Browsing: Sports
Rafael Ortega, 30, has appeared in 151 big-league games over parts of five seasons. The 29-year-old Patrick Wisdom, a former St. Louis Cardinal first-round pick, has gotten a taste of the majors the previous three years. The Cubs are outfielder Nick Martini’s fifth organization, with the 30-year-old logging 303 MLB plate appearances since 2018. Eric Sogard, 35, has seen an increased role, too, starting seven of the last eight games at second base.
“We’re excited to kick off the launch of training with our participants next week,” said executive race director Carey Pinkowski in a statement. “Over the next 18 weeks our team will be hard at work, much like our participants, preparing for the return of the event. After a year without a major marathon, it feels great to know the start line is once again in our sights.”
After Northwestern hired Collins in March 2013 to be its head coach, Krzyzewski brought Scheyer back to Durham in a special assistant role. Scheyer became a full-time assistant coach a year later when Steve Wojciechowski took the head coaching job at Marquette, and he was promoted to associate head coach after the 2017-18 season.
“Ted Lasso,” which returns for a second season on Apple TV+ next month, finds rich comedic tension in the relationship between a team and the media that covers it. Jason Sudeikis stars as an eternally upbeat American managing an English football (soccer) team — a sport he’s never coached! at any level! — and the show mines all kinds of humor from these press events. James Lance plays reporter Trent Crimm, and if his urbane swoop of hair didn’t immediately peg him at Ted’s kind-sorta nemesis, his introduction does, as he stands up and lists the many reasons Ted is unqualified for the job. “Is there a question in there?” Ted gently asks. Yeah, comes the response: “Is this a (blanking) joke?” In the pub, fans are watching this unfold on TV, and one bloke turns to his friends: “I love journalists.” Back in the press room, it’s pandemonium: “Can you even name any footballers?!” a reporter asks. “Who won the league last year?” says another. Ted’s ears are ringing and finally the team’s owner (played by the great Hannah Waddingham) steps in: “You must forgive my fellow countrymen,” she says. “Somewhere over the last few years we seem to have abandoned all sense of manners and hospitality.” Turning to the assembled media: “My, my, aren’t you a salty bunch.”
“My mindset in those at-bats is easy: Just try to produce,” Abreu said through an interpreter during a conference call Wednesday, before the scheduled game against the Indians was postponed because of rain. “Since I was in Cuba, I learned if you’re third, fourth or fifth in the batting order, you have to produce and you have to produce in those moments. I like those moments, I like to be in those moments and that day was a good day for me.”
“You go back to last year and our home record (19-14), and I remember around here (people saying), ‘Oh, why aren’t you playing well at home?’ ” Rizzo said. “Well, we were used to 30,000, 40,000 people screaming and drinking beer snakes in the bleachers and going crazy, and then we just have empty seats.
RJ Barrett, who scored 21 points in the Game 4 loss, couldn’t be found in Game 5 and shot 5-of-14 from the floor and just two-of-six from downtown. Derrick Rose, who tallied 91 points through the first four games, left his cape in Chicago in Game 5. He shot just 3-of-11, unable to solve the Hawks’ defense. Immanuel Quickley gave the Knicks some life off the bench, but it was too little, too late.
The remaining 12 teams retained their order in the draft by virtue of where they finished in the standings, with the Devils selecting fourth, followed by the Columbus Blue Jackets (No. 5), Detroit Red Wings (No. 6), San Jose Sharks (No. 7), Los Angeles Kings (No. 8), Vancouver Canucks (No. 9) and Ottawa Senators rounding out the top 10.
First-year defensive coordinator Sean Desai had a bare-bones operation with outside linebackers Khalil Mack, Robert Quinn and Jeremiah Attaochu, defensive linemen Eddie Goldman, Akiem Hicks, Bilal Nichols, Mario Edwards Jr. and Angelo Blackson, inside linebacker Danny Trevathan and defensive backs Jaylon Johnson, Eddie Jackson and Tashaun Gipson headlining the list of those not spotted.
On Wednesday afternoon, following the Bears’ organized team activity practice at Halas Hall, Dalton made it clear his focus and mindset didn’t change on the last weekend of April, when Justin Fields entered the picture. Yes, Fields immediately claimed the title of “franchise quarterback of the future” when he was selected with the No. 11 pick. But Dalton is locked in right now as the Bears’ steady veteran starter, responsible for playing at a level high enough that the team can oversee Fields’ development at a reasonable pace.