“THE SCOREBOARD”
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCORES
DETROIT 10 CLEVELAND 1
NY METS 7 WASHINGTON 0
CINCINNATI 8 COLORADO 1
PITTSBURGH 1 MILWAUKEE 0
TORONTO 5 SAN FRANCISCO 3
PHILADELPHIA 5 LA DODGERS 1
CHICAGO CUBS 8 BALTIMORE 0
TAMPA BAY 5 NY YANKEES 4
BOSTON 7 OAKLAND 0
HOUSTON 6 MIAMI 3
SEATTLE 11 LA ANGELS 0
ARIZONA 1 ATLANTA 0
MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SCORES
COLUMBUS AT INDIANAPOLIS PPD
GREAT LAKES 4 FT. WAYNE 1
FT. WAYNE 3 GREAT LAKES 2
DAYTON 6 SOUTH BEND 1
NBA SUMMER LEAGUE SCORES
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WNBA SCORES
NEW YORK 91 CHICAGO 76
MLS
NO GAMES SCHEDULED
INDIANA FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
AUG 31 FIU
SEPT 7 WESTERN ILLINOIS
SEPT 14 AT UCLA
SEPT 21 CHARLOTTE
SEPT 28 MARYLAND
OCT 5 AT NORTHWESTERN
OCT 12 OPEN DATE
OCT 19 NEBRASKA
OCT 26 WASHINGTON
NOV 2 AT MICHIGAN STATE
NOV 9 MICHIGAN
NOV 16 OPEN DATE
NOV 23 AT OHIO STATE
NOV 30 PURDUE
PURDUE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
AUG 31 OPEN DATE
SEPT 7 INDIANA STATE
SEPT 14 NOTRE DAME
SEPT 21 AT OREGON STATE
SEPT 28 NEBRASKA
OCT 5 AT WISCONSIN
OCT 12 AT ILLINOIS
OCT 19 OREGON
OCT 26 OPEN DATE
NOV 2 NORTHWESTERN
NOV 9 AT OHIO STATE
NOV 16 PENN STATE
NOV 23 AT MICHIGAN STATE
NOV 30 AT INDIANA
NOTRE DAME FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
AUG 31 AT TEXAS A&M
SEPT 7 NORTHERN ILLINOIS
SEPT 14 AT PURDUE
SEPT 21 MIAMI UNIVERSITY
SEPT 28 LOUISVILLE
OCT 5 OPEN DATE
OCT 12 STANFORD
OCT 19 AT GEORGIA TECH
OCT 26 VS NAVY (IN EAST RUTHERFORD)
NOV 2 OPEN DATE
NOV 9 FLORIDA STATE
NOV 16 VIRGINIA
NOV 23 ARMY (IN BRONX)
NOV 30 AT USC
BALL STATE FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
AUG 31 OPEN DATE
SEPT 7 MISSOURI STATE
SEPT 14 AT MIAMI
SEPT 21 AT CENTRAL MICHIGAN
SEPT 28 AT JAMES MADISON
OCT 5 WESTERN MICHIGAN
OCT 12 AT KENT STATE
OCT 19 AT VANDERBILT
OCT 26 NORTHERN ILLINOIS
NOV 2 MIAMI UNIVERSITY
NOV 9 OPEN DATE
NOV 12 AT BUFFALO
NOV 23 BOWLING GREEN
NOV 29 AT OHIO
NFL TRAINING CAMP DATES
ARIZONA CARDINALS
ROOKIES: JULY 23. VETERANS: JULY 23.
ATLANTA FALCONS
ROOKIES: JULY 24. VETERANS: JULY 24.
BALTIMORE RAVENS
ROOKIES: JULY 13. VETERANS: JULY 20.
BUFFALO BILLS
ROOKIES: JULY 16. VETERANS: JULY 23.
CAROLINA PANTHERS
ROOKIES: JULY 19. VETERANS: JULY 23.
CHICAGO BEARS
ROOKIES: JULY 16. VETERANS: JULY 19.
CINCINNATI BENGALS
ROOKIES: JULY 20. VETERANS: JULY 23.
CLEVELAND BROWNS
ROOKIES: JULY 22. VETERANS: JULY 23.
DALLAS COWBOYS
ROOKIES: JULY 24. VETERANS: JULY 24.
DENVER BRONCOS
ROOKIES: JULY 17. VETERANS: JULY 23.
DETROIT LIONS
ROOKIES: JULY 20. VETERANS: JULY 23.
GREEN BAY PACKERS
ROOKIES: JULY 17. VETERANS: JULY 21.
HOUSTON TEXANS
ROOKIES: JULY 17. VETERANS: JULY 17.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS
ROOKIES: JULY 24. VETERANS: JULY 24.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS
ROOKIES: JULY 19. VETERANS: JULY 23.
KANSAS CITY CHIEFS
ROOKIES: JULY 16. VETERANS: JULY 20.
LAS VEGAS RAIDERS
ROOKIES: JULY 21. VETERANS: JULY 23.
LOS ANGELES CHARGERS
ROOKIES: JULY 16. VETERANS: JULY 23.
LOS ANGELES RAMS
ROOKIES: JULY 23. VETERANS: JULY 23.
MIAMI DOLPHINS
ROOKIES: JULY 16. VETERANS: JULY 23.
MINNESOTA VIKINGS
ROOKIES: JULY 21. VETERANS: JULY 23.
NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS
ROOKIES: JULY 19. VETERANS: JULY 23.
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS
ROOKIES: JULY 16. VETERANS: JULY 23.
NEW YORK GIANTS
ROOKIES: JULY 16. VETERANS: JULY 23.
NEW YORK JETS
ROOKIES: JULY 18. VETERANS: JULY 23.
PHILADELPHIA EAGLES
ROOKIES: JULY 23. VETERANS: JULY 23.
PITTSBURGH STEELERS
ROOKIES: JULY 24. VETERANS: JULY 24.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS
ROOKIES: JULY 16. VETERANS: JULY 23.
SEATTLE SEAHAWKS
ROOKIES: JULY 17. VETERANS: JULY 23.
TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS
ROOKIES: JULY 22. VETERANS: JULY 23.
TENNESSEE TITANS
ROOKIES: JULY 23. VETERANS: JULY 23.
WASHINGTON COMMANDERS
ROOKIES: JULY 18. VETERANS: JULY 23.
NFL WEEK ONE SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, SEPT. 5
- BALTIMORE RAVENS AT KANSAS CITY CHIEFS, 8:20 P.M. ET (NBC)
FRIDAY, SEPT. 6
- GREEN BAY PACKERS VS. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES (IN SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL), 8:15 P.M. ET (PEACOCK)
SUNDAY, SEPT. 8
- PITTSBURGH STEELERS AT ATLANTA FALCONS, 1 P.M. ET (FOX)
- ARIZONA CARDINALS AT BUFFALO BILLS, 1 P.M. ET (CBS)
- TENNESSEE TITANS AT CHICAGO BEARS, 1 P.M. ET (FOX)
- NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS AT CINCINNATI BENGALS, 1 P.M. ET (CBS)
- HOUSTON TEXANS AT INDIANAPOLIS COLTS, 1 P.M. ET (CBS)
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS AT MIAMI DOLPHINS, 1 P.M. ET (CBS)
- CAROLINA PANTHERS AT NEW ORLEANS SAINTS, 1 P.M. ET (FOX)
- MINNESOTA VIKINGS AT NEW YORK GIANTS, 1 P.M. ET (FOX)
- LAS VEGAS RAIDERS AT LOS ANGELES CHARGERS, 4:05 P.M. ET (CBS)
- DENVER BRONCOS AT SEATTLE SEAHAWKS, 4:05 P.M. ET (CBS)
- DALLAS COWBOYS AT CLEVELAND BROWNS, 4:25 P.M. ET (CBS)
- 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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BASKETBALL NEWS
HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE NBA’S UPCOMING 11-YEAR, $76 BILLION MEDIA RIGHTS DEAL
The NBA might not be happy with the NFL making Christmas Day a regular part of its schedule. However, its new media rights deals nearly put the two leagues in the same economic arena.
The NBA’s 11-year, $76 billion contract package would kick in with the 2025-26 season. The deal is for the same number of years as the NFL’s most recent agreement, which began with the 2023 season.
The deals with ESPN/ABC, NBC and Amazon Prime Video will average $6.9 billion per season. The NFL averages $10 billion per year, but that is with five networks. Depending on how things fare with TNT Sports, the NBA could cross the $7 billion threshold.
The NFL remains the top attraction because of its ratings and advertising prowess. The NBA is a firm second and can command top dollar due to its younger viewers as well as having a ton of content.
When does this become final?
At least not for a couple of weeks. The NBA has a board of governors meeting in Las Vegas next week and could approve the deal there. Once the league sends the finished contracts to TNT Sports, it would have five days to match one of the deals.
Does TNT Sports have any chance?
Very slim. And if the NBA really wanted to keep one of its legacy partners in the game, it could have carved out a limited fourth package of games by now.
With TNT’s recent acquisitions of the French Open, College Football Playoff early-round games, the Big East and Mountain West, it appears owner Warner Bros. Discovery is preparing for life without the NBA in the fall of 2025. Turner Sports has had the NBA since 1984.
TNT Sports is paying $1.4 billion per season. Considering the amounts of the three proposed packages, that would make the Prime Video rights the one it would be likely to try to match.
Why is the deal so long?
Leagues want economic certainty. For the networks and media companies that hold the rights, live sports continue to be prime real estate for advertisers.
How will this benefit the fan?
You may need to go to your channel guide often, but during the last three months of the regular season there will be a national NBA telecast every night on either ABC, ESPN, NBC, Peacock or Prime Video.
Who has the top package?
ESPN and ABC will continue to be home to the league’s marquee matchups, as well as the NBA Finals.
Even though the NBA will have two broadcast partners for the first time, the Walt Disney Company was adamant about not sharing the Finals. It will cost Disney $2.6 billion per year, which is just shy of the $2.7 billion per season it pays to the NFL for “Monday Night Football,” two playoff games and the Super Bowl in 2027 and 2031.
Under the current nine-year deal which expires next season, ESPN/ABC pay $1.4 billion per year.
Welcome back, NBC
The network that carried all six of Michael Jordan’s title runs with the Chicago Bulls and the first three of Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant’s championships with the Los Angeles Lakers returns after carrying games from 1990 through 2002.
NBC will air a Sunday night package of games once the NFL regular season is over as well as NBA All-Star Weekend. It will regularly air games on Tuesday nights and have a package of Monday games streaming on Peacock.
NBC’s deal averages $2.5 billion per season, which is more than the $2 billion it gives to the NFL for “Sunday Night Football.”
Dose this mean ‘Roundball Rock’ is coming back?
Yes. You don’t have to wait until the fall of 2025 to hear it though because NBC licenses it for its basketball coverage during the Olympics.
Is the NBA entering the streaming world?
Yes, with Prime Video. It will carry games on Thursday night after the NFL regular season ends, along with games on Friday and Saturday.
Prime Video will also be the main network for the in-season tournament. It will average paying $1.8 billion per season (its deal with the NFL averages $1.1 billion per year).
Because ABC has the NBA Finals, who gets the rest of the playoffs?
All the networks will have games during the first two rounds. When it comes to the conference finals, ESPN/ABC has one series each season while NBC and Amazon Prime Video will alternate who carries the other one.
What does this mean for the NBA?
Labor peace was achieved with a new Collective Bargaining Agreement. The media rights are about to be done. That puts expansion by at least two teams to 32 on deck. The expansion fees will also carry a nice financial windfall for teams.
For players, it means the league’s salary cap will see an annual 10% increase. Get ready for the possibility that the top players may be earning somewhere near $100 million per season by the mid-2030s.
Is the WNBA part of this rights deal?
Yes. All three partners will carry games. ESPN/ABC and Prime Video already have games while NBC will return to carrying the WNBA after doing the first six seasons (1997 through 2002). It is possible the WNBA could still add more partners like it has in recent seasons.
US WOMEN’S BASKETBALL TEAM LOOKS TO CONTINUE OLYMPIC DOMINANCE, SEEKING 8TH STRAIGHT GOLD IN PARIS
The U.S. women’s basketball team is on a historic run, winning seven straight Olympic gold medals. While no one has come close to ending that streak, the rest of the world is getting better.
The Americans, who haven’t lost an Olympic contest since 1992, won by an average of 16 points in the Tokyo Games. That was their smallest margin of victory since the streak started at the 1996 Atlanta Games.
The biggest challenge for the U.S. will once again be the limited prep time to practice as unit. The complete team will be together for the first time right before the Paris Games.
“The rest of the world is definitely improving,” six-time Olympic participant Diana Taurasi said. “It’s not as easy as it’s looked over the years.”
The 42-year-old Taurasi would know; she has been a part of the last five U.S. Olympic teams. She will be going for a record sixth gold medal in Paris.
The U.S. is trying to break a tie with the American men’s basketball team for most consecutive gold medals. The men won seven straight from 1936-68. The two basketball teams hold the longest streak for golds in a traditional team sport in Olympic history.
The Americans understand what’s ahead and are focused on the present and not their past. The goal is just to win in Paris and not look at the bigger picture of continuing the dynasty.
“That can’t be your every day thought and then you lose sight of what it takes to get there,” U.S. coach Cheryl Reeve said. “That’s the biggest thing you have to block out. There’s a huge narrative we can’t escape with this being one of the greatest sports dynasties ever. It’s our first experience together with this group and this is our special journey, it’s about one gold medal.”
It’s definitely a special time for Brittney Griner, who is returning to the team for the Olympics. She missed the 2022 World Cup when she was wrongfully detained in Russia for 10 months. She has said that she’ll only play overseas with USA Basketball.
“We were all thinking of BG when she was away and we didn’t know if this moment would be possible,” Reeve said. “I’m thrilled for her personally and thrilled for our basketball team.”
The Americans are in a pool with Japan, Belgium and Germany. The Japanese team were silver medalists at the 2021 Tokyo Games. Group A features Serbia, Spain, China, and Puerto Rico. Group B is comprised of Canada, France, Australia and Nigeria.
Play begins on Sunday, July 28 and ends with the gold medal game on the final day of the Olympics.
Here are some other things to watch for:
Welcome back Lauren
Australia will receive a huge lift with the return of Lauren Jackson. The four-time WNBA MVP won three Olympic silver medals and one bronze with the Opals before retiring from playing in 2016 after knee injuries derailed her career. She returned for the 2022 World Cup in Australia and led the team to a bronze medal. Now the 43-year-old forward will be playing in her fifth Olympics.
“What Lauren has done is simply amazing,” Australia coach Sandy Brondello said. “She has a great basketball IQ and certainly will help us.”
Newcomers
Germany is making its first Olympic appearance led by the Sabally sisters — Nyara and Satou (who plays with the Dallas Wings). The Germans will host the 2026 World Cup and hope to have a strong showing in Paris where they are in a tough pool with the U.S., Belgium and Japan.
“We’re just there to have fun,” Nyara Sabally said. “It’s basketball, you never know what’s going to happen. I’m really confident in our team and I think we have a really good team.
Looking for a win
African nations haven’t fared well at the Olympics, going 1-36 with Nigeria getting the lone victory in the 2004 Athens Games when they topped Korea in the 11th place contest. Nigeria will look to end that drought as the country plays in its third Olympics.
KINGS ROOKIE DEVIN CARTER (SHOULDER) OUT AT LEAST 6 MONTHS
Sacramento rookie guard Devin Carter will miss at least six months after undergoing left shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum, the Kings announced on Thursday.
Carter, 22, was the 13th overall pick in last month’s NBA draft after earning Big East Player of the Year at Providence (career-high 19.7 points, 8.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists) in 2023-24.
Carter played one season at South Carolina before transferring to Providence for the past two seasons. In 96 college games (73 starts), Carter averaged 14.1 points, 5.9 rebounds and 2.7 assists.
Last weekend, the Kings obtained six-time All-Star guard DeMar DeRozan in a three-team sign-and-trade with the San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls.
In the deal, Sacramento sent forward Harrison Barnes and an unprotected 2031 pick swap to the Spurs. The Bulls acquired swingman Chris Duarte, a pair of second-round draft picks and cash from the Kings and two-player RaiQuan Gray from the Spurs.
VETERAN G KYLE LOWRY BACK WITH 76ERS ONE-YEAR DEAL
Six-time All-Star guard Kyle Lowry is returning to play for his hometown Philadelphia 76ers, he said on Instagram Thursday.
Lowry’s new deal with the Sixers is a one-year contract, according to ESPN.
Lowry, 38, signed with Philadelphia midseason after the Miami Heat traded him to the Charlotte Hornets in late January and Charlotte waived him three weeks later. Lowry is a Philadelphia native who played his college basketball at nearby Villanova.
