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Em busca do pentacampeonato da Copa do Brasil, o Palmeiras estreia na competição nesta noite diante do Botafogo-SP, no Allianz Parque, buscando um bom resultado já no primeiro jogo da eliminatória.

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Para construir uma vantagem que faça o Verdão jogar mais tranquilo em Ribeirão Preto, daqui três semanas, o time de Abel Ferreira precisa fazer as pazes com as redes.

Isso porque o ataque alviverde não vive boa fase no Brasileirão, e com apenas um gol nas primeiras quatro rodadas, o atual bicampeão brasileiro tem o segundo pior ataque da competição.

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Já na Libertadores, a fase do ataque alviverde muda completamente, e o time tem sete gols nos três jogos que fez na fase de grupos.

Este será o segundo encontro do Palmeiras diante do Botafogo-SP neste ano, uma vez que o Verdão bateu o rival do interior por 1 a 0 na campanha do tri do Paulistão.

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O provável Palmeiras para encarar o Botafogo-SP é: Weverton, Mayke, Murilo, Gómez e Piquerez; Aníbal Moreno, Zé Rafael e Raphael Veiga (Luís Guilherme); Estevão, Endrick e Flaco López.

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أعلن نادي الزمالك، عن التوجه بطلب عاجل إلى الاتحاد المصري لكرة القدم بشأن مباراة الفريق الأول لكرة القدم، أمام بلدية المحلة في كأس مصر.

وأوضح عبد الناصر محمد، مدير الكرة بنادي الزمالك، أن إدارة الكرة خاطبت اتحاد الكرة لتأجيل مباراة بلدية المحلة، التي كانت مقررة السبت 27 ديسمبر الجاري في كأس مصر.

طالع.. مواعيد مباريات دور الـ16 من كأس مصر ومؤجلات دور الـ32

ويلتقي الزمالك مع بلدية المحلة ضمن منافسات دور الـ 32 من بطولة كأس مصر موسم 2025-2026، على ملعب استاد المقاولون العرب.

وأفاد عبد الناصر، أن اتحاد الكرة وافق على تأجيل اللاعب وأخطر النادي رسميًا بإقامة اللقاء يوم الأحد 28 ديسمبر في الثانية والنصف عصرًا.

جاء طلب الزمالك بسبب ارتباط الفريق بخوض مباراة سموحة المقرر لها يوم 25 ديسمبر الجاري في كأس عاصمة مصر.

Against all odds, the Tigers have made it to the AL Division Series despite their late-season collapse.

Detroit squandered a 15.5-game lead on the Guardians in the AL Central and dropped 13 of their last 16 games to finish the regular season. Once hoping for a bye to the ALDS, the Tigers had to go to Cleveland for a wild-card series just to advance to the round they once thought was a given.

They were able to finally put the pesky Guardians to bed, winning a decisive Game 3 on the road to move on. Now, the Tigers will travel to Seattle to begin their ALDS series against the Mariners who won 90 games in the regular season and possess one of baseball's best offenses.

Cal Raleigh smacked 60 home runs this year, becoming just the seventh player in MLB history to hit 60 or more in one campaign. He set the record for the most homers by a catcher in a single season, a record that won't be broken any time soon unless Raleigh does it himself.

Beyond the Big Dumper's magical season, the M's made an aggressive push at the trade deadline to bring in Eugenio Suárez and Josh Naylor from the Diamondbacks to bolster their lineup for a run in October. Suárez hit 49 homers himself this year, which was the fifth most in baseball behind only Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Kyle Schwarber and, of course, Raleigh.

Seattle's offense hit 238 home runs as a unit this season, which is behind only the Yankees and Dodgers. The Tigers' bats haven't been nearly as good, especially as of late, but they have the most dominant pitcher in baseball on their roster in Tarik Skubal.

With a trip to the AL Championship Series on the line, the ALDS matchup between the Mariners and Tigers won't disappoint. Ahead of Saturday's Game 1, here are a handful of bold predictions for the series:

Tigers Employ Pitching Chaos for Game 1

Boston Red Sox rookie phenom Roman Anthony got his first chance to play at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night and more than made the most of it, blasting a two-run homer to put his mark on the storied rivarly. There will likely be many, many more chapters as he embarks on what is expected to be a long and productive career in Boston.

