July 2007 in sports

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31 July 2007 (Tuesday)

*Baseball:
**The Boston Red Sox acquire former Cy Young Award-winning pitcher Eric Gagné from the Texas Rangers in exchange for pitcher Kason Gabbard and two minor-league outfielders. ( [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070731/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bba_red_sox_rangers_trade_16;_ylt=AvLpiqyeXNTGtJs_NbxQb.ME1vAI AP via Yahoo] )
**The Rangers also trade first baseman Mark Teixeira and pitcher Ron Mahay to the Atlanta Braves for rookie catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia and four minor-leaguers. ( [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070731/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbo_rangers_braves_trade_17;_ylt=Akswkajj3P1aLJVoPEC4ZAEE1vAI AP via Yahoo] )

*Basketball:
**National Basketball Association:
***The Boston Celtics trade seven players to the Minnesota Timberwolves for 10-time all-star Kevin Garnett. It is the first time in NBA history so many players have been traded for a single player. The Timberwolves will receive Al Jefferson, Ryan Gomes, Gerald Green, Sebastian Telfair, Theo Ratliff, and 2 first-round daft picks. ( [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070731/ap_on_sp_bk_ne/bkn_celtics_garnett_8;_ylt=Aru_.GJb_2FCcfgXb5K6jBwE1vAI AP via Yahoo] )

:*FIBA Asia Championship quarterfinals at Tokushima, Japan:::*Group E: bk|IRI 76-64 bk-rt|TPE::*Group E: bk|LIB 90-68 bk-rt|QAT::*Group F: bk|KOR 70-65 bk-rt|JOR::*Group F: bk|KAZ 93-85 bk-rt|JPN

*Cricket:
**Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***2nd Test-5th Day:cr|IND 481 & 73/3 (24.1 ov.) cr|ENG 198 & 355 beat by 7 wickets
****"cr|IND leads series 1-0."

30 July 2007 (Monday)

*Basketball: FIBA Asia Championship at Tokushima, Japan:
**Group A: bk|IRI 77-68 bk-rt|CHN
**Group A: bk|JOR 84-76 bk-rt|PHI
***Jordan advances to the quarterfinals.
**Group B: bk|LIB 105-64 bk-rt|UAE
***Lebanon advances to the quarterfinals.
**Group B: bk|JPN 101-48 bk|KUW
**Group C: bk|IND 72-66 bk-rt|INA
**Group C: bk|QAT 76-69 bk-rt|KAZ
***Qatar wins Group C.
**Group D: bk|TPE 98-81 bk-rt|HKG
***Chinese Taipei advances to the quarterfinals.
**Group D: bk|KOR 89-79 bk-rt|SYR

*American football
**Legendary head coach Bill Walsh, who led the San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowls in 10 seasons in the 1980s and created the modern West Coast offense, dies after a battle with leukemia at his home in Stanford, California at the age of 75. [http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2954719 (ESPN)]

*Cricket:
**Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***2nd Test-4th Day:cr|ENG 198 & 355 lead cr|IND 481 & 10/0 (3 ov.) by 63 runs

29 July 2007 (Sunday)

*Baseball: July 29 - Cal Ripken, Jr. and Tony Gwynn were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. ( [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070730/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbo_hall_of_fame;_ylt=AgbuSDfjrz2LWcEpv4gGYigLMxIF AP via Yahoo!] )

*Auto racing:
**NASCAR: Allstate 400 at The Brickyard in Speedway, Indiana.
*:(1) Tony Stewart (2) Juan Pablo Montoya flagicon|COL (3) Jeff Gordon
**Champ Car: San Jose Grand Prix in San Jose, California, USA.
*:(1) Robert Doornbos flagicon|NED (2) Neel Jani flagicon|CHE (3) Oriol Servia flagicon|ESP

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 20 - Marcoussis - Paris-Champs-Élysées (146 km)
**Alberto Contador flagicon|ESP (DSC) wins the Tour in 91 hours and 26 seconds, 23 seconds ahead of Cadel Evans flagicon|AUS and 31 seconds ahead of Levi Leipheimer flagicon|USA. This was Contador's first attempt at the "Tour". [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Basketball: FIBA Asia Championship at Tokushima, Japan:
**Group A: bk|PHI 79-74 bk-rt|CHN
***China is eliminated from championship contention.
**Group A: bk|IRI 60-54 bk-rt|JOR
**Group B: bk|UAE 69-68 bk-rt|KUW - Rashid Alrabah's missed lay-up at the buzzer gave the game to UAE.
***Kuwait is eliminated from championship contention.
**Group B: bk|JPN 77-67 bk-rt|LIB
**Group C: bk|QAT 97-74 bk-rt|INA
**Group C: bk|KAZ 86-45 bk-rt|IND
***India and Indonesia are eliminated from championship contention.
***Qatar and Kazakhstan advance to the quarterfinals.
**Group D: bk|HKG 104-100 bk|SYR - Yi Ting Lo's freethrow gave the game out of reach for the Syrians.
***Syria is eliminated from championship contention.
**Group D: bk|KOR 85-70 bk-rt|TPE

