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Torres served as the designated hitter in Monday's series-opener with the Orioles, a game the Yankees took 9-6. Baltimore Orioles outfielder DJ Stewart suffered a concussion during a freakish mishap Tuesday while the team was playing against the New York Yankees .

Haslem, who was considering retirement, announced Tuesday that he is returning for a 17th season. He's also just the sixth player in National Basketball Association history to have such a long career with one team. The biggest difference between Haslem and other players is how many times one of his teammates has been an All-Star. Dirk Nowitzki spent all 21 of his seasons with Dallas.

Now though there seems to be another twist with L'Equipe reporting that Arsenal are seriously considering a loan move for the Brazilian and Barcelona too want to offload him. Furthermore, Barcelona are also demanding that Neymar drops his court case that he is seeking about €30m (£28m/$34m) from Barca , an amount he claims he was being owed for penning a contract extension ahead of his switch to the French topflight.

While Everton are trying to sign Palace winger Wilfried Zaha , we understand the McCarthy deal is a separate negotiation at this stage and the two deals do not have to be completed in tandem. According to reports in England, Everton's opening offer for Iwobi "understood to be an initial £25m with the rest made up of add-ons", per Adrian Kajumba [Mail Sport].

Popovich takes over for former Team USA head coach Mike Krzyzewski, who led the Americans to Olympic titles in 2008, 2012 and 2016, as well as the FIBA World Cup gold in 2010 and 2014. 15, 2019) will be the biggest edition of FIBA's flagship event with a record 32 participating teams playing 92 games over 16 days. Fox ran level guard for the second unit, backing up Kemba Walker as Kyle Lowry remained in a forged recovering from thumb surgical procedure.

Well, now CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein reports the NCAA has established the criteria for agents who are going to represent these student-athletes. Anthony Davis , Draymond Green ( the guy who just got $100 million from the Warriors ) and Ben Simmons are among the others.

Danny Murphy is tipping Arsenal to finish in the Premier League's top six this season. . Coutinho's time at Barcelona has not gone to plan, while Liverpool achieved an incredible points tally of 97 last season and lifted their sixth European trophy.

No other rider was reportedly involved. Race doctor Ryszard Wisniewski was quoted as saying "we don't know why he fell, it was on a totally flat road". In 2017 he had finished first in the Under-23s version of the prestigious Liege-Bastogne-Liege race. Lambrecht finished second at the Under-23 World Championships a year ago and was regarded as one of his country's most promising young riders.

The pair will become Bruce's second and third signings of the summer transfer window following the arrival of Brazilian striker Joelinton from Hoffenheim for a club-record fee last month. The France U21 global has huge potential to be a big signing for the Magpies, as they look to distance themselves from the bottom of the Premier League table under the tutelage of Bruce.

Anthony went on " First Take " with Stephen A. Smith on Friday, and spoke out for the first time since all that went down in November. "Silence is not my surrender", Anthony said , adamant that he can still contribute at the highest level.

A Kyle Walker scissor-kick denied Mohamed Salah the victor on 93 minutes, with goalkeeper Claudio Bravo - who Guardiola felt was the man of the match - thwarting Xherdan Shaqiri shortly after. Surprisingly though, it was Mo Salah who failed to break the deadlock for Liverpool . Jurgen Klopp's team were also runners-up to Manchester City in the top flight last season, despite losing just once and accumulating a huge 97 points - finishing a point adrift, with the most points ever ...

Star Argentina football player Lionel Messi will not be able to represent Argentina in any football fixture before the month of November after the South American Football Confederation, CONMEBOL , banned him for three months for his "corruption" remarks at Copa America 2019.

Nobody tells me that so that is why he is our player. 'I phoned Pep Guardiola and I apologised to him because I was too offensive, I will refrain in the future, ' Kovac said Wednesday after Bayern had lost to Tottenham on penalties in the final of a pre-season tournament.

French Cup champions - Rennes netted the opening goal of the contest after 13 minutes, after Adrien Hunou scored off a cross from Benjamin Bourigeaud. It was some effort but the night belonged to Mbappe -- and the Chinese fans wouldn't let anyone think otherwise. Thomas Tuchel looks to have made a canny acquisition with his capture of winger Sarabia, who assisted the leveller, played a part in the victor and looked to be fitting comfortably into new surroundings.

Johnson, 28, has spent more time in the minors this season than with the big league club, however. Brett Gardner proceeded to smack a two-RBI single to give the Yankees a three-run lead and D.J. Cora, not pitching coach Dana LeVangie, went to the mound, talked to Sale and then cursed at Esterbrook. Breyvic Valera had just capitalized on a bases-loaded situation with a single to right, scoring Edwin Encarnacion, as the Yankees' bats began to heat up.

The Toffees have sold midfielder Idrissa Gueye to Paris St-Germain for about £30m, as well as winger Ademola Lookman to RB Leipzig for £16m. Already, Everton have signed midfielders Andre Gomes and Fabian Delph and goalkeeper Jonas Lossl, and many Evertonians are desperate to see The Toffees bring in reinforcements - particular a centre-back and a striker.

Griffin spoke with a person close to James after the Sports Illustrated article came out and said his comments were missing some context, sources told ESPN's Dave McMenamin . Now with the Pelicans, Griffin has to worry first and foremost about his franchise. "I was miserable", Griffin says. On ESPN's The Jump on Friday, Griffin said he did a poor job of framing a conversation about dealing with the "noise" surrounding those teams.

