Northampton Saints have signed hooker Michael van Vuuren from Bath.

The 27-year-old former South Africa Under-20 international is qualified to represent England and moves to Saints following his loan spell with London Irish in the Championship last season.

Van Vuuren has also played for Free State Cheetahs, Stade Français, Eastern Province Kings and Leicester Tigers.

"He has experience beyond his years," Saints director of rugby Chris Boyd told the club's website.

"He brings a wealth of knowledge with him which I'm sure some of our younger hookers can tap into.

"He's ripped into training already and will offer us some great competition for the shirt in that front row this season."

STATESVILLE, N.C.  — Junior Johnson, Midnight Moon and GMS Racing have announced a sponsorship agreement for GMS Racing’s entries in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series.

Johnson’s Midnight Moon brand will serve as primary sponsor of the No. 24 Chevrolet Silverado of reigning NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series champion Brett Moffitt and the NASCAR Xfinity Series No. 23 Chevrolet Camaro of John Hunter Nemecheck for the upcoming races at Bristol Motor Speedway on Aug. 15-16.

The sponsorship promotes Midnight Moon’s introduction of a limited-edition, augmented reality label which literally comes to life to tell the story of Junior’s moonshine bust and arrest through an app on your phone. As part of the promotion, a special paint scheme will prominently feature Junior’s mugshot photograph on the hood.

The augmented reality technology offers Midnight Moon adult consumers a fun, new way to interact with the brand.  Upon downloading the “Midnight Moon AR Experience” app to their phone from the App Store or Google Play, they can point their phone at the limited-edition label of Junior Johnson’s mugshot and listen to him recall the story of his infamous moonshining arrest.

“We couldn’t think of a better way to support the Midnight Moon Moonshine Busted label introduction than to marry Junior’s old-school roots in racing at Bristol with the new-school capabilities of the GMS race teams,” says Joe Michalek, President and Founder of Piedmont Distillers. “Our goal is to celebrate Junior’s moonshine and racing legacy with NASCAR fans and what better place than Bristol Motor Speedway!

“Junior personally approved the story and said, ‘I must have told that story a thousand times over the years, but I never imagined my mugshot photograph would tell the story on a phone right in the palm of your hand. It’s very cool.’”

The new limited-edition label and sponsorship of the GMS Racing teams are part of a campaign which will include a social media promotion where race fans get a chance to join the GMS teams at Bristol. Race fans can follow Midnight Moon on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter to get more information.

“I’m excited to have Midnight Moon back with us at Bristol,” Moffitt said. “The new promotion they have is a cool way to tell some of Junior Johnson’s story, and to have a connection to a NASCAR legend like him is awesome. Sipping some Midnight Moon Moonshine in victory lane would be the perfect way to celebrate.”

“Junior Johnson is a NASCAR legend, so it’s pretty cool to have his brand on our car at Bristol next month,” Nemechek said. “Growing up in a racing family I’ve heard a lot of stories about him and I’d really like to honor him by getting a win in the Midnight Moon Camaro.”

American Flat Track, under the leadership of CEO Michael Lock, has broken out of the mold of focusing strictly on old-style venues.

Instead of racing only on traditional miles, half miles, TTs and short tracks, American Flat Track is now racing on Super TT tracks, such as the Daytona Super TT, which actually utilizes the paved tri-oval section of Daytona Int’l Speedway, and the more recent Arizona TT, which featured multiple jumps and a variety of right- and left-hand corners.

A few hard-core traditionalists bristled a bit with some of these new venues, but there is no denying the new tracks are generating excitement with new fans paying attention to the sport.

Perhaps the event that started this whole trend of trying to bring the sport to new and innovative tracks is the Buffalo Chip TT, held during South Dakota’s Sturgis Bike Week.

In all of racing, there’s really nothing like this race. In 2017, the inaugural Buffalo Chip TT blew fans’ minds — more than 10,000 of them. There was an honest-to-goodness American Flat Track national held on a built-overnight TT track snaking around the legendary Buffalo Chip amphitheater. The race served as the opening act for a packed-house rock concert in that same venue later that night. It was a fusion of motorsports and music on one of the most legendary of all stages. It was an instant classic.

