The Washington Football Team is still in need of a young quarterback for the future after day one of the 2021 NFL draft. Head coach Ron Rivera met with the media after Washington selected Kentucky linebacker Jamin Davis in the first round and was asked if he felt tempted to move up for either Justin …
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MADRID — Second-seeded Naomi Osaka made a successful return to clay at the Madrid Open by beating Misaki Doi 7-5, 6-2 in the first round. Osaka overcame Doi’s strong start by hitting six aces and breaking her serve five times. A leg injury meant Osaka missed last season’s clay-court swing, and her last individual tournament …
MUNICH — Top-seeded Alexander Zverev lost in the Munich Open quarterfinals to Belarussian qualifier Ilya Ivashka 6-7 (5), 7-5, 6-3. Trying to add to his Munich titles in 2017 and ’18, Zverev served for the match against Ivashka at 5-4 in the second set. But he was broken. Ivashka, ranked 107th, made the decisive break …
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The Kentucky Derby’s arrival on Saturday sneaked up on much of sporting America, those who don’t subscribe to the Daily Racing Form, understand the mathematical components of a Beyer Figure or know Bob Baffert from Bob Saget. So we’re speaking here to the casual horse player, the one who is above picking based on the …
As April winds to a close, it’s time to check in on the first month of MLB’s season, which is back to 162 games and messing with our heads after a 60-game sprint in 2020. Here’s where things would stand if the season ended now, and a look at how the the best bets for …
Leading football clubs and players will be joined by a number of sporting bodies in a four-day boycott of social media platforms from Friday in a move to tackle abuse and discrimination. The “show of solidarity against online abuse” hopes to encourage companies to take a stronger stance against racist and sexist abuse on their …
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Carmudi Ford PH dominates 4×4 pickup, small SUV segments Ford Philippines maintained leadership and dominance in the local 4×4 pickup truck and small SUV segments. As of the first quarter of this year, the Blue Oval’s local arm sold a total of 1,273 4×4 vehicles led by the Ranger Raptor, taking up market share of …
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2:44 PM ET King Fury, the 20-1 horse named after lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has been scratched from Saturday’s Kentucky Derby. King Fury’s trainer, Kenny McPeek, tweeted the horse spiked 104 degree fever with an elevated white count on Friday afternoon after a galloping session in the morning, leading to the decision to pull …
King Fury, the 20-1 Kentucky Derby entrant named for world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury, was scratched from Saturday’s US racing classic after spiking a fever on Friday. Kenny McPeek, King Fury’s trainer, said in a Twitter posting the horse had an elevated white blood cell count and in an attached video said the horse …
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I believe as a society we’ve moved well beyond the point of even questioning who this year’s NHL MVP will be. In what can only be considered the lock of all locks — which is really saying something considering the monster year Toronto Maple Leafs sniper Auston Matthews is having himself — Connor McDavid is …
Japan’s Naomi Osaka began her bid to capture a first clay court title with a 7-5, 6-2 win over compatriot Misaki Doi in the opening round of the Madrid Open on Friday. The 23-year-old world number two recovered from an early break to ease into the last 32 in 87 minutes on the back of …
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Lewis Hamilton headed Max Verstappen by 0.143 seconds to lead the way in second practice at the Portuguese Grand Prix. The second Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas was third quickest, ahead of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz and the Alpines of Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon. It is the first time this season that Hamilton has topped a …
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News Pakistan centurion says the slowness of the pitch and the old ball forced the batters to score slowly most of the day Pakistan have a lead of 198 runs with four wickets in hand in the first-innings exchange with Zimbabwe in Harare, but the scoring rate has hovered between 2.7 and 2.8. Fawad Alam, …
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Each week during the 2020-21 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into three of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward. [Last week: Suns chances in a settling West and a disaster brewing in Chicago] In the NBA, the …
11:48 AM BST The Champions Cup and Challenge Cup finals will take place at London’s Twickenham Stadium in May in front of up to 10,000 fans, the Rugby Football Union (RFU) said on Friday. The matches were due to take place in Marseille on May 21 and May 22 respectively but were moved out of …
No one has repped the Portland Trail Blazers like Damian Lillard. From the impressive collection of corporate partners, to the national TV spots, to repping the Trail Blazers like no other, to the arduous task of trying to recruit high-level talent to the Pacific Northwest and to displaying an unprecedented loyalty to a franchise that …
Francisco Lindor is still smiling despite a sluggish start. (Mike Stobe/Getty Images) You can get almost anything you want in New York. Great food, a lovely show, an all-night party. Wait, you want stolen bases? This isn’t the city for you. The Mets have three steals on the fresh season, which ranks last in the …
Welcome to the latest edition of Missed Fists where we shine a light on fights from across the globe that may have been overlooked in these hectic times where it seems like there’s an MMA show every other day. Lightning fast knockouts usually lead the show here, but this week we have a pair of …