He punctuated the moment with a well-earned bat flip. After the game he revealed that he didn't even know he was doing that.

“It just happened. I don’t even know. I don’t usually do that,” he said.

Anthony also spoke about his first time in hostile territory and how the Bronx crowrd lived up to his expectations, and then some.

“It’s probably what I imagined and maybe even a little more,” Anthony said. “For me, I love playing in that atmosphere. I love getting booed. I love everything about it.

It's just a single game but that sounds like bad news for Yankees fans. If an opposing player feeds off the negativity and then shuts it up by blasting a tape-measure home run that's perhaps a sign that a new strategy is in order.

Not that New York is suddenly going to be super nice to the presumed future face of the Red Sox or anything. Let's not get crazy. And of course it's way easier to enjoy the boos when one is winning and contributing. They might hit a little different during a prolonged team slide or slump on the plate.

The New York Yankees have been one of the most disappointing teams in Major League Baseball so far this season. After being swept by the Miami Marlins this past weekend they find themselves in third place in the American League East.

The Yankees are in Texas on Monday where they will start a three-game series with the Rangers, who are currently two games out of the wild-card race. The Yankees are second in that race, just 2.5 games ahead of the Rangers.

The pressure is mounting for Aaron Boone's team and while the manager has enraged fans by often repeating simple lines after losses, one player stood up and made an honest statement about what the team must do starting now if they want to turn things around and put their struggles behind them.

That player? Second-year catcher Ben Rice, who has also played first base and been used at designated hitter this season.

"I think a little sense of urgency would be good for us," Rice said after Sunday's 2-0 loss in Miami. "I think just going forward to continue to do what we can winning ball games and that’s going to be doing the little things."

The little things—including bad errors and costly mental mistakes—have hurt the Yankees a lot lately. If they don't stop doing those things, losses could be piling up.

Rice's teammates might want to listen to him, because a loss Monday night to the Rangers would only ramp up the pressure even more.

It was a steamy September Sunday night in Cincinnati in 2013, just another game in the inclined treadmill that is a single baseball season that, before you know it, becomes a career. It was Clayton Kershaw’s night to pitch, but there was a problem. His back was killing him.

Dodgers manager Don Mattingly and general manager Ned Colletti did not want him to pitch. Los Angeles had a fat, 11-game lead atop the National League West. Sure, the Dodgers had lost three games in a row. But there was no need to take a chance with the best pitcher in the game.

“Sorry,” Colletti told Kershaw. “We can’t risk it.”

“I’m pitching,” Kershaw replied.

“Well, we don’t think it’s a good idea.”

“I’m telling you, I’m pitching. I to do this.”

Remembers Colletti, “He begged me to pitch. We let him go.”

Kershaw grinded through seven innings in the 85-degree heat and left in a 2–2 tie. He threw 104 pitches. He gave up two solo homers to Jay Bruce, the third and final time he allowed two homers to a left-handed hitter in the same game. The Reds walked off the Dodgers, winning 3–2.

The final score or even his pitching line do not matter. What matters from that night is what best defines Kershaw. It was not the parabolic beauty of his curveball, which arrived one day in a spring training game in Vero Beach, Fla., in the same frightening manner of what the military calls an Unidentified Anomalous Phenomenon. It was so scary that the great Vin Scully immediately called it, “Public Enemy No. 1.”

It was not that herky-jerky, stop-and-start delivery, in which he mimed a man trying to step over a curbside puddle, only to change his mind midway, then resume the quest.

It wasn’t that backfoot slider that was to right-handed hitters—no matter how many times they read it they still could not figure it out.

It wasn’t the 222–96 record, the three Cy Young Awards, the three strikeout titles, the five ERA titles or the MVP Award.