This innovative tourist trophy track, designed by seven-time AFT champion Chris Carr, was the first track in the series that allowed fans to watch the nation’s top flat-track racers whip around multiple right-hand turns, fly over a jump and immediately follow it up with a major rock concert in the same amphitheater.

The views were both unprecedented and spectacular, with fans watching from the sky bridge or party decks above or from directly behind the trackside barricades on the ground. Holding the race during Sturgis Bike Week was also a perfect opportunity for motorcyclists who flock to the historic get-together each summer to watch the renewal of the time-honored tradition of the century-old rivalry between Indian and Harley-Davidson.

“People said these were the most exciting races they’d ever seen,” said Buffalo Chip President Rod Woodruff. “There’s nothing more exciting than being right next to the track, watching the American Flat Track races at the Buffalo Chip. Spectators are so close they feel like they are part of the action with bikes jumping and tearing around the corners so close they can feel the power. 2019 will be the third year for the Buffalo Chip TT and fans are loving it. We expect to see even more people enjoying the races this year, followed by a thunderous performance by heavy metal rockers, Godsmack.”

Perhaps the only downside to venues like the Buffalo Chip are that they take the racers out of their comfort zones.

“I don’t mind AFT trying new things with new tracks,” said Indian factory rider Briar Bauman, who won the first Buffalo Chip TT. “But a lot of times with new tracks, or temporary tracks, the biggest challenge is getting the track set up well for racing. I like the idea of bringing our racing to new fans, but we have to keep the focus on making the tracks safe and ridable, so we can go out and give our best performance.”

Lock has heard the concerns, yet at the same time he sees tremendous upsides to having national events at tracks like the Buffalo Chip.

“The irony is the venues that our competitors grumble most about, the TTs, are the best attended and most successful on the schedule,” said Lock. “Daytona, Buffalo Chip and Peoria. The races have the highest attendance because of the wonder of watching these machines on that kind of racing circuit.”

Even within the realm of expanding the types of tracks on which AFT races, Buffalo Chip was a stretch.

“The concept of the Buffalo Chip TT was a bit of an experiment. Instead of taking a race to a race circuit, we took the race to a rock concert,” Lock explained. “We build the track overnight after a rock concert and race before the next rock concert. It’s a logistical nightmare, but it’s worth it. We’re putting the sport of AFT in front of 10,000 to 15,000 people, may of whom have never seen it before and are just curious. They’ve turned up for a rock concert and they’re getting a bonus motorcycle race.”

The concept at the Buffalo Chip has proven wildly successful.

“The promoter of the Buffalo Chip has told us that since he’s brought the race in, it’s massively boosted his overall attendance,” Lock noted. “So it’s a win all around.”

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WEEDSPORT, N.Y. – Weedsport Speedway will roar to life once again on July 28 for the Super DIRTcar Series Hall of Fame 100, paying $10,000 to the winner along with a guaranteed starting spot in the NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week Billy Whittaker Cars 200.

The Hall of Fame 100 will mark the second of three stops for the Super DIRTcar Series at Weedsport this year as Erick Rudolph looks to keep his run alive at Weedsport.

Rudolph has won the last two series stops at Weedsport coming in as the defending champion of the Hall of Fame 100, his first big-block win at Weedsport, as well as the winner of the Heroes Remembered 100 on Memorial Day.

Over the course of the last year, nobody has stood on top of Weedsport Speedway’s Victory Hill more than Rudolph in Modified competition.

The third-generation racer added yet another Series victory at Weedsport last October by winning the 358 Modified Series event at The Port during Super DIRT Week.

Rudolph aims to continue that momentum in this year’s Hall of Fame 100, as he looks to battle his way back to the top of the Super DIRTcar Series point standings.

Despite being fast all year long, an up and down campaign has dropped Rudolph to sixth in the series points as of July 17, seeing his lone Weedsport win coupled with two Top 5 finishes and three Top 10 runs in the first six events of the year.

Rudolph will be joined in the Hall of Fame 100 by a long list of Modified contenders hoping to knock him off Victory Hill including Matt Sheppard, Larry Wight, Mat Williamson, Jimmy Phelps, Billy Decker, Peter Bitten, Danny Johnson, Mike Mahaney and more.