Wieck made his Major League Baseball debut last season but he really struggled at the big-league level posting a 6.57 ERA in 24 2/3 innings of work a year ago. He has 100 strike-outs in 103 innings pitched but has also walked 45. Paul Richan and Alex Lange are headed to Detroit in return, per Craig Mish of MLB Network ( via Twitter ).

But now there's arguably more at stake for both sides than the series result. But the 28-year-old was one of the stars of England's triumphant World Cup campaign earlier this season and Root, also involved in that success, is eager to have Stokes back as his Test vice-captain after Jos Buttler took over the role.

United , however, don't want to lose Pogba . "There is a lot of thinking [going on]", he said. "After this season and everything that happened, with my season being my best season.it could be a good time to have a new challenge somewhere else".

The Miami Dolphins confirmed the news of the passing. Along with eight Pro Bowl invitations, Buoniconti was named to the Dolphins' Silver Anniversary All-Time Team and enshrined in the team's honor roll in 1991. Nick famously launched The Buoniconti Fund after his son, Marc , became paralyzed during a college football game in 1985. Nick Buoniconti also had a successful post-football career in broadcasting and business.

She peppered the crowd with seven sixes and struck 17 boundaries in a devastating display of power hitting. After Alyssa Healy (four) fell in the first over, the Aussie skipper put on 134 with Beth Mooney (54 off 33 balls) in 11.4 overs.

Kuwata may have notched seven ITF titles, but is now languishing outside the world's top 300 and has yet to make her mark on the WTA Tour having failed to make a Grand Slam main draw. My dream was to win. While her coevals still seek the spot in the bigger ITF junior events, Cori has already played in the ten main draws at professional tournaments, leaving the junior tennis behind and focusing on a pro career and the spot in the top-100 as soon as possible.

We speak about that a lot, having a plan for any situation you find yourself in and being clear with your thoughts. England selectors were clearly cautious, picking the 29-year-old for 84 ODIs before sending him out in whites for the first time against Ireland last week.

An 18-year-old AS Saint Etienne defender, Saliba was also announced an hour later of the other signing yesterday. However, as Pepe continued to blossom in Lille , it looked increasingly likely that the Gunners would be priced out of a move for the Ivory Coast global.

Elliott is the youngest ever player to make his Premier League debut, featuring in Fulham's clash with Wolves in May aged just 16 years, 30 days. The Reds have also signed Sepp van der Berg from PEC Zwolle this season. Subscribe to Squawka's Youtube channel here . He is included in Liverpool's squad for today's friendly against Napoli in Edinburgh and will take part in the Reds' training camp in Evian, France.

That's cash they'll get to keep, as a charity wasn't involved in this tournament . The warm up events of the tournament are officially done and dusted so now it's down to the big one with all eyes on the Solo and Duo prize winners. She admitted to having thrown away an Xbox in the past but now accepted his choice to compete professionally. "I don't know what to say". Winners in the solo and duo categories can each receive $3 million before taxes.

The only one with a team-mate left in the race was Kruijswijk who had trusted lieutenant Laurens De Plus on a barnstorming day where he had set a pace that the majority of the GC candidates couldn't follow. Bernal led the fight behind at 17 seconds, finishing hand-in-hand with Thomas. Nibali made the decisive move on the 33.4km climb to Val Thorens 13 kilometres from the summit, just as Alaphilippe was going the other way off the back of the main group.

Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc had no doubt the team let a shot at pole position slip through its fingers after suffering vehicle issues on both cars in qualifying at the German Grand Prix . "I don't know what programme our rivals were on, and how much they had to turn down the engine mapping because of the heat". "Coming here I don't feel we are the favorites, but I do feel we have a chance".

Whyte had previously served a doping suspension between 2012 and 2014. He said: 'I am so disappointed with the rubbish that has been said about me over the last few days. The British Boxing Board of Control knew about the tests which found epimethandienone and hydroxymethandienone before the fight, but didn't notify the Rivas team.

Liverpool have lacked a creative midfielder since selling Coutinho. But Klopp's men did not stay out in front for long, as Wendel tied the scores once again eight minutes into the second half. Whilst star man Bruno Fernandes was the name on everyone's lips, it was the young Ivorian who caught the eye of the Liverpool boss. "We know what the situation is and, now he's here, let's wait and see".

The Turkish government cast a broadside at NBA player Enes Kanter on Thursday, calling the Boston Celtics center a "liar" and a member of a "cult" and terrorist organization after he accused the Turkish Consulate in NY of frightening a mosque out of hosting a free youth basketball camp.

Now George and Leonard are teammates with the LA Clippers, which nearly didn't happen, as Leonard told Nichols. Curiously, Leonard and George both spoke about the moment when their paths almost crossed previously. - Rachel Nichols (@Rachel_Nichols) July 24, 2019Paul told me his conversation with Russ about all this "was easy, same conversation me and Russ always have".

And given this strong showing, as well as the MLB's growing tendency to hold showcase games (after all, the Yankees and Red Sox played an abbreviated series in London this summer), it seems fair to ask: Is there a case for Nebraska to host an annual MLB game? Based on the Royals-Tigers game alone, the answer is a resounding yes.

The side is without some of its big stars: Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Arturo Vidal, Coutinho and Arthur, who were all on global duty at the 2019 Copa America. Barcelona angered Atletico when they attempted to negotiate Griezmann's £108m fee, with the Madrid club claiming they wanted to delay the payment.