COLLEGES
Tristan Bradley of Bowdoin dominated the third set to capture the NCAA Division III men’s single championship with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-0 win over Kael Shah of Denison on Tuesday at St. Louis.
Bradley became the second Bowdoin player to win the singles title, joining Grant Urken (2018). Bradley ended his senior season with a 26-2 record.
Bradley won four straight-set matches to reach Tuesday’s final. The victories came after Bradley attended graduation ceremonies in Brunswick on Saturday morning, followed by a flight back to St. Louis on Saturday evening in time for the start of the tournament on Sunday.
GOLF
LPGA: Golf is all Lexi Thompson has ever known, and one of the more popular players on the LPGA Tour decided this will be her last year playing a full schedule.
Thompson chose the U.S. Women’s Open — the major she first played when she was 12 — to announce that she will step away at the end of the year. The 29-year-old American became emotional while talking about the amount of work no one sees and the loneliness she has faced.
Thompson said she has contemplated semiretirement the last few years and cited mental health as one of the factors that contributed to her decision..
Thompson is playing her 18th U.S. Women’s Open before turning 30. She won the first of her 15 LPGA title at age 16.
AUTO RACING
NASCAR: Stewart-Haas Racing will close its NASCAR teams at the end of this season.
Co-owners Tony Stewart and Gene Haas announced the decision after nearly a year of rumors that their four-car Cup Series team was looking to sell its charters and either scale back or exit the stock car series completely..
SHR this year fields Cup Series cars for Josh Berry, Chase Briscoe, Noah Gragson and Ryan Preece. Berry and Gragson are in their first seasons with the team. SHR holds the 2025 option on Briscoe and he has not been contractually permitted to discuss future employment options even as rumors have swirled that SHR would close.
The move will also shutter the SHR Xfinity Series team, with two cars driven by Cole Custer and Riley Herbst.
FOOTBALL
NFL: The lawyer who represented two dozen women who accused Deshaun Watson of sexual assault or harassment said he is the lead counsel in a civil lawsuit filed last week against kicker Brandon McManus and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Tony Buzbee said on social media that the Buzbee Law Firm is lead counsel for two women who brought the case against McManus. ESPN reported Monday the women suing McManus allege he sexually assaulted them during a charter flight to London last year when he was playing for the Jaguars.
Buzbee said he and his clients attempted to resolve the matter without litigation.
• New Orleans Saints defensive end Tanoh Kpassagnon tore his Achilles tendon and is expected to miss at least the early part of the upcoming season, Coach Dennis Allen said.
Allen was explaining why Kpassagnon had been absent for voluntary offseason practices when he mentioned the injury, which he said occurred while the seven-year NFL veteran was sprinting during a drill in the indoor facility earlier in the offseason.
TRACK & FIELD
BANNED: Olympic pole vault gold medalist Thiago Braz was banned for 16 months for doping and will miss the Paris Games, track and field’s Athletics Integrity Unit said.
Braz won the Olympic title at his home Rio de Janeiro Games in 2016 and took bronze in Tokyo three years ago.
The 30-year-old Braz’s ban expires in November and he has filed an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the AIU said.
Braz claimed his positive test for ostarine was caused by a contaminated nutritional supplement and the anti-doping tribunal judges accepted by a 2-1 verdict he was not at significant fault, the AIU said.
The track and field investigation unit said it would consider an appeal to CAS after asking the first tribunal to impose a four-year ban.
Braz was “reckless” and acted with “indirect intent,” the AIU said, because he was aware of concerns with Brazilian pharmacies and “manifestly disregarded that risk.”
He tested positive at the Diamond League meeting in Stockholm last July, several weeks before the world championships.
Ostarine is a selective androgen receptor modulator used to enhance muscle growth and performance.
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