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WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 2017

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Jonquel Jones to start in All-Star game

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

onquel Jones continues to make Bahamian basketball history with each passing milestone.

The second-year forward was one of 10 players selected by fans, current players and a select media panel as a starter for the 2017 WNBA All-Star game presented by Verizon.

The lineups for the 14th edition of the WNBA midseason showcase were announced yesterday on ESPN’s SportsCenter: Coast to Coast. The All-Star reserves, who will be selected by the WNBA’s 12 head coaches, will be announced on Tuesday, July 18.

The WNBA All-Star game is scheduled for July 22 in the Key Arena, home of the Seattle Storm.

Grand Bahamian Jones is averaging 15.9 points, a league-leading 11.8 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in 29 minutes per game. The 6’6”, 190-pound forward is also shooting 54 per cent from the field

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and 48 per cent from Jasmine Thomas and three-point range.

Tiffany Hayes of the The fan vote acAtlanta Dream to counted for 50 per comprise the backcent of the vote to court. The frontcourt determine the startincludes a pair of forers while current playmer WNBA MVPs ers and a media panel Tina Charles of the accounted for 25 per New York Liberty and cent each. Fans cast Elena Delle Donne of 604,680 votes, more the Washington Mysthan double the numtics. ber in 2015 (280,670).

The Westerm ConVotes were tallied ference starters infor a net total and clude the Seattle JONQUEL JONES players were ranked by Storm’s Sue Bird and position (three frontthe Phoenix Mercury’s court, two backcourt) within their Diana Turasi in the backcourt with respective conferences by each of a frontcourt of Candace Parker of the three aforementioned groups. the Los Angeles Sparks and MinThe weighted scores were cal- nesota Lynx teammates Maya culated by averaging the weighted Moore and Sylvia Fowles. rank from the voters and the best Minnesota’s Cheryl Reeve will scorers were named starters. Jones serve as the West head coach and finished with a weighted score of New York’s Bill Laimbeer will 3.0 among Eastern Conference guide the East after the Lynx frontcourt players with the third and Liberty finished with the best most votes from each of the three regular-season records in their revoting groups. spective conferences in 2016.

Jones is joined in the starting As a rookie, Jones appeared in lineup by fellow Sun teammate 34 games with six starts and aver-

BUDDY HIELD STRUGGLES FROM BEYOND THE ARCH IN NBA SUMMER LEAGUE

aged 6.8 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.1 blocks in 14 minutes per game.

Prior to the season, a panel of WNBA general managers voted Jones as the player most likely to have a breakout year. Through 17 games she has shown vast improvements in her numbers across the board from her rookie season.

Jones opened this season primed for a breakout year and grabbed a then career-high 20 rebounds in the Sun’s 81-74 loss to the Atlanta Dream. Jones’ rebound total was the most by a Sun player since Charles grabbed 22 boards back in 2012. Jones finished with 19 points and 12 rebounds - both game highs - in the Sun’s 81-79 loss to the Indiana Fever the following weekend.

On May 28, she posted another historic performance when she went off for 23 points and 21 rebounds. She became just the third player in league history, joining Charles and Fowles, to have multiple 20-rebound games in the same season. At her current rebounding rate, Jones is on pace to surpass Charles’ total rebound record of 398, set in 2010.

Team Bahamas to face Mexico today TEAM Bahamas is all geared up and ready to compete today in their opening game of the CentroBasket Tournament in the British Virgin Islands.

The team, which left town on Monday, will be playing against five other teams for one of the three spots that will emerge out of the tournament for the FIBA Women’s AmericCup, scheduled for August 6-13 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Today, Team Bahamas is slated to play against Mexico. On Thursday, they will play Jamaica, followed

by the Virgin Islands on Friday, Puerto Rico on Saturday and Guatemala on Sunday.

Named to the team are Valerie Nesbitt, Philicia Kelly, Linda Pierre, Shalonda Neely, Samantha Gilbert, Tracy Lewis, Diasti Delancy, Joette Fernander, Pamela Bethel, Lashae Rolle and Taneil Poitier.

Yolett McPhee-McCuin is the head coach, assisted

by Donnie Culmer and Terrance ‘Red Eye’ McSweeney. Jurelle Nairn is the team manager and Sasha Ferguson the trainer.

PLAY BALL: Team Bahamas members can be seen during a practice session for the FIBA CentroBasket Tournament in the British Virgin Islands. At left is head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin.

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By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

BUDDY Hield struggled from beyond the arch in the first two games of the 2017 Las Vegas Summer League but the sharpshooting guard improved in his latest outing.

