BASEBALL
Marcelo Mayer was 2 for 4 with a home run and two RBI, Tyler McDonough and Kyle Teel also drove in two runs apiece, and the Portland Sea Dogs ended their road trip Sunday with a 9-1 win over the Binghamton Rumble Ponies in Binghamton, New York.
McDonough was 3 for 4, including an RBI single in the second inning and a run-scoring double in the fourth. Mayer hit a solo home run – his seventh of the season – in the fifth and an RBI single in the sixth.
Hunter Dobbins earned the win, allowing just four hits and one run over six innings. He struck out six and walked two.
SOCCER
EURO 2024: Jude Bellingham scored a stunning overhead kick with only seconds left to help England avoid one of the most shocking defeats in the history of the European Championship, leading his team to a 2-1 comeback win over Slovakia in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
The midfielder’s acrobatic strike in the fifth minute of stoppage time leveled the round-of-16 game at 1-1 . Harry Kane struck again in the first minute of extra time to send England to the quarterfinals against Switzerland.
• Spain recovered from conceding an early own-goal to beat Georgia, 4-1 in Cologne, ending one of the tournament’s most compelling underdog stories.
Goals from midfielders Rodri and Fabián Ruiz gave Spain the lead, and Nico Williams and Dani Oimo scored late in the game as heavy rain fell.
Spain will play Germany in the quarterfinals on Friday.
GOLF
PGA: Cam Davis won the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit for the second time, closing with a 2-under 70 that gave him a one-shot victory when Akshay Bhatia three-putted from 32 feet on the final hole.
Davis finished at 18-under 270. Bhatia (72), who missed a 4-foot par attempt on the 18th, tied for second with Aaron Rai (72), Davis Thompson (68) and Min Woo Lee (69).
U.S. SENIOR OPEN: Hiroyuki Fujita held a three-stroke lead with eight holes to play when the tournament was postponed until Monday because of severe weather in Newport, Rhode Island.
Fujita was 2 under for the day and 16 under overall.
Richard Bland, the Senior PGA champion, birdied the first three holes to move into second place.
Portland native Jeff Martin was 1-over through 11 holes, and plus-6 overall.
EUROPEAN TOUR: Marcel Siem beat Tom McKibbin in a playoff to win the Italian Open in Cervia, Italy.
Both Siem (71) and McKibbin (65) finished at 10-under overall, and then Siem birdied the first playoff hole.
LPGA: Atthaya “Jeeno” Thitikul of Thailand made a 12-foot birdie putt on the final hole as she and Ruoning Yin of China won the Dow Championship in Midland, Michigan, with an 8-under 62 in the fourballs format.
Ally Ewing and Jennifer Kupcho shot a 64 but finished one stroke back.
AUTO RACING
FORMULA ONE: George Russell earned Mercedes’ first win of the season, taking advantage of a late clash between Lando Norris and championship leader Max Verstappen at the Austrian Grand Prix.
Norris was trying to take the lead from Verstappen with just seven laps remaining when the pair came together. The incident left Norris’ car unable to continue, and Verstappen was given a 10-second time penalty.
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri was second, ahead of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr. Lewis Hamilton finished fourth for Mercedes, with Verstappen fifth for Red Bull.
BASKETBALL
NBA: The Detroit Pistons have agreed to a four-year contract with J.B. Bickerstaff to become the team’s head coach, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Sunday.
The Cleveland Cavaliers fired Bickerstaff in May after they lost to Boston in the Eastern Conference semifinals despite them winning 99 games over two years.
Bickerstaff replaces Monty Williams, who was fired just one season into a six-year, $78.5 million contract after Detroit had the NBA’s worst record for a second straight year.
WNBA: Caitlin Clark recorded 15 points, 12 assists and nine rebounds, and the visiting Indiana Fever rallied for an 88-82 victory over the Phoenix Mercury.
• Breanna Stewart had 22 points and 12 rebounds to help the New York Liberty rally to beat the visiting Atlanta Dream, 81-75.
• Kayla McBride scored 16 points, Napheesa Collier had 13 points and 11 rebounds, and the Minnesota Lynx spoiled a record-setting day from Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese, rallying for a 70-62 road victory.
Reese broke a WNBA single-season record with her 10th straight double-double, finishing with 10 points and 16 rebounds.
HOCKEY
NHL: The Tampa Bay Lightning got a head start on free agency by acquiring the rights to high-scoring winger Jake Guentzel from the Carolina Hurricanes.
The Lightning sent a 2025 third-round draft pick to Carolina. The move allows the Lightning to sign Guentzel before he hits the open market on Monday.
Guentzel scored 30 goals this past season for the Hurricanes and Penguins, his fourth time reaching that mark in an eight-year career that has included him getting to 40 twice.
• The Buffalo Sabres officially moved on from Jeff Skinner, the top-paid forward on the team’s roster, by buying out the final three years of the veteran’s contact.
The move frees up $7.55 million in salary cap space next season, though the Sabres still owe Skinner $22 million.
CYCLING
TOUR DE FRANCE: Two-time champion Tadej Pogacar attacked from the chasing peloton on a short but brutally steep climb to take the leader’s yellow jersey after Stage 2 – a 199-kilometer ride from Cesenatico to Bologna, Italy.
Kevin Vauquelin won the stage from a breakaway.
Pogacar leads the overall standings, though Remco Evenepoel, two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and Richard Carapaz are even with Pogacar on total time.
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