*Football (soccer): 2007 AFC Asian Cup finals
**fb|IRQ 1-0 fb-rt|KSA at Jakarta

*Cricket:
**Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***2nd Test-3rd Day:cr|IND 481 lead cr|ENG 198 & 43/0 (16 ov.) by 240 runs

28 July 2007 (Saturday)

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 19 - Cognac - Angoulême (55 km) Individual time trial
** [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Basketball: FIBA Asia Championship at Tokushima, Japan:
**Group A: bk|JOR 78-65 bk-rt|CHN
**Group A: bk|IRI 75-69 bk-rt|PHI - in the only non-blowout game on the first day, the Philippines cut the Iranian lead from 16 to one point but a technical foul on Philippine coach Chot Reyes after the two-minute warning turned the tide in favor of the Iranians.
**Group B: bk|JPN 109-66 bk-rt|UAE
**Group B: bk|LIB 104-59 bk-rt|KUW
**Group C: bk|QAT 106-49 bk-rt|IND
**Group C: bk|KAZ 107-53 bk-rt|INA
**Group D: bk|KOR 107-67 bk-rt|HKG
**Group D: bk|TPE 99-60 bk-rt|SYR

*Cricket:
**Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***2nd Test-2nd Day:cr|IND 254/3 (79 ov.) lead cr|ENG 198 by 55 runs

*Football (soccer): 2007 AFC Asian Cup third-place match
**fb|KOR 0-0 (aet) fb-rt|JPN at Palembang
***fb|KOR won via penalties, 6-5.

27 July 2007 (Friday)

*Baseball: Barry Bonds hits his 754th career home run in the first inning against the Florida Marlins at AT&T Park.

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 18 - Cahors - Angoulême (211 km)
** [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Cricket:
**Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***2nd Test-1st Day:cr|ENG 169/7 (55 ov.) lead cr|IND by 169 runs

26 July 2007 (Thursday)

*College basketball: Wake Forest men's head coach Skip Prosser dies of an apparent heart attack. ( [http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaab/news;_ylt=At0Q67M4jeEHG00XO0fRqz45nYcB?slug=ap-wakeforest-prosser&prov=ap&type=lgns AP via Yahoo] )

*Cricket: Former Indian fast bowler Javagal Srinath's name is not included in the ICC match referees list for the upcoming Twenty20 World Championship to be contested in South Africa

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 17 - Pau - Castelsarrasin (188 km)
** [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

25 July 2007 (Wednesday)

*Auto racing: NASCAR NEXTEL Cup team Robert Yates Racing announces it will merge operations with Champ Car stalwart Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing.

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 16 - Orthez - Gourette-Col d'Aubisque (218 km)
** Yellow jersey wearer Michael Rasmussen flagicon|DNK wins the stage. [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)] Shortly afterwards, his Rabobank team announces it has withdrawn him from the Tour for violation of team rules, linked to his prior failure to notify the team's directeur sportif of his whereabouts and missing several doping tests. He had been previously kicked off the Danish national cycling team for the same reason. [http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/tdf2007/news/story?id=2949116 (ESPN)]
**Italian rider Cristian Moreni is announced to have failed a doping test after Stage 11. At the end of Stage 16, he is led away for questioning by French police, who also conduct a raid on the hotel used that day by his Cofidis team. The team pulls out of the Tour. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,290768,00.html (Fox News)]

*Football (soccer): 2007 AFC Asian Cup semifinals
**fb|IRQ 0-0 (aet) fb-rt|KOR at Kuala Lumpur
***fb|IRQ won via penalties, 4-3.
**fb|KSA 3-2 fb-rt|JPN at Hanoi

*Basketball: Philippine NCAA end of first round of eliminations:
**Colegio de San Juan de Letran 70, San Beda College 69
**Jose Rizal University 74, College of Saint Benilde 63
**Both Letran and San Beda finished on top of the standings with 5-1 records; host JRU and San Sebastian College - Recoletos finished tied for third at 3-3. Trailing are Mapua and University of Perpetual Help with 2-4 records and St. Benilde with 1-5.

*Cricket:
**Bangladesh cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2007
***3rd ODI:cr|SRI 196 (39.5/40 ov.) beat cr|BAN 157 (37.1/40 ov.) by 39 runs

24 July 2007 (Tuesday)

*Auto racing: NASCAR NEXTEL Cup teams DEI and Ginn Racing officially merge with the #01 team with Mark Martin, Regan Smith and Aric Almirola joining DEI and the points earned by the #13 car transferred to the DEI #15 team driven by Paul Menard.

