Cataractes battle Oil Kings as Memorial Cup continues tonight on TSN
The Memorial Cup is in full swing as the Shawinigan Cataractes take on the Edmonton Oil Kings at TD Station in Saint John, N.B., on Tuesday.
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Spitfires, Bulldogs battle in Game 7 for Memorial Cup ticket
The road to the Memorial Cup tournament continues as the Hamilton Bulldogs and the Windsor Spitfires battle it out in a winner-take-all Game 7 of the Ontario Hockey League Final in Hamilton.
"Bits And Pieces Batter": Former South Africa Skipper Fumes At India's Batting Order In Second T20I
After scoring 211 in the first T20I, Team India did not have a great day at the office in the second T20I as the hosts only posted 148/6 in 20 overs against South Africa in Cuttack. This total did not prove to be enough as South Africa chased it down with four wickets in hand and 10 balls to spare. Eyebrows were raised when Axar Patel was sent ahead of Dinesh Karthik and the move did not pay off as the left-hander departed after scoring 10 off 11 balls while Karthik remained unbeaten on 30.
Portugal, Spain win to set up Nations League Final Four battle
LONDON: Portugal and Spain picked up victories in the Nations League on Thursday to set up a battle between the Iberian neighbors for a spot in the Final Four.
Sunderland face battle to keep hold of first-team regular as rival Championship interest emerges
Sunderland’s Lynden Gooch is attracting serious interest from Swansea City as he approaches the final few weeks of his contract.
Nations League Group A4 round-up: Belgium batter Poland as Netherlands edge out Wales
Substitute Leandro Trossard scored twice as Belgium put their Netherlands nightmare behind them to thump Poland 6-1 in a pulsating Nations League game at the King Baudouin Stadium.
Brazil gets first cricket bat factory
Brazil, self-taught carpenter Luiz Roberto Francisco is chipping at a piece of pine and turning it into a rare artifact for this football-mad country: a cricket bat. Francisco, 63, is the proud owner of Brazil's first cricket bat factory, based in the small city of Pocos de Caldas in Minas Gerais state, population 170,000. Not coincidentally, the leafy spa city is also the headquarters of Cricket Brasil, an organization headed by Matt Featherstone, an English ex-cricketer who has set the ambitious goal of getting 30,000 Brazilians playing the sport he loves in the next three years. Since Featherstone, 51, retired from professional cricket and moved here with his Brazilian wife in 2000, he and Cricket Brasil's 19 staff have managed to grow the sport exponentially. There are now more than 5,000 cricketers in Brazil, thanks mainly to the organization's 63 community youth programs, and the women's national team have won four of the past five South American championships. But that all ground to a halt when the Covid-19 pandemic hit, leaving those spreading the gospel of cricket without one key import: bats. Enter Francisco, a retired electrician at the local Alcoa aluminum plant who is known around Pocos de Caldas as a deft handyman and ingenious problem solver.