“THE SCOREBOARD” MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCOREBOARD METS 4, PHILLIES 1 =========================== MINOR LEAGUE SCOREBOARD NO GAMES SCHEDULED =========================== WNBA SCOREBOARD FIRE 75 MYSTICS 56 =========================== NBA SUMMER LEAGUE SCOREBOARD MAVS 97 THUNDER 87 ROCKETS 100 NETS 83 LAKERS 105 BULLS 82 WARRIORS 87 KNICKS 77 GRIZZLIES 96 HAWKS 64 RAPTORS 99 HEAT 90 BLAZERS 108 NUGGETS 101 =========================== WORLD CUP SOCCER SCOREBOARD SATURDAY: FRANCE VS. ENGLAND 5:00 SUNDAY: SPAIN VS. ARGENTINA 3:00 =========================== INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE SCHEDULES https://scoreboard.homestead.com/football/teams.htm#load =========================== COLLEGE FOOTBALL THE INDIANA SRN COLLEGE FOOTBALL PRE-SEASON TOP 25 POLL TEXAS OHIO STATE OREGON GEORGIA INDIANA NOTRE DAME MIAMI ALABAMA TEXAS TECH TEXAS A&M LSU USC OKLAHOMA MICHIGAN OLE MISS TENNESSEE PENN STATE FLORIDA CLEMSON MISSOURI BYU SOUTH CAROLINA AUBURN IOWA SMU ALSO RECEIVING VOTES: WASHINGTON, HOUSTON, UTAH, LOUISVILLE, BOISE STATE, VIRGINIA TECH, KANSAS STATE, ARIZONA, ILLINOIS, ARIZONA STATE, OKLAHOMA STATE, TCU, NEBRASKA, VIRGINIA, PITT ======================================== NFL TRAINING CAMP DATES TEAM SITE LOCATION ROOKIES VETERANS ARIZONA CARDINALS STATE FARM STADIUM GLENDALE, ARIZ. 7/22 7/22 ATLANTA FALCONS ATLANTA FALCONS TRAINING FACILITY FLOWERY BRANCH, GA. 7/24 7/28 BALTIMORE RAVENS UNDER ARMOUR PERFORMANCE CENTER OWINGS MILLS, MD. 7/24 7/28 BUFFALO BILLS ST. JOHN FISHER UNIVERSITY ROCHESTER, N.Y. 7/21 7/28 CAROLINA PANTHERS BANK OF AMERICA STADIUM CHARLOTTE, N.C. 7/21 7/22 CHICAGO BEARS HALAS HALL LAKE FOREST, ILL. 7/25 7/28 CINCINNATI BENGALS PAYCOR STADIUM CINCINNATI 7/25 7/28 CLEVELAND BROWNS CROSSCOUNTRY MORTGAGE CAMPUS BEREA, OHIO 7/23 7/28 DALLAS COWBOYS MARRIOTT RESIDENCE INN OXNARD, CALIF. 7/28 7/28 DENVER BRONCOS BRONCOS PARK POWERED BY COMMONSPIRIT ENGLEWOOD, COLO. 7/22 7/28 DETROIT LIONS MEIJER PERFORMANCE CENTER ALLEN PARK, MICH. 7/25 7/28 GREEN BAY PACKERS LAMBEAU FIELD GREEN BAY, WIS. 7/27 7/28 HOUSTON TEXANS HOUSTON METHODIST TRAINING CENTER HOUSTON 7/21 7/28 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS GRAND PARK WESTFIELD, IND. 7/27 7/28 JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS MILLER ELECTRIC CENTER JACKSONVILLE, FLA. 7/25 7/28 KANSAS CITY CHIEFS MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY ST. JOSEPH, MO. 7/24 7/28 LAS VEGAS RAIDERS INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH PERFORMANCE CENTER HENDERSON, NEV. 7/23 7/28 LOS ANGELES CHARGERS THE BOLT EL SEGUNDO, CALIF. 7/23 7/28 LOS ANGELES RAMS LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES 7/25 7/25 MIAMI DOLPHINS BAPTIST HEALTH TRAINING COMPLEX MIAMI GARDENS, FLA. 7/21 7/28 MINNESOTA VIKINGS TCO PERFORMANCE CENTER EAGAN, MINN. 7/26 7/28 NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS NEW BALANCE ATHLETICS CENTER FOXBOROUGH, MASS. 7/21 7/24 NEW ORLEANS SAINTS OCHSNER SPORTS PERFORMANCE CENTER METAIRIE, LA. 7/28 7/28 NEW YORK GIANTS QUEST DIAGNOSTICS TRAINING CENTER/THE GREENBRIER EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J./WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.V. 7/23 7/28 NEW YORK JETS ATLANTIC HEALTH JETS TRAINING CENTER FLORHAM PARK, N.J. 7/25 7/28 PHILADELPHIA EAGLES JEFFERSON HEALTH TRAINING COMPLEX PHILADELPHIA 7/28 7/28 PITTSBURGH STEELERS SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE LATROBE, PA. 7/28 7/28 SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS SAP PERFORMANCE FACILITY SANTA CLARA, CALIF. 7/18 7/25 SEATTLE SEAHAWKS VIRGINIA MASON ATHLETIC CENTER RENTON, WASH. 7/17 7/24 TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS ADVENTHEALTH TRAINING CENTER TAMPA, FLA. 7/27 7/28 TENNESSEE TITANS VANDERBILT HEALTH FOOTBALL CENTER NASHVILLE, TENN. 7/23 7/28 WASHINGTON COMMANDERS COMMANDERS PARK ASHBURN, VA. 7/24 7/28 ====== 2026 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS PRE-SEASON SCHEDULE WEEK DATE OPPONENT TV / TIME (ET) WEEK 1 THU, AUG 13 @ NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS LOCAL (7:30 PM) WEEK 2 SAT, AUG 22 VS. ATLANTA FALCONS LOCAL (1:00 PM) WEEK 3 SAT, AUG 29 VS. DETROIT LIONS LOCAL (1:00 PM) ===== 2026 INDIANAPOLIS COLTS REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE WEEK DATE OPPONENT TIME (ET) TV / STREAMING 1 SUN, SEPT 13 VS. BALTIMORE RAVENS 1:00 PM CBS 2 SUN, SEPT 20 @ KANSAS CITY CHIEFS 8:20 PM NBC 3 SUN, SEPT 27 VS. HOUSTON TEXANS 1:00 PM CBS 4 SUN, OCT 4 @ WASHINGTON COMMANDERS 9:30 AM NFL NET 5 SUN, OCT 11 @ PITTSBURGH STEELERS 1:00 PM CBS 6 SUN, OCT 18 VS. TENNESSEE TITANS 1:00 PM FOX 7 SUN, OCT 25 @ MINNESOTA VIKINGS 1:00 PM CBS 8 SUN, NOV 1 @ JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS 1:00 PM CBS 9 SUN, NOV 8 VS. DALLAS COWBOYS 1:00 PM FOX 10 SUN, NOV 15 VS. MIAMI DOLPHINS 1:00 PM CBS 11 THU, NOV 19 @ HOUSTON TEXANS 8:15 PM PRIME VIDEO 12 SUN, NOV 29 VS. NEW YORK GIANTS 1:00 PM FOX 13 BYE WEEK 14 SUN, DEC 13 @ PHILADELPHIA EAGLES 1:00 PM FOX 15 SUN, DEC 20 @ TENNESSEE TITANS 1:00 PM CBS 16 TBD – FLEX VS. CINCINNATI BENGALS TBD TBD 17 SUN, JAN 3 @ CLEVELAND BROWNS 1:00 PM FOX 18 TBD – FLEX GAME VS. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS TBD TBD ==================================== NATIONAL SPORTS HEADLINES/RELEASES NBA NEWS LEBRON JAMES PRAISES LAKERS, DECLINES TO REVEAL NEXT TEAM AT PUBLIC APPEARANCE LeBron James did a live taping of his podcast on Thursday in New York, but he made it clear from the jump that he wasn’t there to break news.News James and Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton took the stage at Fanatics Fest to record an episode of James’ “Mind the Game” podcast, and with an estimated crowd of 5,000 on hand, Haliburton asked James for an update with a particular word choice that stood out. “Is there a decision that still has to be made?” Haliburton asked James just minutes into the recording, a likely reference to James’ 2010 “Decision” to join the Miami Heat that was accompanied by a live program on ESPN. “We literally talked about this in the back,” James replied, and Haliburton was quick with a smiling apology. “My fault, my fault. I didn’t know if you wanted — OK, OK, I’ll leave it alone,” Haliburton said. Haliburton later revealed to the crowd that he texted James last month about the idea of the four-time champion and future Hall of Famer coming to Indianapolis to team up. “And he texted me back two laughing, crying faces and that’s all I got,” Haliburton said. James let his contract with the Lakers expire and told Los Angeles he would look to play elsewhere in 2026-27, which would be his record 24th NBA season and potentially his fourth franchise.Basketball Or, James could reunite with the Cleveland Cavaliers for a third stint or the Heat for a second. He confirmed that they were two of the teams in the mix without giving much else away. As he let audience members call out where they wanted him to sign, James said, “I heard Philly (the 76ers), Miami … This guy just told me to come to the Yankees! We’ll see what happens.” With his former Los Angeles Lakers head coach and former podcast co-host JJ Redick in the crowd, James heaped praise on the Lakers, as he did immediately after his decision not to re-sign there. “Shoutout my former team. I spent eight great years with the Los Angeles Lakers,” James said. “One of the most historical franchises in the world. Shout out Jeanie Buss, the whole Buss family. Rob Pelinka. Everybody. All the coaches that I played for there. All my teammates. S–, I am going to miss them all, obviously. So, that was an unbelievable ride and I’m just looking forward to what holds next as I wind down the final stages of my journey.” ===== REPORT: NBA OPENS INVESTIGATION INTO GARY TRENT NEW BUCKS’ CONTRACT The NBA has opened an investigation on Gary Trent Jr.’s four-year, $64 million agreement with the Milwaukee Bucks for a possible salary cap violation, a league spokesman told ESPN on Thursday. Trent, who spent the last two seasons in Milwaukee, re-signed on Saturday and paperwork was filed with the league on Thursday. After 2 1/2 seasons in Portland (2018-21) and parts of four in Toronto (2021-24) Trent, 27, signed for the league minimum in Milwaukee in the summer of 2024. Prior to the start of the 2025-26 campaign, he inked a two-year $7.5 million contract with the Bucks, which paid him $3.7 million during the ‘25-26 season. The deal also established his Early Bird rights, which permits teams to re-sign a player even if they are over the salary cap. Trent averaged 8.1 points last season, his lowest figure since his rookie year in Portland. However, he opted out of his player option to become a free agent and will be set to earn $15.2 million in 2026-27.NBA content The NBA’s collective bargaining agreement contains a clause against “prior agreement,” which the Bucks may have violated. NBA executives had suspected that Trent had earned below his value last season, sources told ESPN. His current contract would exceed that perceived value. Trent averaged 18.3 and 17.4 points per game for Toronto in 2021-22 and 2022-23, respectively. He’s averaged 13.0 points per game in his career and shot 38.7% from behind the arc in 480 career games (231 starts). He excelled for the Bucks in the 2024-25 playoffs, averaging 18.8 points per game and converting 22 of 44 shots from 3-point range in five games. The NBA has not voided a contract since taking that action against the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2000. Minnesota inked a secret, illegal agreement with Joe Smith, promising a multi-year, multi-million extension, which was to begin in 2001. Smith had played three previous seasons on minimum contacts. ===== BAM ADEBAYO WILL NOT FACE NBA DISCIPLINE AFTER TYLER HERRO SKIRMISH Miami Heat All-Star center Bam Adebayo will not face any discipline from the NBA after a physical skirmish with former teammate Tyler Herro, a league spokesman told multiple outlets on Thursday. Adebayo confronted Herro regarding critical comments that the guard allegedly had made on social media concerning the value of the Heat team captain. Adebayo found Herro on a practice court Friday at the Resorts World Hotel in Las Vegas, with an AAU team that Herro runs. According to reports, after Herro responded verbally, Adebayo struck Herro near his chin. Herro, now a member of the Milwaukee Bucks, was then restrained and the confrontation did not escalate. “After discussing with the players involved and the NBPA, everyone would prefer to move on from this unfortunate circumstance, and no further action will be taken by the league,” the NBA spokesperson said in a statement. Herro told ESPN last week that he wants to “move on” from the encounter. “Honestly, I’m just trying to move past all of it,” Herro said. “I’m focused on Milwaukee and building something special. They obviously just traded the greatest player in their history, so we want to come in and help continue what they’ve been doing.”NBA content Adebayo and Herro were teammates in Miami for seven years. On June 22, Miami traded Herro, Kel’el Ware, Jaime Jaquez, Jr. Kasparas Jakucionis, three first-round picks, a pick swap in 2030 and a 2033 second-round selection to the Bucks for two-time NBA MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis. After the Heat were eliminated from the NBA play-in tournament, Adebayo made comments that he needed additional help from the team’s supporting cast if the team were to make deep runs in future playoffs. Herro, who only played in 33 games in 2025-26, then appeared to question whether Adebayo was worthy of his near-$60 million salary in leaked direct messages between him and a fan on social media. Also among his comments was, “If I’m healthy, I’m the one who needs help.” Adebayo got to Miami two years before Herro. In nine seasons, Adebayo has averaged 16.2 points and 9.0 rebounds per season. He earned All-Defensive first-team honors in 2023-24 and was named an All-Star in 2019-20, 2022-23 and 2023-24. Herro, the 2021-22 Sixth Man of the Year award winner, was an All-Star in the 2024-25 season, when he averaged 23.9 points, 5.5 assists and 5.2 rebounds per game. He averaged 19.5 points per game in seven seasons with the Heat. ===== GIANNIS ARRIVES IN MIAMI, LOOKING TO FOLLOW MESSI’S PATH TO MORE TITLES AND SUCCESS MIAMI (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo was watching Lionel Messi play in the World Cup semifinals this week, and a realization struck him. Messi, to him, is greatness. And Antetokounmpo wants to follow Messi’s path. Antetokounmpo got his welcome-to-Miami ceremony Thursday at the team’s arena, with a few fans chanting his name as he walked along his new home court for the first time after he got a tour of his new city. “I need pressure at this time of my career,” Antetokounmpo said. “I think in order for me to go to the next level, I’ve got to get out of my comfort zone — and I feel like Miami was the place for me to be.” Messi came to Inter Miami three years ago, adding to his already copious resume by winning a couple of Major League Soccer MVP awards and another championship. Antetokounmpo has now joined him in Miami, hoping his relocation comes with the same level of success. “That’s the blueprint,” Antetokounmpo said. “LeBron James, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, they set the blueprint and you just got to follow, right? It’s hard. You have to be disciplined. You have to be dedicated to your craft, but it’s there. And if you want to follow, you follow. If you don’t want to follow, then you go home.” He didn’t go home. He’s in a new home. Antetokounmpo got his formal Heat introduction a couple of weeks after Miami swung the trade that landed the two-time MVP along with Bobby Portis Jr. from the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr., Kel’el Ware, Kasparas Jakučionis