*Basketball: NBA commissioner David Stern says the scandal involving former official Tim Donaghy is an isolated incident. ( [http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=Atuz9cpXelRXAtqOYizw.5m8vLYF?slug=ap-bettingprobe&prov=ap&type=lgns AP via Yahoo] )

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France:
**On the final rest day, it was announced that Team Astana has withdrawn their entire team after is was discovered that two-time stage winner Alexander Vinokourov flagicon|KAZ had been found guilty of blood doping after a test. [http://www.letour.fr (letour.fr)]

*Baseball:
**Houston Astros second baseman Craig Biggio, who had collected his 3,000th hit on June 28, announces that he will retire at the end of the 2007 MLB season. [http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070723&content_id=2103861&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb (MLB.com)]

23 July 2007 (Monday)

*Baseball: In his first game since being diagnosed with lymphoma last year, Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester gives up two runs on five hits in six innings in Boston's 6-2 win over the Cleveland Indians. ( [http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=ApqmWCRG8y895Tps7wZzqPepu7YF?slug=txredsoxlester&prov=st&type=lgns Ticker via Yahoo] )

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 15 - Foix - Loudenvielle (196 km)
** [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*American football: NFL commissioner Roger Goodell orders Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick not to report to training camp while he continues to face charges of illegal dog fighting and animal abuse. ( [http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AnyLaN4K3zrwe9CndDu8gAtDubYF?slug=ap-vick-leave&prov=ap&type=lgns AP via Yahoo] )

*Cricket:
**Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***1st Test-5th Day:cr|ENG 298 & 282 drew cr|IND 201 & 282/9 (96 ov.)

22 July 2007 (Sunday)

*Baseball: Mike Coolbaugh, first-base coach with the Tulsa Drillers of the Double-A Texas League, dies after getting hit in the head with a line drive at a game in North Little Rock, Arkansas. ( [http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AtJtKe3xXhQvTfipyP0eG1oRvLYF?slug=ap-coachkilled&prov=ap&type=lgns AP via Yahoo] )

*Auto racing:
**Formula One: European Grand Prix at Nürburg, Germany.
*:(1) Fernando Alonso flagicon|ESP (2) Felipe Massa flagicon|BRA (3) Mark Webber flagicon|AUS
**IRL: Honda 200 at Troy Township, Morrow County, Ohio.
*:(1) Scott Dixon flagicon|NZL (2) Dario Franchitti flagicon|UK (3) Hélio Castroneves flagicon|BRA
**Champ Car: West Edmonton Mall Grand Prix in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
*:(1) Sébastien Bourdais flagicon|FRA (2) Justin Wilson flagicon|UK (3) Graham Rahal flagicon|US

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 14 - Mazamet - Plateau-de-Beille (197 km)
** [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Golf: 2007 Open Championship
**Pádraig Harrington flagicon|IRL defeats Sergio García flagicon|ESP in a four-hole playoff to win the Open Championship in Carnoustie, Scotland. Harrington becomes the first European-based player to win the claret jug since Paul Lawrie won in 1999, also in a playoff at Carnoustie Golf Links.

*Cricket:
**Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***1st Test-4th Day:cr|ENG 298 & 282 leads cr|IND 201 & 137/3 (41 ov.) by 243 runs

*Football (soccer): 2007 AFC Asian Cup quarterfinals
**fb|IRI 0-0 (aet) fb-rt|KOR at Kuala Lumpur
***fb|KOR won via penalties, 4-2.
**fb|KSA 2-1 fb-rt|UZB at Jakarta

*Basketball: FIBA Under-19 World Championship at Serbia
**Final: bk|SRB 74-69 bk-rt|USA
**Third-place: bk|FRA 75-67 bk-rt|BRA

21 July 2007 (Saturday)

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 13 - Albi (54 km) Individual time trial
** [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Rugby union:
**2007 Tri Nations
***ru|NZL 26–12 ru-rt|AUS at Eden Park, Auckland — Dan Carter's seven penalties lead the All Blacks to their third consecutive Tri Nations crown. They also retain the Bledisloe Cup.

*Cricket:
**Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***1st Test-3rd Day:cr|ENG 298 & 77/2 (27 ov.) leads cr|IND 201 by 174 runs

*Football (soccer): 2007 AFC Asian Cup quarterfinals
**fb|JPN 1-1 (aet) fb-rt|AUS at Hanoi
***fb|JPN won via penalties, 4-3.
**fb|IRQ 2-0 fb-rt|VIE at Bangkok

20 July 2007 (Friday)

*Basketball:
**The National Basketball Association acknowledges that the FBI is investigating whether referee Tim Donaghy bet on NBA games, including those he officiated. ( [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070721/ap_on_sp_bk_ne/bkn_betting_probe;_ylt=AqylvT4pn1kcvyUJkbVn04Wi24cA AP via Yahoo!] )
**Philippine Basketball Association Fiesta Conference Finals at the Cuneta Astrodome, Pasay City:
***Alaska Aces 99, Talk 'N Text Phone Pals 96, "Alaska wins series, 4-3"

