The ECB has confirmed two more coaching appointments for The Hundred, with Gary Kirsten and Matthew Mott taking charge of the Cardiff-based men's and women's teams respectively.

Kirsten, the former South Africa opener, coached India to World Cup victory in 2011 and then oversaw South Africa's rise to the No. 1 Test ranking. He has had extensive experience in the world of franchise T20, working with Bangalore Royal Challengers in the IPL and Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash.

"To be involved in English and Welsh cricket from a coaching perspective is something that I have never done," Kirsten said. "It's great to be given that opportunity and to come to Cardiff.

"This is a new format that I am sure will grow and grow. The real win is that it will grab the attention of families and expose the game of cricket to as many environments and communities as possible."

Mott knows Cardiff well from his time in charge of Glamorgan between 2011 and 2013. He has previously coached in the Sheffield Shield, and took charge of the Australia women's team in 2015, leading them to the title at last year's T20 World Cup, and overseeing their successful recent defence of the Ashes in the UK.

"Cardiff is a special place for me and my family and that was a big part in my decision to return," Mott said.

"I've got no doubt The Hundred will be a success for the women's game. I've got a young son who is a Sydney Sixers fan and he doesn't see gender - he just sees the team. The Hundred will provide that sort of platform in England and Wales and I can't speak highly enough of what that can mean for the game."

Real Madrid players have been talking to Neymar to persuade the Paris Saint-Germain star to join them at the Bernabeu, sources have told ESPN FC.

PSG sporting director Leonardo has confirmed that his club would sell the Brazil forward for the right price this summer, and officials at both Madrid and Barcelona are trying to negotiate a deal.

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Meanwhile, anti-Neymar banners were flown during the Ligue 1 champions' 3-0 win over Nimes at the weekend, demonstrating some fans' lack of patience with the player.

A return to Barca appeared to be Neymar's most likely move earlier in the summer, but Madrid are increasingly confident they can take advantage of a strained relationship between the Barca and PSG hierarchies, following the 27-year-old's controversial switch to Paris two summers ago.

Barca defender Gerard Pique last week called on his former teammate to publicly speak out and push through his "complicated" return to the Camp Nou, with the Blaugrana board unable to match PSG's asking price and hoping to make a player-swap deal instead.

It is also unlikely Madrid can match the world record €222 million fee paid by PSG two years ago, having been unable to find the £180m that Manchester United wanted for Paul Pogba before the Premier League transfer window shut last week.

Sources say that Madrid are now "going hard" to try and sign Neymar before Spain's summer market closes on Sept. 2, and squad members have also been calling Neymar directly to tell him that he would be welcome at the Bernabeu.

Neymar is a long-time target of Madrid president Florentino Perez, who has tried on numerous occasions to sign the highly marketable star, both before and after he joined Barca from Santos back in 2013.

Zinedine Zidane would like to move on highly paid Gareth Bale and James Rodriguez before the window shuts, but Madrid have yet to receive sufficient bids for either player.

After Madrid's final preseason game at Roma on Sunday, Zidane was asked if he would like Neymar in his team next season. He said: "We are here with the team we have, the players we have.

"We just think about that. Next week our league begins and our minds are just thinking about Saturday."

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady's new contract makes him a free agent after the 2019 season, and it comes at the same time he and wife Gisele Bundchen are attempting to sell their Massachusetts home, which Brady addressed on Monday morning.

"You shouldn't read into anything. I think it takes a long time to sell a house. My house is a little bit of an expensive one, so it doesn't fly off the shelf in a couple weeks," Brady said in his first appearance of the season on WEEI's "The Greg Hill Show."

"I think I'm at a point in my life where there's a lot of considerations that go into playing. I have a very busy professional life, I have a very busy personal life. Any decision that's made has to consider everything. I'm certainly at a place where I've been in the same place for a long time, and I love playing for the Patriots. I have such a great relationship with Mr. [Robert] Kraft, Coach [Bill] Belichick and our team. We'll just worry about that when that happens. This isn't the time to worry about it."

Brady, who said he loves building houses and would consider a career as an architectural designer after his playing career, fielded several questions about his football future in the radio interview, including if he has allowed himself to consider the possibility of not finishing his career as a Patriot. He repeated multiple times that his focus is on 2019 and controlling the things he can control.

