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Ex-Giants CB Bradberry gets deal with Eagles

Published in Breaking News
Wednesday, 18 May 2022 09:53

PHILADELPHIA -- The Eagles took a big step in filling out their secondary, agreeing to a one-year contract with cornerback James Bradberry, the team announced Wednesday.

The deal will pay him $7.5 million, including $7.25 million guaranteed, and has another $2.5 million in upside, bringing the total possible value of the deal to $10 million, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter. Eleven teams reached out about Bradberry after he was released by the New York Giants on May 9, with that number being whittled down to three before Bradberry chose the Eagles, according to Schefter.

He is expected to slide right into a starting role opposite Darius Slay, creating what on paper looks like a formidable cornerback trio with Bradberry, Slay and slot corner Avonte Maddox.

The Eagles were in need of another starter after Steven Nelson signed with the Houston Texans this offseason. General manager Howie Roseman previously indicated such a move could come after the draft, when both the team and veteran free agents had a clearer picture of what the roster would look like.

The Giants released Bradberry after not being able to find a trade partner for the veteran cornerback. The move for the Giants was more about the money than an indictment on the player. Bradberry, 28, had been set to make $13.5 million this season and would have counted $21.9 million against the Giants' cap.

Bradberry was one of just five players on the current Giants' roster to make a Pro Bowl in their careers. He was their top cornerback last season and made the Pro Bowl in his first year with the Giants in 2020, when he had a career-best 79.8 Pro Football Focus grade. He has graded in the 60s all the remaining years of his career.

He had a career high with four interceptions and recovered a pair of fumbles this past season.

Bradberry spent the first four years of his career with the Carolina Panthers and has 15 interceptions and 82 passes defended in his six NFL seasons.

ESPN's Jordan Raanan contributed to this report.

Brewers' Adames put on IL with high ankle sprain

Published in Baseball
Wednesday, 18 May 2022 10:02

Milwaukee Brewers shortstop Willy Adames has been put on the 10-day injured list with a high left ankle sprain.

The move is retroactive to Monday.

Adames, who is tied with Hunter Renfroe for the team lead with nine home runs, is hitting .208 with 24 RBIs.

He suffered the injury during Sunday's game against the Miami Marlins on a hard slide while scoring on a sacrifice fly in the second inning.

The Brewers recalled Keston Hiura from Triple-A Nashville to take his roster spot.

Twins activate Correa, send rookie Lewis Triple-A

Published in Baseball
Wednesday, 18 May 2022 10:02

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Minnesota Twins reinstated shortstop Carlos Correa from the injured list Wednesday before their game at Oakland and sent thriving rookie Royce Lewis back to Triple-A St. Paul.

Correa missed 11 games with a bruised right middle finger. A pitch hit him there while he gripped the handle of the bat in the middle of a swing.

Correa was held out two days past the minimum stay. Lewis didn't miss a beat, deftly filling in at shortstop and contributing often at the plate during his 11-game major league debut. The first overall pick in the 2017 draft hit .308 with four doubles, two homers, five RBIs and five runs in 39 at-bats, but the Twins preferred he continue to get regular playing time at shortstop.

Correa was batting .255 with five doubles, two homers, 11 RBIs and 12 runs in 94 at-bats before the injury.

W55 Clare Elms leads GB challenge in an event dominated by home nation who won a staggering 105 gold medals

Clare Elms became the first athlete to win three individual gold medals at the same European Masters Non-Stadia Championship when in the space of 40 hours she won W55 titles on consecutive days at 10km, 5km and half-marathon.

Elms also won a team gold and two team silver medals.

Britain’s only other individual gold medals were won in the M70 category from runners who focused on just a single event.

In the 5km, John Skelton won easily in 19:37 well clear of Italian Bruno Sarale (20:25). Skelton had previously won the European Masters 5000m M65 title in 2018 and indoor 3000m title in 2019.

M70 5km winner John Skelton

The course was over a flat two and a half-lap circuit which was ideal for spectating with nearly the whole route visible from the finish area.

Scottish cross-country champion Anthony Martin was even more dominant in the half-marathon as his 1:29:50 gave him victory by five minutes over Italy’s Enzo Tozelli.

Martin’s best previous international result was probably a second in the Masters Cross-Country International in 2017 to distance legend Nick Rose and interestingly Skelton had been third.

The race was run over a one-lap course which took in a rural route around the Airport but then went around the scenic old town.

The course was well policed at road junctions but there was an absence of marshalls and signage and many runners who could not see those in front strayed off course.

