Author: Tim Runn

The weather is warm, the ball is flying, the Phillies’ offense is locked in and these post-trade deadline Nationals have one of the worst major-league rosters in recent memory. The result? The Phillies finished off the hapless Nats, 13-1, Sunday afternoon to complete a four-game sweep. The Phils are a season-best 12 games over .500 at 60-48 and have overtaken the Padres (61-50) for the second National League wild-card spot. They’ve also picked up ground on the Braves, who lost four of five this weekend to the Mets. The Phils are three back of Atlanta for the top wild-card, a…

The PGA Tour has filed a motion in Federal Court to bar three suspended members of the LIV Golf Invitational Series from participating in the FedEx Cup Playoffs; Talor Gooch, Matt Jones and Hudson Swafford are trying “to have their cake and eat it too,” according to the motion Last Updated: 08/08/22 8:01pm Talor Gooch is one of three LIV golfers wanting to compete in the FedEx Cup Playoffs The PGA Tour has accused a number of LIV Golf rebels of “fabricating an emergency” after they filed a lawsuit requesting the lifting of their suspensions in order to be able…

NIAGARA UNIV., N.Y. – Niagara men’s soccer head coach Bill Boyle has announced six newcomers to the team for the fall of 2022. Anthony Amato, Jamie Barry, Saviour Brown, Alberto Sanchez Cervera, Brady McNulty and Robert Woods have all joined the squad.”The group of six for fall 2022 brings in a great complement of positional needs, as well as personalities our team is excited for,” said Boyle. “A couple local guys and guys from Spain, Liberia, Ireland and California continue to add to our already richly diverse team. We can’t wait to have them, and their families join our Niagara…

Watch a free live stream of the game between London Spirit and Manchester Originals in the video above. The Hundred is back, with all 60 games to be shown live on Sky Sports.Every women’s fixture and selected men’s matches will be shown for free on skysports.com, the Sky Sports App and the Sky Sports Cricket YouTube channel.Southern Brave are the defending men’s champions while Oval Incincibles are the reigning women’s winners, with both sides triumphing at Lord’s last summer. But who will be lifting this year’s trophies at the Home of Cricket on Saturday, September 3? Stick with Sky Sports…

By Charles Brun: Tyson Fury took to social media on Monday to urge journeyman Derek Chisora to sign the contract for their trilogy match. According to Eddie Hearn, the 38-year-old Chisora (33-12, 23 KOs) rejected the offer given to him for a third fight against WBC heavyweight champion Fury (32-0-1, 23 KOs). Chisora likely wants to get the kind of money that Dillian Whyte received for his title shot against Fury last April at Wembley Stadium in London. Is Chisora worth being paid $5 million for a fight against Fury? This writer doesn’t see it as worthwhile to give Chisora…

Czech Karolina Muchova beat Swede Mirjam Bjorklund 6-2, 6-1 to move into the second round of the Thoreau Open at Thoreau Tennis club in Concord on Monday evening. Concord WTA 125, other first-round results (Thoreau Tennis club, hard, USD 115.000, most recent results first): Greet Minnen vs. Katie Volynets Ashlyn Krueger vs. Viktorija Golubic Qiang Wang vs. Mariam Bolkvadze Anastasia Gasanova vs. Catherine McNally Renata Zarazua vs. Astra Sharma Clara Tauson vs. Katie Boulter Alycia Parks vs. Coco Vandeweghe Taylor Townsend vs. Lulu Sun Ysaline Bonaventure vs. Varvara Gracheva: monday Anna Blinkova vs. Varvara Flink: monday Magdalena Frech (4) beat…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Monday, August 8, 2022SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA – Arizona Coyotes General Manager Bill Armstrong announced today that the Coyotes have signed forward Lawson Crouse to a five-year contract. As per club policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed.”We are very pleased to sign Lawson to a long-term contract,” said Armstrong. “He is a big, strong, skilled power forward and we look forward to him being a big part of our future.” The 24-year-old Crouse registered 20-14-34 and 52 penalty minutes (PIM) in 65 games in 2021-22. He set NHL career highs in goals, assists (tied), points, power-play goals (3), power-play…

Travis Etienne’s NFL journey hasn’t truly gotten off the ground, but he recently reached an important — and to the average person, peculiar — milestone in practice.It was the first time since his 2021 season-ending Lisfranc injury that the running back experienced the violent contact typical of professional football. And it was long overdue.”I need that!” Etienne said after Jaguars safety Andre Cisco flattened him, per the Associated Press. “I haven’t played in so long (that) I want to get tackled. I need to get tackled just to get my body back acclimated with that. I’ve just been at home,…

This offseason the Dallas Mavericks addressed their big man concerns with the additions of Christian Wood and JaVale McGee. With Dwight Powell and Maxi Kleber already in the mix, Dallas has to feel good about its frontcourt. The Mavs also have to like what a motivated Luka Doncic brings to the table.Doncic’s personal trainer Anze Macek believes so, according to Bleacher Reporter.”Luka is a global star. People follow him every step of the way, therefore evil tongues also appear very quickly,” Macek said. “Maybe they are trying to get to him by commenting on every photo, but this only further motivates him…

LANSING, Mich. — The FireKeepers Casino 400 race was held at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday. Michigan State head coaches Mel Tucker and Tom Izzo were the two grand marshals of the race.They delivered the “drivers start your engines” call to the NASCAR drivers and crowd. Izzo and Tucker said they did not practice before going up on stage when talking to the media earlier in the day. Bryon native Erik Jones led in the race, but ultimately finished in eighth place. Kevin Harvick won the race and secured himself a spot in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoff. Want to see more…