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By The Associated Press

(All times Eastern)
Schedule subject to change and/or blackouts
Sunday, July 20
AUTO RACING

7:30 a.m.

FS2 — FIM MotoGP: The Czechia Grand Prix, Ostrovacice, Czechia

8:30 a.m.

FS1 — NTT IndyCar Series: Warmup, Streets of Toronto, Toronto

Noon

FOX — NTT IndyCar Series: The Ontario Honda Dealers Indy Toronto, Streets of Toronto, Toronto

2 p.m.

TNT — NASCAR Cup Series: The Challenge Round 4 – AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400, Dover Motor Speedway, Dover, Del.

TRUTV — NASCAR Cup Series: The Challenge Round 4 – AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400, Dover Motor Speedway, Dover, Del. (In-Season Challenge Alt-Cast)

2:30 p.m.

FS1 — NHRA: Qualifying, Pacific Raceways, Kent, Wash. (Taped)

4:30 p.m.

FOX — NHRA: The Muckleshoot Casino Resort NHRA Northwest Nationals, Pacific Raceways, Kent, Wash.

BASKETBALL (MEN’S)

12:30 p.m.

FS1 — The Basketball Tournament: TBD, Round of 32

2:30 p.m.

FOX — The Basketball Tournament: TBD, Round of 32

5 p.m.

FS1 — The Basketball Tournament: TBD, Round of 32

7 p.m.

FS1 — The Basketball Tournament: TBD, Round of 32

FS2 — The Basketball Tournament: TBD, Round of 32

9 p.m.

FS1 — The Basketball Tournament: TBD, Round of 32

FS2 — The Basketball Tournament: TBD, Round of 32

11 p.m.

FS2 — The Basketball Tournament: TBD, Round of 32

BEACH VOLLEYBALL

Noon

CBS — AVP: Week 6 – Day 2, New York

2 p.m.

CBSSN — AVP: Week 6 – Day 2, New York

BIG3 BASKETBALL

3 p.m.

CBS — Week 6: LA Riot vs. Chicago Triplets, Dallas Power vs. Miami 305, DMV Trilogy vs. Detroit Amps, Houston Rig Hands vs. Boston Ball Hogs, Detroit

CYCLING

6:30 a.m.

PEACOCK — UCI: The Tour de France, Stage 15, Muret / Carcassonne, France

2 p.m.

NBC — UCI: The Tour de France, Stage 15, Muret / Carcassonne, France (Taped)

FLAG FOOTBALL (BOY’S)

Noon

ESPN — 2025 NFL Flag Championships: Semifinal, Canton, Ohio

1 p.m.

ESPN — 2025 NFL Flag Championships: TBD, Semifinal, Canton, Ohio

4 p.m.

ABC — 2025 NFL Flag Championships: TBD, Championship, Canton, Ohio

FLAG FOOTBALL (GIRL’S)

2 p.m.

ESPN — 2025 NFL Flag Championships: Semifinal, Canton, Ohio

3 p.m.

ESPN — 2025 NFL Flag Championships: TBD, Semifinal, Canton, Ohio

5 p.m.

ABC — 2025 NFL Flag Championships: TBD, Championship, Canton, Ohio

GOLF

4 a.m.

USA — DP World/PGA Tour: The Open Championship, Final Round, Royal Portrush Golf Club, Portrush, Ireland

7 a.m.

NBC — DP World/PGA Tour: The Open Championship, Final Round, Royal Portrush Golf Club, Portrush, Ireland

6 p.m.

GOLF — DP World/PGA Tour: The Barracuda Championship, Final Round, Tahoe Mountain Club, Truckee, Calif.

GYMNASTICS

4 p.m.

NBC — USAG: The U.S. Classic, Hoffman Estates, Ill. (Taped)

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL (BOY’S)

9 a.m.

NBATV — EYBL Peach Jam: TBD, Augusta, S.C.

10:30 a.m.

NBATV — EYBL Peach Jam: TBD, Augusta, S.C.

1 p.m.

NBATV — EYBL Peach Jam: TBD, Augusta, S.C.

2:30 p.m.

NBATV — EYBL Peach Jam: TBD, Augusta, S.C.

HORSE RACING

1 p.m.

