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Worcestershire 87 for 0 (Libby 42*, Pollock 36*) trail Sussex 220 (Carson 58, Coles 54, Hudson-Prentice 51, Leach 4-37) by 133 runs

Joe Leach took his 400th first-class wicket as Worcestershire dominated Sussex on day one at Hove to keep their slim promotion hopes alive in the LV= Insurance County Championship.

The Pears realistically need to win all three remaining Division Two games and put themselves in a strong position after dismissing Sussex for 220, with Leach claiming four for 37.

But the pitch held few terrors for Worcestershire's openers Ed Pollock and Jake Libby who posted 87 without loss before bad light ended play six overs early.

After the teams observed a minute's silence in memory of Queen Elizabeth II, Leach settled into a probing line to the four left-handers at the top of the Sussex innings, taking three for 16 in his seven-over new-ball spell to leave Sussex in tatters after they had won the toss.

Ali Orr played on to his Leach's fifth ball and he pinned Tom Alsop lbw with the second delivery of his second over, a fullish delivery that swung back just enough. A similar length accounted for Tom Clark in Leach's fourth over as the batsman played across the line.

Dillon Pennington struck with his first ball when he extracted some extra bounce and Oli Carter touched it tamely to the wicketkeeper. Tom Haines, returning from a broken hand, faced 36 balls and batted for 63 minutes for his two runs but the Sussex captain played on to Ben Gibbon's second ball.

But as is so often the case at Hove, batting gets easier once the new ball loses its hardness and Hudson-Prentice, Coles and Carson led the recovery.

Hudson-Prentice was dropped at second slip by Jack Haynes on 36 but added 76 with Coles, counterattacking effectively until Pennington found just enough seam movement to have him caught behind for 51 (64 balls, 7 fours) just after lunch.

Leach returned and reached his milestone courtesy of a smart low catch by Hayes off Pakistan all-rounder Faheem Ashraf, who has joined Sussex for their last three Championship matches of the season. His side were back in trouble at 106 for seven.

But Sussex's last three wickets more than doubled the score, the fightback led by Coles and Carson, who was playing his first match of the season after recovering from knee surgery.

Coles progressed to his second half-century of the season, made in a shade under three hours. At the other end Carson was more aggressive as they added 87 in 18 overs. Coles had just reached his second half-century of the season when Pennington dropped short, and he picked out Azhar Ali on the deep backward square boundary for 54 (132 balls, 9 fours).

After Henry Crocombe holed out to mid-off, Carson was last out for 58 (74 balls, 9 fours) when he was run out by Libby's direct hit coming back for a second run.

Ashraf has been brought in to bolster a seam attack without Ari Karvelas and Steve Finn, who are out for the rest of the season but both he and the rest of the Sussex seamers struggled to break through.

Pollock gave one chance on 34 but was dropped at slip by Tom Alsop off Haines to confirm it was Worcestershire's day.

Northamptonshire 249 for 4 (Gay 145, Keogh 75*) vs Surrey

Surrey have been one of the driving forces in trying to reverse the marked decline in black players in English professional cricket, so they will need no reminding that if Emilio Gay keeps turning in the sort of polished hundreds that he delivered at Northampton, it could have a wider significance for the game.

Gay was also a player on their radar until he signed a contract extension at Northamptonshire and they opted instead for Dom Sibley's return to south London. They recognised in Gay not just an opening batter of considerable promise but also a potential role model for budding cricketers of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Any player who can enthuse and inspire marginalised groups deserves to be championed. And this was an innings to impress all who saw it.

It is just that, with a Championship at stake, Surrey saw rather more of him than they would have liked: 189 balls worth, during which time he struck a career-best 145 to leave Northants comfortably placed at 249 for 4 from 67.2 overs on a rain-affected day that would have left Surrey's seamers hoping for a better outcome.

Hampshire - and more to the point, one of the most bloody-minded, uncompromising sides in Hampshire's history - hold an eight-point advantage at the top of the table and, if Surrey do not force victory here, the two sides will enter the last two matches of the season with little between them.

The ACE programme fronted by Ebony Rainford-Brent, a former Surrey and England cricketer, began in South London and has now won charitable status, financial backing from the ECB, and has been expanded into six English cities. It seeks to bring more diversity into the game at a time when, as Rainford-Brent has said, "the elite and access to wealth dominate our game".

Admittedly, Gay does not entirely constitute a social breakthrough. He was born in Bedford, rather than pilfered from the Caribbean on a scholarship by an ambitious private school. He is another private school product, though, an alumnus of Bedford School, and there are fleeting reminders of another old boy, Alastair Cook, in his tall and stately presence at the crease. Gay possesses more elegance and it is fair to say that Cook's career has brought more certainty on the pull and hook.

It is a surprise that Surrey did not resort to a battery of short stuff earlier. Gay took a few blows at Kia Oval earlier in the season apparently, and Gus Atkinson, who may well be quicker than he looks, struck him on the helmet with a devilish bouncer, on 138, which came in increasingly murky light and which left him with no escape route.

Gay's response was to pull and hook, as a player of his upright style must, but he soon succumbed. The ball after a change of helmet, he failed to make contact as he pulled at another Atkinson short ball. Atkinson removed him in his next over as light drizzle began to fall: this time contact was made, but not emphatically and Tom Curran collected a simple catch in from the rope at deep square leg. He left to a standing ovation. Play abruptly ended for the day. Arguably, a ball too late.

Gay's final throes also told of weariness - he was dropped on 126 when he nearly deposited a waist-high full toss from the legspinner Cameron Steel into the hands of Hashim Amla, diving to his right at mid-off.

But the lasting impression was overwhelmingly of a 22-year-old of considerable potential. This was his third first-class hundred - his first two both came at Canterbury - and there was much to admire: rasping cuts and square drives, particularly against Dan Worrall, wristy flicks through midwicket, and some elegant off-drives whenever Kemar Roach overpitched.

Surrey also gave Tom Curran his first Championship appearance since April 2019. He has returned from a stress fracture in his back this year, having missed much of 2019 with a side strain. He delivered 11 overs for 39 without reward and is clearly feeling his way back. It is nearly five years since his last Test and it will take considerable resolve for him to resurrect his career in the longer formats.

It was a day of regret in Northampton in so many ways. Before play, the national anthem was played and there was a minute's silence in memory of Queen Elizabeth II. During a rain break, there was a period of applause in remembrance of Northamptonshire coach Luke Swann, a Northamptonshire junior coach, who has died at 39; the players wore black armbands.

There were departures, too. Midway through the day, it was announced that Ben Curran (the least celebrated of the Curran trio), Nathan Buck, Brandon Glover and Charlie Thurston will leave the county at the end of the season. Northants are expected to recruit Ollie Sale from Somerset.

Gale banished the sombre mood. He shared a 77-run first-wicket partnership with Will Young and a 155-run fourth-wicket stand with Rob Keogh. Post-lunch spells from Roach and Worrall promised much for Surrey as three wickets fell in 31 balls. Young's obduracy was ended when his back-foot force few to second slip,

Luke Procter, who has had an excellent season and who has adopted Shivnarine Chanderpaul's crablike stance during his promotion to No.3, fell at gully off the shoulder of the bat and Worrall added Josh Cobb, a belligerent sort for a promotion to No.4, and who managed only a single before he jabbed a full outswinger to first slip.

Poor seasons for the likes of Ricardo Vasconcelos and Saif Zaib have given Northants' batting order a curious look, but they began 29 points above the relegation places and must be highly satisfied with that. Gay's delightful day deepened that satisfaction.

