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CNN — World No. 33 Yulia Putintseva asked the umpire to eject a spectator from her first-round match at Wimbledon over safety concerns, calling the attendee “dangerous” and “crazy.” Putintseva went on to lose 6-0, 6-0 to the USA’s Amanda Anisimova in just 43 minutes and was visibly emotional while sitting down ahead of the final game. Trailing 0-3 in the first set on court 15, Putintseva reported the fan to the umpire at the change of ends. “Can you take him out? I’m not going to continue playing until he leaves,” she was heard telling the umpire on the…
JOIN OUR WHATSAPP CHANNEL The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has announced England’s playing XI for the second Test of the ongoing five-match home series against India. The match is scheduled to begin on Wednesday at Edgbaston in Birmingham. Despite adding fast bowler Jofra Archer to the squad ahead of the second Test, England have decided to go with the same lineup that won the opening match in Leeds. Archer was expected to make his return to Test cricket after more than four years, but the team management has opted not to make any changes. England secured a memorable…
MLC 2025 Orcas have won their last two matches © MLC Only one team has passed the SFU test so far in MLC 2025. It’s the team that’s in the second spot but with the same number of points as SFU. Toppling the San Francisco Unicorns hasn’t been easy at all this season but that’s the next challenge awaiting a rejuvenated Seattle Orcas. With six runs needed off the last ball against MI New York, Orcas batter Shimron Hetmyer launched that final ball beyond the ropes to end his side’s 10-game losing streak in style. They followed that up with…
CNN — Simone Inzaghi has only been head coach of Al-Hilal for a matter of weeks, but already he has led the Saudi Arabian side to the quarterfinals of the Club World Cup. Al-Hilal secured a spot in the last eight of the tournament in sensational fashion with a dramatic 4-3 victory against Manchester City on Monday, scoring twice in extra-time to produce arguably the biggest shock of the Club World Cup so far. Brazilian forward Marcos Leonardo scored the decisive goal in the 112th minute – his second of the game after Phil Foden had equalized for Man City.…
CNN — Former UFC fighter Ben Askren is recovering from a double lung transplant, his wife said on Monday. Askren had been in hospital with severe lung damage caused by a sudden bout of pneumonia during which he spent time on life support, Amy Askren wrote. After weeks of waiting for a donor, Amy wrote on Facebook that the 40-year-old had finally undergone a lung transplant. “We are forever thankful to the donor and his family. This is the beginning of a new lifestyle for Ben, but every new day he has is a gift,” Amy wrote. “It still doesn’t…
Back-to-back defeats in WBBL grand finals have stung the Brisbane Heat who are banking on a stable off-season to fire their WBBL11 campaign Georgia Redmayne believes the Brisbane Heat’s back-to-back WBBL heartbreaks will only increase their resilience as the star keeper-batter looks to help the two-time runners-up go a step further this season. Redmayne, who has committed her long-term future to the Heat by signing a further two-year extension to her current contract, tying her to the club until at the least end of WBBL|13 in 2027, has won domestic T20 leagues in the United Kingdom and the Caribbean in…
With some extended time off, an injury overcome, and a couple of key technical tweaks, Matt Renshaw believes he might just be ready to take his game to “another level”. Renshaw is set to turn out in the white-ball leg of Australia A’s upcoming series against Sri Lanka A in Darwin across this next week, and the 29-year-old – who was once pegged as the country’s next long-term Test opener – is feeling as well placed mentally as ever, having taken a couple of months away from cricket with the birth of his second child in April. As such, his…
With some extended time off, an injury overcome, and a couple of key technical tweaks, Matt Renshaw believes he might just be ready to take his game to “another level”. Renshaw is set to turn out in the white-ball leg of Australia A’s upcoming series against Sri Lanka A in Darwin across this next week, and the 29-year-old – who was once pegged as the country’s next long-term Test opener – is feeling as well placed mentally as ever, having taken a couple of months away from cricket with the birth of his second child in April. As such, his…
Ten Doeschate was of the view that the weather in England enables them to play two spinners in the second Test and it would boil down to which two, while looking at other options as well. “We’d love to get him (Kuldeep Yadav) into the team. We are trying to make the best assessment of what it is in front of us, we are aware that we’re going to need three seamers in the game, it is just how we manage the (number) 6-7-8 role and how we can get Kuldeep in,” he added. “If the weather remains the same,…
AP — The Miami Dolphins are sending All-Pro cornerback Jalen Ramsey, Pro Bowl tight end Jonnu Smith and a 2027 seventh-round draft pick to the Pittsburgh Steelers in exchange for All-Pro safety Minkah Fitzpatrick and a 2027 fifth-round pick. Ramsey announced the trade Monday in a post on his X account. Both his representation and the Dolphins, where he spent the past two seasons, had mutually agreed earlier this year to part ways. Neither Ramsey nor the Dolphins gave any insight into what went wrong. Dolphins general manager Chris Grier said in April that Ramsey did not ask for a…