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Randy and Cody recap the last few weeks on tour ahead of the LPGA's second major as we're a week away from the US Women's Open at Erin Hills.  We're then joined by Charley Hull to talk all things LPGA golf, life away from the course, the upcoming majors at the Women's US and British Opens, her Solheim Cup career, and more.  Join us in our support of the Evans Scholars Foundation: ⁠https://nolayingup.com/esf Support our sponsors: Titleist If you enjoyed this episode, consider joining⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ The Nest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: No Laying Up's community of avid golfers. Nest members help us maintain our light commercial interruptions (3 minutes of ads per 90 minutes of content) and receive access to exclusive content, discounts in the pro shop, and an annual member gift. It's a $90 annual membership, and you can sign up or learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠nolayingup.com/join⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Newsletter here: https://newsletter.nolayingup.com/ Subscribe to the No Laying Up Podcast channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@NoLayingUpPodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We open the hour with talk of the Bill Belichick relationship with a 24 year old. He gave her a nice note with his autograph that now her friends have shared with TMZ. We discuss the notion that their meeting was innocent because young men think that older men talking to young women does not have a threatening aura. Are people obsessing a bit too much about this (this is me, your writer, asking this). Before C-Lo gets going with an update, a mention of Gisele Bundchen's partner morphs into discussing which male coworkers can be seen being sexual. Sports talk shows up and we have the Mets banging out 22 hits in their victory over the Rangers. They were just hitting their pitching hard. As for the Yanks, they open a series with the O's. Rizzo is out with a broken arm - 4 to 6 weeks. Yanks will bring up the hot Ben Rice and give him a shot at first base. Jomboy provides some lip-reading of a manager vs. umpire argument. Rory McIlroy posted his disappointment at losing and congratulated Bryson DeChambeau. He's taking a month off to get ready for the Scottish & British Opens. In our last hourly segment, Al says he would love to be a juror in retirement. Jerry suggests that Al should study up and be a judge.

Hour 1 It's Al & Jerry this morning as Boomer & Gio take the day off for whatever reason. The sports talk starts with the Mets who have gone 10-2 during the last dozen games. They ruined the Rangers last night with a lineup that just tee'd up on Texas pitching. Whatever the reason - the team is clicking right now, Grimace, the “gay” Mets - it's working. Just go with it, fans. We drift into talk about Al's dislike for Canada. This becomes a mention about how much of America looks the same with malls, stores, fast food, etc. We touch upon how it seems Pete Alonso simply should be a Met. He fits and is comfortable here. C-Lo is in the update spot today and brings us sounds of the Mets victory including post-game stuff and their new secret handshake. The Arlington, TX mariachi band was playing Creed to soothe the dying souls of their fans. We also go into an aside about Grimace from the McDonald's Cinematic Universe throwing out the first pitch. Celtics beat the Mavs to become the 2024 NBA Champs. We end the hour with Jerry making a comparison between how the Celtics built a championship team and what David Stearns and Steve Cohen want to do with the Mets. Al has been paying attention to the patterns of attractive joggers on the way to work - the way serial killers do. Anthony in Belleville regales us with his stunningly bad “Gay Mets” theme song. A caller loves the Who album, Tommy, and we remember the Elton John and Billy Joel tour. Hour 2 Jerry reminisces that the NBA Championship used to be a big deal for sports fans “back in the day” and now, not so much. A caller asks whether Cole is coming back too soon and what the Yankees pitching rotation will be moving forward. We preview the Yankees/Orioles series which begins tonight. Another caller asks that now with Rizzo injured, would the Yankees attempt to make a run at Pete Alonso. Unlikely. C-Lo pops up with sound of the DJ Stewart home run from last night's Mets victory. Would people recognize DJ Stewart if he was walking down the street? We have a clip of Sal Licata extremely agitated that Grimace is being mentioned as a catalyst for the Mets run. On the other hand, Evan Roberts is on board and offers to make love to the McDonald's mascot. Reports that Anthony Rizzo will be out 4 to 6 weeks. Sound of the Payton Pritchard buzzer beater to end the first half. Jayson Tatum sound from after the game and he's happy. Celtics owner mistakes Lisa Salters for another woman reporter. Mike Breen points out an inappropriately mouthy fan saying bad things at Kyrie Irving. Panthers/Oilers tonight with Florida trying to close it out. The person called “Oilers Girl” is unapologetic about her world famous display - as well she should be. As the hour grinds to a halt, Jerry has an 80s baseball quiz for Al. A caller mentions how a shirt kept him safe from opposing fans. Another caller with deep knowledge of alt rock history. A Red Sox fan doesn't understand why the Steve Cohen regime is being disparaged so much. The hour cuts off because they didn't go to a break so pick it up next hour. Hour 3 We open the hour with talk of the Bill Belichick relationship with a 24 year old. He gave her a nice note with his autograph that now her friends have shared with TMZ. We discuss the notion that their meeting was innocent because young men think that older men talking to young women does not have a threatening aura. Are people obsessing a bit too much about this (this is me, your writer, asking this). Before C-Lo gets going with an update, a mention of Gisele Bundchen's partner morphs into discussing which male coworkers can be seen being sexual. Sports talk shows up and we have the Mets banging out 22 hits in their victory over the Rangers. They were just hitting their pitching hard. As for the Yanks, they open a series with the O's. Rizzo is out with a broken arm - 4 to 6 weeks. Yanks will bring up the hot Ben Rice and give him a shot at first base. Jomboy provides some lip-reading of a manager vs. umpire argument. Rory McIlroy posted his disappointment at losing and congratulated Bryson DeChambeau. He's taking a month off to get ready for the Scottish & British Opens. In our last hourly segment, Al says he would love to be a juror in retirement. Jerry suggests that Al should study up and be a judge. Hour 4 A caller clears up that Evan Roberts is an alternate juror which means he'll probably be summarily dismissed with a “see ya” before deliberations. Another caller underlines the importance of alternates to the judicial system. A third caller who was charged with a crime clears up the notion of self-defense. Lo and behold, Evan Roberts calls in to defend himself against charges he misrepresented his jury status to the listening public. He also remarks on his enthusiasm for Grimace. Al breaks news of Justin Timberlake being arrested for driving while intoxicated. Yet one more caller asks Jerry if he allows himself to have a fan's reaction when calling Rutgers games. A criminal defense attorney checks in to tell us why he would have never picked Evan for a jury. C-Lo is in but we start with discussion of golfing experiences. The final sports report of the day begins with more Mets from their hit-fest against the Rangers. We talk about Lindor finally in the swing of things. Steve Gelbs talked to deGrom about his time with the Mets. Yanks get back into it with the O's in town. Gerrit Cole back from IL starts tomorrow. Ben Rice was called up to replace the injured Rizzo. Celtics are NBA Champs. McIlroy praises DeChambeau. Moment of the Day involves Al's envisioning male coworkers having sex. The show ends with callers including one 65 year old gentleman who is quite satisfied dating younger women.

In this episode, The Mentors Radio host Dan Hesse talks with Tom Watson, a true legend of the game of golf. Watson won eight major championships including five British Opens, two wins at The Masters, and arguably the most dramatic U.S. Open victory in history. He also has 39 PGA Tour wins, 14 additional wins worldwide and 14 wins on The Champions Tour, six of them majors. A six-time PGA Tour Player-of-the-Year, Tom Watson was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1988. In this episode, Hesse and Watson discuss the role and critical importance of mentors in his life and career, and how he's now paying it forward for future generations. The life lessons in this powerful interview are applicable in so many other areas of our life and definitely applicable to anyone's career path. Listen to episode below, or on ANY PODCAST PLATFORM here. BE SURE TO LEAVE US A GREAT REVIEW on Apple Podcasts or Spotify and share with friends and colleagues! SHOW NOTES: TOM WATSON: BIO: https://tomwatson.com/about-tom/ (includes short, terrific video at end) DVDs/Streaming Videos: https://tomwatson.com/proshop/ WEBSITE: TomWatson.com TOM WATSON'S TWO SPECIAL PASSIONS: WatsonLinks.com (Tom Watson's tremendous giving back and inspiration to future golfing generations from all walks of life) BruceEdwardsFoundation.org (Bruce Edwards was Tom Watson's long-time caddy and friend who contracted ALS in his 40's—Lou Gehrig's Disease, yet who continued to caddy for Tom until a few months before his death. More than an amazing friendship, their shared love and respect for the game of golf profoundly elevated respect for caddies and for the game itself. This inspiring, short article captures the impact: Bruce Edwards: Remembering the Best Caddy, by Tom Edrington)

Garrett and Meg kick off this Tuesday show with some thoughts on the Women's PGA Championship: the background and playing style of Ruoning Yin, the 20-year-old champion; the continued excellence of Rose Zhang; and the continued failures of the networks to air women's major championships in a suitable fashion. Garrett then checks in with Ben Coley (@BenColeyGolf) of Sporting Life about the state of the DP World Tour (28:31). Garrett and Ben talk about the (increasingly distant) possibility of a "links season" consisting of the Irish, Scottish, and British Opens as well as the tour's uncertain positioning in—or perhaps outside of—the burgeoning alliance between the PGA Tour and the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund. To go out on a more lighthearted note, Garrett and Ben wrap up with some recommendations (1:00:36).

At 27 years of age, 7 World Championships, 4 British Opens and at least 22 PSA titles to her name, Nour El Sherbini's accomplishments in the game are mind blowing. And amazingly, this chapter of her career, the one which has her winning the most prestigious events in the sport consistently, is far from over. Nour and I talk about her highly successful 2022/23 campaign, the women's game, the passion of Gregory Gaultier, Nicol David, and much more.

Winner of three Women's British Opens, Sherri Steinhauer, reflects back on the one that counted as a major, in 2006 at Royal Lytham. She fondly remembers her teacher, the late Manuel de la Torre, long-time professional at Milwaukee CC and recounts her other Tour wins and the physical and mental challenges that present themselves when playing golf at the highest level. Sherri was a 4-time member of the Solheim Cup teams and is proud of her undefeated record in foursomes and singles play and she enjoyed her stint as an Assistant Captain to Rosie Jones at the 2011 Solheim Cup. Sherri Steinhauer, now a serious pickle ball competitor in her retirement, wraps up her life story, "FORE the Good of the Game."

