Some of the sports stories The Associated Press is covering Friday. A full Sports Digest will be sent by about 3 p.m. All times EDT:- TROON, Scotland -- Phil Mickelson follows his mighty 63 with a second-round 69 and is in front at the British Open, a stroke ahead of Henrik Stenson. Rory McIlroy is making his move; Jordan Spieth is struggling.- TROON, Scotland -- Clement Sordet is playing at the British Open, but his thoughts are with Nice. The waterfront attack happened about 500 yards from where the Frenchman lives.- LA CAVERNE DU PONT-DARC, France -- With security beefed up following the deadly Bastille Day attack, defending champion Chris Froome extends his overall lead at the Tour de France.- Olympic marketers are making their pitch against a challenging backdrop: the loosening of ad restrictions for non-sponsors and an Olympics facing an array of challenges.- Olympic previews on mens and womens basketball, tennis, boxing, weightlifting, judo, rowing, canoeing.- LOUDON, N.H. -- Four-time NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon could come out of retirement next weekend and drive if Dale Earnhardt Jr. is not cleared to race.- ENGLEWOOD, Colo. -- Super Bowl MVP Von Miller is mulling a six-year, $114.5 million offer from the Denver Broncos that now includes a record $70 million in guarantees.- PORTLAND, Ore. -- The U.S., led by John Isner and Jack Sock, meets Croatia on the opening day of a Davis Cup quarterfinal. Marin Cilic and Borna Coric play for Croatia. Matches start 3 p.m.- WASHINGTON -- Stephen Strasburg (12-0) starts for the first-place Nationals, facing the Pittsburgh Pirates. He is the first NL starter in 104 years to win his first 12 decisions in a season. Game starts 7:05 p.m.- CHICAGO -- In a matchup between two of baseballs best teams, the Cubs play the Rangers. Texas has lost nine of 12 but still leads the AL Central by 5 1/2 games. Game starts 2:20 p.m.- DETROIT -- All-Star Game MVP Eric Hosmer and the World Series champion Kansas City Royals return to play, taking on a Detroit Tigers team that sends Justin Verlander to the mound. Game starts 7 p.m.- Two-time Grand Slam champion Victoria Azarenka says she is pregnant and plans to resume her tennis career after the baby is born.- MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty play Friday night, two WNBA teams that have been outspoken following two shootings by police.- WACO, Texas -- Jim Grobe, Baylors acting head coach, says issues such as domestic violence and sexual assault will be turned over to officials at a university that has been rocked by scandal.- HOOVER, Ala. -- Alabama, backed by a fierce defense, is again the favorite to win the SEC while LSU, Tennessee, Mississippi and the rest of the league try to figure out a way to stop the Tide. Brandon Dubinsky Jersey .C. at the helm of the top team in the Eastern Conference. His tenure as the GM in Vancouver was all too brief. Though he led the Canucks to what was then a franchise record-shattering campaign in just his second season, Nonis was gone and replaced one year later. 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But on Wednesday, players wore plain black Adidas shirts before a game against the Atlanta Dream, and they said the decision was due to a compromise made by the players to wear the branded warm-up shirts.Adidas outfits WNBA teams, and the teams typically wear specific branded warm-ups.We didnt want the last time to be the only stance that we make, Liberty guard Tanisha Wright said. Its easy to come out and make a stance one time. People will talk about it that one time and then they will forget about it. We dont want this conversation to be forgotten about.Messages seeking comment from an Adidas representative were not immediately returned.The Libertys shirts were showcased after the Minnesota Lynx donned their own shirts on Saturday. Afterward, four off-duty police officers that were working security at Minnesotas game walked off the job in response. Minnesota did not wear their warm-up shirts to their next game in San Antonio.The Lynx shirts read: Change starts with us. Justice & Accountability, on the front, and the names of the two black men fatally shot by police in Minnesota and Louisiana, on the back. The shirts also showed the Dallas police sshield above the phrase Black Lives Matter.ddddddddddddome Liberty players said they planned to wear their shirts for the rest of the season, and others suggested other signs of support might be in the works.For me personally, we agreed we want to do it for the rest of the season with the black shirts we have on and meeting in the middle with the WNBA having Adidas-represented shirts, Liberty forward Tina Charles said. Because of our time schedules, we arent allowed to be in protests. We arent able to go out to city halls and say how we feel, so I think the shirts represent our voice, and I think the Minnesota Lynx did that very well.The shirts were just one example of social activism on the part of WNBA players in recent weeks.After the fatal shootings at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Breanna Stewart of the Seattle Storm wrote the names of the 49 victims on her Nike pride shoes and auctioned them off after a game, along with a pair of shoes she wore the week prior that had #Enough and Orlando United on them.As a team, the Storm signed 49 #OrlandoUnited shirts and placed them on seats at their Pride night to remember the victims. The shirts were sold to raise money for the OneOrlando Fund.The Phoenix Mercury hosted a blood drive and a silent auction for the cause.Liberty guard Shavonte Zellous has Orlando Strong, Orlando United and LGBT written on her sneakers. 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