He played in 23 regular-season games for the Sixers, making 20 starts, and put up 8.0 points, 4.6 assists and 2.8 rebounds per game. He also shot 40.4 percent from 3-point range.
Lowry posted an 18-point game in the 76ers’ first game of the playoffs, going on to average 7.0 points, 4.0 assists and 3.5 rebounds in the six-game series loss to the New York Knicks.
Lowry made six straight All-Star Games and received league MVP votes in 2015-16 during his run with the Toronto Raptors. He helped guide the Raptors to the 2019 NBA title.
In 18 NBA seasons with Memphis (2006-09), Houston (2009-12), Toronto (2012-21), Miami (2021-24) and Philadelphia, Lowry has career averages of 14.3 points, 6.2 assists, 4.3 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game.
SCHEDULE REVEALED FOR NEWLY RENAMED EMIRATES NBA CUP
The NBA is preparing for the second year of its in-season tournament, now branded as the Emirates NBA Cup.
The league said Thursday that the second annual tournament will begin Nov. 12 with regular-season fixtures designated as NBA Cup games.
As with last year’s competition, teams will be drawn into six groups of five for a single round robin. Group play games will take place across four Tuesdays (Nov. 12, Nov. 19, Nov. 26 and Dec. 3) and three Fridays (Nov. 15, Nov. 22 and Nov. 29).
The quarterfinals of the single-elimination knockout bracket will be played Dec. 10 and 11. Then the tournament will shift from NBA team markets to Las Vegas, where T-Mobile Arena (home of the NHL’s Golden Knights) will host the semifinals on Dec. 14 and the championship game on Dec. 17.
The NBA Cup groups will be drawn Friday night during a live ESPN broadcast.
The Los Angeles Lakers won the inaugural in-season tournament, defeating the Indiana Pacers in the championship game.
The NBA announced in February that a new partnership with Emirates would include branding the in-season tournament with the airline’s name beginning with the coming season.
WNBA NEWS
LIBERTY AVENGE LOSS TO SKY; ANGEL REESE EXTENDS RECORD
Sabrina Ionescu scored 11 of her 21 points in the fourth quarter as the host New York Liberty overcame a sluggish first half and beat the Chicago Sky 91-76 on Thursday night.
Ionescu missed her first seven shots and finished 7 of 17 from the field in front of the largest crowd (17,758) in team history. The guard also made four 3s after shooting 3 of 21 from behind the arc in New York’s previous two home games.
Breanna Stewart added 19 points as the Liberty (19-4) overcame a 13-point deficit in the first half and extended their home winning streak to nine. Jonquel Jones added 18 points and 13 rebounds while reserve Kayla Thornton scored 16 and Leonie Fiebich contributed 13 as the Liberty shot 47.6 percent and hit 13 of 23 3s.
Rookie Angel Reese collected 10 points and 10 rebounds to extend her WNBA-record streak to 15 straight double-doubles but Chicago (9-13) was unable to earn its second win this season in New York.
Chennedy Carter paced all scorers with 22 points and Marina Mabrey added 15 as the Sky shot 45.9 percent and scored 56 points in the paint.
After taking a one-point lead into the fourth, New York began to surge ahead midway through the period. Chicago got to within two following a 16-footer by Carter with 7:38 left but less than two minutes later, Thornton hit a 3 to give New York a 75-68 lead.
Ionescu hit a 3 to push the lead to 78-70 with 4:22 remaining and her 31-foot 3 extended the margin to 81-72 with 3:41 left before two free throws by Thornton made it 85-72 with 2:09 to go to essentially clinch the win.
Chicago held a 37-24 lead on a basket by Reese with six minutes left in the second quarter but was outscored 14-3 over the rest of the half and settled for a 40-38 lead at halftime on a basket by rookie Kamilla Cardoso with 41.6 seconds left.
Consecutive hoops by Isabelle Harrison gave Chicago a 53-48 lead with 5 1/2 minutes left in the third quarter but New York scored the next 11 points to take a 59-53 lead on Fiebich’s 3 with 2:49 left. Chicago evened the game at 62 on a basket by Reese with 50.9 seconds left but New York entered the fourth with a 63-62 lead following a free throw by Ionescu.
FOOTBALL NEWS
TITANS SIGN SAFETY JAMAL ADAMS TO FURTHER REVAMP THEIR SECONDARY
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans signed three-time Pro Bowl safety Jamal Adams on Thursday.
The 28-year-old was the sixth pick overall in 2017 by the New York Jets and was an All-Pro in 2019. Adams was traded to the Seattle Seahawks three years later. He was released by the team in March.
Seattle felt Adams was the missing piece when it sent two first-round picks to the Jets before the 2020 season. They stayed true to the commitment when the Seahawks signed Adams to a four-year deal worth up to $70 million after his first year in Seattle.
Adams suffered through injuries to his shoulder and fingers, but the most impactful to his career was a torn quadriceps tendon suffered in the 2022 season opener. It took more than a year for Adams to return and when he did, he was limited in how much he could play.
Adams had two years left on his contract with Seattle but no more guaranteed money.
The move further revamps the Titans’ secondary.
General manager Ran Carthon added two cornerbacks since the end of last season, trading for Chiefs standout L’Jarius Sneed after signing Chidobe Awuzie in free agency.
Joining the Titans will offer Adams the chance to work with new Tennessee defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson, who was his defensive backs coach with the Jets.
Adams has 494 tackles, 21 1/2 sacks, four interceptions, including one returned for a touchdown, 36 passes defensed, 50 tackles for loss, seven forced fumbles and four fumble recoveries in 80 starts. Since 2017, his sack total is the most in the NFL by a defensive back.
ROGER GOODELL: NFL DISAGREES WITH SUNDAY TICKET VERDICT
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Thursday that the league feels “very strongly about our position” and plans to follow the litigation in response to the recent verdict involving DirectTV’s Sunday Ticket packages.
A Los Angeles jury ordered the NFL last month to pay $4.7 billion in damages to the residential class and $96 million to the commercial class after it voted unanimously that the league, DirecTV, CBS and Fox colluded to increase the price of the game packages. The NFL could be on the hook for billions more, however, because damages are tripled under federal antitrust laws.
“We obviously disagree with the jury verdict and we are committed, obviously, to following the legal process,” Goodell said during an interview with CNBC. “It’s a long process and we’re aware of that. But we feel very strongly about our position, our policies, particularly on media.
“We make our sport available to the broadest possible audience. Sunday Ticket is just a complementary product. We’re committed to following the litigation all the way and making sure that we get this right.”
The class-action lawsuit began in 2015 with a complaint filed by a San Francisco sports bar named the Mucky Duck that was dismissed in 2017. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals later reinstated the case, which last year became a class action and covered more than 2.4 million residential subscribers and more than 48,000 businesses that purchased DirectTV’s Sunday Ticket package of out-of-market games from the 2011 through 2022 seasons.
The NFL’s next step is expected on July 31, when it presumably will ask Judge Philip Gutierrez to set aside the verdict. Should that not be the case, the league is expected to appeal to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court.
Sunday Ticket was offered on DirecTV from 1994-2022 before the NFL reached a seven-year contract with Google’s YouTube TV that began in 2023.
MONTE KIFFIN, ARCHITECT OF ‘TAMPA 2’ SUPER BOWL-WINNING DEFENSE, DIES AT 84
Super Bowl champion Monte Kiffin, 84, has died, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Ole Miss Football announced on Thursday.
He passed in Oxford, Miss., surrounded by family and friends.
Kiffin was the defensive coordinator and architect of the Buccaneers’ famed “Tampa 2” defense that gained popularity at all levels of football following its success in Tampa over a 13-year run under head coaches Tony Dungy and Jon Gruden that resulted in the franchise’s first NFL championship in Super Bowl XXXVII in 2003.
He coordinated Hall of Fame defenders Warren Sapp, Darrick Brooks, John Lynch and Ronde Barber over that run.
Kiffin was inducted into the Buccaneers’ Ring of Honor in 2021.
In a statement issued by the Buccaneers, team ownership said:
“Monte Kiffin was a beloved and iconic member of the Buccaneers family, and our entire organization mourns his loss today. As a coach, Monte was a true innovator who got the best out of his players and helped create one of the signature defenses of the early 2000s. His passionate and energetic leadership style resonated with all his players, and he was instrumental in our first Super Bowl win and the success of Hall of Famers such as Warren Sapp, Derrick Brooks, John Lynch and Ronde Barber. Off the field, Monte was kind, genuine, gracious and always had a positive attitude. He was very special to the Buccaneers organization and our family. We send our heartfelt condolences to his wife, Robin, son, Lane, daughter, Heidi, and the entire Kiffin family.”
Kiffin’s tenure in Tampa Bay ended when he departed to coach under his son, Lane, at the University of Tennessee in 2009. The pair moved to the University of Southern California the following year.
The elder Kiffin eventually returned to the NFL for stints with the Cowboys and Jaguars before once again joining his son at Florida Atlantic and Ole Miss in assistant/analyst roles.
A Nebraska collegian and professional football player for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Toronto Rifles, Kiffin quickly transitioned to coaching, taking a grad assistant job with his alma mater in 1966. He was eventually elevated to defensive coordinator and then left for the same job at Arkansas before being hired as the head coach at North Carolina State in 1980.
That position lasted just three years. He caught on with the Green Bay Packers as an assistant in 1983 and his career took off from there.
Stints with the Buffalo Bills, Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets and New Orleans Saints led him to Tampa Bay, where he would enjoy his greatest successes.
“I love that man and am so indebted to him,” Lynch told the Tampa Bay Times. “Monte had a unique enthusiasm for life, football and family. He also had a passion for coaching — and helping people like myself become the best version of themselves.”
CSU’S JAY NORVELL: QB SHARED K-STATE TRANSFER OFFER OF $600K
Colorado State head coach Jay Norvell moved on from Colorado rival Deion Sanders, he claims, but the Rams’ coach spilled the tea on a new hot-button issue around his program: tampering with quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi and wide receiver Tory Horton.
Norvell said Thursday in Las Vegas during Mountain West Conference media day he has no thoughts about Sanders, the subject of a feud before they played last season.
But he did have thoughts on teams wielding massive Name, Image and Likeness offers to CSU’s standouts. That included Norvell saying Fowler-Nicolosi informed Colorado State that someone connected to Kansas State called with an offer of $600,000 if he would transfer to Manhattan, Kansas.
“If you have enough evidence you can prove it. But you know, smoking gun is a smoking gun,” Norvell said of his conversation with Fowler-Nicolosi. “He said a guy from Kansas State called and offered him $600,000 because they lost their quarterback, offered him $600,000 if he entered the portal. I’m not accusing Kansas State of anything, I’m just telling you what the kid told me.
“If they don’t want their name thrown in it, they should probably get a handle on their people.”
Fowler-Nicolosi threw for 3,460 yards with 22 touchdowns in 2023 as a redshirt sophomore.
“We believe he’s got all of the qualities to be special in this league. He threw for 3,400 yards. I don’t think people really understand what that means,” Norvell said.
Horton is well-established as special and Norvell wasn’t surprised to hear the level of suitors that came calling in the offseason, mentioning Texas A&M and Ole Miss as two programs who made contact.
Horton had 96 receptions for 1,136 yards and eight touchdowns for CSU last season. He began his college career at Nevada — Norvell was an assistant coach for the Wolfpack — and has already graduated, which could’ve made another move easier.
But Horton said he had no plans to go anywhere.
“There was no point in me transferring … I’m happy where I’m at,” he said. “The knowledge that I get from the coaches at Colorado State is what I need to prepare myself for the next level.”
Norvell didn’t want to go back down the road of discussing Sanders, whom he called out last season. Before the “Rocky Mountain Shootout” game between rivals, Norvell said “When I talk to adults, I take my hat and sunglasses off. That’s what my mother taught me,” which was a reference to Sanders holding press conferences in shades and various hats.
“I don’t have any feelings for Deion Sanders, I really don’t,” Norvell said. “I don’t think about Deion Sanders unless you guys ask me a question about him.”
But the discussion is sure to linger when the programs get back together early this season for a primetime game on CBS.
Last season, Colorado rallied from a 28-17 deficit to beat Colorado State, 43-35 in double overtime. The rematch is scheduled for Sept. 14 in Fort Collins.
BASEBALL NEWS
MLB ROUNDUP: PAUL SKENES UNHITTABLE IN PIRATES’ WIN
Paul Skenes no-hit the host Milwaukee Brewers through seven innings before being lifted, leading the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 1-0 victory on Thursday afternoon in the rubber match of a three-game series.
The rookie Skenes (6-0), making his 11th major league start, walked one and struck out a career-high-tying 11. Pittsburgh manager Derek Shelton opted to pull him ahead of the eighth, though, as the right-hander had thrown 99 pitches (65 strikes).
Colin Holderman took over for Skenes and immediately let Milwaukee get in the hit column. He kept the Brewers off the board, however, and Aroldis Chapman pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his fourth save of the season.
Yasmani Grandal provided all the offense Pittsburgh would need with an RBI double in the seventh. Andrew McCutchen went 1-for-2 with two walks for the Pirates.
Phillies 5, Dodgers 1
Brandon Marsh homered, tripled and drove in two runs to lift host Philadelphia past Los Angeles.
Trea Turner hit a home run and a single for the Phillies, who polished off a three-game sweep. Kyle Schwarber added a solo homer for insurance. Phillies starter Aaron Nola (11-4) tossed six innings and allowed four hits and one run with nine strikeouts and two walks.
The Phillies picked up their first series sweep against the Dodgers at Citizens Bank Park since a four-game sweep in August 2008. Gavin Lux homered and singled for the Dodgers, who have dropped four in a row.
Cubs 8, Orioles 0
Justin Steele threw seven shutout innings and Seiya Suzuki drove in runs with three extra-base hits as Chicago completed a three-game sweep at Baltimore.
Steele (2-3), coming off his first career complete game last week, yielded just three hits while helping the Cubs win for the sixth time in seven games. Chicago’s Dansby Swanson homered and drove in a run with a single.
Baltimore’s Albert Suarez (5-3) gave up four runs on six hits in five innings.
Rays 5, Yankees 4
Randy Arozarena belted a two-run homer and Brandon Lowe collected three hits as Tampa Bay beat New York in the decisive contest of a three-game series in St. Peterburg, Fla.
Yandy Diaz had a pair of doubles and scored twice for the Rays. Kevin Kelly (3-1) got the win in relief, and Pete Fairbanks earned his 16th save despite allowing a run in the ninth.
Juan Soto and Austin Wells each launched a solo homer for the Yankees, who are 0-7-1 in their past eight series. Nestor Cortes (4-8) was tagged for five runs on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Reds 8, Rockies 1
Tyler Stephenson hit a three-run homer and a two-run shot to help Cincinnati to a win against visiting Colorado in the finale of their four-game series.
Santiago Espinal also homered and Spencer Steer and Jonathan India each had three hits and two runs scored for the Reds, who took three of four in the series. Michael Toglia homered for the Rockies, who have lost four of five games.
In his first outing since he was named to his first All-Star team, Reds starter Hunter Greene (6-4) allowed one run and two hits over six innings, recording a season-high 10 whiffs along with two walks.
Blue Jays 5, Giants 3
Kevin Gausman made a successful return to the Bay Area, Danny Jansen and Spencer Horwitz hit home runs and Toronto took a second straight game over host San Francisco in the series finale.
Gausman (7-8) overcame a two-run home run by Heliot Ramos in the first to record a win in his first appearance at the site where he was a 2021 All-Star for the Giants. The right-hander allowed just those two runs on six hits over seven innings.
Zach Pop threw a 1-2-3 eighth and Chad Green pitched around a Mike Yastrzemski homer in the ninth for his fifth save, helping the Blue Jays rebound from an opening loss for a road-series win, just as they had in Seattle to start their nine-game Western swing.
Mets 7, Nationals 0
David Peterson tossed six scoreless innings and Brandon Nimmo’s three-run double keyed a five-run fifth inning that lifted New York to a comfortable win over visiting Washington and a sweep of their three-game series.
Peterson (4-0) allowed four hits and walked three, striking out five in a 102-pitch effort. Four relievers took care of the final three innings as New York earned its first shutout of the year and jumped into the National League’s final wild-card spot, percentage points ahead of San Diego.
MacKenzie Gore (6-8) gave up four runs on three hits and three walks in 4 2/3 innings, whiffing four. Washington lost for the sixth time in seven games and dropped to 4-12 over its last 16 games.
Red Sox 7, A’s 0
Masataka Yoshida went 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBIs while Tanner Houck threw six dominant innings as Boston blew past visiting Oakland.
Connor Wong (2-for-3, RBI, three runs) and Wilyer Abreu (3-for-4, two RBIs) also homered for the Red Sox. Houck (8-6) struck out six across six innings of two-hit ball in his final start before making his first All-Star appearance. He walked three.
