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
49.7 percent of anything may sound like a lot, but it’s a historical low for spam email levels – it’s the lowest share recorded by Symantec since September 2003, so progress is being made. Back then, Tony Blair was the UK PM and Apple was about to release Mac OS X Panther. The world was still waiting for the final Matrix film and bopping along to the Black Eyed Peas’
July 19 (Infostrada Sports) – Latest leaderboard in the third round from the British Open at the par-72 course on Sunday in St Andrews holesplayed rounds -10 Charl Schwartzel (South Africa) 12 67 72 Jordan Spieth (U.S.) 13 67 72 Dustin Johnson (U.S.) 4 65 69 Danny Willett (Britain) 5 66 69 -9 Steven Bowditch (Australia) 11 70 69 Anirban Lahiri (India) 11 69 70 Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 15 72
