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Blue Jays rebound against Mariners with 8th-inning rally
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Blue Jays rebound against Mariners with 8th-inning rally
As far as Josh Donaldson is concerned, the Toronto Blue Jays should never get shut out, let alone go without a hit.
Donaldson, Yangervis Solarte and Justin Smoak had three consecutive doubles in a four-run eighth inning as the Blue Jays finished with 12 hits in a 5-2 win over Seattle, a day after Mariners pitcher James Paxton threw a no-hitter at Rogers Centre.
“We expect to have success at the plate, we feel like we have quality hitters that are capable of doing that,” said Donaldson. “I think it’s more so on the other lines when we’re not getting hits and putting runs up on the board is when we’re surprised.”
Teoscar Hernandez hit a solo homer in the fourth inning and was a triple short of hitting the cycle before Toronto (20-17) had a six-hit, four-run rally that broke the game open in the eighth.
The Blue Jays scored 4 runs in the 8th inning to top the Seattle Mariners 5-2. 1:56
Jaime Garcia (2-2) struck out three and gave up two runs — one earned — in five innings of work. Seunghwan Oh, John Axford and Ryan Tepera (3-1) all pitched a scoreless inning, with the latter earning the win as the pitcher of record when the Blue Jays bats came alive.
Tyler Clippard earned his first save of the season, striking out two of the four batters he faced in the ninth inning. He pitched the ninth inning as Roberto Osuna, Toronto’s usual closer, remained on administrative leave after he was charged with assault on Tuesday.
“We’re doing it by committee right now,” said Clippard, who has 62 career saves. “I was told to be ready from the seventh to the ninth, and I’m used to that. It’s one of those things I’ve done in my career a lot.”
Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin started at third, making a rare appearance as all-star third baseman Josh Donaldson was the designated hitter in an effort to rest his throwing arm. Shortstops Aledmys Diaz (left ankle) and Troy Tulowitzki (right ankle) are both on Toronto’s disabled list, and struggling second baseman Devon Travis is in triple-A while he tries to get his groove back.
“He likes to jab at me a little bit. ‘Maybe I could’ve been MVP if I was at third base instead of having to catch,”‘ said Donaldson.
“He’s done a good job. I know he likes playing over there as much as possible but I think I’ll be out there tomorrow.”
Martin gets it done at 3rd
Toronto announced earlier in the day that it had acquired third baseman Gio Urshela from the Cleveland Indians for a player to be named or cash. Urshela hasn’t played in the majors this season after a hamstring injury set him back in spring training. He was unavailable to play Wednesday while his work visa was sorted out.
Wade LeBlanc struck out three and gave up one run in five innings of work for Seattle (20-15). He was followed by Chasen Bradford and Nick Vincent out of the bullpen before reliever Juan Nicasio (1-1) took the loss after giving up five hits and four runs in one third of an inning.
Martin drew a round of applause from the 20,290 in attendance when he ended the sixth inning by grabbing a groundout from Seattle’s Guillermo Heredia with his bare hand and in one fluid motion threw the runner out at first base. Martin didn’t even break stride as he jogged to the Blue Jays dugout.
“I’m just a ballplayer, man,” said Martin. “Just put me out there and I’ll get it done.”
Toronto struggled to bring home runners in scoring position to start the game. Hernandez and catcher Luke Maile were both stranded at third, while Kevin Pillar was left at second, preserving Seattle’s 2-1 lead through seven innings.
Jays break out in 8th
Solarte finally cashed in a runner for Toronto in the eighth inning, driving Donaldson in from second with a looping double to deep left field. Smoak followed that up with another double, giving the Blue Jays their first lead of the game.
Pillar tried to stretch a single, but was gunned down at second. Still, his base hit scored Smoak, making it 4-2. Martin hit another double in the next at bat, chasing Nicasio from the game.
Lourdes Gurriel Jr. struck out, before Maile hit a single to left field to drive in Martin, advancing to second on the throw to home. Maile advanced to third on a wild pitch before pinch hitter Curtis Granderson struck out swinging to end the inning.
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Lehigh Valley Phantoms' five-overtime win over Charlotte Checkers marks longest game in AHL history
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Lehigh Valley Phantoms' five-overtime win over Charlotte Checkers marks longest game in AHL history
Lehigh Valley Phantoms goalie Alex Lyon finished with 94 saves on 95 shots as the team beat the Charlotte Checkers 2-1 in five overtimes, making it the longest game in the 82-year history of the AHL.
Alex Krushelnyski scored 6:48 into the fifth overtime period, giving the Phantoms the Game 4 win of the Calder Cup playoff series between the AHL affiliates of the Philadelphia Flyers and Carolina Hurricanes.
Krushelnyski’s score came at 1:09 a.m. local time, more than after six hours after the game started.
The longest game in AHL history is over! Alex Krushelnyski is the hero and the @LVPhantoms get the win! #LVvsCHA pic.twitter.com/enyOOkj9n7
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Lyon’s save tally is the second-highest total in league history. The 25-year-old Lyon, who started seven games for the Flyers this season, stopped the last 79 shots he faced while shutting out the Checkers over the final 119:56 of the game.
Charlotte’s Alex Nedeljkovic stopped 51 of 53 shots in the loss.
The Checkers’ 95-53 advantage in shots on goal included a 54-29 edge during sudden-death overtime.
The game surpassed the previous longest AHL mark, a 2008 first-round meeting between the Philadelphia Phantoms and the Albany River Rats. It also was longer than all but three NHL games ever played.
Fortunately for both teams, Game 5 isn’t scheduled until Saturday in Charlotte. The Phantoms have a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series.
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Boston Celtics book their place in NBA Eastern Conference finals
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Boston Celtics book their place in NBA Eastern Conference finals
Jayson Tatum caught a pass underneath the basket, shook off a hit and went up for the go-ahead layup with 23 seconds left and the Boston Celtics beat the Philadelphia 76ers 114-112 on Wednesday night to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.
Tatum scored 25 points, Jaylen Brown had 24 and Terry Rozier 17, sinking a pair of free throws after forcing Joel Embiid’s turnover in the final seconds.
Al Horford added 15 points and eight rebounds for Boston, which will play Cleveland for the second straight year for a spot in the NBA finals.
Al Horford (right) of the Boston Celtics celebrates their progress to the Eastern NBA finals
Jayson Tatum scored 25 points – including the match-clincher – as they defeated the 76ers
Jaylen Brown (left), Marcus Smart (middle) and Terry Rozier of the Celtics celebrate the win
Tatum celebrates the Celtics’ passage to another finals series against the Cleveland Cavaliers
Game One is Sunday in Boston.
Embiid had 27 points and 12 rebounds for the 76ers, who roared back into the play-offs for the first time since 2012, winning won 20 out of 21 games before Boston beat them three straight times to open the conference semi-finals.
Dario Saric had 27 points and 10 rebounds, and Ben Simmons added 18 points, eight rebounds and six assists.
