Baseball

• Padres-NYMets…San Diego opens 10G-road trip…James Shields (8-3)-vs-Noah Syndegaard (4-5) 2.97ERA….Shields 1-win in last 9-starts…Justin Upton-hitting (.170) since June lst….Padres won 8-of-11 games in recent surge….Season to be decided in next 16-games…Mets only team with winning record Padres face over next 16-games….Other teams a combined (-65) below .500…Padres fall into 4th place last night.

• Padres-Nationals..Washington wants to trade for P-Craig Kimbrel…Padres asking for SS-Treau Turner dealt back to San Diego
• Padres-Orioles..Justin Upton talks revolve around P-Kevin Glausman.
• Padres-Mets…Justin Upton package may involve SS-Gabe Cecchini-former 1st round pick-playing at AA….Mets indicated ‘big trade’ may be forthcoming.
• Padres-Angels..Justin Upton talks end-Halos refuse to part with P-Sean Newcombe.

• Dodgers-Athletics..LA had Monday off-day…Brett Anderson (5-5) tests ailing Achilles-vs-Sonny Gray (10-4) for Athletics…LA (56-44) holding onto lst place.
• Dodgers-Phillies…Cole Hamels trade talks may now involve Yasiel Puig Zach Lee and other minor leaguers..Dodgers at front of line of 6-teams interested…LA reportedly changed its mind over the weekend on status of Puig.

• Angels-Astros…Halos off last night….1st place showdown tonite at Minute Maid Park…CJ Wilson (8-7)-vs-Collin McHugh (11-5)…Halos (55-43)..Astros (55-45)…Angels won (18-of-23).
• Angels-Red Sox…Trade…Boston sends OF-Shane Victorino to Halos for minor league pitcher…Boston pays 3.8M left on salary.
• Angels-Indians..Discussing deal for DH-OF-David Murphy
• Angels-Phillies..Discussing deal for 2B-Chase Utley

• Giants-W-Brewers..Brandon Crawford 2R-HR….SF won 12-of-13
• Yankees-W-Rangers..Chase Headley 3H…A-Rod HR….NY won 10-of-13
• Red Sox-L-White Sox…Ty Flowers RBI-single-RBI-double for Chisox..
• Royals-W-Indians…Eric Hosmer 3R-HR…KC (60-38)..
• Tigers-L-Tampa Bay…Rays C-Curt Casali solo-HR-2R-HR
• Cardinals-W-Reds..Kolten Wong grand slam HR…St-Louis (64-35)
• Cubs-W-Rockies…Kris Bryant RBI-single-2R-HR
• Diamondbacks-Seattle..Paul Goldschmidt-Wellington Castillo HRs for Dbacks…
• Orioles-W-Braves..Matt Wieters HR-11th inning.

• Rockies-Toronto..Trade-Colorado in stunner deals SS-Troy Tulowitzki to Blue Jays for SS-Jose Reyes-package pitching prospects…Tulowitzki waived no trade clause after 6-losing seasons in row…Deal made at 1am.

• Phillies..Open trade talks with Giants for Cole Hamels..want rookie SS-Lucious Fox in deal.
• Phillies..Trade talks with Rangers involve P-Martin Perez and Phil Klien and other prospects in Hamels package
• Phillies..Also talking to Cubs-Red Sox about Cole Hamels deal
• Phillies..Contacted by Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday about Hamels deal.
• Phillies-Astros..Houston re-enters trade talks for Hamels…

• Cardinals-Brewers..Discussing deal for 2B-Adam Lind.
• Royals-Marlins..Discussing deal for 3B-Martin Prado.
• Pirates-Red Sox…Trade talks for 1B-Mike Napoli
• A’s-Mets..Trade-Oakland sends P-Tyler Clippard (17-saves) to Mets for minor leaguer.
• Cubs..Release P-Edwin Jackson-will eat 15M of remaining contract.

• Yankees..OF-Jacoby Ellsbury-bruised shoulder running into wall.
• Giants..Activate OF-Nori Aoki from DL-out with broken leg
• Nationals..P-Stephen Strasburg-rehab start tomorrow in Syracuse-AAA

• Reggie Jackson..Aplogizes for 7-curse words in angry argument with fan seeking autograph in Cooperstown.

Football

• Chargers…NFL-VP-Eric Grubman to hold day-long meeting with City-Chargers to discuss financing plan for Stadium and update on EIR-report
• Chargers..NFL holds conference call with Children of Junior Seau explaining decision not to let them speak at Hall of Fame…Family lawyer says H-of-F initially told Sydney Seau she could speak at Presentation.

• Saints..LB-Junior Galette denies he used girlfriends twitter account to smear Saints coaches-staff….Tweets alleged Coach Sean Payton has drug problem-came to prace ‘high’….Payton has mistress in West Virginia…..Accuse teammates Ken Still-Kenny Vacarro having homosexual relationship….Tweets deleted a day aftre appeared over weekend.

• Baltimore…”A Call to Men”-anti domestic abuse group says Ray Rice deserves 2nd chance to play in NFL.
• Colts..Former QB-Jack Trudeau arrested Sunday night-Indiana-DUI-threatening officer…Blood Alcohol Count (.31)..almost 4X-legal limit.
• Rams..Special teams coach John Fassell saves drowning man-caught in riptide at Manhattan Beach.
• Tennessee..NFL begins probe of assault case-WR-Justin Hunter-broke man’s jaw in bar fight
• NYJets..WR-Brandon Marshall says NFL needs to address second hand marijuan smoke issues to protect players.

• NFL…Bengals-Broncos-Rams-49ers-Jaguars-Bucs open preseason camps.
• Seahawks…Thursday deadline to sign QB-Russell Wilson to contract extension-have offered 21M per year-arguing over guaranteed money.
• Browns..Coach Mike Pettine says open competition for starting QB job-Josh McCown-Johnny Manziel.
• Texans..Put DE-Jadaveon Clowney on PUP list-recovering micro-fracture surgery.
• Tampa Bay…Re-sign FA-DE-DaQuan Bowers-former lst round pick
• Carolina…OT-Jon Martin-former Dolphin-49ers-informs Panthers quitting football..was in center of Miami hazing incident two years ago.

Basketball

• Portland..Release F-Mike Miller…Oklahoma City-Memphis interested in signing him.
• Miami-Boston..Trade..Heat deal guard Zoran Dragic to Celtics
• Cavs…Re-sign G-Matt Dellavedova

Hockey

• NHL…Reviews realignment-looking at 4-divisions of 8-teams-including 2-All Canadian Divisions-if expansion happens in 2017.

General

• NASCAR…Danica Patrick opens contract extension talks with Stewart-Haas team despite losing sponsorship…22nd in points race…2-top 10-finishes this year…never won a NASCAR nor Indy car race.

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