ST. LOUIS -- The Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues hired Marc Savard as an assistant coach Wednesday.

The 42-year-old Savard spent 13 years playing in the NHL, splitting time among the Rangers, Flames, Thrashers and Bruins. The two-time All-Star was part of Boston's 2011 Stanley Cup title team.

Since his retirement, Savard has been part of broadcasts for Hockey Night in Canada and on Maple Leafs pre- and postgame shows. He also has been coaching a junior hockey club in Ontario.

Blues coach Craig Berube called Savard a "tremendous player" and an "elite offensive mind."

NEW YORK -- Liverpool defender Nathaniel Clyne is facing six months on the sidelines after suffering an ACL injury in the 3-2 defeat to Borussia Dortmund.

The 28-year-old sustained the setback during the closing moments of the pre-season friendly at Notre Dame Stadium, but the diagnosis took a while to confirm due to the swelling around his knee.

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The assessment from Liverpool's medical team is that it is the least severe ACL injury the full-back could have picked up given how clean the damage is, hence the reduced recovery period.

Clyne, who is out of contract at the end of the season, flew home from the U.S. tour late on Sunday from Boston.

Meanwhile, Liverpool are continuing to monitor Yasser Larouci's injury closely. The left-back, who had to be stretchered off in the team's loss to Sevilla at Fenway Park, has suffered heavy bruising in his femur bone. The club are optimistic the 18-year-old will only be ruled out for weeks rather than months.

Liverpool wrap up their stateside swing with a match on Wednesday against Sporting CP at Yankee Stadium.

Barcelona have announced record revenue for the sixth season running with the club closing their accounts for the 2018-19 season with a recorded income of €990 million ($1.1 billion).

It's the second season running in which the Spanish champions have broken the billion-dollar mark. They became the first sports team to ever pass the milestone last year when they brought in €914m ($1.019 billion).

However, the club's spending was also up, with expenses hitting €973m ($1.085 billion). A pre-tax operating profit of €17m ($19m) is down on the €20m ($22m) they posted last season.

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"The club has achieved its highest revenue ever and it's important to highlight that the income is €30m more than the budgeted figure of €960m," Barcelona said in a statement.

"It is in line with the club's strategic plan to generate an annual turnover of €1,000m by 2021."

Barca's revenue continues to rise due to a number of factors. An improved television deal domestically and a run to the Champions League semifinal -- they hadn't progressed beyond the last eight since 2015 -- enabled them to bring in more through broadcasting rights.

Marketing and advertising keeps on growing, too. Last season was the second year of a four-year, €220 million deal with shirt sponsors Rakuten, while the club also signed a new three-year sponsorship agreement with Turkish electronics company Beko worth around €57 million.

However, a large chunk of the club's income has become increasingly reliant on sales. Their earnings in 2017-18 were massively boosted by Neymar's world record €222m move to Paris Saint-Germain, while the latest numbers include the sales of the likes of Paulinho, Yerry Mina and Lucas Digne for more than €100m.

Deloitte's Money League, though, does not factor in player sales and Barca only placed second behind Real Madrid in revenue in the 2017-18 season.

Madrid, who had just won their third successive Champions League crown, topped Deloitte's table with €750.9m, while Barcelona, excluding outgoing players, brought in €690.4m, ahead of Manchester United (€666m) in third.

But while Barca continue to post record revenue, the fact they're now heavily dependent on player sales means they do not have unlimited funds in the transfer market. They have managed to spend a total of €195m on Frenkie de Jong and Antoine Griezmann this summer, although president Josep Maria Bartomeu confirmed a €35m loan was needed to complete the Griezmann deal.

They will continue to have to look to sell smartly as the wage bill and player amortisation costs continue to rise, accounting for over half of their revenue.

Detailed figures are not yet available for the 2018-19 season, but the previous season -- a year in which Lionel Messi renewed his contract -- saw wages up a staggering €151m to €529m, including all of the club's sports teams, while player "amortisation and impairment" rose €52m.

