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6:49 PM on Monday, July 6

Kaitlyn Chen scored 14 points off the bench and the Golden State Valkyries shut down the Washington Mystics 62-49 for their fifth straight victory

6:46 PM on Monday, July 6

James Wood hit a grand slam in the fifth inning and the Washington Nationals overcame a five-run deficit and held off the Houston Astros 12-11 in the opener of a three-game series

6:38 PM on Monday, July 6

A former strength and conditioning coach at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania has been charged in the death of a football player who collapsed during training

6:32 PM on Monday, July 6

Cam Schlittler pitched eight innings for the second time this season, José Caballero homered twice and the New York Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-1

5:48 PM on Monday, July 6

The Los Angeles Dodgers have reinstated reliever Evan Phillips from the injured list 13 months after he had Tommy John surgery

4:59 PM on Monday, July 6

Nikola Jokic reiterated his hope Monday to remain with the Denver Nuggets for the rest of his career

4:51 PM on Monday, July 6

Egypt coach Hossam Hassan broke away from discussing his team’s upcoming World Cup round of 16 match against Argentina to give an impassioned monologue about the plight of the Palestinian people

4:01 PM on Monday, July 6

Philadelphia Phillies ace Cristopher Sánchez summed up one of the worse outings of his career with one word: crap

3:57 PM on Monday, July 6

Celtics president Brad Stevens says trading Jaylen Brown to Philadelphia was necessary for financial flexibility in the changing NBA landscape

3:44 PM on Monday, July 6

Veteran center Al Horford is staying with the Golden State Warriors, receiving a two-year, $14 million contract, according to a person with knowledge of the agreement

3:05 PM on Monday, July 6

Cristiano Ronaldo heard the cheers while walking off the pitch after his final World Cup match for Portugal

2:46 PM on Monday, July 6

Fox says the U.S. match against Bosnia-Herzegovina at the World Cup was viewed by nearly 26.4 million people, making it the most-watched English-language soccer telecast in the country’s history

2:42 PM on Monday, July 6

Salvador Perez, Luke Maile, Lane Thomas and Tyler Tolbert homered and the Kansas City Royals tagged Phillies ace Cristopher Sánchez for a career-worst nine earned runs in a 15-1 win over Philadelphia

2:26 PM on Monday, July 6

Spain has broken a World Cup record with its sixth consecutive clean sheet and goalkeeper Unai Simón has extended his record shutout streak to 609 minutes

1:40 PM on Monday, July 6

Free agent forward Rui Hachimura has agreed to a two-year contract with the Los Angeles Clippers

10:11 AM on Monday, July 6

Justin Greaves’ dogged innings of 180 from 325 balls against Sri Lanka has played West Indies into a strong position to claim its first test cricket series victory in four years

9:03 AM on Monday, July 6

FIFA’s stunning decision to lift the suspension of a star U.S. player riled the host country's World Cup opponent, Belgium

8:57 AM on Monday, July 6

President Donald Trump is taking credit for getting FIFA to review a red card issued at the World Cup against the United States’ star forward but says he did not demand an outcome

5:44 AM on Monday, July 6

President Donald Trump is responding to global outrage over his intervention with FIFA during the World Cup

2:38 AM on Monday, July 6

With the integrity of FIFA and the World Cup under attack from European soccer leaders, FIFA President Gianni Infantino acknowledged taking a call from President Donald Trump before U.S. forward Folarin Balogun was cleared to play against Belgium later Monday