Ozuna on Fire, Flaherty's Road Pitching Success

In today’s newsletter…

• Leading Off: Sports calendar getting busy

• MLB: Ozuna batting .500 in past 4 games

• Olympics Futures: Opportunities in tennis and basketball

• More MLB: Gerrit Cole is back on track

• Tennis: Tiafoe in Atlanta

• News: Coach kicked out of Olympics for spy drone

We’re two days away from the Olympics Opening Ceremony, eight days from the first NFL preseason game, and a month from the start of college football season and the Premier League. The July sports calendar is the sparsest of the year, but it feels like that helps get us ready for what’s to come.

Last year the American Gaming Association predicted that 73.5 million people in the United States — or 28% of the adult population — would bet on the NFL. With two more states legalizing sports betting this year (North Carolina and Vermont), expect that number to go up.