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Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Saturday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EDT:- TROON, Scotland -- Phil Mickelson enters the windy third round of the British Open one shot ahead of Henrik Stenson. Jordan Spieth, who just made the cut, is 15 strokes behind.- VILLARS-LES-DOMBES, France -- Chris Froome and the other race leaders observe a moment of silence before the 14th stage of the Tour de France in tribute to the victims of the Nice attack.- LOUDON, N.H. -- Dale Earnhardt Jrs latest battle with concussions puts the issue at the forefront again in NASCAR. He will miss Sundays race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.- NASCAR Xfinity race in New Hampshire; IndyCar qualifying in Toronto.- BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Undefeated heavyweight Deontay Wilder defends his WBC title against Chris Arreola. Arreola got the bout on short notice after Russias Alexander Povetkin failed a drug test.- PORTLAND, Ore. -- The U.S. can win its Davis Cup quarterfinal by taking its doubles match against Croatia. Twins Bob and Mike Bryan face Ivan Dodig and Marin Draganja. Match starts 4:30 p.m.- CHICAGO -- Yu Darvish of Texas makes his second comeback from injury this season, facing the Cubs in a game between slumping teams. He has been out since June 8 because of shoulder pain. Game starts 2:20 p.m.- Laurie Hernandez, all of 16 years old, is the youngest -- and maybe most charismatic -- member of the powerhouse U.S. womens gymnastics team going to the Rio Olympics.- LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- The sprint canoe teams from Romania and Belarus are banned from the Olympics for widespread doping.- MIAMI -- Pat Riley knows the Miami Heat will be a far different team next season. The Heat president discusses free agency, the loss of Dwyane Wade and the remaking of a team that once ruled the league. 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DETROIT -- According to the Detroit Tigers, the decision to deny the Boston Red Soxs request to push back Thursdays 1:10 p.m. start time was not a punitive one.Red Sox general manager Dave Dombrowski, who was dismissed as GM by the Tigers last season, revealed this week that his old club declined to honor the scheduling change, despite a tough travel turnaround for Boston, which played a night game in Baltimore on Wednesday night.That raised some eyebrows among those who wondered whether the decision was made as a slight to the clubs former executive or to gain a competitive advantage over his new team.Tigers manager Brad Ausmus, asked about the situation before Thursdays game, indicated that the scheduling flap is a much more frequent occurrence than people realize.Every team in baseball, at some point ... has some type of schedule issue. They get in late. They have another game. It happens to every team, every year, Ausmus said. Its not ideal. The baseball schedule is hard. If I were the Red Sox, would I not like it? Absolutely, I wouldnt like it. But theres nothing vindictive going on here. Weve played Thursday day games all year long.Tigers GM Al Avila offered a similar response during a radio appearance earlier this week, citing an article in the Boston Herald that called the move bush-league.I did not think that write-up was that fair because, really, that 1 oclock start time on Thursdays here is popular with our fans here in Detroit, Avila said Tuesday on MLB Network.Dombrowskis original comments suggested that the Tigers might have denied the request to gain a competitive advantage.They traditionally have played Thursday afternoons during the season, although they dont always play [then] because if the roles were reversed, Im sure they wouuld have played a night game, Dombrowski said, according to the Boston Herald.dddddddddddd And Im sure they did it in some ways because they realized we would come in as a tired club, that they did it from a competitive perspective. Unfortunately we didnt have any rights to get it changed.Thats a fair point from Dombrowski. The Tigers and Red Sox remain American League foes, with the Tigers trailing Boston in the standings and entering Thursdays game 3.5 games back from the second wild-card spot.Should the Tigers even be expected to grant the Red Sox any favors when it comes to a scheduling concern?No -- were not going to do them any favors. The Baltimore Orioles didnt do them any favors. They didnt have a day game on getaway day, Ausmus said. It really boils down this being bargained in the collective bargaining agreement in terms of what the travel parameters are. Its within the parameters.Dombrowski confirmed to ESPN that the Red Sox also asked the Orioles to make Wednesdays game -- Bostons getaway day -- a day game, but that request was denied as well.This is not considered uncommon, according to Ausmus.We asked a team earlier this year and they said no, Ausmus said. It happens.At least one Red Sox player was not happy about the situation. Red Sox infielder Travis Shaw tweeted:Some in Detroit have brought up the Detroit Lions preseason game on Thursday night as a reason the Tigers might have declined the request, considering the traffic issues two night games could create. Dombrowski shut down that notion, telling reporters on Thursday that the request was made in the offseason before the NFL schedule was released. ' ' '