Embiid had a chance to tie it after Tatum made it 111-109 with 18.8 seconds left. But he missed a heavily contested layup, failed to tip it back in and then grabbed that rebound, too. Rozier knocked the ball out of his hands, off his leg and out of bounds with 10.8 seconds left.
Terry Rozier leaps to dunk on a night when his 17 points proved crucial for the Celtics
Celtics forward Marcus Morris takes a tumble and lands on Dario Saric of the 76ers
Tatum carves his way through the 76ers defence to score during an impressive performance
A scramble for the ball as Al Horford of the Celtics tries to guide it towards the hoop
Joel Embiid, who took to the court in a protective mask, dunks for two points
Rozier made a pair of free throws to make it 113-109 – eight straight points for Boston. J.J. Reddick’s 3-pointer cut the deficit to one.
Marcus Smart missed his first free-throw attempt and appeared to try to miss the second, too – to force the Sixers to bring the ball up the court with the clock running – but the ball went in.
Philadelphia’s full-court inbounds pass was intercepted by Smart, and he threw the ball in the air to run out the clock.
Celtics guard Jaylen Brown, who scored 24 points on the night, celebrates after a 3-pointer
Marcus Smart whips up the crowd at the TD Garden as the Celtics reached the Eastern finals
Philadelphia’s Robert Covington reacts after being penalised for a foul during Game Five
Aron Baynes leaps to dunk having escaped the attentions of the Philadelphia defence
Dario Saric is blocked from shooting by a combination of Aron Baynes and Al Horford
The Celtics and Cavaliers will meet in the Eastern Conference finals for the second straight year, but both teams have undergone near-complete overhauls since the Cavaliers eliminated Boston in five games last year. Only four players on each side remain from that series.
The Celtics scored the last eight points of the first half, including 3-pointers by Baynes and one by Rozier at the buzzer, to open a 61-52 lead. Philadelphia closed the third quarter on a 21-5 run to make it a one-point game.
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Process of elimination: Celtics knock out 76ers, will face Cavs in East final
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Process of elimination: Celtics knock out 76ers, will face Cavs in East final
With 2.4 seconds left and the Boston Celtics leading by two, Marcus Smart had a chance to clinch Game 5 of the Eastern Conference semifinals and eliminate Philadelphia by making a pair of free throws.
He missed the first.
He could have made things more difficult for the 76ers by missing the second one on purpose, and forcing them to go the length of the court with the clock running. He chucked it against the rim; it went in.
Boston defeats Philadelphia 114-112, will face Cavaliers in Eastern Conference finals. 0:26
That gave the 76ers a chance to win with a desperation 3-pointer. The full-court inbounds pass went into the left corner, and who was there to intercept it, heaving it back into the air to run out the clock?
To the surprise of no one in a Celtics uniform, it was Smart.
“That’s a Marcus Smart sequence. That just describes him so well,” guard Jaylen Brown said after Boston beat Philadelphia 114-112 on Wednesday night to advance to the Eastern Conference finals for the second straight year. “If it came down to one guy coming up with it, everybody’s got their money on Smart.”
Back-to-back conference finals
Jayson Tatum scored 25 points, Brown had 24 and Terry Rozier scored 17, sinking a pair of free throws to make it a four-point game with 9.8 seconds left after forcing Joel Embiid’s turnover. Al Horford added 15 points and eight rebounds for Boston.
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The Celtics will play Cleveland in the Eastern Conference finals for the second straight year. Game 1 is Sunday in Boston. It’s the Celtics’ first back-to-back trips to the conference finals since making it five straight times in the original Big Three era from 1984-88.
“When you get here, you’re flattered by the thought of the Boston Celtics,” coach Brad Stevens said. “You realize if you’re going to break records here, you’re going to break bad ones. Because none of the good ones are reachable.”
Embiid had 27 points and 12 rebounds for the 76ers, Dario Saric had 27 points and 10 rebounds, and Ben Simmons added 18 points, eight rebounds and six assists. The 76ers rode The Process back into the playoffs for the first time since 2012, winning won 20 out of 21 games before Boston beat them three straight times to open the conference semifinals.
“The Process is never going to end,” Embiid said. “This is a process to get to the playoffs, we did it. This was a process to get to the conference finals, we didn’t. Next year, that’s our goal.”
‘Championship play’
In a game that featured 21 lead changes — the most in the playoffs this year — the Celtics scored eight straight points in the final 1:37, taking the lead on Tatum’s layup with 23 seconds left. Embiid had a chance to tie it but he missed a heavily contested layup, failed to tip it back in and then grabbed that rebound, too.
Rozier knocked the ball out of his hands, off his leg and out of bounds with 10.8 seconds left.
“Just a championship play, that’s all,” said Rozier, who made a pair of free throws to make it 113-109 — eight straight points for Boston.
J.J. Reddick’s 3-pointer cut the deficit to one, and then it was Smart’s turn. Coming off the bench, he had 14 points, six rebounds, six assists and three steals.
“He’s made for this,” Stevens said. “He’s made for these moments. We can go through the stat line all you want, but when your season’s on the line and you need to do really hard things, he can do really hard things.”
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Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown invites mentalist to team dinner
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Philadelphia 76ers coach Brett Brown invites mentalist to team dinner
BOSTON — The Philadelphia 76ers welcomed an unorthodox guest at their team dinner on Tuesday night: a mentalist.
Players said the mentalist executed some card tricks and mind-reading exercises after the team ate together on the eve of Game 5 of its Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Boston Celtics.
“He does some pretty incredible stuff,” guard T.J. McConnell said.
In addition to performing card tricks, the mentalist also correctly guessed the identity of some players’ ex-girlfriends.
“He was smooth,” veteran forward Amir Johnson said.
The Sixers, of course, are trying to pull off a magic trick of their own this week. No NBA team has ever rebounded from a 3-0 deficit in a best-of-seven series. If the Sixers can beat Boston in Game 5 of their second-round series on Wednesday night, they’d inch one step closer to their goal.
“We have a game plan that we’re confident in, we have a rotation that we believe in and they have a spirit still to move this thing forward,” coach Brett Brown said. “We want to go back to Philadelphia [for Game 6].”
T.J. McConnell, who will start again in Game 5 vs. Boston, said Tuesday’s team dinner, which featured a mentalist, was entertaining. “It was just fun,” McConnell said. “Brett [Brown] does a good job of that, not having a real businesslike dinner.” Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE/Getty Images
One part of Brown’s plan is to keep McConnell in his starting lineup. The 26-year-old guard had 19 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists in his first playoff start in Game 4, sparking Philadelphia to a 103-92 win.
McConnell also helped limit Celtics guard Terry Rozier to 11 points on 4-for-11 shooting.
“I just like the spirit which we played the game,” Brown said.
Celtics backup guard Shane Larkin has a sprained left shoulder after colliding with the 76ers’ Joel Embiid in Game 4 and is out definitely.
Zach Lowe goes in-depth on how Philly’s coaches and analytics staff use a detailed system to make key lineup decisions.
The Sixers inserted T.J. McConnell into their starting lineup in hopes of addressing several shortcomings — and it worked.
