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No. 4 Southeastern Louisiana Eliminates No. 7 Northwestern State with 6-0 Win
Hill and her SLU defense had given up just one hit through 6.2 innings before the Lady Demons’ first baseman Hayley Barbazon singled to third base. Hill forced the lineout to third on the next pitch to keep the Lions’ hopes of their first Southland tournament championship alive.Southeastern got off to a hot start early, plating six in the first three innings. Centerfielder Rebecca Skains scored Maddie Edmonston with a sacrifice fly to left field in the opening inning to give the Lions the 1-0 lead.SLU improved its lead to 2-0 in the second inning with catcher Ella Manzer hitting her first career home run, a shot to center field. Edmonston picked up an RBI single to second base to put the score at 3-0 before she scored herself a batter later after stealing second. Left fielder Kinsey Nichols singled to centerfield to bring Edmonston home. The Lions picked up runs five and six in the fourth inning off an error and Manzer’s single through the left side scoring right-fielder Ali McCoy. Tournament Central | Box ScoreLAKE CHARLES, La. – A gem in the circle for No. 4 Southeastern Louisiana eliminated No. 7 Northwestern State with a 6-0 win on Wednesday at the 2018 Southland Conference Softball Tournament at Joe Miller Field in Lake Charles, La.Lacey Hill delivered a complete game, two-hit performance for the Lions to send her team to live to see another day. The Lions will now face the winner of tonight’s game between No. 2 Stephen F. Austin and No. 8 Sam Houston State on Thursday at 1:30 p.m. CT. The Lions ended the game with eight hits and five RBIs with Edmonston, Manzer and third baseman Madison Watson each earning two hits in the game.
Maradona begs Boca Juniors to appoint Poch after ruling himself out of the job
DIEGO MARADONA has urged Boca Juniors to appoint Mauricio Pochettino as their next manager.The Argentine boss, 47, is searching for a new challenge after his five year reign with Tottenham came to an end last month.1 Diego Maradona has urged Boca Juniors to get in touch with Mauricio PochettinoCredit: Getty – ContributorPochettino has been linked to some of Europe’s biggest clubs including Arsenal, Manchester United and Real Madrid.Gimnasia boss Maradona ruled himself out of taking over Boca Juniors – but urged them to get in touch with the former Spurs chief.Speaking to Ole, he said: “I will not go to Boca because I repeat that I do not agree with those who will manage the club.”The president [Jorge Amor Ameal] was already there and it was a disaster.”He surrounded himself with [vice-president Mario Pergolini] who believes that he can handle the club.”And Roman… a club is not run within the locker room.”It’s much harder than stopping the ball, giving a pass or kicking a free-kick.”Boca have to take a technician to play and feel what Boca is.”It’s not easy to sit in that chair. The best of all is Maradona.”But now I will not go, there at some point it happens. But I would like Mauricio Pochettino.”You have to call him and convince him to come to lead the biggest team in the world.”MOST READ IN SPORT GossipCROWD RETURNFA Cup final ‘may see 20,000 at Wembley in trial allowing some fans at games’CommentPHIL THOMASDiving and whining was never a good look and will seem worse after lockdownExclusive’I’M IN A BAD WAY’Ex-England star Kenny Sansom talks for first time since being attackedExclusiveBOURNE AGAINHowe says Cherries are stronger after lockdown with FIVE fit-again starsExclusiveSWAN THAT GOT AWAYSwansea wanted £3m Davies three years ago but couldn’t get work permitExclusiveMARK MY WORDSJennings reveals life story from adoption to drug abuse and suicide attemptsNEXT STEPJonny Hayes set to move to English Championship having been let go by CelticAWAY DAYSMartin Skelly remembers county’s day in the sun when Dublin rocked into townBAYERN 5 DUSSELDORF 0Lewa bags two as Bayern thump rivals to close on 8th straight titleTHEIR CALLReferees in Northern Ireland will be given choice on coming back says union bossPochettino visited Maradona earlier this month before he watched Gimnasia’s 2-1 win over Cordoba.The 47-year-old has also emerged as a top target for West Ham if Manuel Pellegrini is sacked.But his hopes of joining Manchester United have been slashed after the club told Ole Gunnar Solskjaer that his job is safe.Mauricio Pochettino ‘wants Man Utd job ahead of Arsenal’ as he targets swift return to management after ruthless Spurs sacking
Wallabies’ defence plan backed
Photo by: BRENDON THORNE/GETTY IMAGES Caption: Wallabies defence coach Nathan Grey: “Executing that under the heat of the battle is something we have to be better at and as coaches we are working at that constantly.” Grey is again under fierce scrutiny from angry Australian rugby supporters following Saturday’s horrific 54-34 defeat, which has put New Zealand on track for a 15th straight year of Bledisloe Cup domination.Australia missed an incredible 48 tackles and conceded more points than they ever have against the All Blacks, who cut through Grey’s defensive structure at will to lead 54-6 shortly after halftime.Grey admitted it wasn’t good enough but said he was “very confident” he and the rest of the coaching staff would turn things around.”It stings, mate. It’s not great. It’s difficult,” said Grey, now a full-time assistant to head coach Michael Cheika