Sports Digest: NFL says teams must open camps this week

FOOTBALL

The NFL has knowledgeable teams their coaching camps will open on time.

League govt Troy Vincent despatched a memo to normal managers and head coaches on Saturday informing them that rookies are to report by Tuesday, quarterbacks and injured gamers by Thursday and all different gamers by July 28.

The league and the NFL Gamers Affiliation are nonetheless discussing testing for the coronavirus and different well being and security protocols. Union management expressed a number of considerations in a 90-minute convention name with reporters Friday.

Nonetheless, below the collective bargaining settlement, the NFL can impose report dates.

The gamers’ union desires gamers examined each day for the virus. A joint committee of medical doctors, trainers and power coaches fashioned by the NFL and NFLPA beneficial testing each different day.

Different excellent points embrace the variety of preseason video games. The league has deliberate to chop the exhibition schedule from 4 video games to 2, whereas the union desires none.

Each side are additionally negotiating financial points, and questions stay about gamers’ rights to decide out of enjoying.

BASKETBALL

NBA: The primary exhibition video games of the NBA restart will go a bit of extra rapidly than typical.

The NBA is tweaking the principles for these preliminary matchups, going with 10-minute quarters as a substitute of the standard 12 minutes.

Exhibitions begin with a four-game slate Wednesday and proceed by way of July 28. Every workforce will play three exhibitions, and the final two for every membership can have the standard 12-minute quarters. Plans name for all 33 exhibitions to be televised by some mixture of native TV, nationwide TV, NBA TV or NBA League Cross.

The Celtics play their first scrimmage at 5 p.m. Friday towards the Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder. All three Celtics scrimmages will likely be televised by NBC Sports Boston.

SOCCER

FA CUP: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored each targets as Arsenal ended Manchester Metropolis’s FA Cup title protection with a 2-Zero semifinal win in London.

Aubameyang poked in Nicolas Pepe’s cross within the 19th minute and added one other aim within the 71st minute as Arsenal ended a seven-match dropping streak towards Manchester Metropolis.

AUTO RACING

FORMULA ONE: Lewis Hamilton beat Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas to take pole place for the seventh time on the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Hamilton has gained seven occasions on the Hungaroring, and the veteran British driver wants yet one more win to equal Michael Schumacher’s single-track report of eight wins, when the French Grand Prix was held at Magny-Cours.

NASCAR: Kyle Busch celebrated a 10th NASCAR Xfinity Collection victory at Texas Motor Speedway, then had it taken away.

Busch failed postrace tech inspection after ending forward of Austin Cindric, who was declared the winner for his third victory in a row.

It could have been the 98th profession Xfinity win for Busch. As a substitute, Cindric received his fifth in 83 profession begins regardless of crossing the end line Zero.949 seconds behind Busch.

• Busch did get the victory in his second race of the day, successful the Vehicles race in a 1-2 end for the workforce he owns.

Busch made a ultimate green-flag cease with 36 laps to go, when he needed to slam his brakes on entry to pit highway to keep away from a penalty. He then virtually pulled into the fallacious pit stall, initially pulling towards the No. 18 markers – the variety of his Cup automotive – as a substitute of the No. 51 Toyota truck.

Busch completed Zero.777 seconds in entrance of 19-year-old rookie Christian Eckes, the motive force of that No. 18 Toyota that Busch owns.

INDYCAR: Josef Newgarden led almost wire-to-wire to win at Iowa Speedway, giving workforce proprietor Roger Penske a sweep of the doubleheader and his fourth victory throughout three collection this weekend.

Newgarden, who began on the pole, thought he had one of the best automotive within the opener Friday evening, and he was irate when a collection of misfortunes left him fifth and properly again of successful teammate Simon Pagenaud. However the two-time collection champ left little to probability in Race 2, main nearly all the 250 laps for his 15th profession victory and first since final 12 months’s race at Iowa.

Will Energy completed second after wrecking out of the doubleheader opener. Graham Rahal was third for his first podium in additional than a 12 months, whereas Pagenaud once more got here from the again to complete fourth and collection chief Scott Dixon was fifth.

HOCKEY

NHL: Edmonton Oilers defenseman Caleb Jones says he examined constructive for the coronavirus earlier than coaching camp however was asymptomatic.

The 23-year-old Jones is the second NHL participant to acknowledge a constructive take a look at in a media interview. Maple Leafs middle Auston Matthews additionally revealed his constructive take a look at.

The NHL isn’t releasing the names of gamers who take a look at constructive.

GOLF

EUROPEAN TOUR: Joel Stalter of France closed with a 2-under 68 for a two-shot victory within the Euram Financial institution Open in Ramsau, Austria.

Stalter had gone 80 tournaments worldwide since his solely earlier victory as a professional, in 2016 on the Swedish Problem. He rallied from a four-shot deficit, ending at 14-under 266.

Richard Mansell of England shot 71 and was alone in second.