David Hopps writes on county cricket for ESPNcricinfo @davidkhopps

Middlesex132 for 4 (Stoneman 72*, Harris 3-47) trail Glamorgan 214 (Cooke 52, Higgins 4-59, Murtagh 3-58) by 82 runs

London in the second week of September: a Lord's final, the Last Night of the Proms and wistfully relaxed afternoons at the cricket. Not this September, though; this year the one-day final has been moved to Trent Bridge, the flag-waving sing-song has been cancelled and Glamorgan's attempts to bed down at the nearby Danubius Hotel were scuppered by the Metropolitan Police, who have commandeered the joint for a week they are dreading. So instead, David Lloyd and his players are billeted in Watford and after ninety minutes of this game against Middlesex they were 70 for 5.

It really wasn't Watford's fault. Cricketers who played in those sold-out finals always maintained you could be five down faster than you could say knife if the pitch was fruity early on, so one doubts Tim Murtagh had to phone a friend before informing Lloyd that he would 'let' him have first knock. Six balls into the match Murtagh was celebrating more extrovertly after Eddie Byrom had nicked him to John Simpson and the following 18 overs must have been as much fun as an evening with Piers Morgan for Glamorgan's top order.
Lloyd lost his off stump to Toby Roland-Jones's fifth delivery of the day; Shubman Gill, after seemingly batting on Benzedrine for 40 minutes and 22 runs, bottom-edged a pull off Roland-Jones into his stumps; Sam Northeast came forward to Murtagh but only nicked off; and Billy Root became Ryan Higgins' first victim since the seamer returned from Gloucestershire when his quarter-hearted suggestion of a prod only feathered more joy to Simpson.
Those wickets mattered, of course. Glamorgan began this match seven points ahead of Middlesex and the sides are jostling with Derbyshire for the second promotion place alongside the almost home-and-hosed Nottinghamshire. The visitors' dismissal for 214 gave the advantage to Middlesex but James Harris took three wickets in nine balls to leave the home side on 92 for 4 before Mark Stoneman and John Simpson, who have scored five of their side's nine first-class centuries this season, restored order but not dominance.

Stoneman's unbeaten 72 was full of the punches and pulls that will still be recognisable to Durham supporters and he is playing a vital innings. For the victors here will be warm favourites with two matches to play, so the respective coaches probably insisted their teams focus only on their cricket this morning. Such things might not be easy as we negotiate these unique days. For it wasn't illness that stopped the Proms and the coppers haven't booked the hotel for a party….

…The same face, pictured differently, looked out from every newspaper today. Just after eight o'clock, Lord's tested its sound system and the first few bars of the nation's anthem echoed in deserted stands. An hour and a half later the whole thing would be prefaced by a minute's silence, faultlessly observed, with the teams and umpires facing the pavilion. The mind went back to other Mondays, then the fourth days of Test matches, distant in time, both comparable and different, when two national sides would face each other in a packed ground with the Ashes at stake. A practised, put'em-at-ease smile would greet young Australians on their first visit to England and hoping to be sent victorious.

This morning the Middlesex supporters filling in the details of their opponents' collapse surely noticed that their scorecards are black-bordered and so, for intermittent, unsuspected moments are the lives of some who do not consider themselves royalists. And so, yes, it may have been difficult for everyone to concentrate on the cricket…

All the same, five down for 70 was as grim as things got for Lloyd's men. By mid-afternoon they were greeting the arrival of a cheeky bonus point, partly because conditions eased a little, partly because Chris Cooke made a fine half-century and partly because the pitch for this game is so near the old tavern boundary that a neatly timed push often crosses the rope.

Middlesex's quicker bowlers also continued to bowl an attacking length and my attacking length is best mates with your half-volley.

This was illustrated immediately after lunch when Kiran Carlson and Cooke milked Murtagh for a quartet of boundaries before the Middlesex skipper pulled his length back a foot or so and Carlson's blameless forward defensive gave Simpson the fourth of his five catches. But Cooke continued to combine prudence with opportunism and reached his fifty off 80 balls, only to depart in the next over when a reckless drive at a wide one from Ethan Bamber inside-edged the ball onto the blue paint covering the off stump. The bail dropped like a damp leaf on a windless autumn evening.

Still Glamorgan were not done. Ajaz Patel arrived and immediately began to club Higgins and Bamber's over-pitched stuff around Lord's with the air of a man who dies with his rifle in his hand. Seven boundaries in 36 runs followed but Higgins got his man when a pretty ghastly slash at a wide ball edged the ball behind. Indeed, the medium-quick bowler took 4 for 59 from 15.1 overs on his return to Lord's and seemed happy to be home.

For their part, Middlesex's batters were content to be batting in mid-afternoon, although such luxury did not protect them completely. After Sam Robson had fallen for 10 to Michael Hogan, Stoneman and Stevie Eskinazi put on 54 before Eskinazi got a brutish delivery from Harris and edged behind to Cooke. The Middlesex skipper departed but not before giving the pitch the sort of look Ena Sharples reserved for Elsie Tanner in Coronation Street when Elsie had her war-paint on.

Next over Pieter Malan played on to Harris, who also inveigled Max Holden into snicking his first ball to Northeast at slip. Unexpectedly, Middlesex were in a crisis, so out strode Simpson, just as he does about five times a season it seems. He and Stoneman took their team to the close without great alarm and tomorrow they will renew their battle with Glamorgan, the first-class county of Wales, a country that suddenly has a new prince.

Paul Edwards is a freelance cricket writer. He has written for the Times, ESPNcricinfo, Wisden, Southport Visiter and other publications

Sark cites Saban: Texas must avoid 'rat poison'

Published in Breaking News
Monday, 12 September 2022 13:32

Texas football coach Steve Sarkisian channeled Nick Saban on Monday, issuing a warning to his Longhorns after their near upset of No. 1 Alabama on Saturday.

"First of all, to quote my old boss, we've got to be careful of the rat poison of people telling us how good we are, which is important," Sarkisian said. "A week ago, everyone told us how bad we were. Now this week, everyone wants to tell us how good we are. We've got to be careful to quiet the noise outside of our building and focus on us."

Alabama, which had won 53 straight nonconference games, had to kick a field goal with 10 seconds left to beat the Longhorns 20-19 in front of a record crowd of 105,213 fans at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. Texas was a 21.5-point underdog going into the game, the largest spread the Longhorns had faced at home since the 1978 FBS/FCS split.

"I definitely wanted to address it because, you know, I'm getting the text messages too," Sarkisian said. "I'm getting the phone calls. 'Hey, you guys are great, man. You look great,' this and that. Thanks, but you know, we got more work to do."

The Longhorns are facing a UTSA team that went 12-2 last season and won the Conference USA title. This is the first time the two system schools have faced each other, with UTSA just starting a football program in 2012. Texas hasn't lost to a current Group of 5 team since Rice in 1994, although the Owls were Southwest Conference rivals at that point. UTSA is 1-1 after a triple-overtime loss to No. 24 Houston and an OT win at Army this past weekend.

"They have our attention," Sarkisian said. "That didn't take long this morning when we turned the tape on for them. They get your attention. We need to be ready to go."

Sarkisian was specifically impressed with his defense's performance against Alabama's offense, including Heisman winner Bryce Young, who was sacked twice and pressured on 12 dropbacks. But again, he said it's important that the Longhorns not rest on that performance.

"Like I told the team, in particular the defense, but the team in general: We've now created a new standard of what's acceptable, what is our standard of play," Sarkisian said. "And now we're held to the standard of defense that we're playing. We need to meet that standard and exceed that. So now's not the time to relax; now's not the time to take a step back. Now's the time to push even harder to go to a new level."

