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The Etihad Stadium side failed with two previous bids for the 20 year old England global but are now set to meet Liverpool’s £50m valuation, albeit with £45m of that sum being up-front with another £5m dependent on Sterling’s success at the club.

“For me, there’s some inconsistency there on the mound”, the right-hander said. “I didn’t hit it well”. Two batters later, Suarez drove in his first run of the game with an RBI single to score Byrd and give the Reds a 2-1 advantage. But on an...

When the Astros allow at least one home run, they are 18-24.

Andy Murray reached the last 16 at Wimbledon today with a win over Andreas Seppi, the final score reading 6-2 6-2 1-6 6-1 in the Brit’s favour.

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“I just try to go out there and throw up zeroes and hold them down as much as you can, give our offence a chance”.

“Once he settled in in the third quarter and we started drawing plays up for him…” Luckily for him, no one would remember his early woes due to his second half performance. He seemed impressively aware of the big picture view of his showing and looks to be the...

Sox pitchers have been feeling the burden, but Sunday’s starter, Carlos Rodon, refused to resort to excuses – whether it was the four errors or the five hits the Sox had.

Maria Sharapova of Russian Federation celebrates winning a game against Coco Vandeweghe of the United States during their singles match at the All England Lawn Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London, Tuesday July 7, 2015.

In unrelated-but-related news, Tiger Woods also played in The Greenbrier Classic and shot a three-under 67 on Sunday.

Tottenham Hotspur have announced that they have successfully completed the signing of Atletico Madrid defender Toby Alderweireld.

The players will be taking to Court 1 shortly. People knew this was special.

He walked two and struck out seven.The effort was a marked improvement over the veteran’s first start of the season last Thursday in Miami, when he gave up five runs on seven hits and four walks in five innings.

This time, likely to again be on centre court, it is in the third round. At 37, Tommy Haas proved that his patched-up body still had the ability to fight it out with the best even when he is under heavy bombardment. Running off 13 points in a row, Djokovic seized command and...

As McKinnon is carried off the field by a number of medical personnel, after the match at AAMI Park was stopped for eight minutes, Smith continues arguing with referee Gerard Sutton about the merits of a penalty awarded due to the tackle.