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The lawsuit filed by Cowboys owner JERRY JONES against ALEXANDRA DAVIS, the woman alleging Jones is her biological father, and her mother alleging that they "breached a contract they entered more than 20 years ago," will go to trial in federal court on July 22. In March,  Davis' lawsuit against Jones was dismissed in federal court (DALLAS MORNING NEWS, 7/8).

NAMES: Mets 1B PETE ALONSO "regularly donates" his prize money from the Home Run Derby to charitable causes through his foundation. This year, the Alonso Foundation "plans to use any money won to refurbish youth baseball fields." Alonso: “We want to be able to take care and redo some fields, or redo to kind of rejuvenate the love for baseball and get kids out there. So it’s really exciting, because taking myself back to 7-, 8-year-old me, it’s a dream come true” (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 7/8)....Two-time Wimbledon champion PETRA KVITOVA and her husband and coach JIRI VANEK announced in a social media post yesterday that Kvitova gave birth to a son, PETR, on July 7 (TENNIS, 7/8).

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