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If they want to extend the series to Game 6, the Sixers will likely have to find a way to slow down Celtics rookie Jayson Tatum on Wednesday night. Tatum is averaging 23 points on 58 percent shooting in the series.
“He is really good. He’s got a package that he shouldn’t at such a young age,” Brown said of Tatum, whom the Celtics selected with a draft pick they acquired in a trade with Philadelphia. “They post him. He’ll come off and hit spot-up 3s. He’s got stuff off of a live ball that has caught me off-guard where he really can dance in an isolation situation.”
Brown said Tatum likely would be defended by McConnell, Ben Simmons and Robert Covington during stretches of Game 5.
Aside from his concerns over Tatum, Brown said repeatedly that he feels good about his players’ mindset heading into another elimination game.
“It’s a free group,” Brown said. “They believe in themselves.”
McConnell and others credited Brown for creating a relaxed atmosphere ahead of Game 5 by inviting the mentalist to perform. The same magician spent a night with the Sixers during a road trip last season.
“It was just fun,” McConnell said. “Brett does a good job of that, not having a real businesslike dinner. It was more calm and funny.”
“I’m a skeptic,” JJ Redick added sarcastically, before clarifying. “The [tricks] are all good. He was fun.”
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Sport saved Anastasia Bucsis
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Sport saved Anastasia Bucsis
After years of living with fear, the speed skater discovered that the support of her friends and family meant more than race results.
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Boston Red Sox's David Price has carpal tunnel syndrome
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Boston Red Sox's David Price has carpal tunnel syndrome
Boston Red Sox left-hander David Price has a mild case of carpal tunnel syndrome, but manager Alex Cora said he doesn’t think video games brought on the issue.
Cora said Price, who was sent back to Boston for testing, will throw a bullpen session Thursday and then the team will decide what to do next. Price was scratched from Wednesday’s start against the New York Yankees.
“For me this is quote-unquote good news compared to anything else,” Cora said.
Price was removed for precautionary reasons after one inning of work against the Yankees on April 11 because of numbness in his throwing hand, including the loss of feeling in his fingertips.
Cora said the problem resurfaced during a bullpen session Sunday.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is an uncommon injury for baseball players. It’s caused by repeated motions, such as typing, and is more common among esports athletes. Price is a longtime video game enthusiast, and this season, Price and teammates have been logging long hours playing Fortnite; Price told The Associated Press last month the game has “kind of taken over.”
Cora said Fortnite may be discussed when he sits down with Price on Thursday to lay out a recovery plan.
“From what I know, David has been playing video games his whole life,” Cora said. “It seems like Fortnite now is the one everybody’s playing, but last year I saw a lot of guys playing FIFA. That’s all I know. There’s a lot of teams playing Fortnite. But we’ll talk about it.”
Cora said treatment options for carpal tunnel syndrome could include icing or massages.
“We’ll see what works for him,” Cora said. “As you guys know, we need him. We need him here. We need him to compete. He’s a big part of what we’re trying to accomplish.”
Price, who started the season with 14 straight scoreless innings, allowed four runs on April 11 before exiting the eventual 10-7 loss to the Yankees. He threw only 35 pitches — the shortest start of his 11-year career.
Since then, Price has made four more starts, going 1-3 and allowing 20 runs (17 earned) in 22 innings.
Price is 2-4 with a 5.11 ERA in seven starts during his third season with Boston. The 2012 AL Cy Young Award winner signed a seven-year, $217 million contract with the Red Sox in December 2015 but has been slowed by injuries the past two years.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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Young Rascal becomes as short as 10-1 for the Investec Derby
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Young Rascal becomes as short as 10-1 for the Investec Derby
Young Rascal becomes as short as 10-1 for the Investec Derby after winning the MBNA Chester Vase
Young Rascal overcame inexperience to run out a half-length winner at Chester
On only his third career start, the James Doyle-ridden 10-3 winner won tidily
William Haggas-trained Young Rascal is now as short as 10-1 for Derby in June
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Young Rascal did enough to suggest next month’s Investec Derby will not just be an Aidan O’Brien private party when overcoming inexperience to run out a half-length winner of the MBNA Chester Vase.
O’Brien has the first three in the Derby betting, headed by hot favourite and 2,000 Guineas winner Saxon Warrior.
But William Haggas-trained Young Rascal, a son of Intello, is now as short as 10-1 for the premier British Classic at Epsom on June 2.
Young Rascal wins The Centennial Celebration-MBNA Chester Vase Stakes on Wednesday
Young Rascal already has upset one O’Brien sequence. The previous five runnings of the Chester Vase had all gone to the Ballydoyle trainer.
The best of O’Brien’s trio of starters on Wednesday was third-place favourite Hunting Horn, although the Irish trainer had the consolation of winning the Arkle Finance Cheshire Oaks with Ryan Moore-ridden front-runner Magic Wand.
On only his third career start, the James Doyle-ridden 10-3 winner Young Rascal won tidily despite being switched to find a clear run and then having to squeeze between 12-1 runner-up Dee Ex Bee and eventual fourth Ispolini.
Having now won over a mile and a half, Young Rascal has proved his stamina and that is a major plus in the opinion of Haggas.
On only his third career start, the James Doyle-ridden 10-3 winner Young Rascal won tidily
The trainer, who said Young Rascal has been a slow learner, added: ‘If you are going to provide a shock in a Classic, they have to stay.
‘It took me nearly four hours to get here and it was a painful journey from East Anglia but it will be a slightly less painful journey home!
‘Saxon Warrior looked pretty impressive at Newmarket but you should never be frightened of one. Young Rascal is entitled to go to the race.’
Haggas has only had three previous Derby runners – 1996 winner Shaamit, unplaced Our Channel in 2014 and third-placed Storm The Stars in 2015.
Young Rascal, who was bred the wife of leading French trainer Andre Fabre, carries the colours of South African Bernard Kantor, the co-founder of Derby sponsors Investec.
William Haggas-trained Young Rascal is now as short as 10-1 for the Derby at Epsom on June 2
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Bob Elliott's Baseball: James Paxton's no-hitter thrills family and friends
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Bob Elliott's Baseball: James Paxton's no-hitter thrills family and friends
A month before last Christmas, James Paxton’s mom walked into The Sport Gallery on Granville Island in Vancouver looking to buy a picture of her son’s favourite pitcher, Andy Pettitte.
How many mothers of Canadian youngsters will enter stores this shopping season seeking pictures of Paxton? The native of Ladner, B.C., nicknamed The Big Maple, became the first Canadian to pitch a no-hitter on Canadian soil, blanking the Toronto Blue Jays 5-0 on 99 pitches at the Rogers Centre on Tuesday night.
Toronto’s Dick Fowler is the only other Canadian to throw a no-no. Pitching for the Philadelphia A’s on Sept. 9, 1945, Fowler held the St. Louis Browns hitless for nine innings. Yet, he wasn’t a winner until Hal Peck tripled and Irv Hall singled for the 1-0, walk-off win.
(CBC News)
Here’s a look at Paxton and his no-hitter from the point of view of different people in his orbit:
The parents
Paxton’s parents, Barbara and Ted, invited the latter’s brother, Lindsay, and his wife, Lisa, over to watch the Mariners-Blue Jays game.
