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🚨 Headlines
⚽️ MLS wins All-Star Game: Despite Lionel Messi’s absence, the MLS All-Stars beat the Liga MX All-Stars, 3-1, in Austin for their third win in four tries under this format. Philadelphia forward Tai Baribo, who scored the game-winning goal, was named MVP.
⚾️ Ohtani homers again: Shohei Ohtani homered in his fifth straight game, tying six other Dodgers for the longest such streak in franchise history. And just like that, he holds the outright NL lead with 37 bombs.
⚽️ Spain moves on: Spain beat Germany, 1-0, in extra time to advance to Sunday’s Women’s Euro final, where they’ll face defending champion England in a rematch of the 2023 World Cup final, which Spain won.
🏈 Training camp headlines: “[Russell Wilson] is our starter,” said Giants coach Brian Daboll; Daniel Jones got more reps than Anthony Richardson as the Colts’ QB1; Terry McLaurin, Micah Parsons and Trey Hendrickson are among the seven most notable holdouts (or hold-ins).
⚾️ Rare occurrence: The Pirates became the first team since 1980 to get swept by the worst team in a league (White Sox) and then sweep the best team in that league (Tigers) in back-to-back series after the season’s midpoint.
⚾️ MLB trade deadline: Where do all 30 teams stand?
The 2025 MLB Trade Deadline is one week from today (July 31). Where does each team stand? Below, Yahoo Sports’ Jake Mintz puts all 30 clubs into tiers based on their outlook.
Full buy
Teams with legitimate World Series aspirations, who, like all of us, could use a little bit of extra support.
9 teams: Cubs (60-42), Astros (60-42), Blue Jays (60-42), Dodgers (60-43), Mets (59-44), Phillies (58-44), Yankees (56-46), Padres (55-47), Mariners (54-48)
The Brewers and Tigers
Outstanding ballclubs with strong farm systems that should be all-in, but given their transactional track records and organizational DNA, it’s unlikely that the chips go flying into the pot.
2 teams: Brewers (61-41), Tigers (60-43)
Stand pat/thread the needle
Clubs likely to either sit on their hands or participate in a little buy/sell dribble-drabble. They’re too good to full sell but not good enough to full buy, so they’ll do neither or both.
5 teams: Giants (54-49), Rangers (53-50), Rays (53-50), Reds (53-50), Angels (49-53)
The Red Sox
Given the roller coaster that has been their season thus far, the Red Sox exist in their own tier. What the hottest baseball soap opera of 2025 will do at the deadline is anyone’s guess.
1 team: Red Sox (55-49)
The teams with the keys
Clubs that, if they decide to pull the plug, have enviable assets to sell. How they perform over the next week will likely determine their course of action at the deadline.
5 teams: Cardinals (52-51), Guardians (51-10), Diamondbacks (50-53), Royals (50-53), Twins (49-53)
Light sell
You can’t have an estate sale with an empty house. These subpar teams simply don’t have many expiring contracts to trade and would prefer to hold on to anybody who can help them in 2026.
5 teams: Marlins (48-53), Braves (44-57), Athletics (42-62), Nationals (41-61), Rockies (26-76)
Obvious full sell
Anything and everything must and will go.
3 teams: Orioles (44-57), Pirates (42-61), White Sox (37-66)
More from Yahoo Sports:
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The top 26 players who could be traded (Russell Dorsey)
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The most glaring needs for top contenders (Jordan Shusterman)
🎧 Fresh podcast: Deals we’d like to see (Baseball Bar-B-Cast)
🏈 Could Saban return to the NFL to coach Manning?
I’m a sucker for a juicy sports rumor, and it’s hard to get much juicier than this: Could Nick Saban return to the NFL next season to coach Arch Manning? Here’s Colin Cowherd on Wednesday’s episode of “The Herd” on FS1:
This is the worst kept secret in the South. Jimmy Haslam, owner of the Browns — huge SEC, Tennessee booster, leans heavily on the Manning family. Very close to the Manning family. Arch Manning is part of the Manning family.
Nick Saban is incredibly close not only to Jimmy Haslam, but to the Manning family as well. And so Saban, if he could land, I’m told, a top quarterback — like Harbaugh going to the Chargers for [Justin] Herbert — he would take a phone call from the NFL.
And there are two teams guaranteed to be awful this year in the NFL: Cleveland and the Saints. Nick Saban has coached in Cleveland with the Browns … and he coached at LSU. The Mannings are royalty in New Orleans … and the Mannings are royalty to Jimmy Haslam.
Haslam’s circle of trust, according to an article in The Athletic last year, is the Manning family and Jimmy Sexton. Sexton is Nick Saban’s agent. … This story is a poorly kept secret. The Mannings. Haslam. Jimmy Sexton. Nick Saban. … Saban’s not going to college. He would take a call in the NFL. … This is not a conspiracy theory.
