Cardinals Cross Town Classic Results
In the 2nd game, The Cardinals took on the South Ripley Raiders. The Cardinals struggled in the 1st half but played better in the 2nd half before falling to the Raiders by a score of 49-10. Leading the way for the Cardinals was Henry Wanstrath with 4 points, followed by Christian Mack, Adam Meer, and Ryan Duerstock all with 2 points. Despite going 0-2 in the tournament the Cardinals continue to show improvement. Courtesy of Cardinals Coach Coach Tekulve. The Cardinals 8th Graders dropped two more games in the Cross Town Classic bringing their record to 9 and 8. The Cardinals went to half time against Connersville with a 1-point deficit but ultimately fell 41 t0 28. Miles scored 14, Ritter 10, Weiler 3, Lohmueller 1. The Cardinals then lost to South Ripley 52 to 49 in a very physical hard-fought effort. Trailing by as many as 12 in the early minutes, the Cardinals fought back to start the second half down 2. The 3 point attempt from Eli Weiler at the buzzer to tie the game just missed. Miles scored 28, Ritter 10, Conway 6 and Lohmueller 5. Courtesy of Cardinals Coach Chad Miles with Jenny Miles.The 7th Grade St. Louis Cardinals participated in the Cross-Town Classic tournament on Friday, December 27th. In their first game, the Cardinals took on the Spartans from Connersville and ended up losing by a score of 35-16. Despite the loss, the Cardinals played one of their better games of the season. Sam Laloge had a great game with 7 points which included a 3 pointer while also having a great game on the boards with several blocks. Adam Meer had 5 points which also included a 3 pointer. Rounding out the scoring for the Cardinals was Santiago Schutte with 2 points, Henry Wanstrath with 1 point, and Max Amberger with 1 point. 
The new Ireland manager appointed the 42-year-old as his assistant last week with Keane having been out of the game since losing his job at Ipswich in January 2011. O’Neill was delighted to have landed a number two he believes will bring genuine quality to the international stage he once graced as a player, but revealed his astonishment at his availability. Martin O’Neill has admitted he is surprised no club has taken the chance to hand Roy Keane a return to management. “He was very focussed, he was looking forward to it and he was talking a great deal about it last night, and true to his word, he was there.” O’Neill revealed he spoke briefly to the players on Monday evening and then again on Tuesday morning before training, and he and Keane will spend the next two days getting to know the squad ahead of Friday’s friendly against Latvia. The manager already knows the likes of John O’Shea and Keiren Westwood from his time at Sunderland, and there was another familiar face in midfielder Aiden McGeady. O’Neill said: “They are very enthusiastic and ready for it, I think. There’s a bit of disappointment with the way in which the (World Cup) qualifiers ended. “Just speaking to them last night, I think they felt that probably the killer-blow was really the late equaliser by Austria and that certainly knocked confidence a bit, and from then onwards, it was really uphill. But overall, they are looking forward to it. “McGeady hasn’t changed a bit since I knew him at Celtic. He’s exactly the same, just as crabbit as they come. Not one bit, honestly.” When asked the inevitable question about Stephen Ireland’s chances of being recalled to the squad after his self-imposed six-year exile, O’Neill insisted he had an open mind. Ireland has indicated he would like to speak to the new management team, although the 61-year-old Ulsterman is not sure how he will approach the issue. He said: “Some players are actually taller than me and some are stronger than me, and when I have a decision to leave them out, I might have to phone them rather than speak to them face-to-face. That will tell you how brave I am at the end of it all. “When you have to face John Hartson in the wrath of a semi-final having been taken off the field – and we had won the game. “I thought John would have been celebrating, but he was waiting for me in the tunnel, so having faced John, I think I can face most people. “And to be perfectly honest, Stephen Ireland is much smaller than John Hartson.” Andy Reid has returned to the international fold in the wake of Giovanni Trapattoni’s departure having fallen foul of the Italian following a sing-song in the team hotel in the wake of a World Cup qualifier victory over Georgia. Asked if he could cope with Reid and his guitar, O’Neill replied: “If he plays it well, I haven’t a problem with it. “At some stage, Andy will have to go to bed, won’t he? If