Jordan Spieth is making his move at the British Open. The 21-year-old American birdied the first three holes on the back nine Sunday to pull into a tie for the lead with Dustin Johnson and Louis Oosthuizen. Spieth is the first player since Tiger Woods in 2002 to start the year with wins in the Masters and the U.S. Open.
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
Rougned Odor homered early, then got into a testy exchange at home plate in the ninth inning that escalated into a shouting match between the managers as the Rangers beat the Astros 7-6. ”I think you saw some passion from our guys, some emotion from our guys,” Banister said. Odor hit a two-run homer in the third and later singled.
Jon Lester didn’t know what to think when he was getting ready to bat in the top of the eighth inning, looked at the scoreboard and saw he hadn’t allowed a hit. Lester lost his bid for a no-hitter in the eighth inning but ended the longest winless streak of his career as the Chicago Cubs shut out the Atlanta Braves 4-0 on Saturday night. A chopper down the line
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.
NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Ryan Hunter-Reay blew past the field with two laps to go and won the IndyCar race at Iowa Speedway on Saturday for his first victory since the Indianapolis 500.
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
Sometimes you feel like a lab rat/medical experiment gone awry.
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
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