FS2 — NYRA: Saratoga Live

MLB BASEBALL

1:30 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: N.Y. Yankees at Atlanta (1:35 p.m.) OR L.A. Angels at Philadelphia (1:35 p.m.)

4:30 p.m.

MLBN — Regional Coverage: Houston at Seattle (4:10 p.m.) OR Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers (4:10 p.m.)

7 p.m.

ESPN — Detroit at Texas

ESPN2 — Detroit at Texas (StatCast)

NBA BASKETBALL

6 p.m.

ESPNU — Summer League Tournament: TBD, Consolation Game, Las Vegas

8 p.m.

ESPNU — Summer League Tournament: TBD, Consolation Game, Las Vegas

10 p.m.

ESPN — Summer League Tournament: TBD, Championship, Las Vegas

RUGBY (WOMEN’S)

4:10 a.m.

FS2 — NRL: New Zealand at Newcastle

SAILING

11 a.m.

CBSSN — SailGP: Event 7 – Day 2, Portsmouth, England

2 p.m.

CBS — SailGP: Event 7 – Day 2, Portsmouth, England

TENNIS

5:30 a.m.

TENNIS — Gstaad-ATP Final

6 a.m.

TENNIS — Gstaad-ATP Final

8 a.m.

TENNIS — Hopman Cup Final; Bastad-ATP, Iasi-WTA Finals; Kitzbuhel-ATP, Umag-ATP Early Rounds

5 a.m. (Monday)

TENNIS — Kitzbuhel-ATP, Prague-WTA Early Rounds

6 a.m. (Monday)

TENNIS — Kitzbuhel-ATP, Prague-WTA Early Rounds

_____

The Newton boys’ track and field team won its first-ever state championship in May.

And Cardinal head coach Chad Garvis received a national honor a few months later.

Garvis was named Iowa’s Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Association recently.

A committee of experts from around the nation chose one boys coach and one girls coach from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

“I’m incredibly honored to receive this award, but it truly takes a village,” Garvis said. “This recognition reflects the hard work and dedication of so many people — our assistant coaches, the athletes, their families and our strength and conditioning staff.”

Garvis and the rest of the state-by-state winners are now in consideration for national coach of the year. Each honoree also receives a trophy from the USTFCCCA.

The Iowa High School Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association selected their coaches of the year recently, too.

Garvis was named the Class 3A boys coach of the year, while PCM head track and field coach Logan Bieghler was voted an at-large coach of the year in 2A.

Lynnville-Sully’s Jeff Corbett was voted assistant coach of the year in 1A.

“Everyone played a vital role in helping prepare these young men for success, and I’m grateful to be part of such a committed and supportive community,” Garvis said.

Garvis was selected on the national level based on a few criteria, including team performance in 2025, team score/placement at the state meet, margin of victory, performance against rankings if available, individual championships and how they stacked up compared to previous seasons.

LJUBLJANA – The Canadian men’s volleyball team fell 3-1 to a Serbian team desperate to avoid relegation in Volleyball Nations League on Saturday.

Serbia’s (15-25, 25-22, 25-18, 25-22) victory over the Canadians assured the Serbians a berth in next year’s Nations League with a ranking of 15th out of 18 participating countries.

Canada, ranked 14th with a record of 4-7, will also return to Nations League in 2026. The Canadians wrap the VNL preliminary round Sunday against Ukraine.

Canada dominated the Serbians in the first set, but the latter adjusted to pull out the victory.

Serbia led in attack points (53-50), aces (4-3) and made fewer errors (26-29). Canada had the more effective block (8-4).

“We have to execute at a higher level if we want to be able to compete internationally,” observed Canadian head coach Dan Lewis.

“The statistics in general were not that bad, plus minus was good overall, but we didn’t have enough serving pressure on them and our attack dropped to a level that’s not sufficient enough to compete at a high level.

“We’re not digging enough balls and we’re not presenting ourselves with enough block positive and slow down transition opportunities and this has been a theme for some of our matches. We need to improve on this if we’re going to win.”

Brodie Hofer of Langley, B.C., (15 points), Isaac Heslinga of Orangeville, Ont., (14 points), and Toronto’s Xander Wassenaar Ketrzynski (11) led scoring for Canada.

