A once-prized prospect from the Dominican Republic has been suspended by Major League Baseball after a league investigation revealed the player was part of an elaborate plot to portray him as nearly two years younger than he actually was, ESPN reported Friday.
The age-fraud plot included extreme efforts by the player’s handler such as falsifying school and medical records, faking birth and death certificates and even staging a gravesite, per the report.
Man claims he was coached extensively by authorities
Pennsylvania says recantation is ‘highly suspect’
Sandusky serving sentence after 2012 conviction
A judge has granted a hearing to explore claims that a man wants to recant allegations of sexual abuse years ago by Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky.
Sandusky, 82, has been serving a decades-long prison sentence since he was convicted of 45 counts of sexual abuse in 2012. Eight young men testified about what happened to them as boys. He has repeatedly lost efforts to get a new trial, but Sandusky’s lawyers are trying again.
On connait maintenant le calendrier de la série finale de la division Est de la Ligue de baseball junior AA de la région de Québec.
Le Baseball I.D de Rimouski se rendra à Montmagny, dimanche, pour un programme double face aux Monarques. Le premier match débutera à 09 h 30 et le second, vers 12 h 30, afin de permettre la présentation, à 16 h, d’un match de séries de l’équipe senior de l’endroit.
La série 3 de 5 se poursuivra le vendredi 4 septembre, 20 h, à Rimouski. Si nécessaire, les parties numéro 4 et 5 seront jouées le lendemain, samedi 5, à 12 h et 15 h, au Complexe Guillaume-Leblanc.
Rappelons que le Baseball I.D (fiche de 14-8 en saison) profite de l’avantage du terrain. Par contre, la série commence avec deux parties à Montmagny (fiche de 5-17 en saison).
Autres séries
Pendant ce temps, il se jouera trois séries quart de finale dans la section de la région de Québec : Monarques Lévis (bleu) vs Monarques Lévis (orange); Combattants Beauce-Appalaches vs Carnavals blanc Québec; et Aigles Trois-Rivières vs Laurier de Victoriaville.
Les trois équipes gagnantes de ces séries se retrouveront ensuite avec le gagnant de la série Rimouski / Montmagny, ce qui formera le carré d’as.
Defending champion arrives at Flushing Meadows in poor form and with a host of challengers looking to usurp her
Under any normal circumstances Aryna Sabalenka would not have lost her third-round match at the Cincinnati Open last week. For all of her unforced errors, indecisiveness and the obvious tension surrounding her tennis, the world No 1 had led the unheralded Sára Bejlek 5-1 in the first set tie-break and then 4-1 in set two. She gave herself more than enough chances to close out a comfortable win.
Instead Sabalenka returns to New York trying to find a path through her greatest crisis since she first reached No 1 in the rankings more than three years ago. That straight-sets loss in Cincinnati extended a mediocre 17-7 record dating back to the beginning of April during which she has not reached a final. She has just one more chance to turn her fortunes around as she tries to claim her first grand slam title of the year at the US Open, the tournament she has won on the last two occasions.
In July, most of Ukraine’s grain left through its Black Sea ports. From 1 to 26 August, after Russian attacks sharply reduced ship traffic, Ukraine exported just 1.42 million tons of agricultural products—about a third of its potential volume. Rail and the Danube carried about 600,000 tons each, Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi said.
The locomotives carrying that cargo are now among Russia’s main targets.
Ukraine now expects to export 38–40 million tons of grain in the 2026/27 season, down from 43 million before the attacks intensified, Agriculture Minister Taras Vysotskyi told Reuters. Agricultural products generated more than half of the country’s export revenue last year.
By 24 August, the total number of damaged locomotives had risen to 492.
Russia now sends camera-equipped drones to search for trains and redirects others toward rolling stock that their operators spot in flight. The campaign is no longer confined to fixed targets such as stations, bridges, and substations.
Ukraine’s railways keep running. Damaged lines often reopen within hours, while buses carry passengers around closed sections. With far fewer ships calling at the ports, each damaged locomotive leaves the railway less room to absorb the next disruption.
The civilian bulk carrier GOLDEN LEO ablaze after Russian missiles hit it as it left Odesa with a cargo of corn, in the Black Sea, 19 July 2026. Photo: Ukraine’s Navy
Export traffic moves inland
Before the current wave of strikes, the ports of Greater Odesa handled about 80% of Ukraine’s agricultural exports. Rail’s share then rose sharply, but the railway did not carry more grain: Ukrzaliznytsia said 461,000 tons went by rail during the first 25 days of August—67% less than in July and 77% below the corresponding period last year, according to figures reported by Rail.insider. Rail had taken a larger share of a collapsing export flow.