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 12 - Montpellier - Castres (179 km)
** [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Cricket:
**Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***1st Test-2nd Day:cr|ENG 298 lead cr|IND 145/4 (57 ov.) by 153 runs
**Bangladesh cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2007
***cr|SRI 234/6 (50 ov.) beat cr|BAN 164 (40.3 ov.) by 70 runs

19 July 2007 (Thursday)

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 11 - Marseille - Montpellier (182.5 km)
** [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Cricket:
**Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***1st Test-1st Day:cr|ENG 268/4 lead cr|IND by 268 runs

*Baseball:
**Barry Bonds hits two home runs, but his San Francisco Giants lose to the Chicago Cubs, 9-8. The two home runs give Bonds 71 multi-home run games in his career, one behind the record of 72 hit by Babe Ruth, and gives him 753 home runs for his career, two behind the record of Henry Aaron. Bonds's season total of 19 home runs also surpasses the record of 18 home runs hit by Carlton Fisk in a year in which the player turned at least 43 years old. He is two home runs behind Fisk's record of 70 home runs hit by a player after he turned 40.

*Poker: 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event:
**Jerry Yang defeats Tuan Lam in the final hand of the Main Event with a miracle Six of Hearts on the river to complete a five-through-nine straight and overcome Lam's pair of Queens to claim the $8.25 million (US) first prize.

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 10 - Tallard - Marseille (229 km)
** [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

18 July 2007 (Wednesday)

17 July 2007 (Tuesday)

*Auto racing:
**NASCAR NEXTEL Cup team Ginn Racing makes a major shakeup:
*** They release drivers Sterling Marlin and Joe Nemechek;
*** Closes down the shop for their #13 car due to a lack of sponsorship;
*** Announced Regan Smith will move into the #14 car for the rest of the 2007 season;
*** Sign former Joe Gibbs Racing driver Aric Almirola to drive part-time for the rest of the season with Mark Martin in the #01 car. [http://www.ginnracing.com/newsreader.cfm?articleid=527 Ginn Racing Press Release]

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 9 - Val-d'Isère - Briançon (159.5 km)
** [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*National Football League
**A federal grand jury indicts Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and three other men on charges of running a dogfighting operation. ( [http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AokqCSv2D1t7zjHRAUYB9vA5nYcB?slug=ap-vickindictment&prov=ap&type=lgns AP via Yahoo] )
**The Miami Dolphins release quarterback Daunte Culpepper. ( [http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AvoZkoYzBtZc5okZKWRtAME5nYcB?slug=ap-dolphins-culpepper&prov=ap&type=lgns AP via Yahoo] )

16 July 2007 (Monday)

*Cricket
**cr|ZIM has been dropped out of the ICC Test Championship because they only played 8 Tests in the last 3 years. The annual update of the Test Championship that gets rid of all results that happened before the last three years to make the table reflect current form which usually happens every August 1 happened now because there are no Test Series to be completed ahead of that date. [http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/current/story/302219.html Revised Standings and Full Story]

15 July 2007 (Sunday)

*Football (soccer): Copa América 2007 final at Venezuela:
**fb|BRA 3-0 fb|ARG at Maracaibo

*Auto racing:
**IRL: Firestone Indy 200 at Gladeville, Tennessee (postponed from July 14).
*:(1) Scott Dixon flagicon|NZL (2) Dario Franchitti flagicon|UK (3) Danica Patrick flagicon|US
**NASCAR: USG Sheetrock 400 at Joliet, Illinois.
*:(1) Tony Stewart (2) Matt Kenseth (3) Carl Edwards:Stewart breaks his 20-race losing streak with the win.

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 8 - Le Grand-Bornand - Tignes (165 km)
**Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) wins the stage in 4:49:40 and takes the lead both in the "maillot jaune" and "King of the Mountains" competitions, finishing the stage ahead of Iban Mayo (Saunier Duval-Prodir) (+2'47") and Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne). In the GC, Rasmussen leads in 39:37:42, 43 seconds ahead of Linus Gerdemann, 2'39" ahead of Mayo, and 2'51" ahead of Valverde. Rest day tomorrow. [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Basketball: Manila Invitational at the Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City
**Final: bk|PHI 87-81 bk-rt|LIB
**Third-place game: bk|SYR 90-85 bk-rt|CHN

*American football
**World Cup - Kawasaki, Japan:
***Final: flagicon|USA USA 23-20 Japan flagicon|Japan (OT)

*Cricket:
**Quadrangular Series in Ireland in 2007
***6th ODI:cr|IRE 222/7 (50 ov.) beat cr|SCO 199 (49.3 ov.) by 23 runs
****"cr|West Indies" won the quadrangular series by 1 point.

*Baseball:
**The Philadelphia Phillies become the first MLB franchise to lose 10,000 games, falling to the St. Louis Cardinals by a score of 10-2.

