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Richards tosses 2-hitter in Angels' 3-0 win over Boston (Yahoo Sports)

After eight innings of dominance, Garrett Richards tried to play it cool in the dugout when Angels manager Mike Scioscia asked him if he felt good enough to finish. ”Without being disrespectful, I guess you could say, I wanted the ball,” Richards said. Richards pitched a two-hitter for his second career shutout, Kole Calhoun hit two homers and Los Angeles beat the Boston Red Sox 3-0 Saturday night for its

Dempsey's 3 goals lift US over Cuba 6-0, into Gold Cup semis (Yahoo Sports)

Clint Dempsey walked away with the game ball for one of the few times in his career. With his first international hat trick, he boosted the United States to a 6-0 rout over Cuba on Saturday and into its eighth straight CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal. Dempsey put the Americans ahead with a fourth-minute header, converted a penalty kick in the 64th and added the final goal in the 78th.

Golf-Life has new meaning for low-scoring Australian Leishman

By Tony Jimenez ST ANDREWS, Scotland, July 19 (Reuters) – Marc Leishman flirted with a record-equalling 63 at the British Open on Sunday and when the Australian just missed out he simply shrugged it off, perhaps because he has had more serious worries recently. Leishman thought he might lose his wife Audrey earlier this year when she developed myopathy, a disease where the muscles cease to function. “I feel like

Buyers guide: The best VR headsets 2015

Intro 2015 is the year of Virtual Reality. Mobile-compatible headsets such as Samsung’s Galaxy Gear VR, Archos VR Glasses and Google Cardboard are available right now, while dedicated headsets such as HTC’s Vive and, hopefully, Oculus Rift are set to appear before the end of the year. These are all the virtual reality headsets that you need to know about, in order of excellence, as selected by our resident expert

Updated: This obscure Dreamcast game revival is the biggest gaming Kickstarter ever

Update: The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter raised a whopping $6,333,295 (about £4,059,025, AU$8,587,639) – to be exact – nearly another million in its final hours just before the weekend. The extra push helped solidify the PS4- and PC-bound revival of the Dreamcast cult-classic adventure game. Across digital and physical for both PS4 and PC (and it’s several special editions), 66,282 copes of the game were paid for through the Kickstarter campaign