It was a ferocious, almost maniacal will to compete. Kershaw, one of the great competitors of his generation, is leaving the arena by his own choice, the best way to go out. He announced Thursday that he will retire after this season, literally taking it to the house to be with his wife, Ellen, and their four children, with a fifth due in December. He will take the ball at Dodger Stadium Friday night in what could be his final appearance there, where he became as much of a fixture as the golden light at sunset on the San Gabriels. Nobody ever struck out more batters in any ballpark than Kershaw did at Dodger Stadium (1,645), having surpassed Steve Carlton’s total at the Vet in Philadelphia (1,615) earlier this year.

This is Kershaw’s greatest legacy, if not the source of his greatest unspoken pride: he is the toughest pitcher to beat in the 132 years since the mound was set at 60 feet, six inches from home plate. His career winning percentage of .698 is the greatest among all the pitchers who threw more than 1,500 innings in that time.

Hall of Famer Tom Seaver liked to say he was most proud of finishing his career more than 100 games better than .500 (311–205). Kershaw pitched 18 seasons—his start Friday will be career start No. 450—and he still has not lost 100 games.

No one is close to Kershaw when it comes to the most wins without losing 100 games. Behind him is Ron Guidry, with 55 fewer wins, and Sandy Koufax, his spiritual guru in both spin and Dodger blue and white, with 57 fewer wins.

“Sometimes,” Colletti says, “you almost had to protect him from himself. He would go out there in pain. The drive, the quest to always get better, never, ever wavered. I don’t think I ever saw him rest on his laurels, or say, ‘This is good enough.’”

When Kershaw won his first Cy Young Award in 2011, Joe Torre, his first manager, texted him to congratulate him.

“Next year,” Kershaw replied, “I have to be better.”

Aaron Judge won his third American League MVP award on Thursday night. Judge was surrounded by his family and dogs when Don Mattingly made the announcement on MLB Network, but all eyes were on the Yankees outfielder because of his fashion choices.

With a simple dark long sleeve shirt and a visible necklace, Judge conjured thoughts of one person who saw him.

Aaron Judge was dressed like The Rock in his infamous fanny pack picture from 1994. The Rock originally posted the throwback picture on Instagram in 2014. He then recreated the image himself when he hosted a few years later.

And now many years later Judge rebooted the look and everyone on social media made the same joke.

There are plenty more examples on X and other social media sites, but you get the point.

Perhaps if Cal Raleigh had dressed like a wrestler he wouldn't have finished in second place.

This week, we dive into the long, occasionally polarising, and always entertaining career of Sourav Ganguly