The Red Sox jumped right out for a three-run first inning, forcing Oakland starter Luis Medina (2-4) to labor through 34 pitches. All of the runs came with two outs.
Tigers 10, Guardians 1
Riley Greene had three hits and drove in three runs, Gio Urshela supplied a three-run double, and host Detroit rolled past Cleveland.
Carson Kelly had a solo homer as the Tigers won three of the four games in the series. Detroit starter Jack Flaherty (6-5), making his first appearance this month, limited Cleveland to one run and two hits in six innings. Flaherty, who has been battling a lower back injury, walked two and struck out four.
Spencer Howard (1-2) gave up four runs and seven hits in three innings in his Guardians debut. He was acquired from San Francisco for cash considerations last week. Bo Naylor homered for the American League Central leaders.
EXAMINER: SEAN BURROUGHS DIED OF FENTANYL INTOXICATION
Former major league infielder Sean Burroughs died of fentanyl intoxication, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner.
The office, in a report filed on its website, also declared the death accidental.
Burroughs was 43 when he died May 9 in the parking lot of a youth baseball field in Long Beach, Calif., where he had taken his son.
The son of 1974 American League MVP Jeff Burroughs, the third baseman was selected with the No. 9 overall pick by the San Diego Padres in 1998. He made his major league debut in April 2002, recorded the first walk-off hit for the Padres in Petco Park history in 2004 and was out of baseball in 2007 before returning to play from 2011-12.
Growing up in Long Beach, Burroughs won consecutive Little League World Series championships in 1992 and ’93, throwing back-to-back no-hitters. He then went on to star at Long Beach Wilson High. He also was a 2000 Olympic gold medalist and a first-round pick in the MLB draft.
He admitted in an interview with ESPN in June 2011 that he left the game because he didn’t have the passion to play anymore and in subsequent years, he was a substance abuser. After deciding he needed a life change, he moved back into his childhood home, under the house rules, and worked himself back into baseball shape to make an MLB comeback that lasted 88 games.
Burroughs played for the Padres from 2002-05 and was traded to Tampa Bay in late 2005. The Rays released him the following August. After a brief stint in the Seattle Mariners organization, he walked away.
He signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2011 and ended his MLB career in 2012 after 10 games with the Minnesota Twins.
In his major league career, Burroughs appeared in 528 games, batted .278, hit 12 home runs and drove in 143.
HOCKEY NEWS
UTAH HOCKEY CLUB SIGNS FIRST-EVER DRAFT PICK, TIJ IGINLA
Tij Iginla signed a three-year, entry-level contract on Thursday with the Utah Hockey Club, who made the Canadian forward its first draft pick in franchise history at last month’s NHL draft.
Iginla, 17, was the No. 6 overall pick by Utah, formerly known as the Arizona Coyotes. Terms of the deal were not released.
“It was really cool to hear a big cheer when my name was called,” Iginla said at Utah development camp on Tuesday. “I think the fans have been so welcoming to the hockey club and to me as well. It looks like we’re going to have some of the best fans in the league down the road, and it should be a lot of fun.”
Iginla, whose father is Hockey Hall of Famer Jarome Iginla, posted 84 points (47 goals, 37 assists) in 64 games last season for the Kelowna Rockets, a major junior team based in British Columbia.
The younger Iginla also posted six goals and six assists in seven games while helping Canada earn the gold medal at the 2024 IIHF World Under-18 Championship.
“I told him when I met with him, I said, ‘We’ve got a lot of 20-goal-scorers on our roster, we’re looking for a 50-goal scorer. No pressure,’” Utah general manager Bill Armstrong said last month. “We really love him, not only as a person but as a player. He has everything that we like.”
Iginla is expected to play at Kelowna for at least another season and focus on being a full-time center after playing left wing and center last season.
This summer, the younger Iginla is working on improving his all-around game with his famous father.
“He’s been huge for my development,” Tij said Tuesday. “It’ll be good to get back home and keep working on all parts of my game with him, and then I got my brother and sister, so we get out on the ice lots and just kind of work on whatever we got for the day.
“The focus is to just keep improving in all parts of my game. Just have a big summer and go into next season, whatever it is, and just keep trying to improve my game as much as I can.”
LIGHTNING D J.J. MOSER SIGNS 2-YEAR DEAL, AVOIDS ARBITRATION
New Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman J.J. Moser signed a two-year, $6.75 million contract on Thursday as the sides avoided arbitration.
The Lightning acquired Moser and forward Conor Geekie from the Utah Hockey Club last month in a deal that sent defenseman Mikhail Sergachev to Utah.
Moser, 24, spent his first three NHL seasons with the Arizona Coyotes, compiling 72 points (16 goals, 56 assists) and a minus-27 rating in 205 games.
He had five goals and 21 assists across 80 games for Arizona last season. He added career highs of 99 hits and 21 takeaways.
TENNIS NEWS
JASMINE PAOLINI WINS WIMBLEDON’S LONGEST WOMEN’S SEMIFINAL TO REACH A SECOND GRAND SLAM TITLE MATCH
LONDON (AP) — Jasmine Paolini kept coming back, kept coming back, kept coming back, against Donna Vekic in what would become the longest Wimbledon women’s semifinal on record — after dropping the opening set, after being two games from defeat in each of the last two sets, after twice trailing by a break in the third.
And all the while, this is what Paolini kept telling herself Thursday: “Try, point by point” and “Fight for every ball.”
Paolini never had won a match at the All England Club until last week and now will participate in her second consecutive Grand Slam final, thanks to a rollicking 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (10-8) victory over the unseeded Vekic across 2 hours, 51 minutes on Centre Court.
“This match,” said the No. 7-seeded Paolini, a 28-year-old from Italy, “I will remember forever.”
As will many of the thousands who were present or the millions watching on TV.
“It was,” Paolini said, “a rollercoaster of emotions.”
Consider: Vekic, a 28-year-old from Croatia making her debut in a Slam semifinal, ended up claiming more points (118-111), delivering more winners (42-26) and breaking serve more often (4-3).
“She was hitting winners everywhere,” Paolini said.
But Paolini never went away, eventually converting her third match point when Vekic sent a forehand wide. This showing on the grass courts at Wimbledon follows Paolini’s runner-up finish to Iga Swiatek on the red clay at the French Open last month.
Paolini is the first woman to get to the title matches at Roland Garros and the All England Club in the same season since Serena Williams in 2016.
“These last months have been crazy for me,” Paolini said with a laugh.
In Saturday’s final, she will face No. 4 Elena Rybakina or No. 31 Barbora Krejcikova. They’ve both been a major champ already: Rybakina won Wimbledon in 2022; Krejcikova won the French Open in 2021.
The men’s semifinals Friday are Carlos Alcaraz vs. Daniil Medvedev, and Novak Djokovic vs. Lorenzo Musetti. Like Paolini, Musetti is Italian.
Paolini’s win was anything but easy for either woman. Exhausting would be a more appropriate word.
Vekic often was in obvious distress, crying between points and while sitting in her changeover chair late in the third set — because, she said afterward, of pain in an arm and a leg — and often looked up at her guest box with a flushed face. She iced her right forearm between games.
“I thought I was going to die in the third set,” said Vekic, who repeatedly closed her eyes, sighed or shook her head during her news conference.
“I didn’t know how,” she said, “I could keep playing.”
How surprising is Paolini’s recent surge?
She never had managed to make it past the second round at any major tournament — losing in the first or second round in 16 appearances in a row — until she got to the fourth round at the Australian Open in January.
And then there’s this: Paolini’s career record at Wimbledon was 0-3 until this fortnight. Indeed, she did not own a single tour-level win on grass anywhere until a tuneup event at Eastbourne last month.
After a one-sided first set — Vekic won 16 of 19 points on her serve, and two of the ones she ceded were on double-faults — Paolini finally got going late in the second. Her never-give-up attitude was apparent at 4-all, when she sprinted with her back to the net to put her racket on a lob, somehow getting it back over the net, and Vekic badly missed an overhead.
Paolini held there to lead 5-4, then broke for the set with a forehand winner, looked up at her guest box — where her doubles partner, Sara Errani, and her relatives were on their feet after nearly every point that went her way — and screamed, “Forza!” (“Let’s go!”)
Vekic, playing her fifth three-setter in six matches, headed to the locker room before the last set, recalibrated and came out strong. She broke in the opening game, helped by a forehand return winner on a second serve, followed by Paolini’s missed forehand on an 11-stroke exchange.
Soon Vekic led 3-1. After a later trade of breaks, she was up 4-3.
“I believed I could win,” Vekic said, “until the end.”
But Paolini steadied herself, her racket and her resolve — and now gets a second chance to play for her first Slam trophy.
There was something else on her mind as she got ready to head to the locker room, though.
“Now I’m going to the ice bath,” Paolini said, “because my legs are a little bit tired.”
GOLF NEWS
PIERCESON COODY SHOOTS SCORCHING 61, LEADS ISCO CHAMPIONSHIP
Pierceson Coody racked up 11 birdies, including six in a row, to shoot a bogey-free 61 and snag the first-round lead at the ISCO Championship on Friday at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Ky.
Coody leads by three strokes over Hayden Springer and the Philippines’ Rico Hoey, who stand at 8-under 64. Lanto Griffin and Justin Suh are among the nine names tied at 7-under 65.
Coody, a 24-year-old rookie from Texas, shot his career-low score on the PGA Tour and needed just 20 putts to get there. His six-birdie binge began with a 14-foot putt at the par-5 fifth hole and a 19-footer at the par-4 sixth.
He found the bunker off the tee at the par-3 ninth, yet he kept his run going by holing out without much green to work with.
“No. 9 was probably the best of the birdies,” said Coody, whose grandfather Charles Coody won the 1971 Masters. “I was in the right bunker, had a nice lie on the upslope and I made that.”
A 59 was in play when he was 10 under through 15 holes, but after a pair of pars he ended his round with an exclamation point with a great approach shot into the 18th green and a 5-foot birdie.
“I’m trying to run my own race,” Coody said. “I didn’t start the season the way I wanted to obviously, it was really slow. I’ve had some tournaments where I’ve kind of flashed a little bit. I’m just trying to keep improving my form.”
Springer is just one week removed from carding a 59 in the first round of the John Deere Classic, the 14th sub-60 round in tour history. He posted nine birdies and just one bogey on Thursday.
Hoey, like Coody and Springer, is vying for his first win on the PGA Tour. Hoey’s bogey-free round featured a 10-foot eagle putt at his penultimate hole, the par-5 eighth.
“It was a great day,” Hoey said. “Yeah, I knew the scores were going to be low today so I wanted to go out and start firing and that’s what I did, so I’m happy to do that.”
STEVE STRICKER, DUFFY WALDORF CO-LEAD SENIOR MAJOR AT FIRESTONE
Defending champion Steve Stricker is tied with Duffy Waldorf atop the leaderboard at the Kaulig Companies Championship after Thursday’s first round at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio.
At the major previously known as the Senior Players Championship, Stricker and Waldorf fired matching rounds of 4-under 66. They established a one-shot lead over Kenny Perry and Australia’s Richard Green.
Close behind at 2-under 68 were Steven Alker of New Zealand, Angel Cabrera of Argentina, Steve Flesch, Tim O’Neal and Paul Stankowski.
Stricker, 57, has yet to win on the PGA Tour Champions this year but has 17 titles to his name, including seven majors. He also won the Senior Players in 2021 and was runner-up in 2022 before capturing his second title at Firestone in 2023.
“I have a lot of confidence going around here, I enjoy being here,” Stricker said. “I have a pretty good idea how to play the course. I’ve seen a bunch of different wind conditions here, different firmness conditions. … It’s just trying to manage my game, I think, more than anything. It’s trying to put together good swings and good putts.”
Stricker opened with consecutive birdies and picked up his only bogey of the day at the par-4 sixth hole. He finished the front nine with a birdie and got two more to drop at Nos. 11 and 16.
“I had some putts that I could have made or made better efforts at and made a couple of nice putts, but it wasn’t bad,” Stricker said. “It wasn’t great, it wasn’t bad.”
Waldorf began his day on the back nine and birdied three of his first six holes before a bogey at No. 18. After a birdie at the second hole and another bogey at the fourth, he pulled out consecutive birdies at Nos. 6 and 7.
“I think it helped a little bit that (the course) was soft, but still, when you’re standing there 210 yards away, these greens are pretty small, they’re not very inviting and I was just able to really control the shot the way I wanted to and get the trajectory right and get a lot of, you know, somewhat makeable birdie putts,” Waldorf said. “So 15-, 20-footers actually are pretty good out here a lot of the time.”
Waldorf, 61, is in the hunt for his first senior major title and his first win of any kind on the PGA Tour Champions since 2016.
“My game’s been on an upswing,” he said. “I played well in Madison, I played well in Houston, made the U.S. (Senior) Open, so I felt good about how I was playing. It was just a matter of kind of getting that one part of my game going, which was the iron game.”
Perry opened with three straight birdies at Nos. 10-12 and sank a fourth at No. 14. He briefly touched 5 under for his day with birdies at Nos 5 and 6 but bogeyed the next two holes to drop down.
“What a way to start this event,” Perry said. “When I birdied the first three, I thought, ‘Well, man, this might be a special day.’ It was a good day. I kind of let a few get away there coming down the home stretch, but all in all, if you can shoot 3 under around this joint you’ve got to be happy.”
THREE-WAY TIE ATOP LEADERBOARD AT EVIAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Patty Tavatanakit, Gemma Dryburgh and Ingrid Lindblad each carded a 7-under-par 64 on Thursday to reside in a three-way tie for first place at the Evian Championship in Evians-les-Bains, France.
Each member of that trio recorded a bogey-free round at Evian Resort Golf Club. Tavatanakit, of Thailand, and Dryburgh of Scotland each had five birdies on the back nine, while Lindblad of Sweden started on No. 10 and had five on the front nine.
“Yeah, I would say it’s a pretty simple round of golf,” said Lindblad, 24, a former World Amateur No. 1 and LSU golfer who turned professional in June. “I think missed two fairways, missed two greens, so was just in it the whole round. Was just trying to hit the targets that we been talking about.”
Dryburgh also was proud of her putting game after matching her career low for 18 holes.
“Yeah, putting well, kind of just seeing the lines really well,” she said. “My putting coach, Nick Soto, has been with me this week, so I think the work has kind of paid off.
“Also struck the ball well. Yeah, obviously no dropped shots, so that was nice to do around here. It’s not an easy course. Just have some really good memories here last year obviously finishing top 10.
“Yeah, just hoping to keep it going.”
Tavatanakit has notched three top-10 finishes this season, including a victory in her home country at the Honda LPGA Thailand a few years after her maiden title at the 2021 Chevron Championship.
“… if anything, I feel like I’m more comfortable with my game compared to last year,” Tavatanakit said.
Six others reside one stroke back of the leaders, including 2014 tournament champion Hyo Joo Kim of South Korea and 2015 champion Lydia Ko of Australia. Kim recorded a bogey-free round, while Ko offset a bogey on No. 2 with seven birdies. Ko has 26 LPGA Hall of Fame points, and a win would get her past the minimum 27 needed for induction.
World No. 1 Nelly Korda shot a 2-under is tied for 21st place with 16 others, including defending champion Celine Boutier of France and 2022 winner Brooke Henderson of Canada.
Korda totaled six birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey on the 16th hole in her return after missing her title defense at last week’s Ladies European Tour at Centurion Club due to a dog bite.
Amateur Chun-Wei Wu, who received a sponsor exemption to gain entry into the event, recorded an ace with a 5-iron on the par-3, 177-yard fifth hole.
“I didn’t see the ball go in,” said Wu, who finished with a even-par 71. “I asked my friend, and they say, you go in. I said whoo-hoo. Really? First hole-in-one in a major. I’m so excited.”
Jodi Ewart Shadoff of England also registered a hole-in-one after she holed out from 155 yards with a 9-iron on the par-13 16th.
“I struck it really nicely,” Ewart Shadoff said. “It was a little right of the pin, so I knew it needed the left bounce off that slope. It was going straight at the hole, and I was like, ‘oh, man, this has a chance.’ My caddie was like, ‘get the putt.’ It’s funny.”
TOP INDIANA SPORTS RELEASES
INDIANAPOLIS GETS NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS IN 2026
Indianapolis, the capital of a basketball-crazed state, will become the center of the college hoops world in the spring of 2026.
Already chosen to host the 2026 Final Four, Indianapolis will also be the site of the NIT semifinals and finals and the Division II and Division III national championship games that year, the NCAA said Thursday.
