Sports shorts Woods’ charge, Koepka’s win drive strong PGA ratings Tennis

The charge by Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship and the twoshot victory by Brooks Koepka drew the highest final-round coverage for the major in nine years.

CBS Sports said Monday that Sunday’s round at Bellerive drew a rating of 6.1 and share of 14 up 69 percent from last year.

The top viewership market was St. Louis (11.5/24), site of the year’s last major. Fort Myers, Florida, was next, followed by Kansas City, Missouri; Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida; Dayton, Ohio; and West Palm Beach, Florida.

Ratings represent the percentage of all homes with televisions tuned to a program. Shares represent the percentage of all homes with TVs in use at the time.

Woods won the most recent of his 14 major championships at the 2008 U.S. Open. The following year, he lost a 54-hole lead in a major for the first time when Y.E. Yang beat him at the PGA Championship.

Minnesota Lynx star Lindsay Whalen will retire after the WNBA season, ending her stellar 15-year career.

Whalen led the Lynx to four WNBA championships and appeared in six All-Star games.

Whalen has been balancing a new job that begins this fall as the head coach at her alma mater Minnesota. The Lynx won WNBA titles in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.

Whalen was the first player in WNBA history with 5,000 points, 2,000 assists and 1,500 rebounds.

Whalen started her professional career with the Connecticut Sun before being acquired by the Lynx in 2010. With 322 victories and counting, no player in league history has won more games.

She ranks third on the WNBA’s all-time assists list, trailing only Sue Bird and Ticha Penicheiro.

She holds the singleseason franchise record for assists (199 in 2011) and the franchise mark for most assists in a single game (14 vs. Los Angeles on Sept. 4, 2013).

The 36-year-old is also a two-time Olympic gold medalist who has appeared in the league finals eight times.

The Lynx (17-14) have clinched a spot in the playoffs, which begin Aug. 21.

Serena Williams bounced back from the most lopsided loss of her career, cruising past Darla Gavrilova, 6-1, 6-2, at the Western & Southern Open on Monday.

Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam winner and a former champion in Cincinnati, needed just 65 minutes to dispatch Gavrilova. She’ll face eighth-seeded Petra Kvitova in Tuesday’s second round.

Williams lost to Johanna Konta, 6-1, 6-0, in San Jose, California, before withdrawing from last week’s Rogers Cup in Montreal.

Earlier, Andy Murray lost to Lucas Pouille, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4.

Top-seeded Rafael Nadal dropped out Sunday night to prepare for the U.S. Open after winning his fifth title of the year in Toronto.

Murray had his best result since missing 11 months following hip surgery when he reached the quarterfinals in Washington two weeks ago. But he had a hard time adjusting to the Cincinnati courts.

Federer, seeded second, has won in Cincinnati a record seven times but hasn’t played here since winning in 2015. In 2016, he had a knee injury, and in 2017 he had back problems.

Carmelo Anthony signed a one-year, $2.4 million deal with the Rockets on Monday.

Anthony was traded from Oklahoma City to the Atlanta last month before the Hawks released him.

Anthony will get a fresh start in Houston after spending last season with the Thunder, with whom he averaged a career-low 16.2 points in 78 games. The third overall pick in the 2003 draft has averaged 24.1 points, 6.5 rebounds and 3 assists in a 15-year career that also included stints with the Nuggets and the Knicks.

The 6-foot-8 Anthony is a 10-time All-Star and has won three gold medals in the Olympics. He is USA Basketball’s all-time leading scorer and rebounder.

Anthony has averaged more than 20 points every year of his career except last season and led the NBA in scoring in 2012-13, when he averaged 28.7 points a game.