of the Blue Jays hit his 19th career pinch homer to set a major league record as Toronto beat the Orioles 4-3 at Memorial Stadium.

1999 — Mark McGwire became the 16th member of the 500-home run club, hitting two homers — Nos. 500 and 501 — in the St. Louis Cardinals’ loss to San Diego.

2001 — The Cleveland Indians tied a major league record and became the first team in 76 years to overcome a 12-run deficit to win, defeating the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in 11 innings.

2005 — Albert Pujols became the first player in major league history to hit 30 home runs in each of his first five seasons, helping the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Atlanta Braves 11-3.

2006 — Trevor Hoffman set a major league record with his 11th 30-save season and the San Diego Padres defeated the Washington Nationals 6-3.

2007 — Tom Glavine earned his 300th victory in an 8-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs. The 41-year-old left-hander became the 23rd pitcher with 300 victories and only the fifth lefty to win 300.

2013 — Alex Rodriguez was suspended through 2014 (211 games) and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera were banned 50 games apiece when Major League Baseball disciplined 13 players in a drug case — the most sweeping punishment since the Black Sox scandal nearly a century ago. Ryan Braun’s 65-game suspension last month and previous punishments bring to 18 the total number of players disciplined for their relationship to Biogenesis of America, a closed anti-aging clinic in Florida accused of distributing banned performing-enhancing drugs.

2019 — Jonathon Villar of the Orioles hits for the cycle in a 9-6 loss to the Yankees.

2021 — Team USA is headed to the Olympic Gold Medal Game for the first time in 21 years, beating South Korea, 7 – 2 at the 2020 Olympics (held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Teenager Eui-lee Lee holds the US to two runs in five innings, one a mammoth homer by Jamie Westbrook, but five relievers are called on in the 6th when the US scores five times. Jack López drives in two for the US while Hye-seong Kim goes 3 for 3 in a losing cause. Ryder Ryan gets the win in relief of Joe Ryan.

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Aug. 6

1908 — John Lush threw a six-inning, rain-shortened no-hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals, who beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0. It was Lush’s second no-hitter against the Dodgers.

1933 — Pinky Higgins of the Philadelphia Athletics hit for the cycle and drove in five runs in a 12-8 win over the Washington Senators.

1952 — Satchel Paige, 46, became the oldest pitcher in major league history to pitch a complete game or a shutout when he beat Virgil Trucks and the Detroit Tigers 1-0 in 12 innings.

1972 — Hank Aaron hit his 660th and 661st career home runs to break Babe Ruth’s record for most home runs with one club. The 661st came in the 10th inning to give the Atlanta Braves a 4-3 triumph over the Cincinnati Reds.

1981 — As a result of a seven-week strike, major league baseball players approved a split-season format. The New York Yankees, Oakland A’s, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers were declared the first-half champions and automatically qualified for the divisional series.

1985 — The Major League Baseball Players’ Association went on strike.

1986 — The Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles 13-11 in a record-setting battle of grand slams. Texas’ Toby Harrah hit a grand slam in the second inning before Larry Sheets and Jim Dwyer connected for grand slams in Baltimore’s nine-run fourth.

1988 — Rich Gossage registered his 300th career save, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4.

1999 — Tony Gwynn went 4-for-5, singling in his first at-bat to become the 22nd major leaguer to reach 3,000 hits, as the San Diego Padres beat the Montreal Expos 12-10.

2001 — Boston’s Scott Hatteberg performed the ultimate baseball opposite. Hatteberg hit a grand slam one at-bat after lining into a triple play as the Red Sox defeated the Texas Rangers 10-7. Hatteberg lined into a triple play in the fourth inning and in the sixth he hit his second career grand slam to move Boston ahead for good.

2002 — At 32, Robb Nen became the youngest player to record 300 saves, as San Francisco beat the Chicago Cubs 11-10. Nen became the 16th member of the 300-save club.

2007 — St. Louis tied a major league record with 10 straight hits in a 10-run fifth inning, with pitcher Braden Looper and Aaron Miles getting two apiece in a 10-5 victory over San Diego.

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Aug. 7

1907 — Walter Johnson won the first of his 417 victories, leading the Washington Senators past the Cleveland Indians 7-2.