and draft capital. For the Heat, it’s another on a long list of superstar acquisitions made since Pat Riley arrived to take over as team president in 1995. “I think this is just part of who the Heat are in the pursuit of excellence,” Riley said. “But you don’t win championships unless you have greatness on the court and on the bench. … I’m just so excited for this challenge.” Antetokounmpo entered the NBA in 2013. His career totals to date: 21,531 points, 8,882 rebounds and 4,484 assists. The point and rebound totals are both fifth best in the NBA over that span, while the assist total is 13th best — and those numbers are just part of the reason why the Heat consider him to still be one of the five best players in the league. If all that wasn’t enough, has simply been a nightmare for defenses. Nobody has drawn more fouls over those 13 seasons than Antetokounmpo, which is absolute music to the ears of Heat coach Erik Spoelstra. “A little while ago Pat called me into his office and he looked at me,” Spoelstra said. “He said, ‘Do you want to coach Giannis?’” Spoelstra’s no-brainer answer: “Yes.” And then he walked out, waiting for Riley, Heat general manager Andy Elisburg and the rest of the front office to get a deal done. When Antetokounmpo arrived early Thursday morning for his first workout as a member of the Heat, Spoelstra was waiting for him. “I just want to be coached hard,” Antetokounmpo said. “I’d rather you tell me the ugly truth than a beautiful lie. … I’m excited to be coached by him.” Antetokounmpo’s run in Milwaukee ended with him having, by far, the most points in franchise history, more than 7,000 ahead of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s total during his tenure with the Bucks. Antetokounmpo is also Milwaukee’s all-time leader in rebounds and assists, plus he ranks second on the team’s career list in steals. He had a ton of success there. He’s looking for more success in Miami, which is one of the reasons why Portis felt like the Heat were the best place for him as well. “The conversations I have with Giannis have always been about winning. ‘Where can we go to win? How can we impact winning? How can you get another ’chip? That’s always been the talk,’” Portis said during his introductory news conference earlier Thursday. “It hasn’t been about anything else but winning. … All he cares about is winning.” By all accounts, the Giannis-in-Miami era is off to the right start. Antetokounmpo was thrilled by the welcome he and his wife got when their plane landed in Miami after watching Messi and Argentina beat England in Atlanta on Wednesday. He says he already loves the Miami weather (“warmer than Milwaukee,” he said) and isn’t a fan of iguanas, which are everywhere in South Florida (“those guys, stay away from me,” he said). Riley told him the Heat are looking to win and win big. That was all Antetokounmpo needed to really hear. He has one ring. He wants more. “You’ve got to work,” Antetokounmpo said. “They show you, they show you the way. It’s not hard. Just listen and open your eyes. It’s something that I wanted. I was able to accomplish it once in my career. Hopefully, it will happen a second time.” ================================================ BASEBALL NEWS METS’ BATTERY COMBINES TO TAKE DOWN RIVAL PHILLIES Christian Scott pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings and Francisco Alvarez homered twice as the visiting New York Mets notched a 4-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday. In the only game on the MLB slate, the Phillies and Mets played in a smoky scene due to spreading Canadian wildfires. The start time was moved up one hour due to worsening air quality, although the game proceeded without significant issues. Brett Baty also homered in support of Scott (3-1), who gave up three hits without a walk and struck out seven. Trea Turner’s blast in the eighth accounted for the only run for Philadelphia, which was limited to four hits. New York had a baserunner in each of the first two innings but was unable to create any havoc. In the third, Alvarez opened the scoring with a shot to center off Aaron Nola (3-7) for his first homer since June 30. J.T. Realmuto reached on a leadoff single in the third for Philadelphia, while Bryce Harper delivered a one-out double in the fourth. However, both times the players failed to advance.MLB content The Mets threatened in their half of the fifth, but Nola escaped a bases-loaded, no-out jam with the help of a line-drive double play off the bat of A.J. Ewing. The Phillies nearly tied the game against Scott in the sixth, as Schwarber’s blast missed being a home run by inches. He was then stranded at second base with Brooks Raley recording the final out of the frame. Baty and Alvarez opened the seventh with back-to-back homers against Nola, who ended his night after giving up three runs, six hits and four walks with six strikeouts in six-plus innings. Huascar Brazoban logged a 1-2-3 seventh for the Mets before Luke Weaver pitched the eighth, allowing Turner’s blast in the process. After Ewing’s RBI double made it 4-1 in the top of the ninth, Devin Williams took care of matters in the bottom half to record his 100th career save. ===== REPORT: REDS SIGN YOUNG ACE CHASE BURNS TO 7-YEAR, $105M DEAL The Cincinnati Reds signed star right-hander Chase Burns to a seven-year, $105 million contract extension, several outlets reported Thursday. Burns, 23, received the largest guarantee of any pitcher in MLB history with less than four years of service time, according to MLB Network and The Athletic. The deal includes no options or deferred money and runs through 2033. The second overall pick of the 2024 MLB Draft, Burns has shone in his first full season after debuting in 2025 and appearing in 13 games. He is 11-1 through 18 starts for Cincinnati, second only to Milwaukee’s Aaron Ashby in wins. Burns ranks fifth in the majors among qualified pitchers in ERA (2.54) and has amassed 118 strikeouts versus 37 walks. Opposing batters have hit just .206 against him. Burns earned his first All-Star Game nod this year, though he did not appear for the National League in Tuesday’s All-Star Game. ====== EARLIEST OPENING DAY IN HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS 2027 MLB SCHEDULE Taking out Opening Night games, the Major League Baseball season has never started earlier than March 26. But the league will host its earliest Opening Day ever in 2027 as part of its regular season schedule. On Thursday, MLB announced a start next season with an Opening Night game on March 24, followed by a slate of 14 games the following day, marking the earliest traditional Opening Day in league history. Next season will also mark the continuation of “Rivalry Weekend” immediately following the All-Star break from July 15-18. The weekend, set to feature matchups between interleague rivals, will be preceded by the 97th edition of the All-Star Game on July 13 at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Rivalry Weekend will again get an early start with one game starting things off Thursday before the league continues with the same interleague matchups that were on display in 2025. This will be the fourth time Wrigley Field has hosted the Midsummer Classic, with the traditional Home Run Derby taking place the night before on July 12. Wrigley will be the only active venue to host the event four times (1947, 1962, 1990, 2027), and just the third venue to reach that mark in the league’s history.Baseball content The season concludes on Sept. 26 with 10 divisional matchups featuring teams potentially battling for playoff positioning. Fans can expect a full slate of games on Jackie Robinson Day (April 15), Memorial Day (May 31), Lou Gehrig Day (June 2), Independence Day (July 4), Labor Day (Sept. 6) and Roberto Clemente Day (Sept. 15). The Los Angeles Dodgers will host the Colorado Rockies on Jackie Robinson Day and the New York Yankees will host the Kansas City Royals on Lou Gehrig Day, while the Pittsburgh Pirates will host the St. Louis Cardinals on Roberto Clemente Day. Other highlights of the schedule include the Boston Red Sox hosting the Cleveland Guardians on Patriots Day (April 19), the Athletics hosting back-to-back series at Las Vegas Ballpark (vs. the San Diego Padres starting May 31 and vs. the Cincinnati Reds beginning June 3), the Padres hosting the Chicago Cubs for a split doubleheader (June 22), the Toronto Blue Jays hosting the Los Angeles Angels on Canada Day (July 1) and the Rockies hosting the Padres for a split doubleheader (July 10). ====================================== NFL NEWS PENEI SEWELL OF THE LIONS IS VOTED AS THE TOP TACKLE IN THE NFL BY AN AP PANEL Penei Sewell has long been known as perhaps the top run-blocking tackle in the NFL. Once his work in pass protection took a step up, he moved himself into a different category. The improvement in pass protection by Sewell last season, when he was named an All-Pro for the third straight season, helped him earn the honors as the top tackle in the NFL by The Associated Press. A panel of eight AP Pro Football Writers ranked the top five players at tackle, basing selections on current status entering the 2026 season. First-place votes were worth 10 points. Second- through fifth-place votes were worth 5, 3, 2 and 1 points. Sewell got three first-place votes and won the voting with 55 points. Tampa Bay’s Tristan Wirfs got three first-place votes and finished second with 44 points. Denver’s Garett Bolles got the other two first-place votes and came in third with 28 points. San Francisco’s Trent Williams was fourth and Philadelphia’s Jordan Mailata was fifth. Philadelphia’s Lane Johnson, Washington’s Laremy Tunsil, the Chargers’ Rashawn Slater, the Giants’ Andrew Thomas and Chicago’s Darnell Wright also received votes. 1. Penei Sewell, Detroit Lions Sewell allowed pressure on just 3.3% of pass plays last season, according to Pro FootballFocus, to rank second among right tackles and fifth among all tackles. He was also the game’s top run blocker at tackle as a key part of the running game for the Lions. Sewell’s strong overall play helped him win the award as the top protector in the league last season from PFF. After spending most of his first five seasons playing on the right side, Sewell will return to his college spot at left tackle this season as Detroit wants him protecting Jared Goff’s blindside. 2. Tristan Wirfs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers Wirfs made the switch from right side to left side in 2023 and became the first player to be an All-Pro at both spots since the AP began separating the positions in 2016. Wirfs has excelled at both run and pass blocking over his career and has made the Pro Bowl in five straight seasons. He missed the start of last season recovering from a knee injury but quickly got back to his usual form. 3. Garett Bolles, Denver Broncos Bolles entered the NFL as a first-round pick in 2017 and took a little time to develop into a top tackle. But Bolles has been the anchor of one of the top offensive lines the past few years in Denver and earned All-Pro honors for the first time in 2025. Bolles allowed no sacks and only 19 pressures during the 2025 regular season, according to PFF. 4. Trent Williams, San Francisco 49ers Williams still performed at a high level last season at age 37 as he bounced back from an injury-plagued 2024 to help San Francisco get back to the playoffs. Williams is coming off his 12th Pro Bowl season — the most for any offensive tackle — and is two shy of tying Hall of Famer Bruce Matthews’ record for an offensive lineman. Williams made three straight All-Pro teams from 2021-23 before the injuries limited him to 10 games in 2024. He was healthy for most of last season, playing 16 games for the first time since 2013 when he once again was a dominant run blocker. His pass blocking dropped off a bit with his 40 pressures allowed the most since his rookie season with Washington in 2010, according to PFF, but he remains a top player at his position. 5. Jordan Mailata, Philadelphia Eagles Mailata is one of the best development stories in the modern NFL. The former Australian rugby star had never played American football before the Eagles drafted him in the seventh round in 2018. Under offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland’s guidance, he’s become one of the best in the game. Mailata earned second-team All-Pro honors in 2024 and has been a steadying force on one of the more consistent lines in the NFL. ===== MYLES GARRETT OF THE RAMS IS VOTED AS THE TOP EDGE RUSHER IN THE NFL BY AN AP PANEL Myles Garrett has been the NFL’s dominant defensive player for years, leading to his record-setting campaign with 23 sacks last season before being traded in June from Cleveland to the Los Angeles Rams. Garrett’s performance helped him earn the honor of being named the top off-ball linebacker in the NFL by The Associated Press. A panel of eight AP Pro Football Writers ranked the top five players at edge rusher, basing selections on current status entering the 2026 season. First-place votes were worth 10 points. Second- through fifth-place votes were worth 5, 3, 2 and 1 points. Garrett got all eight first-place votes and won the voting with 80 points. Green Bay’s Micah Parsons was the only other player named on all eight ballots and was second with 27 points. Houston’s Will Anderson Jr. was third, Pittsburgh’s T.J. Watt was fourth and Detroit’s Aidan Hutchinson was fifth. Brian Burns of the New York Giants, Baltimore’s Trey Hendrickson, Las Vegas’ Maxx Crosby, San Francisco’s Nick Bosa and Jacksonville’s Josh Hines-Allen also received votes. 