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🏎️ Red Bull fires Horner: Red Bull Racing has fired team principal and CEO Christian Horner after two decades in charge. This comes amid a turbulent season that could ultimately lead to the departure of four-time reigning F1 champion Max Verstappen.

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⚽️ Chelsea advances: Chelsea beat Fluminense, 2-0, to reach the Club World Cup final behind a pair of goals from João Pedro, a Brazilian striker they signed last week. His childhood club? Fluminense.

⚾️ Immaculate inning: Orioles rookie Brandon Young threw the 119th immaculate inning in MLB history, striking out three Mets on nine pitches in the fifth inning at Camden Yards.

🏀 Cover athlete: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander will grace the cover of NBA 2K26, continuing quite the run for the reigning MVP and NBA champion, who also just signed a $285 million extension.

⚾️ Cruz joins the derby: Pirates slugger Oneil Cruz joined the stacked Home Run Derby field, bringing his 100th percentile rankings in bat speed, average exit velocity, barrel rate and hard-hit percentage to next week’s competition in Atlanta.

🏈 Big 12 coaches: “We don’t know the rules”

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The Big 12 kicked off three weeks of conference football media days on Tuesday. The headline: Confusion and complaints about the revenue sharing era, which began last week with the implementation of the NCAA’s historic House settlement.

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From Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger:

Within a small booth three stories above the practice field of the Cowboys, Kenny Dillingham crosses his legs, leans back in a swivel chair and details exactly what’s happening across the current college football recruiting landscape.

“We don’t know the rules,” the Arizona State head coach says. “The settlement passed, but who knows what Deloitte is going to clear. Until there is clarity, you’re living in limbo.”

And there’s something else. “You are seeing a lot of people lie and promise fake things,” he says.

A similar theme emerged from the eight head coaches here Tuesday, one likely shared by the eight others who get their turn Wednesday: The Wild West, they say, remains wild.

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The finger pointing has already begun. Schools are making big enough contract offers to recruits that they cannot possibly remain under college football’s new compensation cap, some coaches believe.

Others are guaranteeing third-party NIL deals as part of the total compensation package to athletes — something against new revenue-share rules.

A few are doling out cash from their collectives to high school players in an attempt to induce their commitment — also against new rules.

And those schools rich enough to have front-loaded millions of dollars in the spring to compensate this year’s roster — while perfectly within the rules — now hold an advantage in building next year’s roster.

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“I don’t understand what rules everybody is playing by,” Cincinnati head coach Scott Satterfield says. “The whole point of this was for us all to be playing by the same rules, but we are not.”

Meanwhile, the newly minted entities charged with enforcing these policies, the College Sports Commission and its Deloitte-run NIL clearinghouse, are bogged down in legalities tethered to the settlement, those familiar with the process tell Yahoo Sports.

Keep reading.

🎾 Americans prevail in London

Fritz celebrates his quarterfinal victory. (Clive Brunskill/Getty Images)

No American woman has won Wimbledon since 2016 and no American man has won a Grand Slam since 2003. Could both droughts end this week?

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Survive and advance: No. 5 Taylor Fritz defeated No. 17 Karen Khachanov and No. 13 Amanda Anisimova took down Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova on Tuesday to advance to their first Wimbledon semifinals.

Fritz is the first American man to reach the semis here since John Isner in 2018, and he joins Frances Tiafoe and Ben Shelton — who can also reach the semis if he upsets Jannik Sinner today — as the only active American men to make two Grand Slam semifinals.

Anisimova was once a phenom who reached the 2019 French Open semifinals at age 17, but she’s struggled since then and took a long mental health break two years ago. Now at age 23, she’s the first American woman to reach the Wimbledon semis since Serena Williams in 2019.

Up next: Both players have their work cut out for them. Fritz’s semifinal will come against No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz, who cruised past Cameron Norrie to extend his win streak to 23 matches,* while Anisimova will take on No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka, who fought back to beat Laura Siegemund and reach her fourth straight major semifinal.

*Historic streak: Alcaraz is now tied for the sixth-longest win streak by a man this century, trailing only Novak Djokovic (43 straight in 2010-11), Roger Federer (41 in 2006-07), Rafael Nadal (32 in 2008), Andy Murray (28 in 2016-17) and Jannik Sinner (26 in 2024-25).

🏈 Best 25 draft picks of the quarter century

(Mallory Bielecki/Yahoo Sports)

Yahoo Sports’ Frank Schwab is spending this week looking back at the NFL’s last 25 years. Yesterday was the All-Quarter Century Team; today, he picks the best 25 draft picks since 2000.

