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Sports on TV for Sunday, July 16

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:47:15 GMT

(All times Eastern)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsSunday, July 16AUTO RACING8:30 a.m.CBSSN — ABB FIA Formula E: Round 14, Rome10 a.m.CBSSN — FIM Motocross: The MX2, Loket, Czech Republic10:30 a.m.FS1 — NHRA: Qualifying, Bandimere Speedway, Morrison, Colo.11 a.m.CBSSN — FIM Motocross: The MXGP, Loket, Czech Republic12 p.m.USA — AMA Pro Motocross: Round 7, Millville, Mich. (Taped)2:30 p.m.USA — NASCAR Cup Series: The Crayon 301, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon, N.H.4 p.m.FOX — NHRA: The Dodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals, Bandimere Speedway, Morrison, Colo.CYCLING6:55 a.m.PEACOCK — UCI: The Tour de France, Stage 15, 110 miles, Les Gets Les Portes Du Soleil to Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, France2 a.m. (Monday)USA — UCI: The Tour de France, Stage 15, 110 miles, Les Gets Les Portes Du Soleil to Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc, France (Taped)GLOBL JAM BASKETBALL (MEN’S)8 p.m.CBSSN — GLOBL JAM FIVES: TBD, Gold-Medal Game, TorontoGOLF10 a.m.GOLF — DP World Tour/PGA Tour: Th...

Today in Sports – Roger Federer claims record 8th Wimbledon men’s title

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:47:15 GMT

July 161920 — Babe Ruth breaks his season record of 29 homers with his 30th, leading the New York Yankees past the St. Louis Browns, 5-2. Ruth ends the season with 54.1920 — The United States sweeps Australia in five matches to win the Davis Cup for the first time since 1913. The U.S. team is made up of Bill Tilden and Bill Johnston.1938 — Paul Runyan wins the PGA Championship by routing Sam Snead 8 and 7 in the final round.1947 — Rocky Graziano scores a technical knockout with a barrage of 30 punches against Tony Zale in the sixth round to win the world middleweight boxing title. Held in Chicago Stadium, it’s the largest grossing fight in history.1950 — Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 to win soccer’s World Cup in Rio de Janeiro.1967 — Kathy Whitworth wins the LPGA championship by one stroke over Shirley Englehorn. Whitworth sinks a fifty-foot uphill putt for a birdie on the 18th green at Pleasant Valley Country Club in Sutton Mass.1989 — Betsy King birdies three of the first four holes of...

Few storms Saturday, flood concerns Sunday

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:47:15 GMT

Welcome to the weekend! Today will be the better day of our weekend to get outside. Rain showers this morning have mainly been across southeast Mass. There’s a chance for storms midday into the afternoon, so keep the umbrella nearby. Tomorrow scattered storms and downpours bring back the risk for flooding.It’ll be warm and humid today! We’ll see some clouds mixed with the sun and showers through the day. Storms pop up inland midday into the afternoon. Highs today will be in the mid/upper 80s for our warmest locations. Upper 70s/low 80s along the coast and beaches.This evening it’ll be warm and humid, but should stay mainly dry for your plans. Overnight there will be a few storms. A Flood Watch goes into effect overnight and runs through tomorrow for a good portion of Southern New England. Excessive runoff from heavy rainfall on already saturated soils could cause flooding in urban areas and near creeks and streams.A cold front will sweep across our region tom...

Markéta Vondroušová beats Ons Jabeur to make Wimbledon history

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:47:15 GMT

(CNN) — Markéta Vondroušová had overcome the odds throughout the last fortnight at Wimbledon and the Czech did so again in the women’s final on Saturday, beating favorite Ons Jabeur to become the first unseeded woman in the Open Era to win the famous tournament.The world No. 42, who was playing in her first grand slam final, beat the No. 6 seed 6-4 6-4 on Centre Court to make history.Not since Serena Williams in 2018, when the American was ranked 181 in the world, has a female player ranked so low in the world reached the Wimbledon final.At the start of the tournament, no one expected Vondroušová to be competing in the championship match, not even the player herself whose husband had remained in the Czech Republic until the final to look after their cat, Frankie.But Jabeur became the fifth seeded player to fall to the 24-year-old in this tournament as her unpredictability proved difficult for her opponents to overcome, with the Tunisian particularly struggling despite having n...