Hield scored 22 points, including 6-9 from threepoint range in the Kings’ 95-92 loss to the Loss Angeles Lakers at the Thomas and Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Monday night.

The Lakers led by as many as 28 before Hield sparked Sacramento’s late run which eventually fell short. They trailed 68-40 in the third quarter before going on a 39-9 run to take the lead with five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter.

He scored 16 points in the fourth quarter, including a stretch where he made three consecutive three pointers.

Through three games, Hield is averaging 16.7 points on 36 per cent shooting from the field with 3.7 rebounds per game.

He opened Summer League play with 16 points in an 89-85 loss to the Kings, but struggled from the field on 6-16 shooting and 0-6 from three point range. In game two, Hield scored 12 in an 81-75 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies. He shot 4-14 from the field but just 1-5 from three.

Winless thus far in league play, the Kings will have to wait to learn of their next opponent as they enter the Summer League tournament.

Hield leads a Summer League squad that includes fellow second-year players Skal Labissiere, Georgis Papagiannis and a starstudded rookie class featuring No.5 selection in this year’s draft: De’Aaron Fox, Justin Jackson, Harry Giles and Frank Mason III. He spoke on his role as a leader in Kings mini-camp.

“It’s my role now, it was a role for me since I was in college and I’m just trying to make that translate. I know we added some new vets to the team, but I’ll still take on a leadership role, even when they get here, trying to be the leader the young guys need me to be.

Somebody has to make a change and we’re trying to change the culture around here,” Hield said. “My goal is just to go out there and just be efficient and get better.”

After neck-breaking cycling accident, Farmer hits the road again

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net THREE months ago, Lee Farmer’s career was halted after he was knocked off his bike and left for dead during a practice session on the Frank Watson Highway. Over the weekend, he was back on the road competing again.

“I got my neck brace off about two weeks so and I started preparing for this,” said Farmer as he made his return to the local scene this past weekend in the Bahamas Cycling Federation’s National Cycling Championships around the western end of the island.

“I didn’t expect to do as well as I did because I didn’t feel I had the power back in my body, but I was quite pleased.”

Surprisingly, Farmer got second in the 16-mile time trials on Saturday as he finished behind teenager Liam Holowesko and he

also placed fifth in the gruelling 77-mile road race on Sunday in 3:27.46 as he came across the line in front of the Clifton Heritage Park in a pelaton with the top five competitors.

“I just trained pretty hard over the last two weeks,” said Farmer about his preparation in such a short time for the nationals.

“Once I got rid of the neck brace and the plaster on my hands and arms, I just went to work.

“I wasn’t as strong as I would have liked to be. I just kind of hung in there. But it was good to be back out there and competing with the boys again.”

The former national champion, who hails from New Zealand, said he thought his life was over after the accident.

“The people who came and saw me on the road literally thought that I was dead,” Farmer recalled.

“When I was on the side of the street, I didn’t realise how bad it

LEE FARMER was. Not until I got to the hospital and they told me that I had broken my neck in three places that I realised that I was in bad shape.”

All Farmer can remember from the incident was that a gentleman hit him from behind and he hit another car and it was “lights out.”

Farmer, however, said up to this day, he has no idea who hit him because the driver never stopped.

Bahamas Cycling Federation president Roy Colebrook said it

was a miracle that Farmer was back on the scene competing again. “That was a tremendous recovery,” Colebrook stated. “It just goes to show up the level of conditioning and the physical fitness that he had his body in. To do something like that was a significant feat. We watched as he was airlifted to the United States and to watch him come back and compete this weekend was remarkable.”

Farmer warned local motorists to pay more attention to the cyclists when they are on the road training and even competing.

“We’re flesh and bones. We’re not made out of steel,” he stressed.

“We can get crushed, so just give us a little more space. I was out there on the bike on my own training. It could have been worse. I’m just glad that I survived.”

Farmer thanked the Holowesko family and the BCF fraternity for the role they all played in his re-

covery.

He said he will forever be grateful. That was one of the reasons why he didn’t want to miss the nationals, once he was given a clean bill of health by his doctor.

Colebrook said safety has always been the hallmark for their sport.

“We are always encouraging the motoring public to take due care and attention, slow down and give the cyclists the opportunity to continue on,” he said. “We, in the cycling community, use all safety measures to try and prevent these types of accidents.

“But we want to encourage the motorists to share the road because we are licensed to be on the road too. These are persons who represent the country nationally.

So just give us a chance and be patient. Nassau is only twenty-one by seven, so give us an opportunity to accomplish that what we have to do in a safe manner.”

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NPSA All-Stars in Classic

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

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ome of the future players, led by versatile Valencia Gibson and Jeffery Gibson, took the spotlight on Saturday night as the New Providence Softball Association hosted its AllStar Classic.