14 July 2007 (Saturday)

*Football (soccer): Copa América 2007 third place match at Venezuela:
**fb|MEX 3-1 fb|URU at Caracas

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 7 - Bourg-en-Bresse - Le Grand-Bornand (197 km)
**In the first mountain stage of this years' tour, Linus Gerdemann (T-Mobile) wins both the stage and the "maillot jaune" with a stage time of 4:53:13, followed today by Inigo Landaluze (Euskaltel-Euskadi) in +40" and David de la Fuente (Saunier Duval-Prodir) in +1'39". In the GC, Gerdemann leads in 34:43:40, ahead of Landaluze (+1'24") and de la Fuente (+2'45"). Previous leader Fabian Cancellara goes down to 108th place. [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Cricket:
**Bangladesh cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2007
***3rd Test-4th Day: cr|SRI 500/4 (dec) beat cr|BAN 131 & 176 (59 ov.) by an innings and 193 runs. Sri Lankan off spinner Muttiah Muralitharan becomes the second bowler in history, after Shane Warne, to collect 700 Test wickets.

*Rugby union:
**2007 Tri Nations
***ru|NZL 33–6 ru-rt|RSA at Jade Stadium, Christchurch — The All Blacks score three tries in the last 12 minutes to pull away from what was widely considered a Springboks "B" side. This sets up a winner-take-all showdown between the All Blacks and the ru|AUS Wallabies on July 21 in Auckland, with the Tri Nations crown and the Bledisloe Cup at stake.

*American football:
**World Cup - Kawasaki, Japan:
***5th Place Game: flagicon|FRA France 0-3 South Korea flagicon|KOR
***3rd Place Game: flagicon|SWE Sweden 0-7 Germany flagicon|GER

13 July 2007 (Friday)

*The Fifteenth Pan American Games begin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [http://www.rio2007.org.br/data/pages/8A488A8F12D856280112D857246C0006.htm (Official Website)]

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 6 - Semur-en-Auxois - Bourg-en-Bresse (200 km)
**In the last stage before the tour will enter the Alps, Tom Boonen (Quick Step-Innergetic) sprints to his first stagewin of the Tour in two years. He finished in 5h 20'29" followed by Óscar Freire (Rabobank) and Erik Zabel (Team Milram). Boonen takes over the lead in the Points classification and the top 5 of the General Classification remains unchanged. [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

12 July 2007 (Thursday)

* Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 5 - Chablis - Autun (182.5 km)
** Filippo Pozzato (Liquigas) won the stage in a time of 4:39:01 followed by Óscar Freire (Rabobank) and Daniele Bennati (Lampre-Fondital) in the same time. In the GC Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) keeps wearing the yellow jersey with a total time of 24h 28'66", followed by Andreas Klöden (Astana Team) and Pozatto takes 3rd place. Alexander Vinokourov crashed before the final climb of the day and lost precious time in his attempt to win the Tour this year. [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]
* Cricket:
** Bangladesh cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2007
*** 3rd Test-2nd Day:cr|BAN 131 lead cr|SRI 30/0 (8.4 ov.) by 101 runs
** Quadrangular Series in Ireland in 2007
*** cr|West Indies 165/6 (29.5/30 ov.) beat cr|SCO 152/7 (30/30 ov.) by 4 wickets (D/L)
* American Football:
** World Cup - Kawasaki, Japan:
*** flagicon|SWE Sweden 0-48 Japan flagicon|JPN
*** flagicon|USA USA 33-7 Germany flagicon|GER

11 July 2007 (Wednesday)

*Football (soccer): Copa América 2007 semifinals at Venezuela:
**fb|MEX 0-3 fb|ARG at Puerto Ordaz

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 4 - Villers-Cotterêts - Joigny (193 km)
**Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole) wins the stage in 4:37:47, followed by Robert Hunter (Barloworld), and Óscar Freire (Rabobank) in the same time. In the GC, Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) retains the "maillot jaune" for another day, in 19:49:55, followed by Hushovd (+29"), Andreas Klöden (Astana Team) (+33") and David Millar (Saunier Duval-Prodir) in +41". [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Cricket:
**Bangladesh cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2007
***3rd Test-1st Day:cr|BAN 72/4 (29 ov.) lead cr|SRI by 72 runs
**Quadrangular Series in Ireland in 2007
***cr|IRE 210/8 (50 ov.) beat cr|NED 209/6 (50 ov.) by 1 run

10 July 2007 (Tuesday)

*Football (soccer): Copa América 2007 semifinals at Venezuela:
**fb|URU 2-2 (aet) fb|BRA at Maracaibo
***fb|BRA won via penalties, 4-5.