There's much to unpack from Art Spander's joyful journey of six decades as a sportswriter. The indefatigable Bay Area legend recalls the rise of young Tiger Woods and offers an intriguing theory. Art recounts covering iconic games such as The Catch, and The Miracle on Ice. He puts us at the Cal-Stanford game when “the band is on the field!” Art shares his love for major sporting events, especially the Rose Bowl. And he laughs about receiving a special delivery from Candlestick Park's sod squad, and about being threatened by three athletes in a five-day span. Art explains how he ended up with Kyle Shanahan's backpack and Super Bowl game plan. He takes us to training camp with the motley Oakland Raiders of the 1970s. Rules? What rules? Oh, and Art covered Marilyn Monroe's funeral. What? Seriously. Hear about that and more. What a trip.   Spander has been a fixture in the Bay Area sports scene since 1965, and he has practically lived at major sporting events. He attended or covered 67 consecutive Rose Bowls beginning in 1954 when he sold game programs. He has covered the Masters 55 times, including 54 in a row, and nearly every U.S. Open golf tournament since 1966. He has worked more than 40 Super Bowls, and more than 50 tennis Grand Slam events, including Wimbledon about 30 times. Art has covered more than 30 Final Fours, more than 30 British Opens, and the World Series nearly 20 times. He has also covered multiple Summer and Winter Olympics, the Ryder Cup, each of the Triple Crown thoroughbred races, the Indianapolis 500, nearly every Crosby/AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am for more than a half-century and every Cal-Stanford football game since 1968. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some crazy bounces in a PGA playoff. Jimmy plays golf with Jim Rutledge who played in two British Opens. Canada meets Finland at World Juniors, Jim says he isn't hearing much about the tourney in Edmonton. Jonathan Huberdeau donates his brain to science. Robin Lehner out of the year. And the new pro 3 on 3 hockey league "3ICE" probably won't hit a big.

