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Phil Mickelson kept alive a streak and earned a footnote in Presidents Cup history Tuesday when he was selected to play on his 21st consecutive U.S. team.

Mickelson was No. 30 in the standings, the lowest of any player to be a captain's pick.

U.S. captain Jay Haas also took his son, Bill Haas, though that was expected. Bill Haas won his sixth PGA Tour title this year, finished one shot out of a playoff at The Players Championship and was 11th in the standings. His father said he intended to take No. 11 regardless of who it was.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Erie County District Attorney has postponed grand jury proceedings into a sexual assault allegation against Chicago Blackhawks star forward Patrick Kane, a person familiar with the investigation confirmed to The Associated Press.Evidence was scheduled to be presented to jurors on Tuesday but the hearings were postponed for about two weeks, the person said.Kane is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her 20s at the player's offseason home overlooking Lake Erie outside of Buffalo, a second person familiar with the investigation told AP, also on the condition of anonymity because police have not revealed the nature of their investigation.Kane has not been charged.

NEW YORK — Yankees star Alex Rodriguez has reached 30 home runs for the 15th season, tying Hank Aaron’s major league record.Rodriguez hit his 684th career home run in the sixth inning Tuesday night, lifting New York into a 1-all tie with Baltimore.The 40-year-old Rodriguez hadn’t hit the 30-homer mark since 2010. He didn’t play last year while serving a season-long drug suspension.Aaron held the career home run record of 755 before it was broken by Barry Bonds, who finished with 762.The homer was A-Rod’s fourth in five games and boosted his career hit total to 3,056, moving him past Rickey Henderson for 22nd place.

ST. LOUIS — Joaquin Andujar, a star pitcher with the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1980s who called himself “One tough Dominican,” has died in his native Dominican Republic. He was 62.Andujar was a two-time All-Star during five seasons with the Cardinals from 1981-85. He had 20-win seasons in 1984 and `85.

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