LOS ANGELES (AP) β A night after Detroit’s Max Scherzer failed to become baseball’s first 14-game winner this season, Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers goes for the distinction this evening as L.A. entertains the Angels. Kershaw, a two-time winner of the Cy Young Award, is having another outstanding season as he enters the game with a record of 13-2 with an amazing earned run average of just 1.71.
MIAMI (AP) β Anthony Bosch, the owner of a now-defunct Florida clinic accused of providing performance enhancing drugs to Alex Rodriguez and others, has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy to distribute steroids. A cousin of Rodriguez was also charged in connection with the drug conspiracy. The Special Agent in charge of the investigation for the Drug Enforcement Agency in Miami says Bosch and his associates targeted not only professional athletes but teenagers.
UNDATED (AP) β The U.S. men’s national basketball team heads to Chicago for its next round of tryouts with a trimmed down roster of 16. U.S.A. Basketball says that Washington’s John Wall and Bradley Beal as well as Atlanta’s Paul Millsap were all cut. The Americans are off this week after training last week in Las Vegas. They resume in Chicago on Aug. 14.
UNDATED (AP) β The man who runs the Formula 1 racing circuit, Bernie Ecclestone (EHK’-ihl-stuhn), has had bribery charges dropped against him in Germany. He’s not walking away completely free as he has to come up with $100 million for the court. Most of the money, about $99 million, will go to the German state with the rest going to a German organization that helps terminally ill children.
PALOS HEIGHTS, Ill. (AP) β Ed Sprinkle, a star defensive end for the Chicago Bears who was once called the “meanest man” in football, has died at the age of 90. Sprinkle played for the Bears from 1944 to 1955 under Hall of Fame coach George Halas. Sprinkle was elected to the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame in 1984.