1. Myles Garrett, Los Angeles Rams Garrett won his second AP Defensive Player of the Year award last season and earned All-Pro honors for the fifth time after breaking the single-season sack record held by Michael Strahan and T.J. Watt. His 125 1/2 career sacks are the second-most to Reggie White among players in their first nine seasons in the NFL and Garrett is the only player with five straight seasons with at least 14 sacks. Now after playing in only three playoff games in his career with the Browns, Garrett could have a chance to deliver in the postseason following the trade to the preseason Super Bowl favorite Rams. 2. Micah Parsons, Green Bay Packers Parsons was dealt from Dallas to Green Bay before last season and delivered 12 1/2 sacks in 14 games while earning his third career All-Pro honor. Parsons’ season ended early following a torn ACL in Week 15 that is expected to sideline him for at least the start of this season. But Parsons has performed at a high level every year in the NFL and is the only player ever to start his career with five straight seasons with at least 12 sacks. 3. Will Anderson Jr., Houston Texans Anderson is the anchor of one of the NFL’s top defenses and earned his first All-Pro honor last season when he had 12 sacks and 20 tackles for loss. He turned that performance into a three-year, $150 million contract extension in the offseason. In three seasons with the Texans, the 24-year-old Anderson has piled up 30 sacks and 136 tackles, including 46 for loss. He also has 64 quarterback hits in his career and has forced four fumbles and recovered three. 4. T.J. Watt, Pittsburgh Steelers Watt’s production has dipped a bit in recent years but he still remains one of the game’s top pass rushers. He had seven sacks in 14 games last season when he earned his eighth straight Pro Bowl bid. He has led the NFL in sacks three times and has 115 for his career. 5. Aidan Hutchinson, Detroit Lions The No. 2 pick in the 2022 draft bounced back from an injury-shortened 2024 campaign to record a career high last season with 14 1/2 sacks to make his second Pro Bowl and be named a second-team All-Pro. Hutchinson has 43 sacks, 100 quarterback hits, 44 tackles for loss and five INTs in 56 career games. ===== LIONS DE PAT O’CONNOR RETIRES FROM NFL Detroit Lions defensive end Pat O’Connor announced his retirement from the NFL on Thursday. OConnor, 32, appeared in eight games (three starts) for the Lions last season and made 10 tackles while playing 21% of defensive snaps (106) and 64% of special teams snaps (143). Detroit selected O’Connor in the seventh round of the 2017 NFL Draft out of Eastern Michigan and released him from the practice squad in September 2017 before he signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. O’Connor totaled 88 regular-season games (three starts) and made 52 tackles with 2.5 sacks and seven tackles for loss for the Bucs (2017, 2019-24) and Lions (2024-25). He played on the Buccaneers’ Super Bowl championship team in the 2020 season as well as in playoff games in 2022 and 2023. “If you had told my younger self that I’d play this long, spend my entire career with just two teams, get drafted, and win a Super Bowl, he would have called you crazy,” O’Connor wrote on Instagram. “But here we are.” ================================ COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS ACC NOTEBOOK: DABO SWINNEY TRUSTS CLEMSON’S QB OPTIONS Clemson didn’t bring a quarterback to ACC media days, but the Tigers’ most important position battle still followed Dabo Swinney to Charlotte on Thursday. Christopher Vizzina remains the favorite to replace Cade Klubnik, though Swinney stopped short of formally ending a competition that also includes true freshman Tait Reynolds. Vizzina has waited three seasons for the opportunity, appearing in 14 games while attempting 105 passes. His only start came against SMU last November, when he completed 29 of 42 passes for 317 yards and three touchdowns in a 35-24 loss. Clemson could have pursued a more experienced option through the transfer portal after Klubnik left for the NFL. Instead, Swinney trusted the quarterbacks already in the program. “We all know the magnitude of these decisions. We’re not stupid,” Swinney said. “But that’s why we didn’t go get the big shiny object out of the portal. We believe in (Vizzina). But we also believe in Tait. He’s a high-level dude, now. He’s special.” Both Vizzina and Reynolds remain largely untested at the college level, leaving Swinney willing to let the competition play out before naming an opening-day starter. “Neither one of them have great experience, so at the end of the day, if CV’s 1, he’ll run out there first,” Swinney said. “If Tait’s 1, he’ll run out there first. We just have to go through the process and see how it all works out.” The eventual winner will not receive much time to settle in. Clemson, coming off a 7-6 season, opens Sept. 5 at LSU. –Virginia Tech wins offseason, awaits games James Franklin arrived at Virginia Tech with a proven rebuilding record, an active approach to roster construction and no shortage of confidence. According to the Hokies’ new coach, the first phase of the rebuild has gone about as well as possible. “I think I would describe it as I think we have won the offseason,” Franklin said. “We’ve had a great offseason in terms of implementing our standards and our expectations and our culture.” Virginia Tech is attempting to recover from a 3-9 season, its worst record since 1992, and has not won more than seven games since 2019. Franklin said the Hokies are bigger, stronger and faster, with enough depth to compete, but understands those improvements must translate once the season begins. Franklin also acknowledged that winning the offseason does not count in the standings. “All that’s great. That sounds great in a press conference, it’s a good sound bite,” Franklin said. “The reality is we have to make sure all that translates to the season.” His unconventional decision to retain former Hokies head coach Brent Pry as defensive coordinator has helped ease the transition. Franklin credited Pry’s familiarity with the school and community while saying the program must balance its history with the demands of modern college football.Soccer The Hokies open against VMI on Sept. 5. –Louisville embraces demanding path Jeff Brohm won’t need to convince Louisville that every week matters. The Cardinals are set to face 11 Power Four opponents, starting with a neutral-site game against Ole Miss in Nashville on Sept. 6. Brohm stated that this tough schedule gives Louisville a chance to prove it belongs among the top teams in the nation. “We think that’s what college football’s all about,” Brohm said. “That will challenge our football team. Definitely what fans want to see, players and coaches want to prepare for.” Ohio State transfer Lincoln Kienholz is expected to direct the offense after spending three seasons in a crowded quarterback room with the Buckeyes. Brohm praised Kienholz’s mobility, ability to extend plays and willingness to wait for his opportunity. “We’re really excited about Lincoln. I think when you look for quarterback play, you look for guys, in my opinion, that are hungry first, that are willing to put in the work,” Brohm said. “I think he brings us some dimensions and skills that we have not had before. He’s a great athlete. He can run. He can extend plays. He can throw on the run. And he enjoys doing that.” Louisville has won at least nine games in each of Brohm’s first three seasons, but its ACC record has declined each year. Brohm said greater consistency, particularly in close conference games, will determine whether the Cardinals can return to the ACC championship game. =============================================== GOLF NEWS JACKSON SUBER SURPRISE LEADER OF THE OPEN AFTER OPENING 65 Jackson Suber rolled in a late eagle putt and that was enough to leave him in the lead through the first round of The Open Championship with a 5-under-par 65 on Thursday at Southport, England. Suber’s eagle on No. 17 allowed him to move ahead of England’s Dan Brown and South Korea’s Sungjae Im, who were the early clubhouse leaders with 66s. Bryson DeChambeau rolled in a couple of late birdies to pull into a share of the lead before he bogeyed the last hole at Royal Birkdale Golf Club to finish with 67. Alex Smalley, Ryan Gerard, Pierceson Coody, Cameron Young, Scotland’s Robert MacIntyre, Italy’s Francesco Molinari, Belgium’s Thomas Detry and South Africa’s MJ Daffue also posted 67s. Suber played the frontside in even par before four birdies and a bogey preceded the eagle across an eight-hole stretch. The 26-year-old has never won the PGA Tour, but he has collected three top-10 finishes this year – all since mid-May. Defending champion and World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler ended up with 68 without a birdie on the final 12 holes. DeChambeau and Scheffler were in the same grouping, with a shift coming on the par-5 17th. Scheffler took a bogey and DeChambeau secured his second birdie in a row to move into a tie atop the leaderboard. DeChambeau missed the cut at the first three majors of the year — never shooting a round better than 70 — and brought a full set of 3D-printed irons with him to Royal Birkdale. Scheffler, whose streak of 78 made cuts ended last week at the Genesis Scottish Open, had a 4-under mark through six holes before a bogey on No. 7 followed by a string of pars. Brown’s up-and-down round included three bogeys, but the two that came on the back nine were followed by birdies on the next holes. Smalley fell out of the lead when he suffered a double-bogey 6 on the last hole. Smalley had birdies on four of the first five holes and then went to the top of the leaderboard with birdies on Nos. 14 and 15. Smalley, 29, is without a victory on the PGA Tour, though he has produced four top-10 finishes this year, including sharing a runner-up finish at the PGA Championship. Most of the first round’s best scores came from golfers with tee times during the first half of the day. Notables in the afternoon wave included the first three major winners of the year — Northern Ireland star Rory McIlroy (72), Englishman Aaron Rai (71) and Wyndham Clark (73) — along with Collin Morikawa (68), Irishman Shane Lowry (69), Brooks Koepka (70), Xander Schauffele (71) and Australian Adam Scott (72). ====== TODD CLEMENTS, IVAN CANTERO GUTIERREZ CO-LEAD AT CORALES PUNTACANA England’s Todd Clements and Spain’s Ivan Cantero Gutierrez shot matching rounds of 7-under-par 65 on Thursday to share the lead through the first round of the Corales Puntacana Championship in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. For the 29-year-old Clements, the achievement was a first, as he scored his lowest career round while also finding himself in the lead following a round for the first time on the tour. Yet he showed no signs of that going to his head after the round had wrapped. “I think you can lose tournaments on Thursdays, but you can never win them,” Clements said. “I’m actually delighted with how I played today. A few tweaks I’m going to try and solve this afternoon, but for the main part I was absolutely delighted and looking forward to tomorrow and what that brings.” Clements scored birdies on three of his first four holes at Corales Golf Course at Puntacana Resort & Club, then shook off a bogey to reel off six birdies over a nine-hole stretch. “Got off to a great start,” Clements said. “I kind of just kept it going. I had a nice putt on 5, 6, somewhere around there, for bogey and it felt like (I) kept the momentum going. Yeah, just kept going through.” Like Clements, Cantero Gutierrez, who is 30, has never won on the tour. Also like Clements, he had a memorable round. Cantero Gutierrez began his day on the back nine and started with back-to-back bogeys. He erased that poor start with six birdies over a seven-hole stretch and then pocketed three more late to forge a tie for first place. Low scores were contagious on a course with wide fairways, as six golfers are within a stroke of the lead after shooting 6 under. Americans Austin Eckroat, Johannes Veerman, Jonathan Byrd and Gordon Sargent are tied with Spain’s Alejandro Del Rey and Canada’s Mackenzie Hughes. Eckroat, who is currently ranked just outside the top 100, could pick up some valuable points this weekend with many heavyweights competing at The Open. “When we saw we were going to be here, we said, well, someone’s got to win it,” Eckroat said. “Yeah, huge going into the rest of the season, a lot of points available, good momentum. A lot of good things going.” =========================================== NHL NEWS BLUES SIGN F CONNOR MCMICHAEL TO 6-YEAR, $40.5M CONTRACT The St. Louis Blues signed newly acquired forward Connor McMichael to a six-year, $40.5 million contract on Thursday. McMichael, 25, was a restricted free agent who had filed for salary arbitration on July 5. Hearings are slated for July 20 to Aug. 1. The Blues sent proven goal-scorer Jordan Kyrou to the Washington Capitals on June 23 for McMichael, 2025 draft pick Milton Gastrin and the No. 16 overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft on June 26, which became center Maddox Dagenais. McMichael recorded 46 points (14 goals, 32 assists) with a plus-8 rating, 30 penalty minutes, 45 blocks and 45 hits in 78 games for Washington last season. The Capitals selected him with the 25th overall pick of the 2019 draft. McMichael appeared in parts of six seasons for the Capitals, including four full campaigns, and compiled 154 points (67 goals, 87 assists), a plus-4 rating, 130 penalty minutes, 145 blocks and 177 hits in 315 regular-season games. He also has five goals and three assists in 18 career playoff games. He has won 43% of his career faceoffs. ============================================ INDIANA SPORTS HEADLINES/RELEASES PURDUE MEN’S BASKETBALL WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Indiana Sports Corporation has announced that Purdue will play Colorado in the fifth annual Indy Classic, held at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The event will