Traffic through the Black Sea corridor collapsed after a series of attacks on civilian vessels in July. One of the deadliest strikes was on the bulk carrier Golden Leo on 19 July, killing 10 people, including a Ukrainian maritime pilot. The ship later sank. On 22 July, for the first time since the sea corridor opened, not a single vessel entered the Odesa ports.
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In July, 169 ships entered, but only 7 did so during the first 11 days of August, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority told Kyiv Post. By 24 August, traffic had partly recovered. Three or four ships were entering and leaving the ports of Odesa each day. However, cargo volumes remained three to four times lower than before the intensified attacks, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pointed out.
Maerskand Hapag-Lloyd suspended feeder services to Greater Odesa in late July and early August, with Maersk rerouting imports to Constanța.
The attacks changed the calculations of shipowners and insurers, even though the ports remained formally open. The late-August recovery shows that Russia did not impose a total blockade, but commercial traffic remained far below its previous capacity.
Ukraine normally moves 4 to 4.5 million tons of farm goods a month; the National Bank of Ukraine estimated in July that alternative routes could initially carry about 2.5 million tons a month. That leaves part of the usual flow with nowhere to go this year—about $2.5 billion in export revenue delayed from the second half of 2026 to the first half of 2027.
The Agriculture Ministry estimates that elevators and grain warehouses with nearly 59 million tons of capacity could be full by early November, leaving an 11-million-ton storage shortfall by the end of autumn.
Russian attacks on Ukraine’s railway infrastructure reached 1,534 by 24 August 2026—already exceeding the 1,200 recorded in all of 2025. Chart: Ukraine’s Ministry of Communities and Territories Development / Interfax-Ukraine / Infrastructure Minister Mykola Kalashnyk / Euromaidan Press. Made with ChatGPT.
Russia turned the drones on the trains
Russia is going after locomotives to cut the export corridors that tie the industrial regions around Kryvyi Rih, Zaporizhzhia, and the east to Odesa’s ports and the western border, Ukrzaliznytsia CEO Oleksandr Pertsovskyi told Reuters in June. He also described the method: Russia is using drones with video cameras and remote control, which allow operators to hit rolling stock in real time.
The climb is in the quarterly data: nine locomotives hit in the first half of 2025, 119 in the second, and 81 in the first quarter of 2026.By 15 August, Pertsovskyi put the figure at more than 250 damaged in the previous six months.
In the first quarter alone, Russia struck the railway 541 times, about half its total for all of 2025, damaging 1,718 objects across the network. By 24 August, the number of attacks on railway infrastructure in 2026 had reached 1,534, Infrastructure Minister Mykola Kalashnyk said.
On 19 July, Russia’s Defense Ministry acknowledged a Geran-4 Seeker drone had struck a locomotive hauling Ukrainian military equipment near Volniansk in Zaporizhzhia Oblast the previous day, and released strike footage.
The Geran-4 Seeker sends video to an operator searching for targets. Once the operator selects one, onboard software guides the final approach. Russia says it has used the system against ships near Chornomorsk, but public evidence does not show how many locomotive strikes involved Seeker; moving trains can also be hit by hand-flown drones redirected in flight.
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Jammers cannot protect every train
Ukraine has fitted trains with jammers, which Ukrainian drone and electronic-warfare specialist Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnovsays have protected a significant number of trains. But Russian drones use different frequency bands, so each train needs several systems, and even those cannot provide complete protection.
“Whatever we do, drones will periodically hit trains in the frontline zone,” Beskrestnov wrote in March. “As, unfortunately, they will hit buses and civilian cars.”
Seeker is not the only way to hit a moving train. Russian operators have repeatedly redirected hand-flown drones after spotting trains below, Beskrestnov wrote in April. He said military airspace data allows railway dispatchers to change schedules or evacuate passengers when necessary, and that several hundred trains had been moved out of danger.
The cost is not only rolling stock. On 13 August, a jet-powered Shahed struck the locomotive of the Odesa–Dnipro passenger train at Buialyk station in Odesa Oblast, killing the driver, Ivan Shevchyk, and his assistant, Vasyl Morozov, both of the Znamianka locomotive depot.
