Kamis, 04 Agustus 2022
HIGHLIGHTS: Columbus Crew vs. CF Montréal | August 03, 2022 - Major League Soccer
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2022-08-04 03:28:13Z
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Kailer Yamamoto signs two-year deal with Edmonton Oilers. What does it mean? - Edmonton Journal
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This in from the Edmonton Oilers, news that they have signed winger Kailer Yamamoto to a new two-year deal at $3.1 million per season.
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My take
1. One of the final pieces of business for Oilers GM Ken Holland is now complete. Yamamoto is now signed for two years. This means when he’s up for his next contract, he’ll still be a Restricted Free Agent. Notably, the two year commitment is one more year than Jesse Puljujarvi got, and Yamamoto also got one hundred thousand more in pay per year. In other words, the Oilers have shown him more commitment than Puljujarvi received.
2. Yamamoto earned $1,175,000 million last season, so this represents a hefty raise for the player. He earned the raise with solid play, putting up 1.64 pts per 60 at even strength, the level of scoring you’d expect from a third line winger. He was just behind Jesse Puljujarvi, 1.82 per 60, and Derek Ryan, 1.75 per 60, but ahead of Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, 1.52 per 60.
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3. Some players, such as Warren Foegele and Jesse Puljujarvi, wilted during the playoffs in terms of their two-way play. Others, such as Zach Hyman, Zack Kassian and Evander Kane, stepped up. Yamamoto remained about the same in terms of his major contributions to Grade A shots for compared to his major mistakes on Grade A shots against. He was the Oil’s third most effective winger in the playoffs by this metric, compiled through intensive video review at the Cult of Hockey.
4. It’s long been reported that players like Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl like to have Yamamoto on their line. Why is this so? For one thing, Yamamoto is a smart defensive player who fills in defensively when McDavid or Draisaitl leave the defensive slot. For another, he’s been a member of the three of the most successful Oilers lines in the McDavid/Draisaitl Era, according to Natural Stat Trick data.
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He’s combined exceptionally well on lines with Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl (13 goals for, five against), Draisaitl and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (44 goals for, 23 against) and also with McDavid and Evander Kane (17 goals for, nine against).
5. On Twitter, Jim Matheson, the Hall-of-Fame hockey writer, said of the signing: “Very fair contract for Yamamoto but absolutely Oilers have to trade somebody to get under cap ceiling with McLeod likely getting $1m to 1.5 m in new deal to come. Still feel Foegele is most likely to go. I would not trade Barrie. Too valuable to PP.”
And Oilers insider Bob Stauffer said: The EdmontonOilers avoid arbitration with Yamamoto, who is a tenacious spark plug that EDM’s best players like playing with! Strong on puck retrievals. Continues to develop his offensive game…and is part of both PP2 and PK units.”
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6. The most significant info came from PuckPedia: “After signing Yamamoto for 2 years $3.1M Cap Hit, #LetsGoOilers are $6.8M over cap with 21 players (12F/7D/2G) on the Projected Roster. With Klefbom ($4.167M) & Smith ($2.2M) to LTIR, effectively $423K over the cap.”
This new comes as the Oil still need to sign Ryan McLeod. Clearly, a key player still has to be moved out if the Oilers are going to be under the cap. Who will it be? Jesse Puljujarvi and Warren Foegele are the top two candidates, it seems, with Tyson Barrie a distant third.
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2022-08-04 00:28:10Z
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Rabu, 03 Agustus 2022
Vin Scully always knew what to say, and when to say nothing at all - Sportsnet.ca
It was Game 1 of the 1988 World Series and Kirk Gibson had just hit a pinch-hit, walk-off home run. The Los Angeles Dodgers, considered underdogs against the powerful Oakland Athletics, rushed to home plate to greet Gibson, who had been thought to be unavailable due to injuries in both legs.
Within the broadcast booth at Dodger Stadium, Vin Scully sat at the mic. The words he found were perfect — even poetic.
"In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened," he said.
The call would go down as maybe the most iconic of his 67 years in the booth. Yet what preceded it was equally telling about Scully, who died on Tuesday at the age of 94: 67 seconds of silence.
“That really is my trademark,” Scully would later say. “Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.”
Of course, he made plenty of time for talking, too. As a broadcaster, Scully’s style was elegant and conversational — even funny (“Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost,” he once said. “For support, not illumination”). Anyone listening could sense his love for the game and the curiosity that drove him to uncover the stories he’d share, slowly but surely, with his audience.
Over the years he called some of the biggest moments in baseball history, but his legacy extends far beyond any single accomplishment or moment. What’s most remarkable about Scully is the way he endeared himself to generations of baseball fans not only in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, but across the sport.
