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AP — Ole Miss freshman football player Corey Adams was killed in a shooting in Tennessee, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office announced Sunday. Law enforcement officials found Adams with a gunshot wound inside a vehicle at an intersection in Cordova on the outskirts of Memphis late Saturday, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. “They provided life-saving measures until Shelby County Fire arrived,” the sheriff’s office said. “Shelby County Fire personnel later pronounced the victim deceased on the scene.” Four other men who suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds in the incident arrived at nearby hospitals in personal vehicles, authorities said. Law…
AUSTRALIA TOUR OF WEST INDIES, 2025 Mitchell Owen hit six sixes in his 27-ball fifty. © AFP After sweeping the Test series 3-0, Australia made a winning start to the T20I series too as they beat West Indies by three wickets in the opener in Jamaica on Sunday. The start to Andre Russell’s farewell series was sullied, first by Ben Dwarshuis (4-36) and then through a combined batting effort led by debutant Mitchell Owen (50 off 27) and Cameron Green (51 off 26). Though they ended up losing seven wickets, Australia still made short work of West Indies’ 189/8 by…
An in-depth look the first Test of the 2005 Ashes, 20 years on Adam Burnett and Josh Schonafinger join host Louis Cameron in the England dressing rooms to belt out ‘Underneath the Southern Cross’ after one too many Fosters.While they were down there, they also re-lived the first Test of the epic 2005 Ashes series, where Australian hubris surely peaked. Today, July 21, marks 20 years since the famous contest began, and this is the first edition of a five-part series where we walk you through the battle Test-by-Test. EPISODE INDEX: 12.26 – England’s statement of intent with the ball…
CNN — For a few fleeting moments, as he stared down at the ball that had careened off the bunker’s lip and back to his feet, Scottie Scheffler looked human. Then the world’s supreme golfer dusted himself down, birdied the next hole, and resumed his metronomic march towards The Open Championship. Not even a shock double bogey could take any shine off the American’s imperious capture of the sport’s oldest tournament on Sunday, as the world No. 1 glided to a four-shot victory and his fourth career major at Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. A closing three-under 68 saw him…
Mitch Owen has crowned a dream debut for Australia with a blistering 26-ball half-century in his first knock for Australia to lead his country to a series-opening T20 win against the West Indies in Jamaica. Owen’s (50 off 27) first scoring shot in international cricket was as six off retiring veteran Andre Russell and he proceeded to hit five more to help Australia overhaul West Indies’ 8-189 with seven balls to spare. Cameron Green (51 off 26) also played a crucial hand with five sixes of his own in an 80-run fifth-wicket stand with Owen following Ben Dwarshuis’ career-best 4-36…
ZIMBABWE WOMEN TOUR OF IRELAND, 2025 Gaby Lewis scored 67 in her team’s win © Getty July 20 Gaby Lewis, bowlers give Ireland early lead A measured half-century from skipper Gaby Lewis after a disciplined bowling effort saw Ireland take an early lead in the home series against Zimbabwe. Orla Prendergast kickstarted the game with a wicket off just the third ball of the game but that was followed by a watchful partnership for the second wicket. But once that resistance broke, Ireland ran through the Zimbabwe lineup. 42/1 became 87/6 in the 14th over and Ireland just didn’t look…
MANAMA: Pakistani cueists enjoyed a strong showing in the IBSF World 6Red Snooker Championships here at the Crowne Plaza hotel on Sunday as Mohmmad Hasnain Akhtar, Ahsan Ramzan and Mohammad Asif registered thumping wins. Mohammad Hasnain Akhtar, the reigning U-17 champion, delivered a commanding performance, defeating Mohamed Abdelkader of Egypt 4-0 [70(70)-0, 45-11, 57(35)-7, 48-2]. However Hasnain experienced his first defeat of this campaign in the other match of the day as he fell to Chau Hon Man of Hong Kong 4-2. The match saw Hon Man take the first two frames (41-9, 38-16), Hasnain respond strongly to level [69(69)-0,…
LONDON: England will stage the next three World Test Championship finals after the successful hosting of the first three showpiece matches, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Sunday. The most recent final took place last month, when South Africa were crowned champions for the first time after defeating holders Australia at Lord’s. Nearly 110,000 people went through the gates of the London ground. India were reportedly keen to host the next final in two years’ time but England have been awarded the finals of the 2027, 2029 and 2031 editions. At its annual conference in Singapore, the ICC noted…
Australia will have recent form on their side after opting to field first in their T20 series opener against West Indies in Jamaica. Aussie skipper Mitch Marsh called correctly at the toss and had no hesitation in bowling at Sabina Park in Kingston, where the tourists have never played a T20 international before.Marsh’s side have won six of their past eight T20 matches after winning the toss, with their only two losses knocking them out of last year’s World Cup when they elected to field against Afghanistan and India. Australia revealed their XI for the first T20I yesterday, with Hobart…
ICC ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2025 England had been awarded the hosting rights for the 2027, 2029 and 2031 WTC Finals. © Getty Following the conclusion of ICC’s Annual Conference in Singapore, the Board has confirmed that England will host the three forthcoming World Test Championship Finals. In a media release, the ICC stated that England had been awarded the hosting rights for the 2027, 2029 and 2031 WTC Finals “following a successful track record in hosting recent finals”. So far, England has hosted the finals of all three completed WTC cycles. The 2021 final, initially scheduled for Lord’s, was played at…