The monitoring team had flagged the drone and ordered a stop; the train was entering the station so its 340 passengers, 67 of them children, could get off. All of them were evacuated unhurt. “A sharp maneuver by a jet Shahed is a matter of minutes, and the locomotive crew did not have enough time to come to a full stop and evacuate themselves,” Pertsovskyi wrote.
Prosecutors opened proceedings under Article 438 of the criminal code, violation of the laws and customs of war, causing death.
Two days later, Ukrzaliznytsia changed its rules, increasing the distance at which a train is halted and evacuated when a threat appears—a decision Pertsovskyi tied to the growing number of jet drones. Eight railway workers had been killed in the preceding weeks, at Lozova and Erastivka stations and on the train at Buialyk.
Ukraine is going after the equipment that makes the operator’s link work. On 13 and 14 August, Ukrainian forces struck two ground-based relay stations near Zaliznyi Port in Kherson Oblast that transmit control signals between Russian operators and Geran and Gerbera drones, extending their range and steadying the connection, along with five UAV command posts.
Such relays extend the operator-controlled phase of Geran and Gerbera attacks, including variants that may switch to onboard guidance for the final approach.
Russia's Gerbera drones. Photo: Gastello Design Bureau
Delays reveal resilience—and attrition
Russia has not carved the railway into islands. When seven drone strikes hit a junction between Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia in a single day on 30 January, wrecking locomotives, wagons, and track, trains were rerouted through Dnipro, and evening passengers were put on buses.
Freight was moving again within a day; passenger service stayed cut longer, judged too dangerous for civilians, Le Monde reported. Track and power lines are repaired quickly, and a diesel engine can stand in where electric traction is out of service.
The cost lands on the rolling stock. A locomotive is harder to replace than track, and some of that loss is already permanent. By April, around 50 of more than 300 locomotives hit since the full-scale invasion had been destroyed beyond repair, Deputy Communities Minister Oleksii Balesta said. By 24 August, the total number of damaged locomotives had risen to 492, Infrastructure Minister Mykola Kalashnyk said.
New locomotives will arrive slowly. The first machines from a 55-locomotive order placed with French producer Alstom through a World Bank tender are due in early 2027 for certification, with the full batch expected by May 2029.
Burned grain truck at an open parking lot in Odesa Oblast following a Russian drone strike overnight on 2 November 2025. Photo: Suspilne Odesa
Rail cannot replace the sea
Even undamaged, the railway could not move as much export cargo across the EU border as the ports did by sea. The EU lines are slower, more expensive, and interrupted by a change in track gauge at the border. The Danube is running too low this summer to float full barges, and road haulage was never more than a sliver of Ukraine’s bulk grain.
The strain reaches past agriculture. Ferrexpo stopped seaborne iron ore pellet exports, the Southern Mining and Processing Plant in Kryvyi Rih cut back, and Ukrzaliznytsia throttled some cargo runs to the Odesa port stations, according to Ukrainian industry reports.
The shortfall does not stay inside Ukraine. Egypt, Algeria, and Indonesia together bought about 8.7 million tons of Ukraine’s wheat last season—roughly 62% of the total, with Egypt alone taking more than a quarter.
A long closure of the deep-water ports would send those import-dependent buyers hunting elsewhere: the trade analytics firm ASAP Agri puts Ukraine’s 2026/27 wheat exports at 5 to 10 million tons if the blockade holds, with buyers like Bangladesh turning to Indian wheat instead.
Ukraine is responding with air defenses around key rail nodes, dispersed locomotives, and repair kits pre-positioned for fast fixes, and its transport ministry has taken a railway-resilience plan to NATO, built on early warning and centralized recovery management.
Russia drove most ships from the sea route, leaving Ukraine more dependent on constrained alternatives, and has been hitting the locomotives serving its rail corridors—more than 250 damaged in six months, some beyond repair. But the railway still functions.
L'Olympique de Marseille et l'Olympique lyonnais devront faire face à des grosses équipes pour cette nouvelle saison de la Ligue Europa. Le Stade rennais a été beaucoup mieux loti lors du tirage au sort effectué vendredi à Monaco.
