(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION LA Clippers 126, Denver 122 Memphis 136, Indiana 121 Orlando 100, Brooklyn 92 New York 118, New Orleans 85 Cleveland 115, Boston 111 Toronto 119, Miami 116 Houston 119, Oklahoma City 116 LA Lakers 105, Utah 104 Dallas 137, Portland 131 San Antonio 127, Sacramento 125
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Vancouver 5 Detroit 4 (OT) Columbus 6, Chicago 3 Boston 6, Montreal 3 Dallas 3, Winnipeg 1 Anaheim 4 Ottawa 3 (SO)
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Houston 23, Jacksonville 20 Indianapolis 25, New England 24 LA Chargers 17, Atlanta 13 Minnesota 23, Arizona 22 Pittsburgh 44, Cincinnati 38 Seattle 26, NY Jets 21 Washington 42, Tennessee 19 LA Rams 21, New Orleans 14 Tampa Bay 26, Carolina 23 (OT) Philadelphia 24, Baltimore 19 Buffalo 35, San Francisco 10
(NEWPORT, R.I.) — Five-time major champion and former world No. 1 Maria Sharapova and Bob and Mike Bryan, the most successful men’s doubles pairing in history, were named to the International Tennis Hall of Fame’s Class of 2025 on Thursday.
They will be inducted Aug. 23 at the Hall of Fame in Newport, Rhode Island, following a three-day celebration and related activities.
In a statement, Kim Clijsters, the Hall’s president and a member of the 2017 Hall of Fame class, praised the trio for their careers and achievements.
“Beyond each of their historic accomplishments on the court, the Class of 2025 have had such a profound impact on the game of tennis and have inspired multiple generations of fans across the world,” Clijsters said. “We look forward to celebrating them in Newport next year.”
Sharapova, 37, is one of 10 women to achieve the career Grand Slam. One of the most recognizable players on tour for much of her career, Sharapova was Forbes’ highest-paid female athlete in the world for 11 consecutive years due to her earnings on the court and various endorsement deals.
Sharapova’s reputation and marketability suffered following the announcement of a failed test for a banned substance in 2016, and she was suspended from the sport for 15 months. She returned to competition in April 2017 and won her last title at the Tianjin Open that October. She retired in February 2020.
She won 36 titles overall and claimed an Olympic silver medal while representing her native Russia in 2012. Sharapova held the world’s top ranking on five separate occasions for a combined 21 weeks. She was ranked in the top five for 408 weeks.
Identical twins and California natives Bob and Mike Bryan, 46, won 16 major titles, four ATP Finals and 119 overall titles together. The Bryan brothers held the No. 1 doubles ranking for 438 weeks, including a streak of 139 weeks from February 2013 to October 2015. They held the year-end top ranking 10 times, earned Olympic doubles gold in 2012 and bronze in 2008, and helped lead the United States team to Davis Cup victory in 2007.
Mike, older than Bob by two minutes, won two additional major doubles titles and the year-end ATP Finals alongside Jack Sock in 2018 when Bob was sidelined with injury, putting Mike atop the list for most all time. Both brothers earned multiple mixed doubles trophies — Bob with seven and Mike with four — throughout their 22-year career. They retired together in August 2020.
In an interview this week with ESPN, Bob said they would have “just fallen over” in shock if someone had told them as tennis-loving children that they would one day end up in the Hall of Fame.
“It was nothing we ever even put on our goal list,” Bob said. “It’s almost too unattainable for a young kid to think about that, and we always just loved what we did. I think that’s what drove us to this point, and it allowed us to play tennis for so long. It was never really work or sacrifice for us.
“… It’s an incredibly special feeling just because all of our idols and so many of the legends of the game are in there, and to be included in a house that holds those names is amazing for us.”
Mike told ESPN that people began mentioning to them the possibility of the two ultimately being Hall of Famers once they broke Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde’s record for most titles together (61), but it wasn’t something either was focused on during their careers.
“We thought of ‘The Woodies’ record like climbing Mount Everest. It was such a milestone, but we would still kind of shrug it off when people would say, ‘Oh one day you might be in Newport,'” Mike said. “But once we put our rackets down and really had the chance to look back on our body of work, we thought it might stack up when the vote came in five years. Then it was in the back of our minds.”
The two were excited to learn they had been nominated in August. Earlier this month, while Mike and his family were staying with Bob and his family in South Florida after evacuating their Tampa Bay-area home during Hurricane Milton, both brothers received a text message asking whether they could attend a Zoom call later that day.
Sitting side-by-side in Bob’s office, they knew it was good news as soon as they saw Clijsters’ smiling face on the screen. Clijsters told them they were officially part of the 2025 Hall of Fame class, alongside Sharapova, someone whom they have known since she first came on tour.