be played Saturday, Dec. 19, in Indianapolis as part of a college basketball doubleheader. The other game will pit Butler against Georgia Tech. Game times and television designations will be announced at a later date. The announcement completes Purdue’s non-conference schedule. In addition to Colorado, the Boilermakers will face Gonzaga in the season opener, DePaul and Oklahoma in Fort Myers, Iowa State on the road and Tennessee in Mackey Arena. In addition, Purdue will take on Connecticut in an exhibition game as well as strong mid-major programs in Illinois State, Ohio, Lipscomb, Oakland, Cal Baptist and Valparaiso. Led by longtime and highly-respected head coach Tad Boyle, Colorado finished last season with a 17-16 overall record and 70th in the final KenPom ratings. The contest gives Purdue its eighth non-conference game against a team ranked in the top 100 of the final 2026 NET rankings. During Boyle’s 16 seasons at Colorado, he has led the Buffaloes to six NCAA Tournament appearances as well as five trips to the NIT. During his time at Colorado, the Buffaloes have posted 329 victories, averaging over 20 wins a season. Both Boyle and head coach Matt Painter are active on the NABC Board of Directors and with USA Basketball. In addition, the game will be a reunion of sorts for the Jacobsen family, as Purdue’s Daniel will face younger brother Eric, who signed with the Buffaloes in the spring. The all-time series with Colorado is tied at one win apiece, with Colorado winning the last meeting, 67-66, in December of 1988. ================================ PURDUE MEN’S GOLF WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue rising senior golfer Jenson Forrester has won the 45th annual Tillman Trophy championship held at The Caversham Club in Reading, Berkshire, England. Forrester fired a 72-hole total of 14-under par 274 (65-71-70-68) to win by three shots over Max Hopkins (England) and by five shots over Frankie Morton, Harry Butler and Rio Saigal (Lipscomb University). His first-round 65 was a new competitive course record. Forrester led by three shots after round one, but trailed by two shots entering round three. He then trailed by one shot entering round three before rallying for the victory in Thursday’s final round. Forrester then trailed by one shot through 12 holes before playing the last six holes in 3-under par to surge to the 3-shot victory. Forrester’s victory earns him a fully exempt card for the 2027 Tier I Clutch Pro Tour schedule as well as a pro start on the Hotel Planner Tour (Challenge Tour) in 2027. The result continues an outstanding summer on the links for the Boilermakers. Sam Easterbrook narrowly missed out on a spot in this week’s Open Championship, first losing in a playoff during the initial qualifier, then finishing fourth (out of 12) in last Monday’s last-chance qualifier at Royal Birkdale. He also reached the quarterfinals of The Amateur Championship and placed 20th at the European Amateur. Easterbrook has climbed into the top 75 on the official WAGR (World Amateur Golf Rankings) rankings, and is exempt into the U.S. Amateur in mid-August (Merion Golf Club). Supapon Amornchaichan qualified for the 2026 Singha Classic (professional) in Thailand this weekend. He is currently playing in the event, sitting in T-7th as round one nears completion. Micah Sheffer has had a strong summer here in the states. He finished second, losing in a playoff, at the Indiana Open Championship, and has posted top-10 finishes at the North Atlantic Amateur (5th), the Rice Planters Amateur (3rd) and the Kenridge Invitational (9th). He also advanced out of local qualifying for the U.S. Open. Will Harvey placed 47th at the prestigious Trans-Mississippi Amateur a couple of weeks ago and will play in U.S. Amateur final qualifying next week. Andre Zhu will also play in U.S. Amateur final qualifying next week. ======================================== BUTLER MEN’S BASKETBALL INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana Sports Corp, in conjunction with Pacers Sports & Entertainment and Russ Potts Productions, Inc., announced today the matchups for the fifth annual Indy Classic. Butler will take on Georgia Tech, while Purdue will face Colorado in a premier college basketball doubleheader at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Saturday, December 19. The Indy Classic returns to downtown Indianapolis, bringing together four nationally recognized programs for one of the marquee non-conference events of the college basketball season. Ticket information, game times, and television details will be announced at a later date. Fans can sign up for Indiana Sports Corp’s College Basketball Ticket Information emails to receive exclusive offers and updates on the 2026 Indy Classic. “The Indy Classic has quickly become one of the nation’s premier early-season college basketball showcases,” said Indiana Sports Corp President Patrick Talty. “We’re excited to welcome Butler, Georgia Tech, Purdue, and Colorado to Indianapolis and continue providing an outstanding experience for student-athletes, coaches, and fans at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.” “The 2026 Indy Classic represents everything that’s special about college basketball—elite competition, passionate fan bases, and a championship-caliber atmosphere,” said Zach Franz, President of Russ Potts Productions, Inc. “Bringing these outstanding programs together at Gainbridge Fieldhouse continues our commitment to the nation’s premier destination for college basketball. Alongside our valued partners at Indiana Sports Corp and Pacers Sports & Entertainment, we’re excited to welcome fans from across the country for what promises to be another memorable chapter in the Indy Classic.” The fifth annual Indy Classic features two compelling non-conference matchups. Butler and Georgia Tech will meet for the first time in program history, while Purdue enters the event following an Elite Eight appearance during the 2025-26 season. Colorado returns to Gainbridge Fieldhouse for the first time since advancing to the second round of the 2024 NCAA Tournament, setting the stage for another memorable day of college basketball at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. ================================ IU INDY XC INDIANAPOLIS – IU Indianapolis head men’s cross country and track coach Justin Amburgy announced the signings of 13 student-athletes for the upcoming season, including 12 true freshmen and an impact transfer. Amburgy brought on Notre Dame-transfer Izaiah Steury, a 2024 NCAA All-American, as a graduate transfer, along with a star studded rookie class. The Jaguars are coming off a third-place finish at last year’s #HLXC Championships and return its top six finishers from last year’s league championships. In addition, the track and field team continued to rewrite the record books in the distance events a season ago, including producing a league title in the distance medley relay during the indoor campaign. Below is a rundown of the Jaguars’ 13 newcomers with pertinent details about each. Deklin Bowser – Carmel, Ind. / Carmel Top Times: 15:38.8 5K (XC) -Earned eight varsity letters in cross country and track -Chosen as Carmel’s Mental Attitude Award winner -Qualified for the IHSAA State Cross Country Championships as a junior Luca Bryja – Elgin, Ill. / Harvest Christian Academy Top Times: 14:48.4 3-mile (XC), 4:18.77 1,600m -Earned IHSA Class 1A All-State honors as a senior, placing fourth overall at the state championships -Helped Harvest Christian Academy to an IHSA 1A State Championship in the 4×800 relay as a freshman -Also earned All-State honors in the 4×800 as a sophomore and 1,600m as a junior Aidan Connors – Plainfield, Ill. / Plainfield North Top Times: 14:23.6 3-mile (XC), 8:55.93 3,200m, 4:08.06 1,600m -IHSA 3A State Champion in the 3,200m (8:55.93) while also earning All-State honors in the 1,600m event as the seventh-place finisher -Five-time All-Southwest Prairie Conference (SPC) performer in track -2025 IHSA Class 3A All-State performer in cross country, finishing 13th overall at the state championships -Helped Plainfield North to a cross country state championship as a senior after earning runner-up finishes the prior two seasons Nolan Dailey – Hope, Ind. / Hauser Top Times: 9:16.12 3,200m -Competed in cross country, track and basketball at Hauser High School -Four-year Mid-Hoosier Conference honoree in both cross country and track -Named to the Indiana All-Star Cross Country Team as a senior, later competing in the Mid-East Meet of Champions -Qualified for the IHSAA State Championships in the 3,200m event as a senior, placing 14th overall Ben Gasiorski – Maumee, Ohio / Anthony Wayne Top Times: 15:21.4 5K (XC), 1:51 800m (relay split), 1:53.53 800m, 4:13.14 1,600m -Three-time First Team All-Northern Lakes League in cross country and three-time OHSAA State Qualifier -Earned OHSAA All-State honors as a senior, placing fifth overall at the state championships -Was a two-time OHSAA state championship qualifier in track Nathan Gehrmann – North Aurora, Ill. / West Aurora Top Times: 14:59 3-mile (XC), 1:55.15 800m -Four-year All-Conference performer in both cross country and track -Finished 64th at the IHSA State Cross Country Championships as a junior -Placed 13th at the IHSA State Track Championships as a sophomore -Earned West Aurora’s XC MVP honors his final two years and track team MVP as a senior Lincoln Kelly – Dublin, Ohio / Dublin Jerome Top Times: 15:32.0 5K (XC), 9:28.65 3,200m -Earned First Team OHSA All-State honors in cross country after placing 11th at the state championships his senior season -Two-time All-Ohio Capital Conference honors and All-Region honors his senior season -Helped Dublin Jerome High School to the D1 Region 2 title and fourth-place state finishes in both cross country and track as a senior Jacob Mitchell – Oolitic, Ind. / Bloomington North Top Times: 14:49.2 5K (XC), 8:57 3,200m, 4:14 1,600m -Placed fifth overall at the IHSAA State Cross Country Championships as both a junior and senior -Two time Conference Indiana champion in cross country and two-time Mater Dei Regional runner-up -Won the Bloomington North Regional in the 3,200m as a senior -Competed at the New Balance Nationals Outdoors as a senior, including fourth-place finish in the 4×800 relay and 15th place finish in the 3,000m Ben Perschon – Saint John, Ind. / Lake Central Top Times: 15:33.4 5K (XC), 9:21.98 3,200m -Two-time Highland Sectional Champion and two-time Duneland Conference runner-up finisher -Qualified for the IHSAA State Cross Country Championships all four seasons, including earning top-40 finishes as a sophomore and junior -Won Duneland Conference titles in both the 1,600m and 3,200m events his senior season -Qualified for the IHSAA State Track & Field Championships all four years of high school, including in both the 1,600m and 3,200m events his senior season Miles Rudy – Kokomo, Ind. / Western Top Times: 15:23.1 5K (XC) -Three-time All-Hoosier Conference performer in cross country, including the runner-up finisher as a junior and senior -Qualified for the IHSAA State Cross Country Championships as a junior and senior, including finishing 56th as a senior -Earned IHSAA 3A All-State honors his senior year -Holds Western’s 200 free relay record in swimming as well Izaiah Steury – Pleasant Lake, Ind. / Angola (Notre Dame-transfer) Top Times: 29:17.1 10K (XC), 22:52.1 8K (XC), 28:28.75 10,000m, 13:43.11 5,000m -Three-time Great Lakes All-Region performer in cross country -2024 NCAA All-American in cross country, placing 24th overall (29:17.1) -2022 All-Atlantic Coast Conference performer in cross country, placing ninth overall -Competed at the University of Oregon for the 2023-24 season -Won the IHSAA State Cross Country Championship as a junior at Angola, capping off an undefeated season Jackson Truty – Naperville, Ill. / Naperville North Top Times: 14:53.9 3-mile (XC) -Two-time All-DuPage Valley Conference performer in cross country, including finishing fourth overall his senior year -Earned All-Conference honors in track his senior year -Three-year Academic All-Conference honoree in both cross country and track Michael Wilson – St. Charles, Ill. / St. Charles East Top Times: 1:53.54 800m -Four-year varsity letterwinner in both cross country and track at St. Charles East -Was a four-time DuKane Conference all-conference performer in cross country -Was a three-time All-Conference performer in track, including winning conference titles in the 800m event both indoors and outdoors -Was a six-time Academic All-Conference honoree ========================================= INDIANA STATE BASEBALL TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State head baseball coach Tracy Archuleta announced the dates of the Summer Prospect Camp, as well as the Fall Instructional Development League. Summer Prospect Camp The Summer Prospect Camp is set for August 16, 2026, with the camp set to be held at Bob Warn Field at Sycamore Stadium. The Prospect Camp is for all 2027-2030 High School Graduates and will provide an opportunity for some of the best players in the area to showcase their skills directly in front of the ISU coaching staff. ISU coaches will be providing an evaluation of the potential student-athletes. Campers will be instructed on hitting, pitching, baserunning and defensive play while also going through a pro-style workout to showcase their skills in front of the Indiana State Baseball Staff. Camps and clinics are open to any and all entrants (limited only by number, age, grade level and/or gender). Dates of Camp: August 16, 2026 Time: 1pm – 4pm (Registration at 12:30pm) Location: Bob Warn Field at Sycamore Stadium Cost: $150 (Position Players) | $100 (Pitchers Only) 2026 Fall Instructional Developmental League The Fall Instructional Developmental League is for high school aged players. This provides an