I have applied a simple beach ball texture to a sphere but it does some strange warping at the top.
I show the texture on the right and use 1 X 1 tiling and 0 x 0 offset. Is there a way to make the colors come together correctly? Thank you.
No. Model your own sphere. Unity's built-in sphere is only suitable as a test object. Your texture is also a total waste in this case; vertex colors would be appropriate and completely eliminate distortion.