“She’s done great things for the sport, and great things off the court, so to be in this class with her is special,” Mike said.
Bob said they were looking forward to spending time with Sharapova during the lead-in events and to have a formal occasion to thank everyone who helped them along the way.
“We retired during the pandemic, and we never really had a chance to thank all of these people that played a big part in our career,” Bob said. “We just kind of sailed off into the sunset and never put a bow on the whole journey. So we’re going to try to get as many people together as possible and just tell them how appreciative we are and that this is their moment too.”
(NEW YORK) — Extreme heat could pose a significant threat to players and spectators at the next World Cup, according to climate and medical experts.
The 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup will take place in the summer of 2026 in North America — during the hottest part of the year — and several of the venues could prove to be unsafe for players during the middle of the day, when the sun will be at its highest, according to a study published in Scientific Reports on Thursday.
“The Championship will be held over a huge area, in several climate zones, so it will be a challenge for the soccer players taking part in the tournament, due to the need for quick adaptation to diverse local climate conditions,” Kate Lindner-Cendrowska, a researcher at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization at the Polish Academy of Sciences and an author of the study, told ABC News.
Footballers competing in the tournament may be at risk of severe heat stress and dehydration at 10 of the 16 host cities, the researchers found after analyzing historical weather data from 2009 to 2023 from Copernicus, Europe’s Climate Change Service, to mimic the temperature, wind and humidity from mid-June through mid-July observed at each of the 16 World Cup locations.
To simulate the pitch conditions that footballers would experience during a match, values were then adjusted for the Universal Thermal Climate Index — a measure of how the human body responds to the outdoor environment.
The sites with the highest risk were found to be in Monterrey, Mexico; Arlington, Texas; and Houston — which had suggested average hourly UTCI values above 49.5 degrees Celsius, or 121.1 degrees Fahrenheit, the researchers found. The dataset assumes that the stadiums are not air conditioned or that other measures are taken, which would reduce levels of water loss and heat stress in some scenarios, according to the researchers.
AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Hard Rock Stadium in Miami and NRG Stadium in Houston are all air-conditioned — as is Estadio Monterrey in Mexico. But all of those locations are typically hot and humid during the summer months, and global warming is expanding the regions in which heat stress is a concern.
During a Copa America game played in Kansas City in June, a referee collapsed from apparent heat illness as the heat index hovered at 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
“I think we already have the context for the 2026 FIFA World Cup because we just witnessed the Copa America tournament in North America,” Jessica Murfree, assistant professor of sports administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told ABC News. “I think that that competition serves as an excellent litmus test on heat related risks that we will be able to expect in 2026.”
Heat illness typically results from a combination of factors, such as high ambient temperatures, humidity, physical activity and inadequate fluid intake, according to Copernicus.
During sports competitions that involve intense physical activity, such as soccer, players can experience significant thermoregulatory strain, which may be further intensified by the thermal environment, Lindner-Cendrowska said. In addition, in response to prolonged exercise in a hot environment, intense sweating is triggered, which may result in dehydration of the body, she added. Soccer is especially labor-intensive, because players exert physicality “full-on” for 45 minutes until halftime with little breaks, Murfree said.
“In [a] hot environment, it is difficult to remove the excess heat from the body, what may lead to fatigue, overheating of the athletes’ body and exertional heat illnesses,” she said. “It is a particular serious threat for highly motivated athletes, because they have very limited options for compensation during the long-term competitions.”
Heat impacts over a long period of time can even go beyond that, Kai Chen, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, told ABC News. High temperatures can affect the cardiovascular system, leading to heart attacks and stroke as well as other systems of diseases, such as kidney failure and mental health disorders, such as depression, anxiety and more suicide attempts, Chen said.
“The adverse impacts of heat on the human body is really substantial,” Chen said, adding that heat is the leading weather-related killer, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 2026 World Cup will take place across Canada, Mexico and the U.S. between June 11 and July 19, 2026, when summer temperatures across North America are nearing their average peak. If the last few summers are any indication, 2026 will likely follow the trend of record-breaking heat, Chen said.
“We know temperatures in the mainland U.S. have been increasing,” he said. “Unfortunately with a warming climate, the trend is going to increase.”
Scheduling games with the intent to prevent heat stress will be of the utmost importance, the researchers said.
The highest thermal stress at all stadiums is estimated to occur from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. local time. The one exception was in Miami, which observed a longer time frame, with its highest UTCI values between 11 a.m. and midday.
Past studies on former World Cup venues have highlighted the negative effects for players who compete in high relative humidities, including in Brazil in 2014.
The continued heat coverage may bring more attention to the climate crisis, as international fans see their favorite sports stars suffering from the impacts of extreme heat, Murfree said.
“Sports has this massive, transformative platform to move people into climate action in ways that other systems don’t,” she said.