1922 — Ken Williams of the St. Louis Browns hit two home runs in the sixth inning of rout over the Washington Senators.

1923 — Cleveland’s Frank Bower went 6-for-6 with a double and five singles as the Indians routed the Washington Senators 22-2.

1956 — The largest crowd in minor league history, 57,000, saw 50-year-old Satchel Paige of Miami beat Columbus in an International League game at the Orange Bowl.

1963 — Jim Hickman of the New York Mets hit for the cycle in a 7-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals at the Polo Grounds. Hickman’s cycle came in single-double-triple-homer order.

1985 — The strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association ended with the announcement of a tentative agreement. The season resumed Aug. 8.

1999 — Wade Boggs became the first player to homer for his 3,000th hit, with a two-run shot in Tampa Bay’s 15-10 loss to Cleveland. Boggs already had a pair of RBI singles when he homered off Chris Haney in the sixth inning.

2004 — Greg Maddux became the 22nd pitcher in major league history to reach 300 victories, leading the Chicago Cubs to an 8-4 victory over San Francisco.

2007 — San Francisco’s Barry Bonds hit home run No. 756 to break Hank Aaron’s storied record with one out in the fifth inning, hitting a full-count, 84 mph fastball from Washington’s Mike Bacsik. Noticeably absent were Commissioner Bud Selig and Aaron. The Nationals won 8-6.

2016 — Ichiro Suzuki tripled off the wall for his 3,000th hit in the major leagues, becoming the 30th player to reach the milestone as the Miami Marlins beat the Colorado Rockies 10-7.

2016 — Manny Machado became the second player in major league history to homer in the first, second and third innings, driving in a career-high seven runs in a 10-2 victory over Chicago.

2018 — Bartolo Colon of Texas became the winningest pitcher from Latin America in the Rangers’ 11-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners. After six tries, the 45-year-old right-hander got his 246th career victory and finally broke the tie with Nicaragua’s Dennis Martinez. Colon gave up four runs and eight hits in seven innings and improved his record to 6-10.

2021 — Host nation Japan wins its first ever gold medal in Olympic baseball by defeating the United States 2-0.

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TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY

Aug. 2

1864 — The first Travers Stakes at Saratoga is won by Kentucky, a horse that scores 20 consecutive victories.

1912 — John McDermott wins the U.S. Open golf championship for the second straight year with a 294 total.

1952 — Five American boxers win gold medals at the Olympics, marking the first time the U.S. wins the unofficial team title. The five medalists are flyweight Nate Brooks; light welterweight Charley Adkins; middleweight Floyd Patterson; light heavyweight Norvell Lee and heavyweight Eddie Sanders.

1967 — The New Orleans Saints play their first preseason game and lose to the Los Angeles Rams, 77-16.

1979 — New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson is killed in a plane crash practicing takeoffs and landings near his Ohio home.

1982 — Oakland outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 100th MLB base of the season in 6-5 win vs. Seattle, first to steal 100 twice in modern era.

1986 — Jackie Joyner sets the world record in the heptathlon at the U.S. Olympic Festival in Houston with 7,158 points.

1992 — Vitaly Scherbo of the Unified Team wins gold medals in the vault, rings, pommel horse and parallel bars to give him a total of six gold, the most won by a gymnast in a single Olympic Games.

1996 — The star-studded United States men’s basketball team, Dream Team III, beat Yugoslavia 95-69 to win the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics.

1996 — Down to her final long jump attempt and fighting an injured hamstring, Jackie Joyner-Kersee leaps out of sixth place and ends her Olympic career with a bronze medal. Joyner Kersee jumps 22 feet, 11 3-4 inches for her sixth Olympic medal.

1998 — Brandie Burton closes with an even-par 72 for a tournament-record 18-under 270 to win the du Maurier Classic by one stroke over Annika Sorenstam. It’s the lowest score in relation to par at a women’s major, breaking Betsy King’s 17-under 267 in the 1992 LPGA Championship.

2005 — In the largest trade in NBA history, Antoine Walker is dealt from Boston to Miami in a transaction involving five teams and 13 players. The Heat acquire point guard Jason Williams and small forward James Posey from Memphis, while the Grizzlies receive guard Eddie Jones from the Heat. The New Orleans Hornets and Utah Jazz also are involved in the deal.

