When the Wimbledon wildcards are announced on Wednesday there may well be an unfamiliar name among them - Paul Jubb.

Last month, the 19-year-old raised a few eyebrows in the tennis world when he became the first Briton to land the US colleges' prestigious NCAA men's singles title, previously won by Grand Slam winners Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe and Bob Bryan.

That victory should have guaranteed him a wildcard for September's US Open, but he will be denied the privilege because he is not American.

The York-born player, who moved to Hull to live with his grandmother at the age of three, began playing tennis at primary school before he stepped up his commitment to the sport while attending Malet Lambert school.

After winning the under-16s national title, he decided to take the opportunity of further developing his skills in the American college system.

He is not the only Briton to follow that route, with British number two Cameron Norrie also coming through the US system and recommending more players consider it.

"Lawn Tennis Association coach James Trotman [who has worked with British number one Kyle Edmund] played a big part and mentioned my name to a few people, including my current coach Josh Goffi," Jubb told BBC's Look North.

"Josh, while he was recruiting in London, came up to Hull to watch me train. The ball got rolling and a few months later I was at the University of South Carolina, where, aside from playing tennis, I'm also studying retail management."

Jubb only lost two matches during the college season before overcoming previously unbeaten Nuno Borges of Mississippi State in the NCAA final in Florida, in May.

"It was a huge confidence booster," he added. "Hopefully, it's a step in the right direction for a long future."

Jubb is back in his homeland at the moment. He took part in his first ATP Challenger match this month, taking a set off compatriot and world number 204 James Ward before eventually losing.

"My expectations weren't high," he said of his defeat at the Surbiton Trophy.

"I felt like I was right there with him and I took a lot of confidence from the match."

Jubb says he is hoping to get more experience on the professional tour and will remain in London during the grass-court season - a convenient location if Wimbledon comes calling.

Forward Kevin Hayes has avoided unrestricted free agency by agreeing to a seven-year, $50 million contract with the Philadelphia Flyers, according to a report by TSN on Tuesday night.

His $7.14 million cap hit will rank 18th among all NHL centers, and it will be the third highest on the Flyers behind captain Claude Giroux ($8.275 million) and winger Jakub Voracek ($8.25 million).

Hayes made $3.75 million annually on his last contract.

The Flyers acquired the negotiating rights for Hayes from the Winnipeg Jets on June 3 for Philadelphia's fifth-round pick in this week's NHL draft. Hayes had a career-high 55 points (19 goals, 36 assists) in 71 games between the Jets and the New York Rangers last season.

The 6-foot-5 Hayes was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks at No. 24 overall in 2010, but he never played for them. He signed as a free agent with the Rangers in 2014, and he played five seasons with the Blueshirts before a deadline trade to Winnipeg.

In 381 career games, Hayes has 92 goals and 137 assists.

The trade reunites him with coach Alain Vigneault, who was behind the Rangers' bench for four of Hayes' five years in New York. The Flyers named Vigneault head coach in April.

Hayes is known as a versatile forward, playing both center and wing. But in speaking about him before the signing, Flyers general manager Chuck Fletcher appeared to cast him as a center.

"You need depth as we're seeing now in the Stanley Cup Final," he said. "You need players that can play. You certainly need all four lines to contribute, but you need certainly three lines that can score and defend.

"When you go on the road, you don't have last change, so several centers that can be on the ice for the faceoff and to not worry about it. They can defend that shift. They can compete that shift. They have a chance to if not win that shift, at least tie it and live to fight another day. That's our goal. Depth is everything."

Fletcher has been the busiest GM of the offseason. Along with agreeing to a deal with Hayes, Fletcher traded defenseman Radko Gudas to the Washington Capitals for defenseman Matt Niskanen and he traded two draft picks to the San Jose Sharks for defenseman Justin Braun.

Tyler Boyd scored twice as the United States started its Gold Cup campaign with a 4-0 win over Guyana at Allianz Field in St. Paul, Minnesota on Tuesday night.

U.S. manager Gregg Berhalter made three changes from the lineup that started a 3-0 loss to Venezuela on June 9, the last of 18 exhibitions for the Americans since the October 2017 loss at Trinidad and Tobago that ended a streak of seven World Cup appearances. He inserted Michael Bradley as captain for the first time in his tenure, Christian Pulisic into the midfield and Walker Zimmerman in central defence, removing Wil Trapp, Christian Roldan and Matt Miazga.

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Guyana frustrated the U.S. in the opening 30 minutes, but the Americans found a way through just before the half-hour mark when Paul Arriola picked up a pass from Weston McKinnie and blasted a shot past Akel Clarke to make it 1-0.

"We knew we had to get started on the right foot and after breaking the ice, we were able to break them down," Arriola said.