he is still continuing to play at 5.30am, even I, even if we won, might get fed up with that.” He said: “I am. I know that he feels things didn’t go very well at Ipswich for him. “I think sometimes it’s forgotten as well that in his first season, he actually got Sunderland promoted and did very well. Some of those things get lost in time and people want to forget that. “But I think I was surprised that he hadn’t had another opportunity, that somebody wouldn’t have taken a chance with him. “But who knows what might happen here? He’s here, he is focussed on it. He wants to do it and I think you will find tomorrow that he is especially ready for it.” Keane will meet the media on Wednesday afternoon for the first time since his appointment and given that much of the talk since his return to the Irish set-up was first mooted has centred around his Saipan bust-up with then manager Mick McCarthy ahead of the 2002 World Cup finals, there is sure to be a packed house. The former Manchester United midfielder was at the training ground by 9.30am on Tuesday morning, 90 minutes before the players were due to begin work under the new regime for the first time, and the initial feedback after a session in which he played a leading role was positive. O’Neill said: “Roy? Well, I sent him there early,” before adding: “I did not, he wanted to go. “He was with the goalkeeping coach and Seamus (McDonagh) is always early. Seamus would have started at 5.30am this morning if he could, so Roy wanted to go with him just to get a few things organised. Press Association
SUPERBIKE competitor John Bennett promises pace and power come July 2, when the second National Race of Champions takes place at the South Dakota Circuit.Chronicle Sport caught up with Bennett yesterday who contended that following the Jamaica leg last month he is ready and raring for the battle.“So far, the bike is going through a repair period. We just got them back and we are doing the prerequisite repairs; of course you know I had a spill in Jamaica and the bike had some damage.”“Hopefully, we get the bike up by this weekend and start practising for the July second race of champions,” he added.“The fall down was not scary, it’s motor racing and especially on motorcycles, it’s sometimes expected but on my recovery end, I still feel some pains but that wouldn’t harm me come July 2.”He noted that he is ready for the competition but expects it to be no easy task to match some of the best riders locally.“I’m not going to single out any rider specifically as guys to watch. I think we need to watch the entire pack and at any time, they can pull something out of the hat. I’m focusing on me at the moment.”His Kawasaki ZX6-R is sponsored by Orchid Consultancy Group, Union One Express, HallMark.The event is sponsored by Ansa McAl, Prem’s Electrical, B.M. Soat, Mohamed’s Enterprise, Ready Mix, Special Auto, Japarts, Ticket Master, Palm Court, KGM, MAC Batteries, S. Jagmohan Hardware Supplies and Construction, L Mahabir and Sons Cambio and Choke Gas Station. (Stephan Sookram)
Associated Press Share This StoryFacebookTwitteremailPrintLinkedinRedditTRANSGENDER ATHLETES-HIGH SCHOOLConnecticut transgender policy found to violate Title NineHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has found a Connecticut policy that allows transgender athletes to compete in girls sports is illegal. The office says the policy violates Title IX, the federal civil rights law guarantees equal education opportunities for women, including in athletics. May 28, 2020 Update on the latest sports The ruling was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. It comes in response to a complaint filed last year by several female track athletes, who argued that two transgender runners who were identified as male at birth had an unfair physical advantage. The dispute also is the subject of a federal lawsuit.The Office for Civil Rights said in a 45-page letter that it may seek to withhold federal funding over the policy, which allows transgender athletes to participate as the gender with which they identify. The letter, dated May 15, says the policy has “denied female student-athletes athletic benefits and opportunities, including advancing to the finals in events, higher level competitions, awards, medals, recognition, and the possibility of greater visibility to colleges and other benefits.”The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which oversees scholastic sports in the state, has said its policy is designed to comply with the state’s law barring schools from discriminating against transgender students.NASCAR-CHARLOTTERained-out Cup rescheduled CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — NASCAR’s second Cup race of the week at Charlotte Motor Speedway has been rescheduled for Thursday night, after getting rained out Wednesday.The starting order for the second Cup race at Charlotte this week was set based on the finishing order of the Coca-Cola 600 but with an inversion. Hendrick Motorsports teammates William Byron and Alex Bowman will start from the pole, while Coca-Cola 600 winner Brad Keselowski will start 20th.The postponement also pushes back the upcoming Xfinity race from Thursday to Monday.The second consecutive Wednesday night race would have been the fourth for the elite Cup Series since May 17.VIRUS OUTBREAK-SPORTS AP Exclusive: Athletes wary about virus, testing upon returnUNDATED (AP) — Reporters from The Associated Press have spoken to more than two dozen athletes from around the globe to get a sense of how concerned or confident they are about resuming competition amid the coronavirus pandemic. What emerged was a sense that they are going through the very same sort of calculus that much of the rest of society is.They are trying to figure out what is safe and how to stay healthy. They are wary about the sufficiency of COVID-19 testing and other precautions that leagues, unions and governing bodies will institute as they develop their own protocols.For those in sports such as golf or tennis that require international travel, there are questions about how easy it will be to hop from country to country — and how easy it’ll be to avoid catching or spreading the virus.Nearly unanimous was a wariness about enough COVID-19 testing — what types, how many, how often — and other precautions that leagues, unions and governing bodies might institute as they develop protocols. In other news related to the coronavirus pandemic:— The English Premier League’s official broadcasters say the competition will restart on June 17. The BBC and Sky Sports say there will be a doubleheader on that day with Manchester City playing Arsenal and Aston Villa hosting Sheffield United. Playing those make-up games on a Wednesday will ensure the 30th round can be contested the following weekend. The last match was played on March 9 before the competition was suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic. Squads were only allowed to restart practice sessions in small groups last week but contact and tackling is now allowed between players.— Three players from English soccer clubs Blackburn and Fulham have tested positive for the coronavirus. Blackburn says captain Elliott Bennett was found to be infected with COVID-19 after testing negative last Friday. Bennett says he doesn’t “feel unwell” and doesn’t have any symptoms. Fulham says two players tested positive but did not name them. The positive cases at the second-division clubs came after tests on 1,030 players and staff from Monday to Wednesday. The three players will have to self-isolate for seven days before returning to training ahead of a potential resumption of the competition.— The Hungarian soccer federation says matches in the country can once again be held with spectators in the stadiums. The announcement comes on the back of a government decree allowing the option. Organizers are obliged to keep three seats empty between each occupied seat and no fan may sit directly behind or in front of another. Players and essential personnel on or near the field during matches must recently have tested negative for the coronavirus. The federation says clubs can decide on their own whether they want to play in front of fans again.— The postponed Belgian Cup final has been rescheduled for Aug. 1. That is one week before the start of the league’s next season. Belgian soccer authorities say the match between Club Brugge and Antwerp will take place in an empty King Baudouin Stadium. All sporting competitions in Belgium have been suspended until July 31. The new season is set to start on Aug. 7. — Elite sports made a comeback in Australia for the first time since March 22 as the Parramatta Eels beat the Brisbane Broncos 34-6 in the National Rugby League Thursday. No fans were allowed into the 52,500-seat stadium in Brisbane because of strict social distancing rules but the game was broadcast across Australia.