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SATURDAY, AUGUST 10:
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- WASHINGTON COMMANDERS AT TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS, 4:25 P.M. ET (FOX)
- LOS ANGELES RAMS AT DETROIT LIONS, 8:20 P.M. ET (NBC)
MONDAY, SEPT. 9
- NEW YORK JETS AT SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS, 8:15 P.M. ET (ESPN/ABC)
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OLYMPIC NEWS
GOLDEN STEPH: CURRY’S LATE BARRAGE SEALS ANOTHER OLYMPIC MEN’S BASKETBALL TITLE, AS US BEATS FRANCE
PARIS (AP) — Stephen Curry was thinking about this two years ago, after winning his fourth NBA title with the Golden State Warriors. The only thing left for him to win was Olympic gold.
And in the ultimate moment, he made sure that medal would be his.
The U.S. is atop the international men’s basketball world once again, after Curry scored 24 points — all on 3-pointers — and led the way to a 98-87 win over France in the final at the Paris Games on Saturday night. It was the fifth consecutive gold medal for the U.S. and the 17th in 20 all-time appearances for the Americans at the games.
“You just stay confident, stay present and don’t get rattled by the moment,” said Curry, who had 17 3-pointers in his last two games, starting with nine against Serbia to get to the gold-medal game.
Added U.S. coach Steve Kerr: “Steph earned this.”
Curry made four 3-pointers in the final 2:43, including the one that just sealed the win with 1:19 remaining. It put the U.S. up 93-84 and he skipped down the court letting out a yell, shaking his jersey so everyone could see the “USA” across the front.
If that wasn’t enough, one more followed with about 30 seconds left — with the “go to sleep” move where he puts his hands on the side of his face.
Good night. Game over. Gold won. Again.
“For me to get a gold medal is insane, and I thank God for the opportunity to experience it,” Curry said.
Kevin Durant — the first four-time men’s gold medalist in Olympic basketball history — scored 15 for the Americans, as did Devin Booker. LeBron James, wearing metallic gold shoes that needed no explanation, scored 14 for the U.S. as he won his fourth Olympic medal and third gold.
“Super humbled that I can still play this game,” James said. “Played at a high level, played with 11 other great players and a great coaching staff and went on and did it for our country. It was a great moment around.”
For the second consecutive Olympics, the French had to watch the Americans hold up U.S. flags in celebration after the title game. The French lost to the U.S. 87-82 in Tokyo three years ago, and this one was down to the final minutes.
That is, until Curry took over.
“I think we might be the only team in the world whose fans are ashamed of them if they get a silver medal,” said Kerr, the Golden State coach whose two-summer run with the U.S. ends with a 21-3 record and Olympic gold — 11-0 this summer. “That’s the pressure that we face. But our players, and you saw Steph, they love the pressure. They appreciate this atmosphere and they were fantastic.”
Victor Wembanyama, the NBA Rookie of the Year for San Antonio in his first Olympic final, was brilliant for France, scoring 26 points — the second-most ever against the U.S. in a gold-medal game, one behind the 27 that Drazen Dalipagic scored for Yugoslavia in 1976.
“I’m learning,” Wembanyama said. “And I’m worried for the opponents in a couple of years.”
Wembanyama covered his face in a towel afterward as the Americans celebrated. Guerschon Yabusele scored 20 for the hosts.
“For sure, it’s a disappointment because we expected we could do it,” France coach Vincent Collet said. “But we have to recognize at the end that they are better. We are very close … When they make fantastic shots, that’s the difference.”
The U.S. lead was 14 early in the third, looking poised to pull away. But the offense quickly went cold and when Evan Fournier connected on a 3-pointer with 3:05 left in the quarter the lead was down to 65-59 after a 12-4 run by the hosts.
And with a chance to go up double digits headed to the fourth, a big U.S. blunder gave France another jolt of momentum. Anthony Edwards and Durant got their signals crossed on a pass that led to a turnover, Nando De Colo scored to beat the buzzer and the U.S. lead was only 72-66 going into the final 10 minutes.
It got as close as three. No closer, thanks to Curry. He hit four 3-pointers in a span of 2:12, the last one of them a bit of the circus variety, and they all immediately went into Olympic lore.
“A big shot to put us up six. That kind of settled everything,” Curry said. “And then the rhythm, the avalanche came, and thankfully the other three went in. That was an unbelievable moment. I’ve been blessed to play basketball at a high level for a very long time. This ranks very high in terms of excitement and the sense of relief, getting to the finish line.”
It was the eighth time in Olympic history — and Sunday’s women’s final between the U.S. and France will mark the ninth — that the home team got to play for basketball gold.
Home teams are now 5-3 in those games, 2-1 on the men’s side. The U.S. men and women both won in 1984 and 1996; the women of the Soviet Union won in 1980, while Australia’s women lost to the U.S. in 2000 and Japan’s women also lost to the U.S. at the Tokyo Games three years ago.
For James, it was one more thing for the neverending list that is his legacy. For Durant, it was history with four golds. For Booker, Anthony Davis, Jayson Tatum and Bam Adebayo, it was a second gold. For Jrue Holiday, it was a second gold to match his wife — soccer great Lauren Cheney Holiday — for the family lead. For Derrick White, Tyrese Haliburton, Joel Embiid and Edwards, it was the first Olympic title.
“This has been an amazing experience, a beautiful experience,” Durant said.
And for Curry, it was a long time coming after he wasn’t available for previous Olympics. The Americans couldn’t have been more thrilled that he was there for this one.
“I was smilin’, cheesin’, having the best time of my life,” Curry said.
He likened it to a Game 7 on the road, which it basically was. He’s had enormous success in those moments: a 50-point outburst to lead Golden State past Sacramento in 2023, and a 27-point, 10-assist, nine-rebound performance to win a do-or-die game in Houston in 2018.
And now, this.
“It’s right up there with all of the greatest games of his career,” Kerr said. “The shot-making was just incredible. But under the circumstances, on the road, in Paris, against France for a gold medal, this is storybook stuff. But that’s what Steph does. He likes to be in storybooks.”
U.S. WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM FACES FRANCE, AIMS FOR EIGHTH STRAIGHT GOLD
An eighth consecutive gold medal in women’s basketball is within reach for the United States.
The Americans will face home-country France on Sunday morning at Bercy Arena in Paris in the tournament final.
The U.S. (5-0) is riding a 60-game winning streak in Olympic play that dates back to 1992, where they won the bronze medal in Barcelona, Spain. Those games were the last time the Americans didn’t capture gold at a Summer Olympics.
“It’s amazing, understanding what we have accomplished so far,” U.S. forward Breanna Stewart said. “There is one more game until we get the gold. When you wear this jersey and represent the USA, the standard is high, and there is nothing higher.”
France (4-1) is guaranteed its third medal in women’s basketball. The French women last played for the gold in 2012 — taking silver after losing 86-50 to the Americans — and won the bronze medal in the 2020 Tokyo Games.
To get to this matchup with the Americans, France defeated Germany in the quarterfinals and outlasted Belgium 82-75 in overtime in the semifinals. The French have been led by former WNBA All-Defense selection Gabby Williams and the 2023 EuroCup Finals MVP Marine Johannes. Against Belgium, Williams scored nine of her team-high 18 points in overtime.
No players on the French roster currently play in the WNBA, but they aren’t going to simply roll over for the mighty Americans.
“You have to believe if you want to do something special,” Williams said. “What I love is, is our connection between us and our belief in each other. And if anything’s going to bring us gold, it’s going to be that.”
Added Johannes: “We have nothing to lose. We are going to play hard.”
The U.S. has been powered through these Olympics largely by Stewart and a pair of Las Vegas Aces players in A’ja Wilson and Jackie Young. Wilson leads the U.S. in scoring (18.2) and rebounding (9.6) per game, while Stewart — who scored a team-high 16 points in the Americans’ semifinal win over Australia — averages 18 points per game.
After not starting in the Americans’ three group stage victories, Young replaced veteran guard Diana Taurasi, 42, in the starting lineup for the knockout round. It was the first time Taurasi hadn’t been in the starting lineup for an Olympic game since 2004.
Should the U.S. win on Sunday, this gold medal will be the sixth for Taurasi, making her the most decorated basketball player in the history of the Olympics. She is currently tied with her former UConn teammate — the retired Sue Bird — with five gold medals.
While Taurasi has an impeccable resume and overwhelming credentials to be part of this team, Young has proved to be the right player for this moment. After collecting just six assists in Team USA’s first four Olympic games, she had five against Australia in addition to 14 points.
“This is a great stage for Jackie,” Wilson said. “I think we are seeing Jackie form into herself. She is establishing herself into our league and also in the world. I am very happy to be along with her and watch her grow. I like how she is just spreading her wings.”
A win for the U.S. would make its women’s basketball team the first — men or women, from any country — to win eight straight gold medals. The American men won seven straight from 1936 to 1968.
AMERICAN RELAY TEAMS WIN 2 GOLDS IN THE LAST EVENTS OF A DOMINANT OLYMPIC TRACK MEET FOR THE US
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — A runaway win in one relay and another that was oh-so-close. A long-awaited celebration for France and a high jump competition that felt like it would never end.
What tied it all together on a frantic final day of Olympic track and field at the Stade de France was the most familiar sight of all: Americans on the medal stand, over and over again.
Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas brought the curtain down on track by romping to a win in the women’s 4×400 relay Saturday for America’s 34th overall medal at the track and 14th gold. Thomas was part of the U.S. gold-medal win a night earlier in the 4×100 women’s relay.
Turning the race into a laugher on laps 2 and 3, the 400-hurdles and 200-meter gold medalists helped the U.S. finish more than 4 seconds ahead of second place and only .1 second off the world record set by the USSR in 1988.
The winning time: 3 minutes, 15.27 seconds.
“I think this generation of track and field is just on a different level,” said McLaughlin-Levrone, who now has four gold medals in four events (to go with six world-record runs) over her career. “Everything is improving, including us, including our technique, including how we prepare. I don’t think anything is impossible at this point.”
In another race involving a different sort of .1-second margin, American hurdle gold medalist Rai Benjamin edged out 200-meter champion Letsile Tebogo of Botswana in the men’s relay.
“I calculated that run very well, to a ‘T,’” Benjamin said. “I have a really good, high track IQ on people and how they run and how to do a quick time, so I didn’t have to get out too hard. Let’s just save it up to come home.’”
Two more close races lead to American gold and, finally, a medal for France
Fittingly, the final day of a track meet full of close calls and surprises featured two more races decided by .01 seconds — an 800-meter win by Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi and a 100-meter hurdles victory for American Masai Russell.
Russell edged out Cyrena Samba-Mayela of France. A heartbreaker, maybe, but it marked the home country’s first and only medal of the track meet and brought as big a burst of cheers as anything on an evening where eight finals were held.
“I want to celebrate with the French public because they supported me and pushed me throughout all these Olympic Games,” Samba-Mayela said.
Wackiness in the high jump pit and a tiebreaker for $50,000
Over in the high-jump pit, there were moments where it looked like the gold wouldn’t be decided before Sunday’s closing ceremony.
New Zealand’s Hamish Kerr and America’s Shelby McEwen each missed three times at 2.38 meters, triggering a jump-off at the same height for the title.
They both missed, which started the bar moving down. McEwen missed. Then Kerr missed. Then McEwen missed again — the 11th straight between the two.
Finally, Kerr cleared 2.34 meters, peeled himself off the mat, ran a big semicircle into the javelin landing zone — thankfully long out of service by that point — collapsed on his back and covered his face with his hands.
In one of the more memorable moments from the last Olympics, the top two jumpers had finished in a tie, agreed to share the gold medal and then hugged it out to celebrate. This time, there was an unprecedented $50,000 first prize on the line that chipped away at that beautiful Olympic spirit.
Was the $50K on McEwen’s mind when he decided to go for the win, not the tie?
“Most definitely,” he said. “I’ve got a family to feed. So of course it was.”
Best medal haul for US track in modern-day Olympics
McEwen’s loss still helped the U.S. reach 34 medals – the most for any country at a non-boycotted Games since the early 20th century, when there were more events and fewer nations involved.
The 14 golds are the most in a non-boycotted Olympics since Bob Beamon and Tommie Smith led the U.S. to 15 wins in 1968.
For such a dominant performance, it felt only fitting that McLaughlin-Levrone had a role in the final act.
The 25-year-old, who owns the world’s fourth-fastest time in the 400 to go with her latest world record in hurdles, ran her leg in 47.71. That was .91 seconds faster than the next fastest woman in the field, Femke Bol, who took the Netherlands to silver.
That McLaughlin-Levrone lightly clipped feet with Thomas when they passed the baton between the second and third laps felt like a distant memory — long forgotten by the time the “Star-Spangled Banner” played for the last time in the last medal ceremony of the night.
With around 200 meters to go, “Gabby and Syd kind of started walking on the track and they had to pull them back,” said Shamier Little, who ran the opening leg. “We were kind of celebrating. Of course, anything can happen.
“But it wasn’t going to happen.”
Wanyonyi of Kenya wins men’s 800 in another race decided by .01 second
In a speedy men’s 800, Wanyonyi beat Canada’s Marco Arop by .01 seconds in a photo finish, finishing in 1:41.19, only .28 off the world record.
American Bryce Hoppel’s national record of 1:41.67 was only good for fourth.