The Hall of Fame 100 comes in the middle of a busy stretch of July action for the Super DIRTcar Series which sees six events scheduled across two weeks including stops at Orange County Fair Speedway, Autodrome Drummond and Autodrome Granby as well as Sharon Speedway and Eldora Speedway.

Joining the Super DIRTcar Series Big Block Modifieds as part of the Hall of Fame 100 will be the DIRTcar Sportsman as well as the Classics on DIRT.

Pit gates will open on July 28 at 4 p.m. with grandstand gates opening at 5 p.m.  Racing will start for the evening at 7 p.m.

Barcelona have made Bayern Munich defender David Alaba their No. 1 target to provide competition for Jordi Alba, with Augsburg's Philipp Max and Real Betis' Junior Firpo being considered as alternatives, various sources have told ESPN FC.

Alaba, 27, offered himself to Barca through his agents several weeks back and is the club's first choice due to his versatility and experience at the top level.

Barca believe he would bring competition for Alba -- who is the only left-back in Ernesto Valverde's squad -- but also like the fact he can play in the middle of the back four after missing out on Matthijs de Ligt to Juventus.

In that sense, they view him fulfilling a similar role to that played by sporting director Eric Abidal during his playing career at Camp Nou, while he could also provide cover for Sergio Busquets in midfield if needed.

Despite Alaba's desire to make the move, negotiations with Bayern will not be easy.

"The player is interested in coming," a source at Barcelona told ESPN FC. "It's a complicated operation, but not an impossible one."

The Austria international has two more years on his deal at Bayern but his intention is to move clubs, even more so since the German champions invested €80 million in Atletico Madrid's versatile defender Lucas Hernandez.

Bayern are keen on Barca's Ousmane Dembele as they look to rebuild their attack following the departures of Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery.

Therefore, with Barca reluctant to sell the Frenchman, they will not make things easy with Alaba. That doubt has led the Catalans to Augsburg's Max, who has been "followed continually" over the last 12 months, sources have told ESPN FC.

Borussia Dortmund are also monitoring his situation and, despite having a lower profile than Alaba or Junior, the 25-year-old defender was linked with Manchester United last summer.

Max, who grew up at the Bayern academy, has similarities with Alba and during the 2017-18 season provided 13 assists. Last season he played some games as a winger and finished the campaign with four goals and four assists.

Junior is a more attainable target. Betis are ready to sell him for less than his €40m release clause, but Barca will push for their first two options before turning to the Spain under-21 international.

Cheaper options have already been explored and rejected. Filipe Luis, without a team after his Atletico contract expired, and Alberto Moreno, who left Liverpool for Villarreal on a free, were both turned down.

Meanwhile, academy graduate Marc Cucurella, another option to provide competition for Alba, has joined Getafe on loan until the end of the season.

The Madrid-based side have an option to buy 60 percent of the defender's right's next summer for €6m. Barca had re-signed him from Eibar on Wednesday for €4m to facilitate the deal.

Real Madrid have refused to rule out selling Isco and Marco Asensio if the money could be reinvested in signing Manchester United's Paul Pogba or another marquee midfielder, sources have confirmed to ESPN FC.

Madrid have already spent over €300 million shaking up a squad which failed in 2018-19, with Eden Hazard the headline addition to their forward line, and centre-forward Luka Jovic and winger Rodrygo also arriving.

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That puts the futures of Isco, Asensio, Mariano and Gareth Bale in doubt as coach Zinedine Zidane remains keen to add a new central midfielder.

Sources at the club have told ESPN FC that they would be open to selling Isco if a "big offer" is received and that Borussia Dortmund had made an initial enquiry, but the 27-year-old himself decided the Bundesliga club were not "important enough."

Sources close to Isco have told ESPN FC that he remains firm in his intention to stay, especially after his exile from the team under previous coach Santi Solari last winter was ended when Zidane returned as coach.

Madrid sources told ESPN FC that they want to keep hold of Asensio unless a "crazy offer" is received, with the 23-year-old being given one "last chance" to prove himself after his poor form last season. Sources close to the player said he is keen to take this opportunity to earn a regular starting spot during 2019-20.

The club are still looking to sell at least one big name this summer, although at this point even Zidane is accepting that it will be difficult to sell Bale at their €80-100m asking price.