Gloucestershire 354 (Smith 83, Higgins 76, Dent 58; Leach 6-79) and 184 (Barnard 3-17, Parnell 3-37) beat Worcestershire 293 (Whiteley 88, D'Oliveira 68, Higgins 3-52) and 232 (Ferguson 63, Higgins 4-64) by 13 runs

They will be waltzing in Montpellier Gardens tonight. Even the public reading of Sense and Sensibility will have to be postponed. There may even be a knees-up at the Bowls Club and raucous chanting in the Pittville Pump Room. Until the 2019 Cheltenham Festival this classiest of English towns was, with the exception of its racecourse, not comfortable with mayhem Then Gareth Roderick's six took care of Leicestershire last week and this evening David Payne's bouncer to Adam Finch, Worcestershire's last man, was deflected via edge or glove to second slip where the substitute fielder, George Hankins, scooped up the catch.

Gloucestershire had won by 13 runs. At once Payne set off a manic lap of honour in which he was pursued by team-mates including George Bracey, the substitute wicketkeeper, who had taken four fine catches during the day. Also sprinting like a madman escaping the asylum was Ryan Higgins whose four wickets had brought his total in the match to seven in addition to his 112 runs. And there was Ethan Bamber, who was loaned to Gloucestershire for the festival and, given his thespian connections, knows a fine stage when he sees it. Two weeks repertory in Cheltenham probably suited him fine. Bamber's dismissal of Ben Cox, caught by Higgins at mid-on for 42, began a collapse which saw Worcestershire lose their last six wickets for 61 runs and finish three good hits short of their target, which was 246.

But Payne and his mates were not alone. On the balcony of this great old pavilion, the coaches hugged and down below in the stands and bars supporters who really should have known better did little dances of delight. No doubt their health insurance will cover any mishaps. One player, though, remained motionless on his haunches for some time. Joe Leach, the Worcestershire captain, knows this result all but ends his team's chances of promotion. So there was stillness and movement. There was silence and noise. And to think that nine hours earlier the biggest event taking place on the College Ground was the watering of the hanging baskets.

Ah yes, the early morning. Let us rewind to the time before Gloucestershire had collected the 23 points which takes them up to joint-second in Division Two with Glamorgan. In the first 45 minutes of the day's play Gloucestershire's last two wickets had added a further 35 runs in 12 overs, five of which were sent down by the legspinner, Brett D'Oliveira in preference to Leach, his team's best bowler. Who, one asked, would Bamber have preferred to face? The decision seemed barely explicable at the time, and those runs, which seemed important then, were to look absolutely priceless seven or so hours later.

Anyway, Worcestershire needed 246 and one of the most vital innings in their season had the worst possible start when Daryl Mitchell nicked David Payne's first ball to Bracey. But Chris Dent, whose captaincy was masterly on this final day, had to rotate his attack carefully because Matt Taylor's side strain prevented him bowling. Perhaps realising this, Riki Wessels carried the attack to Gloucestershire, driving both new-ball bowlers for fours and clouting Payne over long on for six with a shot borrowed from short-form cricket. When Higgins came on, Wessels moved into overdrive, taking 17 runs off his first two overs and forcing Dent to bowl Tom Smith from the Chapel End just before lunch. A calming over, we thought - perhaps Dent did, too - but Wessels' attempt to cut the left-arm spinner's third delivery only nicked the ball to Bracey. Having made 42 off 44 balls Wessels ambled off to have lunch, perhaps reflecting, unduly harshly, that he had brought his downfall on himself.

