The Houston Texans have reached settlements with 30 women who have made, or intended to make, allegations of sexual assault and sexual misconduct against former quarterback Deshaun Watson, according to statements from attorney Tony Buzbee, who represents 24 of the women, and the Texans organization.
The International Olympic Committee said Friday that it has restored Jim Thorpe as the sole gold medalist in the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm.
State of play: Thorpe was stripped of the medals after it was discovered that he had earned a small amount of money playing minor league baseball before becoming an Olympian.
The sons of three former All-Stars headline this year's MLB Draft in Los Angeles, where the red-hot Orioles are on the clock with the first pick on Sunday night (7pm ET, ESPN).
Driving the news: Druw Jones (son of 5x All-Star Andruw Jones) is the potential No. 1 pick, Jackson Holliday (7x, Matt Holliday) could go No. 2 and Justin Crawford (4x, Carl Crawford) may sneak into the top 10. All three are high-schoolers.
The 18th Track and Field World Championships begin today at the University of Oregon's Hayward Field, the largest track and field-specific stadium in North America and the birthplace of Nike.
Why it matters: This is the first time the sport's most prestigious non-Olympic event has ever been held on U.S. soil. Not a bad place to make its debut.
Brittney Griner's lawyers told a Russian court on Friday that doctors in the U.S. prescribed the WBNA star medical cannabis two years ago for chronic pain, AP reports.
Driving the news: The revelation comes on the fourth day of Griner's trial in Russia. She is facing drug charges that carry a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
The Tour de France's two-time defending champion Tadej Pogačar lost the yellow jersey in the Alps on Wednesday, thanks in part to a familiar opponent: COVID-19.
Driving the news: After losing two key teammates (and nearly a third) to positive tests, Slovenia's Pogačar stumbled during the first big mountain stage and now trails first-place Jonas Vingegaard by over two minutes.
Minor leaguers with a knack for hitting the ball up the middle rejoice: A radical new rule is coming to further limit defensive shifts.
Driving the news: Beginning July 22, the Low-A Florida State League will experiment with the "pie-slice rule," which will prohibit defenders from occupying a specific patch of dirt behind second base.