Born in the Bronx on Nov. 27, 1927, he grew up a New York Giants fan, occasionally attending games at the Polo Grounds. After spending two years in the Navy, he attended Fordham University, where he played some baseball and began his broadcasting career by calling football, basketball and baseball games for the university station WFUV.
Soon after graduating, Scully earned a job with CBS radio to cover college football, but it wasn’t long before his focus would return to baseball. In 1950, he joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond on the Brooklyn Dodgers’ radio and television broadcast team. By 1953, he was the Dodgers' lead broadcaster. That fall, when the Dodgers faced the New York Yankees in the World Series, Scully became the youngest person ever to broadcast a World Series game.
By then, Scully had already developed his own way of bringing his audience closer to the game.
“The game is just one long conversation, and I'm anticipating that, and I will say things like 'Did you know that?' or 'You're probably wondering why,'” he once explained. “I'm really just conversing rather than just doing play-by-play.”
When the Dodgers moved West in 1958, Scully went with them. Over the course of the decades to come, he called thousands of games that would soon be forgotten and a select few destined for the history books. Among his more memorable calls: Sandy Koufax’s four no-hitters, Hank Aaron’s record-breaking 715th home run, Bill Buckner’s error in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series and Gibson’s famous 1988 home run.
"It may sound corny,” Koufax once said, “but I enjoyed listening to Vin call a game almost more than playing in them.”
In 1982, Scully won the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame for his contributions to the game as a broadcaster. Years later, in 2016, he obtained the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
But even as the accolades piled up and Scully aged well into his 80s, he kept broadcasting. The longevity that endeared him to fans impressed fellow broadcast veterans like Jerry Howarth. Early in his career, the longtime Blue Jays broadcaster was so impressed with Scully’s sense of fairness that he went out of his way to introduce himself. Right away, Howarth found Scully to be uncommonly friendly and the two stayed in touch over the years.
Decades later, long after the now-retired Howarth had become a fixture in the Blue Jays’ broadcast booth, he could only marvel at Scully’s staying power. While driving home from the ballpark one night late in the season, a realization struck him.
“After my 33rd year, I’m mentally patting myself on the back for another year,” Howarth recalled. “And I go, ‘33! Vin Scully’s done twice that much. He’s been broadcasting 66 years!’”
In 2016, after 67 seasons broadcasting Dodgers baseball, Scully retired at the age of 88. The voice that had told the story of the Dodgers for decades would no longer be on the air every evening from spring until fall.
But the next time a broadcaster falls silent and lets the sound of the game take over for a moment, you might hear an echo of Scully. As he once said, “The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.”
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2022-08-03 12:30:00Z
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Reports: Soto, Bell to Padres in historic deadline-day blockbuster - TSN
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Juan Soto is on the move.
According to multiple reports, the San Diego Padres are finalizing a deal to acquire the star outfielder along with first baseman Josh Bell from the Washington Nationals in one of the bigger deadline-day deals in MLB history.
McKenzie Gore, CJ Abrams, Robert Hassell III, James Wood
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) August 2, 2022
and Jarlin Susana plus Hosmer (3-$39M after this season) to Wash for Soto/Bell. That is probably the most substantive deal in deadline history
The package of prospects heading back to Washington in the deal includes infielder C.J. Abrams, left-hander MacKenzie Gore, outfielders Robert Hassell III and James Wood and righty Jarlin Susana. First baseman Eric Hosmer reportedly rejected being included in the trade as his 10-team no-trade clause involved the Nationals.
Source confirms what Jim is saying. Deal will go through with or without Hosmer. Padres still must decide what to do with him.
— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) August 2, 2022
The Los Angeles Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals were the other finalists in the Soto sweepstakes, it was reported by many over the weekend.
One of the best young players in baseball, reports indicated Soto rejected a 15-year, $440 million deal earlier this year which kicked off a series of trade rumours and speculation about his future in D.C. At the All-Star Game in Los Angeles, Soto said the Nationals previously told him they would never trade him but reversed course after extension talks fell apart.
Soto has two more years of club control after this one and is scheduled to become a free agent following the 2024 season.
In 101 games this season, the 23-year-old Soto is hitting .246 with 21 home runs and 46 RBI.
Soto is in the midst of his second straight All-Star season and is fresh off winning the Home Run Derby for the first time in his career, defeating Julio Rodriguez in the final.
A native of Santo Domingo of the Dominican Republic, Soto made his big league debut as a 19-year-old for the Nats in May of 2018.
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2022-08-02 15:33:03Z
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Canada's Maya Laylor sets Commonwealth Games records, strikes gold in weightlifting - CBC.ca
Canada's Maya Laylor broke two Commonwealth Games records en route to a gold medal in the women's 76 kg weightlifting event in Birmingham, England, on Tuesday.
