Dutch rider gets Tour win
Dutch rider Dylan Groenewegen beat favorites Fernando Gaviria and Peter Sagan in a sprint to win the longest stage of the Tour de France on Friday.
Four-time champion Chris Froome and the other favorites finished safely in the main pack on Stage 7, which – unlike earlier sprinting legs – was without serious crashes.
Greg Van Avermaet held on to the yellow jersey he grabbed on Stage 3 and doubled his lead over Geraint Thomas to six seconds by winning an intermediate bonus sprint.
Gaviria and Sagan have each won two stages in this year’s Tour and were marking each other when Groenewegen surprised both and surged ahead on the final straight.
NBA
Len Chappell, one of the original Milwaukee Bucks, died Thursday at the age of 77 in Winston Salem, N.C. No cause of death was announced.
The 6-foot-8 Chappell played with the Bucks from 1968-’70. He averaged 11.5 points while with the Bucks.
Chappell led Wake Forest to two Atlantic Coast Conference tournament titles and the school’s only Final Four trip in 1962. He was the school’s first consensus all-American. He was also named ACC player of the year in 1961 and 1962.
Chappell was the No. 4 pick in the 1962 NBA draft and played nine seasons in the league, scoring more than 5,600 points.
NFL
Running back DeMarco Murray is retiring from the NFL. The 2014 Offensive Player of the Year made the announcement four months after being released by the Tennessee Titans.
Murray, 30, lost his job to Derrick Henry last season and was due to make $6.25 million in 2018 when the Titans let him go.
Packers: Green Bay claimed guard Ethan Cooper off waivers from the New York Giants and released tackle Kyle Meadows. The 6-2, 322-pound Cooper was on the Giants practice squad in 2017.
Meadows had signed with Green Bay as an undrafted free agent on May 4.
AUTO RACING
Martin Truex claimed the pole for the Quaker State 400 Saturday night in Sparta, Ky.
Truex secured his first Kentucky pole by clocking 188.890 mph in his No. 78 Toyota. Erik Jones (188.739) will start second.
Eau Claire’s Paul Menard will start sixth and Matt Kenseth of Cambridge, Wis., will start 17th.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
The University of Louisville is removing Papa John’s from its football stadium’s name after a report the pizza chain’s founder used a racial slur.
The company’s logo has been on Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium since it was built 20 years ago.
John Schnatter, who also resigned from the university’s board of trustees, apologized this week for using a racial slur during a company conference call in May.