The Sports Report: Spain Advances To World Cup Final

Spain advances to World Cup final

From Kevin Baxter: In a World Cup boasting a postulation of stars, a lunch-bucket squad of blue-collar everymen whitethorn upwind up outshining them all.

Spain clinched a berth to nan last Tuesday by smothering France 2-0 astatine AT&T Stadium, moving its unbeaten streak to 37 games while eliminating a squad that had tally roughshod done nan tournament.

And it wasn’t moreover close. France came into nan game pinch 16 goals, 2nd only to Argentina successful nan tournament, past grounded to put a changeable connected extremity successful nan first 81 minutes.

It had Kylian Mbappé, who is tied pinch Lionel Messi for nan scoring lead this summertime and was nan Golden Boot victor 4 years agone successful Qatar. He was each but invisible until, frustrated, he felled Spanish keeper Unai Simón pinch a inexpensive changeable successful nan last minutes, drafting a well-deserved yellowish card.

France couldn’t moreover people into an unfastened net, pinch Desire Doue lining a debased changeable correct astatine a quickly retreating Simón, who had travel good disconnected his statement and near nan extremity unattended. For Simón, Tuesday’s cleanable expanse was his sixth successful 7 games successful this tournament.

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World Cup semifinals schedule, results

All times Pacific
All games connected Fox and Telemundo

Tuesday
Spain 2, France 0

Wednesday
England vs. Argentina, noon

Third-place match

France vs. England aliases Argentina, Saturday, 2 p.m.

Championship match

Spain vs. England aliases Argentina, Sunday, noon

Cody Bellinger is MVP of AL’s All-Star crippled victory

Dylan Cease struck retired nan broadside successful nan first inning, combining pinch 10 relievers connected a three-hitter successful a show of pitching power that led nan American League to a 4-0 win complete nan National League successful Tuesday night’s All-Star Game.

All-Star astir valuable subordinate Cody Bellinger deed a two-run azygous and Ben Rice followed pinch an RBI azygous successful nan first against Cristopher Sánchez of nan big Philadelphia Phillies.

Miguel Vargas of nan Chicago White Sox added an eighth-inning location tally disconnected nan Dodgers’ Justin Wrobleski, who was pitching connected his 26th birthday, for nan game’s only extra-base hit. Wrobleski struck retired 5 successful 2 innings.

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MLB standings

USC extends woody pinch Nike

From Ryan Kartje: The Swoosh is staying astatine USC for nan foreseeable future.

USC and Nike agreed this week to a 10-year extension of their all-sports apparel woody done 2036, nan schoolhouse announced connected Tuesday.

Their business was already among nan longest-running apparel deals successful assemblage athletics. Now it’s ensured to transportation into its 5th decade.

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What do nan Sparks do next?

From Marisa Ingemi: A time aft general head Raegan Pebley was fired, nan Sparks were successful Atlanta and seemingly still focused connected trying to scope nan playoffs this year.

The proposal that Pebley’s removal was a motion that nan squad is performing poorly didn’t beryllium good pinch coach Lynne Roberts.

“I don’t deliberation we underachieved past twelvemonth and this twelvemonth is still going,” Roberts said successful Atlanta connected Monday earlier nan team’s nonaccomplishment to nan Dream. “For wherever we want to get, that’s not wherever we want to be, but we tripled our triumph full successful my first twelvemonth — that’s not underachieving. We haven’t deed our stride, we’ve been injured each year. Hopefully we get [Kelsey Plum] and Cam [Brink] back. Our strategy is designed astir KP. I’m not adjacent to reasoning we are underachieving.”

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Clippers probe should wrap up this summer

From Broderick Turner: NBA commissioner Adam Silver reiterated Tuesday nighttime aft nan Board of Governors gathering that nan investigation into whether nan Clippers circumvented nan net headdress by funneling money to Kawhi Leonard for an endorsement woody he allegedly ne'er fulfilled still is not completed.

Silver said his “timeline remains this summer” to make his findings known aft high-powered New York rule patient Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz wraps up its investigation and presents nan findings to nan NBA.

The investigation centers connected a $28-million endorsement woody to Leonard from a institution called Aspiration that Clippers proprietor Steve Ballmer invested $60 cardinal into.

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This time successful sports history

1912 — Jim Thorpe wins nan decathlon astatine nan Stockholm Olympics and, successful nan closing ceremony, Sweden’s King Gustav proclaims Thorpe nan world’s top athlete.

1922 — Gene Sarazen shoots a final-round 68 to hit retired Bobby Jones and John Black for nan U.S. Open play championship.

1923 — Amateur Bobby Jones thumps Bobby Cruikshank by 2 strokes successful a playoff to triumph nan U.S. Open play title.

1927 — Bobby Jones wins nan British Open shooting a title grounds 7-under 285 astatine nan Old Course successful St Andrews, Scotland. It’s nan 2nd consecutive Open title for nan amateur, who goes wire-to-wire for a six-stroke triumph complete Aubrey Boomer and Fred Dobson.

1945 — Byron Nelson defeats Sam Byrd successful nan last information of nan PGA play tournament.

1961 — Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 astatine Royal Birkdale to triumph his first British Open title.

1967 — Argentina’s Roberto DeVicenzo wins nan British Open by 2 strokes complete defending champion Jack Nicklaus.

1972 — Lee Trevino wins his 2nd consecutive British Open title by beating Jack Nicklaus by 1 stroke.

1978 — Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 astatine St. Andrews to triumph his 3rd and last British Open.

1984 — Hollis Stacy wins her 3rd U.S. Women’s Open play title, beating Rosie Jones by 1 stroke.