The Gotham striker said she was stepping away from the sport, but then signed for Al Qadsiah. The move sparked questions over professionalism and raised concerns of LGBTQ+ fans who have disavowed the Saudi league
A recent World Cup winner joins a historically downtrodden club, immediately leads them to their first championship, praises the level of play in the league, speaks fondly of living in the club’s market, extends her contract with the club, leads the club to another championship, is named a league MVP finalist, and breaks the club’s all-time scoring record. That’s the fairytale of Esther González and Gotham FC – a story that ended abruptly, just nine days after that scoring record was set. On 27 July, Gotham announced that they had mutually parted ways with the striker as she “temporarily steps away from soccer to attend to personal matters in Spain”. The announcement of her departure was full of gushing words going both directions, and was met with understanding and support from the women’s soccer world.
But less than a month after González left Gotham, Al Qadsiah, a club in the Saudi Women’s Premier League, announced her as their newest signing, on a one-season contract with an option to extend for a second. NWSL journalist Jenna Tonelli soon reported, “League sources tell me that Gotham did not expect Esther to sign with another club this soon.” Questions swirled: did she actually intend to take a break from soccer when she left Gotham? And why would a player who just had a child with her female partner choose to play in Saudi Arabia, a country where same-sex relations are criminalized?
Les participants à l’Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc doivent s'élancer vendredi en soirée à Chamonix, après un report du départ à 19 h 45 en raison d'un "épisode orageux". Quelque 2 500 coureurs espèrent arriver au bout des 174 kilomètres de parcours et 10 000 mètres de dénivelé positif.
The site once paired news and scores with distinctive voices. Its overhaul under Sinclair Media is the latest sign that serious tennis writing in the US is becoming endangered
A few weeks ago, as I often do, I went to the Tennis.com site to get an update about a match and to check out the commentary from my fellow tennis journalists. I was taken aback when, instead of the usual colorful graphics and info, I was greeted with a rudimentary-looking homepage that displayed only scores and rankings.
At first I thought it was a glitch of some sort. But sadly, no. As it turns out, Tennis.com, originally the online site of Tennis Magazine, is under a complete overhaul and will no longer be the home of esteemed writers such as Steve Tignor and Pete Bodo, robbing fans of unique and personal takes on the sport. It appears the longest running American tennis-specific publication is no longer alive in any form.
America’s second biggest sporting obsession returns this weekend, which means marching bands, 100,000-seat stadiums, ancient rivalries and, increasingly, the operating model of a sport being invented in real time
Is college football healthy? It’s a seductive question, one that now comes up every year around this time. Actually, it never recedes, so it’s just with the sport all the time. It’s also the wrong question, because whoever answers it is free to choose their own adventure. The television ratings are way up there in the galaxy. Money rains down on dozens of programs and thousands of players. Marching bands continue to march. Yet a lot of teams are stranded by realignment or an economic inability to keep up in a transfer arms race. Their fans – actually any team’s fans – may be exhausted by escalating asks for their dollars.
If you have been checked out of the sport for a while ahead of this weekend’s first set of games, you may feel like your body has been frozen for a few decades. Indiana, (yes, really) are the defending national champs, fresh off a 16-0 season that puts them on the list of the handful of best teams ever. Texas Tech, once likened to Siberia by a former coach who is now a US senator, are the fiercest program in the Big 12. Ole Miss are good for the first time since integration. At least Ohio State and Georgia are still powerhouses.
Les doubles champions d'Europe du PSG recevront le Barça et voyageront en Angleterre dans le cadre de la phase de ligue de la Ligue des champions. De nombreuses retrouvailles sont également à prévoir, entre José Mourinho et ses anciens clubs, entre Olivier Giroud et Arsenal et entre Yan Diomandé et Leipzig.
La femme forte rimouskoise, Jo-Annie Paquet, poursuit sur sa lancée depuis qu’elle a commencé à pratiquer la discipline en septembre 2025. Championne provinciale dans sa catégorie, elle prend maintenant part à des compétitions professionnelles.
Originaire de Matane, Jo-Annie a un parcours atypique dans son sport. Elle a pratiqué l’équitation pendant une dizaine d’années avant de s’adonner au CrossFit. C’est de cette façon qu’elle a découvert ses aptitudes en force.
« Je me suis battue contre ça pendant un bout de temps parce que ça vient avec le fait que le corps change. On ne fait pas ce sport en voulant avoir un corps énormément musclé, mais ce sont les conséquences de ce qu’on aime faire qui apportent ce corps. Il y a encore du jugement par rapport à ça », dit-elle.
En préparation pour un marathon en septembre dernier, Jo-Annie s’est rendue au Championnat provincial de Strongman Corp Québec qui se tenait à Granby et est repartie avec la première position.