"I think I'm in a great mental, emotional place to approach the season," Brady said on the program. "There is no point in worrying about things like that. There are so many hypotheticals -- this and that -- and if you spend time all your time and energy on those things, you [lose] track of what's most important, which is what's happening right now. This is where I want to be. This is the team I want to be a part of, and leading. I'm really excited about doing that. There's really not much to read into it than that."

As part of Brady's new contract, the Patriots agreed not to place the franchise tag on him after the season. Brady, who repeated in the interview that he hopes to play until he's 45, was asked why that was important to him in the contract.

"Those are some personal feelings, and there's a lot of personal conversations I've had that really aren't for other people's knowledge," he said on the program. "I think what this is about is this season and dealing with this year. Beyond this year, whether it's signing five more years, or signing a franchise tag, or not playing, none of those things needed to be decided this year. I'm just focused on this season and being in the right mental, emotional frame of mind to go out there and perform at the highest level.

"Like I said, I have such a great relationship with the team. I've had 20 years of success with Mr. Kraft and Jonathan [Kraft], and with Coach Belichick, with the whole organization. All the coaches. They know how I feel about them. We've just done some great things. We're going to try to go do it again this year. It takes a lot to get from now to March, and I don't want to overlook the big challenge that we're facing. I don't want my mind convoluted with thoughts that are premature, and ones that I'm worried about beyond what the current situation is -- which is us trying to go achieve what we all hope we can achieve. That's where my focus is and that's what I'm excited about. So let's go baby! Put me in, Coach. I'm ready to go play."

Brady, 42, was asked if he'd be open to continuing contract negotiations during the season, and he said he didn't want to address any hypothetical situations because his focus was on the present.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- While Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown says he won't play football unless he can wear his old helmet that is now banned by the NFL, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady acknowledged that it's been an adjustment for him to get used to a new helmet.

"I've been experimenting with a couple different ones, and I don't really love the one that I'm in, but I don't really have much of a choice," Brady said Monday on the "The Greg Hill Show" on sports radio WEEI. "So I'm just trying to do the best I can to work with it."

Brady's old helmet, the Riddell VSR-4, was among those prohibited by the NFL this year, as part of a joint venture with the players' association to help improve player safety.

Brady previously said he understands the reason for the change, even as he struggles to adapt to it.

"You get used to the same helmet for a long period of time. My last helmet, I wore it the last four Super Bowls, so it was a pretty great helmet for me. I hated to put it on the shelf," he said on the radio program. "It's kind of what I'm dealing with."

NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy noted that NFL policy states that helmets have to be certified by the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE) and that it doesn't clear equipment that is older than 10 years.

McCarthy explained that players can't practice or play in games until they wear an approved helmet.

Rich Paul, founder and CEO of Klutch Sports Group, said that while it's "flattering" that the NCAA's new agent provisions are being called the "Rich Paul Rule," he's more concerned about the greater impact the new criteria will have.

Colloquially dubbed the "Rich Paul Rule," the memo, obtained by ESPN, outlines new criteria for agents interested in representing players testing the NBA draft waters: a bachelor's degree, NBPA certification for at least three consecutive years, professional liability insurance and completion of an in-person exam taken in early November at the NCAA office in Indianapolis.

"The harmful consequences of this decision will ricochet onto others who are trying to break in," Paul said in an op-ed for The Athletic. "NCAA executives are once again preventing young people from less prestigious backgrounds, and often people of color, from working in the system they continue to control. In this case, the people being locked out are kids who aspire to be an agent and work in the NBA and do not have the resources, opportunity, or desire to get a four-year degree.

"I actually support requiring three years of experience before representing a kid testing the market. I can even get behind passing a test. However, requiring a four-year degree accomplishes only one thing -- systematically excluding those who come from a world where college is unrealistic.

"Does anyone really believe a four-year degree is what separates an ethical person from a con artist?"

Though he does not have a bachelor's degree, Paul's Klutch Sports represents LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Ben Simmons, Draymond Green, John Wall and other NBA players.

Last year, Paul began representing Darius Bazley after the No. 13 prospect in the Class of 2018 decommitted from Syracuse. The plan had been for Bazley to play in the G League, but instead, under Paul's direction, he landed a $1 million internship at New Balance and spent the year training for the NBA draft.

Bazley went No. 23 overall to the Utah Jazz but has since landed on the Oklahoma City Thunder.