And in a show of appreciation to their performances in the past, the league selected four former players and named the respective All-Star teams in their honour. The honourees - Neressa Seymour, Senator Jennifer Dotson, Leslie ‘Truck’ Johnson and Gary Wright were introduced in between the two games.

They also helped Bahamas Softball Federation’s president Ted Miller and former treasurer Ali Culmer present the championship rings from the 2016 season to the Johnson’s Lady Truckers and the C&S Hitmen.

League president Henry Dean said throughout the course of the rest of the season, they will honour a number of players and executives, including immediate past president Godfrey ‘Gully’ Burnside, for their contribution to the growth and development of the sport over the years.

While the Jennifer Dotson team, managed by Hyacinth Farrington, pulled off an 11-4 rout over the Neressa Seymour team, managed

by Stephen ‘Bishop’ Beneby, in the ladies’ opener, the Leslie Johnson’s All-Stars, managed by Hall of Fame pitcher Richard ‘the LionHeart’ Johnson, outlasted the Gary Wright All-Stars 12-5 in the late men’s feature contest.

Reminiscent of the old days when their two teams clashed in the battle of the titans, both Johnson and

Wright said they enjoyed the rivalry that they experienced back in the 1980-90s with the perennial kingpins Budweiser Eagles and TBird Flyers respectively.

“I had a lot of fun and I did a lot of winning too,” said Johnson, who started in 1972 and retired in the 90s. “I always liked to play ball and I started out taking plenty beating, but in the end I was a winner.”

During the time, Johnson helped the Eagles win 13 titles as he either caught for pitchers like Richard Johnson, Clifford ‘Butch’ Scavalla, Harold Whyte, Philip Skeets and Shad Rolle, or he played first base in the NPSA as well with the Heineken St Bernard’s in the Nassau Baseball Association against the St Pauli Girl Barons.

Wright got started in the coaching of Ali Culmer in 1979 and ended up in 2000 under Godfrey Burnside with the T-Bird Flyers. He noted that if it wasn’t for Budweiser, his T-Bird’s team would have easily won a couple more titles.

“They won 13 championships, but eight of nine of them came against our TBird team. That’s the difference between winning and losing,” said Wright, an outstanding outfielder. “The difference was so small, but the end product that was our one title didn’t count when you consider that we played them seven straight.

“That could have been us winning at least six or seven more titles, but they got the better of us. They were that much better than we were.”

And so were the respective All-Star teams.

Leslie Johnson All-Stars 12, Gary Wright All-Stars 5: BTC’s Jeffery Gibson, playing left field, was a perfect 2-for-2 with two RBI and two runs scored in securing the MVP for the

CHAMPIONS Johnson’s Lady Truckers pose after receiving their rings.

men’s encounter that finished early Sunday morning. Teran Wood was 2-for3 with two RBI and Olando McPhee was also 2-for-2 with a RBI and two runs scored to help the winners.

Rudy Fox was 2-for-3 with a RBI and two runs scored in a losing effort.

Eugene Pratt went the distance on the mound for the win and David Nathan suffered the loss in his start through the first four innings.

CHAMPIONS C&S Hitmen celebrate after receiving their rings.

Photos: Shawn Hanna/Tribune Staff The Leslie Johnson stars with no earned runs in two and a run scored in the win. came up with three runs innings to secure the win The Dotson All-Stars in the second, five in the on the mound in the ladies’ scored one run in the first, third, three in the fourth opener. three in the second, one in and one in the fifth. The Gibson also left her mark the third, one in the fourth, Gary Wright stars were on the offensive attack as four in the fifth and another held to just one run in the she went 3-for-4 with a in the seventh to seal the first, two in the second, on double, two runs batted in deal. The Seymour Allin the third and another in (RBI) and as many runs Stars could only muster on the fifth. scored to walk away with run in the first, two in the the MVP award. second and their last one in Jennifer Dotson AllMia Turner was 2-for-4 the seventh.

Stars 11, Neressa Seymour with two RBI, Sophia CartDenisha Woodside went All-Stars 4: Valencia Gib- wright 3-for-5 with a RBI 1-for-3 and Sheena Taylor son, in performing double and a run scored and Sari was 1-for-2 in a losing efduties, spun a four-hitter Albury 2-for-5 with a RBI fort.

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Bahamian coaches, referees ‘can operate at every level of basketball’

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

THE 2017 Basketball Without Borders Americas Camp was a tremendous benefit to the participants on the court, but the NBA and FIBA were also intent on the development of the local game as well.