— The European Tour is planning to resume its season close to home. The tour says it has targeted the British Masters in England on July 22 as the restart. That would be followed by five new tournaments in England and Wales that will be called the “U.K. Swing.” The new events will have a prize fund of 1 million euros. European Tour chief Keith Pelley says the plans depend on the U.K. lifting quarantine restrictions, but he’s confident that will happen. The PGA Championship in San Francisco falls right in the middle of the U.K. Swing. — The Dutch Grand Prix has become the fourth Formula One race canceled this season because of the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers of the first Dutch GP since 1985 chose not to host it without spectators. F1 wants to start the season in July with no spectators at races. Race director Jan Lammers says they want to celebrate the return of F1 in Zandvoort with fans in attendance. The race was set for May 3 and initially postponed. Fans who bought tickets can use them next year.,Tampa Bay Lightning advance to face Dallas Stars in Stanley Cup finals, beating New York Islanders 2-1 in OT in Game 6
Share This StoryFacebookTwitteremailPrintLinkedinRedditDENVER (AP) — Kyle Gibson pitched into the seventh inning for his first win with Texas and newly signed Derek Dietrich hit a two-out, three-run home run in the eighth as the Rangers beat the Colorado Rockies 6-4 Saturday night for their season-high fourth consecutive win.Shinn-Soo Choo had three hits and two RBIs and Jose Trevino also had three hits for the Rangers, who ensured their third straight series win. They moved a game above .500 for the first time since a season-opening win over Colorado in Texas.“I experienced it a little bit last year, where starting pitching brings consistency every day, but the offense brings confidence,” Gibson said of the Rangers’ recent strong play. “The offense is kind of rolling a little bit. The bullpen’s been doing a great job. The day-to-day confidence comes from scoring runs and they’ve done a good job doing it.” Associated Press “I think it has a lot to do with my routine and my preparation,” Dietrich said. “I prepare the same way each and every day. I did it all offseason, did it during the in between time. … The most successful hitters I’ve been around, stick to their routine and trust it.“I’ve played baseball a long time, it’s just rolling now.”In the eighth, he hit the first pitch he saw from Carlos Estevez, driving it the opposite way into the left field bleachers for his first homer with the Rangers.The Rockies broke on top on Wolters’ two-run double in the second inning but the Rangers generated plenty of baserunners against German Marquez (2-3) and managed to chip away at the lead despite a Colorado defense that turned three double plays.Choo’s RBI singles in the third and fifth innings pulled the Rangers into a 2-2 tie. Isiah Kiner-Falefa reached on a fielder’s choice for the first out in the fifth and Willie Calhoun followed by lining out to third baseman Nolan Arenado. But Arenado threw wide of first for an error trying to double up Kiner-Falefa, allowing Jose Trevino to score from third with a go-ahead run. Trevor Story had three hits and Tony Wolters had a two-run double for the Rockies, who have lost five of six since an 11-3 start. Charlie Blackmon broke out of an 0-11 run at the plate with an eighth inning triple, leaving his batting average at .438.“We came in with a fire,” Wolters said. “We want to win every series, but that’s pretty hard to do. We’re up for the challenge and I feel like we’re coming together. We’re not letting these losses kind of affect us. We’re just moving on. Next day.”Gibson (1-2), who signed with Texas in the offseason after spending the first 10 years of his career with Minnesota, went 6 1/3 innings and allowed two runs on seven hits. He struck out two and walked one in his first career appearance against the Rockies. Rafael Montero worked the ninth for his fifth save, allowing an unearned run after leadoff man Raimel Tapia reached on catcher’s interference.Dietrich, who hit a career-high 19 home runs for Cincinnati last season, joined the Rangers on a minor league deal Monday after being released by the Chicago Cubs a week ago. He was signed to a major league contract Tuesday and activated by the Rangers and has been making an impact ever since. Gibson, Dietrich lead Rangers to a 6-4 win over Rockies
