TUESDAY SPORTS, JULY 7, 2026
PALACE CITY LEGION BASEBALL
— Palace City Post 18 will be at Brookings on Tuesday for a 5 pm doubleheader. Palace City is 17-15 on the season with a 10-11 record vs. Class A teams after splitting a doubleheader at Aberdeen on Thursday. Palace City is currently the No. 11 seed in Class A with upcoming doubleheaders at Huron, vs. Yankton and at Dakota Valley. Post 18 wraps up the regular season next Wednesday, July 15.
— Palace City Junior Legion baseball hosts Aberdeen for a doubleheader on Tuesday.
— Bob Habiger from the Independence Baseball League addressed the Mitchell City Council Monday night. Habiger is looking at Mitchell to relocate the Gem City Bison from Laramie, Wyoming. Independence League Baseball is a collegiate summer baseball league with teams playing in Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. The league played its inaugural season in 2022 with ten teams. They now have seven teams, including three traveling teams. The Oahe Zap, based in Pierre, was founded in 2023. The Zap and the Bison are scheduled to play an exhibition game at Cadwell Park this Saturday night at 6:05 pm in the hope that the Bison will move permanently to Mitchell for the 2027 season.
SDGA GOLF
— Parkston’s Landon Weber claimed a second-place finish at the SDGA Junior Prep Tour stop in Sioux Falls on Monday. Weber shot a four-over-par 76 at Prairie Green Golf Course, finishing just two strokes behind Carter Knigge of Sioux Falls. The next Junior Prep Tour event takes place at Rocky Run Golf Course in Dell Rapids on Tuesday.
AMATEUR BASEBALL
Alexandria 6, Platte 5 – Ben Wilber with the game winning single in the bottom of the ninth inning. Alexandria improved to 10-2 on the season, currently 1 ½ games up on the Parkston Mudcats for first place in the Sunshine League. Platte falls to 6-5 on the season.
Platte vs. Parkston Mudcats – Tuesday at 7:30 pm
Mt. Vernon vs. Parkston Rays – Tuesday at 7:30 pm
Plankinton vs. Kimball/White Lake – Tuesday at 8 pm
MINNESOTA TWINS
— The Minnesota Twins host Cleveland for a three-game series at Target Field starting on Tuesday at 6:40 pm. The Twins start the week 1 ½ games back of Texas for the last Wild Card spot in the American League and four games back of the Chicago White Sox in the AL Central. Taj Bradley gets the start for Minnesota, coming off an 11-strikeout performance over five innings last week in a win at Houston. Cleveland is three games up on the Twins for second place in the division.
WORLD CUP – MONDAY
Spain 1, Portugal 0
Belgium 4, United States 1
WORLD CUP – TUESDAY
Argentina vs. Egypt – 11 am on FOX
Columbia vs. Switzerland – 3 pm on FOX
NBA
— Boston Celtics President Brad Stevens is defending the shocking trade last week of Finals MVP Jaylen Brown, calling the team’s future path “more challenging” without a roster shakeup. Speaking to the media Monday, Stevens explained that tying up 70% of the team’s salary cap in Brown and Jayson Tatum made it too difficult to build championship depth. The Celtics traded the 29-year-old Brown to rival Philadelphia for 36-year-old Paul George and four draft picks. Celtics owner Bill Chisholm denied that the trade was a cost-cutting measure, insisting the front office has a green light to spend whatever it takes to win.
— Three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic says he wants to be a Denver Nugget for the rest of his career, but he is going to wait to lock in his next contract. Speaking in Serbia Monday following a FIBA World Cup qualifying win, the 31-year-old Jokic confirmed he will bypass a contract extension this offseason and wait until next summer to sign a new deal. The delay is financially driven. By waiting until the 2027 offseason, Jokic will become eligible for a historic five-year supermax contract worth an estimated $350 million. Jokic is coming off an All-NBA season where he averaged a triple-double and finished runner-up in MVP voting, though his Nuggets lost in the first round of the playoffs vs. Minnesota.
— Six-time NBA All-Star DeMar DeRozan is officially a free agent after being waived by the Sacramento Kings on Monday. The move was a mutual decision between DeRozan and the front office after the team failed to find a suitable trade partner. The 36-year-old became a salary-cap casualty for the rebuilding Kings, who saved over $15 million by cutting DeRozan before the final year of his contract became fully guaranteed. Despite Sacramento’s struggles last season, DeRozan remained an efficient scorer, averaging over 18 points per game on nearly 50% shooting. Multiple playoff contenders are expected to pursue the veteran scorer.
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
— Former college basketball player Kerr Kriisa has been arrested and indicted in an alleged $2.2 million fraud scheme. Federal prosecutors in West Virginia announced Monday that the 25-year-old native of Estonia faces five counts of wire fraud. Kriisa allegedly ran a four-year scam involving fabricated identities to trick multiple victims into sending him money. The indictment alleges Kriisa went as far as posing as his own mother to claim she needed urgent cancer treatments and fabricating a woman to secure fraudulent loans. The former guard played for Arizona, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Cincinnati over a six-year college career that ended last season. The government is seeking a full forfeiture of the $2.2 million.
MLB
— Salvador Perez, Luke Maile, Lane Thomas and Tyler Tolbert homered as the Kansas City Royals tagged Phillies ace Cristopher Sánchez for a career-worst nine earned runs in a 15-1 win over Philadelphia. The Royals, who entered the game with the second-worst record in baseball, scored in every inning and finished with a season-high 15 runs on 22 hits. Tyler Tolbert had his first career five-hit game, and the first by a Royals player since 2022.
— James Wood hit a grand slam in the fifth inning as the Washington Nationals overcame a five-run deficit and held off the Houston Astros 12-11. CJ Abrams and Curtis Mead each homered and drove in three runs as part of three-hit games for Washington. Nasim Nuñez also had three hits and his major league-leading 33rd stolen base. Jose Altuve, Yainer Diaz and Brice Matthews homered for Houston.
— Cam Schlittler pitched eight innings for the second time this season, while José Caballero homered twice as the New York Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-1 in the opener of a four-game series. Schlittler struck out eight, allowed four hits and walked none.
— Luis Torrens doubled in two runs with two outs in the 10th inning as the New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves 7-6 to split a four-game series. Matt Olson hit two homers for Atlanta, including a game-tying two-run shot in the ninth. Juan Soto hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off Braves closer Raisel Iglesias with two outs in the ninth to give New York a 5-3 lead.
— Dalton Rushing singled in the winning run in the 11th inning, rallying the Dodgers to an 8-7 win over the Colorado Rockies in L.A.’s first extra-innings game of the season. The Dodgers improved to 60-32, the first team in the majors this season with 60 wins. They were the only team in the majors not to have played extras.
— Max Kepler homered and drove in four runs to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks to an 8-0 win over the San Diego Padres. It was Kepler’s first home run since returning from an 80-game suspension after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance. Kepler was activated by the Diamondbacks on June 25. The Padres have lost nine of their past 10 games and 28 of their last 43.
— David Hamilton and Brice Turang drove in two runs each during a four-run seventh inning as the Milwaukee Brewers rallied from a three-run deficit to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3.
— Heliot Ramos homered twice and drove in five runs as the San Francisco Giants beat the Toronto Blue Jays 10-1. Kazuma Okamoto hit his 20th home run for Toronto, ending the Blue Jays’ 29-inning scoreless streak.