BASEBALL
Friday’s scheduled Eastern League game between the Portland Sea Dogs and Richmond Flying Squirrels was postponed because of rain and will be made up Sunday as part of a doubleheader, starting at 1 p.m. at Hadlock Field.
The Sea Dogs were scheduled to wear Maine Clambakes uniforms Friday night, but instead will do so in Sunday’s doubleheader opener.
AUTO RACING
NASCAR: Chase Briscoe won the pole for the Cup Series regular-season finale at Daytona International Speedway.
Briscoe had a lap at 181.822 mph in the No. 14 Ford in the final round of qualifying, edging Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Aric Almirola for the No. 1 starting spot in Saturday night’s race. Harrison Burton qualified third in another Ford, followed by 23IX Racing teammates Bubba Wallace and Ty Gibbs in Toyotas.
The top five qualifiers are among 17 drivers vying for the final postseason berth.
• Justin Allgaier won the Xfinity Series race at Daytona International Speedway in double overtime for his first victory in 26 starts at the famed track.
Allgaier held off Sheldon Creed by 0.005 seconds after several late crashes led to two overtime restarts and 10 extra laps. It was the fourth-closest finish in the history of the second-tier series.
FORMULA ONE: AlphaTauri driver Daniel Ricciardo will miss this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix after fracturing his left hand in a crash during practice.
Ricciardo will be replaced by reserve driver Liam Lawson, a 21-year-old New Zealander who is set to make his F1 debut.
TRACK AND FIELD
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Noah Lyles won the 200-meter world title in 19.52 seconds in Budapest, Hungary, becoming the first man to complete the 100-200 sprint double at worlds since Usain Bolt did it for the third and final time in 2015.
It was Lyles’ third straight world championship at 200 meters and cemented him as the man to beat at both distances at the Paris Olympics.
In the women’s 200, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson ran the second fastest time in history, a 21.41, to take her second straight world title. She beat American Gabby Thomas by .4 seconds and three steps, with Sha’Carri Richardson taking bronze to go with her gold in the 100.
Lyles sling-shotted around the bend to overtake and beat Erriyon Knighton by .23 seconds, holding off any thought of a true rivalry with the 19-year-old American for another year.
Yulimar Rojas, the Venezuelan world-record holder who has won every major championship in women’s triple jump since 2019, was languishing in eighth place and down to her last jump before she went 49 feet, 53/4 inches to capture her fourth straight world title.
GOLF
LPGA: Megan Khang made five straight birdies in a back-nine burst and shot a 6-under 66 to take a one-stroke lead in the CPKC Women’s Open in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Khang was at 7-under 137 overall on the tree-lined and mosquito-ladden layout.
Linn Grant of Sweden was second after a 71. First-round leader Yuka Saso of Japan shot a 73 and dropped into a tie for third at 5 under with 2019 winner Jin Young Ko (70) of South Korea.
EUROPEAN TOUR: Alexander Bjork, Nicolai Hojgaard and Ludvig Aberg delivered strong Ryder Cup auditions at the Czech Masters in Vysoky Ujezd, Czech Republic.
Playing alongside European team captain Luke Donald, the No. 103-ranked Bjork shot a bogey-free 6-under 66 to take a one-stroke lead at 13 under after the second round.
Hojgaard and Aberg, two of the hottest young European players, were grouped with one of Donald’s assistants, Francesco Molinari, and shot 67 and 66, respectively.
SOCCER
SPAIN: Less than a week after winning the Women’s World Cup, Spain’s national team players announced that they will not play any more games unless the president of the country’s soccer federation steps down for kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the lips after their victory.
Luis Rubiales, who was also chastised for grabbing his crotch after Spain’s 1-0 victory over England on Sunday, has remained defiant despite immense pressure to resign. The kiss marred the title celebrations, and criticism has steadily mounted.
Hermoso issued a statement strongly rebuking Rubiales’ characterization of the kiss as consensual, while the 46-year-old federation president cast himself as the victim at an emergency meeting of the Spanish soccer federation in Madrid.
• Spain rose to No. 2 in the FIFA rankings published Friday, with the United States falling off the top spot for the first time in more than six years.
Sweden, which lost to Spain in the semifinals, tops the rankings. The U.S. dropped to No. 3.
England, which lost to Spain in the final, stayed at No. 4. France is No. 5, and Germany dropped to sixth from second after failing to advance from the group stage.
• Jude Bellingham scored his fourth goal in three games to lead Real Madrid to a 1-0 win at Celta Vigo, making it three victories in as many games in the Spanish league.
ENGLAND: Raheem Sterling scored twice and set up the third goal to help Chelsea beat Luton 3-0 in the Premier League, giving Mauricio Pochettino his first win as Blues manager.
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