Others more likely to leave in the near future include James Rodriguez, Lucas Vazquez and three players who won the European Under-21 Championship with Spain this summer -- Dani Ceballos, Jesus Vallejo and Borja Mayoral.

Zidane remains hopeful that should more money be raised then it could become possible to bring in Pogba from United, although the Premier League club's valuation of over £150m continues to make that difficult.

"There were so many positives -- his physique, how he commanded his area, his comfort at building play -- but what immediately stood out was his decision-making. You can spend hours working on technical aspects, but you have to have the natural ability to read situations and react so that you make the difficult things look simple."

Liverpool's goalkeeping coach John Achterberg is talking about a time in 2013, when, hunched in front of the laptop in his home office, he began dissecting footage of Alisson Becker. His first impression was so strong that he began compiling an extensive dossier on Brazil's No. 1, who was just 20 and playing for Internacional before permanently displacing his older brother Muriel (five years his senior) and the World Cup-winning Dida in the position.

The army of scouts that scour Brazil for "The Next Big Thing" were zoned in on playmakers, but the young goalkeeper stood out to an unlikely talent spotter. Goalkeeper Alexander Doni, signed by Liverpool on a free transfer from Roma in 2011 and making just four appearances before his release, had taken note of the calm yet imposing figure wearing the gloves for Inter. He was convinced Alisson had an incredibly high ceiling and would quickly be considered elite at his position.

"I kept in touch with Doni after he left Liverpool, and in 2013, I asked him if there were any goalkeepers in Brazil worth following," Achterberg tells ESPN FC. "He responded without hesitation that I should check out Alisson at Internacional because he was going to be special.

"I watched him and his style of play -- he was comfortable with the ball, aggressive, positive -- fitted in perfectly with what we needed at Liverpool. But most importantly, he was excellent at doing the basics right and really well. 'Ali' would anticipate danger and make all kinds of saves: easy, hard, high, low. He had the physical aspects in terms of height at 6-foot-4 and his athleticism."

Achterberg had seen enough evidence over a long stretch to suggest Alisson could be a game-changer for Liverpool, and the coach pitched as much during transfer discussions. "He had the right profile, ticked all the boxes. He came into our recruitment talks about a year or two after the recommendation from Doni, and I spoke to his agent. The problem at that time was getting him a work permit for the UK, which would have been very difficult."

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Alisson's wife, Natalia Loewe, has relatives from Germany and Italy, so the pair were in the process of trying to get Italian-Brazilian citizenship when Roma spent a bargain £7 million to sign him in July 2016. As luck would have it, the move to Serie A encouraged Liverpool to intensify their analysis given the heightened technical demands of the Italian league. Alisson was frustrated as Wojciech Szczesny's understudy during his debut season in 2016-17, only clocking minutes in Cup games. But the Merseysiders already had the opportunity to examine him at close range in August 2016, during a preseason friendly defeat against Roma at Busch Stadium in St. Louis.

"He played an impressive game, and I said to the boss [Klopp], 'That's the goalkeeper I keep telling you about,'" Achterberg says. "The next season, he was Roma's No. 1 and confirmed why he was so highly thought of."

By December 2017, Liverpool were not alone in viewing Alisson as a primary transfer target. Real Madrid and Chelsea had both made approaches to the player's camp, but the Reds had the advantage of the time and depth to their research. The Spanish giants realigned their sights and wanted to secure Thibaut Courtois from Stamford Bridge, which made the Blues the biggest threat to Liverpool landing their man. Chelsea dithered and eventually pursued Kepa Arrizabalaga as the Anfield side slowly chipped away at Roma, who were being obstructive with an initial base price of £62m in February 2018, which kept rising.

The closing months of Liverpool's five-year process of recruiting Alisson felt like football's "House of Cards." Talks would start and stall as neither the Premier League side nor Roma would blink in negotiations. During international breaks with Brazil, Philippe Coutinho, already at Barcelona after his £142m departure, was Liverpool's chief salesman, ably assisted by Roberto Firmino. They detailed the family feel of the club to Alisson and spoke about the city, Klopp's long-term vision and the adulation from the Kop.