The reminders echoed Sarkisian's comments on Saturday after the game, when he was asked if the perception of Texas football had changed, even after a tough loss.

"I don't really care," Sarkisian said. "I care about our team. The perception doesn't matter. The perception was we were supposed to walk out there and get blown out. So I don't know. So much for perception."

There will be intrigue heading into the game on Texas' quarterback situation. Following injuries to starting quarterback Quinn Ewers and Hudson Card on Saturday, Sarkisian would not reveal who's taking first-team snaps in practice this week for the Longhorns.

"That's for me," he said.

Ewers suffered a clavicle injury on a hit in the first quarter of the Longhorns' loss to Alabama and went to the locker room and returned in street clothes for the remainder of the game. Sources told ESPN that Ewers will miss at least a month with a sternoclavicular sprain to his left shoulder, which was confirmed via an MRI on Sunday. Card replaced him and finished the game but was hobbled enough by an ankle injury that Sarkisian said he felt he had to adjust his game plan to protect him.

Running back Bijan Robinson said his shoulder was banged up but said after the game he expected to get treatment on it and see how it felt. Starting cornerback D'Shawn Jamison, also fourth all time in Texas history in kick return yards, went out with an ankle injury in the first half and did not return.

"All these guys are day-to-day. I really don't know," Sarkisian said. "We're going to have to monitor them every morning to see where they're at. The beauty of it for all for these guys, it's nothing structural, it's not surgery-driven. It's not broken. It's not ligament damage. We've just got to monitor them day-to-day and we'll see who we can get back and when we can get them back."

Sarkisian confirmed on Monday that redshirt freshman quarterback Charles Wright, who started warming up on the sideline at one point while Card was in the game, would've been "next man up" if Card had to come out. Sarkisian would also only say that QB Maalik Murphy, a 6-foot-5, 230-pound freshman who was a four-star recruit and No. 250 in the 2022 ESPN300, is "not healthy."

Source: Scans on Pats QB Jones' back 'normal'

Published in Breaking News
Monday, 12 September 2022 13:32

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Scans on New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones' back came back "normal," a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday.

The back injury is not thought to be serious, according to the source, but the team will continue to monitor how Jones is feeling this week before Sunday's road game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Jones experienced back spasms, according to the source.

Sources said Jones felt notably better upon his return to Massachusetts on Sunday night, and then Monday morning, compared to immediately after the team's 20-7 season-opening loss to the Miami Dolphins.

Jones had his postgame news conference canceled and the team announced he had a back injury.

Coach Bill Belichick confirmed that Jones returned home with the team. Speaking on injuries in general, Belichick said Monday morning: "I know everybody's hungry for an up-to-the-second update, but the best way to handle these situations is always to give a little time, see what happens, run whatever tests or analysis need to be run, and then go from there."

After Sunday's game, in which Jones finished 21-of-30 for 213 yards with one touchdown and one interception, the quarterback was seen walking under his own power to the X-ray room flanked by security personnel.

He spent about five minutes in the room before walking back to the team's locker room. Shortly thereafter, a Patriots media official announced that Jones wouldn't be holding his news conference, adding that he had a back injury.

The Patriots said Jones would meet with the media virtually on Monday.

Jones, who is backed up by veteran Brian Hoyer and rookie Bailey Zappe, played the entire game.

He was sacked twice, taking a big hit in the second quarter on a blindside blitz on which he fumbled the ball and the Dolphins returned it for a touchdown. He also absorbed a crushing blow from two Dolphins defenders -- one toward his upper body, one near his legs -- on a fourth-quarter play in which Miami was flagged for a roughing the passer penalty.

Sources: Watt to get more opinions on torn pec

Published in Breaking News
Monday, 12 September 2022 13:32

PITTSBURGH -- T.J. Watt's outlook for the rest of the season is still up in the air after he sustained a torn pectoral in the Steelers' 23-20 overtime victory against the Bengals.

The reigning Defensive Player of the Year will get second and third medical opinions about his torn pec Tuesday, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter. If doctors determine that Watt needs surgery, his season likely would be over; if he doesn't need surgery, he could possibly return in six weeks, sources told Schefter.

"I don't know what all the details are," defensive lineman Cam Heyward said. "We'll rally around him, make sure guys step up in the meantime and whenever he gets back to us, he'll just be ready. Certainly disheartening, but that's part of the game of football."

Watt appeared to sustain the injury when he went to tackle Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow in the final seconds of regulation. He came off the field immediately and appeared to tell medical personnel that his pec was torn.

Watt -- and his family -- have previously defied the odds and overcome injuries on faster-than-usual timelines. His oldest brother, J.J. Watt, tore his pectoral in October 2019 and returned Jan 4, 2020, for an overtime playoff win when he was with the Houston Texans. T.J. Watt was in the Steelers' locker room Monday, but he declined to speak to reporters. He appeared upbeat in his brief interactions, and he attended a team meeting.

"He always has a good attitude about things, and that's what makes him a good leader as well," outside linebacker Alex Highsmith said. "Even in bad times, he's always trying to make everyone better around him. I think by him having that, he's letting people know that, it's going to be all right."

Week 2 of college football really brought the heat.

Not one, but two top-10 teams got upset by -- drum roll, please -- the Fun Belt. Texas still isn't back (yet), but it hung in there with Alabama the whole game and gave the Tide a run for their money. Kentucky went into the Swamp and beat Florida, Kansas football has started the season 2-0 following a 55-42 OT win over West Virginia, and as if Week 2 didn't provide enough drama, we got a Hail Mary.

Here are some of the best moments from the weekend.

Play of the day

After trailing Buffalo 21-7 late in the second quarter, the Patriot League's Holy Cross charged back with a 21-7 run of its own to make this far more of a game than expected. The Crusaders took a 31-28 lead in the fourth quarter, but while UB tied the game with a 52-yard bomb with 31 seconds left, Holy Cross had no intention of letting this thing go to overtime. It doesn't seem fair to let a team named Holy Cross attempt a Hail Mary, but as you might expect, it worked.

Crusaders 37, Bulls 31. -- Bill Connelly

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Holy Cross defeats Buffalo as Matthew Sluka throws a Hail Mary touchdown to Jalen Coker.


Upset of the weekend

When Marshall coach Charles Huff was looking through the transfer portal for players to fill out his roster, he realized something: The Group of 5 is just a label. Marshall ended up adding 24 transfers.

"We put the roster together and we're like, 'Guys, we've got a Power 5 roster if we just count the starters,'" Huff told ESPN on Sunday.

Huff's concerns going into Saturday's game at Notre Dame were more about Marshall's depth, particularly along the lines of scrimmage. The drop-off from starter to backup could be significant, especially if Notre Dame could wear down the Thundering Herd.

Despite being three-touchdown underdogs, Marshall knew it could measure up to the eighth-ranked Fighting Irish. It led Notre Dame for most of the way in a 26-21 victory, its second win ever against an AP top-10 opponent.

Huff knew Marshall needed a clean performance against the Irish and, other than having a punt blocked late, got one. He had studied Notre Dame's recent games against Group of 5 teams, a loss to Cincinnati last year and one-score wins over Toledo (2021) and Ball State (2018). In both losses, the Group of 5 team made mistakes that allowed Notre Dame to separate.

"I just kept walking down the sideline, yelling, 'Competitive discipline, competitive discipline, just do your job, man. I know you're going to want to make a play, but just do your job,'" Huff said. "They bought into it and probably what happened is we put a little pressure on Notre Dame as the game got deeper and deeper."