after recently stepping down from his defence post with the NSW Waratahs.”It is something we have to address and we are focused on looking for those solutions.”We believe we have got them in terms of staying in the system and executing our tackle technique and doing that consistently.”Grey notoriously said Australia’s defensive problems would be “an easy fix” after last year’s eerily similar 42-8 belting at the hands of the All Blacks.Not much appears to have changed, with the Wallabies conceding an average of 28 points in their last 19 tests.Players appear confused or hesitant and regularly shuffle positions, leading to defensive disarray in key combinations.”Executing that under the heat of the battle is something we have to be better at and as coaches we are working at that constantly,” Grey said.Grey’s tactics were also found wanting in Super Rugby this year, as the Waratahs posted their worst defensive season on record.It’s a far cry from when Grey first joined the national team in the lead-up to the 2015 World Cup, where the Wallabies were hailed for their defensive desperation.Grey said rugby had evolved since then and the Wallabies needed to change their approach, which was tweaked again heading into the Rugby Championship.”In terms of what’s different between now and then, it’s chalk and cheese,” he said.”If you are trying to defend the same way you were in 2015, you know you are going to come unstuck.”We are not going to be changing things drastically overnight.”NATHAN GREY’S LEAKY COACHING RECORD* Melbourne Rebels defence coach (2011-12)2011: 36 points, 5 tries conceded on average per match2012: 33 points, 4 tries* NSW Waratahs defence coach (2013-2017)2013: 23 points, 2 tries2014: 17 points, 2 tries (won Super Rugby title)2015: 20 points, 3 tries2016: 21 points, 2 tries2017: 35 points, 5 tries (worst in Waratahs history)* Wallabies defence coach (2015-present)2015: 18 points, 2 tries2016: 27 points, 3 tries2017: 30 points, 4 tries
PNG Lewas beat Vanuatu by 55 runs
The Lewas went in to bat first, setting up a target of 139. They batted out the full 20 overs losing 8 wickets.Openers Norma Ovasuru (33) and Varoi Morea (21) put on a 54 run partnership to get things going.Other notable contributions came from Helen Buruka (22) and Tanya Ruma (20). Vanuatu’s Jelany Chilia was the top bowler, finishing with figures of 2/20.In their response, Vanuatu got off to a bad start by losing their opening four wickets for only 20 runs.Selina Solman and Valenta Langiatu put up a fight, both top scoring with 13 runs. But good bowling from PNG’s Konio Oala who picked up 2/19 proved too much for Vanuatu who were ran out of overs to bat. Vanuatu finished with 9/84.
Expanded World Cup is ‘absurd’ idea, sponsorship guru says
Patrick Nally, who brokered FIFA’s first major sponsorship deal, with Coca Cola, ahead of the 1978 World Cup, said the sports body’s decision to inflate the size of the tournament from 32 teams will devalue it, and ultimately make it less attractive and lucrative.”They have rushed through this 48-team plan thinking it is going to make them billions more,” Nally said.”I think it will make them billions less. To make this a 48-team event to pander to Asian countries … it is absurd.”His view was in contrast to Football Federation Australia chief executive David Gallop, who said the move was not pandering but acknowledged “the growth of the game outside of Europe and South America”.FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced the expansion in Zurich on Monday, fulfilling a promise he had made during last year’s election campaign.He said the move meant more nations would be able to participate and “many more will have a chance to dream”.Infantino said football fever in a country that qualifies is the biggest promotion of the sport imaginable, but Nally said a bigger tournament is a weaker one and the lustre of the World Cup is in danger.”Is it something with more status and more gravitas, or is it just a jolly everyone can go to?” asked the man often cited as the founding father of the sports business industry.”Do we want a tournament with the world’s best, or with unknown, non-descript players that won’t excite kids?”Nally said the World Cup could be revamped by FIFA, improving competition and qualification at the Continental Confederation level to help bring Asian, African and American standards to the level of Europe and South America, but simply inviting more to the party was not the answer.When Nally clinched that sponsorship deal for FIFA with Coca Cola in the 1970s — a corporate sponsorship program that endures to this day — the World Cup was a 16-team affair.The tournament was expanded to 24 teams in 1982 and then to 32 in 1998.FIFA’s 211 member associations each hold one vote in the presidential election and 135 of them have never played at a World Cup, so expansion of the tournament was always likely to appeal.The new format, to be introduced in 2026, will feature a first round of 16 groups of three teams, with the top two in each qualifying for a round of 32. From then on, it would be a straightforward knockout contest.The hosts of the 2026 tournament will be decided in May 2020. Russia will stage the 2018 finals and Qatar the 2022 tournament.Reuters
Rodrigo Ely: “With 40 points we could manage to stay”
