The San Diego Padres made a huge move at the MLB trade deadline on Thursday, acquiring closer Mason Miller and southpaw starter JP Sears. It's a good pair of additions for the 60-49 Padres—but the cost they paid was enormous.

To land those two deadline targets San Diego gave up a huge haul of four prospects. Most shockingly, that haul is headlined by shortstop Leodalis De Vries, considered one of the best prospects in baseball and listed at No. 3 overall in the latest pipeline rankings. De Vries had been mentioned as a prospect potentially on the move in the lead-up to the deadline, but his inclusion in the deal for Miller and Spears was still a big surprise.

Miller, 26, has posted a 3.76 ERA and recorded 59 strikeouts in 38.1 innings so far this season. Sears has gone 7-9 with a 4.95 ERA in 22 starts.

The lengths the Padres were willing to go to get their guy left the MLB world reeling.

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Corinthians e São Bernardo se enfrentam hoje, em jogo único pela 2ª fase da Copa do Brasil. Um dos destaques, ou melhor, curiosidades desse confronto é o técnico Márcio Zanardi que quase foi parar no Parque São Jorge após a demissão de Mano Menezes.

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Durante o Paulistão, o técnico fez uma campanha de destaque com o time do ABC Paulista vencendo, inclusive o Corinthians, na 3ª rodada. Mesmo sendo o favorito para o cargo, o negócio acabou não se concretizando por causa do regulamento do campeonato não permitir que um treinador comande duas equipes na mesma edição.

“Foi um timing. O futebol é timing. Não pude ir por causa do regulamento e a gente tem que respeitar. Fiquei muito feliz e lisonjeado. […] Mas não fico me amargurando. […] Estou muito feliz. A oportunidade aparece para quem é competente e trabalha”, falou Zanardi em entrevista para a ESPN Brasil.

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Após quase estar do lado rival, o foco do comandante aurinegro é vencer novamente em casa, como no Paulistão, e garantir a classificação para a 3ª fase da competição nacional: “O peso da torcida faz diferença, mas nós já ganhamos do São Paulo com 50 mil pessoas. É um jogo só e isso te dá a vantagem de jogar de igual para igual. Nós não estamos no nível do time grande, mas a gente vai fazer um jogo, propor o jogo e competir demais”.

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Arsenal remain top of the Premier League table for another week.

On Saturday evening, in a game that was far from thrill a minute stuff, Mikel Arteta’s team battled to a 1-0 victory at Craven Cottage against Fulham; Gabriel’s flick-on from a corner bundled over the line by Leandro Trossard’s thigh.

Cue the familiar song: set piece again, olé olé!

That makes it five wins on the spin across all competitions for the Gunners while, in a second successive Premier League match, their opponents failed to register a single shot on target, the first time Arsenal have achieved this since doing so against Birmingham and, coincidentally, Fulham during the Invincibles season of 2003/04.

While man of the match Bukayo Saka and match-winner Trossard, more on him in just a second, will get the headlines, another of Arteta’s most-trusted disciples also underlined his importance to this team in West London.

Arsenal's star man against Fulham

With Eberechi Eze deployed centrally to fill Martin Ødegaard’s void, the biggest team selection headache facing Arteta on Saturday was who to deploy on the left wing.

Both options had been on target during the international break; Trossard netted for Belgium in Cardiff, while Martinelli scored for Brazil in Tokyo, but Arteta will certainly feel vindicated in his decision.

Having scored as a substitute against Athletic Club and Port Vale last month, Trossard has started each of the last five Premier League and Champions League fixtures, forcing over the line his first league goal of the campaign at the weekend, and what an important one it could prove to be.

This, though, is nothing new, with the Belgian taking his tally to 31 goals and 25 assists for the Gunners, averaging a goal contribution every 130 minutes.

In fact, since his debut in January 2023, only Saka (42 goals) has scored more times for Arsenal than Trossard, just ahead of Kai Havertz and Martinelli, both on 29 goals.