In addition to the four days of tutelage for the six student-athletes, the event also featured clinics for local coaches and referees at the conclusion of each day’s session.

Junior national team head coach Quentin Hall said it was an eye-opening experience for the local coaches who were afforded the opportunity to participate. “They didn’t go over that much because we had limited time but basically we got to see people at a pretty high level do a lot of the same things that we do and that we teach here so it just helps us to reinforce what we are doing and work even harder to develop our players.”

Current NBA assistant coaches James Borrego (San Antonio Spurs), Jim Boylan (Cleveland Cavaliers), Darvin Ham (Atlanta Hawks) and David Vanterpool (Portland Trail Blazers) served as BWB Americas coaches. Patrick Hunt (President of the World Association of Basketball Coaches; Australia) and Ronald Cass (FIBA Coach) were camp directors for the boys and girls, respectively.

Said Nigel Ingraham, a member of the national team coaching staff: “It helps the federation because the coaches came out to get pointers on both sides of the ball. What we have to do to move basketball in this country is ban zone play for under-16. You

BAHAMIAN coaches at this year’s Basketball Without Borders Americas Camp. INSET: Christian Wilmore (centre with international coaches) is the youngest ever and first Bahamian to officiate a FIBA world championship. just can’t learn the game of basketball playing zone,” he said.

“I think the whole structure needs to focus on the vision for these kids, come together and put it together.

All we are lacking is unity with coaches to see where we are weak and where we can be stronger to push these kids together for the future.”

A staff of Bahamian officials refereed each game of the camp. The referee clinics were conducted by Bernie Fryer, current vice president and director of officials for the NBA. Fryer was a player in the NBA and ABA before serving as a referee from 1978-2007.

Christian Wilmore is the youngest ever and first Bahamian to officiate a FIBA world championship and has officiated two world championships in three years on the circuit.

He said the inclusion of the referees’ clinic will con-

tinue to pay dividends.

“It’s a vote of confidence in us and it means a lot to me because we have been doing a lot to improve officiating in the Bahamas and I think the word is getting around. We have Summer of Thunder every year with top teams and we have an opportunity to officiate those games and I think we have referees in the Bahamas that can operate at every level of basketball,” he said.

“For us we are happy to have the opportunity to work with the NBA so we can learn and improve. We watched film, like players do, to work on court positioning, the basics of refereeing, talked about areas that we improve and things that they look for if you aspire to climb the ranks in officiating, so it was definitely a beneficial experience.”

Wilmore has refereed in Russia at the FIBA Un-

der-19 World Cup for Women. In 2012, he became the second-youngest official in the history of FIBA. He was the youngest to ever do so in the Western Hemisphere, at the age of 18. Since becoming an international referee, Wilmore has travelled extensively. His first international tournament took him to Uruguay in the summer of 2013 for a World Cup qualifier.

In June of 2014, Wilmore became the youngest person to ever officiate a FIBA World Cup when he travelled to the Czech Republic for the Under-17 FIBA World Cup for Women.

“I think they [the Bahamian players] get to see the work ethic of players that play at a high level and they get to see basketball at a different approach. They also see the difference and importance of conditioning, nutritioning and dieting, some things we don’t

focus on in the Bahamas.

If you want to really be successful, you’re not competing with these schools in your divisions, but you’re competing against players from all over the world with the same dreams so it takes a tremendous amount of effort to get to where you want to go with the game,” Wilmore said.

Kimberly Bohuny, NBA senior vice president of International Basketball Operations, said it was important for the organisation to make a local impact.

“For one, we have the referee clinic. We have one or two young talented officials here who Bernie Fryer (who ran the clinic) had a chance to see. We had 50 coaches at the coaches’ clinic, and everyone walked away very happy with what they had learned at the camp. You have to ‘train the trainers’ because they are the ones to help develop the game here,” she said.

SPORTS NOTES TRACK IAAF WORLD U-18 CHAMPIONSHIPS THE Bahamas’ eightmember team at the IAAF World Under-28 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya will begin competition today.

Joel Johnson will run out of lane seven in the first of five heats and Adrian Curry will be in lane eight in the fourth heat.

The first four in each heat and the next four fastest times will advance to the semi-final.

Doneisha Anderson and Wendira Moss will follow in the women’s 400m preliminaries. Anderson will run out of lane two in the first of four heats and Moss will be in lane four in the second heat.

The first three in each heat and the next four fastest times will advance to the semi-final.

Correy Sherrod and Tyrell Simms will close out the first session in the men’s 400m preliminaries. Sherrod will run out of lane four in the first of five heats with Simms in lane two in the fifth heat.

The first four in each heat and the next four fastest finishers will advance to the semi-final.

