The Milwaukee Brewers have signed right-hander Freddy Peralta to a five-year contract extension, a source told ESPN's Jeff Passan.

According to Passan, the deal is worth $15.5 million guaranteed and includes two club options.

Peralta was 7-3 with a 5.29 ERA in 39 appearances (eight starts) for the Brewers in 2019, when he made $564,600.

The 23-year-old Dominican is 13-7 in 55 career appearances with a 4.79 ERA, 211 strikeouts and 77 walks.

British number one Dan Evans saved three match points in the deciding set as he reached the quarter-finals of the Dubai Tennis Championships.

World number 37 Evans, back on court just 24 hours after his first-round win, secured a narrow 7-5 3-6 7-6 (9-7) over 79th-ranked Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

Evans, 29, came from 5-2 down to take the first set and trailed 4-6 and 6-7 in the deciding tie-break.

However, a Herbert error gave Evans victory after two hours and 46 minutes.

He next plays sixth seed Andrey Rublev, who defeated Filip Krajinovic 7-6 (7-3) 6-0.

Five-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova is "saying goodbye" to tennis at the age of 32.

In an article written for Vogue and Vanity Fair, Sharapova said her body "had become a distraction" after a struggle with shoulder injuries.

The Russian won her first Grand Slam at Wimbledon in 2004 aged 17 and completed the career slam - all four major titles - by winning the French Open in 2012.

In 2016, she served a 15-month ban after testing positive for meldonium.

After returning from her ban in 2017, Sharapova struggled to recapture her best form and suffered from a number of injuries.

She has dropped to 373 in the world, her lowest ranking since August 2002, and has lost in the first round of her past three Grand Slam tournaments.

In announcing her retirement, she said: "I'm new to this, so please forgive me. Tennis - I'm saying goodbye.

"Looking back now, I realize that tennis has been my mountain. My path has been filled with valleys and detours, but the views from its peak were incredible.

"After 28 years and five Grand Slam titles, though, I'm ready to scale another mountain - to compete on a different type of terrain.

"That relentless chase for victories, though? That won't ever diminish. No matter what lies ahead, I will apply the same focus, the same work ethic, and all of the lessons I've learned along the way.

"In the meantime, there are a few simple things I'm really looking forward to: A sense of stillness with my family. Lingering over a morning cup of coffee. Unexpected weekend getaways. Workouts of my choice (hello, dance class!)"

Sharapova said her 6-1 6-1 first-round defeat by Serena Williams at last year's US open was the "final signal".

"Behind closed doors, 30 minutes before taking the court, I had a procedure to numb my shoulder to get through the match," she said,

"Shoulder injuries are nothing new for me - over time my tendons have frayed like a string. I've had multiple surgeries - once in 2008, another procedure last year - and spent countless months in physical therapy.

"Just stepping on to the court that day felt like a final victory, when of course it should have been merely the first step toward victory."

Sharapova did not play again in 2019 after that defeat at Flushing Meadows and has played just twice this year, including a straight sets loss to Croat Donna Vekic in the Australian Open first round.

More to follow.

MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho – The King of the Wing Series has announced the dates for its Northwest tour through Idaho and Washington.

The events will be held on July 29 through Aug. 1. The Northwest dates return to mid-summer after being held in mid-September the last few seasons.

The first race of the Northwest swing will be the 40-lap Pink Lady Classic on Wednesday, July 29 at the the quarter-mile Meridian Speedway. This year’s single night event will be part of the speedways’ mid-summer King of the Wing Swing.

“It’s always great to get Meridian back on the schedule, fans are some the most dedicated sprint car fans in the country,” said Chuck Handley, King of the Wing Race Director.

“We are excited to provide a mid-week event of this caliber for our fans,” said Adam Nelson, Meridian Speedway General Manager.

Following a travel day on July 30, the tour invaded Yakima (Wash.) Speedway for a 30-lap feature on July 31. This will be the first visit to the Yakima half-mile for the King of the Wing Series.

The series will complete the northwest tour with the Rory Price Memorial at Evergreen Speedway’s three-eighths-mile oval in Monroe, Wash. The series last competed at Evergreen Speedway in 2016.

The Rory Price Memorial will be co-sanctioned, with the Granite Series and Northweset Sprintcar Racing Ass’n joining the King of the Wing Series, with each series running for their own respective points.

