Scoreboard (July 18)

thursday’s TV SCHEDULE

CYCLING

Midnight Tour de France (Stage 18) NBCSN

GOLF

10 p.m. British Open (second round) ESPN

1 a.m. British Open (second round) ESPN

8 a.m. LPGA Tour: Marathon Classic (first round) TGC

10 a.m. PGA Tour: Sanderson Farms Championship (first round) TGC

HORSE RACING

10:30 a.m. Trackside Live! FOXSP2

WNBA BASKETBALL

4 p.m. Phoenix at Los Angeles ESPN2

FRIDAY’S TV SCHEDULE

BOXING

4 p.m. Super middleweights: Badou Jack vs. Farah Ennis SHO

Lightweights: Mickey Bey vs. John Molina

4:30 p.m. Junior welterweights: Olusegun Ajose vs. Hank Lundy ESPN2

CYCLING

Midnight Tour de France (Stage 19) NBCSN

GOLF

1 a.m. British Open (second round) ESPN

8 a.m. LPGA Tour: Marathon Classic (second round) TGC

10 a.m. PGA Tour: Sanderson Farms Championship (second round) TGC

HORSE RACING

9 a.m. Trackside Live! FOXSP2

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

1 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Boston or Tampa Bay at Toronto MLB

1 p.m. L.A. Dodgers at Washington FOXSP2

4 p.m. Oakland at L.A. Angels FOXSP

2:30 p.m. Chicago Cubs at Colorado WGN

SOCCER

2:25 p.m. Liga MX: Morelia at Queretaro ESPN2

* Tape-delayed broadcast

Soccer

MLS Glance

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA

Kansas City 9 5 6 33 29 19

Montreal 9 5 4 31 31 29

New York 9 7 4 31 29 24

Philadelphia 8 6 6 30 32 30

Houston 8 6 5 29 22 19

New England 6 7 6 24 23 18

Columbus 6 8 5 23 23 23

Chicago 6 9 3 21 20 28

Toronto FC 2 10 7 13 17 28

D.C. 2 13 4 10 8 29

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA

Real Salt Lake 11 5 4 37 32 18

Portland 8 2 9 33 30 18

Vancouver 9 5 5 32 32 26

FC Dallas 8 5 7 31 27 27

Los Angeles 9 8 3 30 30 24

Colorado 8 7 6 30 25 23

Seattle 7 7 3 24 21 20

San Jose 6 9 6 24 21 32

Chivas USA 4 11 5 17 18 35

NOTE: Three points for victory one point for tie.

Wednesday’s results

Colorado 2, New England 1

Chivas USA 1, Toronto FC 0

Saturday’s games

New York at Toronto FC, 10 a.m.

Colorado at Seattle FC, 10 a.m.

FC Dallas at Montreal, 1 p.m.

New England at Columbus, 1:30 p.m.

Portland at Philadelphia, 1:30 p.m.

D.C. United at Chicago, 2:30 p.m.

Kansas City at Real Salt Lake, 4 p.m.

Vancouver at Los Angeles, 4:30 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

WNBA glance

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB

Atlanta 10 4 .714 —

Chicago 10 4 .714 —

Washington 8 7 .533 2½

New York 6 8 .429 4

Indiana 5 8 .385 4½

Connecticut 4 9 .308 5½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L Pct GB

Minnesota 11 3 .786 —

Los Angeles 11 4 .733 ½

Phoenix 8 7 .533 3½

Seattle 6 9 .400 5½

San Antonio 4 11 .267 7½

Tulsa 4 13 .235 8½

Tuesday’s results

Washington 86, San Antonio 64

Wednesday’s results

Tulsa 86, Seattle 59

Los Angeles 77, Atlanta 73

Today’s games

Chicago at New York, 5 a.m.

Phoenix at Los Angeles, 4 p.m.

Friday’s games

Washington at Indiana, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at San Antonio, 2 p.m.

Connecticut at Tulsa, 2 p.m.

golf

PGA Tour Statistics

Through July 14

c FedExCup Season Points

1, Tiger Woods, 2,380.000. 2, Matt Kuchar, 1,963.500. 3, Brandt Snedeker, 1,603.357. 4, Phil Mickelson, 1,517.500. 5, Billy Horschel, 1,459.289. 6, Justin Rose, 1,357.713. 7, Bill Haas, 1,320.083. 8, Kevin Streelman, 1,259.083. 9, Boo Weekley, 1,195.967. 10, Jason Day, 1,148.476.

c Scoring Average

1, Tiger Woods, 69.082. 2, Justin Rose, 69.158. 3, Charl Schwartzel, 69.374. 4, Sergio Garcia, 69.545. 5, Adam Scott, 69.624. 6, Matt Kuchar, 69.652. 7, Luke Donald, 69.699. 8, Freddie Jacobson, 69.786. 9, Brandt Snedeker, 69.829. 10, Phil Mickelson, 69.877.