Marshall won without its best player, running back Rasheen Ali, who is sidelined until the second half of the season. Backup Khalan Laborn had 163 rushing yards and a touchdown, while quarterback Henry Colombi completed 16 of 21 passes with a touchdown and no interceptions. Steven Gilmore had a 37-yard interception return for a touchdown to give the Herd a two-score lead with 4:35 to play.

The victory then set off an incredible celebration.

"A lot of the guys that transferred here were at places where they didn't feel wanted," Huff said. "Here, they feel like they're part of a family, and that was a family celebration in the locker room. It was old players, new players, players who had been here for six years, players who had been here for six months, who all kind of came here and threw their chips in the middle of the table and said, 'We're going to do this together.'" -- Adam Rittenberg


Celebration of the weekend

When the seconds ticked down on App State's 17-14 upset of Texas A&M -- the program's second win over a top-10 team -- the city of Boone, North Carolina, rather quickly fell into chaos.

Plenty of football programs might be BIGGER than App State, but few are more passionate. The Mountaineers won back-to-back-to-back FCS national titles in the 2000s, and when their ambition took them to the FBS level in 2014, they needed exactly half a season to find their footing. They won their last six games of 2014 and have won at least nine games in every single season since.

App State's win over A&M was a masterpiece in game management and situational prowess. The Mountaineers played keep-away, holding onto the ball for 41:29 and allowing the Aggies only 38 total snaps. Two second-half scoring drives encompassed nearly 16 minutes of clock, and after A&M missed a potential game-tying field goal, they ate up the final 3:43 with aplomb. And then it was time to celebrate.

There honestly might not be a stronger, more fun football culture in America than what exists in Boone. Which is why College GameDay is on its way to town. -- Bill Connelly


Troll of the week

Austin meteorologist Avery Tomasco issued a stunning warning for Austin residents on Thursday, complete with graphics backup. Citing the "turn around, don't drown" warning often cited when people try to drive through flooded roads, he warned of a massive influx of tears that would fill the whole dang football stadium with water after the Crimson Tide put it on the Longhorns.

The twist, you see, is that Tomasco is an Aggie. And boy did his prediction backfire. Not only did he feel the Texas heat on Saturday, when temperatures still were in the 90s, he felt the heat on Twitter too for daring to taunt the Longhorns, who nearly pulled off the upset of Alabama.

Then, his No. 6 Aggies lost at home to Appalachian State in one of the biggest home losses in Texas A&M history. And he got double Doppler'd by his own bit. -- Dave Wilson


Takeaways

1. Notre Dame's season is quickly spiraling

Coaches who watched Notre Dame's season-opening loss to Ohio State concluded that the Fighting Irish went conservative on offense to shorten the game and save their defense. It nearly worked. The next step called for Notre Dame to open up the playbook, turn quarterback Tyler Buchner loose and start asserting itself at the line of scrimmage against Marshall.

None of those things happened in its 26-21 loss to Marshall. The Irish averaged 3.5 yards per carry with one rush longer than 15 yards. It took them 27 minutes to score their first points of the game and they were blanked in the third quarter. The offensive line, a signature unit under previous coach Brian Kelly, is surprisingly struggling under Marcus Freeman, who became the first Notre Dame coach to lose his first three games.

"I'm not going to sit here and say it's the offensive linemen's fault," Freeman said. "It's from offensive line to quarterback to running back to wideouts to tight ends. There's multiple different levels of lack of execution. But again, we are an O-line driven program, and it starts up front."

Freeman is assessing everything after a troubling start to his tenure. But if Notre Dame can't start winning the line of scrimmage, the season will continue to spiral. -- Rittenberg

2. Ewers might just be what Texas needs to win

In just two games as a starter, the Quinn Ewers experience at Texas has already been memorable. He threw an interception against Louisiana-Monroe on his second pass attempt of the season, then settled down and threw for 225 yards and two touchdowns in a 52-10 win, followed by tweeting that his car had been towed during the game.

Then the Mulleted One came out gunning against Alabama, looking breezy and confident, tossing quick sidearm passes while keeping the Crimson Tide on their heels. He was 9-of-12 for 134 yards in just one quarter, leading two scoring drives. But Alabama linebacker Dallas Turner knocked him out of the game, hitting him on a pass rush and getting called for roughing the passer for driving Ewers into the turf. Ewers went to the locker room for X-rays and came back out in street clothes, with coach Steve Sarkisian saying after the game that he had a sprained clavicle. There's no timetable yet on Ewers' return, but there's even bigger anticipation now of what Sarkisian's offense could look like with Ewers' quick release and willingness to take deep shots. -- Wilson

For more takeaways on Alabama and Texas, check this out.

Curry: Warriors internally discussed trade for KD

Published in Basketball
Monday, 12 September 2022 09:40

Stephen Curry told Rolling Stone last month that the Golden State Warriors had internal talks about acquiring Kevin Durant and that he would love to play again with his former teammate, who ultimately reconciled with the Brooklyn Nets.

"There was a conversation internally amongst us about 'If he was available, would you?' Every team has those conversations, and obviously in our situation, they're gonna call me and ask me, 'How do you feel about it?" said Curry, who did multiple interviews with the magazine as part of its October cover story.

Curry said he was "never hesitant" in endorsing the idea of a reunion with Durant, who was his teammate for three seasons in which the Warriors won two championships and Durant won back-to-back NBA Finals MVP awards. Durant's time with the Warriors ended in 2019 when he departed for the Brooklyn Nets in a sign-and-trade deal.

Curry also said he talked with his brother, Seth Curry, who is a current teammate of Durant on the Nets.

"The idea of playing with KD and knowing who he is as a person, from our history in those three years, I think KD's a really good dude. I think he is misunderstood," Stephen Curry said. "I think he has had certain things happen in his life that hurt his ability to trust people around him, in a sense of making him feel safe at all times. So all of those things, I understand, having played with him and gotten to know him. I love that dude."

Curry, however, said that although he entertained the idea of playing again with Durant, he had to consider what a trade for the former MVP would cost and he has full confidence the Warriors can repeat as champions with their current roster.

"And if you said, 'Oh, KD's coming back, and we're gonna play with him,' I had so much fun playing with him those three years, I'd be like, 'Hell, yeah!'" Curry told the magazine. "Then you have to think: What does that actually mean? What does it look like?

"You tell me I'm playing with [current Warriors teammates Andrew Wiggins, Jordan Poole, and Draymond Green], I'm like, 'Hell, yeah!' There's all types of emotion and things that happen to the league. And if anybody's saying that you wouldn't entertain that conversation -- no disrespect to anybody on our team -- but you don't know how things work. But you also understand, like, if we run this thing back, I've got complete confidence in my team that we can win it again, as constructed."

Durant initially asked for a trade June 30 and reiterated that desire in a meeting with Nets governor Joe Tsai in London last month during which Durant wanted Tsai to choose between him and the brain trust of coach Steve Nash and general manager Sean Marks, sources confirmed to ESPN. But on Aug. 23, Durant and the Nets agreed to "move forward" with their "partnership."

Durant's four-year, $198 million extension he signed with the Nets last offseason kicks in this season.

MLB error means Dodgers haven't clinched berth

Published in Baseball
Monday, 12 September 2022 09:51

The Los Angeles Dodgers will have to put the champagne back on ice for at least one more day.

Major League Baseball announced an internal error in determining the Dodgers' postseason clinching scenarios, meaning Los Angeles still has a magic number of one to secure a playoff spot as of Monday morning.