With the announcement of the King of the Wing Series dates in the Northwest, the series now has nine scheduled races in three regions. Additional events are scheduled for Colorado National Speeddway in Dacono, Colo., Intermountain Speedway in Cheyanne, Wyo., Havasu 95 Speedway in Lake Havasu, Ariz., Irwindale (Calif.) Speedway and Kern County Raceway Park in Bakersfield, Calif.

CONCORD, N.C. – DIRTcar Racing has announced that Canada’s Autodrome Drummond and New York’s Airborne Speedway will sanction the DIRTcar Pro Stock division this year.

The future is bright at Airborne Speedway with Lyle DeVore, general manager of Albany-Saratoga Speedway and Lebanon Valley Speedway, at the helm. The savvy promotor is bringing back the popular DIRTcar Pro Stocks to the famed Plattsburgh oval for 2020.

Yan Bussiere’s Autodrome Drummond is one of the premier racing facilities in Canada. The high-banked Drummondville speedway is set to include the DIRTcar Pro Stocks in their Hoosier Racing Tire Weekly Championship program.

DIRTcar Pro Stock drivers at both tracks will benefit from the advantages of participating in the Hoosier Racing Tire Weekly Championship. All drivers will have their top 16 weekly, series, and DIRTcar sanctioned special Feature finishes counted towards the point fund.

Additionally, every time a DIRTcar Pro Stock graces victory lane, the photo and results are included in the Hoosier Racing Tire Weekly newsletter, amplifying track and driver sponsorships.

In light of the proximity of both race tracks, DeVore and Bussiere will work together to make the best schedule possible for their DIRTcar Pro Stock competitors. Both tracks are looking forward to creating a new hotbed for Pro Stock racing.

The return of Pro Stocks to Airborne along with the additions of Drummond, Can-Am and Glen Ridge to weekly sanctioning is indeed making 2020 the year of Pro Stocks.

HANOI, Vietnam – The Vietnam Grand Prix Corporation has confirmed the completion of the Hanoi Circuit, the site of this year’s VinFast Vietnam Grand Prix.

New images released Wednesday showcase the completed 5.607-km track.

Set to become one of the most challenging and exciting circuits in the sport, the Hanoi Circuit will stage the third round of the 2020 FIA Formula 1 World Championship from April 3-5, the first time that F-1 will race in Vietnam.

The remaining 150-meter long stretch of track was laid last week along the start/finish line to complete the 23-turn Hanoi Circuit, which features a unique hybrid design fusing a street circuit’s characteristics with a permanent track layout and is the first of its kind to be developed in partnership by Tilke Engineers and F-1’s own Motorsports Division.

This marks the final coating of the asphalt layer of the newly constructed track and signals a vital stage in the development of the Hanoi Circuit – the first ever F-1 track in Vietnam.

All materials were 100 percent locally sourced in Vietnam, with the circuit engineers scouring the country from North to South to find the best quality material which involved multiple testing at different mines located across Vietnam.

The stones that now make up the final layer of the Hanoi Circuit were gathered from the Quang Ninh province and went through a complex process before arriving at the circuit for the layering process.

This level of asphalt requires the right mix of friction and smoothness to make sure that when the cars reach 335 kph, it won’t cause stones to shoot up from the surface.

Wednesday’s milestone follows on from the recent completion of the Hanoi Circuit’s 300-meter long pit building, whose design was inspired by Hanoi’s famous Imperial Citadel of Thang Long as well as the Pavilion of the Constellation of Literature – the symbol of Hanoi – representing the nation’s long history and strong cultural legacy.

With the permanent constructions now in place, the promoter is currently focusing on the temporary structures around the circuit, including the grandstands – each named after iconic Vietnamese cities and locations – dotted along the circuit’s key points, as well as the media & medical centers, team hospitality tents, commentary booths and safety barriers.

“This is a major milestone for us to celebrate as we come closer to staging Vietnam’s first ever Formula 1 race weekend in just over a month’s time. We are beyond excited to witness the extraordinary sight of Formula 1 cars racing on this incredible circuit,” said Le Ngoc Chi, CEO of the Vietnam Grand Prix Corporation. “It will be a moment of great pride for the whole team here at VGPC and a fitting tribute to the hard work that has gone in to ensuring the newest track in F-1 is ready on time. With the help of everyone at Tilke and F1’s Motorsport Division, we feel confident in saying that this track will be one of the most challenging and exciting on the F1 calendar and we look forward to it quickly becoming a fan favorite.

