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CARNOUSTIE, Scotland >> The silver claret jug was on the first tee Thursday morning at Carnoustie, a trophy that Kevin Kisner knows all too well.Kisner flew home from the British Open last year with Jordan Spieth, a flight that was delayed while waiting on Spieth to finish up his duties as the champion golfer of the year.

CHICAGO >> Mookie Betts and the major league-leading Red Sox are on pace for 100-plus wins. Same for Aaron Judge and the Yankees, and the World Series champion Astros, too.The Orioles, White Sox and Royals are on track to lose more than 100.It's the haves and the have-nots as baseball returns after the All-Star break.

ALPE D'HUEZ, France >> One of cycling's big attractions is that fans don't have to pay to watch - and they can get as close as they want to the riders.The sport paid for that unlimited access Thursday when unruly spectators interrupted the most iconic climb of the Tour de France.

ATLANTA >> There is no escaping Nick Saban's influence on the Southeastern Conference. His coaching tree was represented on each of the four days of the SEC's media gathering.South Carolina's Will Muschamp, who was Saban's defensive coordinator when LSU won the 2003 national championship, took the stage on Thursday.

NICHOLASVILLE, Ky. >> Brittany Lincicome has a huge hole to climb out of if she hopes to make golf history.Lincicome shot a 6-over 78 in the first round of the Barbasol Championship on Thursday, leaving the LPGA Tour pro's goal of making the cut likely out of reach.Lincicome was hoping to become the second woman to make the cut in a men's event and the first since Babe Zaharias in 1945.

UTICA >> Josh Mason threw 7.0 innings picking up his sixth win of the season while striking out five as the Westside Woolly Mammoths (14-12) defeated the Utica Unicorns (13-14), 3-2, on Wednesday night at Jimmy John's Field.Ethan Wiskur and Jalin Lawson each hit a home run for the Woolly Mammoths.

SAN DIEGO >> With an eye on October and beyond, the AL Central-leading Cleveland Indians scooped up All-Star closer Brad Hand and fellow reliever Adam Cimber from the rebuilding San Diego Padres in exchange for switch-hitting catching prospect Francisco Mejia.The Indians need Hand, a lefty, and Cimber, a rookie right-handed sidearmer, to shore up a bullpen that has been without left-hander Andrew Miller since late May and has a 5.

ALBQUERQUE, N.M. >> Ted Williams is the last major league baseball player to hit over .400. The Boston Red Sox slugger captivated millions with his dazzling swing and towering homers throughout the 1940s and 1950s in competition with New York Yankees hero Joe DiMaggio.But beneath the smiles and happy trots around the bases sat a man consumed with rage.

NEW YORK>> Last year, Katie Burns got a phone call that shows what can happen in medicine when information runs ahead of knowledge.Burns learned that a genetic test of her fetus had turned up an abnormality. It appeared in a gene that, when it fails to work properly, causes heart defects, mental disability and other problems.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Many anxious American farmers are delaying purchases and investment while hoping for a truce in a U.S.-China trade war that has left their crops at a competitive disadvantage overseas.The longer the Trump administration's tariffs remain in place, the more China's retaliatory tariffs against American exports stand to hurt U.