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 3 - Waregem - Compiègne (236 km)
**The longest stage in this years' Tour is won by Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) in 6:36:15, who retains the "maillot jaune" with a total time of 15:12:08 in the GC. Erik Zabel (Team Milram) and Danilo Napolitano (Lampre-Fondital) finished the stage in the same time. In the GC, Cancellara is pursued by Andreas Klöden (Astana Team) in +33", David Millar (Saunier Duval-Prodir) in +41", George Hincapie (Discovery Channel) in +43", and Bradley Wiggins (Cofidis, also in +43". [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Baseball:
**Major League Baseball All-Star Game at AT&T Park, San Francisco, California
*** American League 5, National League 4. Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners earns MVP honors with a 3-for-3 performance, capped off with the first inside-the-park home run in All-Star Game history.

*Basketball:
**Jones Cup at Taipei, Republic of China:
***flagicon|JPN Universiade team 102-101 (OT) bk|JOR
***bk|LIB 85-77 bk-rt|QAT - Lebanon takes second place honors
***bk|KAZ 107-90 bk-rt|PHI - Despite losing the game, the Philippines takes third place honors after a logjam of teams with 5-4 records since the Philippines beat all of their opponents with 5-4 records
***bk|IRI 91-74 Athletes in Action flagicon|USA
***bk|KOR|name=Korea 82-59 bk-rt|TPE - Korea gave the Taiwanese a taste of what will happen at the Asian Championships in which they're bracketed at the same group.

*Cricket:
**Quadrangular Series in Ireland in 2007:
***1st ODI:cr|West Indies 82/0 (14.3 ov.) beat cr|NED 80 (31.2 ov.) by 10 wickets

*American Football:
**World Cup - Kawasaki, Japan:
***flagicon|SWE Sweden 16-14 France flagicon|FRA
***flagicon|USA USA 77-0 South Korea flagicon|KOR

9 July 2007 (Monday)

*Baseball:
**2007 State Farm Home Run Derby: Vladimir Guerrero of the Los Angeles Angels wins, defeating Alex Rios of the Toronto Blue Jays in the final round.

*Basketball:
**Jones Cup at Taipei, Republic of China:
***bk|LIB 82-74 Universiade team flagicon|JPN
***bk|JOR 72-71 bk-rt|IRI - Jordan clinch their first Jones Cup championship.
***bk|PHI 88-80 bk-rt|QAT
***bk|KOR 81-78 bk-rt|KAZ
***bk|TPE 83-72 Athletes in Action flagicon|USA

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 2 - Dunkerque - Ghent (168.5 km)
**Gert Steegmans (QSI) outsprints his team-mate Tom Boonen to win the stage finishing in their native Belgium in 3:48:22. A massive pile-up involving some 170 of the riders 2 km from the finish line means that the whole peloton get the same time, as allowed by the rules as they were within 3 km of the finish. In the GC, Fabian Cancellara retains the "maillot jaune" for the third day, with a time of 8:36:13. [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

8 July 2007 (Sunday)

*Football (soccer): Copa América 2007 quarterfinals at Venezuela:
**fb|MEX 6-0 fb|PAR at Maturín
**fb|ARG 4-0 fb|PER at Barquisimeto

*Auto racing:
**Formula One: British Grand Prix at Silverstone, England.
*:(1) Kimi Räikkönen flagicon|FIN (2) Fernando Alonso flagicon|ESP (3) Lewis Hamilton flagicon|UK
**Champ Car: Grand Prix of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
*:(1) Will Power flagicon|AUS (2) Neel Jani flagicon|CHE (3) Justin Wilson flagicon|UK
**IRL: Camping World Watkins Glen Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, New York.
*:(1) Scott Dixon flagicon|NZL (2) Sam Hornish, Jr. flagicon|US (3) Dario Franchitti flagicon|UK

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Stage 1 - London - Canterbury (203 km)
**Robbie McEwen (Predictor-Lotto), at the back of the "peloton" with 5 km to go, surges through in the last 100 metres to win the stage in 4:39:01, followed by Thor Hushovd (Crédit Agricole) and Tom Boonen (QSI). In the GC, Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) retains the "maillot jaune" in 4:47:51, followed by Andreas Klöden (Astana Team) in +13", David Millar (Saunier Duval-Prodir) in +21" (leading the King of the Mountains competition), George Hincapie (Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team) in +23", and Bradley Wiggins (Cofidis) in +23". [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Basketball:
**Jones Cup at Taipei, Republic of China:
***flagicon|USA Athletes in Action 108-83 Universiade team flagicon|JPN
***bk|LIB 73-69 bk-rt|KOR|name=Korea
***bk|IRI 82-60 bk-rt|KAZ
***bk|PHI 82-64 bk-rt|TPE - ESPN Star Sports' coverage being produced by its Taiwanese unit was cut off to give way to the British Grand Prix when Chinese Taipei was trailing by 20 points with 3 minutes to go in the fourth quarter.
***bk|JOR 91-85 bk-rt|QAT

*Major League Baseball:
**The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Colorado Rockies, 6-5, to temporarily avoid becoming the first MLB team to lose 10,000 games in its history before the 2007 All-Star Break. During the game, the Phillies players all came out and assisted the grounds crew at Coors Field in placing the tarp over the infield when high winds whipped the tarp out of control, lifting many of the groundskeepers off the ground, some as high as 10 feet (3 meters). No one was hurt.

