Sunday, July 10, 2016

Derek Jeter marries model Hannah Davis in Napa Valley


Hannah Davis is a Caribbean Queen

Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Hannah Davis and former New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter married in an intimate ceremony at the MeadowoodNapa Valley Resort in California on Saturday, according to PEOPLE.

Davis and Jeter have been dating for over three years, but started appearing together at red carpet events last summer. Rumors that the two planned to wed were confirmed in November, when Jeter subtly mentioned the pairs engagement for the first time, calling Davis his fiance in a Players Tribune article.

Among the less than 100 guests that attended the wedding were Jeters longtime teammates and friends Jorge Posada, Andruw Jones and Tino Martinez.

Jeter and Davis are known to be private people, but the couples next step could be having children. Jeter told PEOPLE in 2014 that he was looking forward to becoming a dad after his playing career.

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Source: http://www.si.com/swim-daily/2016/07/10/derek-jeter-hannah-davis-married-napa-valley-california

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Saturday, July 9, 2016

Winning Mega Millions ticket sold in Indiana; Check numbers here


Winning numbers for Mega Millions $540M jackpot

(WXYZ) - A winning ticket for the $540 million Mega Millions jackpot on Friday night was sold in Indiana, according to the California Lottery.

The lottery tweeted out "Congrats to the one #MegaMillions jackpot winner in Indiana."

The winning numbers for Friday night were 08-19-20-55-73 and the Megaball was 5.

When no winning ticket was drawn for Tuesday"s $449 million jackpot, it jumped to $540 million by Friday.

Source: http://www.wxyz.com/news/winning-mega-millions-ticket-sold-in-indiana-check-numbers-here

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NFL posts Brock Lesnar"s Vikings highlights


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The NFL, as Americas most popular sports league, doesnt need to piggyback off other sports to garner attention. But the biggest mixed martial arts event of the year is happening tonight during the slowest time on the NFL calendar, and so the NFL has decided to get in on the action.

Brock Lesnar, who will fight tonight at UFC 200, is best known as a professional wrestler and former UFC heavyweight champion, and before that he was an NCAA wrestling champion. But Lesnar also had a brief stint in the NFL, and highlights from that brief stint can now be seen on the NFLs YouTube channel.

Lesnar spent training camp and the preseason with the Vikings in 2004, trying to make the roster as a defensive lineman. He never really had much of a shot of making the team, given his lack of football experience beyond high school. But at 6-foot-2 and 285 pounds, he looked the part of a defensive lineman, and those who saw him in Vikings camp said he had the athletic talent to do it.

All the Vikings coaches and players talk about how impressed they have been with his attitude, FOX broadcaster Curt Menefee said during the game.

Longtime Patriots guard Stephen Neal, who took on Lesnar in the 1999 NCAA heavyweight wrestling championship, has said he believes Lesnar could have made it in the NFL if he had jumped straight into football after his college wrestling career, as Neal did. (Lesnar, in turn, has said Neal could have been a good UFC fighter.) Well never know what kind of NFL player Lesnar might have been, but on a day when millions of people will watch Lesnar fight in the Octagon, the NFL is reminding fans that Lesnar once played on an NFL field.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/07/09/nfl-posts-brock-lesnars-vikings-highlights/

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Andy Murray is finally the favorite in Wimbledon final with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic eliminated


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WIMBLEDON, EnglandThe headline in the Times of London said exactly what many Brits are thinking: Finally its not Federer or Djokovic. Yes, at last Andy Murray, the homeboy, will play for the championship of a tennis Grand Slam and not be facing two of the men who the last few years have been the best in the sport, Roger Federer or Novak Djokovic.

In Sundays Wimbledon mens final, Murray the Scot the English papers too often refer to him just as a Brit plays Milos Raonic, 25, who not only is the first Canadian male to get this far but the first ever to make it to the final round in any of the four major tournaments.

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For the Murray, 29, it is his 11th Grand Slam final, the previous 10 against either Djokovic or Federer, and the third at Wimbledon where he lost to Federer in 2012 and beat Djokovic in 2013. Murray has been in the finals of all three Slams this year, losing to Djokovic in the Australian and the French. Hes comfortable.