2009 — Catriona Matthew wins the Women’s British Open for her first major title, beating Karrie Webb by three strokes just 10 weeks after giving birth to her second child.

2012 — Carmelo Anthony and the U.S. men’s Olympic basketball team rewrite the record books in a 156-73 romp over Nigeria. Anthony scores 37 points, including 10 of 12 3-pointers, to break the U.S. single-game scoring record in less than three quarters. When Andre Iguodala hits a 3-pointer with 4:37 left, the Americans surpass the previous Olympic record of 138 points set by Brazil against Egypt in 1988.

2012 — Gabby Douglas becomes the third straight American to win gymnastics’ biggest prize when she wins the all-around Olympic title.

2012 — Michael Phelps wins his first individual gold medal of the London Games in the 200-meter individual medley. The U.S. star becomes the first male swimmer to win the same individual event at three straight Olympics, capturing his 20th career medal — and 16th gold.

2015 — American Pharoah delivers an encore performance in his first race since winning the Triple Crown, by cruising to a 2 1/4-length victory in the Haskell Invitational at Monmouth Park.

2015 — Inbee Park rallies to win the Women’s British Open to become the seventh women to win four different major championships.

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Aug. 3

1852 — The first intercollegiate rowing race is held on Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., where Harvard beats Yale by four lengths on the 2-mile course.

1936 — American sprinter Jesse Owens wins the 100m (10.3 seconds) in front of Adolf Hitler in a famous race at the Berlin Olympics, first of 4 gold medals at the Games.

1949 — The National Basketball Association is formed by the merger of the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America.

1955 — Scott Frost, driven by Joe O’Brien, wins the Hambletonian at Good Time Park in Goshen, N.Y. He goes on to become the first trotting Triple Crown winner.

1985 — France’s Lutin D’Isigny becomes the first trotter to sweep the International Trot and Challenge Cup in consecutive years with a 3:03.1 time in the 1½-mile test.

1990 — The Professional Golfers Association Tour announces it will not hold tournaments at golf clubs that have all-white memberships or show any other signs of discrimination.

1996 — Andre Agassi, the Dream Team and the U.S. women’s 400-meter relay team win Olympic gold medals, while the American men’s 400 relay settles for silver. With Carl Lewis idled by a coach’s decision and Leroy Burrell injured, the men’s 400 team is shocked by Canada — the first time the U.S. lost the event at the Olympics.

2003 — Annika Sorenstam completes a career Grand Slam at the Women’s British Open, beating Se Ri Pak by a stroke in a thrilling head-to-head showdown.

2006 — Champ Car driver Cristiano da Matta needs surgery to remove a ruptured blood vessel in his head after his race car collides with a deer that wandered onto the track during a test session at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis.

2012 — Michael Phelps rallies to win the 100-meter butterfly for his third gold of the London Games and No. 17 of his career. It’s Phelps’ third consecutive win in the event at the Olympics, and his 21st career medal. Missy Franklin sets a world record in the 200 backstroke for the 17-year-old’s third gold in London.

2013 — Sixteen-year-old Katie Ledecky wraps up a brilliant performance at the world swimming championships with her fourth gold medal and second world record. The youngster turns it on over the final four laps of the 800 freestyle to win in 8 minutes, 13.86 seconds and take down the mark of 8:14.10 set by Britain’s Rebecca Adlington at the 2008 Olympics.

2016 — The International Olympic Committee approves baseball/softball, karate, sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding to be included in the 2020 Tokyo Games.

2016 — Elaine Thompson Herah of Jamaica wins the 200m gold in Tokyo to become the first female to win the 100/200 double in consecutive games.

2017 — Brazilian soccer forward Neymar transfers from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for a world-record transfer fee of $222M on a 5-year deal.

2023 — Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi becomes first WNBA player to reach 10,000 points as she drops 42 points in a 91-71 win over the Atlanta Dream.

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Aug. 4

1936 — American athlete Jesse Owens wins his 2nd gold medal at the Berlin Olympics; beats German Luz Long in the long jump final with an Olympic record.

1945 — Byron Nelson wins his 11th consecutive PGA Tour event, beating Herman Barron by four strokes. Nelson finishes the year with a record for most tournament wins (18) in a season.