"The most important thing was to win with confidence and clarity and I think we did that today. It's a great start for us but it's just one game."

Gyasi Zardes had a golden chance to double the lead right before half-time but inexplicably whiffed on the doorstep after Arriola had headed the ball back across the goal to him.

The U.S. got off to the perfect start in the second half when Boyd cut inside to his left foot in the 51st minute and hit a nice low line drive past Clarke to double the lead.

Boyd's 52nd minute-goal, his first for the U.S. national team, marked the 1,000th in program history in match No. 700.

Zardes was credited for the third goal in somewhat bizarre fashion as a headed clearance from the Guyana defense bounced hard off the Columbus Crew forward's forehead and went into the back of the net.

Boyd then scored another excellent goal, this time courtesy of a slight deflection, this time cutting onto his right foot firing home from just outside the area to make it 4-0 in favor of the U.S.

The victory was the biggest yet for Berhalter, who was hired in December after the United States failed to make last year's World Cup.

One concern for the team was a left hamstring injury suffered by 20-year-old midfielder McKennie late in the game.

Next up for Berhalter's side, which is atop Group D on goal differential, is a much-anticipated match against Trinidad and Tobago on Saturday, while Guyana will face Panama on the same day.

What VAR gives, VAR can take away. In Friday's Copa America-opening victory against Bolivia, Brazil's breakthrough came when a new handball ruling gave them a penalty, which Philippe Coutinho converted. Four days later against Venezuela, they had the ball in the back of the net three times, but none of them counted. One was ruled out for a foul, the other two for offside after lengthy consultation with the video evidence.

Three disallowed goals might make it seem as if Brazil were always knocking on the door. But for all the possession the home side enjoyed in Salvador, Venezuela keeper Wuilker Farinez had just one serious save to make, and only a handful of moments to cause him alarm.

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Brazil left the field to resounding boos. The goalless draw, though, is not a disaster. In the history of the Copa with 12 teams, no side with four points has ever failed to make the quarterfinals. Saturday's game against Peru will not be a matter of life and death -- although the players will probably not relish returning to Sao Paulo, where the supporters are notoriously intolerant.

But if the hosts' place in the final eight would seem assured, all is not well -- and has not been well ever since the defeat to Belgium in the quarterfinals of last year's World Cup.

This was the second -- and so far most recent -- defeat suffered by Brazil in the nearly three years that Tite has been in charge. The only other loss came in a friendly against Argentina, when an experimental side was fielded. That Belgium game, then, is the only defeat of note. But it continues to ripple through the mind of the coach. The subsequent results have been acceptable -- 10 wins and two draws -- but the level of performance has consistently been disappointing, especially in the final third of the field.

Tite recognises the problem. He knows that the attack is not clicking as it did so naturally at the start of his reign. Back in 2016, he took a gamble on a teenage centre-forward named Gabriel Jesus, who immediately appeared to have solved what had bizarrely become a problem position for the national team. All went well until the World Cup, when Jesus hit a run of poor form. Tite bitterly regrets not dropping him earlier -- and did leave him out of his first post-World Cup squad.

Roberto Firmino became the first-choice centre-forward. But his undoubted virtues have yet to be hard-wired into the side. The context is very different from that of Liverpool, where he works as frequently the deepest lying of the front three. The training sessions in the buildup to the Copa should have been vital for fitting him into the team. But Firmino was busy with the final of the Champions League, and turned up late. With Jesus in form -- five goals in Brazil's three games going into the Copa -- it was something of a surprise when Tite stuck with Firmino. And the way that he shuffled his pack in the second half Tuesday against Venezuela revealed a mind in confusion.

Firmino, of course, is not a traditional centre-forward. The penalty-area presence is supplied by Richarlison, cutting in from the right. But he was surprisingly removed at the interval. Jesus came on, but to operate on the flank rather than in the middle. Jesus started on the right -- the position where Everton came on to score a stunning solo goal Friday. If the crowd was displeased not to see Everton, they were further vexed by the appearance of Fernandinho, who replaced Casemiro -- a switch greeted with incomprehension by the local media. And Everton finally emerged for the final 20 minutes in place of winger David Neres. Firmino stayed, in what will be seen as an act of stubbornness from the coach.

There are positives. Everton is probably the main one. His goal Friday came when he cut inside onto his stronger right foot. Mindful of this, Venezuela left him the corridor outside, and he used it to put in a left-footed cross that, but for the intervention of VAR, would have set up the winning goal from Coutinho. He has made himself an important option for the rest of the tournament.

And the return from injury of Arthur made the midfield slicker. There were times when the ball was moved more crisply than against Bolivia. But the fluidity has yet to appear. It was always the case that Brazil would have to find their collective blend during the course of the competition. Two games in, that remains the case.

