Chris Froome Loses Overall Lead at Tour de France

Chris Froome cracked during a grueling climb to the finish and lost the overall lead in the Tour de France to Fabio Aru on Thursday after a demanding stage won by Romain Bardet.

Froome’s Sky teammates had controlled the race until the final kilometer leading to the ski station of Peyragudes, but Froome was dropped in a final section that featured slopes with a 20 percent gradient.

Bardet won Stage 12 ahead of Rigoberto Uran and Aru, who seized the overall lead from Froome, a three-time champion, by six seconds. Bardet is third over all, 25 seconds off the pace.

Team Sky had dominated the stage until the final 350 meters, when Aru made his move. Froome was able to follow Aru, his Italian rival, for only a few meters before he cracked, and he crossed the line in seventh place, 22 seconds behind Bardet.

BASEBALL

Tebow Hits Game-Ending Homer

Tim Tebow hit the first game-ending home run of his professional baseball career, lifting the Class A St. Lucie Mets over the visiting Daytona Tortugas, 5-4, in a seven-inning game.

Tebow, a Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback at Florida, went deep with one out against the Cincinnati Reds minor leaguer Austin Orewiler, hitting a first-pitch fastball over the fence in left field. Tebow has hit safely in 11 straight games and is batting .327 with St. Lucie.

CUBS ACQUIRE WHITE SOX PITCHER The Chicago Cubs, scuffling and inconsistent since winning the World Series, acquired Jose Quintana from the White Sox in a major trade between the crosstown rivals.

Trailing Milwaukee by five and a half games in the National League Central, the Cubs shook things up by acquiring Quintana, a 2016 All-Star. In exchange, the Cubs sent four prospects to the rebuilding White Sox: outfielder Eloy Jimenez, the right-hander Dylan Cease and infielders Matt Rose and Bryant Flete.

Quintana, a left-hander, is 4-8 with a 4.49 earned run average in 18 starts this season. He won a career-high 13 games last season with a 3.20 E.R.A. while making his first All-Star team.

YANKEES TRADE RELIEVER TO BREWERS The Milwaukee Brewers acquired the left-handed reliever Tyler Webb from the Yankees for the minor league first baseman Garrett Cooper. Webb had a 4.50 E.R.A. in seven appearances this year season with the Yankees without a decision. Cooper was batting .366 with 17 homers and 82 runs batted in at Class AAA.

PRO BASKETBALL

Wizards Match Nets’ Offer to Porter

The Washington Wizards matched the Nets’ $106 million, four-year offer sheet to keep forward Otto Porter. Porter, 24, who averaged career highs of 13.4 points and 6.4 rebounds last season, becomes Washington’s highest-paid player for the time being, ahead of guards Bradley Beal and John Wall.

NUGGETS SIGN MILLSAP The Denver Nuggets announced the signing of the four-time All-Star Paul Millsap. A highly coveted free agent, Millsap, a former Atlanta forward, agreed to a three-year deal worth $90 million.

Millsap, 32, gives the Nuggets a proven veteran to pair with the budding star Nikola Jokic. Millsap averaged a career-high 18.1 points last season with 7.7 rebounds and 3.7 assists.

HOCKEY

Rangers and Top Pick Reach Deal

The Rangers agreed to a three-year, entry-level contract with forward Lias Andersson, the No. 7 overall pick last month. The 18-year-old Andersson had nine goals and 10 assists in 42 games last season for HV71 of the Swedish Hockey League.

HURRICANES OWNER MAY SELL The owner of the Carolina Hurricanes, Peter Karmanos Jr., is considering selling the team. A Hurricanes spokesman, Mike Sundheim, said that Karmanos was deciding whether to accept an offer, and he declined to say who had made it. The offer could have come from the former Texas Rangers chief executive Chuck Greenberg. Bloomberg News and WRAL-TV in Raleigh reported that Greenberg is close to purchasing the team and will not move the Hurricanes. Bloomberg reported the sale price at roughly $500 million.

GOLF

Two Share Lead in Deere Classic

Charles Howell III and Ollie Schniederjans each shot eight-under 63 in perfect morning conditions to share the first-round lead in the John Deere Classic in Silvis, Ill.

Howell birdied seven his first nine holes and added a birdie on No. 7 at rain-softened TPC Deere Run. Schniederjans birdied five of his last eight holes in his lowest round of the PGA Tour.

FOWLER TWO BACK IN SCOTLAND Rickie Fowler, the 2015 champion, rolled in five birdies at Dundonald Links to shoot a five-under 67 in the first round of the Scottish Open. He was in a six-way tie for second place, two shots behind Mikko Ilonen of Finland.

MIZE LEADS SENIOR EVENT Larry Mize birdied half the holes and shot an eight-under 64 for a one-stroke lead after the opening round of the Senior Players Championship in Owings Mills, Md.

SOCCER

El Salvador Scores Gold Cup Win

Quick goals from Gerson Mayen and Rodolfo Zelaya lifted El Salvador to a 2-0 win over Curaçao in the Concacaf Gold Cup in Denver. Zelaya was involved in both goals, delivering a crisp pass to Mayen, who freed himself in the middle of the box and kicked the ball past goaltender Eloy Room in the 21st minute.

Three minutes later, Zelaya managed to make enough space to chest down a long ball, dribble into the penalty area and fire.

The victory lifted El Salvador’s hopes of advancing from Group C after its opening 3-1 loss to Mexico. (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE)

FANTASY SPORTS

Companies Scrap Proposed Merger

The two leading daily fantasy sports companies, DraftKings and FanDuel, scrapped their proposed merger about a month after federal regulators sued to block it. The two companies said they were moving forward separately in the best interests of their customers, employees and investors.