So, while Trossard will rightly get plenty of plaudits, which other Arsenal player deserves to be spotlighted for their eye-catching performance at Craven Cottage?

Mikel Arteta's new favourite chaos merchant

The emergence of Myles Lewis-Skelly was one of the key storylines of last season.

In the space of only five months, the teenager went from playing in the EFL trophy in front of 2,400 people to starting Champions League quarter-finals and semi-finals against Real Madrid and Paris Saint-Germain.

This season though, the England international is yet to start a Premier League match, through no fault of his own, it should be reiterated, purely because Arteta is enamoured with what Riccardo Calafiori offers.

The Italy international accumulated just 1,497 minutes during his first season in North London, starting only 16 matches across all competitions, but has started all eight Premier League fixtures to date this time round, so far managing to remain injury-free.

His performance at Fulham on Saturday evening was Calafiori at his chaotic best.

Expected goals

0.04

9th

Shots off target

1

3rd

Defensive actions

5

6th

Clearances

4

4th

Accurate passes

27

9th

Pass completion %

87%

9th*

Duels contested

9

6th

Aerial duels contested

5

4th

Touches

50

9th

Average rating

6.8

11th

*minimum 16 passes completed.

As the table outlines, while Calafiori’s statistics don’t stand out for any one metric in particular, he ranks highly for a wide variety of numbers, underlining that he is contributing all over the pitch.

Early in the first half, the £42m Italian thought he had broken the deadlock, only for his thunderous volley to be disallowed due to offside, one that journalist Charles Watts posits may be one of the best disallowed goals in modern Arsenal history.

Now that you’re thinking about it, Pépé vs Chelsea in the FA Cup Final, Trossard at Leicester and Gabriel against Bournemouth are the other leading contenders.

Back to Calafiori, he continues to impress, with Andrew Mangan of Arseblog labelling him ‘defensively very solid again’ while, paradoxically, James Benge of CBS asserts that he is “the most electrifying man in sports entertainment”.

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To support this, amazingly, the left-back has attempted 16 shots in the Premier League this season, scoring at Old Trafford on the opening day of course, the second-most of any Arsenal player, behind only centre-forward Viktor Gyökeres.

It’s for that reason that he has, undoubtedly, been just as important as star man Saka of late.

Indeed, the fact the defender is able to combine being an excellent defensive presence with being a chaotic on-ball contributor, something this Arsenal team often lacks, especially when coming up against a low block, is absolutely invaluable.

Saturday saw Arteta’s team keep their eighth clean sheet in just 11 matches across all competitions this season, staggering numbers that would not be possible if one quartet of their back four was in any way a defensive liability.

William Saliba and Gabriel rightly get plenty of plaudits, while Jurriën Timber’s exceptional performances this season have earned plenty of praise too, but Calafiori’s contribution should not be overlooked, given that he offers this team so much, literally all over the pitch.

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One of the most esteemed academies in world football is Manchester United’s Carrington.

You can go back as far in footballing history as you’d like; United have always produced some top academy graduates.

In recent years, there have been a couple of stars really flying the flag for the Red Devils academy. The main name that springs to mind is Marcus Rashford, who is now plying his trade at Barcelona, where he is flying.

For his boyhood club, the Wythenshawe-born sensation racked up 426 appearances, scoring 138 goals and assisting 79.

Kobbie Mainoo is a more recent example. He was brought through by Erik ten Hag, although the Dutchman was quite ruthless when it came to giving academy stars a chance.

The best academy prospects let go under Ten Hag's management

It is naturally quite hard to break into the first team of a club the size of United. There were a few players, like Mainoo and Alejandro Garnacho, who Ten Hag gave a platform to. Yet, others didn’t make the cut and were sold by the former United boss, only to thrive at other clubs.

Someone who certainly fits that bill is Alvaro Carreras. The 22-year-old completed a move to Real Madrid this summer after shining at Benfica. He never actually played a first-team game at Old Trafford, with Ten Hag opting against giving him a debut.