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 7, Kansas City Royals 5 Cleveland Guardians 4, Chicago White Sox 1 – Game 1 Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland Guardians 0 – Game 2 Baltimore Orioles 4, Chicago Cubs 2 Tigers 7, Royals 5 – Cabrera drives in 2 to tie Williams, Tigers beat Royals 7-5 Miguel Cabrera drove in the tying and go-ahead runs, matching Ted Williams for 14th place on the career RBI list, and the Detroit Tigers rallied past the Kansas City Royals 7-5 to snap a four-game skid. Cabrera’s sacrifice fly in the fifth inning made it 3-3, and he had an RBI grounder for the Tigers’ first run in a four-run seventh. He equaled Williams with 1,838 RBIs. Later in the seventh, Cabrera stole third and scored on a wild throw. It was just his second stolen base in the past seven seasons. The Royals committed four errors as their three-game winning streak ended. Guardians 4, White Sox 1 & White Sox 7, Guardians 0 – Cease strikes out nine, White Sox split DH with Guardians Dylan Cease struck out nine in 5 2/3 innings, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-0 for a doubleheader split. José Abreu, Luis Robert and Josh Harrison homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of six before its sorely needed victory in the nightcap. Cease allowed five hits and walked three. In the opener, Shane Bieber tossed a three-hitter for his first complete game of the season, leading Cleveland to a a 4-1 victory. José Ramírez and Amed Rosario each drove in two runs. Orioles 4, Cubs 2 – Urías stars as Orioles beat Cubs 4-2 for 9th straight win Ramón Urías hit a two-run homer and made a big defensive play, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 for their ninth straight victory. Jorge Mateo also homered as Baltimore reached .500 for the first time this season. It’s the longest win streak for the Orioles since the franchise won 13 straight in September 1999. Baltimore right-hander Jordan Lyles pitched seven innings of two-run ball in his second straight win. All-Star Ian Happ homered for Chicago, which dropped its fifth in a row. Today Detroit (Skubal 6-7) at Kansas City (Singer 3-3), 2:10 p.m.                  WSJM/WCSY 1:50 Chicago White Sox (Giolito 5-5) at Cleveland (Civale 2-5), 7:10 p.m. Baltimore (Watkins 2-1) at Chicago Cubs (Steele 3-5), 8:05 p.m. MLB – MLB testing modified "pie slice" infield shift ban in minors The Florida State League will limit defensive shifts by drawing chalk lines in a pie shape from second base to the outfield grass starting July 22, prohibiting infielders from the marked area pre-pitch in an experiment that could increase offense. Major League Baseball has been testing shift limits all season at Double-A and Class A, requiring teams to have four players on the infield, including two on each side of second base. The experiment in the Class A FSL was first reported by The Athletic and confirmed by MLB. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Chicago Sky 99, Atlanta Dreams 75 Sky 99, Dream 75 – Parker scores 31, Copper adds 23 as Sky beat Dream 90-75 Candace Parker had 31 points and 11 rebounds, Kahleah Copper scored 23 points on 9-of-14 shooting and the Chicago Sky pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Atlanta Dream 90-75. Emma Meesseman added 10 points, six rebounds and a season-high eight assists for Chicago (17-6). Aari McDonald hit a 3-pointer that gave the Dream a 70-65 lead with 7:50 to play, but Chicago scored the next 15 points. Atlanta went scoreless for nearly five minutes and the Sky never trailed again. Meesseman either scored or assisted on 18 of Chicago’s 30 fourth-quarter points. Today Connecticut Sun at Indiana Fever, 12:00 p.m. WNBA – LeBron critical on his show of US efforts to get Griner home LeBron James is publicly criticizing the United States’ handling of WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner’s case in a trailer for an upcoming episode of his television show: “The Shop: Uninterrupted.” Griner is on trial in Russia for drug possession. She pleaded guilty last week and will appear again in court on Thursday. James tweeted Tuesday night that his comments in the trailer weren’t intended to be critical of the U.S. efforts to get Griner back. It’s unclear when the show was filmed, although in the trailer it’s mentioned she had been in Russia for over 110 days which would be roughly five weeks ago. NBA – NBA stiffens take foul penalty, will keep play-in tournament The NBA has completed the process of changing the transition take foul rule, ending years of discussion about what to do with the long-maligned tactic. And the play-in tournament is going to be around for the foreseeable future. The league’s board of governors finalized those two matters Tuesday by approving a plan to award one free throw when teams are disadvantaged by the take foul. They also removed the “experimental” designation from the play-in element to the postseason. NBASL – NBA Summer League Yesterday Chicago Bulls 93, Toronto Raptors 83 Indiana Pacers 101, Detroit Pistons 87 NHL – Scotty Bowman moves on from job as Blackhawks adviser Scotty Bowman says he no longer works for the Chicago Blackhawks. The Hockey Hall of Famer who won the Stanley Cup nine times as a coach had been a senior hockey operations adviser since 2008. The 88-year-old says it is time to move on but he is not ready to retire just yet. Bowman’s son Stan resigned as general manager in October after an investigation into the team’s mishandling of sexual assault allegations against an assistant coach by a player revealed he knew about the situation. Scotty says he left the team on good terms after what he called a pretty uncomfortable year. NHL – Former Red Wings coach Blashill joins Lightning as assistant Former Detroit Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill is joining the Tampa Bay Lightning as an assistant. Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois announced the move, selecting Blashill to replace Derek Lalonde on Jon Cooper’s staff. Lalonde had been hired to replace Blashill. The 48-year-old Blashill coached the Red Wings the past seven seasons. Detroit missed the playoffs in six of the seven seasons. Blashill joins a staff that includes assistant coaches Jeff Halpern and Rob Zettler and goaltender coach Frantz Jean. The two-time defending champion Lightning were dethroned by Colorado last month in the Stanley Cup Final. NHL – Duncan Keith announces retirement after 17 NHL seasons Duncan Keith is retiring after 17 seasons in the NHL, three Stanley Cups and two Norris Trophy awards as the league’s top defenseman. He spent 16 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks and joined Edmonton last season. Keith will turn 39 on Saturday, and said there’s a noticeable change in how he’s felt in recent postseasons. That, coupled with the desire to spend more time with his son Colton, helped him reach a difficult decision. Keith finished his career with 106 goals, 540 assists and 675 penalty minutes over 1,256 games. He also helped Canada win Olympic gold at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games and played two years of college hockey at Michigan State. NHL – Gaudreau leaving Flames, joins deep NHL free agent class Johnny Gaudreau told the Calgary Flames he’s leaving to test NHL free agency. He’s likely to receive the biggest contract handed out when the market opens Wednesday. Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup champions Nazem Kadri and Darcy Kuemper, and Dallas Stars defenseman John Klingberg are also part of a deep class with the most high-end talent available in several years. Evgeni Malkin is not after re-signing with the Pittsburgh Penguins for $24.4 million over four years. There’s significant money to spend with the salary cap going up slightly in the first increase in three years. And some teams have already made moves to free up more cap space to go shopping. Note: NHL Free Agency begins today Golf – British Open returns to home of golf at St. Andrews Golf’s oldest championship returns to the home of golf. There’s always something special about a British Open at St. Andrews. This one rises to an even greater occasion as the 150th edition. Tiger Woods is playing his third major of the year. Xander Schauffele is coming off his second straight win. Rory McIlroy tries to end eight years without a major. All the elements are in place. Elsewhere, the PGA Tour stages its only modified Stableford scoring tournament in Lake Tahoe. The LPGA Tour has its only official team event in Michigan. But it’s all about St. Andrews this week. Golf – Tiger Woods unsure how many Opens he has left at St. Andrews Tiger Woods will be crossing the Swilcan Bridge for the last time at some point this week at St. Andrews. He just doesn’t know if it will be the last time this year or forever. Woods doesn’t know how many British Opens he has left at the home of golf. All that matters is playing this one. That explains why he has walked more holes ahead of the opening round than the previous two majors combined. Woods is a two-time Open champion at St. Andrews. Winning another is a tall order. He has played only seven competitive rounds this year. NCAABSB – Notre Dame hires VCU’s Shawn Stiffler as new baseball coach Shawn Stiffler is the new baseball coach at Notre Dame. The Irish hired Stiffler away from VCU to replace Link Jarrett. Jarrett took the Florida State job after leading Notre Dame to the College World Series. Stiffler was 340-198 in 10 seasons at VCU. The Rams reached their first NCAA super regional in 2015 and made regional appearances in 2021 and 2022. Stiffler takes over a program that went 41-17 for its first 40-win season since 2006. The Irish beat No. 1 national seed Tennessee in super regionals and went 1-2 in its first CWS appearance since 2002. NFL – Judge says blood test results can be used in Ruggs’ DUI case A judge has ruled that results of a blood-alcohol test taken from former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III can be used as evidence in his DUI crash case. Authorities say the 23-year-old Ruggs allegedly was driving 156 mph just before the fiery November 2021 crash that left a woman dead. Prosecutors say Ruggs’ blood alcohol level after the crash in Las Vegas was 0.16%, which is twice the legal limit for drivers in Nevada. Ruggs could be sentenced to more than 50 years in prison if he’s convicted of all four felony charges in the case. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 7. NFL – House committee accepts Snyder’s offer to testify virtually The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform has accepted an offer for Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to testify virtually July 28. Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney wrote a letter to attorney Karen Patton Seymour saying Snyder would be allowed to testify via Zoom under the conditions set out by the committee’s initial subpoena. The committee is set to give Snyder access to exhibitions used in prior depositions and interview transcripts as well as descriptions of redacted information. Snyder refused to testify when first invited along with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. His camp has until Wednesday at noon EDT to confirm Snyder will appear before the committee. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan Whitecaps 1, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 0 Fort Wayne Tin Caps 7, Lansing Lugnuts 1 Great Lakes Loons 14, Quad Cities River Bandits 9 South Bend Cubs 6, Peoria Chiefs 0 Today Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at West Michigan Whitecaps, 12:05 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Fort Wayne Tin Caps, 12:05 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Quad Cities River Bandits, 7:30 p.m. South Bend Cubs at Peoria Chiefs, 7:35 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 7, Kansas City Royals 5 Cleveland Guardians 4, Chicago White Sox 1 – Game 1 Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland Guardians 0 – Game 2 Baltimore Orioles 4, Chicago Cubs 2 Tigers 7, Royals 5 – Cabrera drives in 2 to tie Williams, Tigers beat Royals 7-5 Miguel Cabrera drove in the tying and go-ahead runs, matching Ted Williams for 14th place on the career RBI list, and the Detroit Tigers rallied past the Kansas City Royals 7-5 to snap a four-game skid. Cabrera’s sacrifice fly in the fifth inning made it 3-3, and he had an RBI grounder for the Tigers’ first run in a four-run seventh. He equaled Williams with 1,838 RBIs. Later in the seventh, Cabrera stole third and scored on a wild throw. It was just his second stolen base in the past seven seasons. The Royals committed four errors as their three-game winning streak ended. Guardians 4, White Sox 1 & White Sox 7, Guardians 0 – Cease strikes out nine, White Sox split DH with Guardians Dylan Cease struck out nine in 5 2/3 innings, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-0 for a doubleheader split. José Abreu, Luis Robert and Josh Harrison homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of six before its sorely needed victory in the nightcap. Cease allowed five hits and walked three. In the opener, Shane Bieber tossed a three-hitter for his first complete game of the season, leading Cleveland to a a 4-1 victory. José Ramírez and Amed Rosario each drove in two runs. Orioles 4, Cubs 2 – Urías stars as Orioles beat Cubs 4-2 for 9th straight win Ramón Urías hit a two-run homer and made a big defensive play, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 for their ninth straight victory. Jorge Mateo also homered as Baltimore reached .500 for the first time this season. It’s the longest win streak for the Orioles since the franchise won 13 straight in September 1999. Baltimore right-hander Jordan Lyles pitched seven innings of two-run ball in his second straight win. All-Star Ian Happ homered for Chicago, which dropped its fifth in a row. Today Detroit (Skubal 6-7) at Kansas City (Singer 3-3), 2:10 p.m.                  WSJM/WCSY 1:50 Chicago White Sox (Giolito 5-5) at Cleveland (Civale 2-5), 7:10 p.m. Baltimore (Watkins 2-1) at Chicago Cubs (Steele 3-5), 8:05 p.m. MLB – MLB testing modified "pie slice" infield shift ban in minors The Florida State League will limit defensive shifts by drawing chalk lines in a pie shape from second base to the outfield grass starting July 22, prohibiting infielders from the marked area pre-pitch in an experiment that could increase offense. Major League Baseball has been testing shift limits all season at Double-A and Class A, requiring teams to have four players on the infield, including two on each side of second base. The experiment in the Class A FSL was first reported by The Athletic and confirmed by MLB. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Chicago Sky 99, Atlanta Dreams 75 Sky 99, Dream 75 – Parker scores 31, Copper adds 23 as Sky beat Dream 90-75 Candace Parker had 31 points and 11 rebounds, Kahleah Copper scored 23 points on 9-of-14 shooting and the Chicago Sky pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Atlanta Dream 90-75. Emma Meesseman added 10 points, six rebounds and a season-high eight assists for Chicago (17-6). Aari McDonald hit a 3-pointer that gave the Dream a 70-65 lead with 7:50 to play, but Chicago scored the next 15 points. Atlanta went scoreless for nearly five minutes and the Sky never trailed again. Meesseman either scored or assisted on 18 of Chicago’s 30 fourth-quarter points. Today Connecticut Sun at Indiana Fever, 12:00 p.m. WNBA – LeBron critical on his show of US efforts to get Griner home LeBron James is publicly criticizing the United States’ handling of WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner’s case in a trailer for an upcoming episode of his television show: “The Shop: Uninterrupted.” Griner is on trial in Russia for drug possession. She pleaded guilty last week and will appear again in court on Thursday. James tweeted Tuesday night that his comments in the trailer weren’t intended to be critical of the U.S. efforts to get Griner back. It’s unclear when the show was filmed, although in the trailer it’s mentioned she had been in Russia for over 110 days which would be roughly five weeks ago. NBA – NBA stiffens take foul penalty, will keep play-in tournament The NBA has completed the process of changing the transition take foul rule, ending years of discussion about what to do with the long-maligned tactic. And the play-in tournament is going to be around for the foreseeable future. The league’s board of governors finalized those two matters Tuesday by approving a plan to award one free throw when teams are disadvantaged by the take foul. They also removed the “experimental” designation from the play-in element to the postseason. NBASL – NBA Summer League Yesterday Chicago Bulls 93, Toronto Raptors 83 Indiana Pacers 101, Detroit Pistons 87 NHL – Scotty Bowman moves on from job as Blackhawks adviser Scotty Bowman says he no longer works for the Chicago Blackhawks. The Hockey Hall of Famer who won the Stanley Cup nine times as a coach had been a senior hockey operations adviser since 2008. The 88-year-old says it is time to move on but he is not ready to retire just yet. Bowman’s son Stan resigned as general manager in October after an investigation into the team’s mishandling of sexual assault allegations against an assistant coach by a player revealed he knew about the situation. Scotty says he left the team on good terms after what he called a pretty uncomfortable year. NHL – Former Red Wings coach Blashill joins Lightning as assistant Former Detroit Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill is joining the Tampa Bay Lightning as an assistant. Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois announced the move, selecting Blashill to replace Derek Lalonde on Jon Cooper’s staff. Lalonde had been hired to replace Blashill. The 48-year-old Blashill coached the Red Wings the past seven seasons. Detroit missed the playoffs in six of the seven seasons. Blashill joins a staff that includes assistant coaches Jeff Halpern and Rob Zettler and goaltender coach Frantz Jean. The two-time defending champion Lightning were dethroned by Colorado last month in the Stanley Cup Final. NHL – Duncan Keith announces retirement after 17 NHL seasons Duncan Keith is retiring after 17 seasons in the NHL, three Stanley Cups and two Norris Trophy awards as the league’s top defenseman. He spent 16 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks and joined Edmonton last season. Keith will turn 39 on Saturday, and said there’s a noticeable change in how he’s felt in recent postseasons. That, coupled with the desire to spend more time with his son Colton, helped him reach a difficult decision. Keith finished his career with 106 goals, 540 assists and 675 penalty minutes over 1,256 games. He also helped Canada win Olympic gold at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games and played two years of college hockey at Michigan State. NHL – Gaudreau leaving Flames, joins deep NHL free agent class Johnny Gaudreau told the Calgary Flames he’s leaving to test NHL free agency. He’s likely to receive the biggest contract handed out when the market opens Wednesday. Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup champions Nazem Kadri and Darcy Kuemper, and Dallas Stars defenseman John Klingberg are also part of a deep class with the most high-end talent available in several years. Evgeni Malkin is not after re-signing with the Pittsburgh Penguins for $24.4 million over four years. There’s significant money to spend with the salary cap going up slightly in the first increase in three years. And some teams have already made moves to free up more cap space to go shopping. Note: NHL Free Agency begins today Golf – British Open returns to home of golf at St. Andrews Golf’s oldest championship returns to the home of golf. There’s always something special about a British Open at St. Andrews. This one rises to an even greater occasion as the 150th edition. Tiger Woods is playing his third major of the year. Xander Schauffele is coming off his second straight win. Rory McIlroy tries to end eight years without a major. All the elements are in place. Elsewhere, the PGA Tour stages its only modified Stableford scoring tournament in Lake Tahoe. The LPGA Tour has its only official team event in Michigan. But it’s all about St. Andrews this week. Golf – Tiger Woods unsure how many Opens he has left at St. Andrews Tiger Woods will be crossing the Swilcan Bridge for the last time at some point this week at St. Andrews. He just doesn’t know if it will be the last time this year or forever. Woods doesn’t know how many British Opens he has left at the home of golf. All that matters is playing this one. That explains why he has walked more holes ahead of the opening round than the previous two majors combined. Woods is a two-time Open champion at St. Andrews. Winning another is a tall order. He has played only seven competitive rounds this year. NCAABSB – Notre Dame hires VCU’s Shawn Stiffler as new baseball coach Shawn Stiffler is the new baseball coach at Notre Dame. The Irish hired Stiffler away from VCU to replace Link Jarrett. Jarrett took the Florida State job after leading Notre Dame to the College World Series. Stiffler was 340-198 in 10 seasons at VCU. The Rams reached their first NCAA super regional in 2015 and made regional appearances in 2021 and 2022. Stiffler takes over a program that went 41-17 for its first 40-win season since 2006. The Irish beat No. 1 national seed Tennessee in super regionals and went 1-2 in its first CWS appearance since 2002. NFL – Judge says blood test results can be used in Ruggs’ DUI case A judge has ruled that results of a blood-alcohol test taken from former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III can be used as evidence in his DUI crash case. Authorities say the 23-year-old Ruggs allegedly was driving 156 mph just before the fiery November 2021 crash that left a woman dead. Prosecutors say Ruggs’ blood alcohol level after the crash in Las Vegas was 0.16%, which is twice the legal limit for drivers in Nevada. Ruggs could be sentenced to more than 50 years in prison if he’s convicted of all four felony charges in the case. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 7. NFL – House committee accepts Snyder’s offer to testify virtually The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform has accepted an offer for Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to testify virtually July 28. Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney wrote a letter to attorney Karen Patton Seymour saying Snyder would be allowed to testify via Zoom under the conditions set out by the committee’s initial subpoena. The committee is set to give Snyder access to exhibitions used in prior depositions and interview transcripts as well as descriptions of redacted information. Snyder refused to testify when first invited along with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. His camp has until Wednesday at noon EDT to confirm Snyder will appear before the committee. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan Whitecaps 1, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 0 Fort Wayne Tin Caps 7, Lansing Lugnuts 1 Great Lakes Loons 14, Quad Cities River Bandits 9 South Bend Cubs 6, Peoria Chiefs 0 Today Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at West Michigan Whitecaps, 12:05 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Fort Wayne Tin Caps, 12:05 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Quad Cities River Bandits, 7:30 p.m. South Bend Cubs at Peoria Chiefs, 7:35 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 7, Kansas City Royals 5 Cleveland Guardians 4, Chicago White Sox 1 – Game 1 Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland Guardians 0 – Game 2 Baltimore Orioles 4, Chicago Cubs 2 Tigers 7, Royals 5 – Cabrera drives in 2 to tie Williams, Tigers beat Royals 7-5 Miguel Cabrera drove in the tying and go-ahead runs, matching Ted Williams for 14th place on the career RBI list, and the Detroit Tigers rallied past the Kansas City Royals 7-5 to snap a four-game skid. Cabrera’s sacrifice fly in the fifth inning made it 3-3, and he had an RBI grounder for the Tigers’ first run in a four-run seventh. He equaled Williams with 1,838 RBIs. Later in the seventh, Cabrera stole third and scored on a wild throw. It was just his second stolen base in the past seven seasons. The Royals committed four errors as their three-game winning streak ended. Guardians 4, White Sox 1 & White Sox 7, Guardians 0 – Cease strikes out nine, White Sox split DH with Guardians Dylan Cease struck out nine in 5 2/3 innings, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-0 for a doubleheader split. José Abreu, Luis Robert and Josh Harrison homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of six before its sorely needed victory in the nightcap. Cease allowed five hits and walked three. In the opener, Shane Bieber tossed a three-hitter for his first complete game of the season, leading Cleveland to a a 4-1 victory. José Ramírez and Amed Rosario each drove in two runs. Orioles 4, Cubs 2 – Urías stars as Orioles beat Cubs 4-2 for 9th straight win Ramón Urías hit a two-run homer and made a big defensive play, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 for their ninth straight victory. Jorge Mateo also homered as Baltimore reached .500 for the first time this season. It’s the longest win streak for the Orioles since the franchise won 13 straight in September 1999. Baltimore right-hander Jordan Lyles pitched seven innings of two-run ball in his second straight win. All-Star Ian Happ homered for Chicago, which dropped its fifth in a row. Today Detroit (Skubal 6-7) at Kansas City (Singer 3-3), 2:10 p.m.                  WSJM/WCSY 1:50 Chicago White Sox (Giolito 5-5) at Cleveland (Civale 2-5), 7:10 p.m. Baltimore (Watkins 2-1) at Chicago Cubs (Steele 3-5), 8:05 p.m. MLB – MLB testing modified "pie slice" infield shift ban in minors The Florida State League will limit defensive shifts by drawing chalk lines in a pie shape from second base to the outfield grass starting July 22, prohibiting infielders from the marked area pre-pitch in an experiment that could increase offense. Major League Baseball has been testing shift limits all season at Double-A and Class A, requiring teams to have four players on the infield, including two on each side of second base. The experiment in the Class A FSL was first reported by The Athletic and confirmed by MLB. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Chicago Sky 99, Atlanta Dreams 75 Sky 99, Dream 75 – Parker scores 31, Copper adds 23 as Sky beat Dream 90-75 Candace Parker had 31 points and 11 rebounds, Kahleah Copper scored 23 points on 9-of-14 shooting and the Chicago Sky pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Atlanta Dream 90-75. Emma Meesseman added 10 points, six rebounds and a season-high eight assists for Chicago (17-6). Aari McDonald hit a 3-pointer that gave the Dream a 70-65 lead with 7:50 to play, but Chicago scored the next 15 points. Atlanta went scoreless for nearly five minutes and the Sky never trailed again. Meesseman either scored or assisted on 18 of Chicago’s 30 fourth-quarter points. Today Connecticut Sun at Indiana Fever, 12:00 p.m. WNBA – LeBron critical on his show of US efforts to get Griner home LeBron James is publicly criticizing the United States’ handling of WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner’s case in a trailer for an upcoming episode of his television show: “The Shop: Uninterrupted.” Griner is on trial in Russia for drug possession. She pleaded guilty last week and will appear again in court on Thursday. James tweeted Tuesday night that his comments in the trailer weren’t intended to be critical of the U.S. efforts to get Griner back. It’s unclear when the show was filmed, although in the trailer it’s mentioned she had been in Russia for over 110 days which would be roughly five weeks ago. NBA – NBA stiffens take foul penalty, will keep play-in tournament The NBA has completed the process of changing the transition take foul rule, ending years of discussion about what to do with the long-maligned tactic. And the play-in tournament is going to be around for the foreseeable future. The league’s board of governors finalized those two matters Tuesday by approving a plan to award one free throw when teams are disadvantaged by the take foul. They also removed the “experimental” designation from the play-in element to the postseason. NBASL – NBA Summer League Yesterday Chicago Bulls 93, Toronto Raptors 83 Indiana Pacers 101, Detroit Pistons 87 NHL – Scotty Bowman moves on from job as Blackhawks adviser Scotty Bowman says he no longer works for the Chicago Blackhawks. The Hockey Hall of Famer who won the Stanley Cup nine times as a coach had been a senior hockey operations adviser since 2008. The 88-year-old says it is time to move on but he is not ready to retire just yet. Bowman’s son Stan resigned as general manager in October after an investigation into the team’s mishandling of sexual assault allegations against an assistant coach by a player revealed he knew about the situation. Scotty says he left the team on good terms after what he called a pretty uncomfortable year. NHL – Former Red Wings coach Blashill joins Lightning as assistant Former Detroit Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill is joining the Tampa Bay Lightning as an assistant. Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois announced the move, selecting Blashill to replace Derek Lalonde on Jon Cooper’s staff. Lalonde had been hired to replace Blashill. The 48-year-old Blashill coached the Red Wings the past seven seasons. Detroit missed the playoffs in six of the seven seasons. Blashill joins a staff that includes assistant coaches Jeff Halpern and Rob Zettler and goaltender coach Frantz Jean. The two-time defending champion Lightning were dethroned by Colorado last month in the Stanley Cup Final. NHL – Duncan Keith announces retirement after 17 NHL seasons Duncan Keith is retiring after 17 seasons in the NHL, three Stanley Cups and two Norris Trophy awards as the league’s top defenseman. He spent 16 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks and joined Edmonton last season. Keith will turn 39 on Saturday, and said there’s a noticeable change in how he’s felt in recent postseasons. That, coupled with the desire to spend more time with his son Colton, helped him reach a difficult decision. Keith finished his career with 106 goals, 540 assists and 675 penalty minutes over 1,256 games. He also helped Canada win Olympic gold at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games and played two years of college hockey at Michigan State. NHL – Gaudreau leaving Flames, joins deep NHL free agent class Johnny Gaudreau told the Calgary Flames he’s leaving to test NHL free agency. He’s likely to receive the biggest contract handed out when the market opens Wednesday. Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup champions Nazem Kadri and Darcy Kuemper, and Dallas Stars defenseman John Klingberg are also part of a deep class with the most high-end talent available in several years. Evgeni Malkin is not after re-signing with the Pittsburgh Penguins for $24.4 million over four years. There’s significant money to spend with the salary cap going up slightly in the first increase in three years. And some teams have already made moves to free up more cap space to go shopping. Note: NHL Free Agency begins today Golf – British Open returns to home of golf at St. Andrews Golf’s oldest championship returns to the home of golf. There’s always something special about a British Open at St. Andrews. This one rises to an even greater occasion as the 150th edition. Tiger Woods is playing his third major of the year. Xander Schauffele is coming off his second straight win. Rory McIlroy tries to end eight years without a major. All the elements are in place. Elsewhere, the PGA Tour stages its only modified Stableford scoring tournament in Lake Tahoe. The LPGA Tour has its only official team event in Michigan. But it’s all about St. Andrews this week. Golf – Tiger Woods unsure how many Opens he has left at St. Andrews Tiger Woods will be crossing the Swilcan Bridge for the last time at some point this week at St. Andrews. He just doesn’t know if it will be the last time this year or forever. Woods doesn’t know how many British Opens he has left at the home of golf. All that matters is playing this one. That explains why he has walked more holes ahead of the opening round than the previous two majors combined. Woods is a two-time Open champion at St. Andrews. Winning another is a tall order. He has played only seven competitive rounds this year. NCAABSB – Notre Dame hires VCU’s Shawn Stiffler as new baseball coach Shawn Stiffler is the new baseball coach at Notre Dame. The Irish hired Stiffler away from VCU to replace Link Jarrett. Jarrett took the Florida State job after leading Notre Dame to the College World Series. Stiffler was 340-198 in 10 seasons at VCU. The Rams reached their first NCAA super regional in 2015 and made regional appearances in 2021 and 2022. Stiffler takes over a program that went 41-17 for its first 40-win season since 2006. The Irish beat No. 1 national seed Tennessee in super regionals and went 1-2 in its first CWS appearance since 2002. NFL – Judge says blood test results can be used in Ruggs’ DUI case A judge has ruled that results of a blood-alcohol test taken from former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III can be used as evidence in his DUI crash case. Authorities say the 23-year-old Ruggs allegedly was driving 156 mph just before the fiery November 2021 crash that left a woman dead. Prosecutors say Ruggs’ blood alcohol level after the crash in Las Vegas was 0.16%, which is twice the legal limit for drivers in Nevada. Ruggs could be sentenced to more than 50 years in prison if he’s convicted of all four felony charges in the case. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 7. NFL – House committee accepts Snyder’s offer to testify virtually The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform has accepted an offer for Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to testify virtually July 28. Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney wrote a letter to attorney Karen Patton Seymour saying Snyder would be allowed to testify via Zoom under the conditions set out by the committee’s initial subpoena. The committee is set to give Snyder access to exhibitions used in prior depositions and interview transcripts as well as descriptions of redacted information. Snyder refused to testify when first invited along with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. His camp has until Wednesday at noon EDT to confirm Snyder will appear before the committee. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan Whitecaps 1, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 0 Fort Wayne Tin Caps 7, Lansing Lugnuts 1 Great Lakes Loons 14, Quad Cities River Bandits 9 South Bend Cubs 6, Peoria Chiefs 0 Today Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at West Michigan Whitecaps, 12:05 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Fort Wayne Tin Caps, 12:05 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Quad Cities River Bandits, 7:30 p.m. South Bend Cubs at Peoria Chiefs, 7:35 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 7, Kansas City Royals 5 Cleveland Guardians 4, Chicago White Sox 1 – Game 1 Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland Guardians 0 – Game 2 Baltimore Orioles 4, Chicago Cubs 2 Tigers 7, Royals 5 – Cabrera drives in 2 to tie Williams, Tigers beat Royals 7-5 Miguel Cabrera drove in the tying and go-ahead runs, matching Ted Williams for 14th place on the career RBI list, and the Detroit Tigers rallied past the Kansas City Royals 7-5 to snap a four-game skid. Cabrera’s sacrifice fly in the fifth inning made it 3-3, and he had an RBI grounder for the Tigers’ first run in a four-run seventh. He equaled Williams with 1,838 RBIs. Later in the seventh, Cabrera stole third and scored on a wild throw. It was just his second stolen base in the past seven seasons. The Royals committed four errors as their three-game winning streak ended. Guardians 4, White Sox 1 & White Sox 7, Guardians 0 – Cease strikes out nine, White Sox split DH with Guardians Dylan Cease struck out nine in 5 2/3 innings, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-0 for a doubleheader split. José Abreu, Luis Robert and Josh Harrison homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of six before its sorely needed victory in the nightcap. Cease allowed five hits and walked three. In the opener, Shane Bieber tossed a three-hitter for his first complete game of the season, leading Cleveland to a a 4-1 victory. José Ramírez and Amed Rosario each drove in two runs. Orioles 4, Cubs 2 – Urías stars as Orioles beat Cubs 4-2 for 9th straight win Ramón Urías hit a two-run homer and made a big defensive play, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 for their ninth straight victory. Jorge Mateo also homered as Baltimore reached .500 for the first time this season. It’s the longest win streak for the Orioles since the franchise won 13 straight in September 1999. Baltimore right-hander Jordan Lyles pitched seven innings of two-run ball in his second straight win. All-Star Ian Happ homered for Chicago, which dropped its fifth in a row. Today Detroit (Skubal 6-7) at Kansas City (Singer 3-3), 2:10 p.m.                  WSJM/WCSY 1:50 Chicago White Sox (Giolito 5-5) at Cleveland (Civale 2-5), 7:10 p.m. Baltimore (Watkins 2-1) at Chicago Cubs (Steele 3-5), 8:05 p.m. MLB – MLB testing modified "pie slice" infield shift ban in minors The Florida State League will limit defensive shifts by drawing chalk lines in a pie shape from second base to the outfield grass starting July 22, prohibiting infielders from the marked area pre-pitch in an experiment that could increase offense. Major League Baseball has been testing shift limits all season at Double-A and Class A, requiring teams to have four players on the infield, including two on each side of second base. The experiment in the Class A FSL was first reported by The Athletic and confirmed by MLB. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Chicago Sky 99, Atlanta Dreams 75 Sky 99, Dream 75 – Parker scores 31, Copper adds 23 as Sky beat Dream 90-75 Candace Parker had 31 points and 11 rebounds, Kahleah Copper scored 23 points on 9-of-14 shooting and the Chicago Sky pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Atlanta Dream 90-75. Emma Meesseman added 10 points, six rebounds and a season-high eight assists for Chicago (17-6). Aari McDonald hit a 3-pointer that gave the Dream a 70-65 lead with 7:50 to play, but Chicago scored the next 15 points. Atlanta went scoreless for nearly five minutes and the Sky never trailed again. Meesseman either scored or assisted on 18 of Chicago’s 30 fourth-quarter points. Today Connecticut Sun at Indiana Fever, 12:00 p.m. WNBA – LeBron critical on his show of US efforts to get Griner home LeBron James is publicly criticizing the United States’ handling of WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner’s case in a trailer for an upcoming episode of his television show: “The Shop: Uninterrupted.” Griner is on trial in Russia for drug possession. She pleaded guilty last week and will appear again in court on Thursday. James tweeted Tuesday night that his comments in the trailer weren’t intended to be critical of the U.S. efforts to get Griner back. It’s unclear when the show was filmed, although in the trailer it’s mentioned she had been in Russia for over 110 days which would be roughly five weeks ago. NBA – NBA stiffens take foul penalty, will keep play-in tournament The NBA has completed the process of changing the transition take foul rule, ending years of discussion about what to do with the long-maligned tactic. And the play-in tournament is going to be around for the foreseeable future. The league’s board of governors finalized those two matters Tuesday by approving a plan to award one free throw when teams are disadvantaged by the take foul. They also removed the “experimental” designation from the play-in element to the postseason. NBASL – NBA Summer League Yesterday Chicago Bulls 93, Toronto Raptors 83 Indiana Pacers 101, Detroit Pistons 87 NHL – Scotty Bowman moves on from job as Blackhawks adviser Scotty Bowman says he no longer works for the Chicago Blackhawks. The Hockey Hall of Famer who won the Stanley Cup nine times as a coach had been a senior hockey operations adviser since 2008. The 88-year-old says it is time to move on but he is not ready to retire just yet. Bowman’s son Stan resigned as general manager in October after an investigation into the team’s mishandling of sexual assault allegations against an assistant coach by a player revealed he knew about the situation. Scotty says he left the team on good terms after what he called a pretty uncomfortable year. NHL – Former Red Wings coach Blashill joins Lightning as assistant Former Detroit Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill is joining the Tampa Bay Lightning as an assistant. Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois announced the move, selecting Blashill to replace Derek Lalonde on Jon Cooper’s staff. Lalonde had been hired to replace Blashill. The 48-year-old Blashill coached the Red Wings the past seven seasons. Detroit missed the playoffs in six of the seven seasons. Blashill joins a staff that includes assistant coaches Jeff Halpern and Rob Zettler and goaltender coach Frantz Jean. The two-time defending champion Lightning were dethroned by Colorado last month in the Stanley Cup Final. NHL – Duncan Keith announces retirement after 17 NHL seasons Duncan Keith is retiring after 17 seasons in the NHL, three Stanley Cups and two Norris Trophy awards as the league’s top defenseman. He spent 16 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks and joined Edmonton last season. Keith will turn 39 on Saturday, and said there’s a noticeable change in how he’s felt in recent postseasons. That, coupled with the desire to spend more time with his son Colton, helped him reach a difficult decision. Keith finished his career with 106 goals, 540 assists and 675 penalty minutes over 1,256 games. He also helped Canada win Olympic gold at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games and played two years of college hockey at Michigan State. NHL – Gaudreau leaving Flames, joins deep NHL free agent class Johnny Gaudreau told the Calgary Flames he’s leaving to test NHL free agency. He’s likely to receive the biggest contract handed out when the market opens Wednesday. Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup champions Nazem Kadri and Darcy Kuemper, and Dallas Stars defenseman John Klingberg are also part of a deep class with the most high-end talent available in several years. Evgeni Malkin is not after re-signing with the Pittsburgh Penguins for $24.4 million over four years. There’s significant money to spend with the salary cap going up slightly in the first increase in three years. And some teams have already made moves to free up more cap space to go shopping. Note: NHL Free Agency begins today Golf – British Open returns to home of golf at St. Andrews Golf’s oldest championship returns to the home of golf. There’s always something special about a British Open at St. Andrews. This one rises to an even greater occasion as the 150th edition. Tiger Woods is playing his third major of the year. Xander Schauffele is coming off his second straight win. Rory McIlroy tries to end eight years without a major. All the elements are in place. Elsewhere, the PGA Tour stages its only modified Stableford scoring tournament in Lake Tahoe. The LPGA Tour has its only official team event in Michigan. But it’s all about St. Andrews this week. Golf – Tiger Woods unsure how many Opens he has left at St. Andrews Tiger Woods will be crossing the Swilcan Bridge for the last time at some point this week at St. Andrews. He just doesn’t know if it will be the last time this year or forever. Woods doesn’t know how many British Opens he has left at the home of golf. All that matters is playing this one. That explains why he has walked more holes ahead of the opening round than the previous two majors combined. Woods is a two-time Open champion at St. Andrews. Winning another is a tall order. He has played only seven competitive rounds this year. NCAABSB – Notre Dame hires VCU’s Shawn Stiffler as new baseball coach Shawn Stiffler is the new baseball coach at Notre Dame. The Irish hired Stiffler away from VCU to replace Link Jarrett. Jarrett took the Florida State job after leading Notre Dame to the College World Series. Stiffler was 340-198 in 10 seasons at VCU. The Rams reached their first NCAA super regional in 2015 and made regional appearances in 2021 and 2022. Stiffler takes over a program that went 41-17 for its first 40-win season since 2006. The Irish beat No. 1 national seed Tennessee in super regionals and went 1-2 in its first CWS appearance since 2002. NFL – Judge says blood test results can be used in Ruggs’ DUI case A judge has ruled that results of a blood-alcohol test taken from former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III can be used as evidence in his DUI crash case. Authorities say the 23-year-old Ruggs allegedly was driving 156 mph just before the fiery November 2021 crash that left a woman dead. Prosecutors say Ruggs’ blood alcohol level after the crash in Las Vegas was 0.16%, which is twice the legal limit for drivers in Nevada. Ruggs could be sentenced to more than 50 years in prison if he’s convicted of all four felony charges in the case. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 7. NFL – House committee accepts Snyder’s offer to testify virtually The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform has accepted an offer for Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to testify virtually July 28. Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney wrote a letter to attorney Karen Patton Seymour saying Snyder would be allowed to testify via Zoom under the conditions set out by the committee’s initial subpoena. The committee is set to give Snyder access to exhibitions used in prior depositions and interview transcripts as well as descriptions of redacted information. Snyder refused to testify when first invited along with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. His camp has until Wednesday at noon EDT to confirm Snyder will appear before the committee. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan Whitecaps 1, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 0 Fort Wayne Tin Caps 7, Lansing Lugnuts 1 Great Lakes Loons 14, Quad Cities River Bandits 9 South Bend Cubs 6, Peoria Chiefs 0 Today Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at West Michigan Whitecaps, 12:05 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Fort Wayne Tin Caps, 12:05 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Quad Cities River Bandits, 7:30 p.m. South Bend Cubs at Peoria Chiefs, 7:35 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 7, Kansas City Royals 5 Cleveland Guardians 4, Chicago White Sox 1 – Game 1 Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland Guardians 0 – Game 2 Baltimore Orioles 4, Chicago Cubs 2 Tigers 7, Royals 5 – Cabrera drives in 2 to tie Williams, Tigers beat Royals 7-5 Miguel Cabrera drove in the tying and go-ahead runs, matching Ted Williams for 14th place on the career RBI list, and the Detroit Tigers rallied past the Kansas City Royals 7-5 to snap a four-game skid. Cabrera’s sacrifice fly in the fifth inning made it 3-3, and he had an RBI grounder for the Tigers’ first run in a four-run seventh. He equaled Williams with 1,838 RBIs. Later in the seventh, Cabrera stole third and scored on a wild throw. It was just his second stolen base in the past seven seasons. The Royals committed four errors as their three-game winning streak ended. Guardians 4, White Sox 1 & White Sox 7, Guardians 0 – Cease strikes out nine, White Sox split DH with Guardians Dylan Cease struck out nine in 5 2/3 innings, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-0 for a doubleheader split. José Abreu, Luis Robert and Josh Harrison homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of six before its sorely needed victory in the nightcap. Cease allowed five hits and walked three. In the opener, Shane Bieber tossed a three-hitter for his first complete game of the season, leading Cleveland to a a 4-1 victory. José Ramírez and Amed Rosario each drove in two runs. Orioles 4, Cubs 2 – Urías stars as Orioles beat Cubs 4-2 for 9th straight win Ramón Urías hit a two-run homer and made a big defensive play, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 for their ninth straight victory. Jorge Mateo also homered as Baltimore reached .500 for the first time this season. It’s the longest win streak for the Orioles since the franchise won 13 straight in September 1999. Baltimore right-hander Jordan Lyles pitched seven innings of two-run ball in his second straight win. All-Star Ian Happ homered for Chicago, which dropped its fifth in a row. Today Detroit (Skubal 6-7) at Kansas City (Singer 3-3), 2:10 p.m.                  WSJM/WCSY 1:50 Chicago White Sox (Giolito 5-5) at Cleveland (Civale 2-5), 7:10 p.m. Baltimore (Watkins 2-1) at Chicago Cubs (Steele 3-5), 8:05 p.m. MLB – MLB testing modified "pie slice" infield shift ban in minors The Florida State League will limit defensive shifts by drawing chalk lines in a pie shape from second base to the outfield grass starting July 22, prohibiting infielders from the marked area pre-pitch in an experiment that could increase offense. Major League Baseball has been testing shift limits all season at Double-A and Class A, requiring teams to have four players on the infield, including two on each side of second base. The experiment in the Class A FSL was first reported by The Athletic and confirmed by MLB. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Chicago Sky 99, Atlanta Dreams 75 Sky 99, Dream 75 – Parker scores 31, Copper adds 23 as Sky beat Dream 90-75 Candace Parker had 31 points and 11 rebounds, Kahleah Copper scored 23 points on 9-of-14 shooting and the Chicago Sky pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Atlanta Dream 90-75. Emma Meesseman added 10 points, six rebounds and a season-high eight assists for Chicago (17-6). Aari McDonald hit a 3-pointer that gave the Dream a 70-65 lead with 7:50 to play, but Chicago scored the next 15 points. Atlanta went scoreless for nearly five minutes and the Sky never trailed again. Meesseman either scored or assisted on 18 of Chicago’s 30 fourth-quarter points. Today Connecticut Sun at Indiana Fever, 12:00 p.m. WNBA – LeBron critical on his show of US efforts to get Griner home LeBron James is publicly criticizing the United States’ handling of WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner’s case in a trailer for an upcoming episode of his television show: “The Shop: Uninterrupted.” Griner is on trial in Russia for drug possession. She pleaded guilty last week and will appear again in court on Thursday. James tweeted Tuesday night that his comments in the trailer weren’t intended to be critical of the U.S. efforts to get Griner back. It’s unclear when the show was filmed, although in the trailer it’s mentioned she had been in Russia for over 110 days which would be roughly five weeks ago. NBA – NBA stiffens take foul penalty, will keep play-in tournament The NBA has completed the process of changing the transition take foul rule, ending years of discussion about what to do with the long-maligned tactic. And the play-in tournament is going to be around for the foreseeable future. The league’s board of governors finalized those two matters Tuesday by approving a plan to award one free throw when teams are disadvantaged by the take foul. They also removed the “experimental” designation from the play-in element to the postseason. NBASL – NBA Summer League Yesterday Chicago Bulls 93, Toronto Raptors 83 Indiana Pacers 101, Detroit Pistons 87 NHL – Scotty Bowman moves on from job as Blackhawks adviser Scotty Bowman says he no longer works for the Chicago Blackhawks. The Hockey Hall of Famer who won the Stanley Cup nine times as a coach had been a senior hockey operations adviser since 2008. The 88-year-old says it is time to move on but he is not ready to retire just yet. Bowman’s son Stan resigned as general manager in October after an investigation into the team’s mishandling of sexual assault allegations against an assistant coach by a player revealed he knew about the situation. Scotty says he left the team on good terms after what he called a pretty uncomfortable year. NHL – Former Red Wings coach Blashill joins Lightning as assistant Former Detroit Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill is joining the Tampa Bay Lightning as an assistant. Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois announced the move, selecting Blashill to replace Derek Lalonde on Jon Cooper’s staff. Lalonde had been hired to replace Blashill. The 48-year-old Blashill coached the Red Wings the past seven seasons. Detroit missed the playoffs in six of the seven seasons. Blashill joins a staff that includes assistant coaches Jeff Halpern and Rob Zettler and goaltender coach Frantz Jean. The two-time defending champion Lightning were dethroned by Colorado last month in the Stanley Cup Final. NHL – Duncan Keith announces retirement after 17 NHL seasons Duncan Keith is retiring after 17 seasons in the NHL, three Stanley Cups and two Norris Trophy awards as the league’s top defenseman. He spent 16 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks and joined Edmonton last season. Keith will turn 39 on Saturday, and said there’s a noticeable change in how he’s felt in recent postseasons. That, coupled with the desire to spend more time with his son Colton, helped him reach a difficult decision. Keith finished his career with 106 goals, 540 assists and 675 penalty minutes over 1,256 games. He also helped Canada win Olympic gold at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games and played two years of college hockey at Michigan State. NHL – Gaudreau leaving Flames, joins deep NHL free agent class Johnny Gaudreau told the Calgary Flames he’s leaving to test NHL free agency. He’s likely to receive the biggest contract handed out when the market opens Wednesday. Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup champions Nazem Kadri and Darcy Kuemper, and Dallas Stars defenseman John Klingberg are also part of a deep class with the most high-end talent available in several years. Evgeni Malkin is not after re-signing with the Pittsburgh Penguins for $24.4 million over four years. There’s significant money to spend with the salary cap going up slightly in the first increase in three years. And some teams have already made moves to free up more cap space to go shopping. Note: NHL Free Agency begins today Golf – British Open returns to home of golf at St. Andrews Golf’s oldest championship returns to the home of golf. There’s always something special about a British Open at St. Andrews. This one rises to an even greater occasion as the 150th edition. Tiger Woods is playing his third major of the year. Xander Schauffele is coming off his second straight win. Rory McIlroy tries to end eight years without a major. All the elements are in place. Elsewhere, the PGA Tour stages its only modified Stableford scoring tournament in Lake Tahoe. The LPGA Tour has its only official team event in Michigan. But it’s all about St. Andrews this week. Golf – Tiger Woods unsure how many Opens he has left at St. Andrews Tiger Woods will be crossing the Swilcan Bridge for the last time at some point this week at St. Andrews. He just doesn’t know if it will be the last time this year or forever. Woods doesn’t know how many British Opens he has left at the home of golf. All that matters is playing this one. That explains why he has walked more holes ahead of the opening round than the previous two majors combined. Woods is a two-time Open champion at St. Andrews. Winning another is a tall order. He has played only seven competitive rounds this year. NCAABSB – Notre Dame hires VCU’s Shawn Stiffler as new baseball coach Shawn Stiffler is the new baseball coach at Notre Dame. The Irish hired Stiffler away from VCU to replace Link Jarrett. Jarrett took the Florida State job after leading Notre Dame to the College World Series. Stiffler was 340-198 in 10 seasons at VCU. The Rams reached their first NCAA super regional in 2015 and made regional appearances in 2021 and 2022. Stiffler takes over a program that went 41-17 for its first 40-win season since 2006. The Irish beat No. 1 national seed Tennessee in super regionals and went 1-2 in its first CWS appearance since 2002. NFL – Judge says blood test results can be used in Ruggs’ DUI case A judge has ruled that results of a blood-alcohol test taken from former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III can be used as evidence in his DUI crash case. Authorities say the 23-year-old Ruggs allegedly was driving 156 mph just before the fiery November 2021 crash that left a woman dead. Prosecutors say Ruggs’ blood alcohol level after the crash in Las Vegas was 0.16%, which is twice the legal limit for drivers in Nevada. Ruggs could be sentenced to more than 50 years in prison if he’s convicted of all four felony charges in the case. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 7. NFL – House committee accepts Snyder’s offer to testify virtually The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform has accepted an offer for Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to testify virtually July 28. Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney wrote a letter to attorney Karen Patton Seymour saying Snyder would be allowed to testify via Zoom under the conditions set out by the committee’s initial subpoena. The committee is set to give Snyder access to exhibitions used in prior depositions and interview transcripts as well as descriptions of redacted information. Snyder refused to testify when first invited along with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. His camp has until Wednesday at noon EDT to confirm Snyder will appear before the committee. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan Whitecaps 1, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 0 Fort Wayne Tin Caps 7, Lansing Lugnuts 1 Great Lakes Loons 14, Quad Cities River Bandits 9 South Bend Cubs 6, Peoria Chiefs 0 Today Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at West Michigan Whitecaps, 12:05 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Fort Wayne Tin Caps, 12:05 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Quad Cities River Bandits, 7:30 p.m. South Bend Cubs at Peoria Chiefs, 7:35 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MLB – Major League Baseball Yesterday Detroit Tigers 7, Kansas City Royals 5 Cleveland Guardians 4, Chicago White Sox 1 – Game 1 Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland Guardians 0 – Game 2 Baltimore Orioles 4, Chicago Cubs 2 Tigers 7, Royals 5 – Cabrera drives in 2 to tie Williams, Tigers beat Royals 7-5 Miguel Cabrera drove in the tying and go-ahead runs, matching Ted Williams for 14th place on the career RBI list, and the Detroit Tigers rallied past the Kansas City Royals 7-5 to snap a four-game skid. Cabrera’s sacrifice fly in the fifth inning made it 3-3, and he had an RBI grounder for the Tigers’ first run in a four-run seventh. He equaled Williams with 1,838 RBIs. Later in the seventh, Cabrera stole third and scored on a wild throw. It was just his second stolen base in the past seven seasons. The Royals committed four errors as their three-game winning streak ended. Guardians 4, White Sox 1 & White Sox 7, Guardians 0 – Cease strikes out nine, White Sox split DH with Guardians Dylan Cease struck out nine in 5 2/3 innings, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-0 for a doubleheader split. José Abreu, Luis Robert and Josh Harrison homered for Chicago, which had dropped four of six before its sorely needed victory in the nightcap. Cease allowed five hits and walked three. In the opener, Shane Bieber tossed a three-hitter for his first complete game of the season, leading Cleveland to a a 4-1 victory. José Ramírez and Amed Rosario each drove in two runs. Orioles 4, Cubs 2 – Urías stars as Orioles beat Cubs 4-2 for 9th straight win Ramón Urías hit a two-run homer and made a big defensive play, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 for their ninth straight victory. Jorge Mateo also homered as Baltimore reached .500 for the first time this season. It’s the longest win streak for the Orioles since the franchise won 13 straight in September 1999. Baltimore right-hander Jordan Lyles pitched seven innings of two-run ball in his second straight win. All-Star Ian Happ homered for Chicago, which dropped its fifth in a row. Today Detroit (Skubal 6-7) at Kansas City (Singer 3-3), 2:10 p.m.                  WSJM/WCSY 1:50 Chicago White Sox (Giolito 5-5) at Cleveland (Civale 2-5), 7:10 p.m. Baltimore (Watkins 2-1) at Chicago Cubs (Steele 3-5), 8:05 p.m. MLB – MLB testing modified "pie slice" infield shift ban in minors The Florida State League will limit defensive shifts by drawing chalk lines in a pie shape from second base to the outfield grass starting July 22, prohibiting infielders from the marked area pre-pitch in an experiment that could increase offense. Major League Baseball has been testing shift limits all season at Double-A and Class A, requiring teams to have four players on the infield, including two on each side of second base. The experiment in the Class A FSL was first reported by The Athletic and confirmed by MLB. WNBA – Women’s National Basketball Association Last Night Chicago Sky 99, Atlanta Dreams 75 Sky 99, Dream 75 – Parker scores 31, Copper adds 23 as Sky beat Dream 90-75 Candace Parker had 31 points and 11 rebounds, Kahleah Copper scored 23 points on 9-of-14 shooting and the Chicago Sky pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat the Atlanta Dream 90-75. Emma Meesseman added 10 points, six rebounds and a season-high eight assists for Chicago (17-6). Aari McDonald hit a 3-pointer that gave the Dream a 70-65 lead with 7:50 to play, but Chicago scored the next 15 points. Atlanta went scoreless for nearly five minutes and the Sky never trailed again. Meesseman either scored or assisted on 18 of Chicago’s 30 fourth-quarter points. Today Connecticut Sun at Indiana Fever, 12:00 p.m. WNBA – LeBron critical on his show of US efforts to get Griner home LeBron James is publicly criticizing the United States’ handling of WNBA All-Star Brittney Griner’s case in a trailer for an upcoming episode of his television show: “The Shop: Uninterrupted.” Griner is on trial in Russia for drug possession. She pleaded guilty last week and will appear again in court on Thursday. James tweeted Tuesday night that his comments in the trailer weren’t intended to be critical of the U.S. efforts to get Griner back. It’s unclear when the show was filmed, although in the trailer it’s mentioned she had been in Russia for over 110 days which would be roughly five weeks ago. NBA – NBA stiffens take foul penalty, will keep play-in tournament The NBA has completed the process of changing the transition take foul rule, ending years of discussion about what to do with the long-maligned tactic. And the play-in tournament is going to be around for the foreseeable future. The league’s board of governors finalized those two matters Tuesday by approving a plan to award one free throw when teams are disadvantaged by the take foul. They also removed the “experimental” designation from the play-in element to the postseason. NBASL – NBA Summer League Yesterday Chicago Bulls 93, Toronto Raptors 83 Indiana Pacers 101, Detroit Pistons 87 NHL – Scotty Bowman moves on from job as Blackhawks adviser Scotty Bowman says he no longer works for the Chicago Blackhawks. The Hockey Hall of Famer who won the Stanley Cup nine times as a coach had been a senior hockey operations adviser since 2008. The 88-year-old says it is time to move on but he is not ready to retire just yet. Bowman’s son Stan resigned as general manager in October after an investigation into the team’s mishandling of sexual assault allegations against an assistant coach by a player revealed he knew about the situation. Scotty says he left the team on good terms after what he called a pretty uncomfortable year. NHL – Former Red Wings coach Blashill joins Lightning as assistant Former Detroit Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill is joining the Tampa Bay Lightning as an assistant. Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois announced the move, selecting Blashill to replace Derek Lalonde on Jon Cooper’s staff. Lalonde had been hired to replace Blashill. The 48-year-old Blashill coached the Red Wings the past seven seasons. Detroit missed the playoffs in six of the seven seasons. Blashill joins a staff that includes assistant coaches Jeff Halpern and Rob Zettler and goaltender coach Frantz Jean. The two-time defending champion Lightning were dethroned by Colorado last month in the Stanley Cup Final. NHL – Duncan Keith announces retirement after 17 NHL seasons Duncan Keith is retiring after 17 seasons in the NHL, three Stanley Cups and two Norris Trophy awards as the league’s top defenseman. He spent 16 seasons with the Chicago Blackhawks and joined Edmonton last season. Keith will turn 39 on Saturday, and said there’s a noticeable change in how he’s felt in recent postseasons. That, coupled with the desire to spend more time with his son Colton, helped him reach a difficult decision. Keith finished his career with 106 goals, 540 assists and 675 penalty minutes over 1,256 games. He also helped Canada win Olympic gold at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Games and played two years of college hockey at Michigan State. NHL – Gaudreau leaving Flames, joins deep NHL free agent class Johnny Gaudreau told the Calgary Flames he’s leaving to test NHL free agency. He’s likely to receive the biggest contract handed out when the market opens Wednesday. Colorado Avalanche Stanley Cup champions Nazem Kadri and Darcy Kuemper, and Dallas Stars defenseman John Klingberg are also part of a deep class with the most high-end talent available in several years. Evgeni Malkin is not after re-signing with the Pittsburgh Penguins for $24.4 million over four years. There’s significant money to spend with the salary cap going up slightly in the first increase in three years. And some teams have already made moves to free up more cap space to go shopping. Note: NHL Free Agency begins today Golf – British Open returns to home of golf at St. Andrews Golf’s oldest championship returns to the home of golf. There’s always something special about a British Open at St. Andrews. This one rises to an even greater occasion as the 150th edition. Tiger Woods is playing his third major of the year. Xander Schauffele is coming off his second straight win. Rory McIlroy tries to end eight years without a major. All the elements are in place. Elsewhere, the PGA Tour stages its only modified Stableford scoring tournament in Lake Tahoe. The LPGA Tour has its only official team event in Michigan. But it’s all about St. Andrews this week. Golf – Tiger Woods unsure how many Opens he has left at St. Andrews Tiger Woods will be crossing the Swilcan Bridge for the last time at some point this week at St. Andrews. He just doesn’t know if it will be the last time this year or forever. Woods doesn’t know how many British Opens he has left at the home of golf. All that matters is playing this one. That explains why he has walked more holes ahead of the opening round than the previous two majors combined. Woods is a two-time Open champion at St. Andrews. Winning another is a tall order. He has played only seven competitive rounds this year. NCAABSB – Notre Dame hires VCU’s Shawn Stiffler as new baseball coach Shawn Stiffler is the new baseball coach at Notre Dame. The Irish hired Stiffler away from VCU to replace Link Jarrett. Jarrett took the Florida State job after leading Notre Dame to the College World Series. Stiffler was 340-198 in 10 seasons at VCU. The Rams reached their first NCAA super regional in 2015 and made regional appearances in 2021 and 2022. Stiffler takes over a program that went 41-17 for its first 40-win season since 2006. The Irish beat No. 1 national seed Tennessee in super regionals and went 1-2 in its first CWS appearance since 2002. NFL – Judge says blood test results can be used in Ruggs’ DUI case A judge has ruled that results of a blood-alcohol test taken from former Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Henry Ruggs III can be used as evidence in his DUI crash case. Authorities say the 23-year-old Ruggs allegedly was driving 156 mph just before the fiery November 2021 crash that left a woman dead. Prosecutors say Ruggs’ blood alcohol level after the crash in Las Vegas was 0.16%, which is twice the legal limit for drivers in Nevada. Ruggs could be sentenced to more than 50 years in prison if he’s convicted of all four felony charges in the case. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Sept. 7. NFL – House committee accepts Snyder’s offer to testify virtually The U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Reform has accepted an offer for Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder to testify virtually July 28. Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney wrote a letter to attorney Karen Patton Seymour saying Snyder would be allowed to testify via Zoom under the conditions set out by the committee’s initial subpoena. The committee is set to give Snyder access to exhibitions used in prior depositions and interview transcripts as well as descriptions of redacted information. Snyder refused to testify when first invited along with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. His camp has until Wednesday at noon EDT to confirm Snyder will appear before the committee. MILB – Midwest League Baseball Last Night West Michigan Whitecaps 1, Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 0 Fort Wayne Tin Caps 7, Lansing Lugnuts 1 Great Lakes Loons 14, Quad Cities River Bandits 9 South Bend Cubs 6, Peoria Chiefs 0 Today Wisconsin Timber Rattlers at West Michigan Whitecaps, 12:05 p.m. Lansing Lugnuts at Fort Wayne Tin Caps, 12:05 p.m. Great Lakes Loons at Quad Cities River Bandits, 7:30 p.m. South Bend Cubs at Peoria Chiefs, 7:35 p.m.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's We Have High Expectations, Brad and Drew breakdown the latest in conference expansion with the big news of USC and UCLA joining the Big Ten. Also another Golf Corner to preview the Scottish and British Opens. And for your listening pleasure an opening featuring a discussion around the King of Pop's musical career and those false allegations that dogged him for too many years. Sha'mon! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/whhe/support

