Gerry Weber Open:
Andy Murray, Stan Wawrinka and Milos Raonic, the top three seeds, were all upset Tuesday in the first round at Queen’s in London. Top-ranked Murray lost 7-6 (4), 6-2 to 90th-ranked Jordan Thompson, who found out he was competing only on the morning of the match.
Second-seeded Wawrinka was beaten by Feliciano Lopez 7-6 (5), 7-5, and No. 3 seed Raonic fell 7-6 (5), 7-6 (8) to No. 698-ranked Thanasi Kokkinakis, who was playing only his sixth singles match since November 2015 because of injuries. Roger Federer beat Yuichi Sugita 6-3, 6-1 in the opening round in Halle, Germany.
Fifthseeded Garbine Muguruza escaped Russian qualifier Elzaveta Kulichkova 6-3, 3-6, 6-4 in the first round in Birmingham, England.
Aegon Classic:
Pro Football Hall of Famer Warren Sapp announced Tuesday he plans to donate his brain to the Concussion Legacy Foundation when he dies.
Sapp, 44, who said he has had memory loss in recent years, blames “the banging we did as football players,” and says he is donating his brain to research because “I want this game to be better when I left than when I got into it.”
Sapp, who said he has resorted to using reminders on his cellphone to keep up with day-to-day tasks, made the announcement on a video posted on The Players’ Tribune.
Sapp said: “Last month, Nick Buoniconti became the latest in a long line of former NFL players to reveal that he’s been suffering from the lasting effects of the hits he took during his playing career.
“For those of you who don’t know Nick, he’s a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He was a bad man in his day, too. He was a co-captain of those Dolphins teams that went to three straight Super Bowls and he was part of Miami’s undefeated ’72 team.
“Over the last few years, Nick has been suffering. He’s started falling down a lot. He has trouble doing things as simple as putting on a T-shirt, and he can’t even remember how to tie a tie. His brain — and his body — are starting to fail him. And even though he’s 76 years old, it’s hard not to think that all the hits to the head he took in his 14 years in the NFL aren’t contributing to his decline — especially knowing that CTE was present in 91 of the first 95 brains of former NFL players studied by researchers collaborating with the Concussion Legacy Foundation.”
Sapp said an email he received from former NFL running back Fred Willis led to his decision. The email had quotes from NFL owners saying there was no correlation between football, CTE and suicides.
“I mean, where are you getting this information from and then spewing it out as if it were fact?” said Sapp, who retired in 2008 after nine seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and four with the Oakland Raiders.
Signed former Bears wide receiver Marquess Wilson, adding depth to an inexperienced receiving corps.
Eric Decker and Brandon Marshall were cut this offseason in cost-saving moves, leaving Quincy Enunwa as the Jets’ No. 1 receiver in front of several inexperienced players such as Robby Anderson and Charone Peake.
Wilson was a seventh-round draft pick of the Bears out of Washington State in 2013.
Jets:
With the Bears, Wilson had 56 catches for 777 yards and three touchdowns. He played in only three games last season because he broke his left foot. Wilson’s best season was 2015, when he caught 28 passes for 464 yards and a TD.
Defensive tackle Khyri Thornton has been suspended for the first six games of the 2017 season for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy. The 6-foot-3, 315-pound Thornton played in 19 games the previous two seasons with the Lions, starting six games last season. He seemed to be headed for a backup role this season behind Haloti Ngata and A’Shawn Robinson.
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