He moved to Portugal permanently last summer after a loan spell in 2023/24, before joining Los Blancos in 2025. He’s started every La Liga game under Xabi Alonso, operating at left-back and even as a centre-back.

Anthony Elanga could also come under the same category. Despite thriving under Ralf Rangnick and scoring a huge goal away to Atletico Madrid in the Champions League, he only played 26 times under Ten Hag before moving to Nottingham Forest.

This summer, he switched to Newcastle United for a massive £55m fee but is yet to find the net for the Toon.

Both players could quite realistically have made it in a different era. The same could be said of United’s new Paul Scholes. At least that was how he was described at the time.

Ten Hag let go of Man Utd's 'next Scholes'

There is no doubt that, over the years, some of the academy sales made under Ten Hag have been blunders. The decision to move Carreras on, for example, must sting United fans given how well he is doing in Madrid.

When the Red Devils decided not to renew Shola Shoretire’s contract back in 2024, it brought an end to a United career that saw the Newcastle-born midfielder become the youngest player to appear for the club in a European match, aged 17 years and 23 days old.

It’s safe to say that in his younger days, the former United number 47 was incredibly highly rated.

Stephen Rutherford, the director of football at his junior club, said that he “would compare Shola to Paul Scholes,” which is high praise indeed.

Shoretire’s record for United’s academy was impressive. In the Premier League 2, he played 61 times, scoring 29 goals and assisting a further 18 goals. He operated all over the midfield and even out on the wing.

Unfortunately for Shoretire, he could only rack up five first-team appearances at Old Trafford. A loan spell to Bolton Wanderers saw him get first-team opportunities, but he left Old Trafford upon the expiration of his contract in 2024.

He joined Greek side PAOK on a free transfer, and now plays on loan for PEC Zwolle in the Netherlands. Those Scholes comparison feel like a long time ago now.

Under Ten Hag, the 21-year-old only featured on the bench four times. Despite his excellent form in the academy, the Dutchman never gave Shoretire more of an opportunity to showcase his skills at senior level.

This might always be one that United fans look back on and think, what could have been. Their youngest-ever European player was clearly very talented, and to be compared to Scholes is no mean feat.

Perhaps, if he’d have been given more of a platform by Ten Hag, he could have proven his worth at United.

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تحدث بيب جوارديولا، مدرب مانشستر سيتي في أعقاب فوز فريقه على ريال مدريد ببطولة دوري أبطال أوروبا، حيث حقق الفوز بهدفين لهدف.

والتقى الفريقان على ملعب “سانتياجو برنابيو” ضمن مباريات الجولة السادسة لمرحلة الدوري بدوري أبطال أوروبا، ونشرت شبكة “بي بي سي” البريطانية، والموقع الرسمي لليويفا، تصريحات جوارديولا.

وقال جوارديولا: “في كل مرة كانت الكرة بحوزتهم، عاقبونا، وخاصةً مع رودريجو، لم نتمكن من الدخول في أجواء المباراة حتى جاء الهدف، بالنسبة للعديد من لاعبي فريقي، كانت هذه هي المرة الأولى التي نأتي فيها إلى هذا الملعب، ربما يكون هذا في صالحنا؛ ربما نكون في فبراير أكثر استعدادًا بفضل هذه التجربة”.

وأضاف: “كان ريال مدريد أفضل منا بكثير في بعض المراحل؛ كنا نركض باستمرار، لكننا كنا نتأخر في كثير من الأحيان في استغلال الفرص، لكننا سنتعلم من أخطائنا، سنتحسن في الظروف الاستثنائية”.

وأردف مدرب مانشستر سيتي: “لقد تعاملنا مع مباراتي سندرلاند وفولهام بشكل مختلف تماماً، لكن هذا هو أسلوب ريال مدريد المعتاد، ملعبهم يعشق مثل هذه المباريات”.

