David Luiz features twice in the list of top 10 most expensive defenders. He was bought by Chelsea in 2011 for £21.3m from Benfica. The list of top 10 most expensive defenders in club football history is given below. 0 votes
The soft-spoken Mumbaikar joined an illustrious list comprising some of India’s greatest ever cricketers. Even though he filled in for Kohli at various stages of the third Test in Ranchi, Rahane officially entered the pantheon of legends when he wore the distinguished dark blue blazer and walked out for the toss. With the snow-clad Himalayan peaks providing a fitting background, he accomplished the dream of every aspiring player. In almost 85 years, India have played 512 Tests (including the Dharamsala match) and won 138 of those....
The list below shows the top 5 highest run scorers in an innings. *stats are updated upto 21 September, 2103 0 votes
For the first time this season, Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium in Gros Islet, St Lucia saw the hosts come out on top. It all came courtesy of an 80 from Fletcher and a maiden T20 century for Pollard, which helped them post 226/6. In response, although plenty of Tridents batsmen got starts, none could really convert barring a fifty from Smith and that wasn’t enough. That was thanks largely to an excellent spell of fast bowling from Obed McCoy who finished with figures of 3/38 and helped his side comfortably get over the line despite a few lusty blows from Steven Smith and Nicholas Pooran....
Another Indian duo of Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar features in the list below. *Stats updated till 4th February, 2014 0 votes
The ICC Champions Trophy is just around the corner and below we have a list of batsmen with most ducks in this tournament. The most interesting thing to note here is the name Chadwick Walton, of West Indies, who has played two ODIs in his career, and both came at the ICC Champions Trophy when West Indies were compelled to send their ‘B’ team due to an open revolt by the players against their Board!...
Note: Stats as on December 2, 2013 0 votes
Going into the fifth Test, Anderson had needed just five wickets to procure the all-time record from the Australian legend. After picking two wickets in the first innings, he inched closer by removing Shikhar Dhawan and Cheteshwar Pujara during the penultimate day. When he castled Mohammed Shami in the last session of the match, the modern-day swing icon not only sealed England’s 118-run victory but also ascended to the summit of pace bowling in Test history....
The 28-year-old, who already holds the record for most ODI hundreds in successful chases, now also holds the record for most hundreds in chases after overtaking the Indian legend’s mark of 17 centuries. While the Master Blaster took 232 innings to get to the mark, Kohli has 18 tons in ODI run chases from just 102 innings. Chasing 206 in the fifth ODI against West Indies, Kohli’s match-winning not only helped him claim the world record but also ensured India sealed the series 3-1 after they won by eight wickets with 79 balls to spare....
In fact, some would argue that Epic Games is an even better platform that Steam at this point. Epic is a pretty cunning business, snatching up exclusive rights to selling new PC games for months or more before other platforms like Steam can sell them. Another familiar business tactic of Epic’s is regularly offering free games to its users. That perk alone is compelling reason for anyone to give the Epic Games Store to try....
In fact, Steam passed a huge milestone not long ago when figures showed that 31.9 million concurrent players had been logged, more than nine million of whom were in-game. Beginning life in the early 2000s, it was initially conceived as a way for Valve to better distribute its own games, as well as keep them updated easily. There were teething problems when the service was officially launched in September 2003, suffering from network outages and bugs....
On a reverse play late in the second quarter of Sunday’s AFC divisional playoff game, Bryant ran out of room before he could reach the first-down marker. His momentum carried him out of bounds directly into Phillips, who took a shot right to the chest. MORE: AFC divisional round photos | Scoreboard | An appreciation of Wade Phillips Come on, coach. You have to make that tackle.
So, what is Pittsburgh going to change to fix that? Nothing, apparently. “We’re gonna stick with what we’re doing,” Steelers offensive coordinator Matt Canada said Thursday, per the team’s official website. “Obviously, that’s not the answer and that’s not the sexy answer but we believe we’re on the right track. We’ve gotta get some cohesion up front. We’re working to get that, and that’s not an excuse. We’ve gotta produce right now, so we’re not running away from it or hiding from it....
Coach Mike Tomlin said after the game that Pouncey’s injury would likely require surgery, but no timetable for return was given. Ed Bouchette of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Pouncey has a broken bone, and that Tuitt, who Tomlin said would be out a couple of weeks, has a sprained ankle. MORE: Preseason Week 2 action | Highlights from around the league On a second-and-3 play, Pouncey had his ankle rolled up on during a five-yard Le’Veon Bell run....
Two-time Super Bowl champion and six-time Pro Bowler Roethlisberger was not pleased when the Steelers picked QB Rudolph in the third round of the 2018 NFL Draft. Roethlisberger – who plans to play for three to five more years – said in an interview in late April that he was surprised Pittsburgh selected Rudolph on day two of the draft because he thought the team could “get some really good football players” that could “help [the Steelers] now”....
Still, he picked a very strange time and what appears to be a strange reason to play the race card. After 17 years in Fayetteville as head coach at the University of Arkansas, years of extraordinary success and conspicuous honors for Richardson, he now says he never got the respect due him. And that indeed everything comes harder to a black coach in both Arkansas and America. Because there is ample truth to what Richardson says, we must all tread carefully in addressing his grievances....
It was back in 1990 that the couple unearthed volumes of papers that detailed one of the most sinister chapters in sporting history. That treasure trove of documents, right out of the files of the Stasi, East Germany’s notorious secret police organization, revealed the state’s systematic doping of its athletes throughout the 1970s and ’80s. At the core of the plot was this cheating credo, as explained in a 1975 report by one of the Stasi’s medical stooges: “For the majority of events, world-class performances cannot be achieved without the use of supporting means....
That was, until Radek Faksa took off. The Stars center netted three goals in less than seven minutes to give Dallas the 3-0 lead after two periods. His natural hat trick was also the first of the 23-year-old’s career. His first came with nearly seven minutes left in the second period, when Faksa caught a great pass from Dan Hamhuis right in front of the net. His second goal came with less than 30 seconds left in the period....
Lehtonen stopped 31 shots to become only the 32nd goalie in NHL history to win 300 career games. Lehtonen is only the second Finnish-born hockey player to amass 300 wins in a career — Miikka Kiprusoff has 319 wins in his 12-year career. Lehtonen maintains a 4-4-1 record this season. Despite sharing the net with Ben Bishop, who has the 23-11 edge in starts, the 34-year-old veteran’s attention isn’t on personal achievements....
Cut to last fall, when Samuelson arrived on the Hill with Michael J. Fox on her arm. Those five-minute meetings? Come in, the congressman would say. Stay an hour. When Fox testified, asking for an additional $75 million in research money for Parkinson’s this year (they got part of it), the Senate hearing room was mobbed. “The mood was electric,” says Samuelson. “Everyone from pages to prominent senators wanted a picture....
