Baseball:
The Las Vegas 51s had to place Logan Tyler on the disabled list after he suffered a concussion and needed staples on the back of his head when a homeless man hit the minor league reliever with a tire iron in an attempted robbery while he was walking down a Salt Lake City street Saturday, police said.
Basketball:
Former NBA coach Jeff Van Gundy will lead the U.S. men’s team through the early stages of qualifying for the 2019 Basketball World Cup. He will guide a team made up of mostly NBA G League players in this summer’s FIBA AmeriCup 2017 tournament and in qualifying games between November and September 2018.
The British Open is paying its prize money this year in American dollars because, as R&A chief Martin Slumbers says, U.S. dollars are the most widely adopted currently for prize money in golf.
Argentina forward Lionel Messi agreed to a three-year contract extension that will keep him at Barcelona through 2021. Messi, 30, has scored a club record 507 goals in 583 matches. He has won the FIFA world player of the year award five times.
Golf: Soccer:
Madison Brengle LONDON — knew, of course, that her opponent, Petra Kvitova, was a two-time Wimbledon champion and a popular pick to win the title again this year.
Brengle also was aware, of course, that she never had won so much as one main-draw match at the All England Club until this week.
This, instead, is all the 27-year-old from Dover, Delaware, was focused on as she began playing Kvitova on Wednesday evening on Court No. 2: Just win a game. The 95th-ranked Brengle did just that and much more, stunning the 11th-seeded Kvitova 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 to reach the third round at Wimbledon.
The reason for Brengle’s preoccupation with taking a single game? In her Wimbledon debut in 2015, she lost to Venus Williams 6-0, 6-0.
“So, like, that’s always in my head when I’m out here,” Brengle said, pointing at her right temple. “It’s like, ‘Oh, my goodness, don’t do that ever again!’ That was really tough for me.”
Kvitova, who won Wimbledon in 2011 and 2014, had been favored by some bookmakers, despite competing in only her third tournament of her comeback. She was attacked by a knife-wielding intruder at her home in December and needed surgery on her left hand, the one she uses to hold a racket.
Still without full strength in that hand, Kvitova returned at the French Open in May, losing in the second round
The Edmonton Oilers said Wednesday that captain Connor McDavid agreed to an eight-year, $100 million extension.
That makes the 20-yearold league MVP the highest-paid player in the NHL on an annual basis ($12.5 million per season), but it’s about $750,000 a year less than what reports last week figured he would get.
“It easily could have been a lot higher in value and shorter in term,” Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli said.
McDavid’s extension kicks in after he finishes the final year of his entry-level deal next season. If the NHL’s salary
WIMBLEDON HIGHLIGHTS
No. 1 Andy Murray, No. 4 Rafael Nadal, No. 7 Marin Cilic, No. 9 Kei Nishikori, No. 12 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, No. 16 Gilles Muller, No. 18 Roberto Bautista Agut No. 14 Lucas Pouille No. 2 Simona Halep, No. 4 Elina Svitolina, No. 6 Johanna Konta, No. 8 Dominika Cibulkova, No. 10 Venus Williams, No. 13 Jelena Ostapenko
No. 11 Petra Kvitova, No. 15 Elena Vesnina, No. 17 Madison Keys, No. 18 Anastasija Sevastova, No. 22 Barbora Strycova, No. 25 Carla Suarez Navarro
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“I feel just really empty right now. I know my body; it’s not great. But mentally I’m really glad that it’s over. I mean, it was kind of a fairy cap stays at its current level of $75 million, McDavid’s salary alone would take up 16.6 percent of the Oilers’ cap.
McDavid led the NHL in scoring with 100 points last season, en route to winning the Hart Trophy as league MVP.
NHL free agents picking destinations:
Kevin Shattenkirk could have gotten more money but took less to join the Rangers.
Joe Thornton could have gotten a multiyear deal from someone but wanted to stay with the Sharks.
Brian Campbell and Patrick Sharp could have gotten tale, but on the other hand, it was very tough,” she said. “I just need to look forward and look to the future.”
Kvitova said she felt ill Wednesday, and she was visited by a trainer in the third set.