وتابع بيب حديثه: “أدرك الواقع، وأنا سعيد بهذه النتيجة، لكنني أعلم أن علينا تقديم أداء أفضل بكثير، التعامل مع مثل هذه المواقف سيجعلنا أقوى، نيكو هو الظهير الأيسر للمنتخب الوطني، ويتمتع بسرعة فائقة، إنه لاعب من طراز رفيع”.

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واسنطرد: “راضٍ تمامًا بشكل عام، لدينا ثلاثة عشر نقطة مع تبقي مباراتين، بإمكاننا إنهاء الموسم ضمن المراكز الثمانية الأولى، هذا هو هدفنا، والفوز هنا بعد مباراة ليفركوزن أمر جيد”.

وأشار: “يجب أن أكون ممتنًا وسعيدًا، خضتُ العديد من المباريات هنا على مر السنين أمام ريال مدريد، ولعبتُ بشكل أفضل بكثير، لكننا لم نفز، أتيحت لنا فرصٌ لتسجيل المزيد من الأهداف، وبذلنا جهدًا أكبر، في الشوط الثاني، لكن قبل ذلك كانوا أفضل منا بكثير”.

وعلّق جوارديولا: “كان ماتيوس نونيز جيدًا، الظهيران، ريان شرقي يلعب هنا لأول مرة، نيكو أوريلي قدم أداءً مذهلاً، جيريمي دوكو ساعدنا كثيرًا في جوانب عديدة، بدأنا المباراة بخطأ، لكنني كنت أتوقع منهم الضغط أكثر، لكنهم تراجعوا، ووجدنا صعوبة في مواجهتهم، لكننا تقبلنا النتيجة”.

وواصل: “يمتلك ريال مدريد لاعبين سريعين في العمق؛ والهجمات المرتدة قد تحسم المباراة، لكنهم يتمتعون بجودةٍ مذهلة، ويرسلون العديد من اللاعبين إلى منطقة الجزاء، رودرجو، فينيسيوس، بيلينحهام، لاعبون رائعون، سرعة هجومهم خطيرة للغاية، ولهذا السبب لا يمكنك البقاء في منطقة الجزاء، بل عليك الالتزام بالدفاع، افتقرنا لبعض الجوانب، لذا يمكننا التحسن”.

وعن لاعبه إيرلينج هالاند، أشاد: “أرقامه تتحدث عن نفسها، علينا أن نجعله أكثر فاعلية، يجب أن يكون جزءًا من المباراة، في المباراتين الأخيرتين لم يكن حاضرًا، لذا علينا إيجاد طريقة لإشراكه بشكل أكبر”.

وإذا كان هذا الفوز يعزز الثقة للفوز بدوري أبطال أوروبا، اختتم: “لا تسيئوا فهمي؛ الفوز هنا أمر صعب للغاية، لقد أعجبت بروحهم وإصرارهم اليوم، ولكن لكي يفوز فريقي في نصف النهائي أو النهائي، ولكي نلعب ونفوز في باريس أو أنفيلد أو برشلونة، علينا أن نكون أفضل بكثير”.

Wednesday night's game between the Mariners and Blue Jays was a slugfest from start to finish. Ultimately, it was Toronto's offense that had the upper hand, leading the charge for a 13–4 road victory.

In total, there were eight home runs hit between the two teams, which ties the MLB postseason record. Previously, only two playoff games in league history had as many home runs; Game 2 of the 2017 World Series between the Astros and Dodgers, and Game 3 of the 2017 NLDS between the Cardinals and Cubs.

Despite the loss, it was Seattle that struck first on Wednesday night. Julio Rodriguez opened up the scoring with a two-run home run in the first inning. Toronto answered in the third inning when they racked up five runs, including a two-run shot from Andres Giménez. George Springer added a solo shot in the fourth inning and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. did the same in the fifth.

Also homering in the game for the Blue Jays were Alejandro Kirk and Addison Barger, while the Mariners got late home runs from Randy Arozarena and Cal Raleigh, though it wasn't enough to mount a comeback.

Toronto ended the night with a franchise-record 18 hits, the most in a postseason game by any team since 2021, and 37 total bases.