Sreshth Shah01-Jun-2020 What We’re Watching, a deep dive into the long, occasionally polarising, and always entertaining career of Sourav Ganguly.Two beginnings
Ganguly was six months short of his 20th birthday when he made his international debut at the Gabba in 1992. He was immediately thrown into the deep end, facing Malcolm Marshall with India on a dicey 35 for 4. He failed to make any contact off his first ball, a wicked awayswinger, and 12 balls later he was out, lbw to Anderson Cummins. His reaction to the umpire’s decision gave us our first glimpse of a man who always felt he was right, even when he might not have been. This was Ganguly’s only opportunity on a four-month tour of Australia, and he wouldn’t play another game for India for the next four years.Then came Lord’s. You know all about it, but you still want to watch it all over again, beginning with a cover drive off Peter Martin that ushered in an era of Ganguly dominating the off side. He peppers that part of the field gloriously through this innings, particularly off the back foot either side of point, and it’s apt that a cover drive brings up his debut hundred, welcomed by a full balcony of applauding team-mates.Unstoppable in Toronto
Within a year, Ganguly was a well established member of India’s team, proving particularly effective in ODIs. His value came to the fore in a five-match series against Pakistan in Toronto in 1997, with bat and ball: he scored more runs than anyone else on either side, as India romped to a 4-1 win, and more wickets than anyone else too, on green pitches that made his gentle medium pace a potent force. There were four back-to-back Man-of-the-Match awards, and you can find the highlights of his performances here and here.The years of plenty
The turn of the millennium was Ganguly’s peak as a batsman, particularly in ODIs; in that format, in 1999 and 2000, he scored 3346 runs at 50.69, including 11 hundreds – half his career total. Some of those hundreds were the most memorable knocks of his career.In Taunton, during the 1999 World Cup, he tore into Sri Lanka during a then world-record stand of 318 with Rahul Dravid, and at one stage seemed destined to break Saeed Anwar’s ODI record score of 194, but he was eventually out for 183 off the penultimate ball of India’s innings. The shots in this video are breathtaking, and there’s even a rare glimpse of a young Mahela Jayawardene bowling his dibbly-dobblies.Later that year, Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar broke the Ganguly-Dravid partnership record, against New Zealand in Hyderabad, but Ganguly roared back into the limelight in the very next match, smashing 153 in Gwalior. Feast your eyes on some old-timey ODI cricket in whites, and have a look at how Ganguly dominates this scorecard.The 1999-2000 tour of Australia was an unhappy one for India, but runs continued to flow for Ganguly during the ODI tri-series, where he scored two hundreds, 100 against Australia at the MCG, and 141 against Pakistan in Adelaide. It was this sort of authoritative run-getting, against some of the best attacks in the world, that led the BCCI to appoint Ganguly India’s captain after Tendulkar stepped down soon after this tour.Captaincy only seemed to lift Ganguly’s batting initially, and he produced one of his finest ODI performances towards the end of 2000, in the semi-final of the ICC Knockout in Nairobi, against South Africa. These highlights capture all the trademarks of a big Ganguly hundred: the poise, the crisp timing, the gleeful feasting on an unfortunate left-arm spinner (sorry, Nicky Boje)…Sourav Ganguly: lordly through the off side, a touch awkward through the on•Getty ImagesIconic captaincy moments
Captaincy turned Ganguly into a fascinatingly combative on-field personality. He was often involved in feisty exchanges with opposition players – Russel Arnold, Andrew Symonds, Mohammad Yousuf and countless others – and his send-offs (Paul Collingwood is at the receiving end here) made for a prototype that Virat Kohli has since built on. And, of course, there was the shirt-waving on the Lord’s balcony.Earlier that day, though, Ganguly had played an innings filled with just as much in-yer-face aggression, clattering 60 off 43 balls to perfectly set up India’s mammoth chase.The batting returns declined as Ganguly’s captaincy tenure wore on, but when he did fire, it was usually inspirational, as in that Lord’s final, or at the Gabba in the first Test of the 2003-04 tour of Australia, when his 144 set the tone for an enthralling series that eventually ended 1-1.A triumphant comeback, a fitting goodbye
Stripped of the captaincy, and then left out entirely, Ganguly could very well have faded away. But it was a measure of the man’s character that he didn’t just come back, but came back stronger. So assured was his batting during the Test tour of South Africa in 2006-07 that Tendulkar even told him it was the best he’d seen Ganguly bat. There was a gritty first-day half-century in Johannesburg, which helped set up a rare overseas win, and a quickfire 66 in Cape Town, which featured some brilliant strokeplay after Dale Steyn dealt him an early blow to the helmet.Against Pakistan a year later, Ganguly made his first Test hundred at his home ground, and this short clip will tell you all you need to know about what Ganguly meant to Kolkata and what Kolkata meant to him. Later that same series, he cracked 239 in Bengaluru, counterattacking expertly after joining forces with Yuvraj Singh at 61 for 4.Ganguly announced that he would retire after the 2008-09 home Tests against Australia, and enjoyed a memorable farewell series: a century in the second Test, an 85 in his penultimate innings, and a first-ball duck in his final innings. There was a guard of honour from his team-mates, and finally, for old times’ sake, MS Dhoni stepped aside to let Ganguly lead the side as India closed in on a series win. For Dada fans, it was a moment for goosebumps and tears in equal measure.More What We’re Watching

The total number of active women cricketers in the country has come down to just 45