The Dodgers (96-43), who enter Monday with a commanding 20-game lead atop the National League West, thought they had clinched their 10th consecutive postseason berth Sunday with their 11-2 victory over the San Diego Padres. Manager Dave Roberts led a postgame toast with sparkling wine, and the players and staff were given caps with the postseason logo.

MLB said Monday, however, that it failed to account for a potential scenario in which the Padres (77-64) overtake the Dodgers for the NL West title and Los Angeles finishes in a three-way tie at 96-66 with the Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals. Milwaukee would win the NL Central in that scenario while St. Louis would win the wild-card tiebreaker with Los Angeles based on head-to-head results this season.

The Dodgers can officially clinch a postseason spot with a victory Monday over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Los Angeles also could secure the division title as early as Tuesday.

When MLB issued its clinching scenarios ahead of the Sunday games, it was using the Dodgers' 4-3 record against the Brewers as a head-to-head tiebreaker and was not factoring the possibility of a three-team tie.

The Dodgers would need to lose their final 23 games while the Brewers (75-66) would need to win their last 21 games in order for both clubs to finish 96-66.

Track and field season finishes after Zurich and Zagreb

Published in Athletics
Monday, 12 September 2022 08:44
Our overseas round-up includes the Diamond League Final results from Switzerland and the final Continental Tour Gold of 2022 in Croatia

Hanžeković, Zagreb, Croatia, September 9-11

Eugene 100m silver medallist Marvin Bracy was a clear 100m winner in 9.97 (0.0) ahead of European bronze medallist Jeremiah Azu’s 10.14.

The Welsh sprinter relegated Commonwealth champion Ferdinand Omanyala (10.19) to third and NCAA champion Joe Fahnbulleh (10.20) to fourth.

Jeremiah Azu (Getty)

Fahnbulleh did win the 200m in 20.07 while Charlie Dobson matched his second best ever legal time from the European semi-finals of 20.21 in third place.

Earlier, the exciting 22 year-old prospect, who was in Britain’s gold-medal winning 4×400 team in Munich, had set a legal 100m best of 10.28 in fifth place ahead of sub-10 men this year Kyree King and Reynier Mena and European indoor bronze medallist Jan Volko.

Six-time European discus champion Sandra Perkovic delighted the home crowd as her final round throw of 68.46m overhauled Olympic champion Valarie Allman’s 67.55m.

This year the American had beaten the Croatian in Birmingham, Eugene, Paris and Zurich but lost to her in Oslo and this made it 4-2 to Allman in their 2022 clashes.

World champion Grant Holloway, who also won the world indoor title and Diamond League final, won the hurdles in 13.19 (0.1) in wet conditions.

The 3000m saw an exciting battle with the first first six separated by less than a second. Woody Kinkaid came from a long way back to power into the lead but he eased off just before the line and initially thought he had lost to an even later rush from World under-20 1500m champion Reynold Kipkorir Cheruiyot but an examination of the photo finish  showed the American had won by a thousandth of a second as both were given 7:38.83.

Back in tenth, European under-18 champion Niels Laros of the Netherlands smashed the European under-18 record by over eight seconds with 7:48.25.

Niels Laros (Getty)

Olympic and world steeplechase champion Soufiane El Bakkali went third all-time in the 2000m steeplechase as he averaged sub-63 laps with a time of 5:14.06 while in third Will Battershill (5:26.91) went twelfth in the UK all-time rankings as he ran 8:10 pace for the longer distance.

Olympic and world champion Ryan Crouser, well beaten by Joe Kovacs in Zurich, gained his revenge with a 22.19m throw compared to to 21.97m from Kovacs.

Kristjan Ceh won the discus with three 68 metre throws in the last three rounds, headed by a 68.60m mark, with Lawrence Okoye continuing his good late season form with 64.99m in fourth.

World 400m finalist and mixed 4x400m gold medallist Fiordaliza Cofil, second in Zurich, who has raised some alarm bells with her improvement from 52.10 to 49.80 this summer easily won the one lap event in 50.73.

Linden Hall won the mile in 4:21.10 with Katie Snowden sixth in 4:25.72.

David Locke set a PB of 1:46.41 in the 800m.

Men:
100 (0.0):
1 Marvin Bracy USA 9.97
2 Jeremiah Azu GBR 10.14
3 Ferdinand Omanyala KEN 10.19
4  Joe Fahnbulleh LBR 10.20
5 Charlie Dobson GBR 10.28
6 Kyree King USA 10.35
7 Ján Volko SVK 10.35
8 Reynier Mena CUB 10.37

200:
1 Joe Fahnbulleh LBR 20.07
2 Reynier Mena CUB 20.17
3 Charlie Dobson GBR 20.21
4 Kyree King USA 20.34
5 Joe Ferguson GBR 20.49
6 Ján Volko SVK 20.61
7 Brendon Rodney CAN 20.80

800:
1 Dániel Huller HUN 1:45.68
2 Sigurd Tveit NOR 1:45.86
3 Amel Tuka BIH 1:45.87
4 David Locke GBR 1:46.41
5 Jan Vukovič SLO 1:47.51

3000:
1 Woody Kincaid USA 7:38.83
2 Raynold Kipkorir KEN 7:38.83
3 Morgan McDonald AUS 7:39.05
4 Getnet Wale ETH 7:39.31
5 Andreas Almgren SWE 7:39.44 NR
6 Nibret Melak ETH 7:39.77
7 Daniel Simiyu KEN 7:40.39
8 Emil Danielsson SWE 7:46.95
9 Ferdinand Kvan Edman NOR 7:48.12
10 Niels Laros NED 7:48.25 (European U18 rec)
11 Dino Bošnjak 7:53.70
12 Kevin Kamenschak AUT 7:54.54
13 Vid Botolin SLO 7:56.46 NU23R

2000SC:
1 Soufiane El Bakkali MAR 5:14.06 =WR
2 Leonardo Feletto ITA 5:23.15
3 Will Battershill GBR 5:26.91
4 Emil Blomberg SWE 5:26.93
5 Velten Schneider GER 5:28.41
6 Simon Sundström SWE 5:28.70
7 Tom Erling Kårbø NOR 5:29.13

110H (0.1):
1 Grant Holloway USA 13.19
2 Freddie Crittenden USA 13.31
3 Robert Dunning USA 13.36
4 Roger V. Iribarne CUB 13.44
5 Shuhei Ishikawa JPN 13.60

400H:
1 CJ Allen USA 49.10
2 Ludvy Vaillant FRA 49.21
3 Joshua Abuaku GER 49.40
4 Julien Watrin BEL 49.58
5 Jacob Paul GBR 50.30

LJ:
1 Henry Frayne AUS 8.11
2 Filip Pravdica 8.03
3 Marko Čeko 8.00w
4 Tajay Gayle JAM 7.99
5 Radek Juška CZE 7.95
6 LaQuan Nairn BAH 7.82

TJ:
1 Hugues Fabrice Zango BUR 17.07
2 Christian Taylor USA 16.63
3 Jean-Marc Pontvianne FRA 16.59
4 Alexis Copello AZE 16.23

SP:
1 Ryan Crouser USA 22.19
2 Joe Kovacs USA 21.97
3 Josh Awotunde USA 21.73
4 Tom Walsh NZL 21.32
5 Nick Ponzio ITA 21.27
6 Roger Steen USA 21.15
7 Filip Mihaljević 21.09
8 Armin Sinančević SRB 21.04
9 Marcus Thomsen NOR 20.31

Ryan Crouser (Getty)

DT:
1 Kristjan Čeh SLO 68.60
2 Sam Mattis USA 67.19
3 Simon Pettersson SWE 66.93
4 Lawrence Okoye GBR 64.99
5 Daniel Ståhl SWE 64.93
6 Martin Marković 62.44
7 János Huszák HUN 61.94