“With grandstands and all remaining temporary structures also going up around the track, the excitement in and around Hanoi for the Formula 1 VinFast Vietnam Grand Prix 2020 is continuing to grow. We are ready and can’t wait to welcome the world to Hanoi very soon.”

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has said January signing Bruno Fernandes has brought an "X-Factor" to his side.

Fernandes joined from Sporting CP in a deal which could be worth up to €80 million and showed his quality with a goal and assist as well as contribution to the other goal in United's 3-0 victory over Watford on Sunday.

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As well as Fernandes, another United player singled out for praise was forward Anthony Martial, who has scored in each of the past three matches.

"We feel we've added some X-Factor quality with Bruno," Solskjaer told a news conference ahead of their Europa League round-of-32 clash at home to Club Brugge on Thursday.

"His [Fernandes] imagination and his overview picture, is a couple of seconds ahead of many players. It is one of his strengths he knows what he wants to do.

"He can change his mind in a split-second. That composure has been important. Anthony [Martial] coming back -- he was out for a couple of months -- means he's getting used to the No.9 position."

The Europa League provides one of two avenues back into the Champions League for United, with other being a top-four finish in the Premier League, but Solskjaer has said he does not want to prioritise one over the other.

"We need to take one game at a time," he added. "Both are possibles but in a cup competition you never know -- hopefully we take as many points as we can in the league, but the cup you can't predict, can't rely on winning it.

"The squad has coped really well with the amount of games, the attitude and character is improving, now we are getting some freshness back."

United drew 1-1 in their first leg in Brugge as they look to win the competition for the second time.

SCOTTSDALE, Arizona -- Alan Pulido is wearing a designer watch, a backward baseball cap, his fringe poking out from one side, and a hoodie, despite the afternoon Arizona heat. Seated outside a Mexico-inspired "Taqueria Centro" snack bar in a plush resort during the final days of MLS preseason, the first question of our conversation comes from Pulido, not ESPN.

The soft-spoken striker, who signed this season with Sporting Kansas City as a designated player, wants to know if the story will be published in Mexico.

Over the course of our lengthy conversation, it's easy to see why Pulido, open and often brutally honest, has a complicated relationship with his home country. He is a household name in Mexico, someone who has endured extreme highs and lows and is followed by more than two million on social media (a bigger reach than that of the vast majority of Major League Soccer clubs). He's also patriotic. He emphasizes that he wants to represent his country, family and hometown of Ciudad Victoria through the goals he will score for Sporting KC, and he'd desperately like a shot at returning to the national team, even if he has not spoken to El Tri head coach Gerardo "Tata" Martino.

It's just that he has had such a tumultuous career and life in Mexico that the relative tranquility of Kansas City became an attractive proposition.

Pulido hasn't returned to Ciudad Victoria in the state of Tamaulipas -- the U.S. State Department advises citizens not to travel there due to "crime and kidnapping" -- since he himself was kidnapped in May 2016. It's a city the Citizens' Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice named the fourth-most dangerous city in the world last year, with 86.01 homicides per 100,000 residents.

Visiting home after his season in Greece with Olympiakos had ended, Pulido left a party around 11:30 p.m. on a Saturday night, according to local media outlets, and several trucks were said to have surrounded the athlete before armed men wearing masks took him by force, allowing his then-girlfriend to leave.

While the kidnappers were negotiating a ransom with his family, Pulido was left alone with one guard. The player took his chance, wrestling away the guard's gun and cellphone, which allowed him to communicate his location to authorities after he knocked the guard unconscious, according to the Associated Press. Within minutes, police arrived to rescue Pulido a little more than 24 hours after his capture.

Pulido looked shaken when he faced media after the ordeal, and he has not talked about it in detail since, but he did tell ESPN that "it's difficult to always live in fear," adding that the incident will "always be with me."

Since the kidnapping, when Pulido visits family members, he meets them in Monterrey, his wife's hometown, with his family making the four-hour drive from Ciudad Victoria. "I don't like to talk about those things because they are very delicate, but it teaches you a bad lesson. They are bad memories that I don't want to go through again and don't wish on anyone," he said. "It was a difficult moment in my life."

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"It makes you sad to see it, and it's not just in my city but in all of Mexico," Pulido said of the violence that has affected his country. "The reality is that I never imagined the violence would get to this level, with kids and women [affected]. Honestly, those types of stories embarrass the country."

The kidnapping made international headlines, but in Mexico, Pulido has been a regular feature in the news. In 2017, he crashed his sports car after a night out when he was coming back from injury. There was also the moment in May when pundits criticized him for turning up to preseason medical examinations in a gleaming black Ferrari.