“As the game progressed, no one was saying anything, you know how it goes,” said Ted. “You talk about it, you jinx it. We didn’t mention it.”
The Paxtons knew proper etiquette during a no-no because this was not the first time their son had hung a zero in the opponents’ hit column. James was pitching in Ridge Meadows, B.C., when he dispatched the other 12-year-olds in the summer of 2000. Time of game, according to Ted Paxton: 58 minutes.
“James has the ball at his house in Seattle,” said the pitcher’s father.
After the final out of the eighth inning on Tuesday, someone said “this is looking a lot like ‘you know what.'”
The 6-foot-4 Paxton threw an 0-2 pitch to Josh Donaldson, who bounced sharply to third baseman Kyle Seager. With already one five-star play in the book (robbing Kevin Pillar) he fired to first baseman Ryon Healy for the 27th and final out. You know, the one they say is the toughest to get, as it always was for Dave Stieb.
The B.C. native threw the 1st no-hitter by a Canadian-born pitcher since Dick Fowler in 1945, helping Seattle to a 5-0 win over Toronto. 1:37
“We were all out of our seats with tears in our eyes,” Ted Paxton said. “There was a lot of hooting and hollering going on.”
Was there so much noise that the neighbours phoned to complain?
“No, they all phoned to congratulate,” he explained, as emails, text messages and phone calls flooded in, many from the town of Ladner (population: 22,193).
Some knew of James Paxton, some had played on the same teams with him on the way up, and some figured things out on their own from knowing Ted. He heard from people he had not spoken to in 33 years, but the corker was a phone call.
“A man phoned and said, ‘I don’t know if you remember me but we worked together at Victoria Station.’ [a railway car restaurant]. It was at the corner of Pacific and Hornby in Vancouver,” Ted said. “That was when I was 18 years old, over 40 years ago.” The caller extended his congratulations.
The national team coach
Greg Hamilton, coach of the Canadian junior national team, remembers the first time he saw Paxton pitch for the North Delta Blue Jays as a 16-year-old in a B.C. Premier League game.
“The velocity was not there, but the arm really worked, he really got out front,” Hamilton said. “He stood out compared to the other pitchers. You didn’t know he was going to strike out 16 and throw a no-hitter in back-to-back starts, but you knew there was a chance.”
Paxton was with the juniors in 2005 and the next year he was Canada’s ace at the world juniors in Cuba. Paxton had Canada leading Team USA 2-1 in the seventh inning when a misplay allowed the tying run to score. Team USA won eventually.
“James should have won that game. He deserved to beat Team USA,” Hamilton said.
The North Delta assistant
Former North Delta assistant coach Mike Kelly recalls a trip his team made to Disney’s Wide World of Sports in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Kelly was sitting with head coach Ari Mellios when a University of Kentucky recruiter came by to talk about Paxton.
“I remember Ari saying, ‘Now don’t foul this up, the way you fouled up the scholarship for Jeff Francis,'” said Kelly.
Francis was recruited by the University of Portland out of high school. Portland decided not to make the scholarship offer. And now the recruiter had moved from Portland to Kentucky.
Paxton, nicknamed “The Big Maple,” showed off his Canadian-themed tattoo after completing his no-no. (Fred Thornhill/Canadian Press)
Things worked out fine for Francis, who attended the University of British Columbia, went ninth overall in the 2002 draft and won 17 games for the 2007 Colorado Rockies on the way to the World Series.
Kelly didn’t watch the game as he’d gone to the movies. He watched the Blue Jays in 30 highlight show — or as it could have been renamed under Paxton, Blue Jays Offence in 30 Seconds.
Kelly said he read on Facebook that Cam Mace, one of Paxton’s catchers with North Delta, had posted that he was at the game.
“What are the odds of Cam being in Toronto? He lives in Cloverdale, B.C,” Kelly said.
The agent
Paxton is represented by Scott Boras, baseball’s smartest man with an iron-clad memory for the game’s history.
Boras was asked if he could recall a starter on a white-hot streak to strike out 16 and then pitch a no-hitter in his next start, as Paxton has. He pointed to the Washington Nationals’ Max Scherzer, who no-hit the New York Mets while striking out 17 in 2015.
Five of the last six hurlers to pitch complete-game no hitters are Boras clients: the Cubs’ Jake Arrieta against the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2015, Scherzer, Arrieta facing the Cincinnati Reds in 2016, Oakland A’s Sean Manaea against the Boston Red Sox and Paxton.
The North Delta head coach
Mellios, who coached Justin Morneau, Jeff Francis and Paxton, watched the first five innings of the Paxton start on TV and then headed to his son Jimmy’s practice. Jimmy, named after his grandfather, plays for the New Westminster Little League Yankees.
“I got to the park in the sixth and he still had it. My brother, Peter, sent me a text in the eighth that he still had it going,” Mellios said. “I told my brother to keep me posted.”
About 10 minutes later, the text came from Peter: “He got it!!!”
Last year when the Blue Jays visited Safeco Field, Mellios took Jimmy onto the field to see Paxton. They had pictures taken with Paxton and some Jays on their way for early hitting. It is Mellios that Ted Paxton credits for giving his son the work ethic his possesses.
“How about that? A no-hitter against the team that drafted him, and in Canada?” said Mellios. “Hopefully he’ll be getting the contract he deserves. He’ll be turning 30 in November. But he hasn’t logged the innings most 30-year-olds have.”
The little brother
Thomas Paxton, James’s younger brother, had been working his construction shift in Ladner.
“He walked in the back door all bug eyed, he had not seen it,” said Ted Paxton. “He was in the same bewildered state as the rest of us. This was absolutely so exciting.
“When you think of everything, going back to his injuries, the ups, the downs, James working so hard at his craft. It’s nice.”
Paxton’s Seattle teammates mobbed him after the final out. (Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)
What if?
What if the Blue Jays had signed Paxton, who they selected in the first round (37th overall) in the 2009 draft from the Kentucky Wildcats? Imagine the noise the 20,513 fans at Rogers Centre would have made if he was wearing a Jays uniform.
The Jays selected Chad Jenkins 20th overall from the Kennesaw State Owls. Jenkins pitched 100 2/3 innings in parts of four seasons. Paxton has had two 100-plus inning seasons.
Then-Jays president Paul Beeston was supposed to handle negotiations with Boras, at the time Paxton’s advisor. Then-general manager J.P. Ricciardi phoned Boras to say the Jays would pay a $1 million US signing bonus (above the assigned slot money). An agreement could not be reached and Paxton returned to Kentucky as a senior.
Meanwhile, in a rehash of the draft, Beeston was quoted in a Toronto newspaper as saying that they lost Paxton because Boras would not allow him to talk to the pitcher.
When Paxton returned to campus he was asked to fill out a form with a myriad of questions. Then, he was told to go out the door, turn right and talk to NCAA officials, with the instructions “do not turn left, do not phone your parents or your lawyer.”