1990 — Betsy King overcomes an 11-shot shortage complete nan last 33 holes to triumph her 2nd consecutive U.S. Women’s Open arsenic Patty Sheehan blows an eight-shot lead complete nan last 23 holes.

1991 — Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle becomes nan first female to officiate a men’s pro hoops game, moving a United States Basketball League crippled betwixt nan New Haven Skyhawks and nan Philadelphia Spirit.

2000 — Lennox Lewis stops Francois Botha astatine 2:39 of nan 2nd information to clasp his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles successful London.

2007 — BYU prima Daniel Summerhays becomes nan first amateur victor successful Nationwide Tour history. Summerhays scores a two-stroke triumph complete Chad Collins and Chris Nallen successful nan Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational.

2007 — Copa América Final, Maracaibo, Venezuela: Defending champions Brazil triumph their 8th title pinch a 3-0 triumph complete Argentina.

2010 — Rory McIlroy, a 21-year-old from Northern Ireland, ties nan awesome title grounds by shooting a 9-under 63 successful nan opening information of nan British Open astatine nan Old Course successful St. Andrews, Scotland.

2010 — Caster Semenya wins her first title since being cleared to return to title aft undergoing gender tests, winning nan 800 meters successful a humble clip against a anemic section astatine a low-key meet successful Finland.

2018 — Novak Djokovic wins his 4th Wimbledon title pinch a 6-2, 6-2 7-6 (3) triumph complete Kevin Anderson. It’s Djokovic’s 13th awesome trophy, nan fourth-highest full successful nan history of men’s tennis, trailing only Roger Federer’s 20, Rafael Nadal’s 17 and Pete Sampras’ 14. At No. 21, Djokovic is nan lowest-ranked Wimbledon titlist since Goran Ivanisevic successful 2001.

2018 — France wins its 2nd World Cup title pinch a 4-2 triumph complete Croatia successful a melodramatic last successful Moscow.

Compiled by nan Associated Press

This time successful shot history

1901 — Christy Mathewson of nan New York Giants sounded his first of 2 profession no-hitters, beating nan St. Louis Cardinals 5-0.

1921 — NY Yankees slugger Babe Ruth ties MLB grounds of 138 profession location runs (held by Roger Connor since 1895).

1960 — Baltimore’s Brooks Robinson goes 5-for-5, hitting for nan rhythm and driving successful 3 runs to lead nan Orioles past nan Chicago White Sox 5-2.

1969 — Cincinnati’s Lee May deed 4 location runs successful a doubleheader divided pinch nan Atlanta Braves. May had 2 location runs and drove successful 5 runs successful some games. The Reds mislaid nan opener 9-8 but won nan 2nd crippled 10-4.

1969 — Rod Carew stole location disconnected Chicago’s Gerry Nyman successful nan Minnesota Twins’ 6-2 victory. It was Carew’s seventh bargain of location for nan twelvemonth and tied Pete Reiser’s 1946 awesome convention mark.

1973 — Nolan Ryan of nan Angels struck retired 17 batters and threw his 2nd no-hitter of nan year, beating Detroit 6-0.

1980 — Johnny Bench collapsed Yogi Berra’s grounds for location runs by a catcher, and nan Cincinnati Reds hit nan Montreal Expos 12-7. Bench deed his 314th homer arsenic a catcher disconnected David Palmer. Bench had 33 location runs while playing different positions.

1997 — The San Francisco Giants scored 13 runs to group a modern NL grounds for runs successful a seventh inning en way to a 16-2 rout of nan San Diego Padres. The Giants group nan NL grounds for nan astir runs successful a seventh inning since 1900.

1999 — After 22½ years successful nan dreary Kingdome, Seattle yet played a location crippled outdoors, moving into a $517.6 cardinal ballpark pinch a retractable roof. Jose Mesa wasted a ninth-inning lead by stepping 4 batters and nan Mariners mislaid 3-2 to nan San Diego Padres successful Safeco Field’s opener.

2003 — Garret Anderson of nan Angels went 3-for-4 pinch a two-run homer and a double, powering nan American League past nan National League 7-6 successful nan All-Star Game.

2005 — Baltimore’s Rafael Palmeiro became nan 26th subordinate to scope 3,000 hits pinch an RBI double into nan left-field area disconnected Joel Pineiro successful nan 5th inning of a 6-3 triumph complete Seattle. Palmeiro joined Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Eddie Murray arsenic nan only players pinch 3,000 hits and 500 homers.

2007 — The Philadelphia Phillies mislaid their 10,000th game, 10-2 to St. Louis. The franchise, calved successful 1883 arsenic nan Philadelphia Quakers and later unofficially called nan Blue Jays successful nan mid-1940s, fell to 8,810-10,000.

2008 — Justin Morneau slid location conscionable successful clip connected Michael Young’s sacrifice alert successful nan 15th inning, giving nan American League a 4-3 triumph successful nan All-Star Game astatine Yankee Stadium. The AL extended its unbeaten streak to 12.

2014 — With Derek Jeter going retired a victor successful his past All-Star appearance, Mike Trout drove successful 2 runs pinch a triple and a double to lead nan American League past nan National League 5-3. Jeter started his 14th and last midsummer classical and went 2 for 2 earlier being removed successful nan apical of nan 4th inning.

2017 — Cody Bellinger became nan first Dodgers rookie to deed for nan rhythm and Alex Wood became nan first Dodgers pitcher successful much than a period to triumph his first 11 decisions successful a season, helping Los Angeles hit nan Miami Marlins 7-1.

2021 — Tampa Bay catcher Travis d’Arnaud becomes first subordinate successful MLB history to deed 3 homers while catching and batting leadoff successful nan Rays’ 5-4 triumph complete nan NY Yankees.

Compiled by nan Associated Press

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