« Ça m’a valu une participation au Arnold Masters Strongman World Championship à Columbus, en Ohio, en mars. C’est une compétition internationale et j’ai aussi gagné dans la catégorie 82 kg chez les 40 ans et plus (master). C’était une compétition amateur. Il y a des gens qui rêvent pendant des années d’y aller et je n’ai même pas eu le temps d’espérer y aller. Les filles contre qui je compétitionnais étaient mes idoles », exprime la femme de 43 ans.
Avec les pros
Après cette victoire, l’athlète est devenue professionnelle. « Nous sommes 30 au Canada à avoir notre carte. Je dois faire au moins une compétition professionnelle par année. Il n’y a pas de catégories d’âge ni de poids. Ce sont les meilleures au monde. Tout s’est passé tellement vite que c’est encore difficile pour moi de réaliser. »
La femme forte Jo-Annie Paquet. (Photo courtoisie)
Jo-Annie a par la suite pris part à une première compétition professionnelle à Fredericton où elle a terminé troisième. Elle s’est donc qualifiée pour le Championnat canadien professionnel de femmes fortes qui aura lieu, en septembre, à Québec ainsi que pour le Championnat nord-américain de Victoriaville qui se tenait les 25 et 26 juillet.
« C’était les meilleures femmes aux États-Unis et au Canada. J’étais la plus petite, la plus vieille et la moins expérimentée. Les charges étaient lourdes et il y avait des épreuves que je n’avais jamais faites. Le manque d’expérience ne m’a pas aidé, mais j’ai quand même terminé 11e sur 13 », indique-t-elle.
Sport à découvrir
Pour illustrer son sport, Jo-Annie cite en exemple Louis Cyr, Hugo Girard et Jean-François Caron.
« C’est de la force brute. Il faut lever et déplacer des charges lourdes. Les épreuves varient d’une compétition à l’autre. On peut lever une automobile ou tourner un pneu de 500 livres. C’est un entraînement de 2 h 30 cinq à six jours par semaine et la nutrition est calculée. Nous sommes de vrais athlètes. J’aime l’adrénaline que ça apporte et l’estime de soi. Je peux dire que je suis capable de faire un soulevé de terre de 460 livres. »
Jo-Annie Paquet à Victoriaville. (Photo courtoisie)
Avec des amis, elle a démarré l’organisme La Force de l’Est qui offre des démonstrations pour faire connaître le sport. Un membre, Keven Malenfant, propose un service d’entraînement. Les hommes forts et femmes fortes de la région peuvent également s’entraîner au Santé 2000 Le Club.
Depuis qu’elle a commencé son parcours de femme forte, Jo-Annie Paquet est particulièrement fière de conserver une discipline.
« La compétition est un cadeau. Ce sont tous les efforts que tu as donnés avant qui vont rapporter. C’est aussi une fierté de pouvoir faire vivre ça à mes amis et ma famille », conclut-elle.
Inter Miami have hired former Argentina international Cristian “Kily” González as the club’s new head coach, according to two sources familiar with negotiations. César Luis Merlo was first to report the news.
The hiring will spell the end of interim manager Guillermo Hoyos’ time in charge of the South Florida club. In fact, he may have already coached his last game; MLS announced on Thursday that Hoyos had been suspended for one game for the club’s “repeated violations” of the late kickoff policy. (Inter Miami have become known throughout the league for delaying their return from half-time.)
Retailers have pulled Good Good products from shelves
Garrett Clark says controversial skit was in ‘poor taste’
Callaway has ended its relationship with Good Good Golf amid mounting fallout from an advert that many believe made light of violence against women.
The golf equipment manufacturer announced the decision on Thursday, cutting ties with one of the world’s most popular YouTube sports channels effective immediately. Callaway also said it would donate $1m to organizations working to prevent violence against women and support survivors of domestic violence.
Lors de la victoire contre la Slovénie (92-67) pour les qualifications de la Coupe du monde 2027, jeudi soir à Bercy, le nouveau capitaine de l'équipe de France, Victor Wembanyama, a pu mesurer son immense popularité. La star de la NBA est devenue la figure des Bleus. Un joueur aimé pour ses performances sportives, mais aussi pour sa personnalité atypique.
Double champion d'Europe, le PSG connaît désormais ses adversaires lors de la phase de ligue de la Ligue des champions, avec notamment le FC Barcelone et Manchester City au menu. Lens affrontera également les Citizens ainsi que Liverpool, tandis que Lille accueillera le Bayern Munich à Pierre-Mauroy et se rendra chez les champions anglais d'Arsenal.
