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EUGENE, ORE. — The U.S. Olympic track and field trials came to a halt Sunday afternoon with temperatures reaching 108 degrees. One athlete, heptathlete Taliyah Brooks, was carted off the field in a wheelchair and eventually had to withdraw from the competition.
Biles will arrive in Tokyo as the face of her sport, the U.S. delegation and perhaps the Olympic movement. She has become more than just a gymnastics star since her coronation in Rio in 2016. Her consistent excellence — her last second-place finish in a meet came more than nine years ago — combined with her charisma and possibility-pushing routines have thrust her into the company of Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt, athletes whose dominance on the world stage made them Olympic icons.
“He wasn’t sharp,” manager David Ross said. “I just felt like his rhythm in general, syncing up his mechanics, just leading to sporadic command. His slider really didn’t look like it had a lot of shape to it either. He was battling himself out there, trying to let him figure it out a little bit.”
“It was kind of a reset or a restart and found some rhythm and found, I guess, the tempo that I needed to have for me to be better,” Mills told the Tribune. “I was just a little bit slow, especially in the leg lift, so I got little rotation. I kind of went back and started from the beginning (during rehab starts).”
“What we do is we go around the whole glove, feeling for anything that would be sticky or something,” he said. “Yes, it was very noticeable, and then the rest of the crew inspected to make sure we were all in agreement. All four agreed that it was a sticky substance, and that’s why he was ejected.”
UNCASVILLE, CONN. — DeWanna Bonner hit four 3-pointers and finished with 23 points, Brionna Jones added 21 points and nine rebounds, and the Connecticut Sun cruised to a 74-58 win over Chicago on Sunday in a Commissioner’s Cup game, snapping the Sky’s seven-game win streak.
Outfielders Eloy Jiménez, Luis Robert, Adam Eaton, Adam Engel and Billy Hamilton and pitcher Michael Kopech are on the injured list. Second baseman Nick Madrigal is out for the season with a torn right hamstring, and reliever Jimmy Cordero had Tommy John surgery in March.
“Brad would routinely befriend young interns and invite them to his apartment in Chicago to watch March Madness basketball and other sports,” a Hawks marketing official, who requested anonymity, told TSN. “I was told to steer clear of him because he had tried something at his apartment on a few players. This was not something that only a few people knew about. The entire training staff, a lot of people knew. … This was an open secret.”
Photos from the White Sox-Mariners game at Guaranteed Rate Field on June 27, 2021. (Erin Hooley) White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu appears in pain after being hit in the leg by a pitch from Mariners relief pitcher JT Chargois during the sixth inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on July 27, 2021. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune) White Sox first baseman Jose Abreu is helped off the field after being hit in the leg by a pitch from Mariners relief pitcher JT Chargois during the sixth inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on July 27, 2021. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune) Mariners manager Scott Servais talks to officials as pitcher Hector Santiago is ejected from the game during the fifth inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on July 27, 2021. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune) White Sox catcher Yasmani Grandal (24) scores on a single from Leury Garcia during the fifth inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on July 27, 2021. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune) White Sox third baseman Yoan Moncada singles during the fourth inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on July 27, 2021. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune) Mariners pitcher Hector Santiago throws during the third inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on July 27, 2021. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune) White Sox starting pitcher Dallas Keuchel throws during the fourth inning at Guaranteed Rate Field on July 27, 2021. (Erin Hooley / Chicago Tribune)
“If my memory is right, I was confident they’re going to work very hard to help,” he said. “And I think I used the world reasonable. I don’t know that something reasonable can be done. I just know, for two weeks or so, the way Kenny and Rick and their teammates up there work. They’re preparing and making phone calls. That’s what I’m confident in — they’re doing their best to help us.