⚽️ Y! Sports AM: The final four

🏀 Wemby signs historic deal: Victor Wembanyama signed the largest rookie extension in NBA history (5 years, $252 million), though it's smaller than it could have been as he opted for the max (25% of the cap) rather than the supermax (30%) to give the Spurs more financial flexibility.

⚾️ ASG headlines: Phillies lefty Cristopher Sánchez and Blue Jays righty Dylan Cease are your All-Star Game starting pitchers; Shohei Ohtani (left knee irritation) will not participate in the game; Phillies ace Zack Wheeler (10-1, 2.13 ERA) declined an invite as a replacement player, saying he felt "disrespected" by his initial snub.

⚾️ MLB Draft recap: The White Sox took UCLA SS Roch Cholowsky first overall in the 2026 MLB Draft, which featured 613 selections including some familiar names drafted to familiar places like Barry Bonds' nephew Peyton Bonds (Giants), Andy Pettitte's son Luke (Yankees), Jim Thome's son Landon (White Sox) and CC Sabathia's son Carsten III (Brewers).

🏀 Heated altercation: Heat star Bam Adebayo shoved and punched Bucks guard (and former Miami teammate) Tyler Herro on Friday at a practice court in Las Vegas. The altercation reportedly stemmed from critical comments Herro made on social media about Adebayo after the former was traded to Milwaukee last month.

⚽️ More expansion coming? As the first 48-team World Cup nears its end, FIFA president Gianni Infantino appears to already be considering another round of expansion, telling a Swiss broadcaster over the weekend that 64 teams "will be examined" for the 2030 World Cup.

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Spain, England and Argentina joined France in the semifinals over the weekend, setting up the chalkiest final four in World Cup history.

1, 2, 3, 4: For the first time ever, the World Cup semifinals feature the world's top four teams (No. 1 France, No. 2 Argentina, No. 3 Spain, No. 4 England), delivering a dream scenario for fans in a tournament that has so frequently made us pinch ourselves. From the star-studded Golden Boot race to the world's best teams routinely proving their mettle, this World Cup has thoroughly exceeded its high expectations. And it's not over yet.

Here's how La Roja, the Three Lions and La Albiceleste punched their tickets to the semis…

Los Angeles — Spain defeated Belgium 2-1 on Friday afternoon thanks to yet another late-game goal from Mikel Merino, as the Arsenal maestro again saved the day when he pounced on a rebound spilled by Belgium's substitute goalkeeper in the 88th minute.

La Roja's historic streak: Charles De Ketelaere's first-half equalizer was the first World Cup goal allowed by Spain since the 2022 group stage, a run of 649 consecutive scoreless minutes that marked the longest in tournament history. More importantly, La Roja are now unbeaten in their last 36 (!) matches, and sit two wins shy of another title.

Miami — England vanquished Norway 2-1 on Saturday behind the strength of a Jude Bellingham brace — and perhaps a rogue overhead camera cable — forcing America to bid a tearful goodbye to its new Viking icon, Erling Haaland.

Hey Jude: Real Madrid's talismanic midfielder has scored four of England's last five goals, willing his side to victory by marrying his otherworldly talent with a grit that imbues the Three Lions with a fighting edge. That same doggedness has enabled England's defense to protect narrow leads through the dying moments of knockdown brawls in stifling heat.

Kansas City — Argentina has developed a troubling preference for doing things the hard way, outlasting Switzerland 3-1 in extra time of a cagey quarterfinal. And though Lionel Messi failed to find the back of the net for the first time in 10 World Cup games, he did provide a record 10th career World Cup assist on a perfectly-placed corner kick.

Cake walk: Argentina is the first nation to reach the World Cup semifinals without facing a single team ranked in the top 10. Despite that historically easy draw, the defending champions have made the path look unusually difficult. But their confidence has scarcely wavered, buoyed by the cohesion and belief built over the course of multiple tournaments in the trenches… and by the presence of their inimitable No. 10.

Looking ahead: The semifinals kick off tomorrow with France vs. Spain in Dallas; then it's England vs. Argentina in Atlanta on Wednesday, with the final coming this Sunday at MetLife Stadium.

Jannik Sinner fought back from a set down against Alexander Zverev on Sunday to win his second straight Wimbledon title and fifth Career Grand Slam. It's the type of result you expect from the world No. 1 and budding all-time great, putting him back on pace for a historic season after his early exit at Roland Garros. It would just be nice if his biggest rival were healthy.

Dan Wolken, Yahoo Sports:

While Sinner was laying waste to this Wimbledon field, dropping just three sets en route to the title, videos emerged of Carlos Alcaraz back in Spain, just starting to lightly swing a tennis racket again after recovering from an inflamed tendon sheath in his right wrist.

It is unclear if Alcaraz will be ready to come back by the US Open, which starts in seven weeks. For a tennis player, wrist injuries are nothing to mess around with.

But as much as Sinner has enjoyed hoovering up trophies while Alcaraz is sidelined, he should root for his nemesis to return to form as quickly as possible. Because while Sinner's greatness stands on its own, the respect and admiration for his achievements this year does not.

Though there are no asterisks in tennis — you can only beat who's in front of you, and every Grand Slam title counts the same — Sinner and Alcaraz are so linked that the absence of one inevitably diminishes any achievements of the other.

With all due respect to Zverev, the newly minted French Open champion who played at an extremely high level for the first 90 minutes of Sunday's final, there are only two players in men's tennis who move the needle right now. Zverev is not one of them.