c Driving Distance

1, Nicolas Colsaerts, 306.6. 2 (tie), Luke List and Gary Woodland, 305.7. 4, Dustin Johnson, 304.9. 5, Bubba Watson, 304.1. 6, Robert Garrigus, 303.5. 7, Keegan Bradley, 303.3. 8, Jason Kokrak, 303.1. 9, Eric Meierdierks, 302.0. 10, Ryan Palmer, 301.7.

c Driving Accuracy Percentage

1, Jim Furyk, 71.21%. 2, Chez Reavie, 71.14%. 3, Ken Duke, 70.77%. 4, Tim Clark , 70.70%. 5, Jerry Kelly, 70.43%. 6, Mark Wilson, 70.29%. 7, Jeff Maggert, 70.23%. 8, Henrik Stenson, 69.84%. 9, Justin Hicks, 69.74%. 10, Jin Park, 69.01%.

c Greens in Regulation Percentage

1, Graham DeLaet, 72.38%. 2, Peter Tomasulo, 71.88%. 3, Henrik Stenson, 70.22%. 4, Boo Weekley, 70.10%. 5, Ricky Barnes, 69.89%. 6, Bubba Watson, 69.62%. 7, Bill Haas, 69.54%. 8 (tie), Nick Watney and Ross Fisher, 69.44%. 10, Kevin Stadler, 69.31%.

c Total Driving

1, Justin Rose, 41. 2, Graham DeLaet, 49. 3, Keegan Bradley, 72. 4, Henrik Stenson, 74. 5, D.J. Trahan, 85. 6, Matt Jones, 93. 7 (tie), Hunter Mahan and Boo Weekley, 94. 9, Jordan Spieth, 97. 10, Jim Herman, 101.

c Strokes Gained – Putting

1, Sergio Garcia, .989. 2, Greg Chalmers, .938. 3, Stephen Ames, .847. 4, Tiger Woods, .833. 5, James Driscoll, .723. 6, Luke Donald, .717. 7, Aaron Baddeley, .711. 8, Bryce Molder, .709. 9, Peter Hanson, .702. 10, Russell Henley, .648.

c Birdie Average

1, Phil Mickelson, 4.44. 2, Billy Horschel, 4.27. 3, Tiger Woods, 4.19. 4, Bubba Watson, 4.17. 5, Brandt Snedeker, 4.13. 6 (tie), Ryan Palmer and Charl Schwartzel, 4.08. 8, Charley Hoffman, 3.98. 9, Jimmy Walker, 3.96. 10, Justin Rose, 3.94.

c Eagles (Holes per)

1, Tiger Woods, 82.3. 2, Dustin Johnson, 90.0. 3 (tie), Ernie Els and Joe Ogilvie, 102.0. 5, Michael Thompson, 103.5. 6, Patrick Reed, 106.4. 7, Henrik Stenson, 108.0. 8, Kevin Stadler, 109.8. 9, Robert Garrigus, 110.3. 10, Sergio Garcia, 111.6.

c Sand Save Percentage

1, Justin Rose, 70.45%. 2, K.J. Choi, 69.70%. 3, Rickie Fowler, 65.43%. 4, Steven Bowditch, 65.09%. 5, Stuart Appleby, 64.29%. 6, Matt Kuchar, 63.92%. 7, Cameron Tringale, 62.20%. 8, Tom Gillis, 62.16%. 9, Ben Crane, 62.00%. 10, Casey Wittenberg, 61.46%.

c All-Around Ranking

1, Tiger Woods, 194. 2, Justin Rose, 252. 3, Brandt Snedeker, 354. 4 (tie), Sergio Garcia and Rory McIlroy, 369. 6, Phil Mickelson, 371. 7, Charley Hoffman , 374. 8, Keegan Bradley, 381. 9, Billy Horschel, 385. 10, Bill

Haas, 393

LPGA TOUR STATISTICS

Through July 14

c Scoring

1, Inbee Park, 69.46. 2, Stacy Lewis, 69.84. 3, Suzann Pettersen, 70.11. 4, Na Yeon Choi, 70.12. 5, I.K. Kim, 70.38. 6 (tie), Jessica Korda and So Yeon Ryu, 70.40. 8, Lizette Salas, 70.50. 9, Karrie Webb, 70.55. 10, Paula Creamer, 70.58.

c Driving Distance

1, Nicole Smith, 274.9. 2, Brittany Lincicome, 271.6. 3, Lexi Thompson, 270.5. 4, Gerina Piller, 270.0. 5, Maude-Aimee Leblanc, 269.4. 6, Daniela Iacobelli, 268.5. 7, Jessica Korda, 267.8. 8, Marina Stuetz, 266.1. 9, Yani Tseng, 265.6. 10, Alena Sharp, 265.4.

c Greens in Regulation Pct.