Women:
200 (1.2):
1 Shania Collins USA 22.80
2 Line Kloster NOR 23.03 NR
3 Nikola Bendová CZE 23.40

400:
1 Fiordaliza Cofil DOM 50.73
2 Candice McLeod JAM 51.52
3 Sada Williams BAR 51.76
4 Stephenie Ann McPherson JAM 51.91
5 Courtney Okolo USA 52.05
6 Ama Pipi GBR 52.15

800:
1 Olivia Baker USA 2:00.16
2 Elise Cranny USA 2:00.49
3 Hedda Hynne NOR 2:02.90

Mile:
1 Linden Hall AUS 4:21.10
2 Hanna Klein GER 4:23.52
3 Winnie Nanyondo UGA 4:23.94
4 Taryn Rawlings USA 4:24.09
5 Marta Zenoni ITA 4:25.29
6 Katie Snowden GBR 4:25.72
7 Elise Vanderelst BEL 4:26.09 NR
8 Josette Norris USA 4:26.77
9 Sintayehu Vissa ITA 4:28.28
10 Hanna Hermansson SWE 4:28.59
11 Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimsek SLO 4:28.82 NR
12 Faith Cherotich KEN 4:28.97
13 Marta García ESP 4:29.22
14 Diana Mezuliáníková CZE 4:29.52
15 Netsanet Desta ETH 4:37.86
16 Winny Chebet KEN 4:44.39

1500 splits:
1 Linden Hall AUS 4:03.35
2 Hanna Klein GER 4:06.60
3 Taryn Rawlings USA 4:06.75
4 Winnie Nanyondo UGA 4:06.99
5 Marta Zenoni ITA 4:07.47
6 Josette Norris USA 4:07.62
7 Katie Snowden GBR 4:07.81
8 Elise Vanderelst BEL 4:08.08
9 Diana Mezuliáníková CZE 4:10.71
10 Marta García ESP 4:10.93
11 Sintayehu Vissa ITA 4:10.97
12 Hanna Hermansson SWE 4:11.24
13 Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimsek SLO 4:11.24
14 Faith Cherotich KEN 4:11.81
15 Netsanet Desta ETH 4:13.43

100H (-0.1):
1 Tonea Marshall USA 12.74
2 Devynne Charlton BAH 12.86
3 Megan Tapper JAM 13.03

400H:
1 Rushell Clayton JAM 53.89
2 Viktoriya Tkachuk UKR 54.97
3 Janieve Russell JAM 55.04
4 Gianna Woodruff PAN 55.14
5 Melissa Gonzalez COL 55.73
6 Anna Ryzhykova UKR 55.76

PV:
1 Tina Šutej SLO 4.61
2 Anjuli Knäsche GER 4.41

TJ:
1 Neja Filipič SLO 14.38

DT:
1 Sandra Perković 68.46
2 Valarie Allman USA 67.55
3 Laulauga Tausaga-Collins USA 63.59
4 Claudine Vita GER 62.66
5 Marija Tolj 61.23
6 Kristin Pudenz GER 59.15

Sandra Perkovic (Getty)

JT:
1 Ariana Ince USA 64.38
2 Marija Vučenović SRB 60.47
3 Adriana Vilagoš SRB 60.17
4 Liveta Jasiūnaitė LTU 59.80

Weltklasse, Zürich, Switzerland, September 7-8

Men’s report here

women’s report here

Thursday report is here

Men:
100 (-0.3):

1 Trayvon Bromell USA 9.94
2 Yohan Blake JAM 10.05
3 Aaron Brown CAN 10.06
4 Akani Simbine RSA 10.07
5 Yupun Abeykoon SRI 10.14
6 Reece Prescod GBR 10.16
7 Kyree King USA 10.18
8 Andre De Grasse CAN 10.21

200 (-0.6):
1 Noah Lyles USA 19.52
2 Aaron Brown CAN 20.02
3 Alexander Ogando DOM 20.02
4 Erriyon Knighton USA 20.20
5 Kenny Bednarek USA 20.20
6 Andre De Grasse CAN 20.43
7 Jereem Richards TTO 20.56
8 Eseosa Desalu ITA 20.79

Noah Lyles (Getty)

400:
1 Kirani James GRN 44.26
2 Bryce Deadmon USA 44.47
3 Vernon Norwood USA 44.66
4 Zakithi Nene RSA 44.74
5 Ricky Petrucciani 45.31
6 Isaac Makwala BOT 45.56
7 Liemarvin Bonevacia NED 45.84

800:
1 Emmanuel Korir KEN 1:43.26
2 Marco Arop CAN 1:43.38
3 Jake Wightman GBR 1:44.10
4 Wycliffe Kinyamal KEN 1:44.47
5 Bryce Hoppel USA 1:44.77
6 Andreas Kramer SWE 1:44.94
7 Gabriel Tual FRA 1:45.25
8 Benjamin Robert FRA 1:48.11

Kenya’s Emmanuel Korir (Diamond League AG)

1500:
1 Jakob Ingebrigtsen NOR 3:29.02
2 Timothy Cheruiyot KEN 3:30.27
3 Olli Hoare AUS 3:30.59
4 Abel Kipsang KEN 3:31.36
5 Stewart McSweyn AUS 3:31.45
6 Josh Kerr GBR 3:31.85
7 Charles Grethen LUX 3:33.16
8 Abdelatif Sadiki MAR 3:34.12
9 Jake Heyward GBR 3:34.27
10 Michał Rozmys POL 3:34.80

Jakob Ingebrigtsen (Getty)

5000:
1 Nicholas Kipkorir KEN 12:59.05
2 Dominic Lokinyomo Lobalu SSD 12:59.40
3 Grant Fisher USA 13:00.56
4 Telahun Haile ETH 13:02.21
5 Berihu Aregawi ETH 13:03.18
6 Cornelius Kemboi KEN 13:09.38
7 Selemon Barega ETH 13:13.16

Nicholas Kipkorir (Getty)

3000SC:
1 Soufiane El Bakkali MAR 8:07.67
2 Getnet Wale ETH 8:08.56
3 Abraham Kibiwot KEN 8:08.61
4 Ryuji Miura JPN 8:12.65
5 Leonard Bett KEN 8:13.21
6 Amos Serem KEN 8:15.64
7 Lawrence Kemboi KEN 8:17.98
8 Hailemariyam Amare ETH 8:24.49

110H (-1.0):
1 Grant Holloway USA 13.02
2 Rasheed Broadbell JAM 13.06
3 Hansle Parchment JAM 13.26
4 Asier Martínez ESP 13.29
5 Trey Cunningham USA 13.30
6 Jason Joseph 13.54
7 Damian Czykier POL 13.65
8 Just Kwaou-Mathey FRA 13.73
9 Rafael Henrique Pereira BRA 13.73

400H:
1 Alison dos Santos BRA 46.98
2 Khallifah Rosser USA 47.76
3 CJ Allen USA 48.21
4 Wilfried Happio FRA 48.72
5 Julien Watrin BEL 49.08
6 Yasmani Copello TUR 49.10
7 Julien Bonvin 49.63
8 Nick Smidt NED 51.82

HJ:
1 Gianmarco Tamberi ITA 2.34
2 JuVaughn Harrison USA 2.34
3 Django Lovett CAN 2.27
4 Andrii Protsenko UKR 2.24
5 Hamish Kerr NZL 2.21
6 Mutaz Essa Barshim QAT 2.18

Gianmarco Tamberi (Getty)

