Meantime, the clock is ticking on the Dodgers (57-44), 2 1/2 games back of the Giants in the NL West and among the teams reportedly talking to the White Sox about left-hander Chris Sale ahead of Monday’s 4p ET trade deadline. “As of today, I did all my core work and knocked it out,” Kershaw said Tuesday before L.A.’s 3-2 win over the Rays. “Today, I made it, so it’s on to tomorrow....
No conference would turn down the accolades the Tigers have achieved in the ACC over the last four years. That includes a 34-2 conference record, four consecutive outright conference titles — something not even Bobby Bowden’s dynastic Florida State teams achieved — appearances in the last four College Football Playoffs, two national championships and a compelling argument as the premier team in college football. “It’s always about, ‘What’s next?’” Swinney said at ACC Kickoff of his team’s maintained success....
At the start of Swinney’s first full season in 2009, he wanted a team that would win, regardless of location. “At the end of the day nine years ago that was one of the main objectives for me in building our program,” Swinney said on the ACC teleconference on Wednesday. “It was, ‘Listen. The same things that win at home, win on the road.’ Those things don’t change, and you’re never going to be great at anything if you allow the external factors and the things you have no control over to dictate your performance week in and week out....
Game time is scheduled for 12 p.m. ET, and it will be televised on ABC. Syracuse (6-0) is arguably the most-surprising unbeaten team of the nine remaining in the FBS. The Orange are doing it with defense for a change with coach Dino Babers with a unit that leads the ACC in points allowed at 13.2 points per game. Garrett Shrader continues to play well at quarterback, and Sean Tucker is one of the best running backs in the FBS....
Unless he did it to play for the Dallas Cowboys. James, whose exercise of his option with the Heat was reported Tuesday, has a business relationship with Manziel, and has never hidden his rooting interest in the Cowboys. The NFL appears to be aware of this, and quickly moved to make its bid to bring one of the world’s most popular athletes into the fold of the nation’s most popular sports league....
As New York Yankees catcher Brian McCann tried to frame a CC Sabathia pitch in the first inning of Saturday’s game in Cleveland, Davis saw his opening. MORE: Anti-All-Star Team ‘16 - the worst players by position this season Davis already had a big lead off second base and, as McCann wound up to toss the ball back to Sabathia, the speedy Indians center fielder darted for third. He was more than halfway down the baseline before Sabathia realized what was going on behind him....
They already do, but existing devices all have shortcomings. Cutting himself has developed a videogame-based system for teaching cleft-lip and -palate repair, and there are programs for cardiac surgeons to practice threading catheters up the femoral artery to the heart. But those are based on generic anatomical models. Cutting wanted the ability to rehearse an operation on a virtual model of a real patient’s actual anatomy, based on CT or MRI scans....
Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. told reporters that Lee still has a tear in the common flexor tendon in his left elbow. Lee will try to throw through it to see if his condition improves, but surgery would sideline him for 6-8 months. The lefty has been the talk of trade rumors this spring, but given this new development, it’s unlikely any team would take on the former Cy Young winner considering surgery would likely end Lee’s season....
But he’s not used to someone throwing a baseball at him at more than 90 mph. There’s a difference, as Bowyer, a Kansas native, learned when he visited the Royals on Wednesday night. MORE: Dale Jr.’s NASCAR Mount Rushmore | SN Power Rankings | Bowyer, Edwards, McMurray ready for hometown race “I’m thinking, go to the game, tailgate with friends in the parking lot, have a couple beers, take in a ballgame — like everybody else, and enjoy the night,” he said....
What are odds on Arsenal beating Leicester Dempsey matched the scoring mark in the 82 minute of Wednesday’s Gold Cup semifinal match against Costa Rica at AT&T Stadium with a curled free kick into the bottom corner. Donovan tallied 57 goals in 156 international matches from 2000-14, while Dempsey recorded 56 in 136 caps since making his debut in 2004. Dempsey’s first goal for the USA came all the way back in 2005 when he netted in a friendly loss to England....
Dempsey lit up the opposition for three goals, scoring the first just four minutes into the match and made us all proud to be Americans. MORE: Ranking the best U.S. Soccer players | Clint Dempsey in photos | Pele hospitalized He got things going with a header to give the red, white and blue a 1-0 lead. He added his second goal on a penalty kick to put the U....
“My opponent voted for legislation … which gave more tax subsidies to the oil companies, more tax subsidies to the nuclear industry, and which took away the right of states to determine whether [liquefied natural gas] terminals would be placed along their coast. So there’s a lot we should be debating about,” she told a raucous crowd of about 1,000 supporters. “Back in 2000 some people voted for President Bush because he went around telling people in settings like this that he was a compassionate conservative....
A message overlaid on the video, which was posted from the TikTok account @sadievizsla, read: “So you’re thinking of getting a Vizsla,” as a Vizsla was shown looking seemingly innocent, while sitting up and facing the camera. The post then launched into a video montage of the dog getting up to no good, from pouncing on toys and a woman’s head while she’s using a hair dryer and chewing on a pillow to pushing against another dog, furiously digging holes and dragging a paper towel trail across a room....
In a statement posted Sunday on the team’s Twitter account, Rivers spoke about his late father, who was a longtime officer in Chicago, saying he would be “outraged” by those acts of injustice. Rivers also noted how he himself has been a victim of police profiling and racist acts, including his house being burned. “Our society must start getting comfortable with the uncomfortable conversation and do the right thing,” Rivers said....
According to ESPN.com, owner Steve Ballmer wants a complete rebranding of his franchise following the playoffs. MORE: NBA playoffs opening day roundup | Curry’s ridiculous shot | Fantasy playoff basketball The report cited multiple unnamed sources. ESPN’s Uni Watch posted a few “early designs” featuring Blake Griffin in a new uniform. However, the designs are just two of “many options being looked at.” “Of course I’ve seen it, but I haven’t really looked at it,” Doc Rivers told ESPN....
Griffin is out with a fractured right hand after getting into a fight with assistant equipment manager Matias Testi in late January. From Chris Paul to DeAndre Jordan to Jamal Crawford, Griffin’s teammates say that when he returns he’ll be welcomed with open arms. MORE: Clippers hate index: Who has best reason to hold grudge? “We’re his support system,” Crawford told USA Today. “We all love Blake. No question about it....
Clotet was due to step down at the end of the season, but “it was mutually agreed that he should relinquish the role immediately”, the Championship club said in a statement. Birmingham’s loss to Swansea left them in 17th in the table, just four points clear of the relegation zone with four games left in their season. Clotet, 43, took over at Birmingham last year, having previously been an assistant at the club....
