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Rays use homers, stellar pitching, Taylor Walls' glove to defeat M's
Tampa Bay starter Nick Martinez posted his eighth win on the day he was named to his first All-Star team, and the Rays opened the final series before the break with a 7-2 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night in St. Petersburg, Fla.,The 35-year-old right-hander replaced injured Boston Re...

Samuel Basallo powers Orioles past Royals with late HR
Samuel Basallo hit a two-run tiebreaking home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to lift the host Baltimore Orioles to a 5-3 victory against the Kansas City Royals in the opener of a three-game series Friday night.,Blaze Alexander homered in the fourth inning and was the only Oriole with two hit...

Reports: Bam Adebayo punches ex-Heat teammate Tyler Herro
Bam Adebayo punched his former Miami Heat teammate Tyler Herro during a brief altercation in Las Vegas on Friday, ESPN and The Athletic reported.,Both the Heat and the Milwaukee Bucks, Herro's new team, confirmed to The Athletic that they were made aware of the situation, but they declined further c...

Team Yandex tied with 1w in Group D at Esports World Cup Dota tourney
Team Falcons and PARIVISION stand alone atop their groups, while 1w and Team Yandex share first place and Aurora Gaming is tied with Nigma Galaxy after Thursday's action at the Dota 2 event of the Esports World Cup in Paris.,Group A's Team Falcons and Group C's PARIVISION each won with 2-0 sweeps ov...

White Sox reinstate All-Star 1B Munetaka Murakami from IL
The Chicago White Sox reinstated rookie slugger Munetaka Murakami from the 10-day injured list on Friday.,Prior to striking out in his first at-bat Friday night against the Athletics, Murakami was named to the American League All-Star team as a replacement for injured Minnesota Twins outfielder Byro...

Spurs sign Victor Wembanyama for reported 5 years, $252M
Hours after he told Spurs fans he was "here to stay," Victor Wembanyama signed a multiyear contract extension with San Antonio that ESPN reported is for five years and $252 million.,The deal, which is worth $50.4 million per year, is the NBA's maximum rookie-scale extension and carries a player opti...

Lucas Glover cruises through another round, leads ISCO by 2
Lucas Glover must be feeling deja vu.,One week after going bogey-free through two rounds at the John Deere Classic to take the outright lead, Glover has replicated the feat at the ISCO Championship following his second-round 64 Friday at Hurstbourne Country Club in Louisville, Ky.,Glover sits at 13-...

Stampeders' Vernon Adams Jr. takes on Alouettes coming off 7-TD game
Vernon Adams Jr. will look to follow up his stellar seven-touchdown performance when he leads the Calgary Stampeders into Montreal on Saturday to face the Alouettes.,Adams threw for 405 yards and six touchdowns to go along with a rushing score as the Stampeders rolled to a 58-36 victory over the Tor...

Belgium GK Thibaut Courtois on injury sub: Team above everything
Thibaut Courtois has kept Belgium in many a match throughout his national team career. But an injury substitution before a heartbreaking loss may have been the goalkeeper's final World Cup moment.,Courtois said he would have been able to play through a leg injury, but he accepted being taken out for...

Cameron Percy conquers wet, windy Firestone to seize Kaulig lead
Australia's Cameron Percy fired a 4-under-par 66 on Friday during the second round of the Kaulig Companies Championship to claim a one-shot lead through 36 holes at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio.,Percy's bogey-free trip around the wet and windy South Course pushed him to 7 under as he hunts ...

Fresh off first win since mid-June, Dream hope to put out Fire
The Atlanta Dream ended a five-game losing streak in their last outing.,They'll try to continue heading in a better direction when they host the Portland Fire on Saturday afternoon.,The Dream (13-9) had the longest losing streak in the WNBA before they defeated the visiting Seattle Storm 89-78 on Th...

Shohei Ohtani (knee) out of All-Star Game, Friday pitching start
Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani pulled out of the upcoming All-Star Game on Friday due to continued issues with his left knee.,The Dodgers said Ohtani will "have some interventions on his knee" next week to get him ready for the second half of the season and will miss Tuesday's Midsummer...

Mikel Merino's goal lifts Spain past Belgium, into semifinals vs. France
Mikel Merino came off the bench again to save Spain, scoring the go-ahead goal in the 88th minute to defeat Belgium 2-1 in a World Cup quarterfinal in Inglewood, Calif., on Friday.,A spot in the July 19 final will be at stake when Spain plays France in Arlington, Texas, on Tuesday. The French are se...

Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani gets another shot with bat vs. D-backs
Shohei Ohtani will miss his last pitching start prior to the All-Star break but he can still make an impact with his bat when the Los Angeles Dodgers host the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night.,Ohtani was scratched from his Friday start and the Dodgers announced the two-way superstar will miss ne...

Novak Djokovic aims to play in at least 1 more Wimbledon
Despite being turned away again as he attempted to earn his record-setting 25th Grand Slam title, Novak Djokovic seemed upbeat about his future.,Minutes after being on the wrong end of a convincing 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 defeat to defending champion Jannik Sinner in Friday's second semifinal on Center Court ...

Nick Martinez, Ceddanne Rafaela named to AL All-Star roster
Right-hander Nick Martinez of the Tampa Bay Rays and outfielder Ceddanne Rafaela of the Boston Red Sox were named as roster replacements Friday on the American League All-Star team.,Both Martinez and Rafaela are first-time All-Stars. ,Martinez replaces Boston Red Sox left-hander Ranger Suarez, who i...

Belgium captain Youri Tielemans out with injury vs. Spain
Belgium captain Youri Tielemans sustained an undisclosed injury while warming up and was scratched from the starting lineup, adding to the Red Devils' woes in the midfield before facing Spain in a quarterfinal match of the World Cup at Inglewood, Calif., on Friday.,The midfielder had played in all f...

Report: FIFA could make $11 million from pieces of World Cup final turf
The field that will be used for the World Cup final later this month is about to fetch some serious green.,According to The Athletic, FIFA will sell four different tiers of souvenir turf that will be harvested after the world's most-watched sporting event concludes July 19 at East Rutherford, N.J.,T...

Alexander Zverev to face Jannik Sinner in Wimbledon final
Second-seeded Alexander Zverev put an end to the "Fery-tale" run of a British wild card on Friday and punched his ticket to the Wimbledon final for the first time, where he'll face defending champ Jannik Sinner, who knocked out seven-time champion Novak Djokovic.,Zverev recorded a 7-6 (0), 6-2, 6-4 ...

EchoPark provides stage for drama atop Cup Series standings
A twist of fate has touched Tyler Reddick and Denny Hamlin over the past two weekends, and it has resulted in a shakeup at the top of the NASCAR Cup Series standings.,Over that span, Reddick has been transformed from points leader to runner-up to Hamlin with more drama expected on Sunday night (7 p....