opportunity to improve your skills, participate in drills, and receive instruction. Players from Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois have competed in previous years. Numerous players on our current Indiana State roster are former fall league participants. Each team will be scheduled to play 6 games over 6 consecutive weeks. (Game Dates: Sept. 13th, 20th, 27th, Oct. 4th). Three games will be guaranteed if rainouts occur. The first games will be scheduled for Sunday, September 13th. We ask that participants arrive 30 minutes prior to their scheduled game time each day. All games this year will be played on Sundays only! To maximize the learning experience of the players, there will be no “In & Out”, instead players will receive skill instruction before the instructional games. Instruction will be given before, during, and after each of the instructional games to all players. The Archuleta Baseball Camps coaching staff and will give all instruction. Players will be placed on teams as they sign up. If you are wanting to guarantee that you are teammates with certain players, you must sign-up early and together. Players registering early, will have priority over those who register later! Camps and clinics are open to any and all entrants (limited only by number, age, grade level and/or gender). ======================================= PURDUE FT. WAYNE XC FORT WAYNE, Ind. – The schedules for the 2026 Purdue Fort Wayne cross country teams have been released. Once again the Mastodons will open the season with a pair of home meets. First up is the Mastodon Alumni Open on Sept. 5 at 10 a.m. at the Purdue Fort Wayne Cross Country Course just west of the St. Joseph River near the Hefner Soccer Complex. Both teams will run the 5K course. Two weeks later the Mastodons will run the 6K and 8K courses on campus for the Rumble in the Fort. The first race will start at 10 a.m. On Oct. 2 the Mastodons will travel to Notre Dame’s Joe Piane Invite, with the Mastodon men running an 8K and the women on the 5K course. Two weeks later the ‘Dons will return to action at the LaVern Gibson Championship Cross Country Course in Terre Haute, Indiana. The site, which will be the host of the national championships on Nov. 21, will host the Under Armour Pre-National Invitational on Oct. 16. The Pre-National meet will be the final warmup before Halloween when the ‘Dons travel to Clinton, Pennsylvania to compete in the 2026 Horizon League Championships. Robert Morris will serve as the host of the event for the first time. The Mastodon women finished second in the Horizon League last fall. On Nov. 13 the Mastodons will travel to East Lansing, Michigan and the NCAA Great Lakes Championships for regional competition on the 10K and 6K courses. The final chance for some Mastodons to compete, should they qualify, is the USATF National Championships in Akron, Ohio on Dec. 12. ============================================== ROSE HULMAN ATHLETICS TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has officially named Seth Woodason as the athletic director of the Fightin’ Engineers athletic department. Woodason has spent the last year as the interim athletic director. In that time, he led the department that won the HCAC Men’s All-Sport Trophy and finished second in both the Women’s All-Sports and Commissioner’s Cup rankings. During the 2025-26 school year, the Fightin’ Engineers totaled eight regular-season or conference tournament titles. Championship teams included men’s cross country, women’s soccer, men’s swimming & diving, men’s indoor track & field, women’s indoor track & field, men’s outdoor track & field, men’s tennis, and women’s tennis. “Over the past year, Seth has demonstrated the kind of thoughtful, collaborative leadership that reflects the values of Rose-Hulman,” said President Robert A. Coons. “He has earned the respect of our coaches, student-athletes, faculty, and staff while continuing to build a culture centered on excellence, integrity, and student success. I am excited to see him continue leading our athletics program into the future.” Woodason previously served as the director of recreational sports and athletic facilities and has been a member of the Rose-Hulman SRC staff in multiple roles for over a decade. “Seth has deep athletic roots in Terre Haute, and we are thrilled that he will continue his journey as the athletic director at Rose-Hulman,” said Vice President of Student Affairs Erik Hayes. “His experience as a student-athlete, coach, and athletics administrator, combined with his passion for our institution and our community, make him an outstanding leader for our athletics program. We are confident that Seth will continue to build on the strong foundation of Rose-Hulman Athletics and lead our department toward an exciting future.” Before working at Rose-Hulman, Woodason gained valuable experience as the assistant director of the fitness center at the University of Evansville from 2013 to 2015. He also worked as the assistant director of the fitness center at Gonzaga University from 2012 to 2013. Woodason graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sports management in 2009 while competing as an NCAA Division II student-athlete on the football team at Harding University. 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He hits three batters, walks two, and gives up six runs in a 13 – 7 loss, charged to Doheny. The New York Times says, “Matty has lots of speed and gives promise of making his way.” Doheny also plunks a batter, while Brooklyn’s Joe McGinnity hits two for a combined six hit batsmen in the game, a record, since tied. 1902 – Left with only five players available to play after mass defections to the National League, the Orioles forfeit a game to St. Louis and their franchise to the American League. The league will borrow players from other teams and operate the club for the balance of the season. 1903: Rube Waddell is arrested for assaulting a fan who had criticized his pitching. Connie Mack bails him out of jail. Dan McClellan of the Cuban X-Giants spins the first perfect game in black baseball history, blanking the Penn Park Athletic Club of York, PA, 5 – 0. 1906 – The Cubs beat back the Giants, 6 – 2, as Three-Finger Brown tops Christy Mathewson. Joe Tinker’s two-run homer in the 6th is the big blow for Chicago. The loss drops the Giants to six games behind the Cubs. 1907 – Battling for second place, the Pirates defeat the Giants, 2 – 0, pinning the loss on Christy Mathewson. The Giants announce that Tommy Corcoran, the 38-year-old veteran whom the Giants picked up before the season started, has been handed his release. 1908: In another classic match-up, Three-Finger Brown and Christy Mathewson pair off with Brown winning, 1 – 0. The Cubs pitcher allows six hits, with Matty giving up seven. The only run comes on a 5th-inning inside-the-park home run by Matty’s nemesis, Joe Tinker, who runs through the arms of third base coach Heinie Zimmerman to score. In the 12 match-ups between the two pitchers, Brown has won eight. A tragic occurrence happens during Tinker’s home run dash when a boy, standing on the roof of a nearby building to view the game, falls 50 feet to his death. It is Honus Wagner Day in Pittsburgh, as players from both teams line up to pay homage. Wagner’s tribute was originally scheduled for the 16th, but Honus asked that it be moved a day so it does not conflict with the annual benefit picnic for orphans. Wagner is presented with a $700 gold watch. Pittsburgh beats Boston, 4 – 0. 1909: Brooklyn and Chicago swap shutouts, with George Bell topping Chicago’s Orval Overall, 1 – 0, in the opener. Ed Reulbach comes back in the second game to beat Kaiser Wilhelm, 4 – 0. Bill Bergen’s hitless streak ends. It started after he singled in his first at bat against the Giants on June 29th. It ends in the second game today when, after sitting out the first game, he has a 4th-inning infield single against Ed Reulbach. Bergen will hit just .139 this season, not a yearly low for the punchless catcher. Red Sox reliever Smoky Joe Wood fans ten Cleveland batters in just four innings as visiting Boston wins, 6 – 4. 1911 – Boston Rustlers infielder Buck Herzog and OF Doc Miller fail to show up for a game and are suspended by the club. After a conference with the club president, they rejoin the team. John McGraw, anxious to retrieve former Giant Herzog to shore up a weak infield, will swap C Hank Gowdy and SS Al Bridwell to Boston for Herzog on the 21st. 1914 At Forbes Field, Rube Marquard and Babe Adams each go a marathon 21 innings before Larry Doyle’s two-run home run gives the Giants a 3 – 1 win over the Pirates. Adams yields no walks and 12 hits, the longest non-walk game in major league history. Marquard walks two (one intentionally) and yields 15 hits. In the 6th, Honus Wagner goes from first to third base on a hit by Jim Viox. When New York CF Bob Bescher throws to 3B Milt Stock, the ball bounces out of his hands and disappears. Wagner scores before it’s discovered that the ball bounced up under his arm and stayed there as he ran home. Wagner is called out for interference, and the Bucs protest. Manager Fred Clarke is then ejected by umpire Bill “Lord” Byron. In a fitting ending to this unusual game, Giants OF Red Murray is knocked unconscious by a bolt of lightning after catching a fly ball for the final out. Murray is uninjured. Marquard’s win is his last in 1914. He will lose ten straight on his way to a 12-22 record. Any pennant chances the Senators have go out the window when Clyde “Deerfoot” Milan and Danny Moeller collide in the outfield. Milan’s jaw is broken in two places and he will miss 40 games. 1915 The Cubs end Grover Cleveland Alexander’s nine-game win streak, 4 – 0. Chicago and Philadelphia are deadlocked for the National League lead. In Chicago, the Red Sox top the White Sox, 6 – 2, to move back into first place. Boston will win four out of five in the series with their rivals. In the American League, the White Sox spend their last day on top. The Tigers will challenge Boston down the stretch. 1917 – The Giants waive little-used George Kelly to Pittsburgh. Kelly will return to star for New York. 1918 – Chicago’s Lefty Tyler goes 21 innings against Milt Watson to beat the Phils, 2 – 1. 1922 – At Boston, Ty Cobb gets five hits (and a walk) in a game for the fourth time this year, setting an American League mark. His previous five-hit contests were on May 7th, July 7th, and July 12th. Only Willie Keeler has done it before. The Tigers roar, 16 – 7. overcoming a 5 – 0 deficit after one inning. 1924 – On Tuberculosis Day at Sportsman’s Park, the Cards’ Jesse Haines hurls his only shutout in two years, a 5 – 0 no-hitter over the Braves. “While the majestic northpaw was realizing his lifelong pitching ambitions, the Cardinals were making merry with the right-hand shoots of McNamara” (St. Louis Globe-Democrat). It is the first no-hitter by a St. Louis hurler since 1876, and the first-ever National League no-hitter in St. Louis. 1934 National League President John Heydler upholds the Cards’ protest of a loss to the Cubs on July 2nd. The game will be resumed from the point at which umpire Bill Klem waited too long to call an infield fly and will be played prior to a scheduled July 31st game. Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland. He will retire with a walk record of 2,062. Rickey Henderson will break the record. Although Bob Johnson, Jimmie Foxx and Pinky Higgins hit successive homers in the 4th inning, St. Louis Browns P Jack Knott perseveres to beat the A’s, 7 – 4. Lon Warneke, Cubs mound ace, intentionally walks a batter in the 7th to load the bases and bring up Giants P Roy Parmelee. He hits a grand slam for a 5 – 3 win. 1935 – Bill Werber of the Red Sox ties the major-league record with four doubles in the opening game of a doubleheader with Cleveland. The Sox win the pair, 13 – 5 and 3 – 1. 1936: Yankees Red Rolfe, Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey hit 3rd-inning home runs against Detroit to tie the American League record, since topped. New York rolls, 9 – 4, dropping the Bengals to fourth place. Goose Goslin has a pair of homers for Detroit. Carl Hubbell starts his 24-game winning streak, beating Pittsburgh, 6 – 0. The Giants hit a National League record-tying four triples in the 1st inning: Jo-Jo Moore, Mel Ott and Hank Leiber hit them in succession, and Eddie Mayo adds one later in the inning to equal the major league record. 1941 – In front of more than 60,000 fans at Cleveland, Joe DiMaggio’s hitting streak is ended at 56 games. Indians P Al Smith and Jim Bagby Jr., plus sensational plays by 3B Ken Keltner, stop the Yankee Clipper, but New York edges the Indians, 6 – 5. 1942 – The Browns, under Luke Sewell, achieve an eight-game win streak with doubleheader victories, 4 – 2 and 11 – 1, over the A’s. Chet Laabs blasts homers in both games. During the eight-game streak, Laabs has hit eight home runs. He will finish second to Ted Williams in the American League with 27 homers. 1947: Less than two weeks after Larry Doby’s debut with the Indians, Hank Thompson and Willard Brown become the second and third black players in the American League and first for the Browns. The former Kansas City Monarchs standouts will play in less than 30 games for St. Louis because their presence does not significantly raise attendance. The Yankees sweep a doubleheader against Cleveland, 3 – 1 and 7 – 2, to extend their winning streak to an American League-record 19 games. The streak matches that of the 1906 Chicago White Sox. 1948: The Dodgers down the Reds, 8 – 4 and 10 – 4, for their 12th win in 14 games. Ralph Branca wins the opener as Jackie Robinson clouts a three-run homer in the 8th. Paul Minner wins his first major league game in the nitecap with six innings of relief. During an argument with Frank Dascoli, Reds catcher Dewey Williams grabs the ump. Williams will be fined $100 and suspended for five games. However, with catcher Ray Mueller on the disabled list with a broken ankle, the Reds appeal the suspension, stating they have only one catcher, Ray Lamanno. Ford Frick, National League president, will rule that Williams will serve the suspension in the Reds’ clubhouse, while dressed in full uniform. If anything happens to Lamanno, Williams can substitute, and a game will be added to the suspension. Ed Lopat scatters 11 hits to beat the Browns, 4 – 0. It is the Yankee hurler’s second shutout in a row and his third this year. At Pittsburgh, a Bobby Thomson pinch single drives home the winning run in the Giants managerial debut of Leo Durocher. The Giants win, 6 – 5, overcoming a three-run homer by Ralph Kiner. 