1982 — Joel Youngblood becomes the only player in major league history to play and get hits for two different teams in two different cities on the same day. In the afternoon, his hit drives in the winning run for the New York Mets in a 7-4 victory at Chicago. After the game, he’s traded to the Montreal Expos and plays that night in Philadelphia. He enters the game in right field in the fourth inning and later gets a single.

1984 — Carl Lewis wins the 100-meter dash in 9.99 seconds at the Los Angeles Summer Games. US teammate Sam Graddy wins the silver in 10.19 and Canada’s Ben Johnson gets the bronze with a time of 10.22.

1985 — Tom Seaver, 40, becomes the 17th 300-game winner in major league history with a six-hitter — all singles — as the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 4-1.

1985 — Rod Carew of the California Angels gets his 3,000th hit in a 6-5 win over the Minnesota Twins, his first major league team.

1996 — Laura Davies shoots a 6-under 66 for a two-stroke victory over Nancy Lopez and Karrie Webb in the du Maurier Classic.

1996 — The Atlanta Olympic Games end with U.S. boxer David Reid’s stunning gold-medal knockout, and the women Dream Team’s romp over Brazil. Reid captures America’s only boxing gold, knocking down Cuban Alfredo Duvergel, while the U.S. women roll to a 111-87 victory behind Lisa Leslie’s 29 points. A record 11,000 athletes from 197 countries make it the biggest Olympics.

2007 — 32-year-old Alex Rodriguez becomes the youngest player in MLB history to hit 500 home runs.

2011 — Cappie Pondexter scores 15 points to lead New York past Chicago 59-49, and the Liberty hold the Sky to a WNBA-record one point in the fourth quarter.

2012 — Michael Phelps wins another gold medal as the United States wins the medley relay at the London Olympics. Phelps leaves the sport with a record 18 golds and 22 medals overall. At these games, he wins four golds and two silvers.

2012 — Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova 6-0, 6-1 to join Steffi Graf as the only women to complete the Golden Slam — winning the Olympics and the four majors. In a men’s semifinal match, Roger Federer outlasts Juan Martin del Potro in a 19-17 final set and clinches his first Olympic singles medal. Canadian equestrian Ian Millar rides into Olympic history by competing in his 10th games — the most of any athlete.

2013 — Missy Franklin claims her record sixth gold medal on the final day of the world championships in Barcelona, becoming the most successful female swimmer ever at a world meet. Franklin eclipses the record shared by Tracy Caulkins — who won five times in 1978 — and Libby Trickett, who did it in 2007.

2013 — Stacy Lewis wins the Women’s British Open after a marathon final day. Lewis finishes with a pair of birdies on the Old Course at St. Andrews and closes with an even-par 72. It’s her second major on the LPGA Tour, and it ends a record streak of 10 straight majors won by Asian players. Forced to play 36 holes, Lewis is the only player at par or better from the last 21 groups that tee off.

2018 — British swimmer Adam Peaty improves his own world record in the 100-meter breaststroke to 57.1 seconds at the European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.

2021 — Sydney McLaughlin sets a world record in in the women’s 400m hurdles, 51.46s, for a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.

2024 — At the Paris Olympics Noah Lyles becomes the first American sprinter to win the 100m gold medal in 20 years; his time 9.784s edges Jamaica’s Kishane Thompson by 0.005s

1921 — Radio station KDKA and announcer Harold Arlin provide the first broadcast of a major league game as the Pirates beat the Phillies 8-5 at Pittsburgh.

1936 — At the Berlin Olympics, Jesse Owens wins his third of four gold medals, winning the 200-meter race in an Olympic-record 20.7 seconds.

1954 — The first election for the Boxing Hall of Fame is held. Twenty-four fighters are elected, with the most noteworthy from the modern era Jack Dempsey, Joe Louis and Henry Armstrong. Fifteen are selected from the pioneer era including John L. Sullivan, Gentleman Jim Corbett and Jack Johnson.

1967 — The Denver Broncos beat the Detroit Lions, 13-7, in a preseason game, for the first AFL victory over an NFL team.

1984 — American Joan Benoit wins the first Olympic marathon for women in 2:24:52, finishing 400 meters ahead of Norway’s Grete Waitz.