"Down below in the stands and bars supporters who really should have known better did little dances of delight. No doubt their health insurance will cover any mishaps"

The afternoon's cricket contrived to be both tense and, in its way, rather tranquil. Higgins returned to his usual tight-fisted ways, conceding eight runs in seven overs and claiming the wickets of Ed Barnard and Ross Whiteley. That left Worcestershire on 100 for 4 but further decline was resisted by the gentle class of Ferguson and the obduracy of Cox during the twenty overs until tea. Ferguson cut both spinners and seamers alike when possible and reached his fifty after three hours' concentration a few balls before the break.

Ferguson, you see, does not do flash. Even in T20 cricket his shots have a trace of orthodox classicism about them. So imagine, if you will, the gentle grace with which he batted this afternoon at Cheltenham and the concern it aroused among home supporters sitting under the giant red and white gazebos which Gloucestershire had considerately erected for supporters seeking to avoid the heat. A silence settled on the ground and remained there for many overs. This was one of those days when the detailed plans of the coaches are bound tightly to the simple hopes of supporters.

Worcestershire took tea on 146 for 4 and one imagines that a few in the crowd enjoyed patum peperium. Cox and Ferguson added a further 36 runs after the resumption only for Bamber to make the breakthrough. Three overs later, Benny Howell took the vital wicket of Ferguson when a rather tired cut-cum-force off the back foot edged a catch to Bracey. Ten minutes later, D'Oliveira had gone too, caught by Hankins at slip off the underappreciated Howell. Worcestershire were 198 for 7. Can it be, asked the spectators, and tried to keep a tight grip on their wits.

Leach and Wayne Parnell added 31 runs and the balance of the game shifted. Worcestershire supporters, whose presence so enriched this game, began to nurture their own hopes. Then Higgins trimmed Parnell's off bail and knocked back Dillon Pennington's middle stump, all in the space of three balls. Finch came in and three overs later Payne rain in to bowl to him. Half an hour later there was a curious spike in sales of sal volatile in the Cheltenham chemists' shops.

Glamorgan and Gloucestershire now lead a group of six counties covered by 20 points. They will effectively be fighting over two promotion places when the Championship returns next month. Any readers with a clear idea of which of these fine teams will win promotion in September are encouraged to write in.

But none of that bothered Dent's players as they went over to the marquee and drank a well-earned beer or two. They returned over the outfield they have adorned so nobly this fortnight and must now prepare for T20 games. But they will remember the matches against Leicestershire and Worcestershire for as long as they play cricket. Indeed, days like this are why they play the game.

And there was even a reminder that Cheltenham College is, after all, a school when a page torn from an exercise book drifted onto the pavilion balcony. It read as follows: "Senior School Punishment Ledger: Note to Graves (C) Upper Sixth: Write out 200 times: The County Championship is the greatest glory in English domestic cricket. We do not need The Hundred."

The paper blew away before anybody could grab it. But maybe everyone had seen enough.

Haddin XII 105 and 170 (Warner 58, Marsh 5-34, Pattinson 3-19) lead Hick XII 120 (Cummins 5-24, Siddle 4-31) and 35 for 2 by 120 runs

Clearer as Australia's Ashes squad has become over the past two days of rough and tumble cricket on a sporting pitch at Southampton, another conundrum has been raised about the composition of the team to be chosen from within it.

For most of the past three years, the joint inclusion of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins has been the most straightforward element of Australian team selection, fitness permitting, of course. As three pacemen of varying heights, trajectories and bowling arms, they have often complemented each other perfectly - no more so than during the previous Ashes series in Australia in 2017-18.

England, however, poses a different conditional challenge, and on the evidence of this internal trial match and warm-up, a rather different balance may be more suited to surfaces that will offer grass to grip the Dukes ball and boundaries that will punish anything even slightly wayward.

In similar climes prepared for the Australian team in conjunction with Hampshire, albeit somewhat drier than the tourists may have wanted, the outstanding bowling displays were provided by James Pattinson, Pat Cummins, Peter Siddle and, last but not least, Mitchell Marsh.