The Alaves He returns to training this afternoon after resting yesterday and adding Monday 20 points in the first round of the league. The brazilian Rodrigo Ely analyzed the tie with Betis on Sunday at home. “I believe that in the first part we did very well, we were very intense but then, in the second, the quality of the adversary subjected us a little. We also pay the physical effort deployed in the first half. We must realize that we are facing great teams and that it is not easy get the victories in this category, all matches are complicated, ”said the central. On the balance of the first round added that “We already have 20 points and it’s not bad, I think the balance of the first round is good. We are satisfied but we have to improve since from now on it will cost much more to get them. I believe that with 40 you can achieve permanence. It is clear that the team can improve and I think we are going to do it. ” Ely did not want to deepen the controversial arbitration of Mateu Lahoz. In that regard, he said that “Just as each player has his style, so do the referees. He has been in this for many years and you have to respect him. “ The Alaves supports the dubious honor of being the only First set that will not play this end of week having been out of the competition of the Copa del Rey. Asier Garitano’s team fell to Jaén in La Victoria and said goodbye to the KO tournament. “We are very sorry, especially for the fans. But we promise that we will work hard in training to make a good second round and achieve the goal, “he said.
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Sharapova: the lonely Russian, with an American soul who defended Nadal’s right to shout
María Sharapova (pronounce Sharápova) on Wednesday introduced her retirement after a profitable profession that started in 2001 as a baby prodigy and led to 2020 with extra ache than glory. Tennis participant with few mates, it was all the time a ‘steppe wolf’ on the circuit. The truth is, in his goodbye he has not obtained an quick flood of messages of help from his companions on social networks, past the phrases of the Czech Petra Kvitova who, in a publish accompanied with a photograph of the remaining Wimbledon who beat him in 2011, wrote the following: “It was a pleasure to share the subject with you. We all the time had nice battles once we performed and I’ve a whole lot of respect to your exhausting work and the means you all the time struggle for every little thing. You will have achieved loads in your life up to now and I do know that is simply the starting. “ Russian by start turned adopted daughter of the United States. He lives in Florida and loves New York, though he solely received as soon as the US Open (2006). In American lands he succeeded loads, one other 12 occasions, 5 in Miami, close to his residence. However he has by no means reneged on his roots and retains his nationality “for the household” and “the cultural wealth” of his nation. She is the third participant with the most winnings in the historical past of ladies’s tennis (38,703,609 {dollars}, 35,570,551.85 euros). A part of that quantity, and all that he has received by promoting contracts, magazines, tv … he dedicates it to charities by its basis; He already has his personal autobiography (My Life So Far, My life up to now, September 2017) and a controversial line of jelly beans: Sugarpova. Maria was criticized for encouraging 1000’s of followers to eat unhealthy meals.His story with NadalLittle given to the compliments, he by no means hid his admiration for Rafa Nadal, with whom he got here to practice every now and then (Rome 2018, amongst others). “Nadal provides the face, regardless of the accidents or age”; “It’s an instance of the ardour with which you should face the challenges”; “He confirmed me his help, I’ve huge respect for him.” These are a few of the phrases of the participant about the Balearic, an inspiration for her on her return and whom she defended on hearth when she was criticized for shouting on the monitor after profitable at the US Open three years in the past. “Everybody doesn’t cease speaking about the noise that Maria Sharapova makes, however Rafa Nadal, though he’s additionally a fantastic participant, is equally annoying with his screams,” wrote an novice, to whom he replied: This man simply received his 16th Grand Slam and that is your favourite tweet? Maria used to transfer with stealth and a half incognito by tournaments, removed from the brightness and glamor of her public appearances in different areas not utterly associated to cinema, equivalent to style. Three years in the past, at the Mutua Madrid Open, he curled up like a ball on a settee in the participant’s room in the center of ATP media day. Lined with some towels, she slept whereas the gamers talked to the press. The Russian was making an attempt to resurface after her doping sanction, an incident that prompted her a whole lot of harm and that has been the set off for her untimely withdrawal, as a result of inactivity (one yr and three months stopped Australia 2016 and Stuttgart 2017), prompted that in the overexertion of his return will end in accidents of every kind, which have precipitated his finish. After his return, the reproaches rained when he didn’t cease receiving match invites and Grand Slams. It was not the case of Roland Garros, who didn’t give him a wild card in 2017 for its hyperlink with doping. Eugenie Bouchard was one in all the most aggressive in opposition to her and likewise received her at the Madrid Open that very same yr.