Six jeunes de Rimouski-Neigette et de La Mitis font partie de l’alignement des Albatros M18 AAA du Collège Notre-Dame de Rivière-du-Loup pour la prochaine saison. Il s’agit d’Edmond Leblanc, d’Étienne Pigeon, de Frédéric Anctil, de Zach Dumaresq-Fortin, d’Émile Rioux et de Xavier Vallée.
Les attaquants Leblanc, de Sainte-Luce-sur-Mer et Pigeon, de Rimouski, faisaient partie des équipes M17 et M15 AAA des Albatros, la saison dernière.
Les défenseurs Anctil, de Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard et Vallée, de Rimouski, évoluaient également à Rivière-du-Loup. Le Rimouskois Dumaresq-Fortin s’alignait, quant à lui, avec le Mistral de Mont-Joli en M15 D1.
La saison des Albatros M18 AAA commencera le vendredi 11 septembre. L’équipe accueillera les Élites de Jonquière, à 19 h, au Centre Premier Tech.
L'UEFA prépare des poursuites judiciaires contre le président de la Fifa, Gianni Infantino, a-t-on appris jeudi de source proche du dossier. Selon cette source, l'instance continentale préparerait une plainte en droit suisse pour "gestion déloyale" en raison du controversé projet d'ouverture de la Coupe du monde à des investisseurs privés.
American talks life on the professional circuit and those making sacrifices for a pay cheque, often compromising physical and mental welfare
For Mackenzie McDonald the players’ push for greater prize money and welfare contributions from the grand slam tournaments could result in the difference between putting food on the table and making a decent living.
After 10 years on the ATP Tour the 31-year-old American is not pleading poverty, but knows that life on the professional circuit can be a hand-to-mouth existence, with players’ physical and mental welfare often compromised due to their desperation to get back on court.
Les deux premières journées des éliminatoires de la CAN 2027 (19 juin – 17 juillet 2027) ont lieu durant la prochaine fenêtre internationale Fifa, du 21 septembre au 6 octobre. Maroc, Sénégal, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroun... Découvrez le programme complet des premiers matches qualificatifs pour la Coupe d'Afrique des Nations qui se déroulera au Kenya, en Tanzanie et en Ouganda.
The race was at its peak when American riders were regularly challenging for titles. Its return could help prompt a revival
After a decade-long absence, the beloved Philadelphia International Cycling Classic is set to return this weekend, with some of the world’s best bike-racing teams taking to the famous circuit around the city’s leafy Art Museum, Manayunk, and Roxborough areas on Sunday.
The race is one of just a handful of events on American soil sanctioned by UCI, cycling’s international governing body, and will feature squads such as EF Education EasyPost, Lidl-Trek, Lotto-Intermarché, and Jayco AlUla in the men’s race, and powerhouses CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto and Human Powered Health in the women’s event. It is classified as a 1.1 race, meaning it’s two levels below the top-flight WorldTour, whose races include the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix, and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
The Philadelphia Cycling Classic will be livestreamed on Channel 6 ABC, with the women’s race kicking off at 8.30am Eastern. The men will follow at 12.30pm. Of course, you could always trek to Philly and become part of the party yourself. I highly recommend snagging a spot somewhere along The Wall.
Battus par le club turc du Fenerbahçe, les Lyonnais ne disputeront pas la plus prestigieuse des coupes d'Europe cette année. Six ans après leur dernière campagne en Ligue des Champions, les Lyonnais avaient l'ambition d'un retour. Ils devront se contenter de la Ligue Europa, comme Marseille et Rennes.
Les 36 clubs qualifiés en Ligue des champions vont connaître jeudi leurs adversaires pour la première phase de la compétition, qui débutera le 8 septembre. Double champion en titre, le PSG espère réaliser un triplé qui n'a pas été réussi depuis celui du Real Madrid entre 2016 et 2018. La finale aura lieu début juin à Madrid.
Czech pair beat Bencic and Cobolli in deciding tiebreak
Revamped event draws strong crowds at Arthur Ashe
Singles stars dominate after doubles specialists exit
To many who came to the US Open grounds this week, the showpiece of the mixed doubles championship came Tuesday afternoon, with the returns of Serena Williams (after four years away from tennis) and Carlos Alcaraz (after four months out with a wrist injury).