Ingebrigtsen gets a win, this one in the 5,000
Jakob Ingebrigtsen won the 5,000 meters in a relatively drama-free race after the much-hyped 1,500 four nights earlier against Britain’s Josh Kerr turned into a disappointing fourth -place finish.
Ingebrigtsen won in 13 minutes, 13.66 seconds to add this title to wins at the last two world championships.
Kenya’s Ronald Kwemoi finished second and Grant Fisher of the U.S. finished third.
Japan wins the only medal of the meet — a gold in javelin
Haruka Kitguchi won Japan’s only medal of the meet — a gold one —with a season-best throw of 65.80 meters. She’s the first Japanese woman to win a medal in any throwing event at the Olympics.
USWNT WINS GOLD FOR 1ST TIME IN 12 YEARS AFTER BEATING MARTA’S BRAZIL
The United States women’s soccer team is back on top of the podium after a 12-year wait.
Mallory Swanson buried her fourth goal of the tournament to give the U.S. a 1-0 win over Brazil in Paris on Saturday, securing her country’s first gold medal in women’s soccer since 2012 and record-extending fifth overall.
Five-time FIFA Player of the Year Marta couldn’t turn the tide after coming on as a second-half substitute in what could be her final meaningful appearance for Brazil. The 38-year-old, who’s never won the Women’s World Cup or gold in any of her six Olympics, said she’s retiring from international soccer at the end of the year.
Powered by attacking trio Trinity Rodman, Sophia Smith, and Swanson – who combined for 10 goals in France – the U.S. finally prevailed after settling for bronze in 2020 and finishing without a medal in 2016.
The title is the team’s first under new head coach Emma Hayes, the former Chelsea women’s manager who only started the job in June, and its first major international championship in five years.
“America means more to me than most people realize,” Hayes said afterward. “And I was a 20-year-old who’d come from a pretty stuffy society that didn’t embrace the women’s game and women in football. And I went to America and they looked after me, they nurtured me, they opened doors for me, they gave me opportunities that England never, ever gave me. And I’m just so happy, so happy to repay their faith in me.”
The U.S. rebounded in a big way after suffering its earliest exit from the Women’s World Cup last year when it fell to Sweden in the round of 16. Before that, the U.S. lost to Canada in the semifinals of the Olympic tournament in Tokyo in 2021. The setbacks ultimately forced head coach Vlatko Andonovski to resign, leading U.S. Soccer to hire Hayes at the end of her trophy-laden 12-year spell in charge of Chelsea.
The 47-year-old largely stuck to the same lineup throughout the tournament, trusting a younger core after dropping 35-year-old forward Alex Morgan from the squad. Rodman, the 22-year-old daughter of former NBA star Dennis Rodman, and Smith, 24, each had three goals in France, and 20-year-old midfielder Korbin Albert, who made just seven starts prior to the Olympics, threaded the pass that led to Swanson’s opening goal in the 57th minute.
But 36-year-old goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher – a U.S. women’s national team veteran who’s won two World Cups – finished the game as arguably its MVP, coming up clutch to record a third consecutive clean sheet in the knockout round.
With just minutes remaining in regular time, Naeher prevented a late equalizer with the best of her four stops, clawing Adriana’s close-range header out of the air to restore the U.S. as champion.
U.S. WOMEN TURN IN DOMINANT 4×400 RELAY PERFORMANCE
PARIS — The United States blazed to the gold medal in the Olympic women’s 4×400 meters relay on Saturday, clocking the second-quickest time in history and stretching the country’s remarkable victory streak in the event to eight in a row.
Fielding a star-studded foursome featuring Olympic champions Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Gabby Thomas, the Americans clocked 3:15.27, narrowly missing the world record set by the former Soviet Union in 1988.
A week after Femke Bol led the Dutch to victory in the mixed 4×400 relay with a remarkable anchor leg, the gap was too great for her to make up and the Netherlands had to settle for silver in 3:19.50. Britain claimed bronze in 3:19.72.
Jamaica was in third spot after the opening leg, but Andrenette Knight dropped the baton after bumping Ireland’s Rhasidat Adeleke on the second leg.
Shamier Little put the U.S. in front before handing off to McLaughlin-Levrone, who ran a sizzling 47.71 split to make it clear that every other country was simply competing for silver.
The Americans had about a 40-meter lead when Thomas handed off to Alexis Holmes to lead her team home.
100-METER HURDLES
American Masai Russell produced a stunning run to win the Olympic 100 meters hurdles title, edging out France’s Cyrena Samba-Mayela and Tokyo champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico.
Russell clocked 12.33 seconds as French President Emmanuel Macron watched Samba-Mayela (12.34) deliver France’s first track medal of the Paris Games with silver. Puerto Rico’s Camacho-Quinn (12.36) took bronze.
Russell said she had barely slept the night before, but she got the finish of her dreams as she dug deep and leaned over the line before wrapping the American flag over her shoulders.
“I was tossing and turning because I kept dreaming about my name coming up number one. When it actually came up, I was like, ‘stop playing me, stop playing me’,” she told reporters.
“I just proceeded to shut out the noise, focused on what I could control. And I was literally – I don’t want to say a shock, but it was truly a dream come true.”
Russell exploded out of the blocks and barely held on as Samba-Mayela gained ground with every step and Camacho-Quinn gave everything she had to make up for a poor start.
There was a confusing moment as the results board initially showed Samba-Mayela’s name first – and then Camacho-Quinn’s at the top of the standings – before settling on Russell.
“It wasn’t about knowing if I could or couldn’t (win),” Russell said. “It was just about remaining focused on what I could do – and honestly, just get over those hurdles and get to the line first.”
The Parisian crowd had hoped for gold but was still elated with silver and Macron, who watched France’s first gold of Games in men’s rugby sevens, applauded Samba-Mayela’s effort.
“I was lifted by all these people and all the pleasure of sport,” she said.
Camacho-Quinn delivered Puerto Rico’s first medal of the Games but was frustrated with her performance.
“I knew from the beginning I was a little hesitant when the gun went off,” she said.
“But the race is over, so there’s nothing I can do about it. I should’ve done better.”
1,500 METERS
Kenya’s Faith Kipyegon won her third straight Olympic 1,500 meters gold, surging ahead of the pack to finish more than a second ahead of the field.
Kipyegon cemented her status as one of the all-time great middle-distance runners, becoming the first athlete to claim three successive Olympic 1,500m titles.
Her winning time of 3:51.29 broke the Olympic record, and she collapsed to the track, hands on her head in disbelief, after crossing the finish line.
Australia’s Jessica Hull took silver and Britain’s Georgia Bell bronze as both found the strength to pass Ethiopia’s Diribe Welteji on the home straight. Hull clocked 3:52.56 and Bell crossed in 3:52.61, a national record and four seconds quicker than her previous best time.
Kipyegon, who broke her own world record a month ago, spent much of the race in second place on the shoulder of Ethiopia’s Gudaf Tsegay, but powered to the front with a lap to go and built an untouchable lead.
Tsegay, world champion over 10,000m, faded suddenly and finished last.
JAVELIN
Haruka Kitaguchi crushed the women’s javelin, taking the top of the podium with her first throw of 65.80 meters to give Japan its first gold medal in the event.
South Africa’s Jo-Ane van Dyk and Czechia’s Nikola Ogrodnikova took silver and bronze, respectively, with their best throws of 63.93 and 63.68.
Last year, Kitaguchi needed her final throw to take the world gold in Budapest, but she left little suspense at the Stade de France as she opened with her best throw of the season.
Ogrodnikova briefly had control of second place with her third throw, but van Dyk overtook her immediately.
Rio 2016 winner Sara Kolak (63.40) of Croatia clapped her hands with frustration after her final attempt, as she finished fourth.
With the gold already wrapped up, Kitaguchi bounced nervously at the end of the runway and kept a poker face as she launched a final bonus effort.
The emotion came quickly thereafter, as she burst into tears and hugged her team with the Japan flag draped over her before ringing the victory bell.
–Reuters, Special to Field Level Media
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2024 NFL PRESEASON, WEEK 1: WHAT WE LEARNED FROM SATURDAY’S SLATE OF GAMES
JETS VS. COMMANDERS
Braelon Allen looks like an enticing complement to Breece Hall. Preseason can provide fools gold, but a rookie running back displaying traits that transfer to meaningful games is one aspect that has consistently translated in the past. Allen showed good vision, enough speed to get to the edge, and powered through tackles. Hall should still take the bulk of the workload as a three-down back who can play 70-plus percent of the snaps. However, Allen could carve out a role as a rookie. While many first-year backs start down the depth chart, Allen is already Hall’s handcuff. The former Wisconsin Badger has good power and even had a catch Saturday that was negated by a penalty. Allen took six carries for 64 yards with a long of 24. Fellow rookie Isaiah Davis was RB3 in the first preseason game. 2023 fifth-rounder Israel Abanikanda is the fourth back on the depth chart, clearly on the roster bubble at this stage.
Former first-round pick Jahan Dotson looks like he’ll take increased reps out of the slot this season. The receiver started in the slot with Terry McLaurin and Dyami Brown out wide. Dotson spent just 39% of his snaps out of the slot last season, per Next Gen Stats, so taking on that role would be new for the third-year player. On Saturday, Dotson lined up in the slot on 17 of 31 snaps (55%), per NGS, generating two catches on three targets for 13 yards. Dotson stayed in the game after the rest of the starters exited, playing with QB3 Jeff Driskel deep into the second quarter. Needing more reps in a new position could be why the Commanders kept him in longer than other wideouts. Or the new staff could want to see more out of the former first-round pick who hasn’t burst out in two campaigns.
No. 2 overall pick Jayden Daniels shined on his only series of the game.
CHICAGO VS. BUFFALO
The Bills WR corps remains a mix-and-match situation. With quarterback Josh Allen playing exactly one quarter, Khalil Shakir , Keon Coleman and Curtis Samuel led the way. Mack Hollins didn’t play Saturday but is expected to be involved in the top group. Marquez Valdes-Scantling saw a few first-quarter snaps but had the bulk of his playing time come after Mitchell Trubisky entered the game. Shakir and Samuel split the slot reps early, which leads to questions about how much time they’ll be on the field together. KJ Hamler took slot reps with the backups. Coleman didn’t see a pass from Allen but got three targets from Trubisky, catching one for eight yards on a nice comeback route. The rookie also had to play DB in the back of the end zone on one ill-advised throw from Trubisky. Tyrell Shavers played with the backups and could still win a roster spot. Shakir led all receivers with three grabs for 28 yards despite playing just seven snaps. This group warrants attention as things continue to shake out closer to the season opener.
Velus Jones’ bid for a position change hit the preseason. The former third-round WR took running back snaps in the third quarter as he attempts to make the team. It was a roller-coaster quarter for Jones. He rushed for seven yards on his first carry, then tripped over a white line without a defender close on his second. Later, he scampered to an unguarded wide side for a touchdown. Jones also bobbled a kickoff return in the third quarter and bounced off a tackle in the fourth quarter and scampered for a 19-yard gain. Jones is a long shot to carve out a role in the backfield. Saturday displayed offensive coordinator Shane Waldron’s plan to utilize a committee. Even without Roschon Johnson playing, Waldron juggled early downs between D’Andre Swift and Khalil Herbert. Travis Homer, familiar with Waldron from Seattle, played third downs. Barring a drastic change once the season opens, it seems like a true committee backfield in Chicago, particularly if Homer will be the third-down back.
Caleb Williams showed off his improv skills and big arm with a good two-series in his preseason debut.
MINNESOTA VS. LAS VEGAS
Sam Darnold remains the clear No. 1 in Minnesota. Nothing has changed for Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell, who has backed the veteran throughout the offseason. Darnold played well in his one series on Saturday. His first pass was a nice touch lob to Jalen Nailor for 19 yards down the sideline. Three plays later, the QB hit Nailor again for a chunk 26-yard gain, laying the ball over the outstretched arms of Raiders linebacker Robert Spillane. Darnold avoided pressure, got the ball out quickly, and his timing was solid. Facing Raiders starters, he displayed a willingness to step up in the pocket and took advantage of the time his offensive line provided. The drive ended with two incomplete passes to scuttle a good possession, ending in a turnover on downs at the Vegas 4-yard-line. There is no question Darnold looks better at this stage of his career than he did the last time he was a full-time starter in Carolina. Rookie J.J. McCarthy flashed potential with big plays against Raiders backups, but it’s still Darnold’s job heading toward the season opener next month.
Expect a lot of two tight-end sets from the Raiders. It’s not a surprise after Vegas used the No. 13 overall pick on Brock Bowers, but it was good to see it live. The Raiders used Bowers and Michael Mayer liberally on their one drive. On the 15-play opening possession, Mayer played 12 snaps. Bowers 11. Mayer played a more traditional TE role (tight for 10 plays, in the slot twice). Bowers, however, played more of a joker role, moving all over the formation. In 11 snaps, the rookie lined up tight four times, wide three, in the slot once and in the backfield three times, per Next Gen Stats. Using Bowers in such a fashion indicates that: A) the Raiders will ensure he’s involved; and B) they trust the rookie to learn multiple spots. Bowers looked noticeably athletic and shifty on his two catches. Of his 25 yards, 19 came after the catch. Playing alongside Mayer might cap the rookie tight end’s counting stats, but his talent should force him on the field. It’s good to see that Vegas is preparing for that eventuality by lining Bowers up all over the formation.