In the afternoon session, the semi-final and final of the men’s 100m will take place. The meet will wrap up on Sunday, July 16.

TENNIS BAIN/LAJAL WIN OPENER BAHAMIN junior tennis player Jacobi Bain and doubles partner Mark Lajal (EST) won their first round boys’ under-14 doubles match today against Australian pair Casey Hoole and Edward.

Bain and Lajal are seeded No.4 and advanced to the round of 16 in the boys’ under-14 doubles.

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LUCIUS FOX SHINES IN THE MIDSEASON ALL-STAR CLASSIC

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

LUCIUS Fox was featured in the annual showcase of Major League Baseball’s top minor league prospects during the midseason All-Star Classic.

Fox drove in one RBI, but his Futures World team fell one run short in their rally in 7-6 loss to team USA at the 2017 SiriusXM All-Star

Futures Game, hosted Sunday afternoon at Marlins Park in Miami, Florida.

He entered the game in the bottom of the fifth inning and the sixth inning, ground out to third baseman Bryan Reynolds to score Franciso Mejia.

Fox is currently ranked as the No.14 prospect in the Tampa Bay Rays organisation. Brent Honeywell, the Rays No.2 became the first pitcher to earn Futures

Applicants should possess the following qualifications:

Game MVP honours and the Larry Doby trophy.

The US team built a 7-0 lead before team World began to mount a comeback with a four-run outburst between the fifth and seventh innings.

Fox discussed his future with Brett Phillips of draysbay.com and gave a timeline for when he expects to make his break into the Major Leagues.

“Two years,” he said.

Fox was traded to the Rays along with Matt Duffy and Michael Santos in the deal which sent left-handed pitcher Matt Moore to the San Francisco Giants. He was limited to just a single game in the Instructional League with the Rays before he was sidelined with a foot injury.

“Moving from the Giants to the Rays the coaches were just like one...I dunno,

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During ting a careera six-game hit best .279 and streak, he hit ranks third in his first home LUCIUS FOX the Midwest run of the seaLeague with 26 son on May 13. stolen bases. He also ranks Fox has increased his second on the team with 42 productivity since the calruns scored, collected 26 endar flipped to May and RBI and sports an impres- over the course of the last sive .361 OBP and a .718 two months has hit .300 OPS. with two home runs and 10 He began the season 1-14 stolen bases in 21 games. at the plate with nine strikeFox is competing in Sinouts through four games. gle A ball for the second He responded by record- consecutive season in the ing hits in five of the next Midwest League’s East-

ern Division. He made his much-anticipated pro debut last season for the Giants with the Augusta GreenJackets of the South Atlantic Class A League. In 75 games, Fox hit .207 with 46 runs scored, 25 stolen bases, slugging .277, an on-base percentage of .305, an OPS of .582, two home runs, four triples and six doubles.

Since 1999, the Futures Game has served as a showcase for the top minor league prospects during the league’s midseason classic, framed in a “USA” vs “The World” format.

Former Marlins World Series hero Edgar Renteria managed the World Team roster. Their roster featured 12 of MLBPipeline.com’s Top 100 prospects on the squad. A dozen countries and territories outside the United States were represented.

By RONALD BLUM Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — A new-look AllStar Game ended with an old-time score. Robinson Cano homered off Cubs closer Wade Davis leading off the 10th inning and the American League beat the National League 2-1 last night in an All-Star Game dominated by this era’s flame-throwers, rather than its standout sluggers.

Craig Kimbrel wiggled out of a jam in the ninth and right fielder Justin Upton made a lunging catch in the 10th to help the AL win its fifth in a row. And for the first time since 1964, the rivalry is all even — 43 wins apiece with two ties, and each side has scored exactly 361 runs.

Miguel Sano put the AL ahead in the fifth with a bloop RBI single off Alex Wood. Yadier Molina tied it in the sixth with a home run against Ervin Santana.

Molina had just entered behind the plate in the top half and snapped off an All-Star first — Nelson Cruz pulled a phone out of his uniform pants and asked the catcher to snap a photo of him with umpire Joe West.

Davis wasn’t with the Cubs last fall

AMERICAN League’s Seattle Mariners Robinson Cano (22), rounds the bases last night after hitting a homerun in the 10th inning of the MLB All-Star Game.

(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) when they won the World Series for the first time in 108 years. He was acquired in a trade from Kansas City to fortify the bullpen, and was the only Cubs player in this showcase. Chicago has struggled this season, going into the break at 43-45.

Cano, the game’s MVP, sent a hanging curve off the back wall of the rightfield bullpen, then blew a bubble with

his gum when rounding the bases.