Starc and Hazlewood, by contrast, looked sore after the World Cup and short of rhythm after injury respectively, with only a week remaining to find their best touch. Starc, having looked ginger at times on day one, batted but did not bowl on the second evening, nor was he seen on the field of play.

Even if Hazlewood and Starc do recall some of their best over the next seven days, the question remains open as to whether the Dukes ball and English grass will be more favourable to Siddle and Pattinson - apt to bowl in tandem for both Victoria and Australia - alongside Cummins and his sharp, bouncing trajectory.

This discussion will, doubtless, be difficult. Both Darren Lehmann and Rod Marsh, the selectors on duty during the 2015 Ashes, have both remarked in hindsight the difficulty of finding a way to include Siddle at the expense of one of Starc, Hazlewood or Mitchell Johnson four years ago, even though the Victorian's skills looked ideally suited to England. When he did belatedly play at The Oval, Siddle was key to an innings victory that felt all the more empty for arriving too late to impact the series.

At the same time, there is the matter of balancing prevailing conditions with overall records, and team chemistry. How, for instance, might a brooding Starc react to omission so soon after he had been the fulcrum of Australia's World Cup pace attack. Whatever the final call, it now looks essential that room must be found for Pattinson, who combined speed, bounce, movement and hostility with the sort of economy that will suffocate England even when wickets do not arrive so frequently. His match figures of 4 for 35 from 23 overs were highly convincing.

Other variables from day two included a low score for Marnus Labuschagne after a promising one the day before; a second brief stay for Kurtis Patterson, Joe Burns, Marcus Harris and Travis Head, handy contributions from Will Pucovski and Alex Carey, and a highly competent half-century from David Warner, by some distance the highest score of the match.

Warner's innings was compelling in how secure he looked, ending only with a miscued pull shot at Chris Tremain that was significant in itself - in a match where edges, lbws and bowleds have been frequent, Warner was the only batsman on either side to fall to catches in front of the wicket: his defence was that sound.

Marsh, thought to be in a race with Labuschagne for a single allrounder's spot, did his chances very little harm by bowling skilfully and briskly with the older ball, defeating Head on the crease from around the wicket and going on to clean up the tail with some panache. His bowling was also useful in 2015, leaving only questions about how he has progressed as a batsman.

In the final hour, Cameron Bancroft made a useful start to help the Hick XII build a platform for victory in pursuit of 156 to win. These were significant moments for Bancroft, who by a combination of his own contributions and also the failures of others may find himself nabbing one of the last remaining spots in the touring party that will be named on Friday.

Fifty-six runs, 84 balls, five boundaries.

Fifty-eight runs, 94 balls, eight boundaries.

Those two innings were both played by David Warner, six weeks apart, in vastly different circumstances. The first was his battling contribution against India in the World Cup match at The Oval, a source of much criticism that Warner was going too slowly and digging a hole for his team. The second took place on Wednesday at Southampton in Australia's only pre-Ashes warm-up, on a dicey pitch that offered both vertical and lateral assistance to the pacemen.

While Warner wore plenty of public opprobrium for the India innings, his approach was to reap a strong and remarkably consistent World Cup showing with a trio of centuries. Now, as he turns to act two of Australia's long tour, Warner has reasoned that very similar tempo will be his best chance to not only contribute to the team's Ashes bid, but also find himself the Test hundred in England that has eluded him across two previous tours in 2013 and 2015.

Warner has spoken previously about listening to mellow mood music in training to keep calm - and it is a method that will come into its own in the longer form. "Yeah, definitely. That's probably why I had Lewis Capaldi on my playlist ... a bit mellow," Warner said. "For me it's about just relaxing when I'm out there. I always am relaxed but I think just at training you try different things and for me it's working. I enjoy that. The other guys laugh at me but that's how it is.