Marquez went six innings and allowed nine hits and three runs — two earned. He walked two and struck out three. REFLECTIONS ON A GEMThe complete-game victory by the Rangers’ Lance Lynn on Friday was just the eighth time in the history of hitter-friendly Coors Field in which two or fewer hits were allowed over a nine-inning game. Lynn, who improved to 3-0 with a 1.11 ERA on the season, was also the first opposing pitcher to go the distance at the park and limit the Rockies to two or fewer hits without issuing a walk. “It goes to show you how overpowering his fastball really is and how much life is on it,” teammate Todd Frazier said. “It’s fun to play behind him. He works quick, he’s got energy, he’s got passion.”TRAINER’S ROOMRockies: INF-OF Chris Owings missed a second consecutive game with a strained left hamstring. He left Wednesday’s game against Arizona early after sustaining the injury running out a groundout. August 15, 2020 UP NEXTRangers: LHP Kolby Allard (0-0, 1.00 ERA) is pitching off a career-high seven days between starts. He allowed two hits in five scoreless innings in his last outing against the Los Angeles Angels. Left-handed hitters are 0-5 with five strikeouts against him this season.Rockies: RHP Jon Gray (0-2, 6.41 ERA) was roughed up in his last outing against Arizona, giving up eight runs on 11 hits in 3 1-3 innings. But he has had success in interleague play, especially at Coors Field, where he’s 4-0 with a 1.85 ERA in six career games against AL teams.___More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports
SUNDAY MOOD! #TogetherWeRaid pic.twitter.com/XGjbnfFT7l— WE ARE BLUENITED™ (@WeAreBLUENITED) September 10, 2017 Published on September 10, 2017 at 8:49 pm Contact: jtbloss@syr.edu | @jtbloss That means Syracuse received the bitter end, and rightfully so. Its defense, with three takeaways, gave the offense chances to reverse the result. But it failed to capitalize. Red zone trips ended without six points multiple times. The last two Syracuse possessions finished with turnovers.Earlier in the week, junior quarterback Eric Dungey called Shafer a “genius.” He echoed that sentiment after the game because of the way Shafer disguised blitzes. Syracuse quarterbacks were sacked six times in the game.Both coaches, Shafer and his successor at Syracuse, Dino Babers, admitted Shafer’s knowledge of SU’s personnel played a part in the upset. Shafer was at many now-SU players’ homes years ago recruiting them to play for Syracuse. Saturday, he was in the opposing coach’s booth trying to beat them. The situation happens in pro football because players’ careers go longer than four years and a handful of the 32 coaches get fired every year. But this was rare for the college game.Dungey said this week that it was a normal game. Senior linebacker Zaire Franklin said he was looking at it as an “early test.” As much as the players might have wanted to push that narrative during the week of preparation, the X’s and O’s of Shafer’s scheme weren’t the greatest obstacle for Syracuse. The players didn’t handle the emotion of the situation well, Babers said. He took the blame.“Honestly, thinking about Shafe was just something that people just let get to their head, I would believe,” Syracuse senior linebacker Parris Bennett said. “I thought about Shafe more than I would like to.”So much for “out of sight, out of mind.” Shafer didn’t roam the sidelines but instead coached from a booth upstairs. Wolfgang joined him. To share that winning moment with his son, Shafer said, was nice.The two of them envisioned the feeling. At a family event months ago, Wolfgang showed up with a pack of cigars. Shafer took two and stored them away with Sept. 9 on his mind. The cigar hung from his lip during locker room celebrations and his exit from the Carrier Dome.With the in-your-face goodbye, and the painful result it rubs in, Shafer is still the peacekeeper of Syracuse football. And he’s kept most of it to himself.The story has been updated for appropriate style. Comments Facebook Twitter Google+ UPDATED: Sept. 11, 2017 at 12 a.m.When he was forced out as Syracuse’s head coach two years ago, Scott Shafer hopped off his players’ shoulders into unemployment. He found a job as Maryland’s defensive coordinator but left before he coached a single game.Shafer and his wife, Missy, elected that a year away from the sidelines would be best for their family. SU’s head coach from 2013-15 spent “the greatest year of (his) life” in the stands watching his son, Wolfgang, finish his senior year at Ithaca.This season, Shafer found a fit at Middle Tennessee State. He could coach the defense, the side of the ball he loves. Wolfgang is also a graduate assistant with the team.Shafer has found the peace that evaded him when he coached in the Carrier Dome. As for the Syracuse team with 37 former Shafer recruits, any sense of peace was vacuumed out by the return of their old boss. What originally was an assumed victory by many outside the program became a 30-23 defeat that washed SU’s bowl hopes — should it not have a couple of top-25 upsets in the near future.AdvertisementThis is placeholder text“Bittersweet in a lot of ways,” Shafer said postgame Saturday, “but far more sweet than bitter right now, being on this Blue Raider team.”