The Los Angeles Lakers are scrambling to reshape the parameters of the Anthony Davis trade with New Orleans and create the capacity for $32 million-plus in salary-cap space when the free-agent moratorium ends on July 6, league sources told ESPN.

The Lakers were engaging additional teams on Tuesday to take on the contracts of three of the remaining five players on the team's roster --- Mo Wagner, Isaac Bonga and Jemerrio Jones -- league sources said. Kyle Kuzma and LeBron James are the only other two Lakers remaining on the team's end-of-season roster.

The Lakers are pursuing the purchase of second-round picks in Thursday's NBA draft, understanding they need avenues to acquire inexpensive talent and contracts that will count only as minimum salaries against the cap, league sources said.

The Lakers probably would need to incentivize the trading of those salaries with cash or draft considerations. Wagner, the No. 25 pick in the 2018 NBA draft, probably has the most value of the three players.

Teams are allowed to pay as much as $5.2 million to buy draft picks in a calendar year. Los Angeles paid $1.5 million as part of a deal to acquire Bonga in July, limiting the Lakers to $3.7 million in financial trades.

Still, the $3.7 million replenishes to $5.6 million once the salary cap resets on June 30. The Lakers could agree to a trade on draft night Thursday but not finalize it until July 6 if the directive is to use more than the $3.7 million available.

The Lakers need those contracts moved to come within 125 percent of Davis' salary -- which would be the difference between $23.7 million and $32.5 million in space when the trade is finalized July 6.

If Davis doesn't waive his $4.1 million trade bonus, the Lakers-Pelicans trade wouldn't be allowed even if Los Angeles finds a third team for the players not included in the original deal with New Orleans.

The Lakers would have to wait until July 30 to have the maximum cap space -- unless they were willing to incentivize New Orleans to agree to delay the completion of the trade.

CHICAGO -- It was a dream come true for Chicago White Sox rookie Eloy Jimenez -- just not the dream he thought he would see to fruition.

Jimenez, 22, beat the team that traded him with a ninth-inning home run in the White Sox's 3-1 win over the crosstown rival Chicago Cubs on Tuesday.

"When I signed [with the Cubs], I said I wanted to hit one in Wrigley," Jimenez said after the game. "Now with the White Sox, it feels really good."

Jimenez was traded to the White Sox, along with pitcher Dylan Cease, at the All-Star break in July 2017. The Cubs got lefty Jose Quintana back in the deal, as he helped them to two postseasons before Jimenez made it to the majors. But most observers see a star in the making in the soft-spoken Jimenez. He has six home runs in his past nine games.

"He's done some big things for us in a short period of time since he's been here," White Sox manager Ricky Renteria said. "Hopefully it's a trend that continues."

With the game tied at 1 and James McCann on first, Jimenez hit a 1-0 cutter from Cubs reliever Pedro Strop into the left-field bleachers, completing a magical night for him. Adding drama to the moment, Jimenez said it's the first broken-bat home run he has ever hit.

"It was an amazing moment," he said. "I tried to hit a line drive up the middle. When I hit it over the fence, it was amazing."

It's not often there are audible cheers for the opposition at Wrigley Field, but White Sox fans traveled well to the other side of town for the first of four games between the rivals. They were rewarded as much as the team was.

Jimenez was asked what Cubs fans were saying to him throughout the game.

"Exactly the same as they said before the game," Jimenez responded with a smile. "'You suck.' White Sox fans there, too. They said, 'You're the best.' I was so happy for that."

It doesn't get any easier for the Cubs, who lost at home for just the 12th time this season. They'll face hot hurler Lucas Giolito on Wednesday. He's 10-1 with a 2.22 ERA and will attempt to pitch the White Sox back to .500. In the meantime, Renteria and his team will savior Jimenez's heroics.

"He was filled with a lot of excitement over what he just did," Renteria said of the aftermath of the home run. "He's a young man who's getting to the big leagues and getting tested, and he put us in a good position.

"We were hoping he could get a pitch he could handle. He obviously did."

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Following his on-track actions last weekend at Iowa Speedway, NASCAR has suspended NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series competitor Johnny Sauter for one race.

Sauter was found in violation of Sections 12.1.a; 12.2.b Emergency Action; 12.8.a,c,i NASCAR Member Conduct; 12.8.1.c Member Conduct Guidelines according to the NASCAR penalty report released on Tuesday afternoon.

The suspension stems from an on-track incident involving Sauter and fellow Truck Series competitor Austin Hill.

Sauter got into Hill going into turn one as they raced for position during Sunday’s M&M’s 200. Hill returned the favor a lap later by sending Sauter spinning in turns three and four, which ended with Sauter backing his truck into the outside wall.

