AP National Sports

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — As “unexpectable” and “unbelievable” as Elena Rybakina found her Wimbledon championship to be and as “super happy” as she was about winning a Grand Slam title at age 23 and ranked 23rd, her immediate reaction to grabbing the last point of the final Saturday was

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville Predators have re-signed Filip Forsberg to a $68 million, eight-year contract with an $8.5 million annual salary cap hit. The deal keeps the winger around instead of hitting the open market when free agency opens next week. Forsberg set career highs with 42 goals, 42 assists and 84 points.

SPIELBERG, Austria (AP) — World champion Max Verstappen comfortably won the sprint race from pole at the Austrian Grand Prix to extend his championship lead, while Ferrari teammates Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr. almost collided as they scrapped behind him. Verstappen was untroubled over 23 laps of the 4.3-kilometer (2.7-mile) Red Bull Ring packed

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Elena Rybakina has defeated Ons Jabeur 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 in the Wimbledon final to become the first tennis player from Kazakhstan to win a Grand Slam singles championship. Rybakina is a 23-year-old who was born in Moscow and switched her nationality four years ago. She

By CHRIS LEHOURITES AP Sports Writer WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — Diede de Groot of the Netherlands closes in on compatriot Esther Vergeer’s records in women’s wheelchair tennis at just about every Grand Slam tournament. De Groot won her seventh straight major singles title and fourth overall at Wimbledon by beating Yui Kamiji of Japan 6-4,

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Tom Kidd won the first British Open at St. Andrews. Zach Johnson won the most recent on the Old Course. Those victories are separated by a mere 142 years. The Open returns to St. Andrews this year for the 30th time. That’s the most of any links course in

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — Greg Norman once talked about playing in the British Open next week. Now he doesn’t even get to attend the dinner at St. Andrews for past champions. Norman, who won the Open at Turnberry in 1986 and at Royal St. George’s in 1993, would

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer Tiger Woods returns to St. Andrews for the British Open with plenty of memories. Some of them are not related to the two claret jugs he won at the home of golf. There was the time his swing was so dialed in that he hit the right zero on

By JEROME PUGMIRE AP Auto Racing Writer Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff ultimately sees Lewis Hamilton and George Russell’s crashes as a positive sign the car is getting faster. He even joked they were like synchronized swimmers for crashing almost simultaneously in Friday’s dramatic ending to sprint qualifying. Wolff looked at the speed of a

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — How well do you know history of golf’s oldest championship? Try this trivia quiz that covers 150 years of the British Open. This one has a St. Andrews theme on occasion of the Open returning to the home of golf for the 30th time.

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — The British Open is the final major of the year. It’s a chance for Scottie Scheffler to join an exclusive list of players winning a green jacket and a silver claret jug in the same year. It’s a chance for Justin Thomas to stamp

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) — Eugenio Suárez hit a three-run homer off Sergio Romo in the 11th inning, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-2 for their season-best sixth straight victory. Suárez hit his 15th home run of the season and improved Seattle to 43-42, the first time

By JACK SOMMERS Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — Kris Bryant had his first multi-homer game of the season, leading the Colorado Rockies to a 6-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Bryant hit solo homers in the first and seventh, his second and third homers of the year. It was his 17th game with two more

By DOUG PADILLA Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mookie Betts hit a tying sacrifice fly in the ninth inning, just missing a grand slam, and Will Smith hit a winning single in the 10th to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Cubs 4-3 for their eighth straight win against Chicago. Los Angeles trailed

By BERNIE WILSON AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Manny Machado hit a three-run homer hours after he was named the NL starter at third base for the All-Star Game and Blake Snell struck out 11 for his first victory of the season, leading the San Diego Padres to a 6-3 victory over the

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — José Cifuentes scored two goals and Cristian Arango got the eventual game-winner late in the second half to lead Los Angeles FC past the LA Galaxy in another exciting edition of the clubs’ El Tráfico crosstown rivalry. LAFC improved its record atop the Major League

By STEPHEN WADE AP Sports Writer TOKYO (AP) — Despite his prominence as Japan’s longest serving prime minister, Shinzo Abe may have enjoyed his biggest moment at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics before 70,000 at the city’s renown Maracana stadium. As a video was shown with Abe portrayed running late

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Kemar Lawrence, Luis Amarilla and Franco Fragapane scored second-half goals and Minnesota United beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 3-1 on Friday night for its third straight victory. Lawrence tied it in the 71st minute to end Vancouver’s MLS shutout streak at 342 minutes, taking a pass from D. J. Taylor and

MICHAEL WAGAMAN Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif (AP) — José Urquidy allowed four hits over a career-high eight innings to win his third straight decision, helping the Houston Astros keep rolling with an 8-3 win over the Oakland Athletics. Alex Bregman hit a two-run homer and Martín Maldonado connected for a three-run drive on a night

CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — The Philadelphia Union tied the Major League Soccer record for victory margin with a 7-0 rout of D.C. United on Friday night behind Julián Carranzas’s first MLS hat trick. Mikael Uhrem, a 27-year-old forward in his first MLS season, and Alejandro Bedoya had two goals apiece in the first MLS multigoal