Did a Kentucky rival subscribing to a Toronto paper turn Paxton into the NCAA, or did the NCAA see the story on its own?
Paxton, 21, turned left and phoned his parents as we would hope all our sons would do. The NCAA demanded an eligibility hearing. It never came, so Paxton headed to pitch for the Grand Prairie AirHogs in the independent American Association. Paxton went back into the draft and was picked by the Mariners in the fourth round the next June.
What we never really understood was why former Blue Jays executives seemed happy that, after turning down $1 million from the Jays, Paxton received less ($942,500) from the Mariners. One reason: it’s tough to impress in four starts of indie ball compared to pitching Friday nights in the NCAA, even if Pete Incaviglia is your manager.
Mariners scouts Brian Williams and Jesse Kapellusch signed Paxton. Wayne Norton of Port Moody, B.C, had wanted Paxton as a high schooler.
The Jays did receive an extra pick for their failure to sign Paxton. And with the 38th overall selection, scouting director Andrew Tinnish chose high schooler Noah Syndergaard of Mansfield, Tex., giving him a a $600,000 bonus.
Best Mother’s Day gift
When Paxton re-emerged from the clubhouse to wave to the fans after his no-hitter, it was to the Jays fans who rooted him home in general — and to his cousins Graeme and Amy McIntyre, who live in Toronto and were at the game, in particular.
“I loved it when he showed his Maple Leaf [tattoo on his forearm] to the crowd,” said his father. “And it was really neat the way the fans turned and began to cheer for him late in the game. It was very patriotic.”
So to recap:
Paxton struck out 16 Oakland A’s while pitching seven scoreless in a 105-pitch effort at Safeco.
And Tuesday night he fanned seven as he pitched the first no-hitter on Canadian soil with an economical 99 pitches. His final three pitches of the game were 98, 100 and 99 mph: his highest three velocities of the game. That’s a Justin Verlander finish with flare.
His next start is Sunday in Detroit. Mother’s Day.
On a Mother’s Day a long, long time ago in a galaxy far away, we recall watching Charlie Lea of the Expos no-hit the San Francisco Giants 4-0 in 1981 in the second game of a doubleheader. We phoned Lea’s mother in Memphis. She told us how her daughter and elder son gave her flowers and chocolates, but “the best gift of all was from Charles.”
Consider this early Happy Mother’s Day wishes to Barb Paxton.
Quick hits
Canadian content: The highly-respected Baseball America has Mississauga’s Noah Naylor of the Ontario Blue Jays going 12th overall to the Toronto Blue Jays in its latest mock draft. The Blue Jays sit 11th when it comes to paying six-figure signing bonuses to Canadians since 1991. The Pittsburgh Pirates are No. 1 at $6,905,000 US, followed by the Mariners at $5,557,500 and the San Diego Padres are at $5,327,045. The Jays have spent $2,202,500 on Canadian talent.
Unanswered questions: Is it true that Tony LaCava, who the new regime raved about during the process between Alex Anthopoulos’s departure and Ross Atkins’s arrival, no longer has an office at the Rogers Centre? … Think that the Blue Jays’ long-time security man Ron Sandelli was missed this week? … Is that three starters or four or five on the disabled list? Aledmys Diaz, who took over for Troy Tulowitzki, Randal Grichuk, along with the platoon of Curtis Granderson and Steve Pearce, are all injured.
Hit the button: OK, Ben Wagner is good. Very good. Imagine how good he would be if he had one partner in the Blue Jays’ radio booth rather than learning to work with a different partner nearly every series. Put Wagner in the booth with Mike Wilner and call it two, as a Jays broadcasting great used to say.
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Jerry Jones thinks Dallas Cowboys will see different Ezekiel Elliott in 2018
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Jerry Jones thinks Dallas Cowboys will see different Ezekiel Elliott in 2018
GRAPEVINE, Texas – Owner and general manager Jerry Jones believes the Dallas Cowboys will see a different Ezekiel Elliott in 2018.
From almost the start of training camp to the halfway point of the regular season in 2017, Elliott had to deal with the legal battles waged prior to the implementation of the six-game suspension, and then the effects of not being around the team and its strength and conditioning and athletic training staffs.
“I think that not having to address that mentally and physically, not having to think about not only the interruption of the potential suspension and the suspension but just the physical interruption, the physical aspect of that,” Jones said from the team’s sponsorship golf tournament at Cowboys Golf Club in Grapevine, Texas. “But from the standpoint of mentally, there is no question — I’m 100 percent sure — to not have that on your mind, to not have the ambiguity of not knowing timelines, those kinds of things, there’s no doubt in my mind it will make a significant difference in how he can focus, how he can focus not only on the next practice but the next game and the entire season.”
During the season, Elliott and the Cowboys maintained the running back was not affected by the process. In 10 games, he ran for 983 yards and seven touchdowns on 242 carries.
He had at least 80 yards rushing in nine of the 10 games and had a three-game run in which he had at least 114 yards rushing. In his return from suspension, he ran for 97 and 103 yards against the Seattle Seahawks and Philadelphia Eagles.
Since the Cowboys picked him fourth overall in 2016, the offense has been centered around Elliott, who led the NFL in rushing as a rookie. With the release of Dez Bryant and the retirement of Jason Witten, the Cowboys’ offense will continue to be focused on Elliott in 2018.
“Yes, I think that I give him a big arrow (up) as to what his performance might be without the overhang of the issue he faced last year,” Jones said.
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Battaglin wins 5th stage as Dennis maintains Giro lead
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Battaglin wins 5th stage as Dennis maintains Giro lead
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Published 12:13 p.m. ET May 9, 2018 | Updated 12:41 p.m. ET May 9, 2018
SANTA NINFA, Sicily (AP) — Enrico Battaglin surged ahead at the perfect moment to win the fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia on Wednesday as Chris Froome and most of the other favorites finished in the main pack.
Rohan Dennis held onto the overall leader’s pink jersey with a 1-second lead over defending champion Tom Dumoulin, with four-time Tour de France winner Froome 55 seconds back in 19th place.
Giovanni Visconti, a Sicilian looking to impress before his home fans, led coming around the final turn with 200 meters (yards) to go before Battaglin accelerated to take his third career Giro victory.
Battaglin, who rides for Team LottoNL-Jumbo, finished third in a slightly tougher stage on Tuesday.
“The finish was a bit different to yesterday. Yesterday was really a powerful sprint on a really steep climb,” said Battaglin, who also won Giro stages in 2013 and 2014. “Today was a steep climb but at two kilometers to go, and I had a little bit of time to rest and recover and do a really good sprint.”
Visconti crossed second and Jose Goncalves of Portugal finished second, both with the same time as Battaglin.
Battaglin clocked slightly more than four hours over the 153-kilometer (95-mile) leg from Agrigento to Santa Ninfa in southwestern Sicily.
The start of the stage was delayed for 15 minutes due to an accident on the racing route that left a motorcycle driver in serious condition.
Simon Yates, the Briton who won the young rider classification at last year’s Tour de France, sits third overall — 17 seconds behind Dennis, who claimed the lead after the second stage.
