RUGBY
Two players test for cocaine
Wakefield prop Adam Walker has been suspended after testing positive for cocaine, his club said on Saturday — the second player to fail a drugs test in the same match. The 26-year-old Scotland international was tested following Wakefield Trinity’s 36-8 win at Widnes on July 14. A Scotland international since 2013, he was earlier this week named in Steve McCormack’s 40-man initial squad for the this year’s World Cup. On Thursday, Widnes announced that their New Zealand-born stand-off Rangi Chase has been suspended indefinitely after testing positive for cocaine in the same match.
GOLF
Curry short of Ellie Mae cut
Stephen Curry on Friday impressed the professionals and the large gallery following him as the NBA all-star fired his second consecutive 74 in the second round of the Web.com Tour’s Ellie Mae Classic. However, despite the gutsy performance in his professional debut, Curry came up well short of making the cut, with an eight-over 148 total. There were four other golfers who shot worse scores than Curry. The cut line fell at three under. “I hit some really good shots, but a lot more poor shots,” he said. Andrew Yun leads the tournament at 13-under 127 after a 62 in the second round. Brandon Harkins is one behind after a 65.
CRICKET
India trounces Sri Lanka
India has forced Sri Lanka to follow on in the second cricket Test, commanding a 439-run lead at lunch on the third day Saturday. Sri Lanka was dismissed to 183 in its first innings in reply to India’s 622 for nine declared. Meanwhile, a brilliant 99 from Jonny Bairstow led England to a good first innings total of 362 all out against South Africa on the second day of their fourth Test at Old Trafford.
SOCCER
Neymar jerseys selling fast
Neymar started repaying his mammoth transfer fee on the day he was introduced as Paris Saint-Germain’s marquee summer signing with the club selling more than 10,000 shirts bearing his name on Friday. If PSG can keep that up, they would have recouped the transfer fee by mid-March next year, within the first season of Neymar’s five-year deal — although in reality that revenue is shared with shirt manufacturer Nike, meaning it would actually take twice as long. Such is the demand for the shirt at one of two PSG stores, on the iconic Champs Elysees boulevard and the team’s outlet at their Parc des Princes home, that shoppers yesterday were to be limited to a single jersey each.
FOOTBALL
Brady gets goats for birthday
Five baby goats on Thursday were brought to training camp practice by the reigning Super Bowl champion New England Patriots as the team celebrated superstar quarterback Tom Brady’s 40th birthday. Brady, a five-time Super Bowl champion with the Patriots, has often been tagged with the term “GOAT” as an abbreviation for “Greatest Of All Time” and he celebrated this birthday as he has many others, with a workout at the Patriots’ training camp. Each baby goat wore a Patriots jersey bearing Brady’s number 12 with a huge “GOAT” sign displayed in his tribute.
A seven-year-old horse had to be euthanized on Friday after breaking its back on the final fence of a Grand National steeplechase race that it won despite sustaining the serious injury. It follows the death of four horses at the Cheltenham Festival last month — including one after the prestigious Gold Cup. Gold Dancer was competing in the Mildmay Novices’ Chase during Ladies Day at Aintree’s Grand National Festival. The horse managed to cross the finish line approximately four lengths ahead of runner-up Regent’s Stroll. “The winner of our second race of the day, Gold Dancer, was pulled up after
Hans Niemann declares he would become a “stone cold killer” in a Netflix documentary released on Tuesday about his feud with five-time classical world champion Magnus Carlsen, a pledge that injects new edge into the lingering fallout from the cheating scandal that shook elite chess. “I’m gonna be a stone cold killer the rest of my life,” the US’ Niemann says in the film. “I’m going to become the best player in the world, and no one is going to believe that now, but this clip will play over and over again in 10 years — just wait.” “I just
The Daredevils yesterday took eight catches in the final as they eked out a victory in the Taiwan Cricket Triangular Tournament against PCCT at Yingfeng Cricket Ground in Taipei’s Songshan District. PCCT’s batting lineup collapsed after they asked the Daredevils to bowl in the T20 decider of the weekend tournament that also involved the Formosa Cricket Club. PCCT were bundled out for 76 in 16.2 overs against a disciplined Daredevils attack. Shahzad Khan was the top scorer in the innings with 21, but he was among those who offered chances to the fielders. Shane Ferreira and Jason Cameron took three wickets each, with
OBJECTIVE REACHED: ’Now for us, it’s about getting healthy, making sure everybody is ready to go, and we can ramp up,’ the Atlanta Hawks’ C.J. McCollum said after the game The Atlanta Hawks on Friday secured an NBA playoff berth with a 124-102 victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers as the Boston Celtics locked up the Eastern Conference second seed with a lopsided win of their own. C.J. McCollum scored a game-high 29 points for the Hawks, who came into the contest at sixth in the East and still in danger of falling into the play-in tournament that would see the seventh-through 10th-placed teams battle for the last two playoff berths in each conference. Nickeil Alexander-Walker and Jalen Johnson scored 18 points apiece, and Dyson Daniels added a triple-double of 13
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