Israel’s Netanyahu rushed to hospital, his office says he felt dizzy and was likely dehydrated

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:47:15 GMT

JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed on Saturday to a hospital after feeling dizzy, his office said, adding that it appeared the veteran Israeli leader was suffering from dehydration.Netanyahu, 73, remained at Israel’s Sheba Hospital, where he continued to undergo medical tests, his office said.In a joint statement with the hospital, his office said Netanyahu had visited the Sea of Galilee, a popular vacation spot in northern Israel, on Friday. The country is in the midst of a summer heat wave, with temperatures in the mid-30s Celsius (mid-90s Fahrenheit).According to the statement, Netanyahu began to feel “mild dizziness” on Saturday and his doctor instructed him to go to Sheba Hospital, near the city of Tel Aviv. The hospital is well over half an hour away from Netanyahu’s seaside residence in the coastal town of Caesaria.“Preliminary tests came out normal and nothing abnormal was found,” the statement said. “The initial assessment is dehydrati...

Competitor dies during Maine road rally race through forest

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:47:15 GMT

NEWRY, Maine (AP) — A competitor was killed in a crash on the first day of a rally race through a forest in western Maine, leading organizers to cancel the event’s second day.Erin Kelly, a 48-year-old woman from Marshall, Virginia, was killed Friday when her team’s car crashed near Lower Richardson Lake during the New England Forest Rally, where vehicles race along rural backroads and logging tracks near Maine’s border with New Hampshire, WMTW-TV reported.On her LinkedIn page, Kelly wrote that she had been navigating cars part-time as a hobby for the Pullen Away Rally Team since 2015.In rally racing, navigators sit next to the drivers and read out course notes such as when to expect turns.The team, which says on its Facebook page that it is based in Northwood, New Hampshire, didn’t immediately respond to a Facebook message or email seeking further information about the crash.Authorities are investigating the cause of the crash, which a photo published by WMTW...

Police searching for woman out on bail after being charged in arson investigation

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:47:15 GMT

Police are searching for a 23-year-old woman who has breached the conditions of her bail in connection with an arson investigation.Investigators allege Dustina Perez and another woman went to an apartment building in the area of Warden Avenue and St. Clair Avenue East in the early morning hours of June 18 and set fire to a door of one of the units. The pair then fled the scene. Two occupants of the apartment were not injured.Perez was arrested on June 27 and charged with several arson-related offences. She was released on bail with conditions, which police say she breached on Friday. Police say they have been unable to locate Perez and are asking anyone with information to contact them. The second woman, 34-year-old Andrea Jameer, was arrested back on June 30 and charged with similar arson-related offences.

Days of torrential rain in South Korea leave at least 26 dead in landslides and floods

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:47:15 GMT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Days of heavy rain in South Korea have left at least 26 people dead and 10 others missing in landslides, floods and other incidents, the government said Saturday. The 26 fatalities were reported on Friday and Saturday, all in the central and southeastern regions, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said in a report.An earlier ministry report on Saturday morning said five people died after landslides caused by torrential downpours buried their houses. Two others also died in landslide-related incidents. But the latest ministry report didn’t explain the cause of deaths for the additional fatalities.Ministry officials said torrential rains have also left 10 people missing since Tuesday, and 13 others injured since Thursday.South Korea has been pounded by heavy rains since July 9. The ministry report said the rainfall had forced about 5,570 people to evacuate and left 25,470 households without electricity in the past several days. It said more than 4,200 pe...

12 killed in a suspected rebel attack in the northeast of Congo, a civil society organizations says

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:47:15 GMT

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — An extremist rebel group killed at least 12 people in the northeast of Congo, a local civil society organization said Saturday.The New Congolese Civil Society organization, or NSCC, said the victims were shot dead by the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, a shadowy Islamic State group affiliate that has been launching attacks for years from bases in volatile eastern Congo, following a skirmish with a local armed militia.Conflict in eastern Congo has gone on for decades as myriad armed groups fight for control of valuable mineral resources. There are frequent mass killings, and the violence has triggered an exodus of refugees.Farmers in nearby villages discovered the bloodied corpses of 12 people in the bush early Friday as they left to work in their fields. John Vuleverio, coordinator of the NSCC, reported that the death toll was still provisional as the search for other bodies continued in the area.Col. Jean-Baptiste Munyampazi, the administrator of the territ...

More than 20,000 Quebec households still without power following severe storm

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:47:15 GMT

MONTREAL — Power outages persist in the Montreal area nearly 48 hours after severe thunderstorms ripped through southern Quebec, downing trees, snapping poles and breaking wires.Hydro-Québec reports over 20,000 customers are still without power as of Saturday morning, down from a Thursday evening peak of more than 300,000, with most remaining outages in the regions to the north and south of Montreal.The utility company says it has restored service to 95% of customers affected by the storm, but work to repair the electricity network in some isolated areas could last until the beginning of next week.Hydro-Québec says 8% of the almost 500 remaining outages affect 50 customers or fewer.It says more than 300 outages have lasted more than 24 hours.Thursday’s storm also caused localized flooding in Montreal, where a city spokesperson said some neighbourhoods received a month’s worth of rain in less than two hours.This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 15, 20...