Meet The Worst L.a. Free-agent Signing Ever

Meet nan worst L.A. free supplier signing ever

From Bill Plaschke: I tin still spot nan freshly poured margarita sweating connected nan barroom successful beforehand of maine connected that lukewarm July evening.

I tin still spot it, because Kawhi Leonard made maine tally from it.

The news had conscionable leaked that the Clippers made nan biggest free-agent signing successful franchise history, truthful I near nan beautiful, salty Cadillac untouched and raced location from nan vicinity watering spread to constitute nan pursuing words.

“Oh me, ohio my, they did it. On a transformative Friday nighttime beyond moreover Clipper Darrell’s wildest dreams, nan Clippers acquired arguably nan champion subordinate successful nan NBA … Kawhi Leonard? Are you kidding me?”

Seven years later, I’m asking nan aforesaid question, only it sounds vastly different.

Kawhi Leonard? Are you kidding me?

Seven years later, Leonard has abused an organization, alienated a instrumentality guidelines and fundamentally collected astir $300 cardinal of Steve Ballmer’s money and burned it.

Seven years later, he has been injured, apathetic, entitled, disconnected and mostly thing but a symptom successful nan backside for a reenergized franchise that deserved truthful overmuch better.

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MLS needs to capitalize connected occurrence of nan World Cup

From Mirjam Swanson: Remember erstwhile we were judge nan World Cup would suffer from each nan issues that had everyone seeing reddish earlier nan first shot was kicked?

And retrieve erstwhile we were definite shot could ne'er drawback connected successful this country?

Despite controversies complete visas and summons prices and transportation, and successful spite of consternation complete description and caller rules, nan crippled has, arsenic usual, proved excessively bully to fail.

And we, nan American people, person go unusually engrossed successful it.

We’ve been tuning successful connected TV successful grounds numbers and, moreover astatine exorbitant prices, helping to waste retired our 70,000-some-capacity stadiums. Before group play was moreover finished, this tourney — staged besides successful Mexico and Canada — already outdrew nan 1994 World Cup, which was hosted by nan United States and group an attendance grounds of astir 3.6 million.

We’ve been loving nan patient taste exchange, and we’re being reminded that taste barriers of accepted sports fandom tin beryllium breached.

So now, to support our liking from drying retired for illustration a transportation connected a basking summertime day, nan extremity should beryllium to support nan marketplace saturated pinch soccer. That will return Major League Soccer tearing down each nan walls.

It’s already turned nan page connected its calendar, adopting a summer-to-spring play format that will amended blend pinch nan world game.

Now MLS needs to make its games easier to watch, and to do its portion to make nan athletics easier to play.

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Expanded World Cup brings play arsenic Canada ousts South Africa connected stoppage-time goal

Sunday’s World Cup results

Round of 32
Canada 1, South Africa 0

Today’s World Cup TV schedule

All times Pacific
10 a.m., Brazil vs. Japan, Fox, Telemundo
1:30 p.m., Germany vs. Paraguay, Fox, Telemundo
6 p.m., Netherlands vs. Morocco, Fox, Telemundo

World Cup information of 32 schedule, results

Sunday
Canada 1, South Africa 0

All times Pacific
Monday
Brazil vs. Japan, 10 a.m., Fox, Telemundo
Germany vs. Paraguay, 1:30 p.m., Fox, Telemundo
Netherlands vs. Morocco, 6 p.m., Fox, Telemundo

Tuesday
Ivory Coast vs. Norway, 10 a.m., Fox, Telemundo
France vs. Sweden, 2 p.m., Fox, Telemundo
Mexico vs. Ecuador, 6 p.m., Fox, Telemundo

Wednesday
England vs. Congo DR, 9 a.m., Fox, Telemundo
Belgium vs. Senegal, 1 p.m., FS1, Telemundo
U.S. vs. Bosnia-Herzegovina, 5 p.m., Fox, Telemundo

Thursday
Spain vs. Austria, noon, Fox, Telemundo
Portugal vs. Croatia, 4 p.m., Fox, Telemundo
Switzerland vs. Algeria, 8 p.m., FS1, Telemundo

Friday
Australia vs. Egypt, 11 a.m., Fox, Telemundo
Argentina vs. Cape Verde, 3 p.m., Fox, Telemundo
Colombia vs. Ghana, 6:30 p.m., Fox, Telemundo

Round of 16 schedule

Saturday
Canada vs. Netherlands aliases Morocco, 10 a.m., Fox

Dodgers triumph bid pinch Padres

From Maddie Lee: The Dodgers claimed a bid triumph against nan San Diego Padres pinch a 4-2 victory Sunday, widening nan spread betwixt section rivals to 10 games.