To recap: Arch Manning could be a top pick in the 2026 NFL Draft, and the Browns and Saints could be candidates to select him. The Mannings have connections to both franchises, as does Nick Saban, who is close to the Mannings. Could that result in Saban returning to the sidelines next season with Arch as his signal-caller? Let the speculation begin.
⛳️ Ryder Cup standings
Golf’s major season is over, and while the race for the FedEx Cup playoffs continues today at the 3M Open in Minnesota, the more intriguing race is for the 24 coveted spots at the Ryder Cup in September.
How it works: The top six Americans in the Ryder Cup rankings following the BMW Championship on Aug. 17 will automatically make the team, as will the top six Europeans following the Betfred British Masters on Aug. 24. The final six players on each side will then be chosen by the captains.
Below, the current top 12 for each team…
🇺🇸 USA
Just two players have guaranteed their spots so far: Scottie Scheffler, whose lead is insurmountable, and Bryson DeChambeau, who has been guaranteed a spot by captain Keegan Bradley.
Top 6:
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Scheffler (32,420 points)
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Xander Schauffele (13,384)
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J.J. Spaun (12,479)
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Russell Henley (11,624)
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DeChambeau (10,775)
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Harris English (10,386)
7-12: Justin Thomas (10,208); Collin Morikawa (9,744); Ben Griffin (8,605); Bradley (8,039); Maverick McNealy (7,414); Brian Harman (7,008)
What to watch: Bradley is playing some of the best golf of his life and must decide whether he wants to make himself the first playing captain since Arnold Palmer in 1963.
🇪🇺 Europe
Rory McIlroy has already made the team. The other 11 spots are still up for grabs, but some believe captain Luke Donald will pick almost exactly the same roster that dominated the Americans two years ago in Rome.
Top 6:
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McIlroy (3,441)
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Robert MacIntyre (1,345)
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Tommy Fleetwood (1,315)
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Tyrrell Hatton (1,279)
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Shane Lowry (1,234)
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Sepp Straka (1,227)
7-12: Rasmus Højgaard (1,135); Justin Rose (1,020); Ludvig Åberg (1,007); Viktor Hovland (930); Thomas Detry (780); Matt Wallace (753)
📊 By the numbers
⚾️ 220 games later
The Rockies beat the Cardinals, 6-0, on Wednesday for their first shutout in 220 games, snapping the longest streak without one in MLB’s modern era (since 1900). Their last shutout was an 8-0 victory over the Padres on May 15, 2024.
Signs of improvement: The Rockies have gone from historically atrocious (9-50 start to the season) to regular bad (17-26 since), and currently sit at 26-76. They’ll need to win at least 15 of their remaining 60 games to avoid breaking the modern MLB record for losses in a season (121).
⚽️ 120,000 viewers
MLS commissioner Don Garber revealed that Apple TV+’s MLS Season Pass is averaging 120,000 unique viewers per match. The good news: That’s a 50% increase over last year, per Garber. The bad news: That’s not a very big number. ESPN reportedly averaged 343,000 viewers for MLS matches during the 2022 season, the last in which the league aired games outside of Apple.
🏈 $432.6 million
The NFL’s 32 franchises each reportedly received a record $432.6 million in revenue sharing payouts over the last fiscal year. That’s up from roughly $400 million last season and means the total handed out was a whopping $13.8 billion.
📺 Watchlist: Thursday, July 24
🎾 DC Open | 11am ET, Tennis
On Tuesday, Venus Williams stunned world No. 35 Peyton Stearns for her first tour-level singles victory since 2023. Today, the 45-year-old will face an even stiffer test against No. 24 Magdalena Fręch in the Round of 16 (7:30pm). Plus: Grand slam champions Emma Raducanu and Naomi Osaka square off in the first women’s match of the day (1pm).
More to watch:
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🚴 Tour de France: Stage 18 (6am, Peacock) … 107 miles from Vif to Courchevel.
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🏀 WNBA: Aces at Fever (7pm, Prime) … Indiana will debut a “Stranger Things” inspired uniform in celebration of the Netflix series’ final season, coming out later this year.
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⛳️ PGA: 3M Open (7:45am, ESPN+; 4pm, Golf) … The penultimate event of the regular season tees off at TPC Twin Cities.
Today’s full slate →
⚾️ MLB trivia
42 years ago today, Royals legend George Brett unleashed one of baseball’s most memorable tirades after umpires overturned his ninth-inning home run and ruled him out for having too much pine tar on his bat, ending the game.
Question: Who were the Royals playing when the “Pine Tar Incident” occurred?
Answer at the bottom.
📸 Photo finish
Washington’s Jacob Young scaled the wall in Nationals Park on Wednesday to rob Cincinnati’s Will Benson of a two-run blast. It was Young’s third incredible home run robbery this season.
Trivia answer: Yankees
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