James Hinchcliffe passed a dominant Josef Newgarden with just over 40 laps left Sunday at Iowa Speedway to notch his first IndyCar win of the season.
Dallas Keuchel allowed one run in seven strong innings and Marwin Gonzalez executed a successful squeeze bunt to score the go-ahead run in the seventh and send the Astros to their sixth consecutive win with a 2-1 victory over the White Sox on Sunday. Jose Altuve smacked his ninth homer, a solo shot, in the fourth inning off Chicago starter Lucas Giolito, who allowed just three hits in 7 1/3 innings in the losing cause. Connor McHugh followed Keuchel with a scoreless eighth, and Hector Rondon fired a perfect ninth to earn his seventh save.
Booker, 21, tweeted a photo of himself smiling as he signed the deal Saturday night, moments before the Suns announced the deal, which takes effect in the 2019-20 season and makes him the highest-paid player in the franchise’s history.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Kevin Na has broken a nearly seven-year winless drought on the PGA TOUR, shooting a 6-under 64 Sunday for a five-stroke victory at A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. Na birdied six of his first 10 holes to open up a big lead over third-round co-leader Kelly Kraft on the Old White TPC in West Virginia. The 34-year-old Na cruised from there and finished at 19-under 261. Na’s only previous TOUR win came in Las Vegas in October 2011. Kraft shot 70 and finished second at 14 under. Brandt Snedeker and Jason Kokrak tied for third at 13 under. Snedeker had a 64 and Kokrak shot 67. Kraft, Snedeker, Kokrak and Austin Cook earned spots in the Open Championship in two weeks. The leading four players not already exempt from the top-12 finishers qualified.
A former All-Star, Lopez averaged 13 points and four rebounds last year in his only season with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Former NBA center Clifford Rozier has died at age 45 after suffering a heart attack earlier in the week, his brother said. Rozier died Friday in his hometown of Bradenton, Fla., where he starred in high school before playing collegiately at North Carolina and Louisville. The Golden State Warriors selected
Toro Rosso driver Pierre Gasly has labelled F1’s penalty system as “bulls–t” after a post-race investigation dropped him from tenth to 13th in the final standings for the British Grand Prix.
Fernando Alonso has called the stewards at the British Grand Prix “soft” after they decided not to investigate an incident involving Kevin Magnussen towards the end of the race.
American driver Santino Ferrucci, a development driver affiliated with the Haas Formula One team, has been banned for the next four races of the championship’s main support series.
Sebastian Vettel says the element of surprise was key to the move which helped him snatch the lead of the British Grand Prix from Valtteri Bottas.