“It was a nice day on the bike, on quite a slow pace because of the head wind,” said Dennis, an Australian with BMC. “I felt a bit of stress every now and then but I am glad to be in the Maglia Rosa. We’re only on day five, that means sixteen days to go. Tomorrow will be another story with the Etna. I’m looking forward to see how I’ll go up there.”
Stage 6 concludes with an arduous ascent up Mount Etna that should shake up the overall standings. Then the race heads over to mainland Italy and climbs up the peninsula to the defining legs in the Alps.
The only overall contender who struggled on Wednesday was Astana rider Miguel Angel Lopez, who misjudged a turn with six kilometers to go, rode straight off the road and fell into a patch of high grass. He finished 42 seconds behind.
Four riders — Ryan Mullen, Laurent Didier, Eugert Zhupa and Andrea Vendrame — were involved in an early breakaway. Vendrame, the last survivor of the breakaway, was caught by the main pack with three kilometers to go.
While the first half of the stage was not very challenging, the second half included three fourth-category climbs.
The final two kilometers were mostly uphill, including one demanding section at a gradient of 12 percent.
The stage began near Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples archaeological site and concluded in the valley of Belice to commemorate the 50th anniversary of an earthquake that killed more than 200 people. Santa Ninfa was one of the hardest hit towns by the quake.
The Giro ends in Rome on May 27.
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Skating coach Gambill switching training site to Colorado
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Skating coach Gambill switching training site to Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Figure skating coach Tammy Gambill, who works with Olympians Karen Chen and Vincent Zhou, will move her training base to the World Arena Ice Hall in Colorado Springs.
Gambill has coached multiple international medalists in her career, working out of IceTown in Riverside, California since 1997. She will relocate this summer.
”I want to be in an environment that includes all of the resources that the Olympic Training Center has to offer,” Gambill said Wednesday.
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”I really enjoyed working with Christy (Krall) and Tom (Zakrajsek) this past season. I am excited about the energy at the World Arena Ice Hall and being around all of its coaches. After the Olympics, I was really motivated to take on this new challenge.”
Chen won the 2017 national title and was 11th at the Pyeongchang Olympics. Zhou was third at nationals this year and placed sixth in South Korea.
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Chelsea vs Huddersfield LIVE plus Tottenham vs Newcastle
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Chelsea vs Huddersfield LIVE plus Tottenham vs Newcastle
PREMIER LEAGUE – LIVE: Chelsea vs Huddersfield and Tottenham vs Newcastle in battle for top four – plus Leicester v Arsenal and Manchester City v Brighton
It is a big night of Premier League football with a total of four matches
Chelsea could move up to fourth place if they beat Huddersfield at home
Swansea will be relegated should Huddersfield draw away at Stamford Bridge
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It’s a big night in the Premier League with a total of four matches being played.
Chelsea could move up to fourth place should they beat Huddersfield and Newcastle win away at Tottenham.
Swansea will be relegated should Huddersfield avoid defeat against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
Elsewhere, Leicester host Arsenal and Manchester City play Brighton.
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Real or not? No-hitter the latest feat in James Paxton's rise - SweetSpot
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Real or not? No-hitter the latest feat in James Paxton's rise - SweetSpot
In his previous start, Seattle Mariners lefty James Paxton had a chance at history. He struck out 16 batters through seven innings, giving him a chance to tie or even break the single-game record of 20. Instead, with his pitch count at 105, he was finished for the night and then watched his bullpen blow a 2-0 lead.
On Tuesday in Toronto, he made history, with a little help from his friends behind him, especially third baseman Kyle Seager. Paxton tossed the sixth no-hitter in Mariners franchise history, blanking the Blue Jays on 99 pitches and striking out seven in a 5-0 victory.
The final batter of the game was Josh Donaldson. Paxton threw a 98 mph fastball up and away that Donaldson swung at and missed. The next pitch was 100 mph on the inside corner — the fastest pitch Paxton has thrown all season — for a called strike two. After shaking off catcher Mike Zunino, Paxton delivered his final pitch at 99 mph — the second-fastest pitch he has thrown all season — and Donaldson hit a hard grounder to Seager, who made a nice snag for the final out:
.@James_Paxton‘s last three pitches:
98 mph
100 mph
99 mph
THAT’S how you finish a no-no. pic.twitter.com/BWdmtS863U
— MLB (@MLB) May 9, 2018
That wasn’t even the best play Seager made on the night. To end the seventh, he made a spectacular diving stop to rob Kevin Pillar of a double down the line, then made a rapid-fire no-look throw to get Pillar, with Ryon Healy making a nice scoop. The play had a hit probability of 41 percent, according to Statcast, but that doesn’t factor in Pillar’s above-average speed, which added much more difficulty to the play:
Kyle Seager’s going to get a nice steak dinner from @James_Paxton. pic.twitter.com/sZK2O0NaQC
— MLB (@MLB) May 9, 2018
Paxton became just the second Canadian to throw a no-hitter, joining Dick Fowler, who threw one for the Philadelphia Athletics way back in 1945. While the British Columbia native grew up much closer to Seattle than Toronto, it was special for Paxton to do it in his home country.
“Of all places, here in Toronto, it’s pretty amazing,” he said as teammates drenched him with blue Gatorade in his postgame interview. “The fans were giving me some trouble in the seventh inning, but once I got past that, they started kind of cheering me on. It was cool. I mean, what a defense tonight. Those guys were making every play. I made a few pitches, got lucky a bunch of times — it was just our night.”
Indeed, after Seager’s great play to end the seventh, Ben Gamel ran down Russell Martin’s drive deep into left-center, making a leaping grab against the scoreboard. Kendrys Morales then lined the next pitch hard to center field but right at Dee Gordon. Paxton fanned Lourdes Gurriel Jr. on 98 mph heat to end the eighth, got Anthony Alford to foul out to right field on the first pitch to start the ninth and blew a 97 mph four-seamer down the middle past Teoscar Hernandez for the second out.
Paxton’s velocity is his calling card, especially for a lefty. His average fastball velocity in 2018 is 95.4 mph, eighth-best among qualified starters and tops among lefties. He was the hardest-throwing lefty starter in 2017. His ability to ramp up the fastball as the game progressed is a reminder of how Justin Verlander did that back in his MVP season in 2011. Courtesy of Kenneth Woolums of ESPN Stats & Info, check how Paxton worked the Blue Jays with his fastball velocity:
Innings 1-3: 94.4 mph
Innings 4-6: 95.1 mph
Innings 7-9: 96.8 mph
Coming off an excellent 2017 season in which he went 12-5 with a 2.98 ERA and 156 strikeouts in 136 innings, Paxton had a disappointing April, with a 5.12 ERA. With Felix Hernandez no longer an ace, Paxton is clearly the team’s best starter, even if Felix still drew the Opening Day assignment. Now it looks like Paxton is getting on a roll. He struck out 10 in six innings two starts ago, then struck out 16, then pitched a no-hitter. “Just trying to challenge guys with my stuff instead of trying to be so perfect picking at the corners,” he said.