Three weekends ago, Murray won Queens for a fifth time, one of the grass court preludes to Wimbledon, defeating Raonic in the final. But Murray said, Im aware Ill have to play a very good match if I want to win Wimbledon. I was down a set and a break at Queens. Hopefully Ill come out firing.

Raonic certainly will. The serve is his weapon. At 6-5, hes known as one of the fastest servers in the game, if not the fastest, recording speeds of more than 140 mph.

Ivan Lendl, the Czech who never won Wimbledon, is one of Murrays coaches, and John McEnroe, the American who won it three times, is one of Raonics. It gives actually a bit of extra confidence, said Murray, reuniting with Lendl, because I know last time we worked together, it was very successful. I trust in what he says.

What McEnroe did for Raonic was get him to be more emotional, which certainly McEnroe was when he played.

I think hes definitely put an emphasis on it, Raonic said. I try to calm myself down. He says. Theres no too calm for you. You tend to be too calm, try to get energy out of you, try to get it out of you on court and leave it all out there, try to get the most out of yourself.

That has worked so far. But will it for sixth-seeded Ranic against second-seeded Murray? Murray has all the shots, moves very and will have virtually all the 14,000 fans at Centre Court cheering for him.

That is, Murray said, a nice advantage.

Source: http://www.newsday.com/sports/tennis/andy-murray-is-finally-the-favorite-in-wimbledon-final-with-roger-federer-novak-djokovic-eliminated-1.12024558

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Mexico"s most powerful drug lord "El Chapo" escapes... again


EL CHAPO ESCAPES PRISON AGAIN?

Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has achieved what police vowed would not happen - escaped from a maximum security prison for a second time.

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A manhunt began late on Saturday night after the disappearance of Guzman - head of the powerful Sinaloa cartel.

Authorities found a tunnel in Guzman"s cell. The 1.5km escape route led to a building under construction outside the prison.

Mexico"s National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said 18 people were being taken to Mexico City for questioning over Guzman"s escape.

The narcotics kingpin was last seen in the showers of the Altiplano prison, Mr Rubido said. Flights have been suspended at the nearby Toluca airport.

Guzman was arrested in February 2014 and faces multiple drugs trafficking indictments both in Mexico and the US.

His Sinaloa cartel, named after the area of Mexico in which it was founded, is an international drugs trafficking organisation believed to control most of the major crossing points for drugs at the US/Mexico border.

He was first arrested in 1993 and sentenced to more than 20 years in prison on drug trafficking charges. He escaped in 2001 by bribing guards to help smuggle him to freedom.

Source: http://www.channel4.com/news/mexico-drug-lord-escapes-guzman-el-chapo-joaquin-prison

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Winning Mega Millions ticket for $540 million jackpot sold in Indiana


The Mega Millions Jackpot Is Growing, But That Was Kind Of The Plan

DES MOINES, Ia. (WDRB) - Lottery officials announced Friday night a single winning ticket for the Mega Millions had been sold in Indiana.

The winning numbers for Friday"s drawing were 8, 19, 20, 55, and 73. The mega ball was 5.

Lottery officials didn"t say where in Indiana the ticket was sold, and the winner has not yet come forward.

The $540 million jackpotwas the third largest Mega Millions jackpot ever.

The winner can take the one time cash option of $380 million or 30 annual installments.

The Mega Millions jackpot is now $15 million for a drawing on Tuesday July 12.

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Source: http://www.wdrb.com/story/32406523/winning-mega-millions-ticket-sold-in-indiana

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Miesha Tate leads women to unexpected but welcome honor as UFC 200 headliners


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LAS VEGAS -- Miesha Tate has never appreciated questions about Ronda Rousey before. But this one was different.

Asked in an interview earlier this week with CBS Sports whether Rousey"s absence, and the fact women"s mixed martial arts is currently driven by narratives that have nothing to do with her, is good for the sport, Tate sounded eager and excited to give an answer.

