— Team USA 98, France 87
Steph Curry was 8-14 on the arc, scored 24 points.
Team USA was 18-36 on the arc, France 9-30.
98-87 in a 40:00 game is a lot of offense.
Fifth straight gold medal for the Americans, 17th overall.
These games didn’t have TV timeouts; I’m wondering if that hurt an older American roster at all, but they did what they had to do. Good for them.
— Serbia 93, Germany 83
3rd place game has to be intense; winner gets bronze medal, loser gets…..nothing.
Nikola Jokic had a triple double for Serbia.
— Buccaneers 17, Bengals 14
Cincinnati scored a TD on Joe Burrow’s only series of the game.
Tampa Bay outgained the Bengals, 390-288.
— Bears 33, Bills 6
Chicago led 6-3 at halftime.
Rookie QB Caleb Williams was 4-7 passing for 95 yards, leading two drives that led to field goals.
— Jets 20, Commanders 17
Rookie QB Jayden Daniels scored a TD on the only drive he played for Washington.
Adrian Martinez was 6-10/104 for the Jets.
— Seahawks 16, Chargers 3
With Justin Herbert (foot) out, LA’s three backup QB’s completed only 14 of 32 passes.
Seahawks converted 11 of 20 third down plays.
— Random trivia: I heard this week that a station in Seattle was the first radio station in America to play Beatles songs, back in the 60’s.
Famous birthdays, August 11th:
Craig Ehlo, 63
Ennis Whatley, 62
Viola Davis, 59
Joe Germaine, 49
Rob Kerkovich, 45
Melky Cabrera, 40
Pablo Sandoval, 38
Patty Mills, 36
Curtis Samuel, 28
— This week San Diego Padres won three consecutive games when they trailed in the 9th inning of all three games; they’re the first team since the ’09 Marlins to do that.
Saturday, Padres trailed 7-5 in 8th inning, and once again they rallied to win 9-8 in 10 innings, their 16th win in last 18 games.
— Marlins’ P Edward Cabrera threw 7 shutout IP Friday night; it was the Marlins’ first quality start (6+ IP, 3 or less runs allowed) since June 27th.
— Last three times Kyle Hendricks started at Wrigley Field, the Cubs got shut out in all three games.
— Patrick Corbin has started 23 games for Washington this year; Nationals scored 2 or fewer runs in 13 of the 23 games.
— When Mookie Betts returns from his injury and gets back in the Dodger lineup, he’ll be in right field, not the infield anymore.
— White Sox fired manager Pedro Grifol during a horrendous season where they’ve had losing streaks of 14 and 21 games. Grady Sizemore is Chicago’s interim manager. White Sox were 28-89 when the change was made.
— A’s 1, Blue Jays 0
Brent Rooker hit his 29th home run,.
Osvaldo Bido allowed only three baserunners in six shutout IP.
Oakland is 12-8 since the All-Star break.
— Astros 5, Red Sox 4
Yordan Alvarez hit two home runs, knocked in three runs.
Spencer Arrighetti struck out 13 Red Sox in 7 IP.
— Braves 11, Rockies 8
Atlanta snaps its sox-game losing streak.
Matt Olson homered twice, knocked in six runs.
