ICE HOCKEY
Dallas Stars win Game 1
Miro Heiskanen, Mikael Granlund and Matt Duchene on Wednesday scored power-play goals in a 5 minute, 26 second span early in the third period as the Dallas Stars opened their NHL Western Conference Finals rematch against the Edmonton Oilers with a 6-3 victory. Dallas began the third period with a two-goal deficit and a man advantage from a penalty that carried over from the second. Heiskanen scored 32 seconds in on a shot from near the blue line, Granlund tied it and Duchene put the Stars ahead to stay with a second-effort score that made it 4-3.
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TENNIS
Wu Fang-hsien advances
Wu Fang-hsien on Wednesday advanced to the semi-finals at the Internationaux de Strasbourg after the Taiwanese and her partner, Jiang Xinyu of China, defeated Caroline Dolehide of the US and Fanny Stollar of Hungary. The Taiwanese-Chinese pair won 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 to set up a shot at the final today in their semi against Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the US and Guo Hanyu of China, who eliminated Taiwan’s Chan Hao-ching and Shuko Aoyama of Japan 6-3, 6-2 at the Strasbourg Tennis Club in France.
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CRICKET
SKY wins MotM
Suryakumar Yadav, or SKY, had double reason to celebrate his match-winning knock on Wednesday as it not only helped the Mumbai Indians claim the last Indian Premier League (IPL) playoff spot, but also earned him a Man of the Match (MotM) award to show off to his wife. The middle-order lynchpin’s unbeaten 73 off 43 balls powered Mumbai to 180-5 before they bundled out the Delhi Capitals for 121 inside 19 overs, sealing a playoff berth alongside the Gujarat Titans, the Royal Challengers Bengaluru and the Punjab Kings. Suryakumar has been the five-time champion’s highest scorer this season, but until Wednesday had not received the individual recognition he perhaps deserved. “My wife told me a sweet story,” a beaming Suryakumar said during the presentation ceremony. “She said: ‘You’ve got all the awards except the Man of the Match award.’ From the team’s point of view, the knock was important and this trophy is for her. She waits for these moments and we celebrate it when we go back.”
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FOOTBALL
Pushing ban voted down
Another season of the “Brotherly Shove” is coming soon after NFL owners failed to pass a proposal to ban the rugby union-style, short-yardage play commonly employed by Super Bowl champions the Philadelphia Eagles. A proposal to eliminate any play involving pushing or shoving ballcarriers forward did not receive the required 24 votes of support on Wednesday at the NFL owners meetings in Eagan, Minnesota. ESPN reported the final vote was 22-10.
‘DEVASTATED’: Argentina’s win was a reversal of their 28-24 defeat last week, with Australian forward Fraser McReight adding that ‘we did the same thing last week’ Argentina flyhalf Santiago Carreras punished an undisciplined Australia with 23 points off the tee as the Pumas held on grimly for a 28-26 win in Sydney yesterday to breathe new life into their Rugby Championship campaign. A try-fest beckoned in afternoon sunshine at Sydney Football Stadium, but Argentina needed only one through captain Julian Montoya, with Carreras doing the damage with seven penalties and a conversion in front of a sell-out crowd. A week after letting a 14-point lead slip in a 28-24 defeat to Australia in Townsville, Argentina saw most of a 21-point advantage erased in the final quarter as the
ELEVEN STRIKEOUTS: Blake Snell allowed two singles and two walks against the Rockies as he ended a personal three-game skid with his first win since Aug. 16 Blake Snell on Wednesday struck out a season-high 11 in six innings, while Mookie Betts hit a grand slam in the eighth as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Colorado Rockies 9-0 for their fourth straight win. Helped by their third series sweep of the Rockies this MLB season, the Dodgers increased their National League West lead to three games over the San Diego Padres, who lost 2-1 at home to the Cincinnati Reds. Betts went four for five with five RBIs, capped by his seventh career slam on a 3-0 pitch from reliever Anthony Molina to make it 8-0. Andy Pages and
Captain Vijay Kumar led the way yesterday as the Hsinchu Titans claimed the Taiwan Premier League title at the Yingfeng Cricket Ground in Taipei’s Songshan District (松山), beating PCCT by 27 runs. The weather was a topic again, but not the rain that played a role in previous matches in the often-delayed tournament. Kumar, who made 80 not out from 63 deliveries, and teammate Vishwajit Kumar (58 from 43) rescued the Titans from a precarious state at the end of the power play in the T20 match. The visitors were put in to bat and struggled to 26-3 as PCCT
China’s state-run People’s Daily newspaper on Monday published an essay about Chinese basketball it said was written by LeBron James, but a representative for the NBA star said on Thursday that the article was based on a series of interviews. The paper, better known as the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, had said James authored the essay, “Basketball is a Bridge that Connects Us,” a tribute to Chinese players and fans of the sport written in the first person. “LeBron James Pens an Article in the People’s Daily,” read a post published on the newspaper’s official WeChat account. On Thursday, a representative
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