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MIAMI: Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani made Major League Baseball (MLB) history on Thursday (Sep 19), becoming the first player ever to record 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season.
Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani made Major League Baseball history on Thursday, becoming the first player ever to record 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a single season. Ohtani officially established MLB's 50-50 club with a seventh-inning homer in the Dodgers' 20-4 victory over the Marlins in Miami. The win clinched the Dodgers' post-season berth -- a first for Ohtani, who never made the playoffs even as he earned two American League Most Valuable Player awards while with the Los Angles Angels.
Shohei Ohtani became the first major league player to exceed 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season during the most spectacular game of a history-making career for the Los Angeles Dodgers star, going deep three times and swiping two bags on Thursday against the Miami Marlins.
Canada, fuelled by a 2-1 win over the U.S. and scoreless draw with Mexico, has jumped two places to No. 38 in the FIFA men's world rankings released Thursday.
Young Malvika Bansod pulled off a sensational straight-game victory over Paris Olympics bronze medallist Gregoria Mariska Tunjung of Indonesia in the women's singles opening round to emerge as the lone Indian survivor in the China Open Super 100 badminton tournament at Changzhou, China on Wednesday. The 22-year-old Indian, ranked 43rd in the world, displayed immense grit as she saved a game point thrice in the opening game to defeat the world No. 7 Indonesian Tunjung, seeded fifth, 26-24 21-19 in a 46-minute match, marking the biggest win of her career.
In most parts of the world, the proliferation of football academies is a great boost to their football as a steady stream of cadet stars keeps on nourishing their national teams. Conversely, that is not the situation in Nigeria, where substandard academies are adding to the country’s football woes. GOWON AKPODONOR writes that the depleting fortunes of the country’s junior and senior football teams are pointers that football academies are not delivering their mandates.
Brendan Rodgers had never felt better going into it. His Celtic side simply could not have looked any better once it got going.
Joe Cole insists that Celtic have shaken off their tags as a Champions League "non entity" after thumping Slovan Bratislava in their league phase.