GREEN BAY VS. CLEVELAND
Green Bay’s 1s get job done against mostly backups. Jordan Love’s first game action since signing his mega contract was short, sweet and concluded with a pass dropped perfectly to a wide-open Dontayvion Wicks down the sideline for a 65-yard score on the game’s third snap. He departed with a flawless 158.3 passer rating. On defense, the starters who suited up mostly played two drives. The unit initially leaked some yards but allowed just three points and subsequently forced a three-and-out on a short field. Devonte Wyatt shined brightest. He looked made for Jeff Hafley’s new scheme, generating two pressures despite being double-teamed on four of his five pass-rushing snaps. One of those pressures hand-delivered a sack to Lukas Van Ness, who took up residence in the backfield with three tackles for loss. The caveat here is the Browns almost exclusively played backups on both sides, but you can’t help who you line up against — plus the Packers looked good doing it.
DTR, Jamari Thrash finally deliver some splash plays. It had been a plodding affair for the Browns, who had three points courtesy of Jameis Winston’s lone, opening drive and saw four possessions out of the next five go for 11 or fewer yards. Then, on the last possession of the third quarter, Dorian Thompson-Robinson started looking rookie wide receiver Jamari Thrash’s way. He connected with him three times with gains of 5, 22 and 16 yards, the latter two showing off Thrash’s hands and ability to find the soft spot in a zone. The 69-yard march ended on downs, but on a day with little offensive consistency to write home about to that point, the sequence was a breath of fresh air for the home crowd. It also helped Thompson-Robinson settle in, as he led the Browns to a score his next try and ultimately took Round 1 from Tyler Huntley in the QB3 battle.
TAMPA BAY VS. CINCINNATI
Burrow back in action. Everyone wanted to see how Joe Burrow would look in his first action since suffering a season-ending wrist injury in Week 10 last year. The returns? Burrow was mostly very sharp on his one drive Saturday night. He hit his first three passes, all short, before airing out a deep shot right on target to Tee Higgins, 50-plus yards downfield, but it fell incomplete thanks to a fine play from Bucs safety Kaevon Merriweather. Burrow rebounded with a pretty third-down connection to training-camp star Andrei Iosivas for 23 yards, and after Higgins earned a DPI call on a high throw from Burrow, he caught a short pass in space and made Josh Hayes whiff on a 10-yard catch and score. Burrow looked like himself (5-of-7 passing, 51 yards, TD) in his brief outing, and the best part was that he wasn’t sacked, hit or even pressured. Higgins showing out in what could be his final season in Cincinnati — especially with Ja’Marr Chase currently holding in — and Iosivas making his mark also were big developments.
Trask puts together up-and-down outing. It might be hard to remember, but Kyle Trask actually dueled with Baker Mayfield for the starting job one year ago. Now, Trask is in a battle for QB2 honors in Tampa. Saturday night’s performance from Trask was more good than bad, playing the entire first half, but there was some meat left on the bone against a mix of Bengals starters and reserves. On the positive side, Trask made some impressive throws on his TD drive, including taking a shot while delivering a 24-yarder to Ryan Miller. Trask also hit Jalen McMillan and Trey Palmer on pretty throws, setting up Bucky Irving’s 5-yard TD run, and later found Rakim Jarrett on a nice 28-yarder. On the downside, Trask nearly threw a pick that would have wiped out the TD drive, and Josh Newton did intercept Trask the next series. Trask also had a fumbled snap, missed a few throws and took a drive-ending sack near midfield before the half. Trask’s main competition for the job is John Wolford, who got the second half and put up similar numbers to Trask (without the turnover). Wolford led a field-goal drive to start the third quarter and a TD drive in the final minute to pull ahead. Both played moderately well, with Trask’s snaps a little more amplified against better competition — even with a few hiccups.
JACKSONVILLE VS KANSAS CITY
Jaguars’ RB room shows promise. The offensive starters saw two series with Trevor Lawrence, netting one scoring drive on a short field. It was about what you’d expect from a first preseason outing — some good, some bad. But the Jaguars’ second team made a little noise, especially in the run game. That’s a promising development, considering that a lack of depth behind Trevor Etienne was a worry entering the preseason. Tank Bigsby made some noise in his bid to earn the RB2 job, ripping off runs of 9 and 19 yards on his first two carries and later had a 45-yard kickoff return, showing good ball security in limited work. D’Ernest Johnson got his shot, too, rumbling for some effective runs and catching a 23-yard pass. Even undrafted rookie Jalen Jackson gained 14 on his first carry. Among the other eye-opening performances was first-round WR Brian Thomas Jr., who hauled in a 41-yard catch (while being interfered with) that Jags fans hope is a sign of things to come. An all-around strong performance from Jacksonville in the preseason opener, but especially from some important reserves on offense.
WRs the main story for KC. Patrick Mahomes and the first-team offense took the first series, which lasted all of six plays. But it turned out to be fairly eventful plays for new Chiefs WR Hollywood Brown. After catching Mahomes’ first pass of the preseason on Brown’s first snap as a Chief, he suffered a shoulder injury on an 11-yard gain. And that was his night. Xavier Worthy came on for Brown for five snaps but saw no targets. It wasn’t the prettiest night for the Chiefs all around, especially on special teams, but there’s an intriguing story brewing there. WR Nikko Remigio, who has opened eyes in camp, caught three passes for 35 yards and had a 31-yard kickoff return. Special teams coordinator Dave Toub has Remigio listed as his top kick returner, but Remigio also muffed a punt inside his own 10-yard line in the third quarter and was fortunate to be called down after a 29-yard catch where it was very close to being a big lost fumble. Remigio has been a fun story to this point, but he can’t afford too many more of these mistakes going forward in his quest for a roster spot.
TENNESSEE VS. SAN FRANCISCO
Jordan Mason offers reminder of 49ers’ RB depth. Mason has seemingly earned the approval of Kyle Shanahan this offseason, who in July praised the high-level play of his third-year running back. It’s easy to see why after Mason’s performance on the team’s opening drive. He handled six of San Francisco’s 11 plays to begin the game, tallying 34 yards (5.7 per carry) and a touchdown in which he rediscovered momentum after running into his own blocker to carry a bundle of bodies into the end zone. He was hard-nosed when he needed to be and deceptively elusive, and proved he can fill in alongside Elijah Mitchell just fine behind Christian McCaffrey, who is currently dealing with a calf sprain.
First look at Titans’ new backfield tandem. The word used to describe Tennessee’s top two running backs has for months been “interchangeable.” Through one preseason game, that mode of thinking seems spot on. The Titans gave quarterback Will Levis two drives totaling 14 plays. Tony Pollard played eight of those snaps, including the first possession’s goal-line play. Tyjae Spears played six snaps, taking over at the goal line for the second drive. Although Pollard looked the more explosive of the two, showing some of his old burst on the way to 46 yards on six touches, Spears was the one who found the end zone thanks to a nifty jump-cut combo. It’s also worth noting the offense ran through them; the two RBs touched the ball on 71.4% of Tennessee’s first-string plays.
SEATTLE VS LA CHARGERS
Sam Howell gutsy in nearly three quarters of work. Seattle’s new backup quarterback led eight drives and looked similar to his days in Washington. He was willing and capable of picking up chunks on the ground when plays broke down and exhibited a strong arm, but he also found consistent completions hard to come by. Howell amassed 130 yards on 16-of-27 passing (59.3 completion percentage), wasting a handful of those throws too far from pass-catchers’ grasps or at their feet. His touchdown throw to Brady Russell was a dart, although the tight end did most of the work after collecting it at the 10 and evading multiple defenders to the end zone. Howell notably looked best on his final drive that netted him over half (70) of his passing yardage. Following an extended look, the Seahawks’ QB2 is still developing, but he’s clearly talented and can be counted on in a pinch.
Easton might not stick. Los Angeles wasn’t firing on all cylinders in 2023 when Easton Stick finished the season 0-4 in relief of an injured Justin Herbert. The Chargers also didn’t use all their starters for the entirety of the 2019 fifth-rounder’s first half of play Saturday. However, it’s still fair to critique the QB’s performance, which was in this case poor. Stick went 5 of 13 for 31 yards and had a bad interception to finish with a passer rating of 14.6. He couldn’t find open receivers enough, nor find a rhythm, as three of his eight possessions gained no yards and six ended in punts. L.A. as a whole failed to find a first down until less than five minutes remained in the second quarter, making Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman’s hard-nosed rushing attack impossible to deploy effectively. Considering Herbert is dealing with plantar fascia, the Chargers might soon feel inclined to give some extra thought to their backup situation.
NEW ORLEANS VS ARIZONA
Saints’ first-stringers slow to start. There’s some work to do on offense. Derek Carr and the starters took two series and weren’t able to get much going, allowing some pressure to the Cardinals’ (mostly) second-team defense. It was just the first taste we’ve gotten from OC Klint Kubiak’s new offense, and predictably, it was very basic, with very little pre-snap motion. It was also a little lacking in execution. After his day was finished, Carr spoke on the TV broadcast, explaining that the Saints didn’t gameplan at all and that he wasn’t even sure who would be lining up with him right up until kickoff. So there’s some context to the tepid start against Arizona. “It’s hard in a preseason game because you don’t show anything,” Carr said, promising that “it’s going to be exciting when we get out there for the regular season.” We shall see. The Saints’ offensive highlight was a 58-yard pass from Jake Haener to A.T. Perry, and rookie Spencer Rattler ran for a score and led a game-winning drive, but all in all, it was a fairly tough night on offense, which included five penalties by the offensive line.
Cards’ defense shows young depth. We knew Jonathan Gannon planned to sit Kyler Murray, but the entire starting Cardinals offense — save for Marvin Harrison Jr. — sat Saturday night. Harrison barely played, seeing three snaps on the opening series and no targets before sitting the remainder of the evening. So we didn’t learn much about Arizona’s offense against the Saints, but we did see some promising moments early on defense. The Cardinals know how critical it will be to improve on that side, and Saturday’s early series were promising. Most of the starters rested on that side, too, but there were encouraging signs from first-round edge rusher Darius Robinson, linebacker Owen Pappoe and some other young defenders who should contribute. The defensive line as a whole closed down the Saints’ run game and provided some pressure, which was a welcome sign. The Saints’ offensive starters went two series with Carr, netting only 18 yards on nine plays. The Cardinals will take all the defensive improvement they can get, even with a unit composed of mostly reserves.
REPORTS: DOLPHINS OL KION SMITH TEARS ACL, OUT FOR SEASON
Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Kion Smith will miss the 2024 season with a torn anterior cruciate ligament, multiple sources reported Saturday.
Smith was injured during Miami’s second drive of its preseason game against the Atlanta Falcons on Friday, which he started at left guard.
The Dolphins placed Smith on injured reserve and signed offensive lineman Chasen Hines, whom Miami had waived last Wednesday.
Smith, 25, was expected to serve as a backup for the Dolphins this season as a tackle – his primary position – and guard.
Smith went undrafted in 2021 before signing with Miami that September. He saw his first NFL action last season, getting 70 snaps on offense and 45 more on special teams over nine games.
Hines, 24, was a sixth-round pick by the New England Patriots in 2022. He has not appeared in an NFL game.
FALCONS AWAIT NEWS AFTER S DEMARCCO HELLAMS, LB BRALEN TRICE CARTED OFF FIELD
Atlanta Falcons safety DeMarcco Hellams and rookie linebacker Bralen Trice were carted off the field due to left leg injuries suffered during a 20-13 loss to the host Miami Dolphins on Friday.
Hellams sustained the injury on the second defensive play of the preseason game while in pursuit of the ball on a screen pass. His leg was placed in an air cast before he was removed from the field.
Trice was injured late in the first half.
“We had the two injuries in the game that I know about right now that felt bad,” Falcons coach Raheem Morris said. “I’ll have a better feel (Saturday) when I get a chance to let the doctor see those guys — that would be Trice and Hellams both being taken off on the cart.”
Hellams, 24, is expected to compete with Richie Grant for a starting position opposite Pro Bowl selection Jessie Bates III. Hellams had 40 tackles in 15 games (four starts) during his rookie season in 2023.
Trice, 23, was selected by the Falcons in the third round of the 2024 NFL Draft out of Washington.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEWS
4-STAR CB JONTAE GILBERT COMMITS TO IN-STATE GEORGIA
Four-star defensive back Jontae Gilbert committed to play for the Georgia Bulldogs, he announced on social media Saturday.
The 6-foot-1, 185-pound cornerback won’t have far to travel to play for the Bulldogs after completing his upcoming senior season at Frederick Douglass High School in Atlanta.
Rated the nation’s No. 141 prospect overall and No. 17 cornerback by the 247Sports composite, Gilbert is an all-around athlete who has played cornerback, free safety, wide receiver, and even punter for Douglass.
Gilbert had reportedly been considering Georgia Tech and North Carolina State. He originally committed to Ohio State after his freshman season before recently backing off that pledge and re-opening his recruiting.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
MLB ROUNDUP: MATT OLSON (6 RBIS) LIFTS BRAVES OVER ROCKIES
Matt Olson hit a grand slam and two-run shot to drive in a career-high six runs, and the Atlanta Braves beat the Colorado Rockies 11-8 in Denver on Saturday night.
Jorge Soler had three hits, including a homer, and Marcell Ozuna also went deep for Atlanta. Pierce Johnson (5-4) got the win in relief and Raisel Iglesias picked up his 24th save.
The Braves ended a six-game losing streak and beat Colorado for the 14th time in the past 16 games.
