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Jesse Lingard to start for England in Nigeria friendly
England were managed by Terry Venables while Nigeria were managed by Shuaibu Amodu , the game ended in a 1-0 win for England, David Platt with the only goal of the game in the 41st minute. Southgate insists starting Lingard does not mean it will be a straight battle between the Manchester United forward and Tottenham's Dele Alli for a starting berth against Tunisia in Volgograd. [Full Article...]
Novak Djokovic smashes racket, beats Roberto Bautista Agut
We exchanged these words. After a quarter-final defeat by Dominic Thiem last year, Djokovic returned to Roland Garros not expected to challenge for the title following a year disrupted by an injury which needed surgery after the Australian Open in January. [Full Article...]
Headingley Test: Pakistan collapse gives England early edge
The match, which Pakistan eventually won by three wickets, saw Amir stake a claim to "The Ball of the 21st Century" when an all-but-unplayable delivery that pitched on the middle-and-leg stump of Mitchell Johnson seamed away late to clip the top of the left-hander's off-stump. [Full Article...]
Stats don't lie: The 2018 NBA Finals by the numbers
In 2015, when the Golden State beat the Cavs to capture the franchise's first title in 40 years, the first two games of the series went to OT - Golden State winning the opener and Cleveland Game 2. That will be the focus of our series keys - of course, with the focus still being on Golden State. Cleveland is at plus-650. James drove past Curry for a three-point play with 50 seconds remainin... [Full Article...]
LiAngelo Ball won't be joining the Lakers
The 19-year-old LiAngelo was joined by Jaylen Adams (St. Bonaventure), Tyus Battle ( Syracuse ), Devon Hall ( Virginia ), Dusan Ristic ( Arizona ) and Thomas Welsh ( UCLA ) in the workout. Welsh said that LiAngelo looked like the same player who had a brief stint practicing at UCLA, where he was not projected to be a starter. He's a lot of fun to play with. [Full Article...]
Record futility dooms Houston Rockets in Game 7
Jayson Tatum - who scored 27 - got Boston within seven with a slam dunk in the fourth quarter but three consecutive three-pointers from James saw out the victory and the Cavs' eighth straight win at the Quicken Loans Arena. "But to get to this point again, we earned it". We just wanted to maintain our defense or get our defense going, and hope that the fatigue on their side would be a factor. [Full Article...]
Nadal, Halep cruise into third round of French Open
The 31-year-old Spaniard will now face France's Richard Gasquet , who beat Tunisia's Malek Jaziri 6-2 3-6 6-3 6-0. The 27th-seeded Gasquet was joined in the third round by fellow Frenchman Lucas Pouille , who advanced past Cameron Norrie 6-2, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (3) over two days after their match was stopped by darkness Wednesday. [Full Article...]
Stanford's Reid Travis pulls out of draft and will transfer
Travis was granted a redshirt year after missing the final 22 games of his sophomore season. The 6-foot-8, 245-pound forward ranked third in the Pac-12 in scoring (19.5 ppg) and rebounding (8.7 rpg) last season. Depending on which players made a decision to return to Kentucky for next season, the Wildcats could make a strong case to be No. 1 in the nation if they all return and Travis joins the ... [Full Article...]