Category: Sports

No downturn for Republic of IPL

The Indian Premier League has proved yet again that it continues to be an inflation proof cricketing extravaganza. At the players’ auction in Bangalore on Monday, any worries of a downturn in the IPL economy were thrown to the winds as stars and greenhorns went under the hammer.

UK Sport bosses blame Brexit for making funding decisions harder

Seven Olympic and Paralympic sports discovered on Monday that their attempts to overturn a UK Sport decision in December not to fund them for Tokyo 2020 had failed. Olympic sports archery, badminton, fencing, table tennis and weightlifting, and Paralympic sports goalball and wheelchair rugby, will now receive no support from the lottery-backed agency.

Ben Stokes and Tymal Mills astonished after bagging ‘life-changing’ IPL deals

Ben Stokes has bagged a “mental” A 1.7million deal to play for Rising Pune Supergiants at this year’s Indian Premier League auction. Stokes and Tymal Mills will become this country’s highest ever IPL earners, after the all-rounder was sold at a record price for any overseas player in the 10-year history of the world’s most lucrative cricket tournament and his England Twenty20 team-mate was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore for A 1.4million.

Feliz in Brewers camp, ready to challenge for closer’s role

After sorting out work visa issues in his native Dominican Republic, the Brewers’ Neftali Feliz arrived at Monday morning, ready to get to work with his new team. Feliz enters camp as Milwaukee’s leading candidate to be the closer after the team parted ways with Jeremy Jeffress and Will Smith at the deadline last season, and with Tyler Thornburg during the winter.

Burton Albion defender Shaun Barker feels he could have made Derby County impact in 2014/15

Shaun Barker feels he could have made an important impact at Derby County as they missed out on the 2014/15 Championship play-offs – but he is prepared for the “huge moment” of playing at Pride Park once again should be called upon for Burton Albion on Tuesday night. The Brewers defender spent nearly six years with Derby after signing for the club under now-Albion boss Nigel Clough, who also made him captain.

Basketball: Cousins to Pelicans in blockbuster trade

The Sacramento Kings have agreed to trade DeMarcus Cousins and Omri Casspi to the New Orleans Pelicans in exchange for Tyreke Evans, 2016 first-round draft pick Buddy Hield, Langston Galloway and first- and second-round draft picks this summer, a person familiar with the situation said Monday. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the trade is not official and has not been announced by either team.

Groundwork for a fantasy baseball title begins now

Groundwork for a fantasy baseball title begins now Championships aren’t won without preparation, so incorporate these trends into your strategy. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2m1fLuc Fantasy owners who’ve experienced their own lengthy championship drought can take heart in the Cubs’ World Series victory.

NBA 2K17’s Sacramento Kings wouldn’t make that DeMarcus Cousins trade

The Sacramento Kings and the New Orleans Pelicans just pulled off a blockbuster trade, with the Kings shipping out one of the league’s best players in DeMarcus Cousins a year before he’s set to become a free agent. The deal, which our friends at SB Nation called “one of the worst trades in NBA history,” is so imbalanced in the Pelicans’ favor that even the video game version of the Kings wouldn’t agree to it.

Monday’s Dump & Chase: Cannons Away

Four Predators score in win against Blue Jackets I love this headline for some reason. It screams, “We couldn’t distinguish this game in an interesting way, so here is a technical fact about the result of the contest.”

Leverkusen proud and protective of 17-year-old jewel Havertz

In this Nov. 26, 2016 file picture Leverkusen’s Kai Havertz, foreground, and Bayern’s Thiago challenge for the ball during the German Bundesliga soccer match between FC Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen 04 in Munich, Germany. The 17-year-old Havertz has emerged as one of the Bundesliga’s brightest prospects.

Burton Albion’s Nigel Clough: we left more assets at “different club” Derby County than we inherited

Nigel Clough in his final game in charge of Derby County , and with Burton Albion, with whom he will return to Pride Park Stadium tomorrow Nigel Clough in his final game in charge of Derby County , and with Burton Albion, with whom he will return to… Derby County is a “completely different” club to the one Nigel Clough joined in 2009 as the Burton Albion boss prepares for a first return to Pride Park since leaving the club tomorrow night. The Brewers boss was sacked by the Rams in September 2013 after more than four years at the club, in which his team slashed the club’s wage bill by more than half while building a competitive Championship side.

Team of the Week: Arkansas Razorbacks

The Razorbacks capped a stretch where they lost three of four games by getting smacked at home by Vanderbilt and losing to Missouri. They looked like a longshot to get into the tournament, not necessarily because they didn’t have the profile to earn an at-large bid at the time, but because any team that can lose at Missouri can lose to anyone, anywhere, any time.

Image: ‘Clicking on all cylinders’

After his last general manager didn’t get along with coach Chuck Pagano, Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay wants everyone to know everything is hunky-dory to start this offseason. Irsay tweeted Sunday that GM Chris Ballard and Pagano are ” clicking on all cylinders .”

Elliott nips Earnhardt to win 2nd straight Daytona 500 pole

As the series shifts into a new era, those distinguished names are out front again and will give the start of the Daytona 500 a throwback feel. Chase Elliott and Dale Earnhardt Jr. – teammates and sons of Hall of Fame drivers – will start 1-2 and should give a sagging series a sorely needed boost this week headed into its marquee event.