1950 – Yankee rookie Whitey Ford wins his first major league game, beating the visiting White Sox, 4 – 3. Tom Ferrick finishes for New York. 1951: LF Joe Adcock is 4 for 4 and throws out a runner at home in the 9th, to lead the Reds to a 9 – 8 win over the host Phillies. After pitching for Bill Veeck in Cleveland in 1948, Satchel Paige rejoins him with the St. Louis Browns. 1954 – With Jim Gilliam (2B), Jackie Robinson (3B), Sandy Amoros (LF), Roy Campanella (C) and Don Newcombe (P) in the starting lineup against the Braves, the Dodgers field the first team which consists of a majority of black players. The historic five helps Brooklyn beat Milwaukee at County Stadium, 2 – 1. 1955: Earl Torgeson of the Tigers steals home in the 10th to beat the Yanks, 6 – 5. In what will be their most important move of the season, the Brooklyn Dodgers bring up rookie pitchers Roger Craig and Don Bessent from the minor leagues. They immediately pay dividends as they beat the Redlegs in both ends of a doubleheader. Craig wins, 6 – 2, and Bessent matches it, 8 – 5. 1956 – Red Sox pitchers Tom Brewer and Bob Porterfield sweep the Athletics, 10 – 0 and 4 – 0. 1959: In a dispute with the umpires, Cleveland manager Joe Gordon is ejected. Cleveland OF Minnie Minoso refuses to stand in the batter’s box until the argument is over. Umpire Frank Umont calls him out on strikes. The enraged Minoso charges Umont and gets the thumb also. The Indians win, 8 – 7, to stay on the heels of Chicago. Chicago’s Early Wynn and the Yankees’ Ralph Terry match zeros for eight innings at Yankee Stadium, before Chicago’s Jim McAnany collects the first Sox hit in the 9th. Jim Landis adds a second hit to drive home two runs to give the Sox the 2 – 0 win. Wynn matches Terry by also allowing just two hits. 1960: Batting just .244 and not hitting for power, Willie McCovey, 1959 National League Rookie of the Year, is sent down to Tacoma (Pacific Coast League). The Senators, losers of ten straight to the Indians, sweep a pair from the Tribe, 3 – 2 and 5 – 3. The opening win is over Mudcat Grant, who had never lost to the Senators and had posted 14 straight victories over them. 1961: The Yankees top the O’s, 5 – 0, behind Whitey Ford’s 13th straight win. Mickey Mantle (#33) and Moose Skowron hit long home runs at Baltimore. The nitecap goes into the 5th when, with two outs and the Yanks up 4 – 1, a thunderstorm strikes. The umps wait 65 minutes before calling the game, thus washing out homers by Roger Maris and Mantle. Bill White goes 8 for 10 in a doubleheader, as the Cards sweep the Cubs, 10 – 6 and 8 – 5, at Busch Stadium. Following a year-long illness, Ty Cobb succumbs to cancer at age 74 at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. Commissioner Ford Frick decrees that Babe Ruth’s record of 60 home runs in a 154-game schedule in 1927 “cannot be broken unless some batter hits 61 or more within his club’s first 154 games.” 1962 – Sandy Koufax leaves after one inning of a 7 – 5 loss at Cincinnati. The 14-game winner has a circulatory problem in the index finger and palm of his pitching hand and will be sidelined until late September. 1964: The Phillies regain first place with a 7 – 5 win against the Pirates. They will hold the lead until September 27th. In Los Angeles, the Cub-Dodger contest becomes the first Pay-TV baseball game as Subscription Television offers the cablecast to subscribers for money. The Dodgers beat Chicago, 3 – 2, with Don Drysdale collecting 10 strikeouts. The first-place O’s win again as Robin Roberts shuts out Detroit, 5 – 0, despite giving up 11 hits. 1965 – Los Angeles returns to first place, as Claude Osteen beats the Cubs, 7 – 2. 1966: At Forbes Field, Pittsburgh regains the National League lead by beating San Francisco twice, 7 – 4 and 7 – 1. In each game, the Giants take an early 1 – 0 lead. In the opener, that dream dies quickly: 1st-inning singles by Matty Alou, Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell, plus a sacrifice fly from Jose Pagan, transfer the one-run margin from West to East and the Bucs never look back. In the nightcap, however, Pittsburgh’s narrow deficit persists until a 4th-inning RBI triple off the right-field wall from Clemente, who then proceeds to untie the game — in the words of Giants beat writer Bob Stevens — “with an audacious piece of baserunning against a Giant defense that had the infield pulled in”. Stevens continues: “Pagan grounded to Jim Ray Hart at third. Jim Ray feinted Roberto back toward the base, then let loose with the cross-diamond throw. In the meantime, Clemente streaked home, scoring standing up as Willie McCovey’s frantic throw to catcher Tom Haller crashed against the stands.” Pittsburgh’s first bit of breathing room is provided the following inning by future New York Yankees GM Gene Michael (in for injured starting SS Gene Alley), who gets an RBI double in his first major league at-bat. The Cubs clip the Cardinals, 7 – 2, behind the pitching of Ken Holtzman and the slugging of Billy Williams, who hits for the cycle. 1967 – During a 6 – 2 defeat, concluding a dismal 2-and-4 road trip for the Pirates, the rarely disappointing Roberto Clemente does what he does so well – break the other team’s heart in their own house and have their fans thank him for it. As Les Biederman of the Pittsburgh Press reports: “Clemente robbed Joe Torre with a lunging catch of his pop fly in the 3rd inning with two on and the hometown Atlanta fans applauded him en route to the bench. They even applauded him when he went to bat in the 4th inning.” 1969: Gold Glove pitcher Jim Kaat commits three errors but still beats the Twins, 8 – 5. Sal Bando is 5 for 5 and drives in the first four runs in the A’s 8 – 2 win over Seattle. Don Mincher drives in both runs off Catfish Hunter. In a twin bill split with the Braves, Lee May hits two home runs in each contest as well as driving in five runs in both ends of the doubleheader. Despite the All-Star first baseman’s performance, the Reds drop the opener, 9 – 8, but come back to win the nightcap, 10 – 4. 1970: Roberto Clemente, just a double shy of the cycle, scores the tying run, drives in the go-ahead run and keeps his team ahead with a crucial 9th-inning outfield assist, leading the Pirates to a 4 – 3 win over Cincinnati in a preview of the National League Championship Series. Clemente’s 150th career triple leads to the tying run in the 6th and his 400-foot first-pitch bomb over the right-centerfield fence off rookie Wayne Simpson unties it in the 8th. To keep it untied, Clemente puts down his bat and lets his arm do the talking as he guns down Tommy Helms at the plate in the 9th to seal the victory. With the score tied at 5 – 5 and the bases loaded in the 10th inning, and no outs, Brewers manager Dave Bristol inaugurates the “Bristol Shift,” bringing OF Tommy Harper in between SS and 3B. Unperturbed, George Scott hits a sacrifice fly to win the game. Earlier in his career, as manager of the Reds, Bristol used a similar shift, called the Bristol Barricade, against Willie McCovey. 1971: Juan Marichal allows just one hit through eight innings, but the Reds score three in the bottom of the 9th to win, 3 – 2. Tony Perez hits a two-run single to win it. Dock Ellis wins his 13th straight as Pittsburgh whips the Padres, 9 – 2. In 1971 NPB All-Star Game 1, Central League starter Yutaka Enatsu fans all nine Pacific League batters he faces and adds a three-run homer. Hidetake Watanabe, Kazumi Takahashi, Hisanobu Mizutani and Tadakatsu Kotani follow him and complete a historic no-hitter, the only one in NPB All-Star Game history. 1974: Milwaukee 3B Don Money commits a 1st-inning error in a 10 – 5 loss to Minnesota, ending his perfect defensive season after 86 games and 257 chances. At this point, Money holds both the National League and American League records for most consecutive chances without an error in a season. Cardinals pitching great Bob Gibson fans the Reds’ Cesar Geronimo to become the second hurler after Walter Johnson to strike out 3,000 batters. Geronimo will become Nolan Ryan’s 3,000th strikeout victim six years later. The Reds shrug it off, scoring six runs in the 1st inning and three in the 2nd on their way to a 12 – 7 win. 1975 – For the second consecutive White Sox game, Wilbur Wood is the starter, and he tosses his second straight shutout, beating Detroit, 5 – 0. The two starts were broken up by the All-Star Game. 1976 – Walter Alston wins his 2,000th game as Dodger manager. 1977 – The Yankees lose, 8 – 4, for their third straight loss to the Royals. New York has now lost seven of their last nine games and are three games back of the leading Orioles. 1978 – In the latest incident in his feud with manager Billy Martin, the Yankees’ Reggie Jackson ignores instructions and attempts to bunt in the 10th inning of a tie game with the Royals. Jackson pops up, the Yanks lose, 9 – 7, in the 11th, and Martin serves Jackson with a five-day suspension without pay. The Royals’ three-game sweep at Yankee Stadium leaves New York in fourth place, 14 games behind the Red Sox. 1979 – The National League wins its eighth straight All-Star Game, 7 – 6, at Seattle. Lee Mazzilli homers to tie the game in the 8th, and walks in the 9th to bring in the winning run. Dave Parker, with two outstanding throws, is named the game’s MVP, and Pete Rose plays a record fifth All-Star position. The Red Sox provide the starting OF for the American League in Jim Rice, Carl Yastrzemski, and Fred Lynn, though Yaz has played 1B most of the season. 1986 – Jack Pierce of the Leon Braves hits his 46th and 47th home runs, breaking Hector Espino’s 22-year-old Mexican League record. He will finish with 54, aided by the lively Commando ball the league has been using. 1987 – Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly becomes the first American League player to hit a home run in seven consecutive games. 1988: The Giants beat the Pirates, 5 – 4, with Robby Thompson hitting the 10,000th home run in Giants franchise history. Philadelphia’s Ricky Jordan homers in his first major league at bat and the Phillies go on to beat Houston, 10 – 4. 1989: Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires, just 20 appearances shy of Hoyt Wilhelm’s all-time games pitched record of 1,070. Tekulve had posted a 5.02 ERA in 37 games this season. In the first doubleheader ever played at the Skydome, the Blue Jays sweep a pair from California, 6 – 4 and 5 – 4. Both wins go to David Wells, pitching in relief, with Tom Henke notching two saves. Wells becomes the first pitcher in five years to win both games of a doubleheader. The next doubleheader in Toronto won’t come until October 2001. White Sox C Carlton Fisk gets his 2,000th career hit in a 7 – 3 win over the Yankees. 1990: Minnesota becomes the first team in history to turn two triple plays in the same game. Both are started on grounders to 3B Gary Gaetti, who has started five of the Twins’ last six triple killings. The Twins’ triple killings aren’t enough as the team loses to the Red Sox at Fenway Park, 1 – 0. At New York, Bo Jackson slugs three straight home runs, the third his career 100th, then separates his shoulder in the 6th inning diving for a line drive off the bat of the Yankees’ Deion Sanders. Sanders ends up with an inside-the-park home run but the Kansas City Royals take home a 10 – 7 win. Jackson will be out for six weeks. 1991: Cleveland defeats Oakland, 2 – 1, as Indians hurler Rod Nichols gets the victory and breaks a personal 13-game losing streak dating back to September 1989. Randy Johnson takes just four innings to rack up ten walks. He fans four, tosses a wild pitch and allows one hit and four runs in his stint, a 6 – 1 loss to the Brewers. Bill Wegman takes the complete game win. Two naked fans run onto the field at Fulton County Stadium then slide into home plate. The duo are apprehended by security guards. Not distracted, the Braves defeat the Cubs, 12 – 2. In a 15-inning, 9 – 8 loss to the Royals, Sam Horn of the Orioles becomes the first non-pitcher to fan six consecutive times in a single game. Pitcher Carl Weilman of the Browns was the only other player to have the dubious distinction, performing the feat on August 25, 1913. 1992: Baltimore P Mike Mussina tosses a one-hitter against the Texas Rangers, striking out ten as the Orioles win by a score of 8 – 0. Kevin Reimer has the lone hit, a double. Kevin Brown (14-5) takes the loss. 1993: The Rangers trade pitchers Robb Nen and Kurt Miller to the Marlins in exchange for P Cris Carpenter. Spokane (Northwest League) pitcher Glenn Dishman retires the first 26 Yakima batters. The 27th batter hits an easy roller to the second baseman who tosses to 1B Jason Thompson. Thompson starts celebrating early, pulling his foot off the bag for an error before he records the out. Dishman gets the next batter for his no-hitter. Jesús Sommers gets the 2,753th hit of his Mexican League career, breaking the record long held by Hector Espino. 