Your information to watching sports activities on July 4th

The Fourth of July is for a lot of one of many highlights of the yr. Meals, household, and the possibility to observe some fireworks, in case you are not lighting them off yourselves.

(Please be secure pricey readers).

However the Fourth can be a reasonably large day every year in the case of sports activities. So in case you are in search of what to observe, we now have you coated.

Consuming

In fact, no July 4th could be full with out a quintessentially American occasion: The Nathan’s Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest. Joey Chestnut is in search of his sixteenth win on this yr’s version, and hopefully, he doesn’t should deal with a protester within the course of as he did a yr in the past.

You’ll be able to watch it on ESPN.

Biking

The 2023 Tour de France is underway, and at the moment is the fourth stage of biking’s premier occasion. This stage takes riders from Dax to Nogaro and is a comparatively flat stage, which ought to arrange for an exhilarating dash to the end. Adam Yates is the present total chief, however contenders Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard are within the hunt.

The Tour de France airs on Peacock and USA at the moment.

MLB

All 30 MLB groups are in motion on Tuesday, with 15 video games beginning at 11:05 a.m. Jap when the Washington Nationals host Elly De La Cruz and the Cincinnati Reds.

The Reds are actually enjoyable once more, as we now have been telling you.

Tennis

The 2023 Wimbledon Championships obtained underway on Monday with first-round motion. Whereas climate suspended a variety of matches, the highest two seeds on the Males’s aspect — Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz — each superior to the second spherical with wins.

On the Girls’s aspect, Iga Swiatek has already superior to the second spherical as has Jessica Pegula, the highest-seeded American within the Girls’s discipline.

You’ll be able to watch all of the motion from Wimbledon on ESPN.

NBA

Whereas the NBA itself is in the summertime offseason, free company remains to be underway. Most of the main strikes have been made, however Damian Lillard may very well be traded within the coming days.

We’ve got you coated with our dwell NBA Free Company tracker on SB Nation. You may as well try our NBA Free Company hub.

Have a secure and completely happy Fourth!