No-hitters by decade
Decade # 1900 20 1910 29 1920 9 1930 8 1940 13 1950 18 1960 34 1970 31 1980 13 1990 31 2000 15 2010 36
When he gets going like this, Paxton can be as good as any pitcher in the game. He started 2017 with scoreless outings in four of his five starts. He had a 1.37 ERA in six starts in July. He also had two DL stints, however, and made 24 starts, though that was a career high. The Mariners are off to a 20-14 start, hanging in the tough American League West race with the Astros and Angels, but they need Big Maple to make 30 starts.
The best part of this no-hitter for Mariners manager Scott Servais was that he never had to sweat Paxton’s pitch count. In fact, with 99 pitches, it was just the 12th no-hitter since 1988 — when we first have pitch data — with fewer than 100 pitches, out of the 75 individual no-hitters thrown. Five times this season, a starter has been pulled after six innings of no-hit ball.
Paxton’s was the third no-hitter of 2018. He joins Sean Manaea of the A’s and the Dodgers’ combined no-hitter in Mexico just a few days ago. If you can’t keep track of all the no-hitters, that’s understandable. There have been 35 this decade, the most in any decade.
We had just one no-hitter in 2016 and one in 2017 after seven in 2015, so it will be interesting to see if we’re headed to another Year of the No-Hitter. For Paxton, it will be interesting to see if he can avoid those minor injuries and become one of the best lefties in the game.
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Alex Ferguson’s first words after recovering from brain haemorrhage
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Alex Ferguson’s first words after recovering from brain haemorrhage
Sir Alex Ferguson’s first words after coming round from brain haemorrhage surgery were: ‘How did Doncaster get on?’
The Scotsman collapsed in his Cheshire home on Saturday and was rushed to hospital hours before son Darren’s Doncaster Rovers lost 1-0 to Wigan in the final match of the season.
Fergie, 76, lifted spirits and stunned his family minutes after recovering from his emergency surgery by joking about flying to Kiev in two weeks time for the Champions League final.
The footballing legend is sitting up talking and quizzing doctors about his test results just two days after suffering a brain hemorrhage, according to friends
The Manchester United legend admitted his recovery will stop him attending his former club’s FA Cup Wembley clash with Chelsea next week.
According to the Sun, he told family at his hospital bedside: ‘Aye, the Cup Final is out — but what about Kiev?’
The positive news came after the player who shared in more of Sir Alex’s successes than any other said the next couple of days would be ‘crucial’.
The The 76-year-old Scotsman fell in his Cheshire home and was rushed to Salford Royal Hospital on Saturday
Leading men: Sir Alex and Ryan Giggs at a film premier in 1995
Ryan Giggs spoke of his shock but said his former Manchester United boss was ‘a fighter’ and was hopeful the Scot would quickly bounce back.
Giggs added his support for his ex-manager as football overcame its traditional rivalries to pray for his recovery. The Welshman, 44, said: ‘It was a huge shock as the news filtered in. But I gather that the operation has been a success. I think the next couple of days are crucial.
‘I’m hoping he pulls through for a full recovery and my best wishes go out to all his family.’ Giggs, who made his Manchester United debut under Sir Alex aged 17, played for the manager 941 times and was a key figure in all 13 of his Premier League titles.
Ferguson attended the Champions League quarter-final tie between Roma and Barcelona with his wife Cathy in early April
Sir Alex and Lady Cathy Ferguson pictured on their wedding day in 1966
The footballing world paid tribute to Sir Alex Ferguson, including former Manchester United star and current player of the year Cristiano Ronaldo (pictured)
Ferguson also oversaw the rise of United legend David Beckham, with the duo enjoying consistent success at Old Trafford
He was seen at Manchester United’s stadium, Old Trafford, just last weekend to present Arsene Wenger with a gift before his Arsenal departure
He said: ‘Now is the time to pray and hope he can make a full recovery. He has been the biggest influence in my career, both on and off the pitch.
‘I know the operation has been a success – but he is a fighter and that is what makes me think that he will be able to make a recovery.’
Sir Alex suffered brain bleed that kills one in five
Sir Alex Ferguson is believed to have suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage, which can be confused for a stroke and causes similar speech loss and paralysis.
Often caused by smoking and uncontrolled high blood pressure, it kills about one in five people immediately.
Another third are left so disabled that they need permanent 24-hour care.
However, between a third and a half of people make a full recovery, returning to a normal quality of life in just a few months.
Ranjeev Bhangoo, a consultant neurosurgeon at King’s College Hospital in London, said: ‘The prognosis all depends on what Sir Alex was like before the bleed happened.’
He added: ‘If he had only a headache and a reasonably good level of consciousness, with no weakness in his arms or legs, the prognosis is reasonably good.
‘If he had greatly diminished consciousness and severe weakness, then the chances of making a good recovery are a lot less.’
The haemorrhage is a bleed between the skull and surface of the brain, which usually starts with a sudden ‘thunderclap’ headache so painful that many people lose consciousness.
Sir Alex remained in intensive care at Salford Royal Hospital last night. The manager is understood to have suffered a fall on Saturday morning at his home in Wilmslow, Cheshire. He was taken to Macclesfield District Hospital and later transferred – with a police escort – to Salford Royal.
Former United stars Wayne Rooney, David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo have also sent their best wishes to the man who led the club to 38 trophies between 1986 and 2013.
Current Manchester United and England defender Phil Jones said Sir Alex had taken him ‘under his wing like a father’. The 26-year-old said: ‘I know his character and I know he has that fight in him. He is such a legend in my eyes.
‘He is the one who brought me to the club and gave me that opportunity to play for one of the biggest clubs in the world. He has got all his family and friends around him, the support from all the players and staff at Manchester United and football around the world.
‘When something like that does happen it’s nice that the football world comes together and shows support and we are all rooting for him.’ Manchester United said in a statement that the surgery had gone ‘very well’ but Sir Alex needs ‘a period of intensive care to optimise his recovery.’
His children, including football manager son Darren, and wife Cathy are understood to have been at his bedside.
The haemorrhage, a bleed between the skull and surface of the brain, can cause speech loss and paralysis. Up to a third of patients make a full recovery.
Those who know the man best have always pointed to the real secret of his success: Lady Ferguson. Pictured, Sir Alex and Lady Cathy Ferguson
WHAT IS A SUBARACHNOID HAEMORRHAGE?
A subarachnoid haemorrhage is an uncommon type of stroke caused by bleeding on the surface of the brain. It’s a very serious condition and can be fatal.
Subarachnoid haemorrhages account for around 1 in every 20 strokes in the UK.
There are usually no warning signs, but a subarachnoid haemorrhage sometimes happens during physical effort or straining, such as coughing, going to the toilet or lifting something heavy.
Symptoms:
A sudden agonising headache – which is often described as being similar to a sudden hit on the head, resulting in a blinding pain unlike anything experienced before
A stiff neck
Feeling and being sick
Sensitivity to light (photophobia)
Blurred or double vision
Stroke-like symptoms – such as slurred speech and weakness on one side of the body
Loss of consciousness or convulsions (uncontrollable shaking)
Treatment: A person with a suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage needs a CT scan in hospital to check for signs of bleeding around the brain.