1994: The Richmond Braves defeat the Norfolk Tides, 3 – 2, in 12 innings, in a Class AAA International League game. The contest is marked by a brawl in the 8th inning in which both dugouts empty and one player is ejected. A new anti-fighting policy in the minors mandates fines and suspensions for any player who leaves his position, the dugout, or the bullpen during a fight. The IL president suspends and fines 35 players for their actions. Colorado draws 61,972 fans to its 10 – 6 win over St. Louis, establishing a major league record for attendance for a four-game set with 259,113. 1996: The Red Sox take a 9 – 2 lead over the Yankees into the 7th inning in Boston. New York scores three in the 7th, two in the 8th, and four in the 9th to move ahead, 11 – 9. The Red Sox bounce back with three of their own in their last at bat to defeat New York by a score of 12 – 11 and end John Wetteland’s record save streak. Lead-off hitter Kurt Abbott pounds a single, triple, and home run and drives in six runs to lead the Marlins to an 11 – 2 victory over the Astros. Five Padre relievers help the Rockies set a club record of 11 runs in the 7th inning en route to a 13 – 12 Rocks win. Colorado overcomes a seven-run deficit. Cards pitcher Andy Benes, who started the year going 1-7, evens his record at 8-8, beating the Reds 6 – 4. 1998: The Mariners sink the Royals, 18 – 5, for their fifth straight win. Bill Swift gives up five runs in 5+ innings, but it is good enough to win. Dan Wilson is 3 for 4 and drives in six runs for the M’s. Wilson, Alex Rodriguez and Jay Buhner clout homers. The Rangers trade P Todd Van Poppel and promising minor leaguer Warren Morris to the Pirates in exchange for P Esteban Loaiza. Both Rafael Palmeiro and Albert Belle hit their 300th homers tonight. Palmeiro is 3 for 4 as his Orioles win, 4 – 1, over the Angels, and improve their record since the All-Star break to 9-0. Belle’s homer – his tenth in ten games since the break – and Robin Ventura’s 9th-inning homer give the White Sox a 4 – 3 victory over the visiting Indians. 1999 – The Brewers defeat the Royals, 11 – 3, as 1B Mark Loretta strokes five hits, including a double and home run, brings home four runs, and scores three himself. 2000 – The Cardinals defeat the Twins, 8 – 3. St. Louis OF Chris Richard becomes the second Cardinal in two weeks to hit a home run in his first major league at bat. 2001: Indians P Bartolo Colon is ejected from Cleveland’s 10 – 4 win over Houston after throwing a pitch near the head of Astros C Scott Servais, which actually hits his bat. Colon will be suspended six games for his actions. Expos coach Ozzie Guillen is tossed before the first pitch is thrown, continuing an argument from last night with umpire Greg Gibson. The Expos then pound Boston’s Tim Wakefield to beat the visiting Red Sox, 11 – 7. Five homers are hit in the game, including a 457-foot shot by Vladimir Guerrero. Braves 1B Rico Brogna announces his retirement, effective immediately, opening a spot for Bernard Gilkey. The injury-plagued Brogna will coach high school football. Without him, the Braves win, 4 – 0, behind Greg Maddux’s 34th career shutout. Maddux strikes out nine and walks none. 2002 – Minnesota’s Torii Hunter, angered after he is hit by a pitch, picks up the ball and fires it at Indians pitcher Danys Baez in the 5th inning of an 8 – 5 Twins win. Hunter’s throw hits the pitcher in the leg but he stays in the game. After the game, Baez goes into the Twins clubhouse to apologize. Jim Thome, Bill Selby and Ben Broussard homer for the Tribe, while David Ortiz and Dustan Mohr hit two-run homers. Rick Reed wins but has to shoo away a seagull, which walks out to the mound: it’s the gull’s third straight appearance. 2004 – Richard Orman wins his 100th game in Hoofdklasse. He is the tenth player to reach that milestone, but only the second left-handed pitcher and only the second pitcher to have won all the games with one team. In Orman’s case, all the wins have come with the Pioniers. He will spend another three years in the league, winning another 23 games, before hanging up his spikes. 2007 – For the fifth time in Nippon Pro Baseball history, three people are ejected from a game. After a close pitch to Tuffy Rhodes, Rhodes punches catcher Tomoya Satozaki. In the ensuing fight, Rhodes and coaches Yoshihiko Takahashi and Jon Debus are all ejected. All will be fined at least $50,000 and Rhodes will be suspended for a game. 2008: The Oakland A’s trade struggling Joe Blanton (5-12, 4.96) to the Phillies for prospects Adrian Cardenas and Josh Outman as well as minor leaguer Matt Spencer. Outman is having a productive year in AA and Cardenas is hitting .309 with 16 steals in 16 tries in high A ball. The Korea Baseball Organization hands its toughest disciplinary penalty ever, indefinitely suspending Lotte Giants speedster Soo-keun Jung. A drunken Jung allegedly beat up a policeman and the janitor in his apartment building the morning before. 2009: Jim Thome drives in a career-high seven runs with a grand slam and a three-run home run as Chicago defeats the Orioles, 12 – 8. SS Julio Lugo is designated for assignment by the Red Sox as Jed Lowrie is about to come off the disabled list. It’s a costly move, since Lugo has a year and a half left on a four-year, $36-million dollar contract. 2010 – The Dutch national team wins the 2010 Haarlem Baseball Week, improving to 7-0; they will lose their final game tomorrow to the Cuban national team. Danny Rombley is named tournament MVP. Today, Rombley’s two-run double in the bottom of the 10th gives the Netherlands a 10 – 9 win over Japan. 2011: The Rangers extend their winning streak to 11 games with a 3 – 1 win over Seattle, which has now lost nine straight to fall out of contention. Matt Harrison allows just one run in 7 2/3 innings. Mitch Moreland hits a three-run home run in the 2nd inning off Blake Beavan to account for all of the Rangers’ runs. It takes 16 innings in a nationally televised Sunday night game, but the Red Sox finally defeat the Rays, 1 – 0, when Dustin Pedroia drives in Josh Reddick from third base with a single for the game’s only run. Reddick had reached base on the 12th walk given up by Rays pitchers, as their moundsmen’s unwitting generosity finally costs them. Adam Russell, Tampa Bay’s ninth pitcher, is the loser, while Alfredo Aceves is the winner with three scoreless innings and Jonathan Papelbon picks up his 21st save. Both Rays manager Joe Maddon and bench coach Dave Martinez are long gone by the time the game is decided, having been ejected in separate incidents in the 11th inning for having words with home plate umpire Chad Fairchild. 2012: The Angels crush the Tigers, 13 – 0, behind the pitching of Garrett Richards and five homers, by Mark Trumbo, Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Alberto Callaspo and Kendrys Morales. The Halos jump to an early 7 – 0 lead, chasing Jacob Turner after two innings. It is the first time Detroit has been shut out in 159 games. Kevin Youkilis hits his first Fenway Park homer as a visiting player to lead the White Sox to a 7 – 5 win over the Red Sox. His shot off Jon Lester in the 4th puts Chicago up, 6 – 2, as Philip Humber wins in his return from the disabled list. 2013: The International League wins the AAA All-Star Game, 4 – 3, over the Pacific Coast League. The key blow is a three-run homer by Tony Sanchez off Jarred Cosart in the 2nd inning. Pitcher Misael Siverio defects from the Cuban national team in Des Moines, IA before an exhibition game with Team USA. 60-year-old Paul Risso makes his professional baseball debut 40 years after being drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates. A shoulder injury had ended his college career shortly after being drafted. Today, Risso tosses one shutout inning for the Raton Osos of the minor independent Pecos League, giving up one hit to the Santa Fe Fuego. He is not the oldest pitcher to appear in a minor league game: Hub Kittle (63 years old for Springfield in 1980) and Ramón Arano (62 years old for Veracruz in 2001) are among those older. 2014 – A.J. Reed of the University of Kentucky is named the winner of the Golden Spikes Award as the top college player in the nation. As a hitter, he led all NCAA Division I players with 23 homers and a .735 winning percentage; as a pitcher, he went 12-2, 2.09 in a dominating two-way performance. 2015: The lights go out in Washington as the Nats’ first home game after the All-Star break is interrupted with the Dodgers leading, 2 – 1, in the 4th inning when a bank of lights on the third base side of the field at Nationals Park go out. Stadium personnel manage to turn them back on after a one hour, 22 minute delay, play resumes for nine minutes, and the lights go out again. This time, 40 minutes are needed to restore power, but it lasts just 12 minutes. The game is finally suspended at 10:42 pm in the 5th inning, the Nationals having in the meantime taken the lead on a two-run homer by Danny Espinosa during the second brief resumption of play. The Central League wins 2015 NPB All-Star Game 1, 8 – 6, as Jose Lopez gets three hits, Shinnosuke Abe homers and Shintaro Fujinami tosses three perfect innings of relief for the win. The 21-year-old Fujinami is the youngest All-Star Game MVP in NPB history. For the Pacific League, Ikuhiro Kiyota hits a three-run homer off Tomoyuki Sugano for half their offense. 2016: Starling Marte homers off Oliver Perez in the 18th inning to give Pittsburgh a 2 – 1 win over Washington. Pittsburgh thinks it has wrapped up a 1 – 0 win in regulation time, but Daniel Murphy homers off closer Mark Melancon with two outs and two strikes to send the game into extra innings. The Bucs almost win it again in the 16th when Josh Harrison doubles with Erik Kratz on base, but a perfect relay from Michael Taylor to Danny Espinosa to C Wilson Ramos nabs Kratz and prolongs the game some more. In another excellent pitching performance, Jacob deGrom tosses a one-hitter as the Mets defeat the Phillies, 5 – 0. Only a 3rd-inning single by P Zach Eflin keeps deGrom from making history. 2017 – Hosting the Cleveland Indians for a make-up game, the Giants fail to sell out AT&T Park for the first time since 2010, ending the longest streak of sell-outs in National League history at 530 games. They still draw over 39,000 fans, just short of the ballpark’s capacity of 41,500. The Indians add to the Giants’ miserable season with a 5 – 3 win as Matt Moore loses his fifth straight home start. 2018 – The American League defeats the National League, 8 – 6, in the 89th edition of the All-Star Game, played at Nationals Park in Washington, DC. A record ten home runs are hit, including a pair in the 10th inning, by teammates Alex Bregman and George Springer of the Astros off Ross Stripling, as the AL wins its sixth straight and 18 of the last 21 (with one tie) to edge ahead of the NL overall. Bregman is named the winner of the Ted Williams Award as the game’s MVP. 2019 – For the second time this season, the Diamondbacks tie a team record with 21 hits in a nine-inning game. They had already done so on May 24th in an 18 – 2 win over the Giants, and today’s outburst comes in a 19-4 beatdown of the Rangers. They score seven runs in the 1st against Jesse Chavez to run away with the game, as Eduardo Escobar homers twice and drives in five runs. 2021: The game between the Padres and Nationals at Nationals Park is suspended in the middle of the 6th inning with San Diego leading, 8 – 4, after gunshots are heard outside the third base gate. Four persons standing outside the ballpark are hit in what police describe as a drive-by shooting as panicked fans are evacuated via the centerfield gates. Parma wins its 14th European Cup but first in the 21st Century. In the finale of the 2021 European Champions Cup, they beat the Bonn Capitals, 6 – 4, with Danny Rondón getting the win and Vicente Campos the save while Leomartires Rodríguez drives in three and Cup MVP Alex Sambucci has two runs and two RBI. The Pacific League gets a split in the 2021 NPB All-Star Games by taking Game 2, 4 – 3. Hiroaki Shimauchi doubles off Ryoji Kuribayashi in the 8th to score Hiroto Kobukata with the winner; he is 3 for 4 on the day with three of his team’s four RBI. 2022 – Second-generation players take the first two spots in the 2022 amateur draft as SS Jackson Holliday, son of Matt Holliday, goes first overall to the Orioles, while OF Druw Jones, son of Andruw Jones, is selected second by the Diamondbacks. P Kumar Rocker, who had been the #10 pick in 2021 but had failed to come to an agreement with the Mets following a disagreement over the health of his pitching arm, goes #3 to the Rangers, who sign him mere hours after his selection. Rocker is coming off a brilliant stint of pitching in the independent Frontier League. Births[edit] 1847 – Hugh Daily, pitcher 1852 – Len Lovett, outfielder (d. 1922) 1856 – Eddie Fusselback, catcher (d. 1926) 1857 – Zach Phelps, owner (d. 1901) 1863 – Lew Graulich, minor league catcher (d. 1934) 1863 – Phil Tomney, infielder (d. 1892) 1863 – Thomas Zachariah, umpire (d. 1892) 1866 – Jack Darragh, infielder (d. 1939) 1866 – Jim Handiboe, pitcher (d. 1942) 1870 – George Kelb, pitcher (d. 1936) 1873 – Chummy Gray, pitcher (d. 1913) 1874 – Ernest Barnard, executive (d. 1931) 1878 – Bock Baker, pitcher (d. ????) 1878 – Judge Fuchs, manager (d. 1961) 1881 – Spider Diehl, minor league outfielder and manager (d. 1975) 1885 – Les Tullos, minor league infielder and manager (d. 1952) 1885 – Les Wilson, outfielder (d. 1969) 1888 – Hyotaro Kondo, college coach; Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 1966) 1889 – Guy Tutwiler, infielder (d. 1930) 1891 – Eddie Brown, outfielder (d. 1956) 1892 – Charley Lightner, pitcher (d. 1967) 1895 – Bill Force, pitcher (d. 1969) 1897 – Ed Sherling, pinch hitter (d. 1965) 1899 – Eddie Holtz, infielder (d. 1924) 1900 – Red Smith, infielder (d. 1961) 1905 – John Shackelford, infielder (d. 1964) 1907 – Hank Patterson, catcher (d. 1970) 1908 – Ed Connolly, catcher (d. 1963) 1909 – Emilio García, Cuban national team player (d. ????) 