1, Suzann Pettersen, 75.10%. 2, Chella Choi, 74.30%. 3, Jodi Ewart Shadoff, 74.30%. 4, Paula Creamer, 74.20%. 5, Na Yeon Choi, 74.10%. 6, Stacy Lewis, 73.90%. 7, Jessica Korda, 73.70%. 8, Jennifer Johnson, 73.70%. 9, So Yeon Ryu, 73.40%. 10, Gerina Piller, 72.80%.

c Putting Average

1, Inbee Park, 1.699. 2, Stacy Lewis, 1.748. 3, Jiyai Shin, 1.760. 4, Hee Kyung Seo, 1.769. 5, Na Yeon Choi, 1.771. 6, Haeji Kang, 1.771. 7, Lizette Salas, 1.771. 8, Ai Miyazato, 1.771. 9, Caroline Hedwall, 1.772. 10, Yani Tseng, 1.773.

c Birdie Average

1, Stacy Lewis, 4.33. 2, Jessica Korda, 4.18. 3, Inbee Park, 4.15. 4, Na Yeon Choi, 3.91. 5, Karrie Webb, 3.82. 6, So Yeon Ryu, 3.80. 7, Jiyai Shin, 3.71. 8, Suzann Pettersen, 3.69. 9, Caroline Hedwall, 3.63. 10, Hee Young Park, 3.60.

c Eagle Average

1, Yani Tseng, .245. 2, Mi Hyang Lee, .235. 3, Karlin Beck, .231. 4, Pat Hurst, .222. 5, Dori Carter, .207. 6, Danah Bordner, .185. 7 (tie), Amy Hung and Wendy Ward, .179. 9, Brittany Lincicome, .178. 10, Lexi Thompson, .176.

c Sand Save Percentage

1, Paz Echeverria, 63.64%. 2, Karen Stupples, 61.54%. 3, Dewi Claire Schreefel, 61.22%. 4, Esther Choe, 61.11%. 5, Morgan Pressel, 60.66%. 6 (tie), Moira Dunn and Jennifer Song, 60.42%. 8, Brooke Pancake, 60.00%. 9, Yani Tseng, 59.72%. 10, Danielle Kang, 59.68%.

c Rounds Under Par

1, Inbee Park, .717. 2, Stacy Lewis, .705. 3 (tie), Jiyai Shin and Suzann Pettersen, .646. 5, Karrie Webb, .627. 6, Jessica Korda, .608. 7, I.K. Kim, .604. 8 (tie), Karine Icher and Lizette Salas, .600. 10,

TRANSACTIONS

BASEBALL

American League

TEXAS RANGERS—Announced the resignation of president of business operations Rick George to become director of athletics at Colorado.

National League

SAN DIEGO PADRES—Named Mike Dee president and chief executive officer.

South Atlantic League

KANNAPOLIS INTIMIDATORS—Transferred C Angel Rosario to Bristol (Appalachian).

American Association

GARY SOUTHSHORE RAILCATS—Acquired INF Ryan Brockett from Schaumburg (FL) for future considerations.

KANSAS CITY T-BONES—Released INF Kody Hightower.

LAREDO LEMURS—Signed OF Daniel Poma.

Atlantic League

LONG ISLAND DUCKS—Signed C Anthony Armenio.

Can-Am League

QUEBEC CAPITALES—Released OF Marc Bourgeois.

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association

LOS ANGELES LAKERS—Signed G Jordan Farmar.

MILWAUKEE BUCKS—Signed G-F Carlos Delfino and C Zaza Puchulia.

TORONTO RAPTORS — Bought out the contract of C Marcus Camby and place him on waivers. Announced they were using their amnesty provision on F Linas Kleiza.

FOOTBALL

National Football League

DALLAS COWBOYS—Waived OT J.B. Shugarts and QB Dalton Williams.

DETROIT LIONS—Released RB Jahvid Best.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS—Signed K Lawrence Tynes.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS—Agreed to terms with F Kyle Beach on a one-year contract.

NASHVILLE PREDATORS—Signed F Rich Clune to a two-year contract.

SOCCER

Major League Soccer

D.C. UNITED—Traded D Brandon McDonald to Real Salt Lake for a 2014 third-round pick in the 2014 MLS SuperDraft and a conditional 2015 draft pick.

NASL

FORT LAUDERDALE STRIKERS—Named Gunter Kronsteiner coach.

COLLEGE

CASTLETON STATE—Announced the resignation of men’s ice hockey coach Alex Todd, to take an assistant coaching position at Nebraska-Omaha.

COLORADO—Named Rick George athletic director, effective Aug. 12.

JAMES MADISON—Named Rob Summers men’s basketball director of basketball operations.

MICHIGAN—Signed men’s basketball coach John Beilein to a three-year contract extension through the 2018-19 season.

MINNESOTA—Announced the NCAA approved a transfer waiver for G Malik Smith, who will be able to play this season.

SETON HALL—Named Devin Jefferson women’s associate head basketball coach.

ST. JOHN’S (NY)—Named Alioune Ndiaye video coordinator.

STANFORD—Signed women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer to a contract extension.

WISCONSIN-OSHKOSH—Announced the resignation of softball coach Cindy Suess.

WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER—Named Daryl Keone Agpalsa offensive line coach.

WOFFORD—Named Darris Nichols men’s basketball assistant coach.