PV:
1 Armand Duplantis SWE 6.07
2 Sondre Guttormsen NOR 5.86 =NR
3 Chris Nilsen USA 5.81
4 Renaud Lavillenie FRA 5.81
5 Ben Broeders BEL 5.72
6 Thiago Braz BRA 5.72
7 Dominik Alberto 5.42

Mondo Duplantis (Getty)

LJ:
1 Miltiádis Tentóglou GRE 8.42
2 Marquis Dendy USA 8.18
3 Maykel D. Massó CUB 8.05
4 Thobias Montler SWE 8.01
5 Simon Ehammer 7.93
6 Emiliano Lasa URU 7.64

TJ:
1 Andy Díaz CUB 17.70
2 Pedro Pablo Pichardo POR 17.63
3 Jordan Alejandro Díaz ESP 17.60
4 Hugues Fabrice Zango BUR 17.43
5 Almir dos Santos BRA 17.10
6 Lázaro Martínez CUB 16.75

SP:
1 Joe Kovacs USA 23.23
2 Ryan Crouser USA 22.74
3 Tom Walsh NZL 21.90
4 Jacko Gill NZL 21.51
5 Filip Mihaljević CRO 21.43
6 Nick Ponzio ITA 20.71

Joe Kovacs (Getty)

DT:
1 Kristjan Čeh SLO 67.10
2 Lukas Weißhaidinger AUT 65.70
3 Andrius Gudžius LTU 65.28
4 Sam Mattis USA 65.24
5 Daniel Ståhl SWE 65.16
6 Matt Denny AUS 64.81

JT:
1 Neeraj Chopra IND 88.44
2 Jakub Vadlejch CZE 86.94
3 Julian Weber GER 83.73
4 Curtis Thompson USA 82.10
5 Patriks Gailums LAT 80.44
6 Leandro Ramos POR 71.96

Women:
100 (-0.8):
1 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce JAM 10.65
2 Shericka Jackson JAM 10.81
3 Marie Josée Ta Lou CIV 10.91
4 Daryll Neita GBR 11.02
5 Aleia Hobbs USA 11.03
6 TeeTee Terry USA 11.10
7 Sha’Carri Richardson USA 11.13
Natasha Morrison JAM DQ

Women’s 100m in Zurich (Getty)

200 (-0.9):
1 Shericka Jackson JAM 21.80
2 Gabby Thomas USA 22.38
3 Tamara Clark USA 22.42
4 Jenna Prandini USA 22.45
5 Mujinga Kambundji 22.65
6 Tynia Gaither BAH 22.66
7 Ida Kathrine Karstoft DEN 22.80
8 Beth Dobbin GBR 23.83

Shericka Jackson (Getty)

400:
1 Marileidy Paulino DOM 48.99 NR
2 Fiordaliza Cofil DOM 49.93
3 Sada Williams BAR 49.98
4 Candice McLeod JAM 50.03
5 Natalia Kaczmarek POL 50.74
6 Anna Kiełbasińska POL 50.93
7 Lieke Klaver NED 51.55
8 Stephenie Ann McPherson JAM 52.32

800:
1 Mary Moraa KEN 1:57.63
2 Natoya Goule JAM 1:57.85
3 Sage Hurta USA 1:58.47
4 Halimah Nakaayi UGA 1:58.82
5 Keely Hodgkinson GBR 1:59.06
6 Anita Horvat SLO 1:59.25
7 Renelle Lamote FRA 1:59.38
8 Lore Hoffmann 1:59.69
9 Elena Bellò ITA 2:00.24

1500:
1 Faith Kipyegon KEN 4:00.44
2 Ciara Mageean IRL 4:01.68
3 Freweyni Hailu ETH 4:01.73
4 Diribe Welteji ETH 4:01.79
5 Laura Muir GBR 4:02.31
6 Gudaf Tsegay ETH 4:02.41
7 Heather MacLean USA 4:02.90
8 Cory McGee USA 4:04.63
9 Axumawit Embaye ETH 4:05.91
10 Hirut Meshesha ETH 4:06.28

Faith Kipyegon, Ciara Mageean and Laura Muir (Getty)

5000:
1 Beatrice Chebet KEN 14:31.03
2 Margaret Kipkemboi KEN 14:31.52
3 Gudaf Tsegay ETH 14:32.11
4 Ejgayehu Taye ETH 14:32.15
5 Sifan Hassan NED 14:37.05
6 Alicia Monson USA 14:37.22
7 Hawi Feysa ETH 14:57.18
8 Amy-Eloise Markovc GBR 15:28.24
9 Marta García ESP 15:49.55
10 Rose Davies AUS 16:07.88

Beatrice Chebet (Getty)

3000SC:
1 Werkwuha Getachew ETH 9:03.57
2 Winfred Yavi BRN 9:04.47
3 Faith Cherotich KEN 9:06.14
4 Zerfe Wondemagegn ETH 9:06.37
5 Jackline Chepkoech KEN 9:11.06
6 Sembo Almayew ETH 9:14.10 NU20R
7 Emma Coburn USA 9:20.00
8 Nataliya Strebkova UKR 9:32.90
9 Chiara Scherrer 9:34.52
10 Daisy Jepkemei KAZ 9:47.50

100H (-0.3):
1 Tobi Amusan NGR 12.29
2 Tia Jones USA 12.40
3 Britany Anderson JAM 12.42
4 Jasmine Camacho-Quinn PUR 12.49
5 Devynne Charlton BAH 12.66
6 Nia Ali USA 12.67
7 Pia Skrzyszowska POL 12.72
8 Kendra Harrison USA 13.02
9 Ditaji Kambundji 13.22

400H:
1 Femke Bol NED 53.03
2 Gianna Woodruff PAN 53.72
3 Janieve Russell JAM 53.77
4 Dalilah Muhammad USA 53.83
5 Rushell Clayton JAM 54.25
6 Viktoriya Tkachuk UKR 54.79
7 Anna Ryzhykova UKR 55.06
8 Ayomide Folorunso ITA 55.86

Femke Bol (Getty)

HJ:
1 Yaroslava Mahuchikh UKR 2.03
2 Iryna Gerashchenko UKR 1.94
3 Nicola Olyslagers AUS 1.94
4 Nadezhda Dubovitskaya KAZ 1.91
5 Elena Vallortigara ITA 1.91
6 Yuliya Levchenko UKR 1.88

Yaroslava Mahuchikh (Getty)

PV:
1 Nina Kennedy AUS 4.81
2 Sandi Morris USA 4.76
3 Tina Šutej SLO 4.61
4 Roberta Bruni ITA 4.61
5 Wilma Murto FIN 4.61
6 Ekateríni Stefanídi GRE 4.51
7 Angelica Moser 4.51

LJ:
1 Ivana Vuleta SRB 6.97
2 Khaddi Sagnia SWE 6.55
3 Quanesha Burks USA 6.54
4 Malaika Mihambo GER 6.52
5 Annik Kälin 6.50
6 Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk UKR 6.50
7 Lorraine Ugen GBR 6.38

TJ:
1 Yulimar Rojas VEN 15.28
2 Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk UKR 14.96
3 Shanieka Ricketts JAM 14.85
4 Tori Franklin USA 14.75
5 Thea LaFond DMA 14.56
6 Patrícia Mamona POR 14.24

SP:
1 Chase Ealey USA 20.19
2 Sarah Mitton CAN 19.56
3 Auriol Dongmo POR 19.46
4 Jessica Schilder NED 19.06
5 Danniel Thomas-Dodd JAM 19.04
6 Fanny Roos SWE 18.37

