Wednesday, August 8, 2018

McAllister Park reaches Little League regional final

McAllister Park slugged its way into the Little League Baseball Southwest Regional title amusement, riding two seven-run innings to a 19-13 triumph over River Ridge, Louisiana, on Tuesday in Waco. McAllister Park, playing as Texas West, will confront Lufkin, playing as Texas East, at 6 p.m. today in the last (ESPN2), with the victor progressing to the Little League World Series that starts Aug. 17 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Lufkin beat McAllister...

NFL's worst-drafting teams of the decade: Browns are clear choice for No. 1

(Photo: Aaron Doster, USA TODAY Sports) When they exchanged 2016 first-round draft pick Corey Coleman to the Bills on Sunday night, the Cleveland Browns affirmed what had for quite some time been obvious to many. No other establishment approaches for the title of the decade's most exceedingly bad drafting NFL group up until now. In measuring how groups had fared up until now, USA TODAY Sports taking a gander at the draft classes from 2010-16...

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Dream golf: One and Done, WGC-Bridgestone Invitational

2018 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational Preview The seventeenth of 24 contributing occasions for PGA TOUR Champions One and Done introduced by SERVPRO is the current week’s 3M Championship. It starts on Friday. Look for competition notes, 12 notables and five special cases from the field of 78 north of Minneapolis. For the remain solitary One and Done for the Barracuda Championship, click here. It’s Turn Back the Clock week at the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone...

Real League Baseball: London Stadium to have two installations in 2019

The New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox will play each other in two Major League Baseball normal season amusements at the London Stadium in 2019. The matches, which will be hung on 29 and 30 June, will be the primary MLB recreations to be organized in Europe. MLB says it means to play again in 2020 and set up “a long haul impression in the city”. Talks were held in 2016 to arrange standard season coordinates in London yet the plans were later...

Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Gareth Southgate: FA keen to extend England manager's contract

The Football Association wants Gareth Southgate to remain as England manager beyond Euro 2020 but accepts it cannot compete on salary if a Premier League club tries to lure him away. Southgate's standing soared as England reached a first World Cup semi-final for 28 years in Russia this summer. Having initially come in as a caretaker manager, the 47-year-old was given a four-year contract in November 2016. "We'd like him to stay beyond 2020,"...

England v India: Sparks could fly after Virat Kohli's send-off to Joe Root - Jonathan Agnew

After a promising begin, the main day of the principal Test against India at Edgbaston wound up as a similar old story for England.  To close on 285-9 subsequent to winning the hurl is a failure. Nobody scored a hundred, players got out subsequent to getting begins and, once more, England will look pace bowlers James Anderson and Stuart Broad to uncover them from underneath inconvenience. The disappointment for England on this event may...

Ben Woodburn: Liverpool forward joins Sheffield United on loan

Championship side Sheffield United have signed Liverpool forward Ben Woodburn on a season-long loan deal. The 18-year-old Wales international has scored one goal in 11 appearances for the Reds since making his first-team debut in November 2016. "Ben is a great signing for us, he is an exciting player with undoubted quality," said Blades boss Chris Wilder on the club website. "It's his first loan and I'm sure it will be a great one...

Jose Mourinho: What is going on – and does he want out of Man Utd?

A month ago, when England were looking forward to a World Cup semi-final and as pre-season training for Europe’s major clubs was just getting started, Manchester United’s final US tour match against Real Madrid had a major question mark over it. Gareth Bale would be involved. But for whom? Fast forward four weeks and, though England did not find their utopia, Bale is happy enough, laughing and joking with his Real team-mates in Miami, his short-term...

Andy Murray beats Mackenzie McDonald in Washington Open

Britain’s Andy Murray beat Mackenzie McDonald 3-6 6-4 7-5 in the Washington Open’s first round in his fourth match following hip surgery in January. Murray, 31, converted his seventh match point after more than two-and-a-half hours on court against the American. “Mentally, it was a big one to get through,” said former world number one Murray. “I fought hard and I had to. The movements and stuff were fine.” He will now play fellow Briton Kyle...

Washington Open: Britain’s Katie Boulter beats Aleksandra Krunic

British number two Katie Boulter reached the last 16 of the Washington Open by knocking out fifth seed Aleksandra Krunic in straight sets. The 21-year-old saved a solitary break point as she beat the Serb world number 47 6-2 6-0 in 63 minutes. Boulter, the world number 118, will face Allie Kiick of the United States in the next round on Wednesday. Britain’s Harriet Dart was 7-5 4-2 down to Switzerland’s Belinda Bencic when play was suspended...

Jarryd Hayne has revealed he battled a mystery illness for over a year

JARRYD Hayne has revealed he spent more than a year battling a debilitating stomach problem he believes he picked up while training for Fiji’s Rugby Sevens team. Hayne let spill on Tuesday that he was diagnosed with H-Pylori last year while at the Gold Coast, leaving him bloated and generally ill for the best part of 12 months. The Parramatta superstar had to undergo surgery after the disease attacked his stomach’s lining, as his immune system...