1909 – Jesse Houston, pitcher (d. 1968) 1910 – Leland Foster, pitcher (d. 1967) 1910 – Sammy Holbrook, catcher (d. 1991) 1910 – Yasushi Ohashi, NPB infielder (d. 2004) 1912 – Motoaki Haiyama, NPB infielder (d. 1987) 1913 – Charlie Frye, pitcher (d. 1945) 1913 – Papa Williams, infielder (d. 1993) 1916 – Fred Chapman, infielder (d. 1997) 1917 – Lou Boudreau, infielder, manager; All-Star, Hall of Famer (d. 2001) 1917 – Henry Miller, pitcher; All-Star (d. 1972) 1919 – Hal Erickson, pitcher (d. 2008) 1921 – Tex Hoyle, pitcher (d. 1994) 1921 – Toni Stone, Negro League infielder (d. 1996) 1923 – Horace Garner, outfielder (d. 1995) 1928 – Carl Giuranna, college coach (d. 2018) 1929 – Percy Hough, minor league catcher (d. 2014) 1929 – Jerry Lynch, outfielder (d. 2012) 1929 – Roy McMillan, infielder, manager; All-Star (d. 1997) 1930 – Paul Jones, minor league infielder (d. 2021) 1934 – Minoru Azuma, NPB pitcher 1934 – Zenjiro Tadokoro, NPB pitcher (d. 2021) 1935 – Donald Sutherland, actor (d. 2024) 1938 – Deron Johnson, infielder (d. 1992) 1938 – Eddie Takei, NPB infielder 1940 – Takeshi Kurosaki, NPB outfielder 1940 – Hiroshi Ueno, NPB infielder 1941 – Morimichi Takagi, NPB infielder and manager; Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame (d. 2020) 1942 – Don Kessinger, infielder, manager; All-Star 1945 – Greg Riddoch, manager 1949 – Doug Clark, college coach 1949 – Herb Hutson, pitcher 1949 – Charley Steiner, announcer 1950 – Yoshio Arai, NPB pitcher 1953 – Yasuyuki Yamamoto, Japanese national team pitcher 1956 – Pete Ladd, pitcher (d. 2023) 1956 – Dan Logan, minor league infielder 1960 – Koichi Muraoka, NPB infielder 1961 – Dan Marino, drafted pitcher 1961 – Seok-hwan Yoon, KBO pitcher 1962 – Kevin Price, minor league pitcher 1963 – Bobby Thigpen, pitcher; All-Star 1964 – Ulises Jardínes, Cuban league manager (d. 2007) 1965 – Harry Koster, Hoofdklasse pitcher 1965 – Martin Miller, CEB President 1966 – Ken MacDonald, Australian national team designated hitter 1967 – Ho-seong Lee, KBO outfielder (d. 2008) 1968 – Kinnis Pledger, minor league infielder 1971 – Kikuo Yamada, NPB pitcher 1971 – Dan Kyslinger, minor league pitcher 1973 – Damon Newman, minor league pitcher 1973 – Scott Steinmann, minor league catcher and manager 1973 – Brian Stephenson, minor league pitcher 1974 – Marcos Berenguer, Spanish national team outfielder 1974 – Dong-wook Lee, KBO infielder and manager 1974 – Rui Makino, NPB pitcher 1975 – Jay Sirianni, minor league pitcher 1976 – Ki-jung Lee, KBO umpire 1976 – Gary Rodriquez, minor league outfielder 1977 – Joon Lee, KBO pitcher 1977 – René Pinto Sr., minor league catcher 1978 – Jason Jennings, pitcher 1978 – Shawn Rakos, umpire 1978 – Brant Ust, minor league infielder 1980 – Cody Cillo, minor league pitcher 1980 – Daisuke Ikenaga, minor league infielder 1980 – Justin Knoedler, catcher 1980 – Neil Jenkins, minor league infielder/outfielder 1981 – Casey Abrams, minor league pitcher 1981 – Danny Core, minor league pitcher 1981 – Yoandry Urgellés, Cuban league outfielder 1982 – Rikiya Chikugawa, Japanese national team pitcher 1982 – Yaqing Liu, Chinese national team outfielder 1982 – Brian Rogers, pitcher 1983 – Steve Delabar, pitcher; All-Star 1983 – Gaspard Fessy, Division Honor outfielder 1983 – Aaron Kalb, college coach 1983 – Adam Lind, outfielder 1983 – Chung-Hsiao Pan, CPBL pitcher 1983 – José Ventura, Hoofdklasse pitcher 1984 – Eric Suttle, minor league outfielder 1985 – Hyoun-taek Oh, KBO pitcher 1986 – Jeremy Berg, minor league pitcher 1986 – Yuan-Chin Chu, CPBL outfielder 1986 – Benji Johnson, minor league catcher 1986 – Joshua Roberts, minor league utility man 1986 – Kohei Shibata, NPB outfielder 1987 – Dwight Britton, minor league outfielder 1987 – Leonel Campos, pitcher 1987 – Nick Christiani, pitcher 1987 – Bob Stumpo, coach 1989 – Takahiro Fujioka, NPB pitcher 1990 – Natsumi Nakano, Japanese women’s national team infielder 1990 – Matt Purke, pitcher 1991 – José Carlos Burgos, Puerto Rican national team pitcher 1991 – Wigberto Nevarez, minor league infielder-catcher 1991 – Marc Ramirez, minor league outfielder 1991 – Naomasa Yokawa, NPB infielder 1992 – Silvino Bracho, pitcher 1993 – Jose Zapata, minor league pitcher 1994 – Woo-sung Lee, South Korean national team outfielder 1994 – Josh Lester, infielder 1995 – Rollie Lacy, minor league pitcher 1995 – Wei-Tai Tsai, Chinese Taipei national team catcher 1996 – CJ Alexander, infielder 1996 – Gertrudis Tello, Panamanian national team infielder 1997 – Hasruddin Hasruddin, Indonesian national team pitcher 1997 – Yu-Chieh Kao, CPBL catcher 1997 – Tamaki Muramatsu, Japan women’s national team catcher 1997 – Cole Sands, pitcher 1999 – Noah Cameron, pitcher 1999 – Ryuji Yanoda, Japanese national team pitcher 1999 – Atsuki Yuasa, NPB pitcher 2000 – Kyosuke Noguchi, NPB outfielder 2000 – Yang Sang, minor league pitcher 2001 – Hiroki Inoue, NPB pitcher 2001 – Brycen Mautz, pitcher 2002 – Jordan Lawlar, infielder 2006 – Daiki Shimizu, NPB pitcher 2007 – Rubyorne Manuel, Serie A1 pitcher 2008 – Gianmarco Vega, Peruvian national team outfielder-pitcher Deaths[edit] 1909 – John Scofield, umpire (b. 1845) 1913 – Patrick Scanlan, outfielder (b. 1861) 1936 – Joe Wall, catcher (b. 1873) 1941 – Ira Davenport, USA national team catcher (b. 1887) 1941 – Rube Kisinger, pitcher (b. 1876) 1942 – Lefty Johnson, outfielder (b. 1861) 1944 – Roy Williams, pitcher (b. 1907) 1946 – John Fluhrer, outfielder (b. 1894) 1946 – Tom Forster, infielder (b. 1859) 1949 – Jack Slattery, catcher, manager (b. 1878) 1950 – Fred Blanding, pitcher (b. 1886) 1958 – Shoji Kato, NPB outfielder (b. 1914) 1960 – Pat Duncan, outfielder (b. 1893) 1961 – Ty Cobb, outfielder, manager; Hall of Famer (b. 1886) 1961 – Ed Reulbach, pitcher (b. 1882) 1962 – Sport McAllister, infielder (b. 1874) 1963 – Frank Sanger, minor league player, college coach (b. 1882) 1968 – Norm Lehr, pitcher (b. 1901) 1968 – Ken Sears, catcher (b. 1917) 1970 – Peahead Walker, minor league infielder (b. 1899) 1972 – Al Spohrer, catcher (b. 1902) 1973 – Evar Swanson, outfielder (b. 1902) 1974 – Dizzy Dean, pitcher; All-Star, Hall of Famer (b. 1910) 1976 – Bob Palm, catcher (b. 1915) 1987 – James Lytle, college coach (b. 1901) 1993 – Harold Greiner, AAGPBL manager, (b. 1907) 1995 – Herb Hippauf, pitcher (b. 1939) 2001 – Elon Hogsett, pitcher (b. 1903) 2002 – Lee Maye, outfielder (b. 1934) 2003 – Rigoberto Betancourt, Cuban league pitcher (b. ~1943) 2004 – Bud Beasley, minor league pitcher (b. 1910) 2004 – Don Slattery, umpire (b. 1932) 2005 – Jim Pearce, pitcher (b. 1925) 2005 – Dick Sipek, outfielder (b. 1923) 2006 – Keith LeClair, minor league outfielder (b. 1966) 2006 – Bobbie Liebrich, AAGPBL infielder (b. 1922) 2009 – Jim Kirby, pinch hitter (b. 1923) 2011 – Jeff Seale, drafted pitcher (b. 1970) 2014 – Masatoshi Matsuoka, NPB infielder (b. 1932) 2019 – Pumpsie Green, infielder (b. 1933) 2022 – Makoto Kuboyama, NPB catcher (b. 1934) 2024 – Bob Chlupsa, pitcher (b. 1945) 2024 – Pat Daugherty, scout (b. 1934) ============================================= TV SPORTS TODAY (All times Eastern) Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts Friday, July 17 AUTO RACING 7:30 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium 11 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium 6:30 a.m. (Saturday) APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium GOLF 4 a.m. USA — DP World/PGA Tour: The Open Championship, Second Round, Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England Noon GOLF — DP World/PGA Tour: Corales Puntacana Championship, Second Round, Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 5 a.m. (Saturday) USA — DP World/PGA Tour: The Open Championship, Third Round, Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England MLB BASEBALL 1 p.m. MLBN — Tampa Bay at Boston (1:35 p.m.) 7 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Yankees (7:05 p.m.) OR Pittsburgh at Cleveland (7:10 p.m.) 7:07 p.m. APPLE TV — Chicago White Sox at Toronto 10 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: St. Louis at Arizona (joined in progress) (9:40 p.m.) OR Washington at Athletics (joined in progress) (9:40 p.m.) NBA BASKETBALL 6:30 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas 7 p.m. ESPN — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas 8:30 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas 9 p.m. ESPN — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas 10:30 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas 11 p.m. ESPN — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas SOFTBALL 8 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Volts at Cascade WNBA BASKETBALL 7:30 p.m. ION — TBA 10 p.m. ION — Connecticut at Phoenix _____ Saturday, July 18 AUTO RACING 6 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Practice, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium 10 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Qualifying, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium FS1 — NTT IndyCar Series: Practice, Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tenn 11:30 a.m. FS1 — INDY NXT Series: Practice, Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tenn 12:30 p.m. FS1 — NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series: Faith Fest 250, North Wilkesboro Speedway, North Wilkesboro, N.C. 3 p.m. FOX — NTT IndyCar Series: Qualifying, Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tenn 4:30 p.m. FS2 — INDY NXT Series: Qualifying, Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tenn 6 p.m. FS2 — NTT IndyCar Series: Final Practice, Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tenn GOLF 5 a.m. USA — DP World/PGA Tour: The Open Championship, Third Round, Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England 7 a.m. NBC — DP World/PGA Tour: The Open Championship, Third Round, Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England Noon GOLF — DP World/PGA Tour: Corales Puntacana Championship, Third Round, Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic 4 a.m. (Sunday) USA — DP World/PGA Tour: The Open Championship, Final Round, Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England LACROSSE (MEN’S) 2 p.m. ABC — PLL: Carolina vs. Denver, Fairfield, Conn. MIXED MARTIAL ARTS 8 p.m. ESPN2 — PFL: Main Card, Austin, Texas MLB BASEBALL 2 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Minnesota at Chicago Cubs (2:20 p.m.) OR Miami at Milwaukee (4:10 p.m.) 5:30 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: Texas at Atlanta (joined in progress) (4:10 p.m.) OR Miami at Milwaukee (joined in progress) (4:10 p.m.) 8 p.m. FOX — Regional Coverage: L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Yankees (8:08 p.m.) OR San Francisco at Seattle (8:08 p.m.) NBA BASKETBALL 4:30 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas 5 p.m. ESPN — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas 6:30 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas 7 p.m. ESPN — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas 8:30 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas 9 p.m. ESPN — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas 10:30 p.m. PRIME VIDEO — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Round Robin, Las Vegas SOCCER (MEN’S) Noon CBS — USL Championship: TBA 5 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup: TBD, Third-Place Match, Miami Gardens, Fla. SOCCER (WOMEN’S) Noon ABC — NWSL: Seattle at NJ/NY Gotham FC 2 p.m. CBS — NWSL: Portland at Denver 4 p.m. NWSL: North Carolina at Bay FC SOFTBALL 4 p.m. ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Talons at Bandits 6 p.m. ESPNU — Athletes Unlimited: Spark at Blaze 10 p.m. CBSSN — Athletes Unlimited: Volts at Cascade WNBA BASKETBALL 8 p.m. CBS — New York at Indiana _____ Sunday, July 19 AUTO RACING 9 a.m. APPLE TV — Formula 1: Moët & Chandon Belgian Grand Prix, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Stavelot, Belgium 1 p.m. FS1 — INDY NXT Series: Music City Grand Prix, Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tenn 5:30 p.m. FOX — NTT IndyCar Series: Borchetta Bourbon Music City Grand Prix, Nashville Superspeedway, Lebanon, Tenn 7 p.m. TNT — NASCAR Cup Series: Window World 450, In-Season Challenge – Round 4, North Wilkesboro Speedway, North Wilkesboro, N.C. BEACH VOLLEYBALL 1 p.m. CBS — AVP: League Week 6, New York BIG3 BASKETBALL 2 p.m. CBS — Week 5: Detroit Amps vs. Houston Rig Hands, Chicago Triplets vs. LA Riot, DMV Trilogy vs. Boston Ball Hogs, Dallas Power vs. Miami 305, Chicago GOLF 4 a.m. USA — DP World/PGA Tour: The Open Championship, Final Round, Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England 7 a.m. NBC — DP World/PGA Tour: The Open Championship, Final Round, Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England 4 p.m. GOLF — DP World/PGA Tour: Corales Puntacana Championship, Final Round, Puntacana Resort & Club (Corales Golf Course), Punta Cana, Dominican Republic LACROSSE (MEN’S) 3 p.m. ABC — PLL: New York vs. Boston, Fairfield, Conn. MLB BASEBALL 12:15 p.m. PEACOCK — Chicago White Sox at Toronto 4 p.m. MLBN — Regional Coverage: St. Louis at Arizona (4:10 p.m.) OR Detroit at L.A. Angels (4:07 p.m.) 7 p.m. NBC — L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Yankees (7:20 p.m.) PEACOCK — L.A. Dodgers at N.Y. Yankees (7:20 p.m.) NBA BASKETBALL 9 p.m. ESPN — Summer League Playoffs: TBD, Championship, Las Vegas SOCCER (MEN’S) 3 p.m. FOX — FIFA World Cup: TBD, Final, East Rutherford, N.J. SOFTBALL Noon ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Spark at Blaze 8 p.m. MLBN — Athletes Unlimited: Talons at Bandits WNBA BASKETBALL 1 p.m. ABC — Los Angeles at Dallas 4 p.m. CBS — Chicago at Atlanta 7 p.m. ESPN — Connecticut at Phoenix About The Author troyderengowski61@gmail.com See author's posts Post navigation THE INDIANA SRN “SPORTSPAGE” THURSDAY JULY 16, 2026