The two teams will meet again Thursday night for Game 4, with the Blue Jays hoping to even up the series at 2–2. First pitch is slated for 8:33 p.m. ET.

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Na estreia do América-RJ na Taça Santos Dumont, os holofotes estavam voltados para a possível reestreia de Romário. No entanto, o camisa 11 não entrou em campo na equipe comandada por Marcus Alexandre.

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Por outro lado, André, que soma passagens por Santos, Vasco e Sport, foi titular e marcou um dos gols da vitória dos Encarnados. E no fim, Romarinho, filho do presidente do clube, entrou em campo para a decepção de muitos torcedores.

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Yankees general manager Brian Cashman has seen all the chatter online about him being “asleep on the job” this offseason since New York hasn’t made a big move yet. At least not the moves fans are really hoping for—like bringing back Cody Bellinger or signing Kyle Tucker, for example.

Cashman poked fun at himself by creating the “meme”—a word he hilariously pronounced incorrectly—when he participated in the Covenant House Sleep Out in New York on Thursday night. As he cuddled up on the ground in a sleeping bag, this is what he told reporters:

“You know this is a meme about how Brian Cashman’s asleep on the job and not doing his job, ‘cause I’ve seen that all over social media.”

Don’t worry, Yankees fans. Cashman also shared with reporters on Thursday that he’s making strides to figure out the moves the team wants to make this offseason. He’s already started conversations about Bellinger and Tucker, and he’s spoken with other teams about other moves. Apart from Tucker, he’s also started talks about bringing back Paul Goldschmidt and potentially acquiring Michael King and Kyle Schwarber this offseason. He’s not totally sleeping on the job.

One of the lesser-discussed NL West rivalries had its moment on Tuesday night, as things got heated between the Giants and Rockies during their game at Coors Field.

During the top of the first inning, before a single out had even been recorded in the game, Rafael Devers parked a ball into the right field seats off of Kyle Freeland. The two-run shot opened the scoring, and also seemed to open some emotions between the two sides.

It's unclear what prompted it, but Devers began shouting at Freeland while heading towards first base. He continued to shout at the Rockies pitcher once he reached the base, and from there, things escalated quickly. The benches cleared and punches were thrown from players on both sides, as a sea of players and coaches collided in the infield.

Have a look at the melee:

It certainly seemed to catch the broadcast off guard, as things went from a few choice words to some fisticuffs in the infield in a matter of seconds.

Devers was so enraged he didn't even round the bases after his two-run shot, instead getting into it with Freeland. Eventually, he was told to finish rounding the bases to complete his home run before play resumed.

After the dust settled on the skirmish, discipline was handed out by the umpires, and three players were ejected, including Willy Adames and Matt Chapman from the Giants, and Freeland from Colorado. Freeland was replaced on the mound by Antonio Senzatela.

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Steven Lynch12-May-2020Is it true that Brian Bolus, who died last week, holds the record for the most Test innings without being out in single figures? asked Graham Sinclair from England

The former England batsman Brian Bolus, who passed away last week aged 86, had 12 innings in his seven Tests in the early 1960s, and his lowest score was 14. That’s the record for the most innings in a complete career without being out in single figures: next come the 19th-century England player Frank Druce, with nine, and New Zealand’s Gary Stead – now their coach – with eight. The Indian opener Prithvi Shaw has so far had seven Test innings, all of them in double figures.I asked Shiva Jayaraman of ESPNcricinfo’s stats team which batsman has most consistently made it out of double figures. We imposed a minimum of 50 Test innings, and decided to ignore any cases where the player made a single-figure score but was not out. Clear at the top was England’s Jack Hobbs, who made it out of double figures on 88 of 101 occasions, or 87.13%. Second was his long-time opening partner, Herbert Sutcliffe, with 85.54% (71 out of 83). A slight surprise at No. 3 was the West Indian opener Jeff Stollmeyer, with 83.93%, not far in front of the inevitable Don Bradman (82.50). Just behind the Don were a bunch of big names, including Wally Hammond and Len Hutton (both 82.48%) and Eddie Barlow (82.46).I was surprised to realise that someone was closely involved in the match with the lowest Test total, and also the highest – do you know who it is? asked Rajiv Radhakrishnan from England