This was her kind of Ronda Rousey question.

"We always got criticized for not having enough depth," she said. "And I think having the belt change a couple times is the best thing that could have happened. Instead of singling out one female that has to carry the entire sport, we have to disperse and make more stars, which helps legitimize the sport of women"s MMA."

And that was before happenstance put Tate on a course to be the top fight Saturday at UFC 200. She has an opportunity push women"s MMA markedly forward, all despite holding a belt without ever having defeated Rousey herself.

First, Holly Holm stunned the sport at UFC 193 with a win over Rousey. Then, in Holm"s first title defense at UFC 196, it was Tate who made sure the women"s bantamweight title again changed hands.

Now, it"s Jon Jones and his failed drug test who can be thanked for giving the women a shot at further establishing themselves in a sport that was male-dominated for far too long. Tate"s title defense against Amanda Nunes has been promoted to the top of UFC 200 by president Dana White. It is a seminal moment for women, a touchstone that shows how far they have come in being treated as equals in one of the world"s most violent sports.

"This really proves there is depth and that"s exactly why I"ve been saying Amanda is dangerous," Tate said. "Just as they underestimated me with Holly, and Holly with Ronda, the mistake I don"t want to make is follow suit in that."

Still, the fact that UFC 200"s top fight features two women -- neither named Ronda Rousey -- speaks to a sea change. Unseen depth is one thing. But now that depth is front and center being called upon to protect what -- for White and the UFC -- was turning into an epic disaster.

Let"s not pretend otherwise: Women"s sports have always played a distant second fiddle to their men"s counterparts. The WNBA does not remotely approach the NBA in terms of relevance. Women"s golf is, at best, an afterthought. Same for women"s college hoops. Even women"s tennis, with Serena Williams still active as one of the sport"s all-time players, has not broken through the way it should. Williams herself correctly pointed out at Wimbledon this year that she and other women are too often relegated to less glamorous courts while the top men routinely play on Centre Court.

The only time, outside UFC 200 this weekend, that women"s sports otherwise get top billing is the Olympics. And that"s mostly amateur sports, every two years, and due as much to nationalism as sporting fervor.

On the surface, UFC does not seem like the place for the women to make a major breakthrough. It is a b****y and violent combat sport, and as such, it leans heavily on notions of strength, masculinity and the celebration of violence. Women can compete in these spheres, of course, but fans embracing them doing so is a whole other thing. See: boxing.

But thanks largely to Rousey, the women"s end of MMA has become mainstream. She came onto the scene as glamorous, talented, unrelenting, charismatic, biting and above all else a brutal and gifted fighter -- all things that would power a man to stardom. UFC, with a fan base that recognized greatness and tactical skill, bought in. And a crossover star was born.

Then, after Holm proved Rousey was beatable, Tate helped turn the women"s end of the sport into a sensation even with Rousey out of the picture. I was at UFC 196, and her battle with and takedown of Holm was thrilling and wonderful to watch. Not for a woman"s sport, not with some sexist asterisk -- just as a spectacle of two competitors battling for greatness while fans like me reveled in the thrill of the battle.

"You feel more -- I guess that best way I can describe it is "primal,"" Tate said of being in the Octagon. "You think of the primal days when you had to fight for what was yours. There"s no law, no guardian, nothing protecting me and what I have except for my own skill and my own defense and my own will and determination. It"s so raw and pure that it"s just me and her. All the pressure falls on my shoulders to defend what"s mine."

Yes, that is at stake: Tate trying to prove she is no one-hit wonder, no one-time champ, no chump. At Friday"s weigh in, she and Nunes locked arms, tussled, ratcheted up the disrespect and anger. They are both fighting not just against each other but for their places in the sport.

But together, they are fighting for more. Now atop the UFC 200 card, a great fight -- another thrilling match, regardless of who actually wins -- will further cement women"s MMA as a crucial and captivating part of one of the country"s fastest growing sports.

Source: http://www.cbssports.com/mma/news/miesha-tate-leads-women-to-unexpected-but-welcome-honor-as-ufc-200-headliners/

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