Jake Arrieta had no desire to tout his high win total or his place in the NL Cy Young Award race. All that mattered to him was the Cubs stopped their recent skid. Arrieta pitched six scoreless innings for his major league-leading 15th win, and Anthony Rizzo and Addison Russell homered to lead Chicago to a 7-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Thursday night.
Johnny Manziel made another strong impression on Cleveland’s coaches. EJ Manuel’s was even better for Buffalo. Manziel threw a touchdown pass and maybe closed the gap on presumed starting quarterback Josh McCown before Manuel rallied the Bills to an 11-10 victory Thursday night.
By Tony Jimenez LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – The European Tour and the Asian Tour, who first collaborated for a co-sanctioned event 16 years ago, have announced “an innovative joint vision for the future of professional golf”. Both organisations are lagging behind the PGA Tour in terms of prize money and international gravitas and Friday’s news may be an indication of Europe and Asia joining forces in an effort to
The European and Asian tours on Friday said they would combine their business dealings and playing memberships in a “joint vision” which is likely to alter the landscape of world golf. “We have enjoyed a wonderful relationship with the Asian Tour for many years and today’s announcement is the first step in the next stage of that partnership,” European Tour CEO Keith Pelley said in the statement. It is likely
Cleveland (AFP) – JR Smith, who opted out of the final year of his contract after the NBA finals, said he is re-joining the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Lydia Ko made it look easy again at the Vancouver Golf Club making birdie on three of her final four holes to shoot a 67 and put herself in contention at the Canadian Women’s Open. The 18-year-old world number two seized the early clubhouse lead and finished on Thursday just two strokes back of first-round leader Karine Icher, of France, who shot a seven-under 65 in the afternoon. Not only
(The Sports Xchange) – Tampa Bay right-hander Chris Archer recorded the third shutout of his career as the Rays salvaged a series split with a 1-0 victory over the Houston Astros on Thursday. Archer (11-9) allowed just one hit and issued one walk while recording 11 strikeouts, and needed only 98 pitches to stifle the Astros (66-56), who required walk-off, extra-inning wins to claim the middle two games of the
– Hold your horses, pony-car fans, Chevrolet’s full online configurator for the 2016 Camaro isn’t live—but its more limited-scope, preliminary version is! That means you can go to Chevy’s website and “build” a sixth-generation Camaro coupe or convertible, but your choices are limited to superficial items like paint colors, wheel options, interior treatment, and even some stripe packages. There are glimpses at the car’s trim-level structure, as well as what
– Typically, when a new car is priced several thousand dollars above the base price of its predecessor, it is cause for ire. The fanboys will yowl in protest. Armchair car pricers—if there were such a thing—will declare it a bust, robbery on the highest order. Faces will melt like that guy’s in Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. Or will they? Chevrolet has just announced pricing for the
– – On his first-ever U.S. visit—to Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, and New York next month—Pope Francis will wave from a Popemobile created from a Jeep Wrangler, the Vatican has announced. This is not the first time the pontiff has used a Jeep—a four-door Wrangler (seen above) served papal duty on the Pope’s trip to Ecuador in July. – The exact configuration of the U.S. Popemobile has not been announced,