25 year former PGA Tour Caddie worldwide...Caddied in 40 plus majors....9 Masters, 2 British Opens, 14 US Opens, 16 PGA's ...caddied for 9  PGA Tour Wins which includes 8  wins with Kenny Perry

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 375, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: A Royal Pain 1: In 711 a large Muslim army crossed this strait and defeated Roderick, the last Visigoth king of Spain. Strait of Gibraltar. 2: It's the royal title held by Heliogabalus, assassinated in his bathroom by his own Praetorian Guard. Emperor. 3: In 1789 pesky revolutionaries imprisoned this king and his family in the Tuileries Palace. Louis XVI. 4: Bad report card? In the 1580s this royal Russian killed his son and heir in a fit of rage. Ivan the Terrible. 5: When assassinated in 1908, Carlos I of this Iberian country was in a virtual state of war with his subjects. Portugal. Round 2. Category: World Of Words 1: From the Latin for "to lick", it's a ridiculing satire and a Harvard magazine. Lampoon. 2: Based on its etymology, it's the period in a human's life when you'd expect him or her to be speechless. Infancy/infant. 3: The spirit or outlook of a period or generation, it's German for "time spirit". Zeitgeist. 4: The 1980s program of reforms in the USSR included this, Russian for "restructuring". perestroika. 5: Probably the one Icelandic word everybody knows is this one for a spewing hot spring. a geyser. Round 3. Category: Corporate America 1: In 1994 this company launched Winterfresh, its first sugar-based chewing gum in almost 20 years. Wrigley. 2: Nabisco is hounding the bad doggie breath problem by adding this flavor to its Milk-Bones. Mint. 3: This bookstore chain founded by Larry Hoyt in 1933 was named for an inspirational pond. Waldenbooks. 4: This media company's NYSE symbol is TWX. Time Warner. 5: Automaker whose ad campaign centers around "The heartbeat of America". Chevrolet. Round 4. Category: My Dear Watson 1: On Jan. 25, 1915 the first transcontinental phone call was made by this man in NYC to Thomas Watson in S.F.. (Alexander Graham) Bell. 2: Diane Watson represents this state's 33rd district in the U.S. House of Representatives. California. 3: Now playing on golf's senior tour, he's won 5 British Opens and 2 Masters tournaments. Tom Watson. 4: English astronomer Frank Watson Dyson was director of this observatory from 1910 to 1933. the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. 5: English scholar Thomas Watson is best known today for his 1581 translation of "Antigone" by this Ancient Greek. Sophocles. Round 5. Category: If You Can't Say Something Nice 1: On April 4, 1940 Neville Chamberlain said that this dictator had "missed the bus". Adolf Hitler. 2: Margot Asquith said of Lloyd George, "He could not see" one of these "without hitting below it". Belt. 3: Bartletts quotes this comedian: "I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception". Groucho Marx. 4: "I can sometimes deal with men as equals and therefore can afford to like them", she wrote in Ms.. Gloria Steinem. 5: Simon Cameron said "An honest" one of these "is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought". Politician. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Derwynne Honan, Wayne Flint and Tony talk about using 3D and applying it to help players. Derwynne has played in three British Opens, and has played with big players over the years. He's learned a lot from them, and points out that they're playing the game at a different level but in the same way, not over complicating it. They dive into how 3D has been around for 25 years but finding out its greatest benefits to players is not changing to become a number but focusing on maintaining the best automated movements.