1991 — Sergei Bubka becomes the first to clear 20 feet outdoors in the pole vault, breaking his own world record by a half-inch at the Galan track meet in Malmo, Sweden.

1997 — Michael Johnson wins his third straight 400-meter title at the world championships in Athens, Greece, capturing the gold medal in 44.12 seconds.

2005 — Jason Gore shoots a 12-under 59 in the second round of the Nationwide Tour’s Cox Classic in Omaha, Nebraska.

2006 — Warren Moon becomes the first black quarterback to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio; joined by Troy Aikman, John Madden, Rayfield Wright, Harry Carson and Reggie White.

2007 — Tom Glavine earns his 300th victory in an 8-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

2007 — Lorena Ochoa wins the Women’s British Open — the first women’s professional tournament played at venerable St. Andrews — for her first major title.

2012 — Jamaica’s Usain Bolt claims consecutive gold medals in the marquee track and field event at the Summer Games in London. Only about fifth-fastest of the eight runners to the halfway mark, Bolt erases that deficit and overtakes a star-studded field to win the 100-meter dash final in 9.63 seconds, an Olympic record that lets him join Carl Lewis as the only men to win the event twice.

2012 — Britain’s Andy Murray cruises past Roger Federer 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 in the Olympic tennis singles final at Wimbledon. Serena and Venus Williams win the doubles title, as Serena becomes tennis’ first double-gold medalist at an Olympics since Venus won singles and doubles at the 2000 Sydney Games. Ben Ainslie earns another gold medal in the Finn class to become the most successful sailor in Olympic history.

2013 — Alex Rodriguez is suspended through 2014 (211 games) and All-Stars Nelson Cruz, Jhonny Peralta and Everth Cabrera are banned 50 games apiece when Major League Baseball disciplines 13 players in a drug case.

2014 — The San Antonio Spurs hire WNBA star Becky Hammon as an assistant coach, making her the first woman to join an NBA coaching staff.

2017 — Justin Gatlin spoils Usain Bolt’s farewell beating him in the 100 meters at the world track championships in London. Bolt gets off to a slow start and Gatlin holds him off at the line in 9.92 seconds. American sprinter Christian Coleman takes silver in 9.94 seconds and Bolt took bronze in 9.95.

2018 — The Springfield Lasers win their first World TeamTennis title edging the Philadelphia Freedoms 19-18. The Lasers were 0-5 in WTT championship finals and winless in three meetings with the Freedoms during the 2018 regular season.

2018 — Georgia Hall of England catches Pornanong Phatlum in a final-round duel at Royal Lytham & St. Annes to win the Women’s British Open for her first major title.

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Aug. 6

1958 — Glen Davis of Columbus, Ohio, sets a world record in the 400 hurdles with a time of 49.2 in Budapest, Hungary.

1966 — Muhammad Ali knocks out Brian London in the third round to retain his world heavyweight title.

1972 — South African Gary Player wins his second PGA golf championship with a two-stroke victory over Jim Jamieson and Tommy Aaron.

1978 — John Mahaffey beats Tom Watson and Jerry Pate on the second playoff hole to win the PGA Championship.

1984 — American athlete Carl Lewis wins long jump (8.54m), his second of 4 gold medals at Los Angeles Olympics.

1991 — Debbie Doom of the U.S. pitches her second consecutive perfect game in women’s softball at the Pan American Games. Doom threw a perfect game at the Netherlands Antilles in the opener and matches that performance against Nicaragua, winning 8-0.

1992 — Carl Lewis leads a U.S. sweep in the long jump in the Olympics with a mark of 28 feet, 5 1-2 inches on his first attempt. Mike Powell takes the silver and Joe Greene the bronze. Kevin Young demolishes one of track’s oldest records with a time of 46.78 seconds in the 400 hurdles. Bruce Baumgartner becomes the first American wrestler to win medals in three straight Olympics, taking the gold in the 286-pound freestyle division.

1994 — Jeff Gordon wins the Brickyard 400, the first stock car race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

1995 — Canada’s Donovan Bailey wins the 100 meters at World Track and Field Championships in Goteborg, Sweden, marking the first time since 1976 an American fails to win a medal in the event at a major meet.