Umar Farooq24-Sep-2020The abolishing of departments from the domestic circuit, not to forget the Covid-19 pandemic, has hit women’s cricketers harder than their male counterparts in Pakistan, leading to the number of active women cricketers coming down alarmingly in the past few months – only 45 are left now.Until 2017, there were over 200 women cricketers playing in the domestic circuit for regional teams. They were signed up by departments, which allowed them to earn a livelihood from playing the game. Now, of the 45 remaining, nine are centrally contracted with the PCB, and another nine are in the emerging players’ category, for which they receive a monthly retainer of PKR 50,000 (USD 300 approx.).Around 400 male cricketers lost their jobs after the PCB revamped the domestic structure by removing departments from it. The new structure has six regional teams, with 192 cricketers given annual contracts. Replacing the old structure with the new one was a decision driven by the current prime minister Imran Khan, also the patron-in-chief of the PCB. He has long been an advocate for a domestic structure with only regional sides, wanting Pakistan to adopt a structure similar to Australia’s.So far, much of the focus of the new structure has been on the impact on male cricketers. But the impact on women cricketers has been more profound. As many as 17 have lost their jobs with State Bank and more than 12 out of 18 could lose their Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited (ZTBL) contracts. The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has lost its playing rights, and Omar Associates and Saga Sports shut down their teams a few years ago over management issues.ESPNcricinfo LtdThe women’s game in Pakistan remains by and large in the developmental phase, although over the last few years more and more girls from colleges and universities had started to play as a professional option. Subsequently, the pool grew with regions and corporates stepping in to invest in women cricket. After 2013, there were five departments offering women playing contracts and jobs. By 2017, the PCB had three tournaments for women: one with 12 regional teams – though the number was as high as 16 just a few years prior – playing a preliminary tournament to qualify for a five-team national one-day tournament, and another with four departmental teams playing a one-day tournament. All taken, over 200 cricketers were fielded every season.Presently, there are only two tournaments and only three teams – PCB Blasters, PCB Challengers, PCB Dynamites – and that allows only around 45 cricketers to play; this, even as the PCB has upped the value of the central contracts in the last two years. ZTBL is the only department that has not terminated their contracts with women players, but that arrangement is unlikely to continue for long. The signs are that only a handful of the top players, who have full-time jobs, will retain their positions. But only if they don’t give up their jobs.”We are not really sure about our future,” a woman cricketer who played for HEC told ESPNcricinfo. “Cricket has been our passion and our ambition was to play for the country, but it is all confused now. The system has always been inconsistent and every new head comes with their own plan and never lets one structure run properly. We leave our studies to play cricket but we can’t have a future. They want us to grow but they don’t create the environment and infrastructure for women cricketers.”Unlike the men, we do not have long careers or enough freedom, but so many girls want to play cricket. They don’t know how to make their way. There is no set pathway. There are challenges, and parents need to be convinced: they need to be told that they need to encourage girls to play cricket, and departments offering jobs was a big breakthrough. Even if a girl isn’t able to have an international career, they can play for the departments and earn a decent amount of money to show their parents that they are doing fine. But now there is nothing left. The girls don’t even get an annual contract from the PCB at domestic level.”ESPNcricinfo LtdIn the last two months, to fight the economic challenges brought about by Covid-19, the PCB has provided a three-month financial support package for 25 unemployed national women cricketers. In this scheme, the players who meet the eligibility criteria and are without a contract for the 2020-21 season as well as a means of earning money, receive a monthly stipend of PKR 25,000 (USD 150 approx.).That will end next month.While all this has been going on, the PCB has continued to look for ways to bring the focus on quality over quantity.”The pipeline is redefined as our focus is on our five basic zones in Rawalpindi, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Multan, where we have the academies in place. These are the points where we will be growing our pool of players,” Urooj Mumtaz, chief selector for women and a PCB cricket committee member, said. “They are already operating with coaches, working in evening shifts, and we are slowly growing. We have started picking girls from age groups, and admitting them in academies at every centre.”The pathway is changing and women’s cricket is growing, but currently underdeveloped. But it has started to get its due importance. We are increasing the number of tournaments but number of teams (three) will remain intact for now. But we are paying every cricketer in PCB tournament and in fact have doubled the price of match fee at any age group. So there is incentive. We are also adding an Under-19 tournament every year and making it a part of the structure to prepare for the ICC events.”