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Best 25 draft picks of the century: “A great pick can be a bit of luck,” Frank writes, “but it can also happen due to conviction when the rest of the world thought it was the wrong move.” With that, here are the best picks so far this century:

Tom Brady, Patriots (2000, 6th round, 199th overall) Brock Purdy, 49ers (2022, 7th round, 262nd overall) Jalen Hurts, Eagles (2020, 2nd round, 53rd overall) Aaron Rodgers, Packers (2005, 1st round, 24th overall) Antonio Brown, Steelers (2010, 6th round, 195th overall) Puka Nacua, Rams (2023, 5th round, 177th overall) Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs (2017, 1st round, 10th overall) Lamar Jackson, Ravens (2018, 1st round, 32nd overall) Jason Kelce, Eagles (2011, 6th round, 191st overall) Richard Sherman, Seahawks (2011, 5th round, 154th overall) Rob Gronkowski, Patriots (2010, 2nd round, 42nd overall) Devin Hester, Bears (2006, 2nd round, 57th overall) Russell Wilson, Seahawks (2012, 3rd round, 75th overall) George Kittle, 49ers (2017, 5th round, 146th overall) Travis Kelce, Chiefs (2013, 3rd round, 63rd overall) Josh Allen, Bills (2018, 1st round, 7th overall) Aaron Donald, Rams (2014, 1st round, 13th overall) Justin Jefferson, Vikings (2020, 1st round, 22nd overall) Dak Prescott, Cowboys (2016, 4th round, 135th overall) Maxx Crosby, Raiders (2019, 4th round, 106th overall) Tyreek Hill, Chiefs (2016, 5th round, 165th overall) Amon-Ra St. Brown, Lions (2021, 4th round, 112th overall) Julio Jones, Falcons (2011, 1st round, 6th overall) Kirk Cousins, Washington (2012, 4th round, 102nd overall) Bo Nix, Broncos (2024, 1st round, 12th overall)

The other side: Not to be mean, but the worst draft pick of the century might be as obvious as Brady being the best. In 2007, the Raiders took LSU QB JaMarcus Russell at No. 1 overall. He played 31 games, threw more interceptions (23) than touchdowns (18), and was out of the league by 2010.

⚾️ Inside-the-park HR frenzy

Bailey celebrates after beating the Phillies. (Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images)

The humble yet thrilling inside-the-park home run had itself quite a night on Tuesday: For the first time in MLB history, there was both a leadoff and walk-off inside-the-parker on the same day.

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Leadoff: In Sacramento, A’s right fielder Lawrence Butler led off with an inside-the-park homer against the Braves (and added a traditional bomb later in the game).

Walk-off: In nearby San Francisco, Giants backstop Patrick Bailey belted the first inside-the-park walk-off home run by a catcher in 99 years. The last man to do it? Washington’s Bennie Tate on Aug. 11, 1926.

📺 Watchlist: Wednesday, July 9

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⚽️ PSG vs. Real Madrid | 3pm ET, DAZN

Off the field, Kylian Mbappé has dropped his legal case against PSG in which he claimed moral harassment. On it, he’ll face his former club for the first time in today’s heavyweight, revenge clash at MetLife Stadium with a spot in the Club World Cup Final on the line.

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🎾 Wimbledon, Quarterfinals | ESPN/ESPN2/ESPN+

Four more matches today to round out the semifinals: No. 1 Jannik Sinner vs. No. 10 Ben Shelton (9:10am) and No. 6 Novak Djokovic vs. No. 22 Flavio Cobolli (9:40am) for the men; No. 8 Iga Świątek vs. No. 19 Liudmila Samsonova (8am) and No. 7 Mirra Andreeva vs. Belinda Bencic (8:30am) for the women.

More to watch:

⚽️ U.S. Open Cup: Philadelphia Union vs. New York Red Bulls (7pm, CBSSN); Nashville SC vs. D.C. United (9pm, Paramount+) … Quarterfinals.

⚽️ Women’s Euros: England vs. Netherlands (12pm, FS1); France vs. Wales (3pm, Fox) … Group D action in Switzerland.

⚾️ MLB: Mets at Orioles (7pm, ESPN); Mariners at Yankees (7pm, Prime)

🏀 WNBA: Valkyries at Fever (12pm, NBA) … The expansion Valkyries have impressed so far, going 9-9 to open their inaugural campaign, and Caitlin Clark (groin) will return after missing the last five games.

🚴 Tour de France: Stage 5 (7am, Peacock) … The first of two time trials takes place in Caen, a port city in northwest France.

Today’s full slate →

🏀 NBA trivia

(Ishika Samant/Getty Images)

Mike Brown was formally introduced as head coach of the Knicks on Tuesday.

Question: The Knicks are the fourth NBA team to hire Brown as head coach. Can you name the other three?

Answer at the bottom.

📸 Photo finish

The 18th green at The Renaissance Club. (Ross Parker/SNS Group via Getty Images)

The stage is set for this week’s Scottish Open, where a stacked field will take on The Renaissance Club in a links golf tuneup ahead of next week’s Open Championship.

Trivia answer: Cavaliers (twice), Lakers, Kings

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