1999 — Tony Gwynn goes 4-for-5, singling in his first at-bat to become the 22nd major leaguer to reach 3,000 hits, as the San Diego Padres beat the Montreal Expos 12-10.

2001 — Two-time champion Marion Jones is disqualified and has her string of 42 consecutive 100m final victories snapped by Zhanna Pintusevich-Block of Ukraine at the World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada.

2006 — Tiger Woods (30) becomes the youngest player to compile 50 PGA Tour wins with a 3 stroke victory over Jim Furyk in the Buick Open.

2006 — Floyd Landis is fired by his team and the Tour de France no longer considers him its champion after his second doping sample tested positive for higher-than-allowable levels of testosterone.

2006 — Sherri Steinhauer wins the Women’s British Open for the third time, and the first since it became a major.

2008 — Sammy Villegas, a former University of Toledo basketball player, is charged with point shaving. Villegas is accused of shaving points during the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons.

2008 — Kim Terrell-Kearney wins the first professional championship match featuring two black bowlers, beating Trisha Reid 216-189 in the U.S. Bowling Congress’ U.S. Women’s Open. Terrell-Kearney collects her second U.S. Women’s Open title and third career major title.

2010 — Tyson Gay upsets the defending world and Olympic champion Usain Bolt in a race between the two fastest runners in history. Gay beats the Jamaican at the DN Galan meet in 9.84 seconds at the same stadium where Bolt last lost a race two years ago. Bolt finishes second in 9.97.

2015 — Ryan Lochte becomes the first man to win the 200-meter individual medley four consecutive times at the world swimming championships. Lochte comes home strong on the freestyle lap and touches first in 1:55.81 in Kazan, Russia.

2017 — I.K. Kim won the Women’s British Open, hanging on with a 1-under 71 for a two-shot victory over Jodi Ewart Shadoff and her first major championship.

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Aug. 7

1907 — Walter Johnson wins the first of his 417 victories, leading the Washington Senators past the Cleveland Indians 7-2.

1952 — Bion Shively, 74, drives Sharp Note to victory in the third heat of the Hambletonian Stakes.

1982 — Speed Bowl wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats with 25-year-old Tom Haughton in the sulky, the youngest to win the Hambletonian.

1983 — Norway’s Grete Waitz takes the women’s marathon in the first world track and field championships at Helsinki, Finland.

1992 — Sergei Bubka, the world record-holder and defending Olympic champion, fails to clear a height in the pole vault.

1999 — Wade Boggs becomes the first player to homer for his 3,000th hit, connecting with a two-run shot in Tampa Bay’s 15-10 loss to Cleveland.

2004 — Greg Maddux becomes the 22nd pitcher in major league history to reach 300 victories, leading the Chicago Cubs to an 8-4 victory over San Francisco.

2005 — Justin Gatlin dominates the 100 meters at the track and field championships in Helsinki. The Olympic champion wins in 9.88 seconds, finishing 0.17 seconds ahead of Michael Frater of Jamaica. The margin of victory is the largest in the 10 world championships held since the meet’s inception in 1983.

2007 — San Francisco’s Barry Bonds hits home run No. 756 to break Hank Aaron’s storied record. Noticeably absent are Commissioner Bud Selig and Aaron.

2012 — Aly Raisman becomes the first U.S. woman to win Olympic gold on floor. She picks up a bronze on balance beam on the final day of gymnastics at the London Olympics and just misses a medal in the all-around.

2016 — Jim Furyk becomes the first golfer to shoot a 58 in PGA Tour history. Three years after Furyk became the sixth player on tour with a 59, he takes it even lower in the Travelers Championship with a 12-under 58 in the final round.

2016 — Ichiro Suzuki triples off the wall for his 3,000th hit in the major leagues, becoming the 30th player to reach the milestone as the Miami Marlins beat the Colorado Rockies 10-7.

2016 — Manny Machado becomes the second player in major league history to homer in the first, second and third innings, driving in a career-high seven runs in a 10-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

2016 — American swimmer Katie Ledecky sets a new world record with a time of 3:56.46 to win the gold medal in the women’s 400m freestyle at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

2021 — Kevin Durant with 29 points leads USA to his third and the team’s 4th consecutive Olympic men’s basketball gold medal with an 87-82 win over France in Tokyo.

