CRICKET
Perry smashes car with six
Ellyse Perry’s destructive batting came at an unexpected cost on Monday after a massive six by the Australia all-rounder smashed the window of a sponsor’s car during the Royal Challengers Bangalore’s match against UP Warriorz. Perry scored 58 off 37 deliveries to help her team to a 23-run win in the Women’s Premier League at Bengaluru’s M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. The 33-year-old hit four sixes in her knock, the last of which sailed over long-on and crashed through the window of the car, which had been placed on a stage just behind the boundary rope. Perry, who gasped and held her head in her hands after shattering the window, later joked that the six might leave her out of pocket. “I was a bit worried, not sure I have insurance to cover me,” she said. “So, in a bit of strife there.”
FOOTBALL
Jason Kelce retires
Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce, a 13-year NFL veteran who won a Super Bowl, on Monday announced his retirement. The six-time NFL All-Pro offensive lineman played for the Eagles from 2011 through last year after being taken in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL Draft. “Stepping on the field was the most alive and free I had ever felt,” Kelce said. “It was a visceral feeling with football unlike any other sport... The hairs on my arms would stand up. I could hit somebody, run around like a crazed lunatic and then get told: ‘Good job.’ I love football.” Wiping away tears and choked up by emotion several times in announcing he would not return, Kelce said he is uncertain what the future holds, although he is expected to receive offers for television commentary deals.
SOCCER
Sam Kerr denies racism
Australian soccer star Sam Kerr has pleaded not guilty to racially aggravated harassment of a police officer, prosecutors in the UK said on Monday. The 30-year-old striker, who plays her club soccer for Chelsea in England, was charged with causing a police officer alarm or distress during an incident in Twickenham, southwest London, on Jan. 30 last year, the Crown Prosecution Service said. The PA Media reported that London’s Metropolitan Police said the incident involved an officer who was responding to a complaint about a taxi fare. Kerr was charged in January. She denied the charge at a plea and trial preparation hearing on Monday, PA Media reported. She is set to face court in February next year.
ICE HOCKEY
Panthers top Rangers 4-2
Ryan Lomberg scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period, Sam Reinhart scored twice and the Florida Panthers beat the New York Rangers 4-2 on Monday night in a matchup of first-place teams. Anton Lundell also scored, Aleksander Barkov and Gustav Forsling each had two assists as the Panthers won their fifth straight game and 11th in the past 12 games. Florida leads the NHL with 42 wins and 88 points. Sergei Bobrovsky made 26 saves to improve to 31-11-2 this season, including 15-6-1 on the road. “He’s been freakishly consistent this year,” Panthers coach Paul Maurice said. ”We’ve done a pretty good job of not asking him to be the best player on the ice most nights, but he’s just found a way to do that for us.” Will Cuylle and Chris Kreider scored for Metropolitan Division-leading New York.
Bologna on Thursday advanced past Empoli to reach their first Coppa Italia final in more than half a century. Thijs Dallinga’s 87th-minute header earned Bologna a 2-1 win and his side advanced 5-1 on aggregate. Giovanni Fabbian opened the scoring for Bologna with a header seven minutes in. Then Viktor Kovalenko equalized for Empoli in the 30th minute by turning in a rebound to finish off a counterattack. Bologna won the first leg 3-0. In the May 14 final in Rome, Bologna are to face AC Milan, who eliminated city rivals Inter 4-1 on aggregate following a 3-0 win on Wednesday. Bologna last reached the
If the Wild finally break through and win their first playoff series in a decade, Minnesota’s top line likely will be the reason. They were all over the Golden Knights through the first two games of their NHL Western Conference quarter-finals series, which was 1-1 going back to Minnesota for Game 3 today. The Wild tied the series with a 5-2 win on Tuesday. Matt Boldy had three goals and an assist in the first two games, while Kirill Kaprizov produced two goals and three assists. Joel Eriksson Ek, who centers the line, has yet to get on the scoresheet. “I think the biggest
From a commemorative jersey to a stadium in his name, Argentine soccer organizers are planning a slew of tributes to their late “Captain” Pope Francis, eulogized as the ultimate team player. Tributes to the Argentine pontiff, a lifelong lover of the game, who died on Monday at the age of 88, have been peppered with soccer metaphors in his homeland. “Francisco. What a player,” the Argentine Football Federation (AFA) said, describing the first pope from Latin America and the southern hemisphere as a generational talent who “never hogged the ball” and who showed the world “the importance of having an Argentine captain,
Noelvi Marte on Sunday had seven RBIs and hit his first career grand slam with a drive off infielder Jorge Mateo, while Austin Wynn had a career-high six RBIs as the Cincinnati Reds scored their most runs in 26 years in a 24-2 rout of the Baltimore Orioles. Marte finished with five hits, including his eighth-inning homer off Mateo. Wynn hit a three-run homer in the ninth off catcher Gary Sanchez. Cincinnati scored its most runs since a 24-12 win against the Colorado Rockies on May 19, 1999, and finished with 25 hits. Baltimore allowed its most runs since a 30-3 loss to
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