Rockies batters struck out 14 times despite Sam Hilliard driving in a career-best five runs with a homer and two doubles. Hunter Goodman, Brenton Doyle and Brendan Rodgers had two hits each for Colorado.
Athletics 1, Blue Jays 0
Brent Rooker hit a home run, Osvaldo Bido allowed two hits in six innings and visiting Oakland defeated Toronto.
Bido (3-3) allowed one walk with five strikeouts and one hit batter. Shea Langeliers had four hits for the Athletics, who gained a split of the first two of the three-game series.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. extended his hit streak to 22 games with a first-inning single for the Blue Jays. It matches his career best set in 2022. Toronto’s Yariel Rodriguez (1-5) allowed one run, five hits and one walk with five strikeouts in 5 2/3 innings.
Yankees 8, Rangers 0 (Game 1)
Aaron Judge collected three hits and reached base four times, Austin Wells tied a career high with four RBIs and host New York beat Texas in the first game of a doubleheader.
The Yankees won for the ninth time in 12 games after their 10-23 slide from June 15 to July 26.
The Rangers lost for the 10th time in 13 games since winning five straight from July 21 to 25 to get within a game of .500. Texas was blanked for the sixth time, left the bases loaded in the second and stranded two apiece in the third and fourth.
Rangers 9, Yankees 4 (Game 2)
Corey Seager hit a three-run homer to cap a five-run sixth inning as visiting Texas capitalized on Gerrit Cole’s departure and beat New York to salvage the second game of a doubleheader.
Seager’s blast gave him 25 homers for the third straight season and the fourth time in his 10-year career. It was Seager’s fourth long ball in six games.
Cole allowed one run on six hits in 5 1/3 innings before exiting. The reigning American League Cy Young Award winner struck out 10, walked two and threw first-pitch strikes to 18 of 23 hitters.
Astros 5, Red Sox 4
Yordan Alvarez hit two home runs and Spencer Arrighetti recorded a career-high 13 strikeouts to help visiting Houston defeat Boston.
Arrighetti (5-10) limited the Red Sox to two runs on two hits in seven innings. His 13 strikeouts were one more than his previous career high.
Danny Jansen (No. 8) and Masataka Yoshida (No. 7) each had a solo home run for Boston, accounting for the only hits against Arrighetti.
Nationals 5, Angels 4 (10 innings)
Jose Tena delivered an RBI single in the bottom of the 10th inning to lift Washington over visiting Los Angeles in the second game of a three-game series.
James Wood doubled, homered and drove in two runs for the Nationals, who won the series opener 3-2 in 10 innings on Friday night.
Zach Neto had three hits, including his fourth homer this month, for the Angels. Taylor Ward, Jo Adell and Anthony Rendon each had two hits, and Brandon Drury had two RBIs.
Brewers 1, Reds 0
Rhys Hoskins snapped a scoreless tie with a two-out homer in the eighth inning to lift Milwaukee to over visiting Cincinnati, extending the Brewers’ winning streak to five.
Joel Payamps (2-5) got the final two outs in the eighth and Devin Williams struck out the side in the ninth for his first save of the season. Williams, the reigning National League Reliever of the Year, was making his fourth appearance after missing the first 104 games with a back injury.
Reds starter Nick Martinez, making consecutive starts for the first time since late April, retired the first 11 batters before Gary Sanchez blooped a single into shallow center with two outs in the fourth.
Cubs 3, White Sox 1
Miguel Amaya delivered a two-run, tiebreaking single in the eighth inning, and the visiting Chicago completed a four-game season series sweep of the crosstown rival White Sox with their fourth consecutive victory.
Starter Justin Steele grinded his way through six innings, allowing six hits and two walks, but only an unearned run while striking out eight for the Cubs, who swept the annual season set from the White Sox for the first time since 2013. Relievers Porter Hodge (1-1), Jorge Lopez and Hector Naris (17th save) combined to allow one hit and strike out five as the Cubs moved within a game of .500 with their eighth win in their past 10.
White Sox starter Chris Flexen lasted just four innings, giving up four walks and three hits, but no runs. The Cubs stranded six runners in the first three innings against the right-hander, who totaled 78 pitches. Korey Lee had two hits for the White Sox, who struck out 13 times, are 0-3 since ending an AL-record-tying 21-game losing streak and have lost 12 straight at home.
Dodgers 4, Pirates 1
Teoscar Hernandez hit a home run and Gavin Lux drove in three runs as Los Angeles beat visiting Pittsburgh to win for the fifth time in seven games.
In his fourth career start, Dodgers right-hander River Ryan departed after 4 2/3 scoreless innings with right forearm tightness. Right-hander Michael Kopech (3-8) pitched 1 1/3 innings to earn the win.
Pirates rookie right-hander Paul Skenes gave up a career-high four runs on six hits over six innings. Skenes (6-2), who had one walk with eight strikeouts, has given up more than two runs in three of his 15 starts and two of those were to the Dodgers.
Guardians 2, Twins 1
Steven Kwan and Bo Naylor each hit a solo home run and Cleveland snapped its seven-game losing streak, holding off Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Josh Naylor finished 2-for-3 for Cleveland. Matt Wallner drove in the lone run for the Twins, who were held to four hits. Willi Castro hit a double for Minnesota’s only extra-base hit. Guardians right-hander Gavin Williams (2-4) earned his second victory in his past three starts. He limited the Twins to one run on four hits in six innings, and he walked none and struck out three.
Twins right-hander Simeon Woods Richardson (3-3) drew the hard-luck loss, allowing two runs on four hits in seven innings. He walked none and struck out seven.
Mariners 4, Mets 0
Logan Gilbert pitched seven scoreless innings as Seattle defeated visiting New York, the Mariners’ major-league-leading 13th shutout of the season.
Randy Arozarena and Justin Turner, both acquired at the trade deadline, each went 2-for-3 with one double apiece for the Mariners, who won their third game in a row to remain tied with Houston atop the American League West. Arozarena scored twice and Turner had two RBIs.
The Mets were blanked for a second straight night at T-Mobile Park and dropped a half-game behind Atlanta in the chase for the National League’s third and final wild-card playoff berth.
Royals 8, Cardinals 3
Salvador Perez’s two-run home run capped a four-run rally as Kansas City beat visiting St. Louis, earning a split of their two-game series.
The Royals collected nine hits and six runs against three Cardinals relievers. Kansas City starter Michael Wacha (9-6) tossed seven innings, allowing two runs on five hits and two walks, striking out six to earn his 11th quality start.
Cardinals starter Andre Pallante allowed two runs — one earned — on three singles and four walks, striking out four in 5 2/3 innings.
Orioles 7, Rays 5
Ramon Urias hit a two-run go-ahead home run in the eighth inning and Jackson Holliday also homered to highlight a 15-hit attack and lead Baltimore over Tampa Bay in St. Petersburg, Fla.
It was the fourth homer in six games for Holliday. Adley Rutschman went 3-for-5 with two doubles, a run scored and an RBI, Ryan Mountcastle had three hits and three RBIs and Colton Cowser and Gunnar Henderson also had three hits apiece for Baltimore, which improved to 6-0 at Tropicana Field this season. Burch Smith (4-0) picked up the win in relief and Seranthony Dominguez earned his second save by pitching a scoreless ninth.
Jose Caballero homered and had two hits, two runs and a stolen base for Tampa Bay, which lost for the fourth time in its last five games. Colin Poche (1-2) suffered the loss, allowing three runs on four hits in two-thirds of an inning.
Padres 9, Marlins 8 (10 innings)
Luis Arraez hit the go-ahead RBI groundout in the top of the 10th inning, and Tanner Scott earned the save in the bottom of the frame as red-hot San Diego defeated host Miami.
Both Arraez and Scott were traded by the Marlins to the Padres this year. Arraez went 2-for-6 with three RBIs. Scott pitched one scoreless inning, striking out Jake Burger with two runners on to end the game to pick up his first save for San Diego and 19th of the season. The Padres won their seventh straight game — the longest active run in the majors.
Miami got on the board in the fourth as Vidal Brujan jacked a 415-foot homer to center. Robert Suarez (7-1) won for the Padres, and Miami’s John McMillon (0-1) took the loss.
Giants 3, Tigers 1
Logan Webb won his third consecutive start, new closer Ryan Walker converted his first save opportunity of the season and San Francisco made it two in a row over visiting Detroit.
Brett Wisely drove in two and scored a third in a three-run fifth inning for the Giants, who won for the 12th time in their last 15 games. Webb (10-8) secured his fourth straight season with at least 10 wins, limiting the Tigers to one run on four hits in seven innings.
Parker Meadows had two hits for the Tigers, who were out-hit 6-5 en route to the 12th loss in their last 17 games.
–Field Level Media
GOLF NEWS
ROBERT KARLSSON PULLS AWAY FROM PACK AT BOEING CLASSIC
Sweden’s Robert Karlsson broke away from a four-way tie for first with a 7-under 65 on Saturday to take sole possession of the lead after two rounds of the Boeing Classic in Snoqualmie, Wash.
Karlsson turned in a bogey-free round that featured seven birdies to leave his fellow first-round co-leaders in the dust. He now sits at 13-under 131 for the tournament, two strokes ahead of South Korean Charlie Wi, who had low-round honors with an 8-under 64 on Saturday.
Woody Austin, Gene Sauers and New Zealand’s Steven Alker had shared the lead with Karlsson after 18 holes.
“I feel pretty comfortable with where I am at the moment, kind of showing some signs the last few weeks,” Karlsson said Saturday. “You never know, but my goal is just to try to be as focused on the things that I can control as possible tomorrow and we’ll see what comes next.”
Karlsson did most of his damage on the back nine, where five of his birdies came. He rattled off three straight from Nos. 12-14.
Wi started strong and finished even stronger, with the highlight of his day being an eagle at the par-5 eighth. He added three birdies on the front nine before slipping up and having to settle for bogey at No. 11, but Wi more than made up for it by sinking birdies at Nos. 15-18 to stay right on Karlsson’s tail heading into Sunday’s final round.
“You know what, I didn’t even notice that until I signed my card,” Wi said of finishing his round with four consecutive birdies. “I guess I was playing pretty well when you do that.”
Kirk Triplett (70 on Saturday) is six shots back in sole possession of third, while Canada’s Stephen Ames (67), Ernie Els of South Africa (69) and Alker (72) are tied for fourth. Each member of that trio sits at 6-under 138 for the weekend.
Austin (73) is now T7 with Australian David Bransdon (72). Both are at 5 under, one stroke ahead of a five-way tie for ninth.
Meanwhile, Sauers fell into a tie for 14th because of a 3-over 75 on Saturday.
–Field Level Media
MATT KUCHAR HOLDS ONE-SHOT LEAD AT WYNDHAM CHAMPIONSHIP
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Matt Kuchar shot his second 6-under-par 64 in as many days to secure the second-round lead in the weather-impacted Wyndham Championship on Saturday.
Kuchar will carry a one-stroke edge into the final scheduled day at Sedgefield Country Club, where second-round play was suspended by darkness with golfers still on the course.
Max Greyserman fired a 60 and is tied for second with Chad Ramey (64) and Cameron Young (62) at 11 under.
Golfers making the cut will be asked to play at least 36 holes Sunday in attempt to finish the 72-hole competition, which marks the final event of the PGA Tour’s regular season, across three days.
“I know tomorrow’s going to be a long one,” Ramey said after finishing his round.
Kuchar hasn’t won in five years. He tied for third place two weeks ago in the 3M Open, but he needs to win the Wyndham Championship to have a chance to make the FedExCup playoffs. He’s the only golfer to participate in the playoffs in every year since the inception of that format in 2007.
Beau Hossler (70), Billy Horschel (68) and England’s Aaron Rai (65) are at 10 under, while about a dozen other golfers will have to finish the second round Sunday.
“My record here has been really good over the last I would say six, seven years and I knew this course has been fairly kind to me,” Horschel said. “As long as I didn’t get too far ahead of myself with expectations or anything, I knew I was going to be hopefully have a chance to be in contention again and I’m right there with 36 to go.”
Greyserman recorded the second 60 of the tournament after Hossler set the tone with his first-round score.
Sixty-six golfers finished the first round Saturday morning before a quick turnaround for the second round. Again, the start of play was delayed Saturday morning after more overnight rains drenched the course. The first round was postponed from Thursday and then there were delays Friday prior to the first tee shots.
Greyserman birdied the first five holes of the round and after six consecutive birdies cranked it up again. After four more birdies, he went to the final three holes needed to play those in a combined 2 under for a sub-60 score. His birdie on No. 17 gave him a chance.
Greyserman, a 29-year-old who played collegiately about an hour away at Duke, has never won on the PGA Tour in 22 previous outings.
Ramey, who logged 22 holes Saturday, is trying to move into the top 70 for a spot in the FedExCup playoffs.
“I think that would obviously be everyone’s goal out here,” Ramey said. “If I could get a really great week in this week and sneak in there, it would be awesome.”
Defending champion Lucas Glover posted a hole-in-one on the 189-yard 12th hole, but he ended the round with 71. At 1 over for the tournament, he won’t make the cut. Glover managed just two birdies Saturday to go with the ace, which was his first since 2017.
Tour rookie Joe Highsmith also aced the 12th, giving him three aces this season. He became the first golfer to record three hole-in-ones in a season since 1983.
Also, Taiwan’s C.T. Pan withdrew during the second round.