The keeper, who had experienced the power of Anfield during Roma's 5-2 Champions League semifinal defeat in April 2018, was sold, but there were other obstacles. The Italians predicted desperation on Liverpool's part after the Champions League final in Kiev, where a concussed Loris Karius made two decisive errors as Real Madrid beat the Reds 3-1 that May. Roma raised their valuation to £90m, which threatened to completely kill a deal. It took them softening their stance to such an extent in July that the fee for Alisson dropped to a guaranteed £56m, with £9m in add-ons for the long-awaited transfer to finally be completed.

Klopp described Alisson as "one of the world's best goalkeepers" when his signing was announced on this day a year ago, but as Trent Alexander-Arnold has since stated to ESPN FC, "there is no one better on current form."

The 26-year-old is a Champions League and Copa America champion, pivotal to both triumphs with Golden Glove honours in those competitions as well as in the Premier League. He was labelled a "transformer" at Melwood, along with Virgil van Dijk, and there was confidence he would have as much of an impact on Liverpool's rearguard, results and psychology as the world's most expensive defender.

The squad's introduction to Alisson came at the lower floor of the palatial Hotel Royal in Evian-les-Bains last summer, where the club were based for a training camp. When he walked into the room in late July, there were audible gasps, with one player unable to conceal his excitement as he declared: "Get him in my f--king goal!"

There were pauses during Alisson's first training stints as his teammates stopped to marvel at and applaud him.

"Straight away he made impressions on the team with the speed of his reactions in the training games and how he restarted play," Achterberg says. "As soon as he caught the ball, it was 'boom, counter-attack!' because of the power and accuracy of his throws.

The coaching staff believed the real challenge would come when Alisson made his first sizeable blunder. It came at Leicester City on Sept. 1, 2018, when he hesitated after receiving van Dijk's misdirected backpass in the second half, which allowed Kelechi Iheanacho to dispossess him and square for Rachid Ghezzal to score. Alisson didn't let the error affect him, and he owned up to it post-match, telling ESPN Brazil: "It was bad judgement, I made a mistake reading the play. I didn't get a very good pass. We have to learn from our mistakes."

How he reacted to the gaffe was commended in the dressing room. "He stayed positive, so the team stayed positive," Achterberg says. "If you play out from the back, there's always risk. The players needed to make quicker options for him so he could find a solution earlier.

"It's really important if you make a mistake, you realise it's gone and you move on, which is what he did. You have to be bigger than the mistake you made."

Clemer Silva, who coached the keeper at Internacional B, saw the very same attributes when Alisson was a teenager: He never lost focus after a fault. His effortlessness in high-pressure and testing moments means his brilliance is sometimes asterisked. That was the case with his save two minutes into stoppage time to thwart Arkadiusz Milik in last season's Champions League matchday 6 game against Napoli.

Liverpool were 1-0 up and had to win to progress to the knockout stages when Jose Callejon's left-footed cross fell at the feet of the Polish striker in the six-yard box with only the keeper to beat. The speed with which Alisson reacted to the danger, the intelligence of his positioning and his size, panicked Milik into sending the effort straight at him.

"The save Allison made, I have no words for that. That was, of course, a life-saver," Klopp said in the aftermath. But many questioned whether it was actually that good. It was an example of Achterberg's assertion that the Brazilian has a gift for making difficult things look simple.

Marco Savorani, goalkeeper coach of Roma and widely regarded as the best in his trade in Italy, made the same observation. "Alisson is able to make everything simple. He reads the game, is very calm and calculated," he said last year.

This line of thinking is not recent either. Daniel Pavan, who schools keepers at Internacional, had been witness to Alisson's development since he was a 10-year-old kid mimicking his brother; Pavan gave him the moniker "Iceman" due to his composure. Goalkeepers at Inter's academy were drilled to be in the right position and cover as large a portion of the goal as possible rather than constantly making elaborate, acrobatic saves. They were taught to be smart rather than showy.

Klopp regularly pinpoints Alisson's intervention against Milik as one of Liverpool's defining moments of 2018-19. For all the focus on the belief, bravery and goals that resulted in the Reds conjuring a historic Champions League comeback against Barcelona in the second leg of the semifinals, Liverpool's players often admit that without Alisson's one-man blockade against Leo Messi & Co., victory would have remained a fantasy.

