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CNN  —  As Venus Williams prepares to make her tennis comeback at the DC Open after more than a year away from the sport, she has unsurprisingly fielded questions from reporters on a video her sister, Serena, recently posted on social media. In the video, the younger Williams sister looks as athletic as she did during her career, crushing huge groundstrokes that were such a nightmare for her opponents. So, is there a Serena comeback on the cards, too? “I mean, I keep saying to my team: ‘The only thing that would make this better is if she was here,’…

Match Wrap | Australia absorb Windies attack then storm home Mitch Owen didn’t give himself a single delivery to settle into international cricket, revealing he tried to “get after West Indies from ball one” on his way to becoming just the third Australian man to hit a T20 half-century on debut. Owen quipped post-match that he missed his first ball at international level “by two metres” as he tried to deposit spinner Gudakesh Motie onto the Kingston Cricket Club roof, but said it was part of a calculated plan to put the pressure back on the bowler from the outset,…

CNN  —  As a Masters champion and Ryder Cup icon, Sergio García boasts a resume that most golf lovers could only dream of. Yet for a few furious seconds at The Open Championship on Sunday, he was relatable to even the most amateur of hackers. The Spaniard played the last 16 holes of his 26th appearance at the major without his driver after snapping the club in frustration just five shots into his final round at Royal Portrush, Northern Ireland. Having opened with par, the 45-year-old wasted little time in showing his displeasure when his drive from the second tee…

Sri Lanka A dominates day two at Marrara, with opening spots still up in the air The first audition for Australia’s opening positions in The Ashes has commenced, but batter Nathan McSweeney failed to stake his claim after being dismissed for just 12 runs.  Australia A v Sri Lanka A | 2nd first-class match | Day 2   It was emblematic of the tough day Australia A faced, finishing on 1/76 after Sri Lanka A declared on 6-485.  After being promoted to the top of the order following his 94 in the first four-day game last week, McSweeney and fellow opener…

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…