The 27-year-old Toronto native lifted 100 kg in her first snatch attempt to take the lead in the program before posting Commonwealth records of 128 kg in the clean and jerk lift and 228 kg in total.
Silver medallist Taiwo Liadi of Nigeria lifted 96 kg in the snatch and 120 kg in the clean and jerk, coming 12 kg shy of the Canadian.
Maximina Uepa of Nauru had a total of 216 kg for bronze.
WATCH l Maya Laylor claims women's 76 kg weightlifting gold in style:
Laylor also took gold in the same category at the 2021 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent. Two years before that, the Canadian won the 71 kg title in Apia.
Her gold medal adds a seventh top prize to Canada at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. So far, Canadian athletes have also claimed a total of 11 silver and 16 bronze for a total of 34.
Spence grabs 3rd bronze
Emma Spence of Cambridge, Ont., captured her third bronze medal of the Commonwealth Games in the women's balance beam event.
The 19-year-old gymnast had scores of 5.100 in difficulty and 7.966 in execution to finish with a total of 13.066, 0.400 shy of gold medallist Kate McDonald of Australia. Georgia Godwin, also from Australia, took silver with 13.433 points.
Spence also earned bronze in the women's team event on Saturday and in the women's all-around final on Sunday.
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Felix Dolci of Laval, Que., narrowly missed the podium in the men's vault and men's parallel bars finals, finishing fourth in both events.
For more stories about the experiences of Black Canadians — from anti-Black racism to success stories within the Black community — check out Being Black in Canada, a CBC project Black Canadians can be proud of. You can read more stories here
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2022-08-02 13:22:14Z
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Norman says Tiger Woods turned down US$700-800M Saudi offer - CTV News
Tiger Woods turned down an offer that Greg Norman says was "somewhere in that neighbourhood" of US$700 million to $800 million to take part in the Saudi-funded LIV Golf series.
During an appearance on Fox News with Tucker Carlson that aired Monday night, Norman confirmed what he told the Washington Post in a story two months ago. Norman told the Post in June the offer was "mind-blowingly enormous; we're talking about high nine digits."
Woods has been opposed to LIV Golf since late last year, and he delivered his strongest comments at the British Open when he said players who took the money funded by the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund had "turned their back" on the PGA Tour that made them famous.
When an offer was made to Woods was not clear.
"That number was out there before I became CEO. So that number has been out there, yes," Norman said in the Fox News interview, which took place Sunday at Trump National in Bedminster, New Jersey, where the third LIV Golf Invitational was held.
"And, look, Tiger is a needle-mover and of course you have to look at the best of the best," Norman said. "So they had originally approached Tiger before I became CEO. So, yes, that number was somewhere in that neighbourhood."
Various reports out of the United Kingdom have said Phil Mickelson received a $200 million signing bonus, while Dustin Johnson received $150 million. The 48-man fields, which play 54 holes with no cut, offer $25 million in prize money at each event. Norman announced a 14-tournament schedule for next year.
LIV Golf currently has only one player -- Johnson at No. 18 -- from the top 20 in the world.
The source of the funding has led to sharp criticism of the series and the players who have enlisted because it is viewed as an attempt to distract attention from its human rights record and links to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Asked why his rival tour has caused such an uproar among American golf fans, Norman responded plainly, "I don't know."
"I really don't care," Norman said. "I just love the game so much and I want to grow the game of golf and we at LIV see that opportunity not just for the men but for the women."
The LIV Golf Invitational is off for a month during the FedEx Cup playoffs on the PGA Tour, returning over Labor Day weekend about an hour west of Boston, and then two weeks later plays in the Chicago suburbs.
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2022-08-02 09:47:00Z
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AP sources: Browns QB Deshaun Watson suspended for 6 games - Sportsnet.ca
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson was suspended without pay for six games Monday for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy following accusations of sexual misconduct made against him by two dozen women in Texas, two people familiar with the decision said.
The people spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision had not been publicly released. Watson, who played for four seasons with Houston before being traded to Cleveland in March, recently settled 23 of 24 lawsuits filed by women alleging sexual harassment and assault during massage therapy appointments in 2020 and 2021.
The NFL has three days to appeal the decision by disciplinary officer Sue L. Robinson. The NFL Players' Association already stated it would abide by her ruling. If either side appeals, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell or someone he designates will make the decision, per terms of the collective bargaining agreement. The union then could try to challenge that ruling in federal court.
The league had pushed for an indefinite suspension of at least one year and at least a $5 million fine for the 26-year-old Watson during a three-day hearing before Robinson in June.
Watson can continue to practice and play in exhibition games before his suspension begins the first week of the regular season. He would be eligible to return on Oct. 23 when the Browns play at Baltimore.
