Detroit Tigers right-hander Justin Verlander has been scratched from Wednesday’s start against the Cleveland Indians because of back stiffness. Verlander said he felt the stiffness during his start against the Yankees on Saturday. ”It’s just kind of lingered a hair longer than we thought, trying to get over the hump,” Verlander said after Detroit’s 7-3 win over the Indians on Tuesday.
Two-time champion Rafael Nadal was seeded No. 10 for Wimbledon on Wednesday, his lowest seeding ever at the All England Club. The seeding means Nadal could face top contenders as early as the fourth round, and one of the top four seeded players in the quarterfinals. The All England Club stuck mainly to the rankings in its list of seedings for the grass-court Grand Slam, which starts Monday.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Former college football coach Lou Holtz and his wife Beth made it safely out of their $1.6 million Orlando home which officials say was destroyed by a fire likely caused by a lightning strike.
After a 10-hour hearing, Tom Brady now must wait to find out if his appeal of a four-game suspension carried any weight with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The league suspended Brady for his role in the use of deflated footballs in the AFC championship game win over Indianapolis. It was growing dark when Goodell left league headquarters after he heard Brady and representatives from the players’ union during the lengthy
The winner of this year’s British Open will collect more than £1 million ($1.6m, 1.4m euros) for the first time in the tournament’s history, organisers the R&A announced on Wednesday. The overall prize fund for the game’s oldest major championship has increased £900,000 to £6.3 million, with the champion receiving £1.15 million. “The Open is one of the world’s pre-eminent sporting events,” R&A chief executive Peter Dawson said.
This year’s British Open winner will collect a record 1.15 million pounds in prize money, organizers said on Wednesday. The purse is 175,000 pounds up on last year’s tournament, won by Rory McIlroy, with the overall prize fund rising to 6.3 million pounds, up 900,000 on 2014. Announcing the bumper pot, Peter Dawson, the chief executive of the Royal & Ancient (R&A), said: “The Open is one of the world’s
This year’s British Open winner will collect a record 1.15 million pounds ($1.81 million) in prize money, organisers said on Wednesday. The purse is 175,000 pounds up on last year’s tournament, won by Rory McIlroy, with the overall prize fund rising to 6.3 million pounds, up 900,000 on 2014. Announcing the bumper pot, Peter Dawson, the chief executive of the Royal & Ancient (R&A), said: “The Open is one of
Harvey Pollack, who reinvented the art of collecting NBA statistics from the very first season, died on Tuesday at age 93. The long-time statistics and media relations director with the Philadelphia 76ers and their predecessors the Philadelphia Warriors invented things that are now commonplace in NBA statistical fare, including the counting of blocked shots and technical fouls as well as keeping track of both offensive and defensive rebounds. “There has
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for 10 hours in an appeal hearing over a four-game ban issued after Brady’s supposed knowledge of under-inflated footballs. The controversy known as “Deflategate,” which nagged the Patriots on their way to the Super Bowl title in February, has lasted five months, stemming out of a New England victory over Indianapolis in the American Conference final. Goodell on
– Ford is recalling certain 2014 and 2015 Escape SUVs and Transit Connect vans for an instrument-panel issue. The gauge cluster and dashboard warning lights can quit working. Some 203,500 vehicles are affected. – – According to Ford, the instrument cluster, warning lights, message function, and warning chimes may not work when starting the vehicle. Affected models are Escapes built in Louisville, Kentucky, from May 19, 2014, to February 6,