Serbia’s Drazen Luburić led all scorers with 20 points (18 kills and 2 aces)

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 19, 2025.

The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.

World Championships: Four Euro Teams Prevail to Set Up Olympic Semifinal Rematches

Four European teams prevailed in the men’s water polo crossover round of the 2025 World Championships, setting up replays of both Paris Olympic semifinals in the Worlds quarters on Sunday.

Serbia beat Japan, 21-14, to advance to a quarterfinal against Group C winner United States. Serbia beat the U.S., 10-6, in the semifinals in Paris on the way to gold.

Hungary survived a scare from Romania for a 15-11 win on Friday. That sets the Hungarians up against Group D winner Croatia; Croatia beat Hungary, 9-8, in the Olympic semis.

Both teams from Group D won in the crossover round. Runner-up Montenegro routed Canada, 22-10. Greece, which finished third in the group, bested Brazil, 17-5. Greece will take on Group A winner Italy in the first quarterfinal Sunday, while Montenegro takes on Group B winner Spain.

The crossover round losers fall into the 9-12 classification matches.

Romania got within two goals in the fourth quarter, but Hungary held off its rally. Gergely Burian was 3-for-3 shooting with three assists. Daniel Angyal, Adam Nagy, Peter Kovacs and Zsombor Vismeg tallied two goals apiece.

Vlad Georgescu led Romania with five goals. Andrei Neamtu paired three goals with two assists.

Serbia used nine goals in the third quarter to pull away from Japan. Boris Vapenski led the way with four goals and two assists. Milos Cuk and Djordje Lazic scored three goals each, Cuk adding two assists. Nikola Jaksic had a goal and five assists. Radoslav Filipovic stopped 11 shots in goal.

Taiyo Watanabe and Toi Suzuki had three goals and two assists each. Yusuke Inaba added three goals and an assist.

Emmanouil Andreadis stopped seven shots as Greece kept a first-half zero, leading 7-0 and never looking back. Konstantinos Genidounias paired three goals with three assists. Aristeidis Chalyvopoulos poured in three goals. Greece had eight blocks and eight steals, holding Brazil to 1-for-16 on action shots.

A 5-0 margin in the second quarter helped Montenegro pull away from Canada. Filip Gardasevic orchestrated the attack with five goals and three assists. Savo Cetkovic shot 4-for-4. Dmitri Kholod (two goals, three assists) and Strahinja Gojkovic (three goals, two assists) had five points apiece.

Reuel Mark D’Souza and Jason O’Donnell (on 3-for-3 shooting) tallied hat tricks for Canada.

FREDERICK, Md. – Irvin Escobar, a recent Bethune-Cookman graduate and former Wildcats Baseball student-athlete, has recently signed a contract to play for the Frederick Keys of the MLB Draft League.
 
Escobar, a native of Barceloneta, Puerto Rico, played four seasons for the Wildcats, serving most of his career behind the dish at the catcher position. In 2025, the sure-handed Escobar helped B-CU to its first-ever Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Baseball Tournament title, advancing to the NCAA Tallahassee [Fla.] Regional hosted by Florida State. Along the way, he batted .280 for the year with eight doubles, 21 RBIs and 25 runs scored. Behind the plate, he threw out 12 runners attempting to steal and used a .991 fielding average on a team-high 310 putouts and 33 assists.
 
Before Major League Baseball reorganized the minor leagues after the 2020 campaign, the Frederick Keys were a Class-A Advanced affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles in the minor leagues. In 2021, The Keys did not receive an invitation to remain in affiliated baseball as part of the 2021 reorganization of Minor League Baseball (MiLB), and instead joined the newly formed MLB Draft League.
 
Other teams in the MLB Draft League include the following: Mahoning Valley Scrappers, State College Spikes, Trenton Thunder, West Virginia Black Bears and Williamsport Crosscutters.
 
The league operates a split-season format of 80 games with a hybrid amateur–professional structure. The first half of the season, the league operates as an amateur collegiate summer baseball league to serve as a showcase for top draft-eligible prospects leading up to each July’s MLB Draft. After a break for the draft, play resumes for the season’s remaining games with paid professional players who have exhausted their amateur eligibility.
 
The Keys host West Virginia this weekend (July 19-20), followed by a two-game homestand with State College (July 21-22).
 
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