— Bob Sutton, Field Level Media
AUTO RACING NEWS
DENNY HAMLIN BEGINS HIS BID FOR A SWEEP AT RICHMOND BY WINNING THE POLE IN QUALIFYING
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Denny Hamlin’s bid for a sweep at Richmond is off to a good start.
Hamlin won the pole for Sunday night’s NASCAR Cup Series race, topping qualifying Saturday in his No. 11 Toyota. It was Hamlin’s third pole of the year, although he went on to finish out of the top 10 after his first two at Phoenix and Nashville.
Hamlin won at Richmond earlier this season and is trying to become the first driver to sweep the track’s two Cup races since Martin Truex Jr. in 2019. Hamlin’s five career victories at Richmond are one behind Kyle Busch, the leader among active racers.
“I probably put a little more pressure on myself to perform at this race track, just simply because I know what it takes to win here and what I need out of the car,” Hamlin said. “I feel like I have good techniques that help equal the success in the past, but we have gone through so many car changes, tire changes — things like that, but the basics still ring true in the end. I love winning here. To have five is certainly exciting. I feel like each one has been a little different.”
Hamlin edged Truex, his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, in qualifying.
“I feel like we made some really good adjustments between the two rounds, and I was able to execute the lap I was trying to execute,” Hamlin said. “Was I surprised it held up? Yes. I definitely was.”
Truex, who is retiring from full-time racing after this season, is still seeking his first victory of the year. At Richmond in March, Truex was in good shape to win before a late caution sent all the contenders to pit road. Hamlin ultimately prevailed in overtime.
Qualifying doesn’t always mean much at Richmond. The track ranks second all-time to Daytona in wins from outside the top 20.
For the first time in a points-paying Cup race, teams will have multiple tire options. Teams receive sets of Goodyear “Prime” tires and sets of “Option” tires. The latter is softer, trading longevity for short-term grip and speed.
“I would love the Option tire — the soft tire — just to be the tire,” Hamlin said. “If we are experimenting this to see if we can run those tires in a race as the only tire, I think that is certainly a viable option.”
Prior to qualifying, Hamlin was asked a timely but less pressing question: Should motorsports be in the Olympics?
“I saw some sports that I didn’t know this time around, so I would love to see motorsports as part of it,” he said. “But I don’t know how feasible it is, just knowing that we all drive different equipment.”
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INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS
INDIANS SHUT OUT BY SOUNDS BEHIND TWO SOLO BLASTS, 3-0
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Isaac Collins and Francisco Mejía each launched solo home runs for the Nashville Sounds as the Indianapolis Indians suffered their third loss of the road trip on Saturday night at First Horizon Park, 3-0.
Two solo home runs were the bulk of the difference in scoring, as Nashville (21-16, 59-53) tagged a pair of solo shots off of Indians starter Thomas Harrington (L, 0-1) in his second Triple-A start courtesy of Collins and Mejía. Harrington tossed 4.2 innings while punching out five hitters, but Collins’ home run came on Harrington’s very first pitch of the night.
The Sounds tacked on another run in the seventh inning thanks to situational hitting from Freddy Zamora, plating Mejía on a sacrifice fly for insurance.
Indianapolis (18-18, 51-58) leaned on Issac Mattson for 3.1 innings of relief to close out the contest. Mattson logged three punchouts while yielding one earned run.
Carlos Rodriguez (W, 7-7) spun 6.1 scoreless innings while only allowing three hits with five strikeouts. The Sounds bullpen relied on 2.2 shutout innings from Bryan Hudson, Aaron Ashby and Ryan Middendorf (S, 6) to close out the Indianapolis offense. Indianapolis’ last shutout loss was on June 20 vs. Iowa.
With a pinch-hit single in the seventh, Nick Yorke extended his hitting streak to 14 games, dating back to his time with the Worcester Red Sox before being traded to the Pirates last Monday. In 10 games with Indianapolis, he is batting .371 (13-for-35) with four doubles and six RBI.
The Indians and Sounds conclude their six-game series at First Horizon Park on Sunday night at 7:05 PM ET. The Indians will send Aaron Shortridge (1-1, 5.06) to the hill against right-hander Mitch White (2-3, 6.95).
INDY ELEVEN SOCCER
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Indy Eleven vs. New Mexico United
Sunday, August 11, 2024 – 5:00 p.m. ET
Carroll Stadium – Indianapolis
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2024 USL Championship Records
Indy Eleven: 10-7-5 (-1), 35 pts; 4th in Eastern Conference
New Mexico United: 12-6-2 (+2), 38 pts; 1st in Western Conference
Indy Eleven concludes its two-match home week with Sunday’s Kick Cancer Night contest against Western Conference leader New Mexico United.
Indy is coming off an impressive 1-0 victory over Rhode Island FC on Wednesday at Carroll Stadium, ending the longest active unbeaten streak (eight matches) in the USL Eastern Conference. The Eleven took sole possession of fourth place in the East, improving to 10-7-5. New Mexico United leads the USL Western Conference, despite falling in two one-goal decisions last week.
| IND | NM | |
| 22 | Games | 20 |
| 32 | Goals | 27 |
| 33 | Goals Conceded | 25 |
| 20 | Assists | 16 |
| 99 | SOT | 103 |
| 97 | Shots Faced | 87 |
| 5 | Clean Sheets | 5 |
SERIES VS. NEW MEXICO UNITED
The Boys in Blue are 0-2 all-time vs. New Mexico United after dropping one-goal decisions in 2022 and 2023.
Series 0-2-0 | GF 3, GA 5
History
Sept. 15, 2024 L 3-2 Away
May 28, 2022 L 2-1 Home
GUENZATTI ENTERS USL TOP FIVE IN CAREER GOALS
Forward Sebastian Guenzatti is tied for fifth in the USL in career regular-season goals after recording his 74th for the game winner in Indy Eleven’s 1-0 victory over Rhode Island FC on Wednesday.
Guenzatti, who is third on the team with four goals this season, became the 48th player in USL history to record 200 regular-season appearances at Charleston on August 2.
TOP-10 TEAMMATES
Sebastian Guenzatti (T5th, 74) and Augi Williams (9th, 71) are the only pair of active teammates in the USL Championship’s top 10 for all-time regular season goals. Williams has five goals in 2024, while Guenzatti has four. Williams also has three in U.S. Open Cup action this season to lead Indy.
15K CLUB
Forward Augi Williams became the third player on the current Indy Eleven roster to play 15,000 career minutes in the USL regular season. Williams played the full 90 on Wednesday to increase his career total to 15,075.
INSTANT OFFENSE
Midfielder Laurence Wootton recorded his first assist of 2024 on Wednesday in the 34th minute after entering the match in the 15th minute as an injury replacement for Cam Lindley.
SULTE-IN OF SWAT
Indy keeper Hunter Sulte recorded his fifth clean sheet this season with four saves vs. Rhode Island FC, including three in the second half. Sulte made the save of the night in the 76th minute off a header from Frank Nodarse toward the bottom left corner, swatting it off the line. The lone save of the first half by Sulte was a spectacular diving stop off a Mark Doyle shot in the 17th minute.
Sulte has started 12 consecutive matches and 15 of the last 16 for the Boys in Blue. He is tied for 11th in the USL in clean sheets and is 16th in saves (45).
Sulte has made a quick impact in the net while on loan from MLS-side Portland Timbers. The 22-year-old was named to the USL Championship Team of the Week for Week 15 and has twice been awarded the USLC Save of the Week (15 & 19) and was a nominee Week 20.
CAPTAIN QUINN STARTS AND FINISHES
Midfielder Aodhan Quinn made his first start since September 2, 2023, in Wednesday’s win over Rhode Island, playing the full 90 minutes. Quinn made his 2024 season debut at Charleston on Aug. 2 in his return from a 2023 season-ending knee injury.
Quinn is tied for 2nd on the USL all-time list in games started (239), third in assists (50), 4th in minutes played (21,041), and 8th in appearances (253).
BACK-TO-BACK
Midfielder Logan Neidlinger has played the full 90 in both August matches after making his starting debut at Charleston. Neidlinger, who was born in Indianapolis, has played in each of the last five matches. The 18-year-old signed a USL Academy contract on 01/30/2024.
ALLOW ME TO ASSIST YOU
Aedan Stanley is second in the USL Championship stats with seven assists, which includes his first career multi-assist game, a two-helper performance against his old club Miami FC on May 12. He also is tied for a team-high two in Open Cup games. Stanley has 15 career USL Championship assists, posting no more than three in a season before joining Indy Eleven in 2024.
2024: 7 | 2023: 3 | 2022: 3 | 2020: 2
Stanley has played all 1,980 minutes for the Eleven this season.
TOTW REGULARS
Jack Blake has been named to the USL Championship Team of the Week five times in 2024, the second most for any player in the league, while Aedan Stanley has three nods and a Player of the Week accolade to his name. Additionally, five players have had at least one selection in Younes Boudadi (to HFD 6.13), Adrian Diz Pe, Benjamin Ofeimu, Hunter Sulte and Augi Williams.
In total, seven players have earned team of the week nods, while eight have received either team or bench honors.
GOALS
The Boys in Blue scored in 15 straight USLC matches to open the 2024 campaign. The streak, which ended on June 22 against Orange County, is the longest to open a USLC campaign and is the longest run overall within the same season for the club. In total, Indy scored in 18 straight regular season matches dating back to Sept. 30, 2023.
They have 32 goals this season (T6th USL), with at least one tally in 18 of their 22 matches.
The Boys in Blue have scored 19 first half goals this season, the third-most of any USLC team. Defensively, Indy has held opponents scoreless in the first half in 14 of 22 matches in 2024.
LAST TIME OUT
Indianapolis – Indy Eleven delivered an impressive performance to end the longest active unbeaten streak (8 matches) in the USL Eastern Conference with a 1-0 victory over Rhode Island FC at The Mike. With the win, the Boys in Blue (10-7-5) are in fourth place in the Eastern Conference with 35 points.
Indy Eleven forward Sebastian Guenzatti provided the game-winning goal in the 34th minute off an assist from Laurence Wootton. It was Guenzatti’s fourth tally this season and his 74th career goal in the USL, moving him into a tie for fifth on the all-time list. Wootton recorded his first assist in 2024 after entering in the 15th minute as an injury replacement for Cam Lindley. Indy keeper Hunter Sulte recorded his fifth clean sheet this season with four saves, including three in the second half. Sulte made the save of the night in the 76th minute off a header from Frank Nodarse toward the bottom left corner, swatting it off the line. His only save of the first half was a spectacular diving stop off a Mark Doyle shot in the 17th minute.
Indy Eleven, who outshot Rhode Island 18-10, improved to 9-1-1 this season when scoring first, including a 4-1 mark at home.
Indy Eleven 1:0 Rhode Island FC
Wednesday, August 7, 2024 – 7 p.m. ET
Carroll Stadium | Indianapolis
2024 USL Championship Records
Indy Eleven: 10-7-5 (-1), 35 pts
Rhode Island FC: 6-5-11 (+1), 29 pts
Scoring Summary
IND – Sebastian Guenzatti (Laurence Wootton) 34’
Discipline Summary
IND – Douglas Martinez (caution) 37’
RI – Grant Stoneman (caution) 44’
IND – Sebastian Guenzatti (caution) 48’
IND – Adrian Diz Pe (caution) 90’+5
Indy Eleven line-up: Hunter Sulte, Adrian Diz Pe, Callum Chapman-Page, Benjamin Ofeimu, Aodhan Quinn (captain), Logan Neidlinger, Aedan Stanley, Cam Lindley (Laurence Wootton 16’), Augi Williams (Tyler Gibson 90’+4), Douglas Martinez (Romario Williams 66’), Sebastian Guenzatti (Jack Blake 86’).
Indy Eleven Subs: Yannik Oettl, Josh O’Brien, Ben Mines
INDIANA BASEBALL
NORTHWOODS LEAGUE ANNOUNCES 2024, POSTSEASON ALL-STAR TEAM
Rochester, Minn. – The Northwoods League announced the 2024 Postseason All-Star Team and award winners on Saturday, August 10. Willmar outfielder Andrew Sojka was named the League’s Most Valuable Player and Kalamazoo’s Ryan Kraft was named Pitcher of the Year as voted by the League’s coaches and members of the media. Corey Thompson from Wausau was named the Manager of the Year and Kelton Caldwell from Wausau won the Coach of the Year Award.
Sojka was also a 2024 mid-season All-Star for the Stingers. For the season, he is hitting .398 with 22 home runs, 22 doubles, five triples and 73 RBI. He is also the all-time Northwoods League leader in home runs with 37. Sojka is a native of Huntington Beach, California.
Kraft, a left-handed pitcher from the Kalamazoo Growlers, was named the Northwoods League Pitcher of the Year. Kraft has appeared in nine games and is 6-2 with a 1.44 ERA. In 56.1 innings he has struck out 81 batters while walking only 10. He also pitched 1.0 innings in the NWL All-Star game and struck out one.
Rockford Rivets infielder Maddox Mihalakis was also selected for the Postseason All-Star Team and is currently leading the League in batting with a .429 average.
Sojka, Kraft and Mihalakis are among the 34 players selected to the NWL’s Postseason All-Star team. The Duluth Huskies, Green Bay Rockers, Kalamazoo Growlers, and the St. Cloud Rox had three selections each.
In his third season in Wausau as Field Manager, Corey Thompson of the Woodchucks is the 2024 Manager of the Year. The Woodchucks currently have the second-best overall record in the league at 49-19 and are the First Half Champions in the Great Lakes West Division.