The Dodgers (54-30), who person nan champion grounds successful nan majors, person won 5 of nan first six games of a three-city travel that ends successful Sacramento.

A bounce-back commencement from right-hander Emmet Sheehan made nan Dodgers’ triumph Sunday possible. He held nan Padres to 1 run, connected Manny Machado’s fourth-inning homer, done 5 innings.

“Maybe being a small much comfortable successful my mechanics,” Sheehan said aft limiting nan Padres to 2 hits. “But besides conscionable nan attraction successful betwixt starts of trying to get a small much execution alternatively of transportation thoughts. I had 7 days, truthful I sewage to propulsion 2 bullpens this week, which is nice.”

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‘He cares astir people.’ How Dodgers’ Dave Roberts sewage to nan cusp of 1,000 profession wins

Wife, kids of Dodgers’ Miguel Rojas successful Caracas erstwhile earthquakes deed Venezuela

Dodgers container score

MLB standings

Angels suffer to nan Athletics

Josh Lowe‘s first profession expansive slam was each nan discourtesy nan Angels needed Sunday successful a 4-1 victory complete nan Athletics astatine Anaheim Stadium.

Lowe was 10 for 33 pinch 27 RBIs pinch nan bases loaded during his six-year career, but had managed only 2 extra-base hits successful those situations anterior to going heavy disconnected starter Aaron Civale successful nan 2nd inning.

The halfway fielder fouled disconnected a brace of 1-2 pitches earlier sending a precocious cutter 403 feet to nan right-field area for his first homer since May 20.

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MLB standings

This time successful sports history

1906 — Alex Smith shoots a grounds 295 to hit relative Willie successful nan U.S. Open. Alex shoots a 295 astatine Onwentsia Club Ill.

1933 — Primo Carnera knocks retired Jack Sharkey successful nan sixth information astatine nan Long Island City Bowl to triumph nan world heavyweight title.

1947 — Betty Jameson wins nan U.S. Women’s Open by six strokes complete amateurs Sally Sessions and Rolly Riley.

1952 — Louise Suggs thumps Betty Jameson and Marlene Bauer by 7 strokes to triumph nan U.S. Women’s Open.

1956 — Charles Dumas becomes nan first precocious jumper to clear 7 feet, jumping 7 feet, 5-8 inches successful nan U.S. Olympic tests astatine Los Angeles.

1957 — Jackie Pung loses nan U.S. Women’s Open erstwhile she turns successful an incorrect scorecard. Betsy Rawls is declared nan winner.

1958 — Brazil, led by Pele, thumps Sweden 5-2 successful Stockholm to go nan first squad to triumph nan World Cup extracurricular its continent. The 17-year-old, coming disconnected a hat-trick successful Brazil’s 5-2 semifinal triumph complete France, scores doubly successful nan final. Pele’s first and memorable extremity comes successful nan 55th infinitesimal to put Brazil up 3-1. Pele controls nan shot successful nan punishment area pinch his thigh, flips it complete nan caput of nan defender and smashes it past a helpless Kalle Svensson. Pele seals nan triumph pinch a headed extremity successful stoppage time.

1969 — Donna Caponi thumps Peggy Wilson by 1 changeable to triumph nan U.S. Women’s Open.

1986 — Argentina withstands West Germany’s comeback to triumph nan World Cup, 3-2 successful Mexico City’s Aztec stadium. Argentina takes a 2-0 lead connected Jorge Valdano’s extremity 10 minutes into nan 2nd half. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Rudi Voller people goals 7 minutes isolated to necktie nan crippled successful nan 81st minute. Four minutes later Jorge Burruchaga scores nan game-winner aft getting a superb walk from Diego Maradona.

1991 — Britain’s Nick Brown scores a large upset astatine Wimbledon, beating 10th-seeded Goran Ivanisevic 4-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 successful nan 2nd round. Brown, astatine 591 nan lowest-ranked subordinate successful nan men’s championship, posts nan biggest upset, based connected comparative rankings, since nan ATP began compiling world rankings successful 1973.

1994 — Martina Navratilova sets a Wimbledon grounds by playing her 266th match. Navratilova passes Billie Jean King’s grounds of 265 erstwhile she and Manon Bollegraf hit Ingelisa Driehuis and Maja Muric 6-4, 6-2 successful a doubles quarterfinal.

1994 — NBA Draft: Purdue mini guardant Glenn Robinson first prime by Milwaukee Bucks.

1995 — George Foreman loses IBF boxing title for refusing to re-fight Axel Schulz.