Chase Ealey (Diamond League AG)

DT:
1 Valarie Allman USA 67.77
2 Sandra Perković CRO 67.31
3 Liliana Cá POR 63.34
4 Kristin Pudenz GER 61.45
5 Claudine Vita GER 61.34
6 Laulauga Tausaga-Collins USA 58.90

JT:
1 Kara Winger USA 64.98
2 Kelsey-Lee Barber AUS 63.72
3 Haruka Kitaguchi JPN 63.56
4 Līna Mūze LAT 60.35
5 Barbora Špotáková CZE 59.08
6 Liveta Jasiūnaitė LTU 57.73

Pápa, Hungary, September 6

Men:
100 (1.6):
1 Brandon Carnes USA 10.04
2 Kendal Williams USA 10.10
3 Emmanuel Matadi LBR 10.11

400:
1 Rusheen McDonald JAM 46.06

800:
1 Erik Sowinski USA 1:46.75
2 Cole Hocker USA 1:47.59

1500:
1 Drew Hunter USA 3:39.38
2 István Palkovits 3:39.72
3 István Szögi 3:40.67

110H (-1.1):
1 Roger V. Iribarne CUB 13.46

400H:
1 Aldrich Bailey USA 49.01
2 Joshua Faulds GBR 50.65
3 Martin Kučera SVK 50.75

DT:
1 Róbert Szikszai 61.46
2 János Huszák 59.62

HT:
1 Dániel Rába 74.04
2 Matija Gregurić CRO 72.88
3 Donát Varga 72.78
4 Krisztián Pars 70.71

Women:
100 (1.3):
1 Javianne Oliver USA 11.07
2 English Gardner USA 11.08
3 Shannon Ray USA 11.23
4 Boglárka Takács 11.31 rec U23 rec

400:
1 Jaide Stepter Baynes USA 51.32
2 Courtney Okolo USA 51.63
3 Kaylin Whitney USA 51.66
4 Junelle Bromfield JAM 51.76
5 Kyra Jefferson USA 51.80
6 Georgina Adam GBR 53.75

800:
1 Bianka Bartha-Kéri 2:00.29
2 Annemarie Nissen DEN 2:00.58 rec
3 Hedda Hynne NOR 2:00.94
4 Josette Norris USA 2:02.04
5 Brenna Detra USA 2:02.45
6 Lovisa Lindh SWE 2:02.49

3000SC:
1 Michelle Finn IRL 9:42.80
2 Veerle Bakker NED 9:47.37
3 Lena Millonig AUT 9:49.85

100H (-1.1):
1 Gabbi Cunningham USA 13.19

400H:
1 Janka Molnár 56.71
2 Lena Pressler AUT 56.79

HJ:
1 Safina Sadullayeva UZB 1.90
2 Kateryna Tabashnyk UKR 1.86
3 Barbara Szabó 1.83

PV:
1 Jacqueline Otchere GER 4.31
2 Maryna Kylypko UKR 4.31
3 Hanga Klekner 4.31

LJ:
1 Yuliana Angúlo ECU 6.42
2 Diána Lesti 6.40
3 Petra Beáta Farkas 6.38

SP:
1 Anita Márton 16.85

HT:
1 Réka Gyurátz 70.18
2 Kati Ojaloo EST 67.47

JT:
1 Irena Gillarová CZE 56.34

Padova, Italy, September 4

Men:
100 (-1.6):
1 Aaron Brown CAN 10.12
2 Marvin Bracy USA 10.13
3 Ackeem Blake JAM 10.17
4 Brandon Carnes USA 10.25
5 Kendal Williams USA 10.27
6 Emmanuel Matadi LBR 10.30
7 Andre De Grasse CAN 10.35
8 Kyree King USA 10.36

400:
1 Bryce Deadmon USA 44.76
2 Michael Cherry USA 45.23
3 Zakithi Nene RSA 45.40
4 Wil London USA 45.55
5 Davide Re 45.66
6 Rusheen McDonald JAM 46.01
7 Fuga Sato JPN 46.28
8 Kevin Metzger GBR 47.25

1500:
1 Yared Nuguse USA 3:33.26
2 Cole Hocker USA 3:35.18
3 Andrew Coscoran IRL 3:35.43
4 William Paulson CAN 3:35.58
5 Drew Hunter USA 3:36.37
6 Matthew Ramsden AUS 3:36.38
7 Sam Prakel USA 3:36.90
8 Federico Riva 3:37.38
9 Ossama Meslek 3:38.34
10 Mohad Abdikadar Sheikh Ali 3:39.47
11 Giovanni Filippi 3:39.66
Charlie Da’Vall Grice GBR DNF

110H (-0.1):
1 Trey Cunningham USA 13.21
2 Jamal Britt USA 13.27
3 Eric Edwards Jr. USA 13.39
4 Damion Thomas JAM 13.49
5 Michael Dickson USA 13.55

HJ:
1 Tomohiro Shinno JPN 2.27
2 Wu Guobiao CHN 2.25
3 Christian Falocchi 2.21

LJ:
1 Tajay Gayle JAM 8.26
2 Darcy Roper AUS 7.99
3 Marquis Dendy USA 7.90
4 Henry Frayne AUS 7.77

SP:
1 Roger Steen USA 21.38
2 Leonardo Fabbri 21.16
3 Josh Awotunde USA 20.98
4 Nick Ponzio 20.95
5 Adrian Piperi USA 20.46
6 Marcus Thomsen NOR 20.34

Women:
100 (-1.2):
1 Marie Josée Ta Lou CIV 10.94
2 TeeTee Terry USA 11.14
3 Sha’Carri Richardson USA 11.25
4 Murielle Ahouré-Demps CIV 11.33
5 Teahna Daniels USA 11.34
6 Javianne Oliver USA 11.42
7 Gabby Thomas USA 11.54
8 Anthonique Strachan BAH 11.66

Race B (-1.2):
1 Natasha Morrison JAM 11.22
2 Arialis Gandulla POR 11.39
3 English Gardner USA 11.41
4 Tynia Gaither BAH 11.42

400:
1 Jaide Stepter Baynes USA 51.43
2 Courtney Okolo USA 51.46
3 Kaylin Whitney USA 51.67
4 Kyra Jefferson USA 52.15

800:
1 Allie Wilson USA 1:58.37
2 Jemma Reekie GBR 1:58.71
3 Nia Akins USA 1:59.56
4 Olha Lyakhova UKR 1:59.87
5 Noélie Yarigo BEN 2:00.05
6 Hedda Hynne NOR 2:00.23
7 Kaela Edwards USA 2:00.25
8 Eloisa Coiro 2:00.92
9 Brooke Feldmeier USA 2:01.10
10 Federica Del Buono 2:01.34
11 Georgia Griffith AUS 2:01.72
12 Brenda Chebet KEN 2:02.10

1500:
1 Martina Tozzi 4:09.18
2 Federica Cortesi 4:13.51

100H (-0.7):
1 Tonea Marshall USA 12.93
2 Pia Skrzyszowska POL 13.03
3 Gabbi Cunningham USA 13.08
4 Sarah Lavin IRL 13.09

400H:
1 Dalilah Muhammad USA 53.84
2 Andrenette Knight JAM 53.95
3 Gianna Woodruff PAN 55.09
4 Ayomide Folorunso 55.40
5 Hanne Claes BEL 55.49
6 Eleonora Marchiando 56.96

TJ:
1 Shanieka Ricketts JAM 14.72
2 Thea LaFond DMA 14.71w
3 Leyanis Pérez CUB 14.53
4 Ana José Tima DOM 14.20w

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