AP Sports Summary for Monday, July 24th 2024:
Xander the Great! Schauffele wins the British Open for his 2nd major this year
TROON, Scotland (AP) — Xander Schauffele was the player who couldn't win a major at the start of the year. Now he has two of them. The 30-year-old Californian won the British Open with a masterpiece at Royal Troon. He played bogey-free for a 65 to get his name on the base of that silver claret jug. Schauffele won the PGA Championship in May at Valhalla. He's the first player since 2015 to win his first two majors in the same season. And his victory at Royal Troon gave the Americans a sweep of the four majors for the first time since 1982. Schauffele's 65 ranks among the great closing rounds in British Open history.
Justin Rose 'choking back tears' after Xander Schauffele surges to British Open title
TROON, Scotland (AP) — Justin Rose needed a long putt for par on the 12th hole at Royal Troon to keep pace with Xander Schauffele. The 21-footer looked good and the crowd was ready to erupt. It caught the left side of the cup, though, and lipped out. Rose tossed his putter in the air, catching it on the way down. His British Open dream was dented, and Schauffele surged to the title. Rose's lone bogey of the day dropped him a shot behind Schauffele and two strokes back of then-leader Thriston Lawrence. The 43-year-old Englishman carrying the hopes of the country in search of a champion never caught up. Rose finished tied for second with Billy Horschel on 7-under overall, two shots behind Schauffele.
The wake-up call for the US men's basketball team arrives with the Paris Olympics a few days away
South Sudan is the 33rd-ranked team in the FIBA world rankings, by far the lowest of any of the 12 nations that will be vying for men's basketball gold in the Paris Olympics that start this week. The U.S. is ranked No. 1. Yet South Sudan nearly beat the Americans anyway. The every-four-years wake-up call for the U.S. Olympic team seems to have arrived. The Americans lost two exhibitions on the way to Tokyo in 2021 and then lost to France to open those Games before rallying to win gold at the end. They are going for their fifth straight gold.
US women's Olympic basketball knows it has work to do after loss to WNBA team
PHOENIX (AP) — There is no panic in the U.S. women's Olympic team. The Americans have been in this spot before. The U.S. lost to the WNBA All-Star team on Saturday night and are headed on a flight to London to continue their prep for the Paris Olympics. Breanna Stewart said it felt like deja vu and she wasn't wrong. The 2021 Olympic team also lost to the WNBA All-Star team in a tune-up to the Tokyo Games. They went on to cruise to a seventh consecutive gold medal in Tokyo that year. Just like in the 2021 exhibition game, the Americans had no answer for Arike Ogunbowale.
Ohtani hits 473-foot homer that clears bleachers at Dodger Stadium
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani made his 30th home run in Dodger blue a memorable one. The superstar slugger drove a cutter from Boston pitcher Kutter Crawford 473 feet over the bleachers at Dodger Stadium during the fifth inning of Sunday's game against the Red Sox. According to fans in the area, the ball sailed between the pavilion roof and an advertisement sign in right-center field, but it cleared the concourse and landed on the walkway in the ballpark plaza. Ohtani just missed becoming the second Dodgers player and sixth overall to clear the pavilion roof and hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium, which opened in 1962. Los Angeles slugger Mike Piazza did it on Sept. 21, 1997, against the Colorado Rockies.
Beltré, Helton, Mauer and Leyland inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Adrian Beltré, Joe Mauer, Todd Helton and Jim Leyland have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Beltré led this year's class with 95.1% of the Baseball Writers' Association of America vote in his first year on the ballot. Helton followed with 79.7% of the vote in his sixth year of eligibility and Mauer received 76.1% of the BBWAA vote in his first year. Leyland was elected by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee.