Where possible, Pulido keeps his answers focused on the challenge at Sporting KC, instead of answering for his past. He's motivated heading into the MLS season -- SKC open the season against Vancouver on 2/29, 10.30 p.m. ET, ESPN+ -- by the chance to help his new club's playoff push after a poor 2019. But starting a family in the relative calm of the United States after recently getting married was also an important factor in his decision to play in MLS.

The Pulido family has deep roots in Ciudad Victoria. Alan's father, Armando, played in goal for the city's professional club, Correcaminos, and earned the nickname "Pulpo" Pulido ("The Octopus") for his penalty saves. Alan's mother worked as a teacher and his older brother, Armando, has had a soccer career that has taken him from Tigres UANL and Tijuana to Greece (at the same time as Alan), then back to Mexico for stints at Queretaro and Correcaminos.

"We didn't have many things growing up, but we also didn't lack much," Alan Pulido said. "We lived OK. My parents always worked. I had what I needed -- not too much, not too little. It makes me happy now to have what I have and everything I've done and how I've worked [to get where I am]."

It was through Armando that Alan Pulido started to support his first club, Tigres, lured in by the skills of Argentine attacking midfielder Walter Gaitan. Pulido worked his way to Tigres via the Tamaulipas state team, and after making his Liga MX debut under Ricardo "Tuca" Ferretti in 2010, he became a player tipped for a big future. At age 22, Pulido earned a national team call-up in January 2014 and scored a hat-trick on debut against South Korea. He was named part of Mexico's squad for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, though he didn't get any playing time.

Upon returning from that tournament, Pulido faced a long, drawn-out and bitter legal battle with Tigres as he tried to leave the club and fulfill his dream of playing in Europe.

He believed that his contract was coming to an end and he could move after the World Cup on a free transfer, but Tigres were adamant that a renewal had been signed. Pulido dug in his heels to force a move to Levadiakos in Greece, obtaining a provisional transfer pass from FIFA and claiming that Tigres forged his signature, but in September 2015, the case was decided in Tigres' favor by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

"I never thought that they would do that to someone who gave everything for the team," Pulido said. "It is very sad."

He remains unrepentant even though he was excluded from the national team while the dispute made its way through the courts.

"They belittle players [in Mexico], and so I took the decision [to leave]. I think it was right because in the end, I defended my rights," Pulido said. "I played in Greece, in Europe, in the best competitions in the world, the Europa League, the Champions League. Nobody can take that away from me."

"I took the decisions I had to take," he said. "It was time to talk about it, to show that players can't be trampled on by a club, that our word does count and counts a lot and that thanks to us, there is this show called football."

Pulido played his final game for Tigres on April 27, 2014, but he received only a temporary transfer pass from FIFA in time to make his debut for Levadiakos in March 2015. From there, Pulido moved to Olympiakos in the summer of 2015, and he went on to win the Greek league in 2015-16. But with his playing time limited with Olympiakos, Pulido was signed by Chivas in August 2016, in what was reported as one of the most expensive incoming transfer deals in Liga MX history.

Pulido's career was revitalized under Matias Almeyda at Chivas. Together, they won the CONCACAF Champions League title, the Copa MX and a Liga MX trophy, with Pulido netting a golazo in the second leg of the 2017 Clausura final -- against, you guessed it, Tigres. Almeyda, now a head coach in MLS with San Jose -- Pulido and SKC travel to take on the Earthquakes on March 21 -- left a lasting impact on Pulido.

"Matias [Almeyda] is a very different coach than others I've had," Pulido said. "He's a person who is open to having a dialogue with all the players and not just those that are the important ones or those that have been there longest or are the captains. He gives the same special attention to all of them. He creates a really big family."

Pulido comes into MLS in the best goal-scoring form of his career -- he won the Liga MX 2019 Apertura scoring title -- but he's aware that the transition to life under Sporting KC head coach Peter Vermes will be a test. It sounds trivial, but Pulido laughs about the hip-hop music played in the locker room being different than what he was used to at Chivas. He grew up in Ciudad Victoria listening to a mix of norteno, banda, reggaeton, huapango and cumbia, and though he likes a bit of everything, he joked that "there's no banda, no Mexican music" at Sporting KC. As an aside, Pulido is probably the only player in MLS history to have a rap tune written about his exploits, though he is at pains to make clear that he didn't commission the song, written by his friend "El Cuatro Divango," that went viral in Mexico.