Kelton Caldwell earned the award for 2024 Coach of the Year in the Northwoods League. He returned to the Woodchucks in 2024 after spending two summers with Wausau in 2021 and 2022. Caldwell was recently hired to the baseball staff at Keiser University. Prior to his coaching career, Caldwell played collegiately at Brigham Young University and professionally in the Frontier and Australian Baseball Leagues.
PURDUE TRACK
CHARLTON SIXTH IN 100M HURDLES AT OLYMPIC GAMES
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue track & field alumna Devynne Charlton placed sixth in the Olympic final of the 100m hurdles on Saturday, August 10, in Paris.
At her second Olympic Games, Charlton was sixth in 12.56 seconds at the Stade de France. She also placed sixth at the 2020 Tokyo games when she became the first current or former member of the Purdue women’s track & field program to run in an Olympic final.
Representing the Bahamas, Charlton’s 12.56 was 0.37 seconds ahead of the seventh-place finisher. She reached the final after she was seventh overall in the semifinal in 12.50 on August 9 and ninth in the heats in 12.71 on August 7. Both Charlton’s final and semifinal marks bested all three of her times from Tokyo.
Charlton’s sixth-place finishes in both the 2024 and 2020 Olympic Games are the best by a Boilermaker runner, male or female since Larry Burton was fourth in the men’s 200m in 1972 in Munich. Burton was the last Purdue runner to make a final until Charlton, who has now done it in back-to-back Olympics. The track & field program’s most recent medalist was Chris Huffins, who took bronze in the decathlon in 2000.
One week ago, on August 3, fellow Boilermaker alum Chukwuebuka Enekwechi also competed at his second Olympics and placed sixth in the shot put final. Charlton and Enekwechi will be joined in Paris by incoming Purdue senior Joel Gomez, who qualified for the Paralympic Games and will race in the 1,500m T13 from September 2-3.
Charlton and Enekwechi also were announced on Friday as two of eight Boilermaker greats who will be inducted into the Leroy Keyes Purdue Athletics Hall of Fame.
A Boilermaker from 2013-18, Charlton is the school record-holder in the 100m hurdles, 100m, 60m hurdles and 60m. She is a nine-time All-American and an 11-time Big Ten Champion, and was named the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Year three times and the Big Ten Track Athlete of the Championships four times. Charlton was the national runner-up in the 60m hurdles indoors in 2017 and in the 100m hurdles outdoors in 2018.
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NUMBERS IN SPORTS
11 – 3 – 24 – 21 – 29 – 53 – 14 – 44 – 5 – 8 – 21 – 10
August 11, 1907 – St Louis Cardinals pitcher Ed Karger throws a perfect game vs Boston Doves; wins 4-0 in 7 innings at Robison Field, St. Louis
August 11, 1919 – Green Bay Packers football club founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau – named after sponsor Indian Packing Company. As a matter of fact the early Packers jerseys in 1921 had the word “ACME Packers” across the front of them.
August 11, 1926 – Cleveland Indians future Baseball HOF outfielder Tris Speaker hits his 700th double in 7-2 loss to Chicago White Sox at Dunn Field, Cleveland
August 11, 1928 – NY Giants future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell, who would eventually wear Number 11 registered his first MLB victory, a 4-0 shutout of Philadelphia Phillies at the Polo Grounds, NYC
August 11, 1929 – New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth, Number 3 became the first MLB player to hit 500 home runs on a pitch from off Cleveland’s Willis Hudlin in 6-5 loss to the Indians at League Park, Cleveland.
August 11, 1950 – Boston Braves pitcher Vern Bickford, Number 24 tossed a no-hit gem against the Brooklyn Dodgers registering a 7-0 victory for his club at Braves Field
August 11, 1950 – In a 4 for 38 slump, New York Yankees great Joe DiMaggio, wearing Number 5 is benched for first time; replacement Cliff Mapes hits a HR in 7-6 win over Philadelphia Athletics
August 11, 1961 – Milwaukee Braves future Baseball HOF pitcher Warren Spahn, Number 21 records career victory #300; beats Cubs, 2-1 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
August 11, 1962 – LA Dodgers protest as San Francisco manager Alvin Dark orders Candlestick Park ground crew to water down base paths to hinder MLB All-Star Maury Wills’ base-stealing attempts; Giants win 5-4
August 11, 1968 – Satchel Paige, Number 29 at the age 62 and needing 158 days on a MLB payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Atlanta Braves; doesn’t pitch and becomes coach
August 11, 1969 – Future Baseball HOF’er Don Drysdale, Number 53, the last LA Dodger to play in Brooklyn, retires because of damage to his right pitching shoulder
August 11, 1970 – Future Baseball HOF pitcher Jim Bunning, Number 14 became the 2nd Cy Young Award winner to win 100 games in both NL and AL. In the game the Phillies defeated Houston 6-5 at Astrodome
August 11, 1980 – New York Yankees Reggie Jackson, Number 44 smacked his 400th career home run off of Chicago’s Britt Burns
August 11, 1984 – Cincinnati Reds retire Johnny Bench’s Number 5 uniform
August 11, 1988 – It was worth the wait for catcher Gary Carter, Number 8. It took 225 at bats after he smacked his 299th career home run, that the New York Mets Carter became the 59th MLB player to reach 300 HR milestone.
August 11, 1993 – Red Sox Roger Clemens, Number 21 registered his 2,000th career strike out on Danny Tartabul, Number 45 of the NY Yankees.
August 11, 2021 – Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi, Number 10 confirmed his signing a rich 2-year contract with French Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain after leaving FC Barcelona
FOOTBALL HISTORY
Football History for August 11
August 11, 1919 – During the first of what would be two meetings in the editorial rooms of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the preliminary plans to organize a Green Bay professional football team are laid. In essence, the Green Bay Packers were partially founded by Earl “Curly” Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun. Lambeau received $500 from his employer, the Indian Packing Company, on the condition that the team be named after their sponsor. The Packers have played in their original city longer than any other NFL team and the only small market team that is community-owned in the U.S. remains from the league’s early beginnings. The Packers have won 13 league championships and 4 Super Bowls, the most Titles in NFL history per Yahoo.com. The group planned the second meeting for
August 14, 1919 – to finalize. August 11, 1950 – In front of a paid attendance of 88,835 at Chicago’s Soldier Field, the 17th annual NFL Chicago Charities All-Star Game is played and stunningly the College All-Stars triumphed over the Champion Philadelphia Eagles squad 17-7. Collegian Charlie “Choo-Choo” Johnson powered a decisive offensive beating on the Eagles as he ran well and even caught a 35 yard strike from quarterback Eddie LeBaron, who escaped several would-be Philly tacklers in the effort to launch the strike down the field. Running back Steve Van Buren punched the ball over the goal line a late run for the Eagle’s only score. Johnson was voted the game’s MVP.
August 11, 1951 – North of the border the NFL’s NY Giants invade Ottawa, Canada, and overcome the host Roughriders of the CFL 38-6 in an exhibition game. August 11, 1954 – In more CFL action, the British Columbia Lions play their first game, resulting in a loss to the Montreal Alouettes, 22-0.
August 11, 1969 – The NFL goes into Canadian territory once again as the Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the NY Giants 17-13 in Montreal in a preseason exhibition.
August 11, 1990 – Football indoors plays a championship as Arena Bowl IV is played at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan as the Dallas Texans fall to the home team, Detroit Drive 51-27. Art Schlichter is the MVP of the contest.
Not Yet in the Hall of Fame Birthdays
August 11, 1942 – Otis Taylor was a wide receiver/ flanker who played college ball at Prairie View College.
August 11, 1977 – Cooper Carlisle was an offensive lineman from Florida who played for the Broncos and the Raiders in the NFL for a total of 13 seasons.
August 11, 1967 – Detroit, Michigan – Defensive tackle Mike Lodish formerly of the UCLA Bruins from 1986-89 was born. Mike was the 265th overall pick by the Buffalo Bills in the 1990 NFL Draft and later also played for the Denver Broncos.
TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY
Aug. 11
1907 — In the second game of a doubleheader, shortened by agreement, Ed Karger of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched a seven-inning perfect game, beating the Boston Braves 4-0.
1926 — Tris Speaker of Cleveland hit his 700th career double but the Indians lost to the Chicago White Sox, 7-2. The double came in the third inning off Joe Edwards.
1929 — Babe Ruth hit his 500th career home run in the second inning off Willis Hudlin at Cleveland’s League Park. The homer was Ruth’s 30th of the year, but it wasn’t enough as the Indians beat the Yankees 6-5.
1951 — Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Giants 4-0, dropping the Giants 13 1/2 games behind the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers.
1961 — Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves scattered six hits to beat the Chicago Cubs, 2-1, for his 300th career victory.
1970 — Philadelphia’s Jim Bunning beat the Houston Astros 6-5 to become the first pitcher to win 100 games in both leagues since Cy Young.
1980 — Reggie Jackson hits his 400th career home run, off Britt Burns, in the Yankees’ 3 – 1 victory over the White Sox at Yankee Stadium.
1986 — Cincinnati player-manager Pete Rose, 45, singled four times and doubled to set a NL record with the 10th five-hit game of his career. Rose drove in three runs in a 13-4 loss to the San Francisco Giants, to move one ahead of Max Carey for the record.
1987 — Mark McGwire of the Athletics broke Al Rosen’s AL rookie record by hitting his 38th home run in Oakland’s 8-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners.
2004 — Randy Wolf homered twice and threw seven solid innings to lead Philadelphia to a 15-4 victory over Colorado. Wolf went 3-for-3 and scored three runs.
2007 — Rick Ankiel homered twice and drove in three runs, the latest power display by the former pitcher, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-1.
2010 — Arizona tied a major league record by hitting four consecutive home runs, with Adam LaRoche, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds and Stephen Drew all connecting in the fourth inning of an 8-2 win over Milwaukee.
2013 — After Mariano Rivera blew a third straight save for the first time in his famed career, Brett Gardner homered with two outs in the ninth inning to give the New York Yankees a 5-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Rivera with a record 643 saves, had never failed three in a row in 936 relief appearances.
2018 — Oakland’s Ramon Laureano pulled off a spectacular double play and the Athletics beat the Los Angeles Angels 7-0. With one out and Eric Young Jr. on first, Laureano raced into the gap in left-center to haul in Justin Upton’s drive. The rookie center fielder then uncorked a 320-foot throw on a fly to first base to complete the double play. Marcus Semien homered twice and Khris Davis also connected for Oakland.
2022 — The Cubs win the second annual Field of Dreams Game, played in a temporary ballpark near Dyersville, IA, next to the site where the eponymous movie was shot, 4 – 2 over the Reds. Nick Madrigal leads the way, going 3 for 5 as both teams wear retro uniforms for the occasion. Before the game, Ken Griffey Sr. sets the tone by playing a friendly game of catch with his son, Junior, soon joined by a group of kids and then legendary players from both teams in a scene straight out of the iconic movie.
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Aug. 12
1948 — In the second game of a doubleheader, the Cleveland Indians beat the St. Louis Browns 26-3 with a 29-hit barrage. The Indians set a major league record as 14 different players hit safely.
1964 — Mickey Mantle hit a home run both left- and right-handed in a 7-3 win over the Chicago White Sox. It was the 10th time in his career and a major league record for switch-hit homers in a game.
1966 — Art Shamsky of the Cincinnati Reds connected for three home runs in a 14-11, 13-inning loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates at Crosley Field. Two of the homers came in the 10th and 11th innings.
1970 — Curt Flood lost his $41 million antitrust suit against baseball.
1974 — Nolan Ryan of the California Angels set an American League record by striking out 19 in a 4-2 win over the Boston Red Sox. Ryan, who walked two, bettered the 18 strikeouts set by Bob Feller in 1938 and tied the major league record set by Steve Carlton in 1969 and Tom Seaver in 1970.
1984 — Perhaps one of the ugliest brawl-filled games in major league history took place in Atlanta. Atlanta’s Pascual Perez hit San Diego’s Alan Wiggins in the back with the first pitch of the game. It escalated as the Padres pitchers retaliated by throwing at Perez all four times he came to the plate. The game had two bench-clearing brawls, the second of which included several fans and 19 ejections including both managers and both replacement managers. The Braves beat the Padres 5-3. San Diego manager Dick Williams would be suspended for 10 days and fined $10,000 while Atlanta manager Joe Torre and five players each received three-game suspensions.
1986 — Don Baylor of the Boston Red Sox set an AL record when he was hit by a pitch for the 25th time for the season, breaking the record he had shared with Bill Freehan (1968) and Norm Elberfield (1911). Kansas City’s Bud Black was the pitcher as the Royals completed a doubleheader sweep with a 6-5 victory.
1988 — The Boston Red Sox set an AL record with their 23rd straight victory at home, beating the Detroit Tigers 9-4. Boston surpassed the league mark of 22 set by the 1931 Philadelphia Athletics.
1994 — Major league baseball players went on strike for the sport’s eighth work stoppage since 1972.
1998 — Alex Rodriguez becomes the fourth youngest player to 100 home runs in a 11 – 5 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.
2010 — Casey McGehee set a franchise record with his ninth straight hit, going 4 for 4 and leading the Milwaukee Brewers to an 8-4 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks. McGehee had a solo homer, a two-run double, an RBI single and another single.