"To be honest, I have no idea whether the NCAA adopted the new rule specifically because of my work with Darius Bazley, as people have speculated, or if it is because they know there are more and more people like me fighting for their chance and challenging this antiquated system," Paul said.

Paul said he's worried the new stipulations will present a road block for people like himself, who come from more challenging backgrounds, to get to his level of success in the field.

"When I travel back to neighborhoods like the inner city of Greater Cleveland where I'm from, young black kids tell me that they see my career as another path for them out of their troubled surroundings," Paul said. "They want to grow up to do what I do. That inspires me."

In the op-ed, Paul offered suggestions to how the NCAA could still reach its stated goals while being less exclusionary with its policies.

"Why [doesn't the NCAA] partner with universities on a one-year program for agents who don't meet their requirements but want to learn the business? Or work with existing agents who play by the rules to help mentor those who are trying to 'break in,'" Paul suggested.

He ended his op-ed with his own take on a hashtag popularized by friend and client James: "#MoreThanAnAgent."

The San Francisco Giants announced Sunday during a pregame ceremony honoring the 1989 National League championship team that Will Clark's No. 22 will be retired next year.

Clark, now a special assistant with the team, was joined on the field for the announcement by several other former Giants from the team that lost to the Oakland Athletics in the '89 World Series.

"To be forever linked with the greatest who have ever played this sport here in San Francisco, it's absolutely amazing,'' Clark told the crowd.

Clark will become just the second former Giants player to have his number retired without being in the Hall of Fame. Barry Bonds is the other.

"To know I'm going to be out on that wall with Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Barry Bonds ... is absolutely unbelievable.

"It's something I'll never forget. This is my hall of fame. Thank you, thank you, thank you," Clark told the crowd.

Clark was a five-time All-Star in his eight seasons with the Giants and finished second in NL MVP voting in 1989. The former first baseman also won a Gold Glove in 1991. He hit .299 with 176 home runs and 709 RBIs in 1,160 games for San Francisco. He retired from baseball in 2000 with a career batting average of .303 in 15 seasons.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec – In the 50th running of the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières, and the 50th year of Dumoulin family racing, hometown hero L.P. Dumoulin grabbed perhaps the biggest win of his career on Sunday with the NASCAR Pinty’s Series.

To make it even sweeter, he was surrounded by his family from start to finish.

Prior to the race, family patriarch Richard Dumoulin paced the field in the car he raced during the first GP3R. At the end, J.F. Dumoulin finished third, joining L.P. on the podium for the first time in their Pinty’s Series careers.

“There’s no way to describe the feeling,” L.P. Dumoulin said. “I’m on the podium with my brother J.F. in front of all our family and friends.”

Dumoulin’s No.47 Weathertech Canada/Bellemare Dodge was locked in a fierce, late-race battle with Alex Tagliani with the laps winding down.

The two-time champion needed help, and it came when T.J. Rinomato spun with five laps to go, causing Tagliani to run wide and allowing Dumoulin to steal the lead.

“It’s perfect. My team has worked so hard to give me a great car all season long and we proved once again that we are capable of winning on both ovals and road courses,” L.P. Dumoulin said. “In the end, we caught a little bit of traffic and that helped me pass Tagliani, we set some quick laps and we won.”

It was the second win for Dumoulin at his home track, and ninth of his career.

Tagliani, who was in prime position to score his third straight at GP3R win, finished second. The Lachanaie, Quebec driver took the lead on lap 20 after Andrew Ranger came down to pit, going on to lead 25 laps en route to his second podium of the season.

“It was a great finish for our sponsors,” Tagliani said. “Unfortunately, we were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. There was a spin and we took evasive action through the marbles and second place was able to take advantage of it.”

The elder Dumoulin, J.F., mounted a hard charge late in the race to catch the leaders. His No. 04 Spectra Premium Dodge, which was shifted to a part-time schedule in 2019, had this race circled on the calendar.

In the end, the Trois-Rivères, Quebec driver ultimately ties his best career finish in third, scoring his third career podium in the process.

“It’s awesome. It’s our first podium at Trois-Rivières in the Pinty’s Series,” he said. “I’ve been fourth a lot of times, so I’m really excited to be up on the podium with my brother. It’s a great day for us and our sponsors.”

Kevin Lacroix came into Les 50 Tours Hotel Le Concorde trailing Ranger by 18 points. Lacroix started from the outside of the front row and would lead the first 15 laps, before being hit with a penalty after taking his fuel can out of the pit box.