Here’s a look at seven young Indian batsmen who could make a mark at the 2020 edition of the IPL

Varun Shetty and Sidharth Monga07-Sep-2020

Devdutt Padikkal

Team: Royal Challengers BangaloreWhy we’re excited
Padikkal finished as the top-scorer in both the 50-over Vijay Hazare Trophy and the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 Trophy last season. In the latter, the 20-year-old opener scored 580 runs at a strike rate of 175.75 and struck a 50-plus score every two innings on average.How will he fit it into the XI?
Assuming Aaron Finch and Josh Philippe fight for one opening spot, Padikkal and Parthiv Patel will fight for the other. With AB de Villiers as an option to keep wickets as well – apart from Philippe himself – Padikkal is well-placed to beat Patel to a starting spot.

Ruturaj Gaikwad

Team: Chennai Super KingsWhy we’re excited
A compact and aggressive batsman, Gaikwad has scored more List A runs than anyone for India A in the last two years – 843 runs in 15 innings, at a strike rate of 105, and has a “sharp cricket mind,” according to MS Dhoni.How will he fit it into the XI?
Gaikwad bats as both an opener and a No. 3. In Suresh Raina’s absence, he is considered as the front-runner at one-down.Abdul Samad is a brutal hitter of spin bowling•ESPNcricinfo Ltd

Abdul Samad

Team: Sunrisers HyderabadWhy we’re excited
Samad is a finisher at the domestic level, handpicked by VVS Laxman himself. He is a brutal hitter against spin bowling and led the fight with team-mate Shubham Khajuria when Jammu & Kashmir nearly managed to pip Karnataka to a Ranji Trophy semi-final spot. He hit the most number of sixes in the last Ranji season despite playing two matches fewer than possible, and has a career strike rate of 112.97 in first-class cricket.How will he fit it into the XI?
If Sunrisers continue to keep Manish Pandey in the top four, two spots open up for finishers at six and seven. He will potentially fight Virat Singh, Mohammad Nabi and Fabian Allen for those.

Yashasvi Jaiswal

Team: Rajasthan RoyalsWhy we’re excited
There isn’t a level of limited-overs cricket that the 18-year-old hasn’t dominated so far. He has six 50-plus scores and averages 70.81 in 13 List A matches, with a double-century in there, and was the leading run-scorer at this year’s Under-19 World Cup.How will he fit it into the XI?
Assuming Jos Buttler has one opening slot reserved for himself, Jaiswal will be up against the likes of Manan Vohra and Robin Uthappa – maybe even Sanju Samson if Royals want Steven Smith no lower than No. 3 – for the other spot. He’s likely to get a go in his best position, even if that means he isn’t a regular in the XI.Sarfaraz Khan had a breakthrough first-class season in 2019-20•BCCI

Sarfaraz Khan

Team: Kings XI PunjabWhy we’re excited
Khan has been caught in many crossfires, some of his own making, others to do with team management; but he is only 22, and has come screaming back to top-level cricket with scores of 301*, 226*, 78, 25, 177 and 6 in his last six first-class innings. He is an instinctively aggressive batsman, and format means little in comparison to confidence.How will he fit it into the XI?
Played eight innings for Kings XI last year in various middle-order roles, and that is likely to be the case this season too.

Riyan Parag

Team: Rajasthan RoyalsWhy we’re excited
At 17, he became the IPL’s youngest half-centurion last year, and showed a wide range as a cricketer – whether in his 29-ball 43 in a winning chase against Mumbai Indians, or with his many variations that make his bowling style difficult to classify. He was one of the finds of last season.How will he fit it into the XI?
Parag is only 18, but seems a frontrunner for the middle-order spot among domestic batsmen in the Royals squad.

Mahipal Lomror

Team: Rajasthan RoyalsWhy we’re excited
Lomror likes to hit straight and then not watch where the ball has gone. There are fears, though, that this fluency is restricted to power-hitting against spin. In a Royals video, he is heard telling his batting coach Amol Muzumdar that he is not quite comfortable against high pace. A spin power-hitter, though, is a valuable commodity in T20 cricket, which is why Royals would be trying hard to take his game to a level where he can be a regular starter in their XI.How will he fit it into the XI?
Royals seem to have set up for a largely Indian middle and lower order. Lomror could slot in at No. 6 for them occasionally, perhaps higher depending on Ben Stokes’ availability.