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MLBTrade costs Samardzija

chance for All-Star game.

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GolfCabrera wins Greenbrier Classic by 2 shots.

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Diamondbacks end Braves’ win streakThe Associated Press

ATLANTA — Paul Goldschmidt doesn’t often stand and stare at his homers. This time he had to look, just to make sure his drive stayed fair.

He liked what he saw.Wade Miley earned his first win since

early May, Goldschmidt hit a two-run homer and the Arizona Diamond-backs beat Atlanta 3-1 on Sunday to end the Braves’ nine-game winning streak.

Goldschmidt ripped an inside pitch from Alex Wood toward the left-field

seats in the third inning. He said he immediately figured it had home run distance. He was just hoping the ball would stay fair, and it hit the foul pole for his 16th homer.

“I wasn’t sure,” Goldschmidt said. “I knew it probably had the distance but it started fair and was going, so that was

one of the few times I was watching to see what was going to happen. I saw it hit the pole and come down. I was pret-ty happy.”

Miley (4-6) allowed one run on five hits and one walk in 6 2-3 innings. He struck out eight. The left-hander was 0-3 in his previous nine starts and had not won since beating the White Sox on May 10. The win snapped his streak of five straight no-decisions.

Miley shrugged when asked if he was relieved to finally get his fourth win.

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Almirola wins rain cut race at Daytona

MLB

NASCAR

The Associated Press

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It had been more than 15 years since the iconic No. 43 drove to Victory Lane.

So waiting through two days of thunderstorms and three red flags was relatively easy for Aric

Almirola and his Richard Petty Mo-torsports team.

Almirola won the rain-delayed and ra i n - s h o r t e n e d NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Day-tona International

Speedway on Sunday, putting Petty’s famed blue car back on top for the first time since 1999.

Almirola’s first Cup win came on the same weekend Petty cel-ebrated the 30th anniversary of his 200th career win. The 30-year-old Almirola was just a baby when Petty picked up that mile-stone victory.

“The 43 car is without a doubt the most famous car in our sport’s history,” Almirola said. “And to have that opportunity to drive that race car has been really spe-cial from the day that I stepped foot in it. All I wanted to do from the very first time I drove it was get it to Victory Lane. It took two and a half years I guess, but I fi-nally did it.”

Tigers look to avenge loss to LSUBy Alex Byingtonabyington@oanow.com

editor’s note: Over the 12 days leading up to the beginning of SEC Media Days, the Opelika-Auburn News will take a look at

each of Auburn’s 12 regular-season games.

This is clear revenge for Au-burn after the SEC West’s other Tigers — LSU — dealt Auburn its lone regular-season loss in the first road game of 2013. It was Auburn’s first true test and the team fell on its face during a miserable first half. But it was

the way the team battled in the second half that helped instill a belief that Auburn was better than its 3-9 campaign the year prior and propelled it to the BCS title game.

Auburn rallied after that loss to LSU, and it’s hoping for the same result after the title game loss to FSU. But if Auburn’s going to make it into the new College Football Playoff, it’ll undoubt-edly need to knock off LSU at home, especially with difficult

road games still ahead on the schedule.

GAME 5Louisiana State University

Tigers

Date: Oct. 4Time: TBALocation: Jordan-Hare Stadi-

um (87,451)TV: TBA

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Auburn University Football

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WhAT A finAL! Djokovic tops Federer at Wimbledon

The Associated Press

LONDON — Novak Djokovic’s large lead in the rollicking Wim-bledon final was slipping away, due in no small part to Roger Federer’s regal presence and re-surgent play.

No man has won tennis’ old-est major tournament more of-ten than Federer, and he was not about to let it go easily. Djokovic went from being a point from vic-tory in the fourth set to suddenly caught in the crucible of a fifth, and knew all too well that he had come up short in recent Grand Slam title matches.

Steeling himself when he so desperately needed to, Serbia’s Djokovic held on for a 6-7 (7), 6-4, 7-6 (4), 5-7, 6-4 victory after nearly four hours of momentum shifts Sunday to win Wimbledon for the second time — and deny Switzerland’s Federer what would have been a record eighth cham-pionship at the All England Club.

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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Wade Miley (left) prepares to throw against Atlanta Braves’ Jason Heyward in the first inning on Sunday.

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

novak Djokovic of Serbia kisses the trophy after defeating Roger Federer of Switzerland in the men’s singles final at the All england lawn tennis Championships on Sunday.

AlBERT CESARE/ACESARE@OANOW.COM

lSU defensive end Jermauria Rasco (59) sacks Auburn quarterback nick Marshall (14) in the fourth quarter of Auburn’s only regular-season loss last season.

Almirola

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