2001 — Russian swimmer Roman Sludnov becomes nan first personification to aquatics nan 100-meter breaststroke successful nether a minute, breaking a world grounds for nan 2nd clip successful 2 days astatine nan nationalist championships successful Moscow. Sludnov finishes successful 00:59.97.

2007 — After 16 years successful Europe, nan NFL shuts down its developmental league.

2008 — Two weeks distant from her 20th birthday, Inbee Park becomes nan youngest victor of nan U.S. Women’s Open by closing pinch a 2-under 71. Her four-shot triumph complete Helen Alfredsson, who changeable 75, is nan largest successful nan Women’s Open since Karrie Webb won by 8 shots astatine Pine Needles successful 2001.

2008 — UEFA European Championship Final, Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria: Fernando Torres scores arsenic Spain thumps Germany, 1-0.

2009 — Indoor tennis astatine Wimbledon. The caller retractable tile complete Centre Court is closed aft rainfall halts play during a fourth-round lucifer pinch Amelie Mauresmo starring top-ranked Dinara Safina, 6-4, 1-4.

2012 — The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency files general charges against Lance Armstrong, accusing nan seven-time Tour de France victor of utilizing performance-enhancing narcotics passim nan champion years of his career.

2014 — Bernard Langer thumps Jeff Sluman pinch a birdie connected nan 2nd playoff spread to triumph nan Senior Players Championship astatine Fox Chapel GC.

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This time successful shot history

1916 — The Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds played a nine-inning crippled pinch conscionable 1 baseball.

1923 — Brooklyn’s Jacques Fournier went 6-for-6 pinch a location run, 2 doubles and 3 singles arsenic nan Dodgers hit nan Philadelphia Phillies 14-5.

1937 — Chicago Cubs first baseman Rip Collins played an full crippled without a putout aliases an assist.

1941 — In a doubleheader against nan Washington Senators, New York’s Joe DiMaggio tied and past collapsed nan American League grounds of hitting safely successful 41 consecutive games. DiMaggio doubled successful 4 at-bats successful nan opener and singled successful 5 at-bats successful nan nightcap to break nan grounds group by George Sisler of nan St. Louis Browns successful 1922.

1968 — Detroit’s Jim Northrup deed his 3rd expansive slam successful a week arsenic nan Tigers hit nan Chicago White Sox 5-2.

1990 — Dave Stewart of nan Oakland A’s sounded nan first of 2 no-hitters connected this day, beating nan Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 astatine nan SkyDome. Fernando Valenzuela of nan Dodgers duplicated Stewart’s feat by throwing a 6-0 no-hitter against nan St. Louis Cardinals. It was nan first clip successful awesome convention history that 2 no-hitters were sounded successful some leagues connected nan aforesaid day.

2003 — Eric Byrnes deed for nan rhythm and matched a franchise grounds pinch 5 hits arsenic Oakland hit San Francisco 5-2.

2004 — Randy Johnson of nan Arizona Diamondbacks became nan 4th pitcher to grounds 4,000 strikeouts erstwhile he struck retired San Diego’s Jeff Cirillo successful nan eighth inning of nan Padres’ 3-2 win.

2007 — Barry Bonds deed his 750th profession location tally successful San Francisco’s 4-3, 10-inning nonaccomplishment to Arizona.

2007 — Aubrey Huff deed for nan rhythm successful Baltimore’s 9-7 nonaccomplishment to nan Angels.

2010 — Whit Merrifield’s RBI azygous pinch 1 retired successful nan bottommost of nan 11th inning gave South Carolina its first shot nationalist title pinch a 2-1 triumph complete UCLA successful nan College World Series. The Gamecocks won nan past title played astatine Omaha’s Rosenblatt Stadium, nan CWS’ location since 1950.

2012 — Aaron Hill deed for nan rhythm for nan 2nd clip successful 12 days, starring nan Arizona Diamondbacks to a 9-3 triumph complete nan Milwaukee Brewers. The Arizona Diamondbacks’ 2nd baseman cycled connected June 18 against Seattle. Brooklyn’s Babe Herman was nan only different awesome leaguer to deed for 2 cycles successful 1 play since 1900. He accomplished nan feat successful 1931.

2014 — Felix Hernandez gave up 1 deed complete 8 innings while striking retired 9 for Seattle, and Robinson Cano backed him pinch a two-run homer successful a 3-0 triumph complete Cleveland. Hernandez allowed conscionable Lonnie Chisenhall’s azygous successful nan 5th inning and walked three. Fernando Rodney earned his 23rd prevention pinch a cleanable ninth inning.

2019 — The first ever awesome convention crippled to beryllium played successful Europe resulted successful nan Yankees defeating nan Red Sox 17-13 successful beforehand of 60,000 spectators astatine London Olympic Stadium.

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