Hot Sky get past Lynx
Courtney Vandersloot had 12 points, nine assists and seven rebounds to help the Sky beat the Minnesota Lynx 77- 63 on Saturday night at Wintrust Arena. Allie Quigley added 15 points and four steals for the Sky ( 7- 12), who snapped a three- game skid.
Quigley and Cheyenne Parker made back- to- back layups and Vandersloot hit a three- pointer to make it 49- 42 with six minutes left in the third quarter, and the Sky led the rest of the way.
Maya Moore led the Lynx ( 11- 8) with 16 points, and Seimone Augustus scored 11. The Lynx made just 5 of 18 three- pointers, while the Sky hit 9 of 17.
Guard Devin Booker signed a five- year, $ 158 million max contract with the Suns. The 13th overall pick in the 2016 draft, Booker has averaged 19.8 points in his three NBA seasons. He averaged 24.9 points last season, Former UCLA basketball player Tyler
Honeycutt, a second- round pick of the Kings in 2011, reportedly shot himself after a standoff with police in Los Angeles. He was 27.
Fire fall in Vancouver
The Fire’s five- match unbeaten streak ended with a 3- 2 loss to the host Vancouver Whitecaps. Nemanja Nikolic scored his eighth goal of the season in the 42nd minute to tie the score at 1- 1. Tony Tchani scored in the 81st minute to narrow the deficit to one goal for the Fire ( 6- 8- 5).
Top seed Halep falls
For the first time in Wimbledon history, none of the top five women’s seeds reached the round of 16. Top- ranked and top- seeded Simona Halep became the latest big name to fall, losing 3- 6, 6- 4, 7- 5 to Hsieh Su- Wei. “I just was too negative to myself, talking too much. I think because I was tired, because I’m tired, I couldn’t stay focused for every ball,” said Halep, who just won her first Grand Slam title at the French Open. “Mentally, I was tired. Also physically, I feel tired.” Of the 16 remaining women, only Serena Williams, Angelique Kerber and Jelena Ostapenko have won Grand Slam titles. On the men’s side, 138th- ranked Ernests Gulbis stunned No. 4 seed Alexander Zverev 7- 6 ( 2), 4- 6, 7- 5, 6- 3, 6- 0. No. 2 seed Rafael Nadal defeated Alex de Minaur 6- 1, 6- 2, 6- 4.
Jones notches first victory
Erik Jones won a crash- filled NASCAR Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway, passing defending series champion Martin Truex Jr. on the final lap for his first- ever victory. Last year’s race winner,
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., had the most memorable run. He started two early accidents that wrecked more than half the field and was part of two more cautions late.
First- time rider Fernando Gaviria of Colombia won the 125- mile first stage of the Tour de France. He is the first rider to win the opening stage in his debut since Fabian
Cancellara in 2004. Harold Varner and Kelly Kraft share the lead ( 14- under 196) after three rounds of A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.
The Vegas Golden Knights signed defenseman Colin Miller to a four- year contract with an average salary of $ 3.87 million.