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Unai Emery’s men face Roma in Detroit on Wednesday before playing matches against Tottenham and Juventus in Orlando and Miami respectively. New recruit Dani Alves is in the squad and Aurier’s absence indicates the Ivory Coast international might now be surplus to requirements at right-back after the former Barcelona star snubbed Manchester City to join PSG. Poland midfielder Krychowiak told L’Equipe earlier this month he intends to stay at PSG despite being restricted to seven Ligue 1 starts in 2016-17, although that feeling does not appear to be mutual....

Lyle – a two-time winner on the Nationwide Tour – passed away on Wednesday night in Victoria. Last week, Lyle opted to begin end-of-life care following a third bout of acute myeloid leukaemia, having beaten the disease twice before in 1999 and 2012. Lyle, who finished tied for 48th at the 2008 U.S. Open, was a father to two daughters – Lusi (six) and Jemma (two). In a statement released by Golf Australia on Thursday, wife Briony said: “It breaks my heart to tell everyone that Jarrod is no longer with us....

Graham Arnold’s youthful side had expected victory in their Group B opener but they were undone by Anas Bani-Yaseen’s powerful first-half header from a corner. It leaves the injury-hit Aussies with much to ponder ahead of Friday’s game against Palestine, when they will need a win to get their title defence on track. Australia started confidently but their Brighton ‘keeper Mat Ryan made the first save when he kept out Yousef Rawashdeh at his near post after a mistake by Massimo Luongo....

Stoinis has been ruled out of the Cricket World Cup match against Pakistan on Wednesday after he was injured while bowling in the defeat to India on Sunday. The defending champions have called for Marsh as a precaution amid uncertainty over the extent of Stoinis’ injury. Australia captain Aaron Finch said: “Marcus Stoinis has a bit of a side strain. He won’t be available for, especially for [Wednesday]. So we’re going to have to juggle around especially that all-rounder spot....

Opening the innings, Healy carried her bat through to remain unbeaten on 148 off just 61 balls. Her innings helped Australia pile on 226 runs in their quota of 20 overs, which proved a little too hard to chase for the visitors. Healy entered the record books when she hit a six in the 19th over of the innings as she broke the previous record score of 133, which was held by Meg Lanning, with the latter getting to the landmark against England a few months ago....

It is understood that Cricket Australia’s (CA) chief executive James Sutherland had deliberated on the possibility in an ICC meeting earlier this year to take stock of an increasingly hectic international calendar. However, CA’s General Manager Pat Howard assured that Australia will not find themselves involved in a Test match as well as a T20I on the same day even though switching over formats within a short span of time could affect the team’s preparations....

With top batsmen Steve Smith and David Warner still serving suspensions for ball tampering and Shaun Marsh sidelined with a buttock abscess, Australia flattered to impress as they were skittled for 152. Experienced seamer Dale Steyn led the way with 2-18 from his seven overs, with Lungi Ngidi and Andile Phehlukwayo sharing five wickets as the tourists made the most of a fast and fiery pitch. Alex Carey and Nathan Coulter-Nile showed some resilience as Australia struggled from 66-6 to be dismissed for an uncompetitive total, one South Africa took no time in eclipsing....

Cummins removed AB de Villiers for 64 after tea to end his 128-run stand with Dean Elgar and start South Africa’s sudden slide. Cummins added the wickets of captain Faf du Plessis (5), Temba Bavuma (1) and Quinton de Kock (3) as Australia took six wickets for 46 runs late in the day at Newlands. Cummins claimed 4-12 in eight overs in his devastating spell and Mitchell Marsh and Mitchell Starc pitched in to remove Vernon Philander and Keshav Maharaj....

Most analysts agreed that India’s bowling unit was much more formidable this time around than in the past and that Australia’s batting line-up was among the weakest in decades. How Australia’s batsmen would fare against this Indian line-up was the question that most agreed would decide the winner of this series. We are now at the end of three days of play in the first Test in Adelaide. India certainly have their noses ahead at this stage and a reasonable batting performance on the fourth day will leave the Australians fighting for survival during the remainder of the Test....