To the players who remained in the field after Williams and Alcaraz exited in the quarter-finals, the real highlight was Wednesday night’s final at Arthur Ashe Stadium, with its $1m in prize money on the line. Karolína Muchová and Jakub Menšík made the most of the spotlight, beating Belinda Bencic and Flavio Cobolli 6-3, 1-6 (10-6) for the title.
Le Baseball I.D de Rimouski a profité de quatre erreurs du Bar Piloup de Rivière-du-Loup pour inscrire cinq points non mérités, en route vers une victoire de 7-4 dans le troisième et décisif match de leur série demi-finale de division dans la Ligue de baseball junior AA de la région de Québec.
Ce faisant, la formation rimouskoise accède à la finale de la division Est (3 de 5) contre Montmagny, ce qui correspond aussi à une série quart de finale de la ligue.
Jakob Tremblay (Photo : Alain Tremblay)
Jakob Tremblay a fait la distance au monticule accordant cinq coups sûrs et réussissant huit retraits sur des prises. Il a fait preuve d’un bon contrôle utilisant 98 lancers, dont 75 prises. Lou Dumont encaisse la défaite.
Jérémy Henley a été le seul à frapper deux coups sûrs pour les gagnants. Alexandre Bérubé a fait produire trois points.
Rappelons que dans l’autre demi-finale de la division Est, les Monarques de Montmagny (5-17 en saison) ont facilement écarté le RDL Hyundai de Saint-Pascal (8-8 en saison) par deux victoires à zéro. Ils ont gagné par des pointages de 13-1 et 10-2.
Jakob Tremblay reçoit les felicitations de son receveur, William Sirois. (Photo : Alain Tremblay)
Selon les informations disponibles, la série entre le Baseball I.D et les Monarques débutera samedi avec un programme double. Bien que Rimouski possède l’avantage du terrain, il est possible que la série commence à Montmagny. On sera fixé dans la journée de jeudi. Considérant la distance entre les villes, la série se jouera sur deux fins de semaine.
Goodell confirms review after Ohio prostitution sting
York pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor charges
NFL has previously disciplined owners for misconduct
Commissioner Roger Goodell said the NFL is looking into whether San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York will be punished for violating the league’s personal conduct policy after he was caught in a prostitution sting in Ohio.
“It’s being reviewed under the personal conduct policy,” Goodell said Wednesday at the owners’ meetings in Atlanta. “We’ll do that and when there’s something to be reported we’ll talk.”
Only original 88 selections will earn Pro Bowl status
Players to be honored at Super Bowl week in LA
The NFL is ending the Pro Bowl Games after repeated format changes to its annual all-star event.
Beginning with the 2026 season, 88 Pro Bowlers will be selected but the NFL no longer plans to stage an AFC-NFC game, a flag-football matchup or an accompanying series of competitions. The players chosen will instead be invited to next year’s Super Bowl site in Los Angeles for an in-person celebration in February.
Battu mercredi en barrage retour sur la pelouse du Groupama Stadium, l'Olympique lyonnais a vu s'envoler ses rêves de devenir la quatrième équipe française à disputer la Ligue des champions cette saison. La perte financière s'annonce lourde pour le club confronté à une situation financière délicate.
Rangers have acquired forward Kevin Kelsy from Major League Soccer’s Portland Timbers, a source with direct knowledge of the deal told the Guardian on Wednesday. That source requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly on the agreement. The deal, worth $13m (£9.5m) – potentially more if Kelsy hits certain performance goals for Rangers – also includes a sell-on fee for the MLS club.
The Athletic’s Tom Bogert first reported details of the deal on Wednesday morning.
Portland acquired Kelsy from Ukrainian side Shakhtar Donetsk last January, paying $6m for the Venezuela international. The 22-year-old has been erratic but ultimately productive for the Timbers, scoring 16 times in 43 appearances.
Les clubs de golfs Bic sur Mer (classe A) et de Matane (classe B) ont remporté l’Interclubs senior féminin de l’Association de Golf Est-du-Québec (AGEQ). L’événement était présenté le dimanche 16 août au Club de golf Revermont d’Amqui.
L’équipe de Bic sur Mer a récolté 120 points, devançant le club de golf Les Saules par 24 points. Les clubs de Rivière-du-Loup et Val-Neigette faisaient aussi partie de cette catégorie.
Quant à la classe B, Matane a complété la journée avec 104 points. Michèle Bastien a grandement contribué au succès de son équipe en marquant 34 points. Les clubs L’Empress, Boule Rock, de la Vallée du Témiscouata et Revermont étaient également dans cette catégorie.
