Bartolo Colon kept his helmet on this time. The New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 6-3 Monday to stop a three-game losing streak. ”I wish I got cheers for a foul ball,” teammate Michael Cuddyer said.
Rather than experimenting with a new qualifying format, European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke plans to stick to a winning formula when he picks the European team for the 2016 competition. Clarke said he would adopt fellow Irishman Paul McGinley’s victorious arrangement which spurred Europe to a five-point triumph at Gleneagles last year. Clarke’s 12-man team will be made up of four players from a European’ points table, five from
Rather than experimenting with a new qualifying format, European Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke plans to stick to a winning formula when he picks the European team for the 2016 competition. Clarke said he would adopt fellow Irishman Paul McGinley’s victorious arrangement which spurred Europe to a five-point triumph at Gleneagles last year. Clarke’s 12-man team will be made up of four players from a European’ points table, five from
By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has emerged as the clear winner in a battle for influence over international sports federations as rival organization SportAccord has been left in tatters. A rare public confrontation that began last month with a scathing attack by SportAccord President Marius Vizer on the IOC has essentially ended with the complete isolation of SportAccord, an umbrella organization for some 100
A playoff career-high 45 points by James Harden sparked the Houston Rockets to a 128-115 must-win victory over the Golden State Warriors, denying the Warriors an easy path to the NBA Finals. The Warriors had a scare and then breathed a sigh of relief after NBA Player of the Year Stephen Curry suffered a bruise to the back of his head after a bad fall in the second quarter but
(Reuters) – The Golden State Warriors survived a major injury scare to NBA MVP Stephen Curry but still lost the game as a James Harden-inspired Houston Rockets staved off playoff elimination with a 128-115 victory on Monday. Curry went down in the second quarter of Game Four in the Western Conference Finals, falling hard on his upper back and neck after flipping over Rockets forward Trevor Ariza, silencing a previously
We’re getting closer to a world where in-dash touchscreens aren’t infuriating, slow, backwards pieces of e-trash: Hyundai says its 2015 Sonata will be the first car to hit the market with Android Auto, Google’s smartphone-powered software that brings Android’s quick, intuitive layout to your car’s navigation and infotainment system. – Owners of model-year 2015 Sonatas will be able to plug their Android-powered smartphones (running the latest 5.0 “Lollipop” version of
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Iraq’s Shi’ite paramilitaries said on Tuesday they had taken charge of the campaign to drive Islamic State from the western province of Anbar, giving the operation an openly sectarian codename that could infuriate its Sunni population. The Iraqi government is scrambling to reverse its biggest military setback in nearly a year, the fall of Ramadi, capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has vowed to recapture
By Praveen Menon and Andrew R.C. Marshall BUKIT WANG BURMA, Malaysia (Reuters) – Malaysian police forensic teams, digging with hoes and shovels, on Tuesday began pulling out bodies from shallow graves found in abandoned jungle camps where an inter-governmental body said hundreds of victims of human traffickers may be buried. The Malaysian government said it was investigating whether local forestry officials were involved with the people-smuggling gangs believed responsible for