Messi donates € 1M to two hospitals to fight the coronavirus
Leo Messi also wants to lend a hand to end the coronavirus, a pandemic that has plagued the planet since last January and which at this point amounts to around 415.00 infected and 18,500 deaths.As you have been able to know ACE, the Argentinean has donated around million euros to be distributed between the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona and another in Argentina. In this way, the Barça star has wanted to have a detail with his country of origin and with the city that welcomed him with only thirteen years. This financial aid will improve the situation of hospitals, which struggle to have the necessary materials to face this type of virus that It causes pneumonia with greater impact in the elderly. And Catalonia is one of the areas hardest hit by COVID-19 in Spain with almost 8,000 infected and 282 deceased, according to data provided by health on the morning of this Tuesday.For his part, Argentina adds 306 infections and so far six people have died, but the figure is expected to increase as the coronavirus has later arrived in South America. In both countries citizens are confined at home to lower the contagion curve.
Szczesny: “At Arsenal I smoked and Wenger knew it”
Wojciech Szczesny He has been one of the guests of the official podcast of the Gunners club website: ‘Arsenal Nation’. During the interview, the current Juventus goalkeeper has told for the first time how the famous episode of the cigar in the locker room happened and that cost him his hasty departure from Arsenal in the summer of 2015. That episode happened on New Years Day 2015 and since then, Szczesny lost ownership in the Premier and only played the FA Cup. The following season he left for Rome. But someone must have seen the goalkeeper and went with the ‘story’ to Wenger. “Someone must have seen me smoke, so Wenger asked me if it was true that I had smoked in the showers and I immediately said yes. I was fined and Wenger said: ‘You won’t be able to play for a while’ “, relates the Polish footballer. Even if Szczesny denies that there was a discussion with the French coach: “There were no bad words or a big row. Although I sincerely hoped to return to eleven soon, but Ospina replaced me, who did well in those games. ““Have you ever seen Casillas do that?”Wojciech Szczesny also did some on the field. In March 2014, after winning the London derby at White Hart Lane, the Polish goalkeeper took a selfie alongside Kieran Gibbs and Lukas Podolski with the away stand occupied by Arsenal fans behind.In this same podcast, the Pole recounted Wenger’s anger. “I have one that he didn’t like at all, the famous selfie in White Hart Lane. Looking back he wouldn’t. But you’re 21 or 22 and at the time you think you do those things. It was childish and I knew Wenger was not happy at all He didn’t punish me but he told me. I don’t remember exactly but it was something like: “Have you seen Casillas do something like that?”. “Okay, surely you’re right about that,” I thought later, “said the now Juventus goalkeeper. “At that moment, he was a regular smoker and the coach knew it very well. He just didn’t want me to smoke in the locker room and I respected him. However, due to the emotions of the match (a loss to Southampton in 2015), I decided to smoke a cigarette in front of my teammates. I went to a corner of the shower so no one could see me and lit a cigarette there. “
MAN CITY VS SWANSEA CITY
MAN CITY (4-2-3-1)HART,SAGNA, DEMICHELIS, OTAMENDI, KOLAROV,FERNANDINHO,FERNANDO,DE BRUYNE, SILVA, STERLING,BONYSWANSEA (4-2-3-1)GOMIS,ROUTLEDGE, SIGURDSSON, AYEW,BRITTON, KI,TAYLOR, BARTLEY, WILLIAMS, NAUGHTON,FABIANSKIOn Tuesday, Manchester City beat Borussia Moenchengladbach 4-2, thanks to three goals in the final 11 minutes, enabling them to finish top of their Champions League group.City, though, were knocked off the top of the Barclays Premier League last weekend when they were beaten 2-0 by Stoke City, enabling Leicester City to take the leadership.Interestingly, City have failed to come back and win after being two goals or more behind in their last 59 attempts in the Premier League.That loss at Stoke means that City have won only once in their last four league games, dropping eight points from a possible 12.City have won six of their eight home games and scored 23 goals – the most in the Premier League.Swansea arrive on the back of a poor run, having taken just one point from their last five games and a possible 15. That sequence of four defeats from five league games has ended with the sacking of manager Garry Monk, with former boss Brendan Rodgers, recently sacked by Liverpool, being tipped with a shock return to the Liberty Stadium.