Daily Sports Bulletin · Saturday, July 18, 2026

World Sports in 60 Seconds for Saturday, July eighteenth. England has taken World Cup bronze, beating France six-four in Miami. Bukayo Saka scored a hat-trick as the Three Lions led four-nil at halftime, then held off a fierce French comeback. At the Tour de France, Thymen Arensman soloed to win stage fourteen, while Tadej Pogacar finished second and stretched his overall lead over Jonas Vingegaard to four minutes, thirteen seconds. At Royal Birkdale, Sam Burns fired a third-round sixty-five to reach ten under and take a two-shot lead into Sunday's Open Championship finale. Ryan Fox and Si Woo Kim share second. In Formula One, nineteen-year-old Kimi Antonelli put Mercedes on pole for the Belgian Grand Prix, three-tenths clear of Max Verstappen at Spa. And in the W.N.B.A., Caitlin Clark delivered forty-five points and ten assists as Indiana beat Seattle one-ten to one-oh-seven, becoming the league's first player with a forty-plus-point, ten-assist game. That's your global sports briefing from Sportscaster A.I.