Hinkle Fieldhouse, Butler’s home arena, will host the NIT semifinals, while the finals will be played in another venue yet to be announced. Long a staple of Madison Square Garden in New York, the NIT semifinals and finals moved to Las Vegas in 2023 and Indianapolis in 2024.
Gainbridge Fieldhouse, home of the NBA’s Pacers and WNBA’s Fever, will see the D2 and D3 national title games played one day before the D1 championship game is held at Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the NFL’s Colts.
It’s the second time that the D1, D2 and D3 championships will converge in one city. Atlanta hosted the full gamut of national championship games in 2013.
“This will be a tremendous celebration of men’s college basketball across all three divisions in Indy,” NCAA senior vice president of basketball Dan Gavitt said in a statement. “When we did this in 2013, we had nearly 8,000 fans watching the Divisions II and III championship games, and the final two nights of this year’s NIT at Hinkle Fieldhouse featured sold-out crowds of more than 9,000 fans. It will be an awesome opportunity for student-athletes at the participating schools, as well as a showcase for the legendary college basketball fans in Indiana.”
Indianapolis and the surrounding area also hosted a centralized “bubble” NCAA Tournament in April 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Games were held at Hinkle Fieldhouse, Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Lucas Oil Stadium and the Indiana Farmers Coliseum, as well as on the campuses of Indiana University and Purdue University.
INDIANA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
LUTHERAN LOSING DL MCHANEY TO PREP SCHOOL
Cameron McHaney, the 6’2” 310 All-State defensive lineman is transferring IMG Academy. The junior-to-be made the decision following the Under Armour Camp in Nashville. IMG has produced many top athletes in the nation in various sports. IMG finished 10-0 last season, ranked #4 in the nation and even beat Ben Davis 34-14.
INDIANAPOLIS INDIANS
CLIPPERS-INDIANS DOUBLEHEADER POSTPONED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indianapolis Indians have announced that Thursday night’s doubleheader against the Columbus Clippers at Victory Field has been postponed due to inclement weather. One of the two games will be made up on Friday, July 12, as part of a doubleheader, with gates opening at 5 PM ahead of a 5:35 PM first pitch for Game 1. The second of two 7-inning games will begin approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the first contest. The makeup date for the second contest of tonight’s postponed twin bill has not yet been determined.
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INDIANA FEVER
GAME PREVIEW: FEVER PLAY MERCURY IN LAST HOME GAME BEFORE OLYMPIC BREAK
Indiana Fever vs. Phoenix Mercury
Friday, July 12
Gainbridge Fieldhouse | 7:30 p.m. ET
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Broadcast Information
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Probable Starters
Indiana Fever (9-14)
Guard – Caitlin Clark (16.7 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 7.6 apg)
Guard – Kelsey Mitchell (16.4 ppg, 2.1 rpg, 1.8 apg)
Center – Aliyah Boston (13.2 ppg, 8.3 rpg, 2.6 apg)
Forward – Katie Lou Samuelson (5.3 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 1.3 apg)
Forward – NaLyssa Smith (11.5 ppg, 7.7 rpg, 1.3 apg)
Phoenix Mercury (12-10)
Guard – Kahleah Copper (23.0 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 2.4 apg)
Guard – Natasha Cloud (12.5 ppg, 4.4 rpg, 7.2 apg)
Center – Brittney Griner (19.7 ppg, 6.7 rpg, 2.2 apg)
Forward – Rebecca Allen (7.9 ppg, 4.1 rpg, 0.9 apg)
Forward – Sophie Cunningham (7.4 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 2.0 apg)
Game Status Report
Indiana: Temi Fagbenle – OUT (Right Thumb)
Phoenix: Charisma Osborne – OUT (Left Lower Leg), Sug Sutton – OUT (Right Hamstring), Diana Taurasi – OUT (Left Lower Leg)
GAME PREVIEW:
INDIANAPOLIS – The Indiana Fever (9-14) close out its three-game homestand on Friday night as the Phoenix Mercury travel for the teams’ second meeting of the regular season. Friday’s matchup will be Indiana’s final home game until August 16 when the Fever host the Mercury again in Indianapolis for its first game back after this summer’s Olympic break. Friday’s game is set to tip off at 7:30 p.m. ET and will broadcast on ION.
The Fever and Mercury last met on June 30 at Footprint Center in Phoenix for the first matchup of the season as Indiana won, 88-82. Indiana overcame a 15-point deficit, surged by a 25-9 run in the second half to outscore the Mercury, 29-15, in the third quarter. Five Fever players scored in double figures against the Mercury, led by center Aliyah Boston’s 17 points on 6-of-9 shooting and 4-of-6 from the free throw line.
Fever rookie guard Caitlin Clark has had dominant performances in the last two games against the New York Liberty on Saturday and the Washington Mystics on Wednesday during the homestand. On Saturday, Clark became the first player in franchise history and first rookie in WNBA history to record a triple-double with 19 points, 13 assists and 12 rebounds while the Fever surged past the Liberty. In Wednesday’s loss to Washington, Clark recorded a game-high 29 points, tied a franchise-high 13 assists again, a career-high five steals, five rebounds, five made 3-point field goals and three blocks.
The Mercury (12-10) enter Friday on a three-game winning streak. In Phoenix’s win against Dallas on Wednesday, four Mercury players scored in double figures, led by guard Kahleah Copper’s game-high 32 points while Mercury center Brittney Griner followed with 23 points. In Indiana and Phoenix’s last battle, Copper only scored seven points while Griner recorded a game-high 24 points on 8-of-13 field goal shooting.
Clark has moved up to 11th place among all players in the league for scoring – her highest standing of the season – averaging 16.7 ppg, while leading all rookies in scoring as well. Mercury guard Diana Taurasi is tied for 12th place, averaging 16.6 ppg, while Fever guard Kelsey Mitchell is in 13th, averaging 16.4 ppg. Clark and Mercury guard Natasha Cloud are both in the top three in assists per game in the WNBA with Clark in second place averaging 7.6 apg and Cloud in third place averaging 7.2 apg.
Boston is ranked ninth in league rebounds, averaging 8.3 rebounds per game, as Fever forward NaLyssa Smith is two spots behind, averaging 7.7 rpg. Mercury forward Natasha Mack is tied for 19th place in the WNBA averaging 5.0 rpg.
Next week, Boston, Clark and Mitchell will travel to Footprint Center to play in the 2024 WNBA All-Star Game on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. ET. Indiana’s three All-Stars will take on Mercury Olympians Copper, Griner and Taurasi, who will be representing the USA Women’s National Team.
INDIANA ATHLETICS
TWENTY OLYMPIANS TO REPRESENT INDIANA UNIVERSITY IN PARIS
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Twenty Indiana University athletes and coaches will participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Indiana has tied its second-largest group of Olympians all-time, having produced 20 Olympians in 1976 and a record 23 in 1968. Hoosiers will represent nine different countries, marking a school record.
The 2024 Paris Games will officially kick off with the opening ceremony July 26 at 1:30 p.m. ET, with IU athletes competing the next day. NBC and Peacock will provide live video coverage throughout the Olympics. Stay tuned to IUHoosiers.com/Olympics for full coverage of IU athletes in Paris, including feature stories, recaps and athlete schedules.
IU is represented in five unique sports, including, for the first time ever, open water swimming. Within that, four different IU athletic programs produced Olympians – 17 from swimming and diving (13 swimming, four diving), two from water polo and one from track and field.
Ten Hoosiers will represent Team USA in France, Indiana’s largest contribution to the U.S. Olympic Team since Seoul 1988. All 10 Team USA Hoosiers emerge from the IU swimming and diving program – six swimmers, three divers and two coaches.
Indiana has produced a U.S. Olympic diver at every Summer Games since 1964. Tokyo 2020 medalists Andrew Capobianco and Jessica Parratto return for their second and third Olympics respectively. Reigning NCAA Champion Carson Tyler is set to make his Olympic debut in the 3-meter and 10-meter competitions as the first U.S. male diver since 2000 to qualify in both events.
The remaining 10 Hoosiers combine to represent eight more countries. For the first time ever, Indiana sends Olympians from the British Virgin Islands, Singapore, Lithuania and the Netherlands. IU athletes will also compete for Egypt, Germany, Israel and Canada.
In addition to the 20 individuals that currently train or coach at Indiana University, or have graduated from IU, three more Olympians have cream and crimson ties. Swimmers Matt King (United States) and Zalán Sárkány (Hungary) are set to transfer into the IU program following their summer in Paris.
U.S. Olympic Diving head coach Drew Johansen will be joined on deck by Jenny Johansen, named an assistant coach by USA Diving. Jenny Johansen is a two-time Olympian, coach at the Johansen Diving Academy at IU and Parratto’s personal coach. Together, the Johansens become the first married pair to coach U.S. diving together at an Olympic Games.
Eleven Hoosier Olympians have previous Olympic experience. Drew Johansen leads the way, coaching his fourth consecutive Summer Games. Five more Hoosiers will attend their third Olympics, including Lilly King, Ray Looze, Parratto, Blake Pieroni and Marwan Elkamash (all swimming and diving), who became the first Egyptian swimmer to qualify for three consecutive Olympics. King announced prior to U.S. Olympic Swim Trials that the Paris Games will be her final cycle.
Nine Hoosiers – Rikkoi Brathwaite (track and field), Cory Chitwood, Mariah Denigan, Ching Hwee Gan, Josh Matheny, Rafael Miroslaw, Anna Peplowski, Carson Tyler and Kai van Westering (swimming and diving) – will participate in their first Olympics.
See the full list of Indiana University Olympians below.
Olympic History
Few universities, or even nations, can match Indiana University’s Olympic record. Indiana boasts 261 total Olympic berths, representing 30 countries. On 21 occasions, Olympic coaches have come from Indiana.
The Indiana University athlete medal count is at 121 including 60 gold, 23 silver and 38 bronze after the 2020 Tokyo Games. The Hoosiers have earned a medal at every Olympic Games they have competed in except 2004. IU’s most productive year was 1968, with 17 medals for IU competitors in Mexico City.
INDIANA MEN’S SOCCER
AKRON CITY FC’S SAM SARVER NAMED THE TOPDRAWERSOCCER.COM 2024 NPSL YOUNG PLAYER OF THE SEASON
Akron City FC forward Sam Sarver has been named the TopDrawerSoccer.com 2024 NPSL Young Player of the Season.
“I think it’s a great honor and a big accomplishment for myself,” Sarver said. “Especially because it is a country wide award and not just a regional award. To receive this award makes me feel proud of all the hard work I have put in and seeing it pay off is very gratifying. I think a big reason Akron City FC were so successful this season was because we all had a good relationship on and off of the field. People don’t realize how much that can really help a team. Obviously, playing together over the course of the summer you build chemistry but having a good relationship with your teammates is vital for success.”
Sarver has scored a total of 11 goals, including eight in league play and three in the USASA Amateur Cup. He also tallied six assists.
“Sam has been great for us and definitely one of the best I’ve ever coached,” Akron City FC head coach Andy Hoggarth said. “He is a complete player, not just soccer wise, but as a person who helps build the culture of the team and makes us all enjoy the game that little bit more both on and off the field.”
The Chesterland, Ohio native is heading into his senior year at Indiana University. In three seasons with the Hoosiers, Sarver has tallied 19 goals and 14 assists in 70 appearances (61 starts), and eight of those goals were game-winners.
“Sam Sarver has been one of the most consistent attackers in college soccer over the past three seasons,” TopDrawerSoccer.com Director of Content Travis Clark said. “His energy and dynamism in the final third is fun to watch, and his success in the NPSL this season should come as no surprise.”
In 2023, Sarver helped guide the Hoosiers to a Big Ten Tournament Championship and Big Ten regular season championship while recording a collegiate career-high 22 points, coming from eight goals and six assists. His breakout season earned him United Soccer Coaches third-team All-America, College Soccer News third-team All-America, First-team All-Big Ten, Big Ten Offensive Player of the Tournament, and Big Ten All-Tournament Team honors.
“It’s wonderful to see Sammy have a great summer with Akron City FC,” Indiana University head men’s soccer coach Todd Yeagley. “He is a relentless attacker who continues to develop, and we are excited to see his excellent form carry over into our fall season at IU!”
Sarver is widely regarded as one of the best attackers in the Big Ten heading into his final collegiate season. Sarver was a standout for Columbus Crew SC Academy prior to his time at IU, registering 44 goals in 55 matches (44 starts). He also competed with the U17 U.S. Youth National Team at the Nike Friendlies and 4 Nations Tournament in the Czech Republic.
PURDUE FOOTBALL
CARD, HARTWIG AND JENKINS TO JOIN WALTERS AT BIG TEN MEDIA DAYS
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Quarterback Hudson Card, offensive lineman Gus Hartwig and linebacker Kydran Jenkins will join head coach Ryan Walters to represent Purdue Football at Big Ten Media Days in Indianapolis later this month. The Boilermakers’ head coach and senior trio will take part in the first day of the event, July 23, at Lucas Oil Stadium to speak to the media and look ahead to the 2024 season.
Other schools joining Purdue on the first day will be Illinois, Northwestern, Ohio State, Rutgers and Wisconsin. Big Ten Network will broadcast six consecutive hours of live coverage every day, beginning at 11 a.m. ET. Rick Pizzo and Jake Butt will host morning coverage of the day’s press conferences, while Dave Revsine, Gerry DiNardo and Howard Griffith will interview all attendees on the BTN set during afternoons.
Card returns to Big Ten Media Days for the second straight year. During his first season in the Old Gold and Black, the signal caller started 11 games and finished third in passing yards per game as well as completions per game. The Austin, Texas, native threw for 2,387 yards with 15 touchdowns, while also recording 203 yards and five touchdowns on the ground to showcase his mobility. Leading Purdue to a win over Indiana in the Old Oaken Bucket Game, Card accounted for 360 yards of offense (275 passing, 85 rushing) and four touchdowns (three passing, one rushing) to become the first quarterback since Drew Brees (2000) to pass for at least 275 yards and rush for at least 85 yards in the same game.
A focal point on the Purdue offensive line since arriving on campus in 2020, Hartwig enters his fifth and final season as a Boilermaker. The four-time All-Big Ten Honorable Mention center has started 36 games throughout his career. Returning from an injury suffered at the end of the 2022 campaign, Hartwig started the final nine games last season and helped pave the way for Purdue to lead the Big Ten in rushing in conference games and tallying the most rushing yards (2,029) in a single season since 2012.
Jenkins attends Big Ten Media Days as one of the leaders of the Purdue defense. Heading into the 2024 season, the senior linebacker looks to climb the Purdue career charts in sacks and tackles-for-loss. The Louisville, Georgia, native currently ranks 10th all-time with 16.5 sacks as well as 18th in program history with 31.5 TFLs. Last year, Jenkins finished second in the Big Ten and 18th nationally with 15.5 TFLs, the most by a Boilermaker since George Karlaftis in 2019 (17.0). He became the first Boilermaker to lead the team in TFLs in back-to-back seasons since Jake Replogle (2014-15). Jenkins also added 7.5 sacks a season ago, ranking third in the conference.
Purdue enters the second season with Walters guiding the Boilermakers. Despite one of the nation’s toughest schedules in 2023, Purdue tied for fourth in the Big Ten West and won both rivalry games to keep possession of the Cannon Trophy (Illinois) and the Old Oaken Bucket (Indiana) for the third straight season. The Boilermakers also found success in all three phases of the game. The offense led the Big Ten in rushing in conference contests, averaging 184.6 yards per game. That included the Boilermakers rushing for more than 300 yards in back-to-back games for the first time since 1968. On the defensive side of the ball, Purdue recorded 35 sacks, the most since 2004 and the third-most in program history. The 2023 special teams unit averaged 24.2 yards per kickoff return, Purdue’s best since 2004 and the fourth-most all-time.
PURDUE GETS 2025 OL RECRUIT
Centerville, OH offensive lineman Kuol Kuol has committed to play football at Purdue. He had offers from Boston College, Iowa State and Michigan State. Kuol is listed at 6’5” 250 pounds and is the 13th member of the 2025 class.
PURDUE TRACK AND FIELD
TONY MILLER NAMED TRACK & FIELD AND CROSS COUNTRY HEAD COACH
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Tony Miller has been named head coach of the Purdue track & field and cross country program, Vice President and Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Mike Bobinski announced on Wednesday.
Miller was an associate head coach for the Boilermakers in 2023-24 and brings nearly 20 years of coaching experience to his new role as head coach. Previously, he was at Louisville for four seasons where he was recognized as the 2022-23 USTFCCCA Southeast Region Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year indoors.
“Tony Miller’s coaching credentials and record of accomplishments through his previous work at Louisville, SMU and North Texas are truly exceptional,” said Bobinski. “After witnessing his impact as an assistant to retiring coach Norbert Elliott this past year, we’re excited for the leadership Tony will provide as head coach to Purdue’s track & field and cross country programs. His experience in guiding student-athletes to the pinnacle of the sport, running and competing on the national stage at NCAA Championships, will serve our Boilermaker student-athletes well as we continue to elevate our programs.”