Cano’s homer came exactly 50 years after the previous All-Star Game to end 2-1 in extra innings, when Tony Perez hit a tiebreaking 15th-inning homer off Catfish Hunter in the NL’s 2-1 win at Anaheim, California. Perez, now a Marlins executive, was among eight Latin-born Hall of Famers who threw out ceremonial first pitches.

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Mayweather-McGregor set for T-Mobile after deal with Big3

By BRIAN MAHONEY Associated Press

BIG FIGHT ALL SET FOR AUGUST 26

FLOYD Mayweather’s boxing match against Conor McGregor will be held at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas after promoters reached an agreement with Ice Cube to move the championship game of his Big3 basketball league.

The final game of the 3-on-3 season of former NBA players will now be held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on August 26, with a 4:30pm Eastern start. The bout is at night.

The Big3 said yesterday it reached a financial and promotional deal with MGM Resorts, Mayweather Promotions and UFC. Terms weren’t disclosed, with the rapper-actor and Big3 co-founder Jeff Kwatinetz simply calling it a

CONOR McGregor speaks during a UFC 202 mixed martial arts news conference, in Las Vegas. At right, in a January 28, 2017, file photo, boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr attends a fight in Las Vegas. (AP) “generous offer that we could not refuse.”

“We are happy we could work together to create an opportunity for our fans to experience both events, making August 26 the

most exciting day in sports and entertainment Las Vegas has ever seen,” they said in a statement.

Mayweather and McGregor are set to begin a four-city tour this week to promote the fight.

Mayweather will be returning from retirement to face the Irish mixed martial arts star and UFC President Dana White had said the match would be held at T-Mobile, the largest venue in Las Vegas. But the arena had continued to list the basketball game on its schedule of events.

Opened in 2016, T-Mobile Arena lists a capacity of 20,000 for boxing, about 3,000 more seats than the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The game will be shown live on Fox. Games have been taped and shown a day later on Fox Sports 1 on Monday nights during the season. The Big3 says those who have purchased tickets will earn priority seating for the MGM Grand Garden Arena event, with additional ticket information to be announced in the coming days.

BRITISH OLYMPIC RELAY TEAM GETS MEDALS 9 YEARS AFTER RACE

By ROB HARRIS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — They stepped on the podium.

The medals were presented. Nine years too late, and in London rather than Beijing for Britain’s 4x400metre relay team from the 2008 Olympics.

Michael Bingham, Martyn Rooney, Andrew Steele and Robert Tobin on Sunday finally had the medal ceremony they were denied in China after being cheated out of bronze at the time by a doping Russian runner.

The Britons were upgraded to bronze after retests of doping samples last year from the Beijing Olympics showed that Denis Alexeev, who helped Russia’s relay team finish third in Beijing, had used an anabolic steroid.

Rather than the medals just being sent in the mail to the British quartet, they

GREAT Britain’s 4x400 metre relay team from the 2008 Olympics, from left, Martyn Rooney, Michael Bingham, Robert Tobin and Andrew Steele celebrate after upgrading to third place and receiving a bronze medal during the London Anniversary Games at London Stadium Sunday.

(Paul Harding/PA via AP) received them at a ceremony during the London leg of the Diamond League at the main stadium from the 2012 Olympics.

“It’s definitely surreal but an amazing opportunity none the less and a real privilege to get it in such a stadium and such a crowd,”

KITTEL WINS TOUR STAGE 10, FROOME KEEPS RACE LEAD

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN AND JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press BERGERAC, France (AP) — Marcel Kittel has no serious challenger for the King of the Sprint title at this year’s Tour de France.

The German sprinter won the 10th stage with remarkable ease yesterday, while Chris Froome stayed safely in the main pack to retain the race leader’s yellow jersey.

Kittel perfectly timed his effort in the final straight to post his fourth stage win since the start of the race, crossing the line ahead of fellow German John Degenkolb.

The stage took the peloton on a flat, 178-kilometre (111-mile) run from Perigueux to Bergerac in southwestern France.

Froome, the three-time Tour champion, will be wearing the yellow jersey for the 50th time today joining five-time Tour winner Jacques Anquetil in fourth place on the all-time list behind Eddy Merckx (96), Bernard Hinault (75), and Miguel Indurain (60).

“A huge, huge honour,” the British rider said of the 50 days in yellow.

Kittel was in 10th place after negotiating the two sharp corners of a challenging final kilometre, before turning on the power to surge ahead of his rivals with 150 metres left and securing his 13th career win on the Tour.

He won by a bike’s length and had plenty of time to raise his arms in celebration before crossing the line.

Kittel said his confidence is high after his string of victories.