Kyle Larson races to his 1st Brickyard 400 victory, making a late charge through the field
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Kyle Larson made a late charge through the field, managed to get his car refired after a red flag and won the final two restart battles Sunday before coasting to his first Brickyard 400 victory under caution. Larson took the lead when Brad Keselowski ran out of fuel and pulled off the track just before the second-to-last restart and beat pole winner Tyler Reddick at the end with the yellow flag out. Larson won in his first trip back to the speedway since trying to become the fifth driver to complete 1,100 miles of racing on the same May day, at Indy and Charlotte, North Carolina. Larson won for the fourth time this season and took the points lead from Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott.
Tadej Pogacar celebrates his 3rd Tour de France victory in style with another audacious stage win
Tadej Pogacar had no need to attack on the final stage of the Tour de France. Defending a lead of over five minutes in Sunday's time trial, he was set to comfortably win the race for the third time anyway. But he couldn't resist another attack. With main rival Jonas Vingegaard unable to challenge him, Pogacar celebrated his Tour victory in style with a dominant win in the time trial ending in Nice for the 17th stage win of his illustrious Tour career. The 25-year-old Slovenian rider became the first cyclist to win the Giro d'Italia and Tour de France in the same year since the late Marco Pantani in 1998. Pogacar previously won the Tour in 2020 and 2021.
AP PHOTOS: A race to capture the Tour de France before it flies by
The three-week Tour de France goes by in the blink of an eye. The grueling race that ended Sunday covered around 3,500 kilometers and photojournalists had to capture hundreds of fleeting moments. Shooting the race is as much about finding a unique angle that captures the scenic and quirky side of one of the world's most epic competitions as getting stage winners crossing the line with arms raised in victory. It's also an endurance contest. Long days are spent snapping photos from the back of a motorcycle, or speeding ahead to find a vantage point and then racing to catch the riders.
Dunlap becomes first player in PGA Tour history to win as an amateur and a pro in the same year
TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Nick Dunlap became the first player in PGA Tour history to win as an amateur and a professional in the same year, rallying Sunday for a two-point victory in the Barracuda Championship. In January at The American Express in La Quinta, the 20-year-old Dunlap — then a sophomore at Alabama — became the eighth amateur to win a tour event and the first in 33 years. On Sunday in the only PGA Tour event that uses the modified Stableford scoring system, Dunlap took the lead with a 55-foot eagle putt on the par-5 15th. Players receive eight points for a double eagle, five for eagle and two for birdie. A point is deducted for bogey and three for double bogey. Vince Whaley was second.
AP-Scorecard
Here are the scores from yesterday's sports events:
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INTERLEAGUE
Final Milwaukee 8 Minnesota 7
Final San Diego 2 Cleveland 1
Final L.A. Dodgers 9 Boston 6
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Toronto 5 Detroit 4
Final Kansas City 4 Chicago White Sox 1
Final Tampa Bay 6 N.Y. Yankees 4
Final Texas 3 Baltimore 2
Final Seattle 6 Houston 4
Final L.A. Angels 8 Oakland 5
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final St. Louis 6 Atlanta 2
Final Washington 5 Cincinnati 2
Final Philadelphia 6 Pittsburgh 0
Final Miami 4 N.Y. Mets 2
Final Chicago Cubs 2 Arizona 1
Final San Francisco 3 Colorado 2
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TODAY'S SPORTS SCHEDULE
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INTERLEAGUE
Philadelphia at Minnesota 7:40 p.m.
Arizona at Kansas City 8:10 p.m.
Boston at Colorado 8:40 p.m.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Tampa Bay at N-Y Yankees 1:05 p.m.
Detroit at Cleveland 6:40 p.m.
Chi White Sox at Texas 8:05 p.m.
Houston at Oakland 9:40 p.m.
L-A Angels at Seattle 9:40 p.m.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
N-Y Mets at Miami 6:40 p.m.
St. Louis at Pittsburgh 6:40 p.m.
Cincinnati at Atlanta 7:20 p.m.
Milwaukee at Chi Cubs 8:05 p.m.
San Francisco at L-A Dodgers 10:10 p.m.
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