In his first year in West Lafayette as Associate Head Coach, Miller helped guide the Boilermakers to seven All-America honors and a trio of individual outdoor Big Ten titles. His sprinters broke three school records, one that had stood for 52 years and another for 20 years. Miller helped both the men’s and women’s teams to improvements in the Big Ten outdoor standings from a season ago, including a six-place rise for the men, moving the Boilermakers into the top half of the conference.
“I want to thank Mike Bobinski and our sport administrator, Associate Athletics Director Calvin Williams, for this opportunity,” Miller said. “I am very excited and honored to lead the Purdue track & field and cross country programs. The future is incredibly bright for the Boilermakers, and I know we will be able to achieve great things. Thank you to all of my student-athletes, coaches and mentors who have helped me get to this point in my career. I can’t wait to see everything we will accomplish here at Purdue!”
Miller takes the reigns from Elliott, who announced his retirement on June 20 following a 35-year coaching career that included 12 seasons at Purdue, the last six as head coach.
Last season, Miller primarily worked with the Boilermaker sprinters and hurdlers and served as recruiting coordinator. Under Miller’s coaching, graduate student Cameron Miller had one of the best seasons in school history, breaking both 200-meter records en route to two All-America accolades, first team indoors and second team outdoors. His indoor mark of 20.40 was the third-fastest in the world at the time and bested a 20-year record atop Purdue’s top-10 list. He took bronze at the Big Ten Championships and advanced to the final at the NCAA Championships. Outdoors, Miller broke the school record twice, topping a mark that had stood since 1972. He won a Big Ten title and again reached the national championships to earn his second All-America award of the season.
Under Coach Miller’s tutelage in 2023-24, the Boilermakers also broke an eight-year-old record in the men’s 4×400 relay. His sprinters achieved numerous other record-book times along with top-eight podium finishes at the Big Ten Championships.
Miller arrived at Purdue after serving as an assistant coach at Louisville. In 2022-23, he helped guide two athletes and three relays to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and two individuals qualified for the indoor national championships. Miller’s NCAA qualifiers totaled three first team All-America honors, in the 200-meter and 4×100 relay outdoors and the 200m indoors. Nine of Miller’s athletes set school records outdoors and five indoor records fell under his watch.
In 2021-22, a second team All-America accolade capped the season that saw Miller’s runners earn three All-ACC accolades and two medals, one of them gold, outdoors along with a 60m ACC title and All-America distinction indoors. Five school records were set and one of Miller’s runners was selected to race at the U.S. Track & Field Championships in the 100m.
The 2020-21 campaign featured a first team All-America award in the 60m indoors thanks to a school-record time. This came after an All-ACC award indoors in 2020 and another two team records.
Miller came to Louisville from SMU, where he was an assistant coach from 2006-19. The 2018-19 season saw Miller’s Mustangs break seven school records, win three conference titles and qualify four to the NCAA regionals and one to the NCAA Championships. A year before that, in 2017-18, Miller led his runners to a conference championship, two regional qualifiers and one NCAA Championships berth along with four school records. In 2016-17, the Mustangs broke one school record, won two gold medals at the conference meet and sent two to the NCAA regionals.
At North Texas from 2004-06, Miller helped lead the Mean Green to their first Sun Belt Conference women’s championship and coached his athletes to eight all-conference honors.
Miller is a 1996 graduate of Baylor University with a bachelor degree in business administration-marketing. He received a U.S. Track & Field Level II coaching certification in 2006.
BUTLER BASKETBALL
INDIANAPOLIS SET TO HOST ADDITIONAL MEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS IN 2026
At its annual summer meeting this week, the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Committee approved Indianapolis as the host site for the 2026 Division II and III men’s basketball championship games, as well as the semifinals and finals of the National Invitation Tournament, with all five games scheduled the same weekend as the Men’s Final Four, which was previously awarded to the city.
The Final Four will take place April 4 and 6, 2026, at Lucas Oil Stadium, an announcement that was first made in 2018. It will mark the ninth time that Indianapolis will serve as host of college basketball’s premier event. The Horizon League and IU Indy will serve as co-hosts. Today’s announcement means three additional champions will be crowned in the Circle City that weekend. The NIT will play its semifinals Thursday, April 2, at Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse, with the title game scheduled for Sunday, April 5, at a time and venue to be announced.
Sunday’s schedule will also include the Division II and III championship games, which will be played downtown at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. This is the second time the NCAA will conduct its three men’s basketball championships on one weekend in the same city. The first was in Atlanta in 2013. The three NCAA women’s basketball championships were hosted in the same city on the same weekend in 2016 in Indianapolis and again in Dallas in 2023.
“This will be a tremendous celebration of men’s college basketball across all three divisions in Indy,” said Dan Gavitt, the NCAA’s senior vice president of basketball. “When we did this in 2013, we had nearly 8,000 fans watching the Division II and III championship games, and the final two nights of this year’s NIT at Hinkle Fieldhouse featured sold-out crowds of more than 9,000 fans. It will be an awesome opportunity for student-athletes at the participating schools, as well as a showcase for the legendary college basketball fans in Indiana.”
LANGDON COMMITS TO BUTLER
Butler men’s basketball picked up a huge recruit for the class of 2024-25. Four -star recruit Colt Langdon (Raleigh, NC) picked Butler over Notre Dame and LSU. He re-classified for the 2024 season. Langdon is ranked #135 in the 2025 class and the 28th best power forward in the nation. At Millbrook High School Langdon averaged 26.4 points, 10.0 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game. He was named the North Carolina Basketball Coaches Associated District 5 Player of the Year and has won back-to-back conference player of the year honors.
He also had offers from Iowa, Illinois, West Virginia, Ole Miss.
BALL STATE MEN’S TENNIS
MEN’S TENNIS ADDS TWO TRANSFERS FOR 2024-25
MUNCIE, Ind. – The Ball State men’s tennis team will welcome two transfer student-athletes for the 2024-25 season, head coach Bill Richards announced on Thursday.
Ian Brady (Indianapolis, Ind./North Central) and Anthony Shalakov (West Chester, Ohio/Lakota West) come to Ball State after playing at Marquette and Army, respectively.
“Both Ian and Anthony are great additions to our program,” Richards said. “Ian brings great experience after three years at Marquette. Anthony has his whole career ahead of him after some health issues last year at Army. Both had great Junior tennis careers and were top national level players as evidenced by their rankings. Adding them gives us 10 players that are all very worthy of playing time. I can’t wait to get to work with these guys come August 19.”
Brady, an Indiana native, returns to his home state after playing three years for the Golden Eagles. Brady was a part of the starting lineup in both singles and doubles during his tenure at Marquette finishing his career with 58 wins.
Prior to Marquette, Brady earned first team all-state all four years at North Central High School while leading the Panthers to three state-runner up finishes. Out of high school, Brady was a four-star recruit ranking 96th in the nation according to tennisrecruiting.net.
The Brady’s are familiar with Ball State as Ian’s father Tim played for the Cardinals under the direction of Richards from 1982-83.
Shalakov, comes to Ball State after taking a redshirt year last season at Army West Point. Shalakov only played one year of high school tennis at Lakota West in Ohio choosing to play most of his youth career in tournaments for the United States Tennis Association (USTA).
A four-start recruit, Shalakov ranked 122nd in the nation according to tennisrecruiting.net prior to his arrival at Army West Point.
Brady and Shalakov are one of three newcomers that will join the Cardinals this season along with early signee Jenson Bicanic (Toronto, Canada).
INDIANA STATE BASEBALL
ARCHULETA ANNOUNCES ADDITION OF GOBERT TO SYCAMORE BASEBALL COACHING STAFF
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State head coach Tracy Archuleta announced the addition of Nick Gobert to the Sycamore baseball coaching staff in the summer of 2024.
Gobert joins the Sycamores by way of Southern Indiana where he served on Archuleta’s staff over the last two years with the Screaming Eagles. He will serve as the Sycamores’ hitting coach and recruiting coordinator while assisting in all aspects of the ISU baseball program.
“Nick is an up-and-coming young coach that has succeeded everywhere he has been, and he was the first person I contacted for this position,” Archuleta said. “I was fortunate to have coached Nick and I’m not surprised on his work ethic and passion for the game. He has been both a hitting coach and pitching coach over his career and his ability to make a team better cannot be understated. Nick will have a huge impact on our hitters, but more importantly handle our recruiting efforts.”
Over the 2024 season, the Screaming Eagles’ pitching staff dropped their team ERA by nearly two full runs highlighted by Ohio Valley Conference Freshman of the Year Grant Parson, as well as Second Team All-OVC selection Gavin Seebold. The USI pitching staff combined to post a 448:264 strikeout-to-walk ratio while allowing opponents to hit .273 from the plate over the year.
Prior to joining the USI coaching staff in 2023, Gobert spent the 2021-22 academic year at Walters State Community College in Morristown, Tennessee, where he helped lead the Senators to a 60-7 record and an appearance in the Junior College World Series.
During his tenure with the Senators, Gobert assisted more than 50 players in hitting, infield, outfield, catching, base running and pitching. The Senators had four NJCAA All-Americans in 2022 and were the top-ranked team in their region before finishing third at the NJCAA Division I World Series.
Prior to Walters State, Gobert was an assistant coach at Indian Hills Community College in Centerville, Iowa, where he helped lead the Warriors to a 44-16 record in 2021 and a sixth-place finish in the NJCAA Division I World Series.
Gobert assisted more than 90 players during his two seasons at Indian Hills and ran the pitching staff during the 2020 season.
The former USI All-American got his start in collegiate coaching as a graduate assistant with the Eagles under Archuleta during the 2018-19 season. The Eagles went 30-21 overall and 21-12 in GLVC play before winning their first round game in the conference tournament.
Prior to joining the Eagles’ coaching staff, Gobert played for Archuleta, helping lead the Eagles to the 2018 NCAA II Midwest Region title and a berth in the NCAA II Championship for the fifth time in program history.
Gobert earned honorable mention All-America honors from the NCBWA in 2018 and was first-team All-Region as well as first-team All-GLVC East Division. At the plate, he hit .357 as a senior with 26 doubles, four triples, three home runs and 55 RBI.
In two seasons in a USI uniform, Gobert hit .316 with 38 doubles, six triples, four home runs and 79 RBI. On the mound, he went 5-3 with a pair of saves, a 4.37 ERA and a .253 opponent batting average as a senior after making three appearances during his junior year.
After transferring from the University of Dayton following the 2016 season, Gobert went on to earn a pair of Academic All-GLVC awards as well as CoSIDA Academic All-District IV honors in 2018.
Gobert earned a bachelor’s degree in sport management with a minor in strength and conditioning from USI in 2017 as well as a master’s degree in sport management from USI in 2019.
The Jasper, Indiana, native has served as a baseball camp counselor as well as an assistant coach for the Dubois County Bombers (Ohio Valley League). Gobert and his wife, Haley, who were married in 2021, reside in Evansville.
EVANSVILLE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
UE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HIRES ZHAQUE GRAY AS ASSISTANT COACH
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Evansville women’s basketball team and Head Coach Robyn Scherr-Wells have announced Zhaque Gray will be joining the program as an Assistant Coach.
The Purple Aces add another Assistant Coach with championship experience with the hiring of Zhaque (zhah-QWAY) Gray. Gray comes to Evansville after spending a year as the Director of Player Personnel with Bowling Green following a transition to coaching from a corporate sales career. Gray initially began her collegiate basketball journey at Penn State as a guard from 2008-2012.
I am so excited to add Zhaque to our staff!” says Head Coach Robyn Scherr-Wells. “Her character and her outlook on life and basketball immediately stood out to me through our interview process. Additionally, I love that she was part of building a championship team as a player at Penn State as well as working under a championship-winning coach last season at Bowling Green State. Her experiences will be invaluable for our program as we seek to build our program and win championships,”.
During her year with the Falcons, Gray was part of a staff that guided BGSU to a winning record and a postseason tournament berth despite dealing with a short bench throughout the year. The Falcons were picked to finish fourth in the Mid-American Conference in 2023-24 and finished the year tied for fourth despite losing an estimated 126 player-games to injury. BGSU also advanced to the postseason with Gray on staff, appearing in the first round of the WNIT.
Prior to her time at Bowling Green, Gray was a graduate assistant at Saint Francis University for the 2022-23 season.
Gray began her collegiate basketball career on the floor as a guard for Penn State from 2008-2012. With the Lady Lions, Gray was a 2012 All-Big Ten Honorable Mention selection and finished her career seventh in program history in three-point field goals made with 149. During her four years in University Park, Gray ranked in the Top 20 in career three-point field goals made and free throw percentage at 78.2%.
Gray played all four years at Penn State, including the Lady Lions 2011-12 Big Ten title season. Gray started in all 33 games that season and was third on the team in points per game with an average of 10.6 points. Gray also hit 48 three-pointers in her final season at Penn State, helping the Lady Lions make a run to the NCAA Tournament Round of 16.
After her time with Penn State, Gray played a season of professional basketball in Wasserburg, Germany, where she helped her team to a league championship. The following year in 2014, Gray made the training camp roster of the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. She was among more than 40 players who attended a Sky open tryout session and became the first open-tryout participant in franchise history to earn an invite to training camp.
Gray is a native of Chicago and is a graduate of John Hope College Preparatory H.S. With the Lady Eagles Gray participated in three Chicago Public League championships and was the only unanimous selection to the 3A All-State First Team in her senior season of 2007-08.
MARIAN ATHLETICS
ISAIAH TIPPING NAMED 2023-24 CROSSROADS LEAGUE MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Jackson, Mich. – The Crossroads League announced on July 11 that Marian University’s own Isaiah Tipping of the men’s track and field program has been named the 2023-24 Crossroads League Male Athlete of the Year. Tipping, who graduated from Marian this spring, is the program’s first recipient of the league’s Male Athlete of the Year honor.
“I am honored and humbled to receive this award,” said Tipping on his honor. “None of this would have been possible without my coaches and teammates. Thank you to Marian University and coaches for giving me the opportunity to compete and allowing me to be a part of something so great. This team will forever hold a place in my heart, and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for the Track and Field program. Go Knights!”
Isaiah Tipping had one of the most dominant track and field careers in Marian history, and ended his senior season by helping Marian to both the Crossroads League Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships. During the indoor track season, Tipping set lifetime-bests in both the shot put and weight throw, winning a pair of Crossroads League Athlete of the Week honors. Tipping earned NAIA Field Athlete of the Week honors on February 7 for his work during the IWU Midwest Classic, and ended the season as the school record holder in the weight throw with a distance of 21.35m. Tipping was the conference champion in the weight throw, and at the NAIA National Championships, Tipping earned his first-career NAIA National Championship, winning the weight throw.
Tipping’s role in the 2024 NAIA Indoor National Championships helped Marian’s men to a third-place finish, the program’s best finish on the national stage. Tipping would also set his personal indoor shot put record at the team’s home invite, hitting a distance of 15.37m on February 9.
“I am so proud and excited for Isaiah Tipping on being selected as the Crossroads League Male Athlete of the Year,” said now-retired Marian track and field head coach Michael Holman. “It is well-deserved for Isaiah, who has been the backbone of the top-ranked throwing program in the NAIA. He is an outstanding young man and a great example of what it takes to be a Knight.”
In the shift to outdoor season, Isaiah increased his game, winning three Crossroads League Field Athlete of the Week honors before winning both the discus and hammer throw at the Crossroads League Championships. Tipping was twice named the NAIA Field Athlete of the Week, and ended the season with personal bests in the shot put, discus, and hammer throw, holding the program record in the hammer with a distance of 65.28m. Tipping set a PR of 55.14m which ranks second all-time in the discus at Marian, while setting his PR in the shot put at 16.28m, third best in the Knights program.
The Marian senior was named the MVP of the Crossroads League Outdoor Championships, and went on to finish as the national runner-up in the discus at the NAIA National Championships. Tipping would also finish third overall in the NAIA Championships in the hammer, scoring 14 points that helped Marian earn the program’s highest finish in men’s or women’s track and field as the NAIA Outdoor National Runner-Up. Tipping ended his year with three total NAIA All-American honors, and four All-Crossroads League honors.
The Crossroads League Male Student-Athlete of the Year award is nominated and voted on by the 10 Athletic Directors from the Crossroads League and announced each summer.