“I know now from the last sprints that I can hold that speed to the finish line,” he said. “I almost cannot believe what’s happening here at the Tour.”

Dutch rider Dylan Groenewegen completed the podium in the medieval town.

With Mark Cavendish,

GERMANY’S MARCEL KITTEL, wearing the best sprinter’s green jersey, celebrates as he crosses the finish line yesterday to win the 10th stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 178 kilometres (110.6 miles) with start in Perigueux and finish in Bergerac, France.

(AP Photo/Christophe Ena) Peter Sagan and Arnaud Demare out of the race, Kittel strengthened his grip on the best sprinter’s green jersey. French sprinter Nacer Bouhanni, who had to settle for a sixth-place finish, acknowledged Kittel’s superiority.

“Kittel was the strongest, he came from behind,” Bouhanni said. “He won four sprints out of five, he is the best sprinter of this Tour.”

After a plane journey across France and a rest day, the race resumed in Perigueux for a flat ride through the lush landscapes of the Dordogne province in southwestern France.

Following a hectic stage in the Jura on Sunday and with two hard stages in the Pyrenees mountains later this week, Froome and his main rivals were happy to let two French riders with no ambitions for the overall race lead escape from the pack.

Yoann Offredo went on his own immediately after the race director waved the flag to signal the start. He was joined soon afterward

by Elie Gesbert, the youngest rider in the peloton at 22 years old, and the pair quickly opened a gap.

Their lead stabilised at about five minutes as the peloton moved past the Lascaux cave, a prehistoric

World Heritage site featuring some superb hunting scenes. Second-place Fabio Aru was all smiles near Domme - a picturesque town perched on a breathtaking cliff above the Dordogne river - and shook hands with another rider at a pedestrian pace.

“We chatted, admired the countryside. It was very pleasant,” Warren Barguil said, summing up the day.

Toward the end, the sprinters’ teams organised the chase, reducing the deficit of the peloton to a little more than two minutes with 40 kilometres left. Offredo and Gesbert fought hard until the end, but were hampered by a strong headwind and were caught seven kilometres from the finish.

There was no major change in the overall standings, with Aru still trailing 18 seconds behind Froome and Frenchman Romain Bardet in third place, 51 seconds back.

Today’s stage is a flat and long 203.5-kilometre (126.5-mile) route from Eymet to Pau. It will be another day for the sprinters before a mountain marathon of more than 200 kilometres the next day.

Froome said Friday’s stage could be decisive and the next big battle between the contenders for overall victory.

Steele said. “Even though it’s nine years later I am really happy to receive it, it’s amazing.”

Steele received his med-

al from Craig Reedie, the Scotsman who is president of the World Anti-Doping Agency.

“I think we all felt like we should have had third,” Steele reflected on the Beijing Games. “We all had our own suspicions based on nothing really, but to actually get it is something I could not have expected.”

Even if they had been able to get on the Beijing podium, only the national anthem of gold medallists United States would have been played in the Bird’s Nest stadium. But “God Save the Queen” was played in London as thousands acclaimed the late medal recipients.

“This kind of shows that they (the IAAF) are putting a case forward for a clean sport,” Tobin said.

“They are making a celebration out of the fact that we competed clean and we’ve eventually received what we deserve.”

INDEPENDENT REVIEW CONFIRMS DECISION FOR HORN OVER PACQUIAO SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — An independent review of the scoring in Manny Pacquiao’s contentious WBO welterweight world title loss to Jeff Horn has confirmed the outcome in favour of the Australian former schoolteacher.

A Philippines government department asked the WBO to review the refereeing and the judging of the so-called “Battle of Brisbane” in Australia on July 2 after Horn, fighting for his first world title, won a unanimous points decision against Pacquiao, an 11time world champion.

In a statement late Monday, the WBO said three of the five independent judges who reviewed the bout awarded it to Horn, one awarded it to Pacquiao and one scored a draw.

WBO President Francisco Valcarcel asked the judges, who came from different countries and remained anonymous, to assign their own scores to rounds, saying the results would be tabulated to ascertain which rounds each fighter won using an average scale based on 100, 80 and 60 per cent.

Based on the analysis, the WBO said Pacquiao won the 3rd, 8th and 9th round by 100 per cent, the 5th round by 80 per cent and the 11th by 60 per cent.

Horn was given the 1st, 6th and 12th rounds by 100 per cent, the 2nd, 4th and 7th by 80 per cent and the 10th by 60 per cent.

“From the results, it can be established that Pacquiao won 5 rounds while Horn won 7 rounds,” the WBO statement said.

A further step of combining the independent judge’s scores for each round with the bout judge’s scores for each round also confirmed a win for Horn, the WBO said.