Of course, it isn't just the music that is different at Sporting KC. On a technical level, MLS clubs tend to water the pitches before games, something that isn't done in Liga MX, and the ball used in MLS this season feels lighter to Pulido than he is used to.

There's also his new living situation. Pulido has chosen to live in the Kansas City suburbs, rather than downtown. He can converse in English on a basic level and has Spanish-speaking teammates to help him if he doesn't understand, but the on-field interaction with his new colleagues was close to nonexistent during preseason games, even if Pulido was happy to press and harry in line with Vermes' playing philosophy. For KC, Pulido will operate as a central striker in a similar way to what he was doing at Chivas but with license to drop back and get on the ball in deeper positions in certain games.

"I have that type of double job," he said. "I can play up top, but I'm also a player who likes to move around, carry the ball, move it forward. In some games, if we are dominating, Peter [Vermes] will likely want me to stay up front to be close to the penalty area, but if in some games it is very tight, I might have the opportunity to drop back to play more with the midfielders and create chances."

Pulido sees similarities in the way Almeyda and Vermes demand that their players maintain high work rates. But as multifaceted as Pulido is in terms of pressing and dropping back, he understands that he was brought to Sporting KC for his goals. One interesting side issue this season could be a friendly rivalry developing among Mexicans -- all of whom have roots at Chivas -- in MLS, as Javier Hernandez, Carlos Vela, Pulido and, possibly, Rodolfo Pizarro seek to top the scoring charts this season.

"Of course, I'd love [to score more goals than Vela, Hernandez and other Mexicans in MLS]," Pulido said. "In the end, we are friends. We've shared a locker room, played together in the national team, but obviously, there is that uncertainty about who will score more goals."

The evening before his interview with ESPN, Pulido came on as a substitute as a largely experimental Sporting KC side fell 2-1 to USL side Phoenix Rising. After the game, around 40 fans, many wearing the red, white and blue of Pulido's former Liga MX club Chivas, hung around in the cooling evening and tested the patience of stadium operations staff by waiting for Pulido to exit.

With the 2020 MLS season about to kick off, Pulido aims to build the same connection with the Children's Mercy Park faithful that he has with those Chivas fans who will be waiting for him after games and outside hotels all over the United States this season.

"Hopefully, I can leave a similar legacy here at Sporting Kansas City," he said. "Hopefully things go really well so that further down the line, [Sporting KC fans] may value me in the same way."

February 27: Islamabad United vs Quetta Gladiators in Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi

Our XI: Jason Roy, Luke Ronchi, Dawid Malan, Colin Munro, Ahmed Shehzad, Azam Khan, Shadab Khan, Amad Butt, Tymal Mills, Mohammad Hasnain, Muhammad Musa

Captain: Luke Ronchi

Ronchi has been a consistent performer in the tournament over the years. He scored 319 runs in 12 games last season at a strike rate of 155.60 and has continued to impress this season. He has scored 98 runs in the three innings this season at a strike rate of 158.

Vice Captain: Dawid Malan

Malan started off the PSL 2020 by scoring a fluent 64 against the Gladiators, so expect him to do well again against them. In the next three innings, he has made a total of 57 runs, which also included an unbeaten 35 against Multan Sultans.

Hot Picks

Jason Roy

After a duck in the first game, Roy lit up the PSL with an unbeaten 57-ball 73 against Peshawar Zalmi. Roy's T20 sides have won the game 60% of the time whenever he makes a 50-plus score

Colin Munro

Another star player who is yet to fire this season. He has had scores of 0, 50 and 2 in the 3 games he has played, but a good score isn't far away. Punt on Munro to score some runs in this game, especially against Gladiators' quicks.

Mohammad Hasnain

The leading wicket-taker of the season so far has got to make your side. He has picked up seven wickets so far at an excellent strike rate of 10.2.

Value Picks

Azam Khan

Azam Khan has been a surprise package this season. He has starred in the Gladiators' two wins this season, scoring 59 and 46 in those games.

Tymal Mills

Mills has picked up three wickets in two games at an economy of 6.88. The over he bowled to Babar Azam in the game against the Kings proved his mettle as a bowler who has a bunch of variations.

Muhammad Musa

Musa has been consistent with the ball, picking up five wickets in the three matches he has played so far this season. He also starred with the bat in Islamabad's previous game, scoring 17 off 11 balls to win it for them.

Points to note

This will be the first-ever PSL game in Multan, so pick in-form and experienced Pakistan players in your side.