The incident left Sauter fuming and he responded quickly, re-firing his No. 13 Ford F-150 and quickly catching back up to Hill’s Toyota Tundra. Sauter shoved Hill’s truck up into the outside wall before nosing into the Hill’s driver’s door and eventually driving off from the scene of the incident.

NASCAR promptly parked Sauter for the rest of the event and ordered both Sauter and Hill to come to the NASCAR hauler after the race.

Sauter, who already has one victory this year in Truck Series competition, will remain eligible for the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series playoffs. Sauter and his ThorSport Racing team do have the right to appeal NASCAR’s decision.

Since the suspension was announced, Sauter has posted an update on his Twitter account indicating he’d be racing a super late model at Wisconsin’s Dells Raceway Park on Saturday night instead of in the Truck Series race at World Wide Technology Raceway.

Change of plans…Dells Raceway Park Saturday night Dick Trickle 99! Ya know a Real Racer #DickTrickle #SupportYourLocalShortTrack pic.twitter.com/SIxEDeUIbv

— Johnny Sauter (@JohnnySauter) June 18, 2019

MADISON, Ill. – Christian Eckes is set for a busy day when the ARCA Menards Series and NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series visit World Wide Technology Raceway this weekend.

Between the two series, the day will feature more than three and a half hours of practice, two qualifying sessions, and 350 miles of racing action.

The day’s track activity is scheduled to start at 10:35 a.m. local time and end some time around midnight when the Gander Truck race sees the checkered flag. Nearly 14 hours of uninterrupted track time makes it a long day for everyone involved. It makes it even longer for drivers doing double duty.

Eckes is scheduled to compete in both series. Currently fourth in the ARCA Menards Series with one win in his nine previous starts this season, Eckes has also made a splash in his limited Truck starts over the last season and a half.

He made his Truck debut at Iowa last summer and finished eighth then went to Gateway last where he qualified second, won the first stage and led a total of 34 laps before an accident ended his night early. He finished ninth in his other two starts last season at Martinsville and Phoenix. He started from the pole in both the ARCA and Truck season openers at Daytona in 2019, and he picked up his fourth-career ARCA win earlier this season at Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville.

Fourteen hours in a passenger car would be tough for anyone, but Eckes is looking forward to the challenge the long day at Gateway will present him.

“It’s one of my favorite race tracks,” Eckes said. “We should have won both of those races last year. It’s going to be a very long day. I didn’t even think about the fact it’s going to be a fourteen-hour day until right now. I think between the ARCA car and the Truck we should have a chance to win both races.”

Despite his youth, he’s still just 18 years of age, Eckes has built a record many drivers with years of experience would envy. He won the Myrtle Beach 400 and then followed that with a win in the famed Snowball Derby in 2016. He’s been a part of Dale Earnhardt,Jr.’s late model program before making the leap to the Toyota driver development program which has allowed him to race for the Venturini family in ARCA and Kyle Busch Motorsports in the Truck Series.

Busch has been very outspoken about the performance of his young Gander Trucks drivers this season. While he’s only run one previous race with the team to this point of the season and might not have been fully included in those comments, Eckes wouldn’t shy away from receiving that type of criticism from his owner.

“I think it depends on the person, but for me I would rather hear it up front,” he said. “I don’t know if that works for everybody. We’ve always had a way of coming back after some tough times. I feel like I am good at knowing what I need to do better. You have to be honest with yourself. I appreciate Kyle or whoever it is telling me like it is and pointing me in the right direction.”

That criticism doesn’t necessarily add to the pressure to perform.

“It doesn’t add to that pressure at all for me,” Eckes said. “I agree with him. He has great stuff. We should be able to go out and win in that equipment. I feel like there are a couple of races we have left on our schedule that we should be able to go out and win in the Truck. I don’t let that distract me from what I am doing though. I expect a lot out of myself already.”

Eckes has had a trying season to this point. One of the pre-season favorites to contend for the ARCA Menards Series championship, Eckes missed the third race of the season at Salem Speedway due to an illness the night before the race. Eckes’ health recovered quickly, but his luck didn’t. He was involved in an accident and finished 26th in the next series race at Talladega. Despite giving up nearly two full races worth of points to teammate Michael Self, Eckes is just 115 points out of the championship points lead.

Even though he missed that early-season race, Eckes believes he still has a solid chance to win the championship. But in order to do that, he and his Kevin Reed-led team cannot give away any more of those valuable championship points.

“I think we have lacked on some of our opportunities, so I give us a B to this point,” he said, grading his performance to this point of the year. “We haven’t capitalized the way I would have liked to. We’ve had great racecars to this point. We need to start putting full races together. We have great speed and everything we need to go do it. We need to eliminate the failures we have, whether it’s on the car or with the driver. If we can do that we’ll be good.”