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NASCAR headed to San Diego's Coronado Naval Base in 2026 - Racer
NASCAR will race on the Coronado Naval Base in San Diego in the summer of 2026, according to concepts of the event plan to be announced this week.
Wednesday is expected to be the day it’ll be officially announced to the public.
The event will fit into the schedule in a space vacated by Chicago, which confirmed last week it will not return to the 2026 schedule after three years of running a street course near Grant Park.
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Padres jump on Nationals early, cruise to series-clinching victory - San Diego Union-Tribune
Bogaerts’ grand slam in the first inning got the Padres on their way Sunday, as they sent nine batters to the plate and made Nationals starter MacKenzie Gore, fresh off his first All-Star game, throw 37 pitches.
Another run in the second on a two-out walk by Manny Machado, single by Bogaerts and single by Gavin Sheets made it 6-0, as Gore threw 31 more pitches.
Jackson Rutledge was warming up as the third inning began.
Cronenworth’s second double of the game greeted Gore, and Elias Díaz’s two-run homer made it 8-0 and ended Gore’s day.
Golf
Scottie Scheffler wins Open Championship for third leg of career Grand Slam - ESPN
Scheffler had all the time in the world to celebrate his latest major title, carding a 68 on Sunday to cruise to a four-stroke victory in the Open Championship at Royal Portrush.
The outcome was never in doubt Sunday, as golf's No. 1 player finished at 17-under 267, delivering yet another dominant performance to win his second major this year and grab the third leg of the career Grand Slam.
Scottie Scheffler’s Revealing—and Relieving—Open Championship Win - The Ringer
Those of us who cover pro golf acknowledge a dichotomy: With some players, it feels like they are truly dimensional—with interests and pursuits and opinions and emotions that supersede their performances between the ropes—while with others, it can feel like their public personalities revolve almost entirely around launch angles and swing speed metrics. Until this week, it wasn’t entirely clear which side of that divide Scheffler fell on.
That changed, and then some, on Tuesday when Scheffler took the occasion of a routine pretournament press conference to go into a startlingly and even uncomfortably honest monologue about … the meaning of life? Or at least the meaning of golf, which is a somewhat interchangeable concept for a shoo-in future Hall of Famer who’s in the early bloom of a seemingly limitless athletic prime.
U.S. Captain Keegan Bradley said Bryson DeChambeau will make Ryder Cup team regardless of qualifying - Yahoo Sports
U.S. captain Keegan Bradley texted Sports Illustrated’s Bob Harig after the British Open on Sunday and confirmed that, even if DeChambeau falls out of the top six in the Ryder Cup standings, he’d use a captain’s pick on him to ensure that DeChambeau gets to compete with the Americans at Bethpage Black.
Odds & Ends
Trump calls for Commanders to use original nickname, threatens stadium deal - The Athletic
President Donald Trump wants the NFL’s Washington Commanders and MLB’s Cleveland Guardians to revert to their previous team names.
“The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their name back to the Washington Redskins Football Team. There is a big clamoring for this,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday. “Likewise, the Cleveland Indians, one of the six original baseball teams, with a storied past. Our great Indian people, in massive numbers, want this to happen. Their heritage and prestige is systematically being taken away from them.”
Trump also told the team owners to “GET IT DONE!!!”
Later, Trump posted that if Washington did not change its name back to Redskins, “I won’t make a deal for them to build a stadium in Washington. The Team would be much more valuable, and the Deal would be exciting for everyone.”
Over-the-Line team wins another Open Division title; ‘they’re some of the best to ever play the game’ - San Diego Union-Tribune
The tournament is best known for its bawdy behavior on the opening weekend: the risqué team names, Miss Emerson contest and adult party scene. (Years ago, ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” offered to telecast the tournament if OMBAC would nix the raunchy names. OMBAC declined.)
But to the hardcore, talented players, the second weekend is the show, when championships are won and rings earned.
NFLPA chief officer JC Tretter to resign amid union overhaul - ESPN
NFLPA chief strategy officer JC Tretter is resigning from his position and has withdrawn himself from consideration for the NFLPA's interim executive director position.
"Over the last couple days, it has gotten very, very hard for my family. And that's something I can't deal with," Tretter told CBS Sports on Sunday. "So, the short bullet points are: I have no interest in being [executive director]. I have no interest in being considered. I've let the executive committee know that. I'm also going to leave the NFLPA in the coming days because I don't have anything left to give the organization."
Tretter, 34, had been in the role since October 2024. He was the player president from 2020 to 2024 and reportedly was a candidate to serve as the interim executive director after Lloyd Howell's resignation last Thursday night.
Several former NFL players reacted to Tretter's candidacy with public criticism on social media.
Journalism is returning to Del Mar; now let’s see if he runs - San Diego Union-Tribune
The winner of the Preakness and Saturday’s Haskell Stakes will fly west from Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., on Tuesday and spend at least the next month at the seaside before a decision is made on the 3-year-old’s next race.
And that race could be the $1 million Pacific Classic at Del Mar. Or the Travers at Saratoga.
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