2015 — Clayton Kershaw tied Sandy Koufax’s franchise record of six straight 200-strikeout seasons while tossing eight scoreless innings, and Los Angeles defeated Washington 3-0. Kershaw struck out the side in the second to equal the mark set by Koufax from 1961-66.
2015 — Hisashi Iwakuma of the Seattle Mariners throws a no-hitter in a 3-0 victory over the Orioles. Iwakuma becomes the second Japanese pitcher to throw a no-hitter following Hideo Nomo.
Aug. 13
1910 — The Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates played to an 8-8 tie. Each team had 38 at-bats, 13 hits, 12 assists, two errors, five strikeouts, three walks, one hit batsman and one passed ball.
1921 — George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns became the first batter in American League history to hit for the cycle twice. Sisler went 5-for-5 and drove in three runs in a 7-5, 10-inning win over the Detroit Tigers.
1921 — John “Mule” Watson of the Boston Braves pitched two complete-game victories over the Philadelphia Phillies.
1931 — Tony Cuccinello of the Cincinnati Reds had six hits in six at-bats in the first game of a doubleheader at Boston. Cuccinello had a triple, two doubles and three singles to knock in five runs as the Reds won 17-3. Cuccinello hit a three-run homer in the eighth of the nightcap to give the Reds a 4-2 win.
1939 — The New York Yankees beat the Philadelphia Athletics 21-0 to equal the major-league record for lopsided shutouts. Every batter in the Yankees lineup hit safely. Joe DiMaggio and Babe Dahlgren had two home runs apiece, each hitting an inside-the-parker. Pitcher Red Ruffing had four hits and drove in three runs.
1948 — Satchel Paige, 42, pitched his first major league complete game against the Chicago White Sox. Paige gave up five hits en route to 5-0 Cleveland victory.
1957 — Milwaukee pitcher Lew Burdette hit his first two home runs to lead the Braves to a 12-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
1969 — Jim Palmer of the Orioles, plagued by arm trouble the year before, threw an 8-0 no-hitter against the Oakland A’s in Baltimore.
1979 — St. Louis’ Lou Brock reached 3,000 hits with an infield hit off Chicago Cubs pitcher Dennis Lamp. St. Louis won 3-2.
2004 — Kansas City rookies Abraham Nunez and John Buck hit grand slams to lead the Royals past the Oakland Athletics 10-3.
2005 — New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera blew his first save since April 6 in a 7-5 win over Texas. Rivera had converted a career-best 31 consecutive saves before allowing Kevin Mench’s two-run, game-tying single in the ninth.
2013 — Paul Goldschmidt hit the first pitch of the 11th inning for a game-ending home run after leading off the ninth with a tying homer, to help Arizona beat Baltimore 4-3 with a winning blast for the second straight night.
2015 — The Toronto Blue Jays won their 11th straight game, beating the Oakland Athletics 4-2. The AL East leaders also won 11 in a row in June, becoming the first team with winning streaks of at least 11 since Cleveland in 1954.
2016 — Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge became the first teammates to hit home runs in the first at-bats of their major league debuts in the same game, sparking the New York Yankees to an 8-4 win over Tampa Bay.
2018 — Ronald Acuna Jr. hit leadoff homers in both games of a doubleheader for the Atlanta Braves.
2020 — Mookie Betts hits three home runs (the 6th of his career) in an 11-2 win over the Padres. the three run home run game ties Betts with Johnny Mize and Sammy Sosa for the most all-time although Betts reached the total in 813 games while Mize needed 1,884 and Sosa 2,364.
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Aug. 14
1919 — Chicago’s Happy Felsch tied the major-league record with four outfield assists in a game. The White Sox still lost to the Boston Red Sox 15-6.
1932 — Brooklyn’s John Quinn, 49, became the oldest pitcher to win a major league game. Quinn pitched the last two innings of a 2-1, 10-inning win over the New York Giants.
1933 — Jimmie Foxx of the Philadelphia Athletics hit for the cycle and drove in nine runs in an 11-5 win over the Cleveland Indians. The nine RBIs set an American League record for one game, breaking the 22-year-old mark set by Topsy Hartzell of the New York Highlanders.
1958 — Vic Power of the Cleveland Indians stole home twice, in the eighth and 10th innings, in a 10-9 win over Detroit. He had only three steals all year.
1960 — Bill White of the St. Louis Cardinals hit for the cycle in a 9-4 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates in the opening game of a doubleheader.
1971 — Bob Gibson of St. Louis pitched a no-hitter, blanking the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-0.
1987 — Oakland’s Mark McGwire set a major league rookie record with his 39th homer of the season to help the A’s to a 7-6, 12-inning victory over the California Angels.
1998 — Baltimore’s Chris Hoiles became the ninth major leaguer and first catcher to hit two grand slams in one game.
2002 — Trevor Hoffman became the first reliever in major league history to have 30 or more saves in eight straight seasons in San Diego’s 6-2 win over the New York Mets.
2007 — Atlanta manager Bobby Cox was ejected after the fifth inning for arguing a called third strike in the Braves’ 5-4 victory over San Francisco. It was his 132nd ejection, breaking the mark set by Hall of Famer John McGraw.
2009 — Felix Pie became the fourth player in Orioles history to hit for the cycle, and Baltimore tied club records for extra-base hits and doubles in a 16-6 rout of the Los Angeles Angels.
2011 — Albert Pujols hit the longest home run at 6-year-old Busch Stadium in the St. Louis Cardinals’ 6-2 win over Colorado. Pujols’ two-run drive in the first inning was estimated at 465 feet.
2013 — Alfonso Soriano homered twice for the second straight night and drove in a career-high seven runs, giving him 13 RBIs in two games while powering the New York Yankees to an 11-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels.
2015 — Matt Kemp hit a triple in the ninth for the first cycle in the history of the San Diego Padres, who beat the Colorado Rockies 9-5.
2018 — Atlanta’s Ronald Acuna Jr., 20, became the youngest major leaguer to homer in five straight games.
2021 — Arizona Diamondbacks Tyler Gilbert became the fourth pitcher and first in 68 years to throw a no-hitter in his initial big league start, leading Arizona over the San Diego Padres 7-0 with the record-tying eighth no-hitter of the season.
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Aug. 15
1905 — Rube Waddell of the Philadelphia Athletics pitched a five-inning no-hit game to beat the St. Louis Browns 2-0.
1916 — In a classic pitching duel, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox beat Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, 1-0, in 13 innings at Fenway Park.
1945 — The Chicago Cubs routed the Brooklyn Dodgers 20-6, at Ebbets Field. Paul Gillespie knocked in six runs with two home runs and a single to lead the attack.
1955 — Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves hit a home run off Mel Wright of the St. Louis Cardinals to give Spahn a homer in every NL park.
1975 — Baltimore manager Earl Weaver was ejected twice by umpire Ron Luciano. Weaver was thrown out in the first game and was ejected before the second game.
1989 — Dave Dravecky of the San Francisco Giants, in his second start after coming back from cancer surgery on his pitching arm, broke his arm but earned the win in a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Expos. In the sixth inning, after throwing a wild pitch to Tim Raines, he collapsed and clutched his left arm in agony.
1990 — Philadelphia’s Terry Mulholland pitched the record eighth no-hitter of the season as the Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants 6-0. The season’s eighth no-hitter surpassed the modern record of seven set in 1908 and 1917.
1990 — Mark McGwire hit a grand slam in the 10th inning to become the first major leaguer to hit 30 or more homers in his first four seasons and lifted the Oakland Athletics to a 6-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox.
2001 — Trevor Hoffman pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 300th career save, completing a two-hitter that lifted the San Diego Padres over the New York Mets 2-1.
2005 — Randy Winn hit for the cycle in his first four at-bats in San Francisco’s 7-3 win over Cincinnati.
2011 — Jim Thome belted his 600th home run an inning after he hit No. 599 to help the Minnesota Twins beat the Detroit Tigers 9-6. Thome became the eighth player to reach 600.
2012 — Felix Hernandez pitched the Seattle Mariners’ first perfect game and the 23rd in baseball history, overpowering the Tampa Bay Rays in a 1-0 victory. It was the third perfect game in baseball of the season — a first — joining gems by Chicago’s Philip Humber against the Mariners in April and San Francisco’s Matt Cain against Houston in June.
2014 — Mo’Ne Davis, one of two girls at the Little League World Series, threw a two-hitter to help Philadelphia beat Nashville 4-0. Davis, the first girl to appear for a U.S. team in South Williamsport since 2004, had eight strikeouts and no walks.
2015 — Jackie Bradley Jr. had two homers, three doubles, and seven RBIs, powering Boston past Seattle 22-10.
2022 — The Rangers fire manager Chris Woodward. While the club is in third place in the AL West after two consecutive last-place finishes, it is still 12 games below .500 and 23 games out of first after having spent some $500 million on free agents in the off-season. He is replaced on an interim basis by coach Tony Beasley.
TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
Aug. 11
1919 — Green Bay Packers football club founded by George Calhoun and Curly Lambeau – named after sponsor Indian Packing Company.
1929 — Babe Ruth is the first MLB player to hit 500 home runs.
1943 — Volo Song, driven by Ben White, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in the third heat.
1948 — Demon Hanover, driven by Harrison Hoyt, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats.
1974 — Lee Trevino beats Jack Nicklaus by one stroke to capture the PGA Championship.
1979 — Peter Haughton wins his second International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway by driving Doublemint to victory.
1984 — Carl Lewis duplicates Jesse Owens′ 1936 feat, winning his 4th Olympic gold medal as part of the US 4 x 100m relay team; world record (37.83).
1984 — Britain’s Sebastian Coe sets an Olympic record in the 1,500 meter with a 3:32.53 winning time.
1985 — Hubert Green beats defending champion Lee Trevino by two strokes to take the PGA Championship.
1986 — Bob Tway’s bunker shot on the final hole gives him the PGA Championship over Greg Norman.
1991 — John Daly, the last alternate to make the field, wins the 73rd PGA Championship with a 1-under 71 to finish three strokes ahead of Bruce Lietzke.
1995 — Michael Johnson wins the 200 meters in 19.79 seconds in the World Track & Field Championships to become the first runner to capture the 200 and 400 meters in a major championship.
1996 — Mark Brooks makes a 5-foot birdie putt on the first hole of a playoff with Kenny Perry to win the PGA Championship.
2002 — Karrie Webb’s latest comeback establishes a new standard of excellence on the LPGA Tour: the Super Slam — winning the four tournaments currently regarded as majors as well as the du Maurier, which lost its major status in 2000 after 21 years. Webb shoots a 6-under 66, rallying from three strokes behind to the first three-time winner in the Women’s British Open.
2008 — The US 4 x 100m freestyle replay team of Michael Phelps, Garrett Weber-Gale, Cullen Jones & Jason Lezak beats France by 8 seconds to win gold and smash world record at the Beijing Olympics.
2012 — Usain Bolt is a perfect 3 for 3 at the London Olympics — three events, three victories — just like Beijing four years ago. Almost even with the last U.S. runner when he gets the baton for the anchor leg of the 4×100 meters, Bolt steadily pulls away down the stretch to cap his perfect Summer Games by leading Jamaica to victory in a world-record 36.84 seconds. Allyson Felix wins her third gold medal, giving the United States a 20-meter lead after the second leg of the 4×400-meter relay. DeeDee Trotter, Felix, Francena McCorory and Sanya Richards-Ross bring home the victory for the Americans’ fifth straight Olympic title in the event.
2012 — Candace Parker scores 21 points and the heavily favored U.S. women’s basketball team wins a fifth straight Olympic gold medal with an 86-50 victory over France.
2013 — Ashton Eaton of the United States wins the decathlon world championship title to add to his Olympic gold medal. He completes his collection with a season-leading total of 8,809 points in a 10-event competition.
2013 — Jason Dufner wins his first major title with a two-stroke victory over Jim Furyk at the PGA Championship.
2016 — Michael Phelps wins his fourth gold medal of the Rio Olympics and 22nd overall with a victory in the 200-meter individual medley. It was the 13th individual gold and 26 medals overall.
2016 — Simone Biles soars to the all-around title in women’s gymnastics at the Rio Olympics. Her total of 62.198 is well clear of silver medalist and “Final Five” teammate Aly Raisman and Russian bronze medalist Aliya Mustafina.
2017 — The NFL suspends Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott six games after a yearlong NFL investigation of his domestic violence case in Ohio.
2021 — Argentine soccer superstar Lionel Messi confirms signing a rich 2-year contract with French Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain after leaving FC Barcelona.
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Aug. 12
1876 — Madeleine wins two straight heats over Canada’s Countess of Dufferin to defend the America’s Cup.
1936 — Rosalind, driven by Ben White, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats.
1937 — Shirley Hanover, driven by Henry Thomas, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in straight heats.
1942 — The Ambassador, driven by Ben White, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in the third heat.
1953 — Helicopter, driven by Harry Harvey, wins the Hambletonian Stakes in the third heat.
1978 — Cold Comfort, driven by 23-year-old Peter Haughton, ties the International Trot mark of 2:31 3-5 at Roosevelt Raceway which makes Haughton the youngest driver to win the International.
1990 — Wayne Grady of Australia sheds his runner-up image with a 3-stroke victory over Fred Couples in the PGA Championship.
1994 — Major league baseball players strike in the sport’s eighth work stoppage since 1972.
1995 — Ernie Els sets a PGA record with the lowest three-day score in a major. Els, with a 197, holds a three-stroke lead in the PGA Championship.