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NUMBERS IN SPORTS
1 – 47 – 25 – 22
July 12, 1945 – Boston Brave outfielder Tommy Holmes, in his Number 1 Uniform was on a mission during this 1945 MLB season. Going into the game against the Chicago Cubs on this day he had hit safely in a National League record of 37 games. The Cubs beat Boston, 6-1 and put a stop to Holmes’ streak. The record of Tommy H. from 1945 stood all the way to 1978 when Pete Rose (Number 14) sailed past it with 44 games, even though a couple of players reached 31 including Willie Davis (Number 3)in 1969, and Rico Carty (Number 25) in 1970.
July 12, 1946 – Vance Dinges, Number 47 hit the only Philadelphia Phillies pinch hit inside-the-park Home Run in franchise history.
July 12, 1949 – The NFL’s Los Angeles Rams signed Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin to a contract. The Dutchman played for the Rams through the 1957 season. In his last three seasons of 1958 through 1960 he played with the Philadelphia Eagles even winning an NFL Championship with each team, the Rams in 1951 and the Eagles in 1960. He wore Number 25 for his first few years on the Rams and then switched to the number he would wear the remainder of his career, Number 11.
July 12, 1951 – The New York Yankees pitcher known as Allie Reynolds, Number 22 threw a no-hit masterpiece in Cleveland against the Indians, his former team, in a 1-0 Yanks win.
July 12, 1954 – The MLBPA was founded to help players have their rights protected in an organized union.
July 12, 1979 – In one of the most strange forfeits of all time, “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park was the promotion in between the games of a double header between the White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. The promotion was a success in the fact that fans actively participated , however when the crowd went wild and stormed the field destroying the disco records it caused game officials to declare that the White Sox had to forfeit second game of the twinbill. For the promotion local Chicago DJ Steve Dahl promised to blow up disco records in between games. It did not go to plan as midway through the first game records started to fly out of the stands frisbee style on to the playing field causing delays while attendants had to remove them so that players would not get hurt. Police arrested 39 people after the mob stormed the field setting fires that destroyed a batting cage, pulling up bases and other vandalism.
FOOTBALL HISTORY
July 12, 1930 – Brooklyn Dodgers franchise is established in the NFL when according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame website Brooklyn businessman, John Dwyer purchased the league’s Dayton Triangles franchise and moved it to New York.
July 12, 1931 – Cleveland Indians franchise forms after the Cleveland Tigers franchise changed their name and then subsequently folded after the 1921 season.
July 12, 1930 – Portsmouth Spartans/Detroit Lions franchise forms. The Spartans were officially granted a franchise at this July 12, 1930 league meeting. The teams had its ups and downs in their brief span on the NFL circuit. Twice they were faced with controversy, preventing them from having a chance to claim the Championship Title of the League. We get more in detail on these stories and more about the Portsmouth franchise in our Early Pro Teams series special on the Spartans. On June 30, 1934 the Portsmouth franchise was sold and moved to Detroit where they have resided ever since.
July 12, 1949 – The LA Rams sign Quarterback Norm Van Brocklin to a contract.
July 12, 1960 – Inventor D.H. Rayburn is awarded the Football Safety Helmet with Face Guard US Patent 2944263.
Hall of Fame Birthday for July 12
July 12, 1863 – Hobart, New York – Hector William “Hec” Cowan is enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame as possibly the member of any of the football hall of fames with the earliest birth date. Think about it, he was born while the Civil War was still in the news. Hec was the captain of the Princeton squad in the late 1880’s and in 1889 was selected by Caspar Whitney to the very first All-American Team as a Tackle per the FootballFoundation.org. Yale star Pudge Heffelfinger claimed that Cowan was one of the strongest opponents that he ever played against per the National Football Foundation. Heffelfinger was quoted as saying, “ “He had the strongest shoulders and arms I’ve ever been up against and his stubby legs drove like pistons when he carried the ball. Hector could carry a couple of tacklers on his back, yet he was plenty fast in the open.” Mr. Cowan went on to coach after graduation at North Carolina and Kansas and had success in these duties as well. Eventually Hec became a Presbyterian Minister while in Missouri.
July 12, 1878 – Henrico County, Virginia – The guard from the University of Pennsylvania for the 1902 to 1905 seasons, Bob Torrey was born. In his bio on the NFF’s website it is brought up that after the 1905 Penn Swarthmore game President Teddy Roosevelt must have gasped at the photograph that was printed in the newspaper. The photo was that of a beat up and battered face of Swarthmore guard Robert “Tiny” Maxwell. The President was incensed as Football violence had gone far enough. Roosevelt threatened to ban the sport and his ultimatum was answered by sweeping rule changes to the game. Maxwell’s facial reconstruction was the result of play in an 11-4 Swarthmore loss to the powerful Penn Quakers. A game that the National Football Foundation states changed the course of football history. Robert Torrey, the Penn captain, was the center playing opposite Maxwell that day. Now though he did play a part in it, Torrey cannot be totally blamed for Maxwell’s condition, as it was no secret that the Penn strategy that day was for the line to double and triple-team Maxwell the key to a Quaker victory to finish the season unbeaten. The strategy worked and Penn did claim an undefeated record in 1905, winning 12 as well as a single tie 6-6 game with Lafayette. A year earlier when the Quakers sported a 12-0-0 record, Swarthmore had been the only team to score against them. For certain, the Penn teams in those early years at the turn of the 20th Century were powerhouses in the rough and tumble days of gridiron play. Torrey was among the best of the nation’s linemen and won All-America honors following the 1905 season. The National Football Foundation selected Bill Torrey for entrance into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1971.
July 12, 1920 – McKinney, Texas – Glenn Dobbs is a football player that was voted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1980 as a halfback out of the University of Tulsa. Dobbs’ career with the Golden Hurricane spanned from 1940 through the 1942 season according to the National Football Foundation. Glenn was a first team All-America selection as a senior as he led the nation with a .626 completion rate during that 1942 campaign. Opposing coach Jimmy Phelan called Dobbs football’s first “Quad” back – able to pass, punt, run with the ball and defend against the opposition. He went on to play professionally in the All-American Football Conference (AAFC) with the Brooklyn Dodgers football team and he was the MVP of that League in 1946. An injury forced him to sit out the 1950 season but he returned to the field in a league that was the predecessor of the CFL called the Western Improvincial Football Union (WIFU) before his full retirement from playing. Dobbs returned to Tulsa to become the University’s Head Coach in the 1960’s.
July 12, 1939 – Carrollton, Ohio – Bill Cooper is a College Football of Fame member that played for Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio from 1957 to 1960. Cooper was a hard-nosed put your head down and run you over type of runner. In fact this rushing style earned Bill the nickname of “Cannonball” Cooper. According to the National Football Foundation as a junior, Cannonball rushed for 1,191 yards and 15 touchdowns. In his senior year he rushed for 1,102 yards and 23 touchdowns on 158 carries. Cannonball finished his collegiate career with 3,651 yards, a 5.5-yards-per-carry average, and 364 points. The NFF says that Cooper was named as a first team All-America in 1960 after leading the Fighting Muskies to a 9-0 season. The prized fullback played his way into the NFL on the San Francisco 49ers squad.
TODAY IN BASEBALL HISTORY
July 12
1901 — Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox won his 300th game with a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia A’s.
1921 — Babe Ruth sets a record of 137 career home runs.
1945 — Tommy Holmes of the Boston Braves went hitless to end his consecutive-game hitting streak at 37 games, an NL record that stood until Pete Rose broke it in 1978.
1949 — Larry Doby of the Cleveland Indians and Jackie Robinson, Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe of the host Brooklyn Dodgers became the first black players to appear in an All-Star game as the AL took advantage of five NL errors to win 11-7 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
1951 — Allie Reynolds of the New York Yankees beat Bob Feller of the Indians 1-0 with a no-hit game at Cleveland. Gene Woodling’s home run was the difference.
1955 — St. Louis’ Stan Musial hit Frank Sullivan’s first pitch of the 12th inning for a home run to give the NL All-Star team a 6-5 victory over the AL at Milwaukee’s County Stadium. The AL had led 5-0 after six innings.
1979 — In the most ill-fated promotion in baseball history, thousands of fans overran the Comiskey Park field during “Disco Demolition Night” and caused the Chicago White Sox to forfeit the second game of a doubleheader after losing to Detroit 4-1 in the first.
1990 — Melido Perez pitched the record-tying seventh no-hitter of the season as the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Yankees 8-0 in a game shortened to six innings by rain. That was one inning longer than the rain-shortened no-hitter pitched in 1988 by Melido’s brother Pascual, who watched from the Yankees’ bench.
1994 — Tony Gwynn barely slipped past Ivan Rodriguez on Moises Alou’s double in the 10th inning to give the NL an 8-7 victory and end its record six-game losing streak in the All-Star game. Fred McGriff’s two-run homer in the ninth off Lee Smith had tied it and earned him MVP honors.
1997 — Francisco Cordova and Ricardo Rinco combined for a 10 inning no-hitter as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Houston Astros 3-0. Cordova pitched nine innings, walking two and striking out 10, before being removed with the score 0-0. Rincon pitched the 10th and got the win when Mark Smith hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the inning.
2005 — Miguel Tejada and Mark Teixeira led the American League to a 7-5 win over the National League in Detroit for its eighth straight win. Tejada, the game’s MVP, homered off John Smoltz to start the scoring and Teixeira added a two-run drive off Dontrelle Willis.
2008 — Greg Maddux became the oldest pitcher in big league history to steal a base at 42 years and 89 days when he stole a base in San Diego’s loss to Atlanta. Jim Kaat had the previous mark. It was Maddux’s 11th stolen base of his career.
2011 — Prince Fielder hit a three-run homer and Roy Halladay and his relief combined on a six-hitter to lead the NL over the AL 5-1, giving the senior circuit its first two-game winning streak in the All-Star game since the mid-1990s.
2016 — Kansas City’s Eric Hosmer homered and drove in two runs, Royals teammate Salvador Perez also hit a two-run homer, and the American League won its fourth consecutive All-Star Game, beating the NL 4-2.
2021 — The Korea Baseball Association announced that it is suspending its season due to a spike in COVID-19 cases.
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July 13
1896 — Philadelphia’s Ed Delahanty hit four home runs in a losing effort, a 9-8 loss to Chicago.
1934 — Babe Ruth hit his 700th home run in a 4-2 victory over Tommy Bridges and the Detroit Tigers. Lou Gehrig left in the first with a severe case of lumbago, the most serious threat to his streak. He returned for one at bat the next day.
1943 — The first night game in All-Star history, at Philadelphia’s Shibe Park, went to the AL, 5-3, despite a single, triple and home run by NL center fielder Vince DiMaggio of the Pittsburgh Pirates. The big blow was a three-run homer by Bobby Doerr of the Boston Red Sox, which gave the AL the lead for good.
1945 — Chicago’s Pat Seerey hit three home runs, a triple and drove in eight runs to lead the White Sox in a 16-4 win over New York at Yankee Stadium.
1954 — Pitcher Dean Stone did not retire a batter but received credit for the AL’s 11-9 All-Star victory at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium. Red Schoendienst tried to steal a run for the NL after Stone was summoned in the eighth inning, but the pitcher’s throw to the plate nailed the runner for the third out.
1963 — Early Wynn, at 43, registered his 300th and last victory, pitching the first five innings of Cleveland’s 7-4 triumph over the Kansas City A’s.
1965 — The NL took the lead over the AL for the first time since the All-Star series began, winning 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minn.
1971 — Reggie Jackson’s mammoth home run off the power generator on the right-field roof at Tiger Stadium highlighted a barrage of six homers — three by each team — as the AL beat the NL 6-4 in the All-Star game.
1982 — The NL registered its 11th consecutive All-Star victory over the AL with a 4-1 victory at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, the first All-Star game played outside the United States. Dave Concepcion’s two-run homer off Dennis Eckersley in the second inning was the deciding hit.
1993 — Minnesota’s Kirby Puckett homered and doubled to win the MVP award in the AL’s 9-3 victory in the All-Star game at Camden Yards in Baltimore.
1999 — Boston’s Pedro Martinez pitched himself into the All-Star game record book, becoming the first to strike out the first four hitters in an All-Star game, fanning Barry Larkin, Larry Walker and Sammy Sosa in the first inning, and Mark McGwire to start the second. Martinez struck out five in the first two innings — tying an American League record — to lead the AL to a 4-1 victory over the National League.
2010 — Brian McCann’s three-run double in the seventh inning provided the NL all the offense it needed to capture its first Midsummer Classic since 1996 with a 3-1 victory.
2013 — Tim Lincecum threw the second no-hitter in 11 days, a gem saved by a spectacular diving catch by right fielder Hunter Pence in the San Francisco Giants’ 9-0 win against the last-place San Diego Padres. Lincecum, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, was the loser when Cincinnati’s Homer Bailey no-hit the Giants on July 2.
2014 — Madison Bumgarner became the first pitcher in 48 years to hit two grand slams in a season, and Buster Posey also hit a slam that boosted San Francisco to an 8-4 win over Arizona.
2021 — The American League wins the 91st All-Star game with a 5-2 win over the National League for their 8th straight win.
2022 — The Blue Jays, who had entered the season with sky-high expectations, fire manager Charlie Montoyo after the team has lost eight of its last ten games and is now barely ahead of the 5th-place Orioles. Bench coach John Schneider takes over as manager on an interim basis, and Casey Candaele is promoted from AAA Buffalo to step into the breach left by Schneider on the coaching staff.
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July 14
1916 — St. Louis Browns pitcher Ernie Koob went the distance in a 17-inning 0-0 tie with the Boston Red Sox. Carl Mays went the first 15 innings for the Red Sox and Dutch Leonard finished.
1946 — Cleveland player-manager Lou Boudreau hit four doubles and a home run in the first game of a doubleheader against Boston, but Ted Williams connected for three home runs and drove in eight runs for an 11-10 Red Sox victory.
1956 — Mel Parnell of the Boston Red Sox pitched a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox for a 4-0 victory at Fenway Park.
1967 — Eddie Mathews of the Astros hit his 500th home run off San Francisco’s Juan Marichal at Candlestick Park. Houston beat the Giants 8-6.
1968 — Hank Aaron hit his 500th home run off Mike McCormick as the Atlanta Braves beat the San Francisco Giants 4-2.
1968 — Don Wilson of the Houston Astros struck out 18 Reds in a 6-1 victory over Cincinnati in the nightcap of a doubleheader.
1969 — Oakland’s Reggie Jackson knocked in 10 runs in a 21-7 win over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. Jackson had five hits in six at-bats, including two two-run homers and a double.
1970 — Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds scored on Jim Hickman’s 12th-inning single after bowling over Cleveland’s Ray Fosse at home plate to give the NL a 5-4 victory over the AL at Riverfront Stadium.
1972 — In a major league first, Bill Haller was the umpire behind the plate while his brother Tom was the catcher for the Detroit Tigers.
1995 — Ramon Martinez threw the first no-hitter of the season as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Florida Marlins 7-0. Martinez was perfect for 7 1-3 innings before walking Tommy Gregg.
2006 — The New York Yankees snapped Jose Contreras’ winning streak at 17 decisions with a 6-5 win over the Chicago White Sox. Contreras (9-1) hadn’t lost since dropping a 4-2 decision to Minnesota last Aug. 15.
2008 — Josh Hamilton of Texas, with a dazzling display of power, hit a record 28 homers in the first round of the All-Star Home Run Derby at Yankee Stadium before he was beaten out by Minnesota’s Justin Morneau in the finals.
2009 — The American League continued its dominance over the National League with a 4-3 win in the All-Star game. The AL is 12-0-1 since its 1996 defeat at Philadelphia — the longest unbeaten streak in All-Star history. Carl Crawford of Tampa, robbed Brad Hawpe of a go-ahead homer in the eighth and took home MVP honors.
2014 — Yoenis Cespedes successfully defends his title as Home Run Derby champion in the annual event held before the All-Star Game at Target Field in Minneapolis, MN. Cespedes defeats Todd Frazier in the final round, 9 long balls to 1, having hit 28 overall. Ken Griffey Jr. was the only other repeat winner in the event, winning in 1998 and 1999.
2015 — Mike Trout became the first player in 38 years to lead off the All-Star Game with a home run, and the American League beat the National League 6-3 to secure home-field advantage in the World Series for the third straight time and 10th in 13 years. Trout also became the first player to be selected the game’s MVP two years in row.
2018 — The Cardinals fire manager Mike Matheny just before the All-Star break, following a loss to the Reds that puts them just one game above .500. Hitting coach John Mabry and assistant hitting coach Bill Mueller are also let go, while bench coach Mike Shildt is named interim manager, with a permanent replacement expected to be named when play resumes after the Mid-Summer Classic in a few days. However, Shildt will do so well that he will be made permanent within a few weeks.
2023 — Brothers Josh Naylor and Bo Naylor both hit two-run homers in the 3rd inning in the Guardians’ 12 – 4 loss to the Rangers at Globe Life Park. It the first time that brothers hit multi-run homers for the same team in the sasme inning.