Recklessness is the new age “Aggression” and teams feel proud about it. This has transformed limited overs cricket and batting has gone to unimaginable heights. This intent pays them rich dividends in ODIs and T20s but they walk on thin ice in Test matches. However, in Test match cricket, teams are failing miserably. Players who look like “Legends” in limited overs cricket become sitting ducks in Test matches. The fact that some of the modern-day stroke makers don’t give themselves any time and want to dominate the proceedings from the outset, is an alarming issue....

It is very evident that the Sydney Test has a lot of significance, thanks to the way both the teams have been playing. Over the last few years, the New Year Test at the SCG has been having a lot of significance and many call it “The Pink Test”. The first time the SCG hosted the Pink Test was way back in 2009 when Australia played South Africa. So far, the tradition has continued for 10 years with the Australia-India game set to be the 11th....

There are plenty of answers to that, and those answers have been speculated upon every time that India have travelled away from the cozy realms of home. All of the three games were decided after the first innings finished, but in this one, India, at least, managed to stroke some fire through better bowling and some brilliance by their captain. Here is how the players fared. India Rohit Sharma: 4/10...

De Minaur and Kyrgios saved four match points before beating Jamie Murray and Joe Salisbury 3-6 6-3 18-16 in Sydney to seal a 2-1 victory for the hosts. That decisive win came after Dan Evans kept Great Britain alive with a 7-6 (7-4) 4-6 7-6 (7-2) defeat of De Minaur at Ken Rosewall Arena. Kyrgios, who beat Cameron Norrie to put Australia in front, lifted his team-mate on his shoulders and paraded around the court after they set up a showdown with Spain or Belgium on Saturday....

Australia won the first game comfortably to take a 1-0 lead in the series. Bowling first, they restricted India to just 225 runs. Captain Mithali Raj top-scored with 63, while Yastika Bhatia, Richa Ghos and Jhulan Goswami made vital contributions. However, the total was below par, and proved to be too little for the hosts. Australia scaled down the target in just 41 overs with nine wickets in hand. Rachel Haynes remained unbeaten on 93....

Jackson shared with Sporting News the e-mail sent to him Sept. 4 by a vice president of the NCAA’s Eligibility Center, which acknowledged that the prospective student-athlete had been certified in July as eligible to compete as a freshman at an NCAA institution. But, according to the NCAA representative, the prospect’s core-course GPA and ACT score “met a PSA review trigger.” MORE: SN preseason All-Americans | Kansas signee still not cleared by NCAA Jackson was outraged the NCAA would request the ACT examine the validity of the score and that it would make such a request when there was no evidence of fraud....

The Gunners saw their 30-goal top scorer from 2016-17 head for the exits during the January transfer window as a want-away figure secured himself a switch to Manchester United. Arsene Wenger landed Henrikh Mkhitaryan as part of a swap deal and had already added Alexandre Lacazette to his ranks over the summer. He was, however, to splash out another £55 million on Aubameyang, with the Gabon international snapped up after proving himself to be a prolific marksman at St Etienne and Borussia Dortmund....

The Gabonese frontman had previously toasted a strike against Rennes in the Europa League by pulling on the superhero’s mask and impersonating his stance. “I needed a mask that would represent me,” he told BT Sport in the aftermath. “It is a Black Panther and in Africa in Gabon we call the national team the Panther of Gabon. It represents me.” Aubameyang was paying his respects to the actor Chadwick Boseman, who lost his life to colon cancer on August 28....

Several high-profile Trump supporters and even Vice President Mike Pence pushed back on the Republican incumbent’s comments, but former MLB star Aubrey Huff had a rather different verdict on the speech the president delivered at the White House in the early hours of November 4. “Trump speech wasn’t divisive,” tweeted the two-time World Series winner, who has long been an outspoken Trump supporter. “He’s been fighting fake news for four years and this was no different....

The fullback was indefinitely suspended from the squad in February after making disparaging comments about Blanc and team mates including Angel Di Maria and Zlatan Ibrahimovic in a video posted online. Blanc had said Aurier would be back in the squad by the end of March. (Reporting by Julien Pretot; Editing by Toby Davis) 0 votes

The free agent lineman from Colorado State, and a survivor of the 2012 theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, was recently signed by the Chargers. “I never stopped and realized this is part of my story,” Golditch said to USA Today. “I shouldn’t push that away, because what I hold on to right now is a story, not just about myself, but about everyone else. I can carry that and represent them through what I do now and how I carry myself....