2021 — Indian javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra wins his country’s first-ever Olympic gold medal in Tokyo.

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TV SPORTS

(All times Eastern)

Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2

AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL (MEN’S)

5:30 a.m.

FS1 — AFL: Brisbane at Collingwood

1 a.m. (Sunday)

FS2 — AFL: Port Adelaide at Geelong

AUTO RACING

6:25 a.m.

ESPNU — Formula 1: Practice, Hungaroring, Mogyorod, Hungary

9:55 a.m.

ESPN2 — Formula 1: Qualifying, Hungaroring, Mogyorod, Hungary

1:30 p.m.

TRUTV — NASCAR Cup Series: Practice, Iowa Speedway, Newton, Iowa

2:40 p.m.

TRUTV — NASCAR Cup Series: Qualifying, Iowa Speedway, Newton, Iowa

4:30 p.m.

CW — NASCAR Xfinity Series: The HyVee Perks 250, Iowa Speedway, Newton, Iowa

BASEBALL

7 p.m.

MLBN — 2025 Hank Aaron Invitational Showcase Game: Team Aaron vs. Team Robinson, Birmingham, Ala.

BEACH VOLLEYBALL

8 p.m.

CW — AVP League: Week 7 – Day 2, Austin, Texas

BIG3 BASKETBALL

1 p.m.

CBS — Week 8: Boston Ball Hogs vs. Detroit, Dallas Power vs. Houston Rig Hands, LA Riot vs. DMV Trilogy, Miami 305 vs. Chicago Triplets, Houston

CFL FOOTBALL

7 p.m.

CBSSN — Saskatchewan at Montreal

CYCLING

10 a.m.

CNBC — UCI: Tour de France Femmes, Stage 8, Chambery Saint François Longchamp, 69 miles, France (Taped)

GOLF

7 a.m.

USA — LPGA Tour: The AIG Women’s Open, Third Round, Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

Noon

NBC — LPGA Tour: The AIG Women’s Open, Third Round, Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

1 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour: The Wyndham Championship, Third Round, Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, N.C.

3 p.m.

CBS — PGA Tour: The Wyndham Championship, Third Round, Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, N.C.

6 p.m.

GOLF — Korn Ferry Tour: The Utah Championship, Third Round, Ogden Golf & Country Club, Ogden, Utah

HORSE RACING

Noon

FS1 — NYRA: Saratoga Live

2 p.m.

FS2 — NYRA: Saratoga Live

3 p.m.

FOX — The Whitney Stakes: From Saratoga Race Course, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

6 p.m.

FS2 — NYRA: Saratoga Live

LACROSSE (MEN’S)

1 p.m.

ABC — PLL: New York vs. Denver, Denver

LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL

10 p.m.

CBSSN — Connie Mack World Series: TBD, Championship, Farmington, N.M.

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS

6 p.m.

ESPN — UFC Fight Night Prelims: Undercard Bouts, Las Vegas

9 p.m.

ESPN — UFC Fight Night Main Card: Amir Albazi vs. Tatsuro Taira (Flyweights), Las Vegas

MLB BASEBALL

2 p.m.

FS1 — Baltimore at Chicago Cubs

7 p.m.

FOX — Atlanta vs. Cincinnati, Bristol, Tenn.

10:30 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: St. Louis at San Diego (10:10 p.m.) OR Arizona at Athletics (10:05 p.m.)

NFL FOOTBALL

1 p.m.

ESPN — 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony: From Canton, Ohio

NFLN — 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony: From Canton, Ohio

RUGBY (MEN’S)

6 a.m.

CBSSN — International Union: Australia vs. British & Irish Lions, Sydney

RUGBY (WOMEN’S)

11:40 p.m.

FS2 — NRL: Canberra at Newcastle

SOCCER (MEN’S)

9:55 a.m.

CBSSN — English League Two: Fleetwood Town at Barnet

12:25 p.m.

CBSSN — Scottish Premier League: Rangers at Motherwell

7 p.m.

FS2 — Canadian Premier League: Valour FC at Forge FC

9 p.m.

FS1 — Leagues Cup Group Stage: Club America vs. Minnesota, Phase One, Houston

11 p.m.

FS1 — Leagues Cup Group Stage: Queretaro at Portland, Phase One

SOCCER (WOMEN’S)

4:55 p.m.