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Venus advances to 10th Wimbledon semi-final, Konta next

By HOWARD FENDRICH Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Venus Williams’ mother could not stop smiling and laughing. She had just watched her 37-year-old daughter reach the Wimbledon semi-finals for the 10th time and, well, the whole thing was just a bit hard to believe.

“She says, ‘I love my job!’ and she means it. I guess she’s kind of like a boxer: People think it’s time for her to quit because she’s too old,” Oracene Price said after leaving Centre Court, where the roof was shut because of rain yesterday. “But she keeps getting back in the ring — and she seems to be doing pretty well. This is really amazing.”

Enjoying a career renaissance deep into her 30s, despite dealing with an energy-sapping disease, Williams rode a strong serve that produced eight aces, imposing returns and her court coverage of old to a 6-3, 7-5 victory over French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, edging closer to a sixth singles title at the All England Club.

“The competition keeps you growing,” Williams said. “You have to get better if you want to stay relevant.”

Somehow, at age 37, she’s done that. This was her 100th Wimbledon match, coming in her 20th appearance. The first of her trophies at the grass-court tournament came in 2000. And now, for the third match in a row, Williams beat a player who was born in 1997 — after she made her Grand Slam debut that year.

“The first one was 20 years ago?

Lord,” Price said, her eyes wide, her chuckle loud. “Well, you know, that’s a long time.”

This is not exactly new, though.

Williams is the only woman to have made the fourth round at each of the past six majors, and now she’s into her third semi-final in that span. She made it that far at Wimbledon last year, too, before losing, and got to the final at the Australian Open in January, when she was beaten by her younger sister, Serena.

“Who knows if she’s lost a step?” said Williams’ coach, David Witt. “She looks pretty good to me.”

Williams revealed in 2011 that she was diagnosed with Sjogren’s syndrome, which can sap energy and cause joint pain. As time went on, there were questions about whether she might retire, especially after a half-dozen firstround losses at majors. But she

British woman in the Wimbledon semi-finals since Virginia Wade was the runner-up in 1978.

“I definitely feel that age is not a factor with her,” Konta said about Williams. “She’s just a tremendous champion, and I feel very, very humbled, and I’m very excited to share the court with her again.”

With Wade, the 1977 champion, sitting in the Royal Box, Konta prevented Halep from rising to No. 1 by beating her 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5), 6-4. The result means that Karolina Pliskova, who lost in the second round, will replace Angelique Kerber, who departed in the fourth, atop the rankings next week.

On the other side of the draw, 2015 Wimbledon runner-up and 2016 French Open champion Garbine Muguruza defeated two-time major champion Svetlana Kuznetsova 6-3, 6-4.

Muguruza saved all three break points she faced and did a good job of defending, focused more on keeping the ball in the court than going for winners.

“If she plays like she played today,” Kuznetsova said, “she has all the chances to win the title.”

Muguruza’s semi-final opponent will be 24th-seeded CoCo Vandeweghe of the US or Magda-

VENUS WILLIAMS returns to Jelena Ostapenko in their quarter-final match yesterday.

(AP Photo/Alastair Grant) kept going, and with her recent successes, a championship this week would return the American to the top five in the rankings for the first time in six years.

“I just always felt like I have to keep trying,” said Williams, who repeatedly took advantage of Ostapenko’s second serves at around 70 mph (110 kph). “That’s all I felt like.”

To get to what would be her ninth final at the All England Club, the 10th-seeded Williams will need to win Thursday against No. 6 Johanna Konta, the first

lena Rybarikova of Slovakia, who is ranked 87th and had never even been past the third round in her 35 previous career majors. Vandeweghe vs. Rybarikova was suspended by showers at 2-all in the second set, after Rybarikova took the opener 6-3, and was moved Court No. 1 to Centre Court so it could be finished indoors.

In the last men’s fourth-round match, Novak Djokovic took a medical timeout to have his right shoulder massaged, and he declared himself disappointed with the condition of the turf in the main stadium. Otherwise, Djokovic had little trouble eliminating 51st-ranked Adrian Mannarino of France 6-2, 7-6 (5), 6-4 in a match postponed Monday night because of darkness.

“It’s been something that I’ve been dragging back and forth for a while now,” Djokovic said about his shoulder. “But I’m still managing to play, which is the most important thing.”

The men’s quarter-finals today: Djokovic against Tomas Berdych, Roger Federer against Milos Raonic, defending champion Andy Murray against Sam Querrey, and Marin Cilic against Gilles Muller, who stunned Rafael Nadal in a marathon that ended 15-13 in the fifth set Monday.

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