There’s no shortage of esports action this weekend. Dota 2’s Starladder i-League and League of Legend’s MSI will finish this weekend. Add to that Vainglory’s Unified Spring Championship and there’s already a plethora of choice. Enter the FIFA 17 Ultimate Team Championship Series Final, where the best 32 in the world will battle it out for their share of a staggering $400,000 (£307,000) in prize money. Credit: EAOver six million players competed in the FIFA FUT Champions Weekend League since the launch of FIFA 17, and 192 secured live qualifications across Season 1 and Season 2’s Regional Finals.After six regional events, just 32 players remain and will compete in Berlin. Every goal will be broadcasted across a multitude of platforms. EA will be broadcasting the event on traditional esports platform Twitch, as well as YouTube Gaming and also Facebook. The final match is being touted as the most watched event in the tournament’s somewhat brief history. It will be broadcast across top sports networks around the world. This includes the likes of ESPN, BT Sprt, Movistar, MTG and Sport1 thus bringing competitive FIFA to screens in more than 70 countries and millions of living rooms across the world. The prize pool is extremely top heavy, with $300,000 (£230,000) of the $400,000 being distributed to the top four players. It’s safe to say that for the bulk of these youngsters there’s never been more on the line. The winner will not only be crowned the world’s best FIFA player but they will also take home a mammoth $160,000. The broadcast of the finals will be delayed on ESPN in Brazil and South America and also tape-delayed on Movistar in Spain whilst broadcasts to the U.S., Australia, Canada, Mexico and Central America, UK, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Australia and Switzerland will all show (at least) the finals live. Esports Insider says: EA have really gone all out with this. It’s set to be an epic tournament and watched by a huge amount of people. Prepare yourself as social media experiences the inevitable meltdown. “Why am I watching people play a video game on my TV?” will be the inevitable cries. We can’t wait to see the reaction when they see a $160,000 cheque being handed to the winner.
Paul, who is listed as questionable for Game 1, is as tough as they come. Pound for pound, he’s probably the toughest you’ll find in the NBA.• More Paul: Gutsy performance keeps Clippers alive in playoffsHe’ll plead and argue and promise his hamstring is strong enough to carry him. He’ll point to the MRI he underwent Sunday, which came back as good as can be expected, and say that’s more than enough proof he’s OK to play. He’ll get mad and throw a tantrum and demand he takes the court with the rest of the Clippers.As he should. He’s wired to compete, especially with the stakes so high.He’s never advanced beyond the second round of the playoffs, and you just know he’s itching to reset the narrative painting him as a player incapable of leading his team on a prolonged postseason run. Even if it means driving his body into dangerous territory. But that’s where you, his boss, need to step in and save him from himself.If you have to lock Paul in the locker room at the Houston Toyota Center before Game 1, do it.• Preview: Clippers look to ride momentum vs. rested RocketsIf you have to tie him to the bench, or make Glen “Big Baby” Davis sit on him to keep him from checking into the game, by all means, do it.Just make sure he stays on the sideline, or back in the locker room, getting the treatment he’ll need to help insure he can play the balance of this series rather than just a fraction of it.Game 1 is important.But no one ever advanced to the conference finals leading 1-0. And no one was ever eliminated going down 0-1, either.No matter what happens Monday, nothing gets settled.Think long range, not short.It’s one thing when the Clippers closed their eyes, rolled the dice and prayed Paul’s ailing left hamstring wouldn’t completely rip as they leaned on him in Game 7 against the Spurs.With tomorrow no longer an option, the Clippers had no choice but to ask Paul to forget the biting pain, play through the severe limitations and somehow, some way will himself to hit the biggest shot in franchise history and slay the defending champions to advance to the second round.There were no other options. When it’s win or go home, you do whatever it takes. Even if whatever is putting your best player in harms way.“I don’t think we win that game,” Clippers guard J.J. Redick said of Paul’s influence. “Down the stretch, you see what happens in a lot of games in this series where it comes down to a couple of possessions. We needed CP to have the ball in his hands at the end of the game.”Said Jamal Crawford: “It was unbelievable. We talked — myself, J.J. (Redick), DJ (DeAndre Jordan) and Blake (Griffin) — we talked about how we were here last year when he was out for six weeks. That’s when we leaned on each other. Obviously Chris commands so much attention. So we were just trying to bide our time before he came back in. When he came back, it was magical.”It sure was.Paul got through it. The Clippers survived it. And we all lived to see another day.But it’s time to be thankful, not stupid.So let Paul sit and watch Game 1.Not saying another day or two of rest means he’ll be 100 percent the rest of the series. It’s wishful thinking at this point to assume he’ll be his MVP-candidate self at any point against Houston.He’s hurt. That’s obvious.And utterly unfair, a sentiment expressed all over Paul’s face as he limped to the locker room upon hurting himself.