L’équipe gagnante en « classe B » : Josée Landry, Diane Couture, Cézary Durette, Julie Durette, Henriette Turbide, (présidente AGEQ), Michèle Bastien et Denise Blouin. (Photo courtoisie)
Le Stableford modifié était la formule utilisée pendant la journée. Cinquante golfeuses représentant neuf clubs du Bas-Saint-Laurent étaient présentes.
« L’activité s’est déroulée par une belle journée ensoleillée et les conditions de jeu étaient excellentes. La saison 2026 pour les Interclubs féminins et masculins de la division Ouest s’est terminée avec ce tournoi. Les Interclubs dans la division Est de notre territoire auront lieu au début septembre au club de golf Fauvel de Bonaventure », exprime la présidente de l’AGEQ, Henriette Turbide.
L'équipe de France de basket rencontre, jeudi, la Slovénie à Paris, pour les qualifications de la Coupe du Monde 2027. À la veille du match, le nouveau capitaine des Bleus, Victor Wembanyama, n'a pas dissimulé son plaisir de retrouver la capitale française deux ans après les JO. La star des San Antonio Spurs ne cache pas ses ambitions avec la sélection nationale.
World No 10 is one of the best players yet to win a major and heads to Flushing Meadows in fine form after learning to embrace being uncomfortable
Amanda Anisimova can see the signs now. It is just over three years since the American announced she would be taking an indefinite break for mental health reasons. A brilliant junior, she was a semi-finalist at the French Open in 2019 and seemingly destined for the top, only for her world to be rocked by the sudden death of her father, Konstantin, a few months later. Struggling for motivation and burned out, in May 2023, she revealed she would be stepping away from the sport.
It turned out to be the best decision she ever made. “I learned how important it is to have a great balance on and off the court,” Anisimova says in an interview from New York, ahead of the US Open, where she will try to go one better than last year and win her first grand slam title.
Rayonnant à Lille depuis deux saisons et avec le Maroc lors du Mondial 2026, Ayyoub Bouaddi s'est engagé mercredi avec Manchester City jusqu'en 2031. Pour s'attacher les services du jeune milieu de terrain de 18 ans, les Citizens ont déboursé pas moins de 100 millions d'euros, un montant record.
The Portland Thorns midfielder fills a role few in the US player pool can match, and she’s in a race against time to be fit for Brazil
Olivia Moultrie is no stranger to setting her own timeline. Half a decade ago, her desire to go pro at age 15 helped change NWSL rules, which previously forbade teams from signing players under 18. The ensuing five years have seen her go from one of the country’s top prospects to a high-level midfielder, a developmental success with the Portland Thorns.
Today, Moultrie instead finds herself in a race against time. The 2027 World Cup kicks off in 302 days, and her recovery from a torn ACL suffered at the start of this month has only just begun. Moultrie may not be among the biggest stars in the United States’ player pool, but her recovery from this injury should be closely monitored. Simply, there are few like-for-like alternatives who operate in possession as tidily and dangerously as she does.
The star known as Bayou Barbie is shining in Atlanta. The longer her haters dwell on her lowlights, the more they miss her transformation into an all-around force
On 16 August, the Atlanta Dream faced the Indiana Fever in the WNBA’s showcase matchup, and Angel Reese had a chance to don the cape. Tied at 81, the Dream had possession with five seconds left in regulation when Rhyne Howard launched a deep three-pointer. Reese was perfectly positioned under the basket, snagging Howard’s air ball with an outstretched hand. But in the rush to win the game, Reese forced a shot off the backboard that caromed off the front rim – and Naz Hillmon’s putback fizzled as the buzzer sounded. After Indiana escaped with a 95-91 overtime victory, Reese beat herself up over the loss.
“I didn’t sleep,” she told reporters days later. “The competitor in me wanted to win that game so bad. I replayed that play so many times.” Reese vowed to shrug the game off and do better. Damned if she hasn’t proved herself to be a woman of her word.
Sky Sports is close to agreeing a new deal to extend its live coverage of the US Open. The three-year contract extension, which is expected to be announced when the singles draw from Flushing Meadows begins next week, will keep the tournament live on Sky until 2030.
Under the terms of the new deal, Sky will broadcast more than 12 hours of live tennis each day across the extended three-week tournament, including the new mixed-doubles event which is taking place this week.
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