"I'm trying to train to get myself ready. I did it at home while I had the time off. I go running with the headphones in and it makes me feel like I don't want to stop after after I'm a kilometre in. I think when I look back and reflect on how I've played over here, I fought hard, in the first innings I think besides one dismissal I got some pretty good balls, and that's what happens in this game and you've got to try to forget about that and don't overthink it. I know the Lord's Test I was a bit upset and missed out with [38] and the other boys got 200.

"They're always in the back of your mind, but now it's just a bit hungrier and determined to play that longer innings. I think you saw that during the white ball that I hung in there a lot, the old me probably would have thrown the bat at it quite often and today that was all I was focusing on, making sure my feet and my decision making was on point. I was happy with that but I've got to try to get those three figures."

There are other lessons informing Warner's batting, drawn from his year banned from international cricket for his central role in the Newlands ball tampering scandal. Left with only club cricket to play in Sydney for Randwick Petersham, Warner found himself engaging in a type of cricket foreign to those blessed to play so often on truer pitches, faster outfields and against greater pace on the ball.

"Playing grade cricket at home helped me a lot with patience and having to wait to score," he said. "The fields they set were very obscure, there was no pace on the ball, regulation balls and they had deep point which was like 10 in front which was very unusual and I asked the guys at the other end 'how am I going to get behind point' and I just couldn't, so I had to scrap and I really enjoyed that. It made me wait for the ball and I had to scrap for those runs. I've sort of adapted that out here for that white ball and there it was quite challenging."

Multiple challenges were created by a Southampton surface that, by Warner's admission, had its preparation affected by both the Australian desire to see grass on the wicket, a recent lack of rain to provide the ideal amount of moisture, and then rain three days out from the game that prevented the ground staff from being more precise in their work. After 17 wickets fell on day one, a collective batting meeting was held and ideas shared - the sort of collaboration that will be vital to an Ashes win.

"It was just more about assessing how we all went and how we felt. People just throwing up some ideas and there were probably three or four of us who spoke about what our plans were and how we were trying to score on that wicket," Warner said. "We simply broke it down to ... you had to be scrappy, you had to move your feet, commit forward or commit back and you saw a couple of lbws there with guys caught on the crease.

"It was great more for mentality to go out there and switch from white ball to red ball and you couldn't have asked for more exciting conditions. You are not expecting a wicket to go up, down, sideways and swing. You had five different elements to deal with and I thought it was a great hit out for myself personally and a lot of the other guys as well."

There were other players, too, who adapted well. Not least James Pattinson with the ball and, late in the day Cameron Bancroft with the bat. The sight of Bancroft mixing with Smith and Warner in public for the first time since South Africa has already generated the odd newspaper headline, and with a few more runs on what will now be the final day of the fixture, the West Australian opener is a strong chance of finding his way into the Ashes tour party.

"You had to have fast feet, energy in your feet and I felt like today was good for me personally," Warner said. "The intent was good from Bangers too. Marnus in the first innings, he played very well, and I haven't see much of him in this format and he's scored a lot of runs in county cricket and he showed just there, if you play the line, and you play and miss, so be it, but he climbed in to it when he needed to and put it away when he needed to.

"You know what he [Bancroft] is like, he scraps away, he's very good at that. We saw the way he did play out there, he had good intent, he was moving his feet forward and committing. Standing at one [first slip] I was saying this yesterday, I could see a lot of the guys' techniques from behind the stumps. Everyone is scrapping as hard but I know the bowlers were saying with him, when we put it in our areas you feel like you're going to nick off a lot of the guys, and for the guys that actually had that attention to detail and adapt, they've done very well."

As for Pattinson, Warner was unbridled in his happiness that this would be the only game of this tour where the Victorian was not on his side. "Facing Pattinson out there, I haven't faced him in a long time, obviously he's overcome those injuries which were affecting him mentally," he said. "It was great to see him come out and bowl the way he has done in the county stuff. To face him there, geez, it's exciting for us. He put the ball in the right areas, we played and missed a lot. Patto's length and line was impeccable and I found him very challenging to face."