FS1 — Conmebol Copa America: Colombia vs. Brazil, Final, Quito, Ecuador

7:30 p.m.

ION — NWSL: San Diego at North Carolina

10 p.m.

ION — NWSL: Houston at Bay

SOFTBALL

2 p.m.

ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Team Ocasio vs. Team Kilfoyl, Holly Springs, N.C.

4:30 p.m.

ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Team Lorenz vs. Team Corrick, Holly Springs, N.C.

TENNIS

12:30 p.m.

TENNIS — Canada-ATP/WTA Early Rounds; Doubles Quarterfinals

TRACK AND FIELD

4 p.m.

NBC — USATF: The 2025 Toyota Outdoor & Para National Championships, Eugene, Ore.

WNBA BASKETBALL

3 p.m.

ABC — Minnesota at Las Vegas

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 3

AUTO RACING

8:55 a.m.

ESPN — Formula 1: The Lenovo Hungarian Grand Prix, Hungaroring, Mogyorod, Hungary

10 a.m.

CBSSN — FIM Motocross World Championship: The MX2, Lommel, Belgium

2 p.m.

CBSSN — FIM Motocross World Championship: The MXGP, Lommel, Belgium

3:30 p.m.

USA — NASCAR Cup Series: The Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol, Iowa Speedway, Newton, Iowa

BASKETBALL (MEN’S)

4 p.m.

FOX — The Basketball Tournament: Eberlein Drive vs. Aftershocks, Championship

CYCLING

11:30 a.m.

CNBC — UCI: Tour de France Femmes, Final Stage, Praz-sur-Arly Chatel, 77 miles, France (Taped)

GOLF

7 a.m.

USA — LPGA Tour: The AIG Women’s Open, Final Round, Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

Noon

NBC — LPGA Tour: The AIG Women’s Open, Final Round, Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan, Wales

1 p.m.

GOLF — PGA Tour: The Wyndham Championship, Final Round, Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, N.C.

3 p.m.

CBS — PGA Tour: The Wyndham Championship, Final Round, Sedgefield Country Club, Greensboro, N.C.

7 p.m.

GOLF — Korn Ferry Tour: The Utah Championship, Final Round, Ogden Golf & Country Club, Ogden, Utah

HORSE RACING

1 p.m.

FS1 — NYRA: Saratoga Live

LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL

2 p.m.

ESPN — Little League World Series Regional: TBD, Southeast Region, Warner Robins, Ga.

4 p.m.

ESPN — Little League World Series Regional: TBD, Southwest Region, Waco, Texas

MLB BASEBALL

1:30 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: San Francisco at N.Y. Mets (1:40 p.m.) OR Kansas City at Toronto (1:35 p.m.)

4:30 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: Texas at Seattle (4:10 p.m.) OR St. Louis at San Diego (4:10 p.m.)

7 p.m.

ESPN — Detroit at Philadelphia

ESPN2 — Detroit at Philadelphia (StatCast)

SOCCER (MEN’S)

6:55 a.m.

CBSSN — Club Friendly: Tottenham Hotspur vs. Newcastle United, Seoul, South Korea

11:25 a.m.

CBSSN — Scottish Premier League: St. Mirren at Celtic

2 p.m.

NBC — Club Friendly: AFC Bournemouth vs. West Ham United, Atlanta

4 p.m.

FS2 — Canadian Premier League: York United FC at Atletico Ottawa

7:30 p.m.

FS1 — Leagues Cup Group Stage: Guadalajara at Charlotte FC, Phase One

10:30 p.m.

FS1 — Leagues Cup Group Stage: Santos Laguna at Seattle, Phase One

SOCCER (WOMEN’S)

12:30 p.m.

ABC — NWSL: Portland at Washington

SOFTBALL

1 p.m.

ESPNU — Athletes Unlimited: Team Corrick vs. Team Kilfoyl, Holly Springs, N.C.

TENNIS

12:30 p.m.

TENNIS — Canada-ATP/WTA Early Rounds; Doubles Quarterfinals

TRACK AND FIELD

4 p.m.

NBC — USATF: The 2025 Toyota Outdoor & Para National Championships, Eugene, Ore.

WNBA BASKETBALL

3 p.m.

ABC — Indiana at Seattle