Month: June 2021

News Dockrell is averaging 101.28 since Ireland’s inter-provincial competition gained List A status in 2017 George Dockrell‘s Instagram bio reads: “If I were right-handed, I probably wouldn’t have a job.” There is some logic amid the self-deprecation: left-handers are hugely over-represented in international cricket compared to the wider population on account of their scarcity value
0 Comments
11:40 AM ET Associated Press Northwestern hired NCAA executive Derrick Gragg as its athletic director Friday, the Big Ten school’s second time filling the position in a little more than a month. Mike Polisky, a longtime deputy AD at Northwestern, was promoted to the job May 3 but stepped down amid backlash because he was
0 Comments
10:50 AM ET The Singapore Formula One Grand Prix has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Friday organisers of the race confirmed this year’s event, slated for Oct. 3, would not take place. Last year’s event was also cancelled due to the pandemic. According to the BBC, F1 is weighing up several options
0 Comments
6:35 AM ET Associated Press The Paris prosecutor’s office said a tennis player suspected of participating in a match-fixing scheme last year has been arrested in Paris during the French Open. French newspaper Le Parisien reported that the player is Yana Sizikova of Russia. The prosecutor’s office told The Associated Press that a “women’s international
0 Comments
8:00 AM ET The 153rd Belmont Stakes marks the final leg of the Triple Crown. Essential Quality, who finished fourth as the favorite in the Kentucky Derby, is the 2-1 morning-line favorite for Saturday’s race. Post time is 6:49 p.m. ET. Rombauer upset Medina Spirit, winner (for now) of the Kentucky Derby, to take the
0 Comments
9:26 AM ET A court case sentenced an ex-officer to 2,170 years in jail in a Fenerbahce case.’ Photo by Aytac Unal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images A Turkish court on Friday sentenced a media executive and a former police chief to more than 1,000 years each in prison for conspiring to bring match-fixing charges against Fenerbahce. Fenerbahce’s president
0 Comments
8:20 AM ET The threat of a protest hung over the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Friday as a row over ‘bendy’ rear wings dominated the conversation in the Formula One paddock. 1 Related The sixth round of the season is the last before the governing FIA introduces new flexibility tests after some teams were suspected
0 Comments