Forces pull off historic victories
First father-daughter nitro sweep
John and Brittany Force completed the first fatherdaughter nitro sweep in NHRA history Sunday in the Menards NHRA Nationals at Heartland Motorsports Park in Topeka, Kan.
John Force, 72, won his 154th overall crown. He beat J.R. Todd in the final round with a 4.019-second pass at 321.04 mph at in a Chevrolet Camaro SS.
“I had a good day,” Force said. “.. What was special was, to do it with Brittany. With [daughters] Courtney and Ashley, I never got the chance because they were always Funny Car, and usually beat me but with Brittany, I finally got that double-up.”
Brittany Force won in Top Fuel, edging Clay Millican with a 3.783 at 324.75 for her first victory of the season and 11th overall.
College football
Ohio State lineman Ryan Jacoby is transferring to Pitt, he announced Sunday night on social media. The 6-foot-4, 305-pounder entered the transfer portal last week. Jacoby will join the Panthers as a redshirt sophomore — with a super senior season available in 2024, if desired — and will at the very least provide depth this fall.
• Roger Harring, a College Football Hall of Fame coach who led Wisconsin-La Crosse to two NCAA Division III titles, died Thursday at his home in LaCrosse. He was 88.
Soccer
Barcelona’s veteran players are taking salary reductions to help the financially troubled club, Gerard Piqué said. Piqué said he already had accepted a reduction and teammates Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba and Sergi Roberto — all captains at the club — are expected to do the same soon. The Catalan club lost Lionel Messi because it couldn’t give him a new contract that would fit into the Spanish league’s strict financial fair play regulations.
Tennis
Top-seeded Daniil Medvedev of Russia won the National Bank Open in Toronto for his third victory of the year and 12th overall, beating 6-foot-11 American qualifier Reilly Opelka, 6-4, 6-3.
• Camila Giorgi completed a stunning run at the National Bank Open Montreal, beating Wimbledon finalist Karolina Pliskova, 6-3, 7-5, to win the title in her first WTA 1000 final.
• Saying that it “really hurts to see all the devastation,” Naomi Osaka promised to donate her earnings from the U.S. Open warm-up tournament this week in Mason, Ohio, to help earthquake relief efforts in Haiti, her father’s home country.
Women’s basketball
Kahleah Copper scored 19 points, Allie Quigley hit five 3-pointers and finished with 17 and the host Chicago Sky beat the Seattle Storm, 87-85, in overtime in WNBA action.
Baseball
The Washington Wild Things had 16 hits and edged the visiting Florence Yalls, 6-5, in the Frontier League. Hector Roa went 3 for 3 with 2 RBIs for Washington.