2000 — Evander Holyfield scores a 12-round unanimous decision over John Ruiz in Las Vegas to win the vacant WBA heavyweight title.
2007 — Tiger Woods captures the PGA Championship to win at least one major for the third straight season and run his career total to 13. Woods closes with a 1-under 69 for a two-shot victory over Woody Austin.
2008 — American super-swimmer Michael Phelps wins his 3rd of 8 gold medals at the Beijing Olympics when he takes the 200m freestyle in world record 1:42.96.
2011 — Tiger Woods misses the cut at the PGA Championship at Atlanta Athletic Club. With one final bogey for a 3-over 73, Woods finishes out of the top 100 for the first time ever in a major. He is 15 shots behind Jason Dufner and Keegan Bradley.
2012 — The U.S. men’s basketball team defend its title by fighting off another huge challenge from Spain, pulling away in the final minutes for a 107-100 victory and its second straight Olympic championship. The victory by the men’s basketball team gives the United States its 46th gold medal in London, the most ever by Americans in a “road” Olympics.
2012 — Rory McIlroy breaks the PGA Championship record for margin of victory that Jack Nicklaus set in 1980. McIlroy sinks one last birdie from 25 feet on the 18th hole to give him a 6-under 66 for an eight-shot victory. McIlroy closes out a remarkable week by playing bogey-free over the final 23 holes of a demanding Ocean Course at Kiawah Island, S.C.
2016 — Katie Ledecky caps off one of the greatest performances in Olympic history with her fourth gold medal and second world record, shattering her own mark in the 800-meter freestyle. Ledecky is the first woman since Debbie Meyer swept the three longer freestyle events at the same Olympics. Meyer took the 200, 400 and 800 at the 1968 Mexico Games.
2017 — Usain Bolt ends his stellar career in excruciating pain. The Jamaican great crumples to the track with a left-leg injury while chasing a final gold medal for the Jamaican 4×100-meter relay team at the world championships in London. Having to make up lots of ground on the anchor leg, Bolt suddenly screams and stumbles as he comes down with the first injury he has experienced at a major competition.
2018 — Brooks Koepka wins his first PGA Championship, playing poised and mistake-free golf down the stretch amid ear-splitting roars for Tiger Woods and a late charge from revitalized Adam Scott. Koepka becomes the fifth player to win the U.S. Open and the PGA in the same year.
Aug. 13
1919 — Upset scores a win against Man o’ War in the Sanford Memorial Stakes at Saratoga. The defeat is Big Red’s only loss in 21 starts.
1933 — Gene Sarazen wins the PGA Championship by defeating Willie Goggin 5 and 4 in the final round.
1935 — The first roller derby begins in Chicago by promoter Leo Seltzer.
1979 — Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals reaches 3,000 career hits with an infield hit off Chicago Cubs pitcher Dennis Lamp.
1987 — Jackie Joyner-Kersee equals the world record in the women’s long jump — 24 feet, 5½ inches — in the Pan American Games at Indianapolis. She matches the mark set in 1986 by Heike Dreschler of East Germany.
1995 — Cuba’s Ana Quirot, severely burned in a 1993 kitchen accident, wins the 800 meters at the world championships at Gothenburg, Sweden.
1995 — Steve Elkington shoots a final-round 64 and birdies the first playoff hole to beat Colin Montgomerie and win the PGA Championship. The 64 is the lowest final round by a PGA Championship winner.
1997 — Wilson Kipketer topples Sebastian Coe’s 16-year-old record in the 800 meters, finishing in 1 minute, 41.24 seconds in Zurich, Switzerland. Haile Gebrselassie also shatters his own 5,000 record with a time of 12 minutes, 41.86 seconds.
2002 — Natalie Coughlin breaks the 100-meter backstroke world record, timed in 59.58 seconds at the U.S. national championships. She is the first American to hold the world record since Catherine Ferguson in 1966.
2008 — Michael Phelps swims into history as the winningest Olympic athlete with his 10th and 11th career gold medals and five world records in five events at the Beijing Games. He wins the 200-meter butterfly and swims leadoff for the U.S. 800 freestyle relay team.
2016 — The U.S. women’s 4×100-meter medley relay team of Kathleen Baker, Lilly King, Dana Vollmer and Simone Manuel — winners at the Rio Games — delivers the nation’s 1,000th gold medal in Summer Olympics history. Michael Phelps closes the Rio Olympics with a gold medal in the butterfly leg of the 4×100 medley relay. Phelps finishes his career with 28 medals, having won five golds and a silver at these games.
Aug. 14
1903 — Jim Jeffries knocks out Jim Corbett in the 10th round to retain his world heavyweight title in San Francisco.
1936 — In Berlin, the U.S. wins the first Olympic basketball gold medal with a 19-8 win over Canada. The game is played outdoors on a dirt court in a driving rain. Joe Fortenberry leads the U.S. with seven points. James Naismith, the inventor of the game, presents the medals.
1959 — The formation of the American Football League is announced in Chicago. Play will begin in 1960 with franchises in six cities with the probability of adding two more teams.
1977 — Lanny Wadkins beats Gene Littler on the third hole of sudden death to take the PGA Championship.
1977 — The Cosmos, led by Pele, play before a Meadowlands crowd of 77,961 in East Rutherford, N.J., the most to see a soccer game in the U.S. The Cosmos beat the Fort Lauderdale Strikers 8-3 in an NASL quarterfinal playoff game.
1994 — Nick Price wins the PGA Championship, finishing at 11-under 269 for 72 holes, six strokes ahead of Corey Pavin. It is the lowest stroke total in an American major championship.
2003 — The New York blackout forces the evacuation of workers and players from Shea Stadium hours before the Mets-Giants game. It’s the only major league baseball game affected by the blackout that stretches from the Northeast to Ohio and Michigan. Elsewhere, two WNBA games are postponed, and Yonkers (N.Y.) Raceway cancels its card.
2005 — The U.S. 4×400 relay team, anchored by Jeremy Wariner, races to a record 14th gold medal for the United States at the field world championships.
2011 — Keegan Bradley wins the PGA Championship after trailing by five shots with three holes and then defeating Jason Dufner in a three-hole playoff. Bradley becomes the third player in at least 100 years to win a major championship in his first try.
2014 — Rob Manfred is elected baseball’s 10th commissioner, winning a three-man race to succeed Bud Selig.
2016 — South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk breaks Michael Johnson’s 17-year-old world record in the 400-meter final in Rio de Janeiro. Usain Bolt becomes the first to capture three straight 100-meter titles at the Olympics. He finishes in 9.81 — 0.08 seconds ahead of Justin Gatlin.
2019 — French woman Stephanie Frappart is the first woman to referee a major match in a European men’s tournament. UEFA Super Cup, Chelsea vs. Liverpool in Istanbul.
2021 — Arizona Diamondbacks Tyler Gilbert became the fourth pitcher and first in 68 years to throw a no-hitter in his initial big league start, leading Arizona over the San Diego Padres 7-0 with the record-tying eighth no-hitter of the season.
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Aug. 15
1948 — Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins the U.S. Women’s Open golf title over Betty Hicks.
1950 — Ezzard Charles knocks out Freddie Beshore in the 14th round to retain his world heavyweight title.
1965 — Dave Marr edges Jack Nicklaus and Billy Casper to take the PGA Championship.
1966 — Jose Torres retains his world light-heavyweight title with a unanimous decision over Eddie Cotton in Las Vegas.
1993 — Greg Norman lips his putt on the PGA Championship’s second playoff hole, giving Paul Azinger the title and leaving Norman with an unprecedented career of Grand Slam playoff losses. Norman, despite winning his second British Open title a month earlier, has lost playoffs in three other majors — 1984 U.S. Open, 1987 Masters, 1989 British Open.
1993 — Damon Hill, son of the late Graham Hill, becomes the first father-son Formula One winners when he takes the Hungarian Grand Prix.
1995 — Monica Seles returns to the WTA Tour after a 28-month absence following her 1993 stabbing with a 6-0, 6-3 win over Kimberly Po at the Canadian Open.
1999 — Tiger Woods makes a par save on the 17th hole and holds on to win the PGA Championship by one stroke over 19-year-old Sergio Garcia. Woods, 23, becomes the youngest player to win two majors since Seve Ballesteros in 1980.
2004 — In Athens, Greece, the U.S. men’s basketball team loses 92-73 to Puerto Rico, the third Olympic defeat for the Americans and first since adding pros. American teams had been 24-0 since the professional Olympic era began with the 1992 Dream Team. The U.S Olympic team’s record was 109-2, entering the game.
2005 — Phil Mickelson delivers another dramatic finish in a major, flopping a chip out of deep rough to 2 feet for a birdie on the final hole and a one-shot victory in the PGA Championship.
2007 — Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy pleads guilty to felony charges for taking cash payoffs from gamblers and betting on games he officiated in a scandal that rocked the league and raised questions about the integrity of the sport.
2010 — Martin Kaymer wins the PGA Championship in a three-hole playoff against Bubba Watson. Dustin Johnson, with a one-shot lead playing the final hole at Whistling Straits, is penalized two strokes for grounding his club in a bunker on the last hole. The two-shot penalty sends him into a tie for fifth.
2012 — Felix Hernandez pitches the Seattle Mariners’ first perfect game and the 23rd in baseball history, overpowering the Tampa Bay Rays in a brilliant 1-0 victory. It’s the third perfect game in baseball this season.
2012 — The U.S. breaks a 75-year winless streak at Azteca Stadium with an 80th-minute goal by Michael Orozco Fiscal and Tim Howard’s late sprawling saves in a 1-0 victory over Mexico.
2014 — Mo’Ne Davis, one of two girls at the Little League World Series, throws a two-hitter to help Philadelphia beat Nashville 4-0 in the opener for both teams. Davis, the first girl to appear for a U.S. team in South Williamsport since 2004, has eight strikeouts and no walks.
TV SPORTS SUNDAY, AUG. 11
AUTO RACING
10 a.m.
CBSSN — FIM Motocross: The MX2, Uddevalla, Sweden
11 a.m.
CBSSN — FIM Motocross: The MXGP, Uddevalla, Sweden
6 p.m.
USA — NASCAR Cup Series: The Cook Out 400, Richmond Raceway, Richmond, Va.
2 a.m. (Monday)
CNBC — Pro Motocross Championship: The Unadilla National, New Berlin, N.Y. (Taped)
BIG3 BASKETBALL
1 p.m.
CBS — Week 9 Playoffs: Bivouac vs. Tri-State AND 3’s Company vs. Enemies, Semifinals, Nashville, Tenn.
CANADIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE
7 p.m.
CBSSN — B.C. at Edmonton
FISHING
8 a.m.
FS1 — Bassmaster Elite Series: The 2024 Tackle Warehouse Bassmaster Elite at Lake Champlain, Plattsburgh, N.Y.
FITNESS
4 p.m.
ESPN — CrossFit Games: From Fort Worth, Texas
GOLF
1 p.m.
GOLF — PGA Tour: The Wyndham Championship, Final Round, Sedgefield CC, Greensboro, N.C.
3 p.m.
CBS — PGA Tour: The Wyndham Championship, Final Round, Sedgefield CC, Greensboro, N.C.
GOLF — USGA: U.S Women’s Amateur, Championship Match, Southern Hills Country Club, Tulsa, Okla.
6 p.m.
GOLF — PGA Tour Champions: The Boeing Classic, Final Round, The Club at Snoqualmie Ridge, Snoqualmie, Wash.
HORSE RACING
1 p.m.
FS1 — NYRA: Saratoga Live
2 p.m.
FS2 — NYRA: Saratoga Live
3:30 p.m.
FS1 — NYRA: Saratoga Live
LACROSSE (WOMEN’S)
2 p.m.
ESPN2 — Athletes Unlimited: Team Kennedy vs. Team Moreno, Sparks Glencoe, Md.
4:30 p.m.
ESPNU — Athletes Unlimited: Team North vs. Team Apuzzo, Sparks Glencoe, Md.
LITTLE LEAGUE SOFTBALL
Noon
ESPN — Little League Softball World Series: TBD, Third-Place Game, Greenville, N.C.
3 p.m.
ABC — Little League Softball World Series: TBD, Championship, Greenville, N.C.
MLB BASEBALL
1:30 p.m.
MLBN — Regional Coverage: Texas at N.Y. Yankees OR Baltimore at Tampa Bay
4:30 p.m.
MLBN — Regional Coverage: Philadelphia at Arizona (4:10 p.m.) OR Pittsburgh at L.A. Dodgers (4:10 p.m.)
7 p.m.
ESPN — N.Y. Mets at Seattle
ESPN2 — N.Y. Mets at Seattle (StatCast)
NFL FOOTBALL
1 p.m.
NFLN — Preseason: Denver at Indianapolis
4:30 p.m.
NFLN — Preseason: Dallas at L.A. Rams
OLYMPICS
2 p.m.
NBC — Best of Paris 2024 (Taped)
3 p.m.
NBC — 2024 XXXIII Olympic Closing Ceremony: From Paris
RODEO
Noon
CBS — PBR: Camping World Team Series, New York (Taped)
RUGBY (WOMEN’S)
4:05 a.m.
FS2 — NRL: St. George Illawarra at Newcastle
TENNIS
1 p.m.
TENNIS — Montreal-ATP, Toronto-WTA Semifinals
7 p.m.TENNIS — Montreal-ATP, Toronto-WTA Semifinals