“There was a lot of things going through my head,” Paul said. “You think about all season long, I think about Blake, D.J., a lot of guys on our team, we do everything we can to prepare for a game. You get your rest, you train, you work out, you eat right, try to take care of your body, and I was just overcome with emotion because I was frustrated, because I was like, all this time, all season long, and then Game 7 my body is going to let me down.”Paul came back. Asked his hamstring to go above and beyond. And it obliged.But now it’s time to be smart.Four straight days of round-the-clock rest, treatment and therapy ahead of Wednesday’s Game 2 seems a helluva lot more prudent than 48 hours. If you have to err on the side of caution, so be it.Besides, the Houston Rockets are good. But they aren’t San Antonio Spurs good or smart or experienced.Even without Paul in Game 1, it’s a winnable situation considering the broad shoulders Blake Griffin offered and used to carry the Clippers during the first round.Crawford can be counted on in a spot start. And as good as Dwight Howard is, he’s no Tim Duncan.The Clippers can win one game without Paul.But even if sitting him means taking a loss in Game 1, that’s still better than risking losing him for the remainder of the series by rushing him back.Be prudent, Clippers.You need Paul for the long haul, not just one game.vincent.bonsignore@langnews.com @DailyNewsVinny on Twitter HOUSTON >> Don’t do it, Clippers.Don’t get mind tricked by the pressure of a second-round playoff series and do something you’ll regret.Don’t rush Chris Paul back from the left hamstring injury he suffered in Game 7 of the first round of the playoffs Saturday. Don’t risk further injury by playing him in Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals Monday against the Houston Rockets.And whatever you do, don’t let him hoodwink you into believing he’s good to go for Game 1.
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The capital city of B&H will again host Davis Cup match. Matches of the first round of second Euro-African group between B&H and Greece will take place in Sarajevo, from 31 January until o2 February 2014, at the hall “Ramiz Salčin” Mojmilo.This is the first match of these two representations on the level of Davis Cup competition. The only previous match was played in 1998 in the Group III Davis Cup competition, when Greece representation won with the result 3-0.B&H representation was better than Luxemburg representation (4-1) in 2013, at the hall “Ramiz Sačin.“We hope that representation of B&H in the first round of Davis Cup competition for 2014 to achieve a victory against Greek representation”, announced the Tennis Association of B&H.(Source: Klix.ba)
Hey guys I’ve decided to retire from fighting.Thank you all for the amazing memories! What a ride it’s been!Here is a picture of myself and my mother in Las Vegas post one of my World title wins!Pick the home of your dreams Mags I love you!Whatever you desire it’s yours pic.twitter.com/Dh4ijsZacZ— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) June 7, 2020This is not the first time the Irishman has called it quits.The former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion said he was stepping away in 2016, and then he retired again in March 2019 after losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov at UFC 229 in October 2018. McGregor returned to the Octagon last January with a devastating first-round TKO of Donald Cerrone at UFC 246.MORE: Jones says he’s ‘revoking’ light heavyweight titleMcGregor, who last month said he had accepted a proposal to fight Anderson Silva, has earned a 22-4 record in mixed martial arts, with just two losses in the UFC. He also stepped into the boxing ring to fight unbeaten American legend Floyd Mayweather Jr., losing in 2017.UFC president Dana White recently said he had not talked to McGregor about his next fight amid the coronavirus pandemic. Asked about McGregor on Saturday, White told reporters: “Nobody is pressuring anybody to fight. And if Conor McGregor feels he wants to retire, you know my feelings about retirement — you should absolutely do it. And I love Conor.” “There’s a handful of people that have made this really fun for me, and he’s one of them,” White said.He added: “If that’s what Conor is feeling right now — Jon Jones, Jorge Masvidal, I feel you. It’s not like I’m going, ‘Holy s—, this is crazy, this is nuts.'”Nothing is crazy and nuts right now, because everything is crazy and nuts right now, on a certain level. I totally understand it and get it.” UFC star Conor McGregor said late Saturday that he is retiring from fighting.McGregor, 31, made the announcement on Twitter following UFC 250 in Las Vegas, writing, “What a ride it’s been!”