On this episode of The Real Life Caddie Podcast:Big G is joined by fellow caddies Mike Zabbo and NEW blood Evan Couture!The work has is out of control, but more importantly.....Corporate golf is back!The boys discuss corporate rules, score keeping, damaging clubs and more drunken behavior!The boys then turn their attention to the latest tournaments including the Scottish and British Opens.The episode ends with notable mentions, listener mail bag questions and a Bubba Watson Bell End of the Week Award!If you have any questions or comments, please email us: podcast@glorifieddonkey.comFeel free to Rate, Review and Share the podcast too! We appreciate the support.

In this episode of the Golfweek Rater Podcast, Jim Hansen chats with turfgrass specialist, Richard Hurley, PhD, CPAg. He has gained extensive international experience in selecting grasses for new golf courses and working with turf management issues on existing golf courses. He has assisted in course preparation for 30 Masters Tournaments, 5 US Open Tournaments, attended 6 British Opens, in addition to dozens of other national golf events.

It was late to begin with and then Brendan and Andy discovered at minute 43 that they had neglected to hit the record button on the first attempt at this episode. So this is a second run, and if we're being honest, it's not their best effort. They run through the schedule for the week, tell an amusing Bryson story from last year's win that you may not have heard, and ponder what the Thicc Boi's weight is down to these days. Mito Pereira having to hope for a spot off the alternate list after getting the battlefield promotion is, as you might expect, noted. Event of the week is a duel between an elite amateur event and an event where the leader got stuck in an elevator that goes up to one of the tee boxes. Last but not least, enter the first ever Coffee Pot, a pool covering the next three weeks of peak Coffee Golf season -- the Irish, Scottish, and British Opens. It's the usual pool with some amusing categories to make picks from with both weekly and cumulative winners.

Guests: Eloise Wellings, Madeline Hills, Michael Crooks, Carrie Graf, Keely Froling & Heather McKay. How far has women’s sport come? Events like Australia's Twenty20 World Cup with a crowd of 90,000 in March suggest a long way. In episode four of our Sport Integrity Australia podcast ‘On Side’, we discuss parity in sport - where we’ve come from and what still needs to be done - with one of our greatest sportswomen Heather McKay, one of our greatest basketball coaches Carrie Graf and up-and-coming basketball star Keely Froling. We also chat to Baseball Australia’s General Manager Performance Pathways & Player Development, Michael Crooks, about the sport’s challenges – funding, match fixing, differences in anti-doping in the Major League - and creating pathways for young athletes dreaming big in the US. Finally, we talk to Gold Coast Commonwealth Games heroes Eloise Wellings and Madeline Hills who, along with Celia Sullohern, created one of the highlights of the Games when they waited for Lineo Chaka at the finish line, and triple Olympian Bronwen Knox answers the question “If one person in a team tests positive, does the whole team get tested?” A leading advocate for the equality in sport, Graf says there needs to be a shift in the thinking of what is a Return On Investment “rather than just commercial and eye balls”. “I was a little girl who grew up when there wasn’t any role models and you couldn’t aspire to work as a professional athlete, as a coach,” she says. “l was fortunate to have a professional coaching career for 20-plus years, I think we’re certainly seeing a shift that little girls can look on TV and look around the media and go ‘wow, I could do this a job’, and that that is a legitimate job but I still think there is a long, long way to go.” Froling, who has two brothers currently playing in the National Basketball League, says she often compares the rewards. “I look at what the boys get and what they’re doing and I think, ‘oh, it’s so annoying’ … we work just as hard if not harder than them and aren’t rewarded in the same way.” It’s certainly a long way from when McKay, a winner of 16 British Opens in a row, competed as an amateur, having to take two months off work without pay simply to play. As an amateur she says she played “for fun” and without the pressure athletes’ face now. “Today the pressure is there, the big money’s there, so when the money is there, certainly there is going to be a lot of pressure because you’ve got to perform and that’s really the difference between today and in my time. It’s their full-time job.” With significant contracts up for grabs for young baseballers overseas, Crooks is trying to develop right path for talented young players. “Managing the workloads and expectations for these young players is really, really critical to make sure that they get the most of their opportunity when they do finally get over to the United States as opposed to sending them over as a 16-year-old with no support mechanisms, no safety nets for them and basically leaving them to the wolves so to speak to try and survive in what is an incredible cut-throat world of professional sport,” Crooks says. In our From The Highlight Reel segment Australian 10,000m runners Eloise Wellings and Madeline Hills relive an act of sportsmanship that was beamed around the globe. “We were just doing what we would always do in any other race and it just so happened that there was a whole lot of cameras and a whole lot of people watching,” says Wellings, who concedes her own run was “one of the worst” of her career. “It takes vulnerability to finish a race like that for Lineo when things aren’t going well to run the last three laps on your own. As Madeline said you are very exposed and it’s a vulnerable thing to be in.” Madeline, agrees. “We’ve all had that day,” she says. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode we discuss Working From Home and how to do it effectively. We speak with Sandy Zinn who has been working from home since 2012/2013, but working from anywhere since the early 2000s when he was covering the Olympics and Golf for ESPN. For him, it is all about balance and making sure you don’t get sucked too deeply into either work problems or family problems at any one time. When he is working then he is all in, but remembers to take breaks and go all into non-work relate responsibilities like taking his dog on a walk. Sandy is CEO of Zinn Sports Group, LLC, which he formed in February after 15 years at Major League Baseball and 10 years with ESPN. He most recently had 200 employees across North America and ran a $1 million+ budget.  Born in Brooklyn, NY, Sandy grew up near the farms and beaches of Central New Jersey (yes, that's a thing) with a single mom and two sisters. After a year at Syracuse, he attended Rutgers University, earning a degree in Journalism & Mass Media after ditching accounting due to boredom. A mainstay at the campus radio station during the height of 'Mike & The Mad Dog,' Sandy too envisioned a future behind the mic, but his extremely mediocre demo tape got no traction and he settled for answering phones at ESPN for $7/hour. Sandy joined the editorial department at ESPN's wire service in NJ, SportsTicker, shortly thereafter and slid into globe-trotting roles of Olympics and Golf editor. He ran coverage from Sydney, Salt Lake City, several British Opens and many other remote events. Leaving ESPN in 2004, Sandy joined MLB in 2005 to help build the Minor League Stats department, running personnel and club relations. From there, he built and ran the day-to-operations of several industry-changing technologies and divisions, including Statcast, Pitch f/x, Automated Balls and Strikes, Umpire Evaluations, and more.  Sandy plays an inordinate amount of softball during non-pandemic seasons and is a beach town resident. He is close to his family and extended group of friends abroad, and spends most of his time with his English Bulldog and best buddy Stanley.  Follow along on Sandy’s journey: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zinn-sports-group/

Martin visits the birthplace of The Open Championship; Prestwick Golf Club. The club was founded already 1891 but in contradiction to its long history the club has only had seven teaching professionals. The first one was Old Tom Morris and number seven is David Fleming, who is the guest in this fourth episode of Martin Möter.In addition to the history of The Open Championship David tells the story of Old Tom Morris and his relation to his son Young Tom – a man who was one of the first people to make a living from playing the game. Also listen to the shivering story of how one of Old Tom's decisions would lead to his son's heartbreak and eventual passing.Martin gästar platsen där British Open grundades; Prestwick Golf Club. Klubben grundades redan 1891 men har trots sin långa historia bara haft sju teaching professionals. Först av dem var Old Tom Morris och nummer sju är David Fleming, som i detta fjärde avsnitt gästar Martin Möter.Förutom om British Opens historia berättar David bland annat om Old Tom Morris och hans relation till sonen Young Tom – en man som var en av tidernas första att tjäna pengar som golfspelare. Hör också den hjärtskärande historien om hur ett av Old Tom Morris beslut skulle leda till sonens hjärtesorg och sedermera bortgång.OBS! Detta avsnitt är på engelska.

No name is more synonymous with greatness in the sport of golf than the name Jack Nicklaus, and no single person has changed the face of the sport more than Jack Nicklaus – the player, the designer, the philanthropist, and the good-will ambassador. Jack was named “Golfer of the Century” or “Golfer of the Millennium” by almost every major golf publication in the world. He was also named Individual Male Athlete of the Century by Sports Illustrated, and one of the 10 Greatest Athletes of the Century by ESPN. Jack’s competitive career spanned five decades, and his legend has been built with 120 professional tournament victories worldwide and a record 18 professional major-championship titles (six Masters, five PGA Championships, four U.S. Opens, three British Opens). He is one of only five golfers who have won all four of golf's modern majors, an achievement often referred to as the career “Grand Slam.” Jack remains the only player to have completed the career Grand Slam on both the regular and senior tours. Connect with David on Twitter: twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO See more Podcasts: davidnovakleadership.com/leadership-podcast/ Take our Free Recognition Survey: davidnovakleadership.com/survey

No name is more synonymous with greatness in the sport of golf than the name Jack Nicklaus, and no single person has changed the face of the sport more than Jack Nicklaus – the player, the designer, the philanthropist, and the good-will ambassador. Jack was named “Golfer of the Century” or “Golfer of the Millennium” by almost every major golf publication in the world. He was also named Individual Male Athlete of the Century by Sports Illustrated, and one of the 10 Greatest Athletes of the Century by ESPN. Jack’s competitive career spanned five decades, and his legend has been built with 120 professional tournament victories worldwide and a record 18 professional major-championship titles (six Masters, five PGA Championships, four U.S. Opens, three British Opens). He is one of only five golfers who have won all four of golf’s modern majors, an achievement often referred to as the career “Grand Slam.” Jack remains the only player to have completed the career Grand Slam on both the regular and senior tours. Connect with David on Twitter: twitter.com/DavidNovakOGO See more Podcasts: davidnovakleadership.com/leadership-podcast/ Take our Free Recognition Survey: davidnovakleadership.com/survey

Countless PSA tour titles, 3 World Open titles, 3 British Opens, 3 Commonwealth golds and 10 British National Championships: Nick Matthew left the game as an all-time great. Nick and I chat about his character building junior years, what it means (for us across the pond) to be a Yorkshireman, and how competing during the Power/Nicol and Shabana/Gaultier/Darwish eras was different from today's play on tour. During that later era, his rivalry with James Willstrop took shape, and Nick lays out the backstory. Currently, "the wolf" is at the Tournament of Champions, and he gives some incredible insight on the event, the players, officiating issues, and most importantly, the Champions Lounge.

Jack Nicklaus is the greatest golfer of all time with 73 tour victories and 18 major titles, including 6 Masters, 5 PGA Championships, 4 US Opens, and 3 British Opens.  He is also a businessmen, golf course designer, philanthropist, author, husband, father of 5 and a grandfather of 22.   Listen to this episode and learn: How nearly losing his daughter became the inspiration behind Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation The miracles that led Jack to the game of golf   How Craig Smith, an 11-year-old boy with cancer, inspired Jack to wear a yellow shirt on Sunday and how Jack was able to honor Craig by winning the 1986 Masters The miracles Jack and Barbara have witnessed at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital The Memorable wins in Jack’s career and why The Memorial Tournament means so much to him  

One of the greatest players in squash history, Geoff Hunt won eight British Opens and the first four men's World Championships. A little-known part of his career was the Australian's sojourns in North America, first as a teenager and later as a pro. Hunt has stories about Original Six ice hockey, Victor Niederhoffer, the Mennen Cup, Sharif Khan, the Philadelphia Boast and the shortest men's World Championship final in history.

Welcome to the Women of Golf Show! This week Cindy Miller & I speak withBobbi Salmon - LPGA Teaching Professional. Here's more about Bobbi: Bobbi has competed in four British Opens, two U.S. Opens, and two LPGA Championships. She has played in Europe, Asia, and most recently on the LPGA Senior tour, also know as the Legends Tour. Her teaching experience includes national appearances, speaking engagements, clinics, and professional golf associations. She has been recognized as one of the top 50 teaching professionals in the U.S. by Golf for Women Magazine. Bobbi specializes in simplifying golf; a philosophy exemplified by her invention - a simple, yet powerful solution to addressing the most common mistakes made while putting. Join Cindy & I Tuesday mornings 9-10AM EST atwww.blogtalkradio.com/womenofgolf