*Tennis: 2007 Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles Final:
**flagicon|SUI Roger Federer def. flagicon|ESP Rafael Nadal 7-6(7), 4-6, 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-2

7 July 2007 (Saturday)

*Football (soccer): Copa América 2007 quarterfinals at Venezuela:
**fb|URU 4-1 fb|VEN at San Cristóbal
**fb|BRA 6-1 fb|CHI at Puerto la Cruz

*Baseball:
**Pitcher Erik Bedard of the Baltimore Orioles faces the minimum 27 batters and strikes out 15 in a 3-0 win over the Texas Rangers. Bedard gives up two hits, both of which are followed by double plays. ( [http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap?gid=270707113 AP via Yahoo] )

*Auto racing:
**NASCAR Nextel Cup: Pepsi 400 at Daytona Beach, Florida.
*:(1) Jamie McMurray (2) Kyle Busch (3) Kurt Busch::The photo finish (0.05 seconds) is the second closest in NASCAR history.

*Cycling: 2007 Tour de France - Prologue - London (7.9 km) Individual time trial
**GC: 1. Fabian Cancellara (Team CSC) 8'50"; 2. Andreas Klöden (Astana Team) +13"; 3. George Hincapie (Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team) +23"; 4. Bradley Wiggins (Cofidis) +23" [http://www.letour.fr (leTour.fr)]

*Basketball:
**Jones Cup at Taipei, Republic of China:
***bk|JOR 72-68 bk|LIB
***flagicon|USA Athletes in Action 92-78 bk-rt|KAZ
***bk|PHI 89-79 bk-rt|IRI
***bk|KOR|name=Korea 102-58 Universiade team flagicon|JPN
***bk|TPE 75-70 bk-rt|QAT

*Cricket:
**West Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***3rd ODI:cr|West Indies 289/5 (50 ov.) beat cr|ENG 196 (44.2 ov.) by 93 runs
****Chris Gayle goes past 6000 career ODI runs.
****"cr|West Indies win the series 2-1 with none to play."

*Rugby union:
**2007 Tri Nations
***ru|AUS 25–17 ru-rt|RSA at Telstra Stadium, Sydney — The Springboks, fielding what was widely thought to be a "B team", score two tries in the first seven minutes and take a 17–0 lead after 16 minutes. The Wallabies come back to give longtime icons George Gregan and Stephen Larkham a win in their last game for the Wallabies on Australian soil.

*Tennis: 2007 Wimbledon, London, England
**Ladies' Singles Final:
***(23) flagicon|USA Venus Williams def. (18) flagicon|FRA Marion Bartoli, 6-4, 6-1
**Mens' Singles Semifinals:
***(1) flagicon|SUI Roger Federer def. (12) flagicon|FRA Richard Gasquet, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4
***(2) flagicon|ESP Rafael Nadal def. (4) flagicon|SER Novak Đoković, 3-6, 6-1, 4-1 ret. (inj)

6 July 2007 (Friday)

*Baseball:
**The Minnesota Twins sweep a doubleheader against the Chicago White Sox, 20-14 and 12-0. Minnesota's 32 runs are the most scored by a team in a doubleheader since 1939. Justin Morneau hits three home runs in Game 2. ( [http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/recap;_ylt=AvPtIQmb8iLGCOAqL7Us5664u7YF?gid=270706304 AP via Yahoo] )

*Basketball:
**Jones Cup at Taipei, Republic of China:
***bk|QAT 86-68 Universiade team flagicon|JPN
***flagicon|USA Athletes in Action 81-70 bk-rt|LIB
***bk|JOR 74-70 bk-rt|PHI
***bk|IRI 68-61 bk-rt|KOR|name=Korea
***bk|TPE 72-64 bk-rt|KAZ

*Tennis: 2007 Wimbledon, London, England
**Ladies' Singles Semifinals:
***(23) flagicon|USA Venus Williams def. (6) flagicon|SER Ana Ivanović, 6-2, 6-4
***(18) flagicon|FRA Marion Bartoli def. (1) flagicon|BEL Justine Henin, 1-6, 7-5, 6-1

5 July 2007 (Thursday)

*Basketball:
**Jones Cup at Taipei, Republic of China:
***bk|QAT 80-70 bk-rt|KAZ
***bk|IRI 86-59 Universiade team flagicon|JPN
***bk|JOR 69-66 Athletes in Action flagicon|USA
***bk|PHI 88-84 bk-rt|KOR|name=Korea
***bk|TPE 78-77 (OT) bk-rt|LIB - Lebanon's Fadi El Khatib missed two freethrows at the end of regulation to set up a three-pointer by Lin Chih-jay at the buzzer. At the end of OT, a put-back by Tsun Wen-Din after a missed three-pointer by Chen Hsin-an put them ahead 78-77; Rony Fahed missed a field-goal to win the game for the Taiwanese.