At the end of last season, when Alcaraz and Sinner played a third straight major final against each other in New York, some fans wondered if it might get boring if they separated from the field without another worthy rival coming into the mix.

But here's the reality of men's tennis: While Zverev is a clear No. 3 and can beat either one on a given day, the only truly compelling storyline in the sport is the race to history between Alcaraz and Sinner. And we can't really measure it when one of them is at a training center hitting Nerf balls.

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Meanwhile, on the women's side: Linda Nosková defeated her friend and fellow Czech countrywoman Karolína Muchová to win her first Grand Slam title, rebounding from what could have been an all-time collapse to complete the three-set victory.

ICYMI: Nosková led 6-2, 5-2 when Muchová came roaring back, saving three match points at 2-5, one match point at 3-5 and one more at 4-5 before winning the set to force a decider. But that was as close as she'd come, with Nosková regrouping to win the third set, 6-3, and claim the title.

Zoom out: Nosková's victory continued Czechia's unlikely dominance in this tournament, as three of the last four champions — and five of the last 15 — have hailed from the small Central European nation. It also extended a streak of nine consecutive first-time Wimbledon women's champions dating back to 2017.

The summer of Haeran Ryu continued on Sunday at the Evian Championship, where the South Korean held off a surging Brooke Henderson in a playoff to win her second straight major.

Thrilling finish: The final grouping of Ryu, Henderson and Aki Iwai all came to the 72nd hole with a chance to reach a three-way playoff, but Iwai's par (-18) kept her one stroke out of contention after Ryu's birdie (-19) and Henderson's eagle (-19), which put a stamp on one of the best final rounds you'll ever see, even in defeat.

• The 28-year-old Canadian shot a 7-under 64, carding three birdies and three eagles, including an ace on the par-3 eighth and the aforementioned must-make eagle at the last. Her six eagles during the week set an LPGA record for the most in a single major championship.
• But Ryu — who shot a 60 on Saturday for the lowest round ever in an LPGA major — would not relent, birdieing the first playoff hole to claim victory.

Two in a row: Ryu is the first woman since Lydia Ko in 2016 to win her first two career majors in consecutive starts, having also won the Women's PGA Championship two weeks ago. This is also the first year in LPGA history in which two women won multiple majors; but Nelly Korda, who won the season's first two majors, was part of a much different kind of history last week…

No. 1 and done: Korda (at the Evian) and Scottie Scheffler (at the Scottish Open*) both failed to reach the weekend, marking the first time since women's golf rankings were introduced in 2006 that the top-ranked man and woman both missed the cut in the same week.

But wait, there's more: It's not just that Nelly and Scottie both missed the cut; it's that they entered the week with a combined streak of 112 consecutive made cuts!

• Korda hadn't missed a cut in two years (34 straight), with her last miss coming in the 2024 Women's PGA Championship. But she often struggles at the Evian, where she'd finished outside the top 25 each of the last two years and has never finished higher than eighth.
• Scheffler hadn't missed one in four years (!), with his run of 78 straight marking the fifth-longest streak ever. His last miss came 1,428 days earlier at the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship, which was so long ago that neither Jannik Sinner nor Carlos Alcaraz had won a Grand Slam yet. After Sinner's victory on Sunday, they've since combined for 12.

Looking ahead: The even-keeled Scheffler didn't put much stock in the missed cut, focusing instead on the silver lining of arriving at Royal Birkdale earlier than expected to prepare for this week's Open Championship, where he'll look to defend his title. Korda, meanwhile, will take on the Women's Open just a couple weeks later, where a win would give her the Career Grand Slam and a spot in the Hall of Fame — the same stakes she came into the Evian with.

*Kim wins Scottish Open: Tom Kim (-17) won by two strokes over Min Woo Lee (-15) for his first PGA Tour victory in three years. Of note: Among the four players tied for third (-13) was Matt Fitzpatrick, whose 28 consecutive made cuts is now the longest active streak on the Tour.

• 🏀 WNBA: Sparks at Dream (7pm, USA); Mercury at Lynx (9pm, NBCSN/Peacock) … Lynx rookie Olivia Miles on Saturday became the fastest player in WNBA history to reach 350 points, 100 rebounds and 100 assists (21 games).
• 🏀 NBA Summer League: Bulls vs. Jazz (9pm, ESPN) … Chicago's Caleb Wilson, the No. 4 overall pick, scored 35 points in his debut on Friday. That included hitting seven 3-pointers, matching his total from his entire freshman season at UNC, where that "just wasn't my role."

Jannik Sinner's Wimbledon victory on Sunday extended a streak in which just six men have won at the All England Club since 2003: Roger Federer (8x), Novak Djokovic (7x), Rafael Nadal (2x), Andy Murray (2x), Carlos Alcaraz (2x) and Sinner (2x).

Question: Can you name the 2002 men's singles champion?

Hint: Australian.

Answer at the bottom.

White Sox rookie Tristan Peters hit for one of the rarest cycles in MLB history on Friday, becoming the fifth player to achieve the feat as the No. 9 hitter and the third in the Expansion Era (since 1961) to complete his cycle by getting two hits in the same inning. And before you ask, yes, those hits were his home run and triple.

Hey now, you're an All-Star: Peters was a 2021 seventh-rounder who didn't make his MLB debut until last season with the Rays, and didn't get a real shot until this season with the White Sox. Safe to say the centerfielder has made the most of it, as he's put up an .832 OPS in 91 games and was named to the All-Star team the day after his cycle. You absolutely love to see it.

Trivia answer: Lleyton Hewitt