Watson, who signed a fully guaranteed $230 million, five-year contract, will lose only $345,000 if the suspension is unchanged because his base salary this season is $1.035 million. His $45 million signing bonus is not affected by the suspension.
After learning the ruling was imminent, the NFLPA issued a joint statement with Watson on Sunday night, saying they will not appeal Robinson's ruling and urged the league to follow suit.
``Every player, owner, business partner and stakeholder deserves to know that our process is legitimate and will not be tarnished based on the whims of the League office'' the union said in a statement.
As he awaited the ruling, Watson has been in training camp with the Browns. He has continued to take most of the reps with the first-team offense, which will be turned over to backup Jacoby Brissett while he's sidelined.
While the NFL pushed for a severe penalty, the union had argued Watson shouldn't be punished at all because he was not convicted of any crime.
Two grand juries in Texas declined to indict Watson on criminal complaints brought by 10 of the women.
This was the first case for Robinson, a former U.S. district judge who was jointly appointed by the NFL and the union to handle player misconduct --a role previously held by Goodell.
A three-time Pro Bowl pick with the Texans, Watson has seen his playing career stalled by the allegations that he acted inappropriately with the women during massage therapy sessions he scheduled via social media. He sat out the 2021 season.
In their lawsuits, the women accused Watson of exposing himself, touching them with his penis or kissing them against their will. One woman alleged Watson forced her to perform oral sex.
Watson has denied all wrongdoing, insisting any sexual activity with three of the women was consensual. He publicly insisted his goal was to clear his name before agreeing to confidential financial settlements with 20 of the women on June 21.
``This case started because one woman had the fortitude to step forward and make her voice heard,'' said attorney Tony Buzbee, who represents the women in the civil lawsuit. ``Her courage inspired many others with the same experience. None of this saga would have occurred without that one brave voice. One person can make a difference.
``I have been asked repeatedly about my thoughts in regard to the NFL's proceeding with Deshaun Watson. Although some of my clients do have strong feelings in that regard, I have nothing meaningful to say about that process. I've said in the beginning that the civil process and the NFL's disciplinary process are very different. My role was to advance the cause of my clients, in civil court_nothing more. I've done that. I am extremely proud of these women and our legal team's efforts. The settlements are confidential. I won't comment further on them.''
Watson's high-profile case has renewed scrutiny of the league's handling of player misbehavior, along with its support for women, and left the Browns wondering if they'll ever find a franchise quarterback.
Since the trade, Watson has been on public display, with fans questioning whether the league had the authority to ban him from playing despite no criminal charges.
The league has been sensitive about its image and handing out the appropriate discipline for Watson after being criticized for its handling of previous cases of domestic violence or sexual misconduct against women involving Baltimore running back Ray Rice, Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and Cleveland running back Kareem Hunt among others.
For their part, the Browns were widely condemned for signing Watson. The team has been desperate to find a long-term answer at quarterback _ they've had a league-high 32 starters since 1999 -- and many questioned why the team would take on a player with so much baggage.
During his introductory news conference after he was traded to Cleveland, Watson was adamant about his innocence.
``I have never assaulted, disrespected or harassed any woman in my life,'' he said at the dais, where he was joined by Browns general manager Andrew Berry and coach Kevin Stefanski. ``I was raised differently. That is not my DNA. That is not my culture. That is not me as a person.''
He repeated those comments three months later during the Browns' minicamp, insisting his only goal was to clear his name. However, a week later he settled 20 of the civil lawsuits. Any remaining lawsuits could still go to trial, but not until 2023 after both sides agreed to wait until after the upcoming season.
On July 15, 30 women settled lawsuits against the Texans after claiming the team ignored and enabled Watson as he harassed and assaulted them during the therapy sessions. Terms of the settlements were kept confidential.
Despite Watson's legal entanglement, the Browns _ along with several other teams _ pursued Watson after the first grand jury declined to indict him.
Initially, Watson turned down the Browns. But Cleveland owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam enticed him with the richest fully guaranteed contract in league history, to that point.
Watson had other offers but chose the Browns and waived his no-trade clause to join a team coming off a disappointing 8-9 season. Cleveland completed the deal on March 18 by agreeing to send Houston three first-round draft picks and six selections overall for Watson.
The Haslams said any concerns they had about his character or behavior were alleviated when they flew to Houston along with Berry and Stefanski and spent time talking to Watson.
An All-American at Clemson, Watson was drafted by the Texans with the No. 12 pick in 2017. He started six games as a rookie before passing for 4,165 yards and 26 touchdowns in his second year.
Watson has developed into one of the league's elite QBs, throwing for 4,823 yards and 33 TDs in 2020 despite playing on a Texans team that went just 4-12.
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2022-08-01 12:35:00Z
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