CINCINNATI (AP) – Milwaukee Brewers reliever Abner Uribe plans to serve his one-game suspension Wednesday night, nearly a month after Major League Baseball handed down the penalty.
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) – Neymar arrived with Brazil and is available for the team’s World Cup match against Scotland on Wednesday, another sign the superstar forward is set to make his debut at this year’s tournament after missing the first two matches.
LONDON (AP) – Top tennis players at Wimbledon will extend their protest over prize money by limiting their media appearances at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament next week.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Tunisia coach Hervé Renard is open to the possibility of leading the African nation’s program beyond the end of the World Cup.
Vozinha, one of the sensations of the World Cup, is looking for a new club.
NEW YORK (AP) – Dansby Swanson hit a tiebreaking three-run homer in the sixth inning and added a grand slam in the eighth inning Wednesday, lifting the Chicago Cubs to a 10-3 win over the reeling New York Mets in the opener of a day-night doubleheader.
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Bill DeWitt III was named chief executive officer of the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday after serving as team president since 2008.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Formally dressed in a traditional Qatari bisht, Dr. Nasser Mohamed strolled past a crowd of several hundred people outside Chase Center as the England-Croatia World Cup match was shown high above on the big screen. His gold-and-black robe featured a flourish: rainbow piping down each sleeve and the words “love” and “freedom” written in Arabic.
SEATTLE (AP) – Rather than test free agency, Bobby McMann elected to stick with the Seattle Kraken for the long haul.