The lowest total in Tests remains New Zealand’s 26 all out in Auckland in 1954-55, when England – who had a slender lead of 46 – were rather surprised to end up winning by an innings. And the highest Test total is 952 for 6 declared, by Sri Lanka against India in Colombo in August 1997.On the face of it there’s no obvious connection (the umpires for the Colombo game were not around in Auckland). But that match in Sri Lanka was one of the earliest to have an ICC match referee – and in Colombo it was John Reid, the great New Zealand batsman who had been their top scorer in the first innings in Auckland, with 73.It’s another of those coincidences that cricket seems to specialise in – like Bob Simpson being a player in the first tied Test, and Australia’s coach in the second, or Bob Woolmer being taken as a boy to the match in which Hanif Mohammad scored 499, and later being Warwickshire’s coach when Brian Lara beat Hanif’s record with 501 not out.I was watching some highlights of old matches and saw Jason Holder making a double-century on his home ground in Barbados. Was this a record? asked V Kartik from the United States

The match you must have been watching was West Indies’ first Test against England in January 2019, in which Jason Holder made 202 not out at home in Bridgetown. But the record in this regard is 374, by Mahela Jayawardene, for Sri Lanka against South Africa in Colombo in 2006 – that match was played on his home club ground at the Sinhalese Sports Club. Jayawardene clearly likes his home comforts: in all, he scored 2921 Test runs at the SSC, the record for a player on a single ground.Shai Hope made twin centuries at Headingley and Kraigg Brathwaite almost did too in the same Test, but was out for 95 in the second innings•Getty ImagesWhen Shai Hope scored two centuries in the same Test, in 2017, Kraigg Brathwaite came agonisingly close too, scoring 134 and 95. How often have two batsmen from the same team scored twin centuries in the same Test match? asked Gerhard Jonker from South Africa

There have now been five instances of two players scoring twin centuries in the same Test, but only two of them have been for the same side. The Chappell brothers did it for Australia against New Zealand in Wellington in 1973-74 – Greg made 247 not out and 133, while Ian made 145 and 121. Azhar Ali and Misbah-ul-Haq followed suit for Pakistan against Australia in Abu Dhabi in 2014-15.The first of the three instances for opposite sides came in Adelaide in 1946-47, when Arthur Morris made 122 and 124 not out for Australia and Denis Compton replied with 147 and 103 not out for England. Andrew Jones and Asanka Gurusinha traded twin tons for New Zealand and Sri Lanka in Hamilton in 1990-91, as did David Warner and Virat Kohli for Australia and India in Adelaide in 2014-15.Shai Hope made 147 and 118 not out as West Indies clinched a superb victory in that match in Leeds in 2017. The most remarkable aspect of his double was probably that Hope was the first batsman ever to score two centuries in the same first-class match at Headingley – in 533 previous games, the feat had proved beyond the likes of Geoff Boycott, Len Hutton and Herbert Sutcliffe. It meant that Clarence Park in Weston-super-Mare became the ground with the most first-class matches (191) without a player scoring two hundreds in the same match.I believe that Rashid Khan is the youngest man to captain in a Test match and a one-day international. But does he also hold the record for T20Is? asked Kishore Bharat from India

Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan does indeed hold the first two records – he was only 19 when he first captained in a one-day international, against Scotland in March 2018, and two weeks short of his 21st birthday when he first skippered in a Test, undercutting Tatenda Taibu of Zimbabwe by just eight days. But although he was still under 21 when he first led in a T20 international, he now lies fifth on that particular list, which is headed by Virandeep Singh, who was about five months younger when he captained Malaysia against Vanuatu in Kuala Lumpur last September.Use our
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