His efficiency continued in the 2-0 triumph over Tottenham in the final, and as such, there was a shared pleasure among staff and the squad that UEFA's stellar, near 13-minute short film of the showpiece in Madrid ended with a shot of Alisson FaceTiming his family to show off his winner's medal.

Alisson has excelled on the grandest stages over the past year, his influence explicitly linked to silverware for his club and country. He has collected the three most prestigious goalkeeping accolades and went nine consecutive games without conceding in all competitions before reaching the Copa America final. That included shutting out Messi twice, for Barcelona and Argentina, as well as Harry Kane.

Since moving to Liverpool, he has kept the same number of club clean sheets (35) as he has conceded goals. Lev Yashin of Dynamo Moscow was the first and only goalkeeper to win the prestigious Ballon d'Or in 1963, but Alisson surely has to be a part of the conversation this year. He is too humble to consider himself a possible candidate, playing down such talk last month. "There are a lot of top players aspiring for that prize," he said. "I'm just a goalkeeper."

Roberto Negrisolo, the former Roma goalkeeping coach, previously provided the perfect counter.

"This guy is a phenomenon," he told Il Romanista of a player who was so far behind in terms of his physical development -- he was chubbier and shorter than his colleagues -- that his parents considered making him quit football at 15.

"He is the No. 1 of No. 1s. He is worth as much as Messi because he is as important as Messi. He's the type of goalkeeper who can define an era."

A year ago, Liverpool officials confided that £65m for Alisson would soon be seen as a steal. They were spot on, too: As Klopp himself admitted, Alisson is easily worth double as he regularly proved during the past 12 months.

A host of familiar names have returned to the fold in Sri Lanka's first post-World Cup squad, as the selectors named a 22-member ODI squad for the upcoming home series against Bangladesh. Niroshan Dickwella, Danushka Gunathilaka, Akila Dananjaya, and Lakshan Sandakan are some of the notable returnees, which means there's no room for allrounders Milinda Siriwardana and Jeevan Mendis, veteran seamer Suranga Lakmal, and young legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay.

The omissions come as little surprise, with Vandersay having seen minimal game time at the World Cup, Siriwardena and Mendis having failed to live up to their "three-dimensional" tags, and Lakmal not a regular in the limited-overs set-up.

With home conditions likely to favour spinners, Sri Lanka have stocked up in that department. Both Dananjaya and Sandakan have recently toured India with the Sri Lanka A team, and spent much of that time working on their game with national spin-bowling coach Piyal Wijetunge who was on on tour with them. Meanwhile the likes of Wanindu Hasaranga, Amila Aponso, and Shehan Jayasuriya will be eyeing up the spin-bowling-allrounder position in the side. Dhananjaya de Silva, who picked up five wickets at 39.40 in the World Cup, will also be an option.

On the batting front, the returns of Dickwella, Gunathilaka, and Dasun Shanaka will likely put pressure on what selectors had recently deemed a fairly settled top six. Dickwella scored two centuries and a fifty against India A recently, while Shanaka had shown glimpses of form on the same tour. Gunathilaka, meanwhile, hasn't played any cricket since a domestic provincial tournament prior to the World Cup, but has been selected on the form he had shown for much of 2018, which was disrupted by a poor disciplinary track record.

Lasith Malinga, who is set to retire following the Bangladesh ODIs, will lead a fast-bowling unit also including Kasun Rajitha, Nuwan Pradeep and Lahiru Kumara. Lahiru Madushanka will also be part of that contingent, though following impressive performances with bat and ball for Sri Lanka's emerging team in South Africa recently, the selectors may look at him as an allrounder option following the underwhelming World Cups endured by Isuru Udana and Thisara Perera.

Sri Lanka squad for Bangladesh ODIs: Dimuth Karunaratne (capt), Kusal Perera, Avishka Fernando, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Lahiru Thirimanne, Shehan Jayasuriya, Dhananjaya de Silva, Niroshan Dickwella, Danushka Gunathilaka, Dasun Shanaka, Wanindu Hasaranga, Akila Dananjaya, Amila Aponso, Lakshan Sandakan, Lasith Malinga, Nuwan Pradeep, Kasun Rajitha, Lahiru Kumara, Thisara Perera, Isuru Udana, Lahiru Madushanka