The SEC's football media days kick off today at the Wynfrey Hotel in Hoover, Ala. The four-day event features each SEC head coach, three players from each team, Commissioner Greg Sankey and a "radio row that resembles the one created prior to every Super Bowl" (BLEACHERREPORT.com, 7/8).
A decision on Maria Sharapova's appeal of her two-year doping ban has "been postponed until September, ruling her definitively out" of the Rio Games (AP, 7/11).
The '16 MLB All-Star Week Pepsi Block Party "started Sunday morning, drawing thousands to downtown near Petco Park." The crowd "started building before noon, and within a half-hour many attractions had long lines" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 7/11).
Argentine basketball club San Lorenzo will face the Raptors in a preseason game on Oct. 14 at Air Canada Centre. It will mark the first time a team from Argentina has faced an NBA opponent. An official announcement of the game is expected to be made today (LA NACION, 7/8).
The final day of the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials yesterday drew "a Hayward Field-record crowd of 22,944" (Eugene REGISTER-GUARD, 7/11).
Univision Deportes runs a full-page ad in the N.Y. TIMES touting the fact that it "beat every other sports cable network in the country" during the month of June and featuring imagery from Chile's Copa America victory (THE DAILY).
A full-page ad in USA TODAY promotes tonight's MLB Home Run Derby on ESPN and features the competition bracket (THE DAILY).
