SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KWSN.com) — From the KWSN.com Sports Desk, here’s your Morning Sports Update for Tuesday, July 12.
-Police in a Dallas suburb have concluded that heat stroke caused the death of former Dallas Cowboys running back Marion Barber III. In a statement Monday, Frisco police say the Collin County medical examiner ruled Barber’s death an accident. Police making a welfare check on June 1 found the 38-year-old former running back dead at his apartment. Barber spent six seasons with Dallas and one with the Chicago Bears.
-Fresh off a seventh Wimbledon championship and 21st Grand Slam title, Novak Djokovic is headed off to vacation. What’s unclear is when he will resume his pursuit of rival Rafael Nadal’s men’s record of 22 major trophies. The next Slam tournament is the U.S. Open, and as of now, Djokovic can’t participate because he is not vaccinated against COVID-19.
-Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has disclosed he was brought into Britain illegally from Djibouti under the name of another child. The British athlete made the revelation recently in a BBC documentary.
-David Ortiz made a Hall of Fame career out of staring down pitchers with the game on the line. Looking out at the Cooperstown crowd for his induction speech is a whole different story. The longtime Red Sox slugger says he is “freaking out” about it and can’t wait for it to be over with. He says all the walk-off hits were just part of being a ballplayer, but making a Hall of Fame induction speech isn’t anything he ever expected.
-Tony Romo won the American Century Championship for the third time, beating Mike Mulder and Joe Pavelski with a 5-foot birdie putt on the second hole of a playoff Sunday. Romo, the former Dallas quarterback and current top NFL television analyst, also won at Edgewood Tahoe in 2018 and 2019. Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen finished fourth with 58 points.
-Mets slugger Pete Alonso will try to become the first player to win the All-Star Home Run Derby three consecutive times against a field that will also include the Cardinals’ Albert Pujols and Braves’ Ronald Acuña Jr.
