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OCEANSIDE, California (Reuters) - An autopsy confirmed on Thursday that former National Football League star Junior Seau killed himself, and the coroner's office was awaiting family permission for outside researchers to examine his brain for damage from repeated head injuries.
Seau, a 12-time Pro Bowl (all-star game) selection who played for 20… Read More
Charlotte: Tiger Woods returns to PGA Tour action at this week's Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina, confident he has solved the ball-striking problems which plagued him at this month's Masters. The former world number one failed to break 72 in any of his four rounds at the year's opening major, completing his worst performance at Augusta National since he turned professional. He battled his way to a closing two-over-par 74 for a five-over total of 293, ruing his tendency to allow old habits to creep back into a swing he has grooved with coach Sean Foley over the last two years. "At the Masters, I was kind of struggling… Read More
New Delhi: Table toppers Delhi Daredevils, who are on a magic run, will look to avoid complacency when they take on Rajasthan Royals in their Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the Ferozeshah Kotla today. The Daredevils notched their sixth victory in the tournament with a thumping 37-run win over pre-tournament favourites Mumbai Indians here on Friday night. They went three points clear of the second placed Kolkata Knight Riders, the largest lead a team has held this season. Skipper Virender Sehwag has been in sublime touch, scoring 309 runs with an average of 44.14. He became only the third batsman in the IPL to notch three consecutive… Read More
Dubai: Jean Claude Mbvoumin, the founder of Foot Solidaire, a French charity working to combat the issue of trafficked African footballers, is calling for greater awareness to stamp out the global phenomenon. A Gulf News investigation published yesterday found scores of players had been lured to the UAE by fake agents on the premise of a trial or contract with a UAE club, but abandoned on arrival. They were instead forced to find Dh1,000-a-month work as waiters or security guards. Mbvoumin, who says he has received some 15-20 reports of players conned by fake agents in the UAE, suggests a global pandemic could now be spreading this way due… Read More
Welcome to the SI.com Power Rankings, powered by FanGraphs. You will probably notice that these Power Rankings don't look like most other Power Rankings you'll see around the web, as our system is based not on the current standings or a gut feeling about team quality, but on how well they've performed at the underlying traits that predict future performance better than wins and losses.
Those traits -- getting on base, hitting for power, running the bases effectively, getting strikeouts while avoiding walks and home runs from their pitchers, turning hits into outs on defense -- are summed up in our Wins Above Replacement metric,… Read More
Augusta: The Augusta patrons joined on Friday night in a sharp intake of breath. For Rory McIlroy, whom they had embraced 12 months ago in pity and whom they cheered all day in mass adoration, was back in the hunt at the Masters. While a chill wind had blown across this corner of Georgia all day, the temperature on the course remained white-hot as McIlroy and Lee Westwood, in every sense his arch-rival, took their positions for a defining duel. On an extraordinary day of drama, McIlroy edged closer to a redemptive coronation with a superb 68, while Westwood fell out of the lead when he followed 15 pars with a costly double-bogey at the last… Read More
The second section of the BCS status report revealed Wednesday in Steve Wieberg's excellent USA Today story contains so much common sense that it seems impossible the plans could have been created by the same people who continue to outsource the postseason in the nation's second most popular sport. The section contains two variations on the same great idea: Outside of the national title discussion, set up an enlarged series (a 10-12 or 20-team system) of major bowls with the flexibility to make the most… Read More
This week we turn our attention to the American League, making a handful of predictions for the Junior Circuit. For real-life purposes, the AL figures to be a murderer's row this season. In my opinion, the five best teams in the majors all reside in the American League (in no particular order: Yankees, Rays, Tigers, Angels, Rangers). After those five, the Blue Jays and Red Sox are legitimate, second-tier playoff contenders. You can probably safely write-off the rest of the league for playoff contention, though the Indians and Royals are both intriguing, and could hang around the… Read More