Lacroix’s No. 74 eventually fought way all the way up to fourth. D.J. Kennington completed the top five finishers.

Jason Hathaway and Raphael Lessard were sixth and seventh, respectively.

After leading four laps, Ranger ended up finishing eighth. Ranger will now carry a 14-point lead over Lacroix heading into Riverside next week.

Simon Dion-Viens and Donald Theetge rounded out the rest of the top 10.

The finish:

L.P. Dumoulin, Alex Tagliani, J.F. Dumoulin, Kevin Lacroix, D.J. Kennington, Jason Hathaway, Raphael Lessard, Andrew Ranger, Simon Dion-Viens, Donald Theetge, Alex Guenette, Mark Dilley, Raymond Guay, David Michaud, Larry Jackson, J.F. Laberge, T.J. Rinomato, Marc-Antoine Camirand, Alex Labbe, Anthony Simone, Jocelyn Fecteau.

BROOKLYN, Mich. – Kevin Harvick stretched his fuel all the way to the end of Sunday’s Consumers Energy 400 at Michigan Int’l Speedway, and it was enough to put him in victory lane.

On a day when many of his closest pursuers had to make splash-and-go pit stops in the final laps, Harvick kept his foot on the gas and motored home to his second Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win of the season, as well as his second in a row in the August race at the two-mile Michigan oval.

After the sixth and final caution of the day waved with 52 laps left, when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spun in turn four, all the frontrunners pitted for fuel on lap 150 and set up for an economy run to the finish.

Green-flag conditions resumed with 48 to go, and Harvick found himself fifth behind a trio of Team Penske Ford drivers – Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney and Brad Keselowski – as well as the Penske-affiliated Wood Brothers entry of Paul Menard.

However, slowly but surely, Harvick began picking his way to the front as those ahead of him had to focus on saving fuel.

With 45 to go, Harvick dispatched Menard for fourth, and then he rode there for the next 16 circuits before turning up the wick and driving past Keselowski to move into the third position.

The next time by, Blaney dropped back to try and conserve additional fuel, elevating Harvick to second. From there, Harvick drove up onto the back bumper of defending Michigan winner Logano and ultimately made the decisive pass for the lead on lap 183 of 200.

Once Logano pitted for enough fuel to make it to the checkered flag, Harvick was unchallenged down the stretch, crossing the finish line in front of runner-up Denny Hamlin by 1.054 seconds.

“We just had a really fast car all weekend,” said Harvick, who rallied back from a flat tire under green in the opening stage. “Our car handled really well today, and with the multiple lanes, we were able to run all three lanes pretty well and make our way through traffic. I’m really proud of everybody on our Mobil 1 Ford team, and everybody back at the shop from Haas Automation and Stewart‑Haas Racing.

“We put a really fast car on the race track and were able to capitalize on it, and that’s always fun.”

Hamlin was philosophical afterward, admitting that “the fastest car won the race, speed-wise.”

“We didn’t have the best handling car when it was really hot and slick, but as the day went on and the track cooled off, the guys that had built more speed into their car … the conditions kind of handicapped it for them, so we were able to hang on to those Fords there at the end,” Hamlin noted. “The 4 (Harvick) was trying to save fuel there, I’m guessing, and then the 2 and the 22 peeled off. We were right there, though. We just didn’t have enough speed.

“It’s a balance. I feel like we had a great FedEx Camry today, but just came up one spot short again.”

Kyle Larson finished third for Chip Ganassi Racing, a much-needed shot in the arm after his Knoxville Nationals bid fell apart early in the week, with Martin Truex Jr. and Daniel Suarez following.

Kyle Busch, Ryan Preece, William Byron, Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman completed the top 10.

Logano ended up 17th after having to duck to pit road with three to go, ruining his shot at victory.

“I needed more gas. The Shell car isn’t supposed to run out of gas,” quipped Logano. “The positive is that we were way better today than we were on Friday and Saturday. The negative is that we almost won the race, but ended up finishing 17th. You win some and you lose some, though. If the caution had come out, we would have been in good shape … but it stayed green, and that’s it. That’s the gamble.

“We took the gamble and it didn’t pay off,” he added. “At Pocono, we played it the other way and the caution came out. That’s two races now, and we just played it wrong both times.”

Keselowski and Blaney befell similar fuel-related fates, finishing 19th and 24th, respectively.

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