If a diagnosis of subarachnoid haemorrhage is confirmed or strongly suspected, you’re likely to be transferred to a specialist neurosciences unit.
Medication will usually be given to help prevent short-term complications, and a procedure to repair the source of the bleeding may be carried out.
Medical information via the NHS official website
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Lucky No. 7? Not so much for Canada's NHL teams
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Lucky No. 7? Not so much for Canada's NHL teams
If the Winnipeg Jets are going to be the first Canadian NHL team in a quarter of a century to win a Stanley Cup, they’ll have to buck a recent trend of this country’s clubs losing the seventh game of a playoff series.
The lone Canadian team remaining in the 2018 playoffs, the Jets have to beat the Nashville Predators in Thursday’s Game 7 for the right to face the expansion Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference final.
Of Canada’s seven NHL teams, six have lost their most recent Game 7, and some have done it in dagger-to-the-heart, eye-rolling style.
The fun fact that a Canadian club hasn’t won a Stanley Cup since the Montreal Canadiens in 1993 isn’t so fun anymore.
A Canadian team hasn’t played in a Cup final since 2011 when the Vancouver Canucks lost in — wait for it — a seventh game to the Boston Bruins.
Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton have all lost Game 7 of a Cup final since the Habs hoisted the trophy 25 years ago.
Here’s a look at Canada’s NHL teams and their recent seventh-game history:
Montreal Canadiens
The Habs are the last Canadian team to win a Game 7, downing the Bruins 3-1 in the final contest of their second-round series in 2014.
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Eliminating the regular season’s top team might have been a springboard to a title if Montreal didn’t lose goaltender Carey Price to a knee injury in the opener of the conference final against the New York Rangers.
Price didn’t play again after the first game of the series, which the Rangers won 4-2.
Ottawa Senators
In the dagger-to-the-heart category, Chris Kunitz of the Pittsburgh Penguins scored in double overtime in Game 7 of the 2017 Eastern Conference final to oust the Sens.
Pittsburgh edges Ottawa 3-2 in Game 7, Chris Kunitz scores twice including double overtime winner. 1:34
It was the closest the modern-day Senators had come to winning a title since losing the 2007 Cup final in five games to the Anaheim Ducks.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Fresher Game 7 pain is courtesy of the Leafs last month when Toronto was up 4-3 on Boston heading into the third period, only to lose 7-4 and depart the post-season in the first round.
Boston scored four goals in the third period of a 7-4 win over Toronto. 2:05
Adding insult to injury, Bruins face-licker Brad Marchand scored into an empty net.
In the first round five years ago, Toronto led 4-1 midway through the third period of Game 7 against the Bruins — is there a trend here? — only to give up three goals and lose 5-4 in OT.
Winnipeg Jets
You’ve got to go all the way back to Jets 1.0 in 1992 when they were defeated 5-0 in a seventh game of a Smythe Division semifinal by the Canucks.
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Winnipeg led that series 3-1, but was then outscored 21-5 over the final three games by Vancouver.
The current Jets franchise, which moved from Atlanta in 1999, will play a Game 7 for the first time Thursday.
Calgary Flames
A healthy scratch in Game 6, a 38-year-old Jeremy Roenick was a one-man wrecking crew for the San Jose Sharks in a first-round finale versus the Flames in 2008.
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The Sharks scored four goals in the span of nine minutes in the second period. Roenick’s equalizer and go-ahead goal in that burst contributed to a 5-3 win and the end of Calgary’s season.
The Flames lost the 2004 Stanley Cup final in seven games to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton returned to the playoffs in 2017 after an 11-year absence. The Oilers were ousted 2-1 in the seventh game of a second-round series against Anaheim.
Nick Ritchie lifts Anaheim to 2-1 victory over Edmonton in Game 7. 1:27
It was the Ducks shedding a Game 7 jinx on Nick Ritchie’s game winner at the Honda Center. Anaheim had been eliminated four straight years losing a Game 7 at home.
In another near miss for a Canadian team, the Oilers lost Game 7 of the 2006 Cup final to the Carolina Hurricanes.
Vancouver Canucks
Vancouver was beaten 4-0 by the Bruins in Game 7 of the 2011 Cup final. Each team won their first three games at home, but the Canucks couldn’t close it out at Rogers Arena.
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Rioting in downtown Vancouver after the game resulted in multiple arrests and property damage.
The Canucks also lost the 1994 Cup final in seven games to the Rangers.
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MAPFRE stuns Team Brunel to win Leg 8 of Volvo Ocean Race
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MAPFRE stuns Team Brunel to win Leg 8 of Volvo Ocean Race
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) With the Volvo Ocean Race fleet ghosting toward the finish of Leg 8 in light, shifty wind, Spanish team MAPFRE emerged from the fog at dawn Tuesday, trailing Team Brunel with about 550 yards to go.
MAPFRE caught a puff of breeze on the approach to the final turning mark and passed Team Brunel to win the leg and cap a stunning comeback.
MAPFRE crossed the line 1 minute, 1 second ahead of Team Brunel, a remarkable result after sailing 5,700 nautical miles in 16 days from Itajai, Brazil.
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”This is unbelievable,” MAPFRE skipper Xabi Fernandez said. ”I can’t be happier. We were always hoping to come back a little bit but to be honest we were not expecting to win this leg, so we’re super happy. Our hopes were always that there would be a compression so we could catch someone. Last night has been crazy how much everything has closed up and everyone on board did an amazing job.”
MAPFRE had been in fifth place with 300 miles to go. The crew caught up and by early Tuesday was battling in slow motion with Team Brunel, Dongfeng Race Team and Vestas 11th Hour Racing.
The 65-foot sloops were pushed around by the tide and currents near shore, with boats at times even drifting backward, away from the finish line.
American-Danish entry Vestas 11th Hour Racing, whose home port is Newport, finished third.
Skipper Bouwe Bekking said Team Brunel was ”a bit disappointed. But we sailed a very good leg and we can be happy with our performance and how we were going. It’s take time to get on top of everything but I think the last couple of legs we’ve showed what we stand for.”
Team Brunel led for most of the past week after crossing the equator.
Dongfeng Race Team, which had been ahead on the approach to the East Coast on Monday night, was hurt the most by the fluky conditions and finished fourth.
”We’re very disappointed,” skipper Charles Caudrelier said. ”We were dreaming about a victory here. But it makes me angry and I will be better on the next one. I am already focused on the future and I promise Dongfeng will do a fantastic job on the next one.”
MAPFRE regained the overall lead from Dongfeng in the bluewater classic, which has three legs to go. Brunel remains in third.
Fifth across the line was team AkzoNobel, which passed Turn the Tide on Plastic moments before the finish.
The light winds near the finish resulted in a massive compression in the fleet. SHK/Scallywag, which trailed the leaders by more than 130 miles a day earlier, was less than 20 miles behind when MAPFRE finished.
Leg 9 to Cardiff, Wales, begins May 20.
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