*Cricket:
**Bangladesh cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2007
***2nd Test, 3rd Day: cr|SRI 451/6 (dec) beat cr|BAN 62 & 299 (86.2 ov.) by an innings and 90 runs

4 July 2007 (Wednesday)

*Competitive eating:
**92nd Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island, New York City:
***Joey Chestnut of San Jose, California upsets six-time champion Takeru Kobayashi by downing a record 66 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes. ( [http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/04/ap3884400.html AP via "Forbes"] )

*Basketball:
**Jones Cup at Taipei, Republic of China:
***bk|LIB 90-77 bk-rt|KAZ
***bk|QAT 74-72 bk-rt|IRI
***flagicon|JPN Universiade team 86-84 bk-rt|PHI - The Philippines had another collapse at the end game as Yusuke Otada converted a layup via a fastbreak after a turnover with a second remaining.
***flagicon|USA Athletes in Action 79-65 bk-rt|KOR|name=Korea
***bk|JOR 81-62 bk-rt|TPE

*Cricket:
**Bangladesh cricket team in Sri Lanka in 2007
***2nd Test, 2nd Day: cr|SRI 451/6 (dec) lead cr|BAN 62 & 69/4 (14 ov.) by 320 runs
****cr|BAN collapse to their lowest ever test score in the first innings
**West Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***cr|West Indies 278/5 (50 ov.) beat cr|ENG 217 (46 ov.) by 61 runs

*Rugby league:
**In the final match of the 2007 State of Origin, New South Wales avoid a series whitewash by defeating Queensland 18–4 at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane. Queensland had already secured the series win with victories in the first two matches.

*Winter Olympic Games
**Sochi, Russia is awarded the 2014 Winter Olympics.

3 July 2007 (Tuesday)

*2007 America's Cup:
**America's Cup holders flagicon|CHE Alinghi (SUI-100) retain the Cup in Valencia, Spain, defeating flagicon|NZL Emirates Team New Zealand (NZL-92) by 1 second to secure a 5-2 victory in the best-of-nine final.

*Baseball:
**Barry Bonds home run record chase:
***Bonds hits career home run No. 751, a two-run shot off Aaron Harang, in the first inning of the San Francisco Giants' 7-3 loss to the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park. He is now four homers shy of Hank Aaron.

*Basketball:
**Jones Cup at Taipei, Republic of China:
***flagicon|USA Athletes in Action 106-68 bk-rt|QAT
***bk|KAZ 96-61 Universiade team flagicon|JPN
***bk|KOR|name=Korea 71-65 bk-rt|JOR
***bk|LIB 65-62 bk-rt|PHI
***bk|IRI 85-69 bk-rt|TPE

2 July 2007 (Monday)

*Baseball:
**MLB::
***New York Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens achieves his 350th win in a 5–1 victory over the Minnesota Twins.

*Basketball:
**Jones Cup at Taipei, Republic of China:
***bk|JOR 63-61 bk-rt|KAZ
***bk|LIB 80-71 bk-rt|IRI
***bk|KOR|name=Korea 70-69 bk-rt|QAT - Kim Min-soo tipped in Yang Dong-guen's missed layup as the buzzer sounded to give Korea the come-from-behind win.
***bk|PHI 72-67 Athletes in Action flagicon|USA
***bk|TPE 90-77 Universiade team flagicon|JPN

1 July 2007 (Sunday)

*Golf
**U.S. Women's Open
***Cristie Kerr won her first major championship with a two-stroke victory over Angela Park and Lorena Ochoa.

*Auto racing:
**Formula One: French Grand Prix at Magny-Cours.
*:(1) Kimi Räikkönen flagicon|FIN (2) Felipe Massa flagicon|BRA (3) Lewis Hamilton flagicon|UK
**Champ Car: Grand Prix of Mont-Tremblant in Saint-Jovite, Quebec, Canada.
*:(1) Robert Doornbos flagicon|NED (2) Sébastien Bourdais flagicon|FRA (3) Will Power flagicon|AUS
**NASCAR Nextel Cup: Lenox Industrial Tools 300 at Loudon, New Hampshire.
*:(1) Denny Hamlin (2) Jeff Gordon (3) Martin Truex, Jr.

*Cricket:
**Pakistan in Scotland
***Match abandoned without a ball bowled
**2007 Future Cup
***cr|IND 152/4 (30.2/31 ov.) beat cr|RSA 148/7 (31/31 ov.) by 6 wickets
**West Indian cricket team in England in 2007
***cr|ENG 225 (49.5 ov.) beat cr|West Indies 146 (39.5 ov.) by 79 runs
**2007-08 ICC Intercontinental Cup
***cr|NED 297 & 310 beat cr|CAN 337/9 (dec) & 225 (70 ov.) by 45 runs

*Ice Hockey
**NHL
***Beginning of free agency, allowing teams to offer contracts, and sign free agents.