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July 15
1901 — Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants pitched his first of two career no-hitters, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 5-0.
1921 — NY Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record of 138 career home runs (held by Roger Connor since 1895).
1960 — Baltimore’s Brooks Robinson goes 5-for-5, hitting for the cycle and driving in three runs to lead the Orioles past the Chicago White Sox 5-2.
1969 — Cincinnati’s Lee May hit four home runs in a doubleheader split with the Atlanta Braves. May had two home runs and drove in five runs in both games. The Reds lost the opener 9-8 but won the second game 10-4.
1969 — Rod Carew stole home off Chicago’s Gerry Nyman in the Minnesota Twins’ 6-2 victory. It was Carew’s seventh steal of home for the year and tied Pete Reiser’s 1946 major league mark.
1973 — Nolan Ryan of the California Angels struck out 17 batters and threw his second no-hitter of the year, beating Detroit 6-0.
1980 — Johnny Bench broke Yogi Berra’s record for home runs by a catcher, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Montreal Expos 12-7. Bench hit his 314th homer as a catcher off David Palmer. Bench had 33 home runs while playing other positions.
1997 — The San Francisco Giants scored 13 runs to set a modern NL record for runs in a seventh inning en route to a 16-2 rout of the San Diego Padres. The Giants set the NL record for the most runs in a seventh inning since 1900.
1999 — After 22½ years in the dreary Kingdome, Seattle finally played a home game outdoors, moving into a $517.6 million ballpark with a retractable roof. Jose Mesa wasted a ninth-inning lead by walking four batters and the Mariners lost 3-2 to the San Diego Padres in Safeco Field’s opener.
2003 — Anaheim’s Garret Anderson went 3-for-4 with a two-run homer and a double, powering the American League past the National League 7-6 in the All-Star Game.
2005 — Baltimore’s Rafael Palmeiro became the 26th player to reach 3,000 career hits, curling an RBI double into the left-field corner off Joel Pineiro in the fifth inning of a 6-3 win over Seattle. Palmeiro joined Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Eddie Murray as the only players with 3,000 hits and 500 homers.
2007 — The Philadelphia Phillies lost their 10,000 game, 10-2 to St. Louis. The franchise, born in 1883 as the Philadelphia Quakers and later unofficially called the Blue Jays in the mid-1940s, fell to 8,810-10,000.
2008 — Justin Morneau slid home just in time on Michael Young’s sacrifice fly in the 15th inning, giving the American League a 4-3 victory in the All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. The AL extended its unbeaten streak to 12.
2014 — With Derek Jeter going out a winner in his last All-Star appearance, Mike Trout drove in two runs with a triple and a double to lead the American League past the National League 5-3. Jeter started his 14th and final midsummer classic and went 2 for 2 before being removed in the top of the fourth inning.
2017 — Cody Bellinger became the first Dodgers rookie to hit for the cycle and Alex Wood became the first Dodgers pitcher in more than a century to win his first 11 decisions in a season, helping Los Angeles beat the Miami Marlins 7-1.
2021 — Tampa Bay catcher Travis d’Arnaud becomes first player in MLB history to hit 3 homers while catching and batting leadoff in the Rays’ 5-4 win over the NY Yankees.
July 16
1897 — Chicago’s Cap Anson became the first major leaguer to reach 3,000 hits when he singled off Baltimore’s George Blackburn.
1902 — John McGraw was named manager of the New York Giants, a post he would hold for 30 years.
1909 — Ed Summers of the Detroit Tigers allowed only seven hits and pitched all 18 innings of a 0-0 tie with the Washington Senators, the longest scoreless game in AL history.
1920 — Babe Ruth broke his own season record of 29 homers with his 30th as the New York Yankees beat the St. Louis Browns, 5-2. Ruth would finish the season with 54.
1933 — Red Lucas of the Cincinnati Reds pitched a 15-inning 1-0 win over Roy Parmelee and the New York Giants in the opener of a doubleheader.
1941 — Joe DiMaggio extended his hitting streak to 56 games with a 3-for-4 day as the New York Yankees beat the Cleveland Indians 10-3.
1948 — After 8 1/2 years as Brooklyn manager, Leo Durocher stunned baseball by taking the helm of the archrival Giants in midseason.
1958 – In the nightcap of a doubleheader, Baltimore pitcher Jack Harshman hit two homers in a 6-5 win over the Chicago White Sox.
1970 — The Cincinnati Reds beat the Pirates 3-2 before 48,846 in the first game at Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Stadium.
1985 — Sparky Anderson became the first manager to lose an All-Star Game in both leagues. The National League won 6-1 for the 21st win in the last 23 games.
1996 — Colorado’s streak of scoring seven runs in a game ended at 11. The Rockies beat the Giants 5-3 and tied the 1911 Pittsburgh Pirates, 1938 New York Yankees and 1976 Cincinnati Reds with 11 7-run games.
1997 — Kevin Brown pitched his first career one-hitter to lead Florida to 5-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Brown, who no-hit San Francisco on June 10th, faced two batters over the minimum and allowed a lead-off single to left by Raul Mondesi in the fifth. He struck out eight and retired his final 15 batters.
1998 — Randy Johnson pitched a one-hitter to lead Seattle to a 3-0 win over Minnesota. Johnson struck out fans 11 and gave up a single to third baseman Brent Gates.
2006 — Chipper Jones hit a two-run homer in Atlanta’s 10-5 win at San Diego to give him an extra-base hit in 14 straight games, tying a 79-year-old major league record. Jones tied the record set in 1927 by Pittsburgh’s Paul Waner.
2006 — Mariano Rivera earned his 400th save, escaping two jams and getting six outs to preserve the New York Yankees’ 6-4 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Rivera joined Lee Smith, Trevor Hoffman and John Franco in the 400-save club.
2009 — Philadelphia Phillies slugger Ryan Howard became the fastest player in major league history to reach 200 career home runs, breaking the record previously held by Hall of Famer Ralph Kiner. Howard reached 200 homers in his 658th game, hitting his 23rd of the season in the sixth inning of a 4-0 win over Florida. Kiner hit No. 200 in his 706th game.
2013 — Mariano Rivera pitched a perfect eighth inning in his final All-Star appearance, Jose Bautista, J.J. Hardy and Jason Kipnis drove in runs to back a night of pulsating pitching, and the American League beat the National League 3-0.
2015 — Brock Holt became the first Boston player to hit for the cycle since 1996 and the Red Sox slugged their way out to a 9-4 victory over Atlanta.
2021 — Jake Cronenworth hit for his first career cycle, Wil Myers had a grand slam and a two-run shot and the San Diego Padres set a franchise record for runs in a 24-8 blowout of the Washington Nationals.
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July 17
1924 — Jesse Haines of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched a 5-0 no-hitter against the Boston Braves.
1925 — Tris Speaker is the 5th player to reach 3,000 hits.
1936 — Carl Hubbell’s 24-game winning streak over two years began as he beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-0 on five hits.
1941 — Joe DiMaggio’s hitting streak of 56 games was stopped by Al Smith and Jim Bagby of the Indians before 67,000 at Cleveland. The Yankees still won, 4-3.
1956 — In the second game of a doubleheader against Kansas City, Ted Williams hit his 400th career home run. Williams connected in the sixth inning off Tom Gorman to give the Red Sox a 1-0 win over the A’s.
1966 — Chicago’s Billy Williams hit for the cycle to lead the Cubs to a 7-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in the second game of a Sunday doubleheader. Williams singled in the first inning, doubled in the third, had an RBI-triple in the fifth, homered to center in the seventh and popped out to third baseman in foul territory. The Cardinals took the opener 4-3 in 11 innings.
1969 — Jim Kaat, Gold Glove winner for seven straight years, was charged with three errors, leading to three unearned runs against the Chicago White Sox. Nevertheless, he won the game at Minnesota 8-5.
1974 — Bob Gibson struck out Cesar Geronimo of the Reds in the second inning to become the second pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 strikeouts. Cincinnati beat St. Louis, 6-4.
1978 — Doc Medich of the Texas Rangers saved the life of a 61-year-old fan who had a heart attack just before a scheduled game at Baltimore. Medich, a medical student, administered heart massage until help arrived.
1987 — Don Mattingly became the first AL player to hit at least one home run in each of seven consecutive games as the New York Yankees disposed of the Texas Rangers 8-4.
1990 — Minnesota became the first team in major league history to pull off two triple plays in one game, but it wasn’t enough to overcome Boston as the Red Sox beat the Twins 1-0.
2007 — Ryan Garko hit a game-tying pinch-hit home run in the ninth inning and singled home the winning run in the 11th to give Cleveland a 6-5 win over the Chicago White Sox.
2011 — Dustin Pedroia singled with two outs in the top of the 16th inning, snapping a scoreless tie and giving the Red Sox a 1-0 victory over the Rays. It was the longest 1-0 game in the major leagues since the Brewers at Angels on June 8, 2004 went 17 innings.
2016 — Starling Marte hit a solo home run in the 18th inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Washington Nationals 2-1 in a marathon game that lasted almost six hours. Pinch-hitter Daniel Murphy homered with two outs in the ninth inning for Washington.
2022 — Second-generation players take the first two spots in the 2022 amateur draft as SS Jackson Holliday, son of Matt Holliday, goes first overall to the Orioles, while OF Druw Jones, son of Andruw Jones, is selected second by the Diamondbacks. P Kumar Rocker, who had been the #10 pick in 2021 but had failed to come to an agreement with the Mets following a disagreement over the health of his pitching arm, goes #3 to the Rangers, who sign him mere hours after his selection. Rocker is coming off a brilliant stint of pitching in the independentFrontier League.
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July 18
1882 — Ambidextrous pitcher Tony Mullane of Louisville pitched with both hands in a major league game at Baltimore. Normally a right-hander, Mullane switched to the left hand in the fourth inning. He eventually lost 9-8.
1912 — The Chicago Cubs had 21 hits in 11 innings but still lost to the Philadelphia Phillies when Gavvy Cravath stole home.
1921 — Babe Ruth achieves 139 home runs and becomes the all-time home run leader in Major League Baseball, taking the title from Roger Connor.
1927 — Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics doubled off the glove of Harry Heilmann for his 4,000th hit.
1948 — Pat Seerey of the Chicago White Sox hit four home runs in a 12-11, 11-inning victory over the Philadelphia A’s in the opener of a doubleheader. Seerey hit two mammoth shots off Carl Scheib, one off Bob Savage and the game-winner off Lou Brissie in the top of the 11th.
1962 — Bob Allison and Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins each hit grand slams in the first inning of a 14-3 rout of the Cleveland Indians.
1970 — Willie Mays bounced career hit number 3,000 through the left side of the infield off Mike Wegener in the second inning of the San Francisco Giants’ 10-1 romp over the Montreal Expos. Mays becomes the 10th player to get 3,000 hits.
1987 — New York’s Don Mattingly tied Dale Long’s 31-year-old major league record when he hit a home run for the eighth consecutive game in the Yankees’ 7-2 loss to the Texas Rangers.
1999 — With Don Larsen on hand to help celebrate Yogi Berra Day at Yankee Stadium, David Cone pitched a perfect game. Cone dazzled the Montreal Expos, throwing the 14th perfect game in modern history to lead the New York Yankees to a 6-0 victory.
2001 — Roger Cedeno was 4-for-5 with a double, triple, two homers and six RBIs in Detroit’s 12-4 win over the New York Yankees in the second game of a day-night doubleheader.
2006 — Atlanta became the first team since the 1930 New York Yankees to score 10 or more runs in five straight games following a 14-5 victory over St. Louis. The Braves have scored 65 runs during their offensive explosion that included two 15-run games.
2016 — A federal judge sentenced the former scouting director of the St. Louis Cardinals to nearly four years in prison for hacking the Houston Astros’ player personnel database and email system in an unusual case of high-tech cheating involving two Major League Baseball clubs. Christopher Correa had pleaded guilty in January to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer from 2013 to at least 2014, the same year he was promoted to director of baseball development in St. Louis.
2018 — As has been rumored for some time, the Dodgers trade for All-Star SS Manny Machado, who will become a free agent at the end of the season. The price is steep for what amounts to a short-term rental: five prospects, including AA OF Yusniel Diaz, one of the stars of the most recent Futures Game. The Dodgers have a gaping hole to fill, however, having recently lost SS Corey Seager for the remainder of the season.
2022 — Youth is served in the annual Home Run Derby, held at Dodger Stadium on the eve of the All-Star Game as 23-year-old Juan Soto defeats 21-year-old rookie Julio Rodríguez in the final round, but not before 42-year-old Albert Pujols manages to upset NL home run leader Kyle Schwarber in the initial round. Two-time defending champion Pete Alonso goes down before Rodríguez in the semi-finals. Soto misses the title of youngest-ever winner ever by one day, behind 1993 winner Juan Gonzalez.
TODAY IN SPORTS HISTORY
July 12
1901 — Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox wins his 300th game with a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia A’s.
1930 — Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Open. Jones, who also won the British Open, the American Amateur and the British Amateur, becomes the only golfer to take all four events in the same year.
1954 — The Major League Baseball Players Association is founded.
1964 — Mickey Wright wins the U.S. Women’s Open for the fourth time by defeating Ruth Jessen by two strokes in a playoff.
1970 — Jack Nicklaus wins his second British Open, beating Doug Sanders by one stroke in an 18-hole playoff at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. It’s the first playoff at The Open since 1963 and the first at 18 holes.
1975 — Tom Watson wins an 18-hole playoff by one stroke over Jack Newton to win the British Open at Carnoustie Golf Links in Scotland.
1980 — Mary Decker has her fourth record-setting performance of the year, setting an American mark in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:01.17 at an international meet at Stuttgart.
1995 — Noureddine Morceli of Algeria shatters his world record for 1,500 meters at the Nikaia Grand Prix in Nice, France, with a time of 3:27.37. It is the second world record for Morceli in 10 days.
1996 — Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract with the Chicago Bulls, for 1 year for $30.1 million.
1996 — Kirby Puckett, MLB centerfielder, retires after 12 seasons from Minnesota Twins, due to loss of vision in one eye.
1998 — France wins soccer’s World Cup, beating heavily favored Brazil 3-0 in the championship match.
1999 — The U.S. men’s basketball team wins its sixth straight World University Games gold medal and 40th straight game — both records — by routing Yugoslavia 79-65 in the final.
2012 — Every country competing at the London Games includes female athletes for the first time in Olympic history after Saudi Arabia agreed to send two women to compete in judo and track and field.
2014 — Mario Goetze volleys in the winning goal in extra time to give Germany its fourth World Cup title with a 1-0 victory over Argentina. The win is Germany’s first as a united country. West Germany won the World Cup in 1954, 1974 and 1990.
2015 — Novak Djokovic gets the better of Roger Federer at Wimbledon, beating him in four sets to win his third Wimbledon title and ninth Grand Slam championship.
2015 — South Korea’s In Gee Chun birdies four of the last seven holes to rally for a one-stroke victory at the U.S. Women’s Open. The 20-year old Chun shoots a 4-under 66 in the final round and finished at 8 under, becoming the first player to win her U.S. Open debut since Birdie Kim in 2005.
2017 — Sam Querrey stuns top-seeded Andy Murray in five sets in the Wimbledon quarterfinals, 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-1.
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July 13
1881 — William Renshaw sets the record for the shortest men’s championship match by time and games by beating John T. Hartley 6-0, 6-1, 6-1 in 37 minutes at Wimbledon.
1934 — Babe Ruth hits his 700th career home run against Detroit.
1941 — The PGA tournament is won by Vic Ghezzi with a 1-up 38-hole victory over Byron Nelson. at Cherry Hills CC Denver
1943 — The first night game in All-Star history is played at Philadelphia’s Shibe Park. Boston’s Bobby Doerr provides the big blow, a three-run homer, for the AL’s 5-3 win.
1963 — Early Wynn wins his 300th and last MLB game at 43.
1968 — Gary Player wins the British Open by two strokes over Bob Charles and Jack Nicklaus. It’s the second Open championship for Player and his fifth major title.
1971 — Reggie Jackson hits a mammoth home run off the power generator on the right-field roof at Tiger Stadium to highlight a barrage of six homers — three by each team — as the AL beats the NL 6-4 in the All-Star game.
1972 — Robert Irsay buys the stock of the Los Angeles Rams for $19 million and swaps the franchise for the Baltimore Colts. The players and coaches are not affected.
1980 — Amy Alcott shoots a record score of 280 to win the U.S. Women’s Open by nine strokes over Hollis Stacy.
1994 — Tonya Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly sentenced to 2 years in prison for attack on American Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan.
1996 — Cigar matches Citation’s modern North American record of 16 consecutive wins, pulling away to take the $1.05 million Arlington Citation Challenge by 3½ lengths.
1997 — Alison Nicholas holds off Nancy Lopez for a one-stroke victory in the U.S. Women’s Open. Nicholas shoots a 72-hole total of 10-under 274, the most under par in the 52-year history of the event.
2003 — Beth Daniel becomes the oldest winner in LPGA Tour history, birdying the final two holes to beat Juli Inkster by a stroke in the Canadian Women’s Open. At 46 years, 8 months and 29 days, Daniel breaks the age record set by JoAnne Carner in 1985.
2011 — Abby Wambach breaks a tense tie with a thunderous header in the 79th minute, and the United States earns its first trip to the Women’s World Cup final since winning it in 1999 with a 3-1 victory over France. Japan upsets Sweden 3-1 in the other semifinal.
2014 — Mo Martin hits the best shot of her life to become a major champion in the Women’s British Open. Martin hit a 3-wood that hit the pin on the par-5 closing hole at Royal Birkdale, settling 6 feet for an eagle. Martin closes with an even-par 72 and finishes at 1-under 287 for a one-shot win over Inbee Park and Shanshan Feng.
2014 — Mario Goetze volleys in the winning goal in extra time to give Germany its fourth World Cup title with a 1-0 victory over Argentina.
2017 — Venus Williams reaches her ninth Wimbledon final and first since 2009, turning in her latest display of gutsy serving to beat Johanna Konta 6-4, 6-2. At 37, Williams becomes the oldest finalist at the All England Club since Martina Navratilova was the 1994 runner-up at that age. She also stops Konta’s bid to become the first woman from Britain in 40 years to win Wimbledon. In the opening semifinal, Garbine Muguruza overwhelms Magdalena Rybarikova of Slovakia 6-1, 6-1 in just over an hour.
2019 — Wimbledon Women’s Tennis: Simona Halep beats Serena Williams 6-2, 6-2 in just 55 minutes; first Romanian to win a Wimbledon singles title.
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July 14
1912 — Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8).
1951 — Citation is the first horse to win $1 million in a career by taking the Hollywood Gold Cup by four lengths in Inglewood, Calif. Citation retires after the race with total earnings of $1,085,760. In 45 starts, Citation ran out of the money only once.
1964 — Jacques Anquetil wins his fifth Tour de France. It’s his fourth straight title of the cycling event.
1967 — Eddie Mathews of the Astros hits his 500th home run off San Francisco’s Juan Marichal at Candlestick Park. Houston beats the Giants 8-6.
1968 — Hank Aaron hits his 500th home run off Mike McCormick as the Atlanta Braves beat the San Francisco Giants 4-2.
1973 — Tom Weiskopf wins the British Open by three strokes over Johnny Miller and Neil Coles. Weiskopf goes wire-to-wire and his total of 12-under-par 276 matches the Open Championship record set by Arnold Palmer on the same Troon Golf Club course in 1962.
1985 — Kathy Baker beats Judy Clark by three strokes to win the U.S. Women’s Open golf title.
1985 — The Baltimore Stars defeat the Oakland Invaders 28-24 to win the United States Football League championship.
1986 — Jane Geddes beats Sally Little in an 18-hole playoff to take the U.S. Women’s Open championship.
1991 — Meg Mallon shoots a 4-under 67 for a two-stroke victory over Pat Bradley in the 46th U.S. Women’s Open. Mallon finishes with a 1-under 283.
1995 — Ramon Martinez throws a no-hitter, giving the Los Angeles Dodgers a 7-0 victory over the Florida Marlins.
2001 — John Campbell scores an unprecedented sixth victory in the $1 million Meadowlands Pace as Real Desire beats favored Bettor’s Delight in the stretch. Real Desire paces the mile in 1:49.3 in matching the record set by The Panderosa two years ago in the race that gave Campbell his fifth win. Campbell, 46, is a winner of a $1 million race 19 times.
2005 — In Oklahoma City, the United States is beaten in an international softball game for the first time since 2002, losing 2-1 to Canada in the inaugural World Cup of Softball.
2009 — The American League continues its dominance over the National League with a 4-3 win in the All-Star game. The AL is 12-0-1 since its 1996 defeat at Philadelphia — the longest unbeaten streak in All-Star history.
2011 — Kaio breaks former grand champion Chiyonofuji career sumo victory record, beating Mongolian Kyokutenho for No. 1,046. The 39-year-old Kaio forces out Kyokutenho in the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament.
2011 — Amateur Tom Lewis shoots a record 5-under 65 in the opening round of the British Open. The 20-year-old Lewis posts the lowest round ever by an amateur in golf’s oldest major to pull even with Thomas Bjorn at Royal St. George’s.
2013 — Jordan Spieth becomes the youngest winner on the PGA Tour in 82 years. The 19-year-old outlasts David Hearn and Zach Johnson on the fifth hole of a playoff to win the John Deere Classic. He’s the first teenager to win since Ralph Guldahl took the Santa Monica Open in 1931.
2015 — Mike Trout becomes the first player in 38 years to lead off the All-Star Game with a home run, and the American League beats the National League 6-3 to secure home-field advantage in the World Series for the third straight time and 10th in 13 years. Trout also becomes the first player to be selected the game’s MVP two years in row.
2018 — Angelique Kerber claims her first Wimbledon title with a 6-3, 6-3 victory over seven-time champion Serena Williams.
2019 — Novak Dokovic wins the longest ever Wimbledon title over Roger Federer 7-6, 1-6, 7-6, 4-6, 13-12 in 4 hours 57 minutes.
2019 — English Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins a record 6th British Formula 1 Grand Prix at Silverstone; moves him 1 win clear of Jim Clark and Alain Prost (5).
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July 15
1912 — Jim Thorpe wins the decathlon at the Stockholm Olympics and, in the closing ceremony, Sweden’s King Gustav proclaims Thorpe the world’s greatest athlete.
1921 — NY Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB record of 138 career home runs (held by Roger Connor since 1895).
1922 — Gene Sarazen shoots a final-round 68 to beat out Bobby Jones and John Black for the U.S. Open golf championship.
1923 — Amateur Bobby Jones beats Bobby Cruikshank by two strokes in a playoff to win the U.S. Open golf title.
1927 — Bobby Jones wins the British Open shooting a championship record 7-under 285 at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. It’s the second straight Open title for the amateur, who goes wire-to-wire for a six-stroke victory over Aubrey Boomer and Fred Dobson.
1945 — Byron Nelson defeats Sam Byrd in the final round of the PGA golf tournament.
1961 — Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale to win his first British Open title.
1967 — Argentina’s Roberto DeVicenzo wins the British Open by two strokes over defending champion Jack Nicklaus.
1972 — Lee Trevino wins his second consecutive British Open title by beating Jack Nicklaus by one stroke.
1978 — Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St. Andrews to win his third and final British Open.
1984 — Hollis Stacy wins her third U.S. Women’s Open golf title, beating Rosie Jones by one stroke.
1990 — Betsy King overcomes an 11-shot deficit over the final 33 holes to win her second consecutive U.S. Women’s Open as Patty Sheehan blows an eight-shot lead over the final 23 holes.
1991 — Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle becomes the first woman to officiate a men’s professional basketball game, working a United States Basketball League game between the New Haven Skyhawks and the Philadelphia Spirit.
2000 — Lennox Lewis stops Francois Botha at 2:39 of the second round to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles in London.
2007 — BYU star Daniel Summerhays becomes the first amateur winner in Nationwide Tour history. Summerhays scores a two-stroke victory over Chad Collins and Chris Nallen in the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational.
2007 — The Philadelphia Phillies lose their 10,000 game, 10-2 to St. Louis. The franchise, born in 1883 as the Philadelphia Quakers and later called the Blue Jays in the mid-1940s, fall to 8,810-10,000.
2007 — Copa América Final, Maracaibo, Venezuela: Defending champions Brazil win their 8th title with a 3-0 win over Argentina.
2008 — Justin Morneau slides home just in time on Michael Young’s sacrifice fly in the 15th inning, giving the American League a 4-3 victory in the All-Star game at Yankee stadium.
2010 — Rory McIlroy, a 21-year-old from Northern Ireland, ties the major championship record by shooting a 9-under 63 in the opening round of the British Open at the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland.
2010 — Caster Semenya wins her first race since being cleared to return to competition after undergoing gender tests, winning the 800 meters in a modest time against a weak field at a low-key meet in Finland.
2018 — Novak Djokovic wins his fourth Wimbledon title with a 6-2, 6-2 7-6 (3) victory over Kevin Anderson. It’s Djokovic’s 13th major trophy, the fourth-highest total in the history of men’s tennis, trailing only Roger Federer’s 20, Rafael Nadal’s 17 and Pete Sampras’ 14. At No. 21, Djokovic is the lowest-ranked Wimbledon titlist since Goran Ivanisevic in 2001.
2018 — France wins its second World Cup title with a 4-2 win over Croatia in a dramatic final in Moscow.
2019 — Tampa Bay catcher Travis d’Arnaud becomes first player in MLB history to hit 3 home runs while catching and batting leadoff in the Rays’ 5-4 win over the NY Yankees.
July 16
1920 — Babe Ruth breaks his season record of 29 homers with his 30th, leading the New York Yankees past the St. Louis Browns, 5-2. Ruth ends the season with 54.
1920 — The United States sweeps Australia in five matches to win the Davis Cup for the first time since 1913. The U.S. team is made up of Bill Tilden and Bill Johnston.
1938 — Paul Runyan wins the PGA Championship by routing Sam Snead 8 and 7 in the final round.
1947 — Rocky Graziano scores a technical knockout with a barrage of 30 punches against Tony Zale in the sixth round to win the world middleweight boxing title. Held in Chicago Stadium, it’s the largest grossing fight in history.
1950 — Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 to win soccer’s World Cup in Rio de Janeiro.
1967 — Kathy Whitworth wins the LPGA championship by one stroke over Shirley Englehorn. Whitworth sinks a fifty-foot uphill putt for a birdie on the 18th green at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton Mass.
1989 — Betsy King birdies three of the first four holes of the final round to win her first U.S. Women’s Open championship by four strokes over Nancy Lopez.
1993 — Nick Faldo ties the best single round in 122 years of the British Open with a course-record 63 to give him a one-stroke lead after the second round.
1995 — Annika Sorenstam of Sweden wins the U.S. Women’s Open by one stroke over Meg Mallon, her first victory on the LPGA Tour.
2005 — In Las Vegas, Jermain Taylor beats Bernard Hopkins for the undisputed middleweight title. Hopkins, a winner of a record 20 consecutive defenses, starts slowly and the undefeated challenger builds up a big enough lead on two judges’ scorecards to take the crown.
2006 — J.R. Todd becomes the first black driver to win an NHRA Top Fuel event, beating Tony Schumacher in the Mopar Mile-High Nationals.
2011 — Kyle Busch wins the Nationwide race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to become the third driver to win 100 races in NASCAR’s three national series. Busch, with 22 Cup victories and 29 Trucks wins, also ties Mark Martin for first place in career Nationwide Series victories with 49. Richard Petty and David Pearson are the other drivers with at least 100 wins.
2012 — Roger Federer surpasses Pete Sampras to set the record for the most weeks at No. 1 in the ATP rankings. After winning Wimbledon a week ago — his 75th career ATP title — Federer returns to the top for the first time since June 2010. Today marks his 287th week at No. 1, one more than Sampras.
2017 — Roger Federer defeated Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-1, 6-4, to claim a record 8th Wimbledon men’s title.
2023 — Wimbledon Men’s Tennis: In a classic final, 20-year-old Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz ends Novak Đoković’s 34-match win streak at the All England Club with a 1-6, 7-6, 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 victory.
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July 17
1939 — Henry Picard beats Byron Nelson 1-up in 37 holes to win the PGA championship.
1941 — Joe DiMaggio’s hitting streak of 56 games is stopped by Al Smith and Jim Bagby of the Indians before 67,000 at Cleveland.
1955 — Beverly Hanson beats Louise Suggs by three strokes in a playoff to capture the first LPGA championship.
1966 — Jim Ryun becomes the first American to hold the record in the mile since 1937. With a time of 3:51.3 at Berkeley, Calif., Ryun shatters Michel Jazy’s mark of 3:53.6 by 2.3 seconds.
1974 — Bob Gibson strikes out Cesar Geronimo of the Reds in the second inning to become the second pitcher in major league history to record 3,000 strikeouts.
1979 — Sebastian Coe breaks the world record in the mile with a time of 3:48.95 in Oslo, Norway. The time is rounded up to 3:49.
1983 — Bobby Hebert passes for 314 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Michigan Panthers to a 24-22 win over the Philadelphia Stars in the first USFL championship game.
1983 — Tom Watson wins his second straight and fifth career British Open title. Watson shoots a 9-under 275 at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England to finish one stroke ahead of Andy Bean and Hale Irwin.
1990 — Minnesota becomes the first team in major league history to pull off two triple plays in one game, but it isn’t enough to overcome Boston as the Red Sox beat the Twins 1-0.
1994 — Brazil wins a record fourth World Cup soccer title, taking the first shootout in championship game history over Italy.
2005 — Tiger Woods records another ruthless performance at St. Andrews, closing with a 2-under 70 to win the British Open for his 10th career major. He wins by five shots, the largest margin in any major since Woods won by eight at St. Andrews five years ago. He joins Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win the career Grand Slam twice.
2006 — Stacey Nuveman and Lovieanne Jung each homer to power the United States to the World Cup of Softball title with a 5-2 victory over Japan.
2011 — Japan stuns the United States in a riveting Women’s World Cup final, winning 3-1 on penalty kicks after coming from behind twice in a 2-2 tie. Goalkeeper Ayumi Kaihori makes two brilliant saves in the shootout. Japan, making its first appearance in the final of a major tournament, hadn’t beaten the Americans in their first 25 meetings.
2011 — Darren Clarke gives Northern Ireland another major championship, winning the British Open by three strokes over Americans Dustin Johnson and Phil Mickelson.
2016 — Henrik Stenson shoots an 8-under 63 to beat Phil Mickelson by three strokes, becoming the first man from Sweden to win the British Open.
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July 18
1896 — James Foulis wins the U.S. Men’s Open golf championship at Shinnecock Hills, Southampton, N.Y.
1921 — Babe Ruth achieves 139 home runs and becomes the all-time home run leader in Major League Baseball, taking the title from Roger Connor.
1927 — Ty Cobb of the Philadelphia Athletics doubles off the glove of Harry Heilmann for his 4,000th hit.
1951 — Jersey Joe Walcott, at 37, becomes the oldest fighter to win the world heavyweight title with a seventh-round knockout of Ezzard Charles at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
1970 — San Francisco’s Willie Mays gets career hit number 3,000 off Montreal’s Mike Wegener in the second inning.
1975 — The trial of Dave Forbes, the first pro athlete to be indicted for a crime committed during play, ends in a hung jury. Forbes, of the Boston Bruins, was indicted for excessive force used on an opponent. Forbes’ victim was Henry Boucha in a game on Jan. 4 against the North Stars at Minnesota. The prosecution decides not to seek a retrial.
1987 — New York’s Don Mattingly ties Dale Long’s 31-year-old major league record when he homers for the eighth consecutive game in the Yankees’ 7-2 loss to the Texas Rangers.
1993 — Greg Norman shoots a 64 on the final day to set a record with a 13-under 267 and wins the British Open. Norman wins by two strokes over defending champion Nick Faldo.
1995 — Britain’s Jonathan Edwards breaks the 10-year-old world triple jump record, leaping 59 feet in the Salamanca Provincial meet. Edwards tops the previous mark of 58-11½ set in 1985 by Willie Banks of the United States.
1999 — Jean Van de Velde’s triple bogey on the 72nd hole sets the stage for Paul Lawrie to become the first Scotsman to win the British Open in his native land since Tommy Armour in 1931. Lawrie, 10 strokes behind when the final round began, wins the four-hole playoff over Van de Velde and Justin Leonard, making birdies on the last two holes to complete the biggest comeback in a major.
1999 — David Cone dazzles the Montreal Expos, throwing the 14th perfect game in modern history to lead the New York Yankees to a 6-0 victory.
2005 — In Oklahoma City, the United States loses a tournament title game for the first time since 1997, falling 3-1 to Japan in the championship of the inaugural World Cup of Softball. The Americans, which lost to Canada earlier in this tournament, lost to Australia 1-0 in the championship game of the 1997 Superball, held in Ohio.
2010 — Louis Oosthuizen of South Africa shoots a 1-under 71 for a seven-stroke victory at 16-under 272 in the British Open on the Old Course at St. Andrews. Lee Westwood of England finishes second.
2021 — Colin Morikawa wins the Open Championship 15-under par at Royal St. George’s by two strokes over Jordan Speith. It was Morikawa’s second major championship win following his 2020 The Masters win.
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