Unusually Martin also won a team medal but moving all the way down to the M35 team given the short number of British men doing the half-marathon and there he picked up a silver medal.

Elms’ also won W55 team gold in the 10km to go with her individual title which was the hardest of her triple.

A chaotic very narrow start left her well back and then panicking there were fellow W55s ahead, she blasted the opening kilo well inside age-group world record pace.

With temperatures in the Friday afternoon race high in the 20s, she overheated after the fast start and had to slow significantly and staggered across the line in 41:09 with Swiss Doris Koller second in 41:51 and fellow Brit Susan Ridley third (44:58) and with a third Brit Cathy Flitcroft fourth, Britain easily defeated home nation Italy.

There was no such identification problem in the 5km as that was early Saturday morning and there was a separate W55 plus race which despite being up against fresh athletes, she won comfortably in 18:41 and, just as in the 10km, she was quicker than the W50 winners as Italians Manuela Massa (19:14) and Enrica Carrara (19:36) challenged her up to halfway and meant Italy won from Britain in the team event.

Clare Elms winning the W55+ 5km

Wary after her heat problems on day one, Elms ran a more conservative race in the half-marathon though the earlier start meant it only got really hot later in the race.

After trailing early on, she won reasonably comfortably in 87:48 with Ireland’s Cathryn Brady (1:30:41) second and Koller third (91:49) with Spain’s Maria Castro Solina who had beaten Elms into second in the W50 race in 2016 in Portugal having to settle for fourth. Both Brady and Castro Solina ran just the half-marathon which over all the age groups had the largest fields.

With only three British women running in the longest race, Britain were forced to move runners down to make a team and both Elms and W65 bronze medalist Margaret Martin (1:48:58), the wife of M70 winner Anthony moved down to the W40 age group to join W40 fourth-placer Bethany Thompson (PB 1:24:39) and win silver medals behind Italy and join popular bronze medallists Ukraine on the podium.

Grosseto medallists W65 Margaret Martin and M70 Anthony Martin

The latter had also earlier won team gold surprising Italy in the M65 10km event.

Just under a hour after Elms finished the half-marathon, W75 German Maria Nittel also won her third gold medal though she was the only runner in her age group in that race after facing more opposition in the shorter races. Her respective wins were 60:03, 27:12 and 2:12:10.

The triple was attempted by more male athletes than women and there was success for Portuguese M50 Davide Figuiredo (32:50, 16:05 and 71:54), Swedish M80 Ake Jonson (52:04, 25:37 and 2:08:40) and Swiss M80 Gregorio Sablone (59:39, 27:11 and 2:04:10) though the latter two also won their half-marathons uncontested.

Other athletes who made an impression with double wins included Irish W70 Eileen Kenny who did not contest the half-marathon while her daughter Michelle won W40 5km bronze.

Spain’s Javier Diaz Catterero won the M45 5km and 10km but was well beaten in the half-marathon by a  fresh Joachim Nshirimana while Spain’s Miguel Muro Ferrer won M40 gold at 10km and half-marathon but missed the 5km.

Spain’s Francisco Garcia Lopes took double gold in the M60 10km and 5km but was only fifth in the longer event.

Italian Virginio Trentin took golds at the 10km and half-marathon but was only third in an exciting 5km while Italian Hodan Mohamed Mohamud won the 10km and 5km but missed the half-marathon.

One Italian athlete with a well known British name – Alessandro Gratton – won the W60 5km and half-marathon but missed the 10km.

M90 Angelo Squadrone

The most popular winner of the weekend was 92-year-old home athlete Angelo Squadrone who won the M90 10km in 89:38 and 5km in 42:48.

Other individual UK medallists were M70 Ron Cattle (10km: 43:39), W50 Val Woodland (10km: 44:52) and W65 Mary Mackin (10km: 47:46) who all won bronze medals, giving Britain an overall individual run total of 10 medals.

W65 bronze medallist Mary Mackin

Britain’s team medals other than the aforementioned W55 10km gold, W55 5km silver, W40 silver and M35 half-marathon bronze came with the M55 half-marathon silver, W35 5km silver, M35 5km bronze and M65 5km bronze.

The best 10km times were from Italian M35 Nicolas De Nicolo (31:02) and W35 Martina Facciani (34:44).

The fastest times in the 5km were set by Italian M40 Antonio Liuzzo (14:50) and W35 Portugal’s Andreia Santos (17:00).

Just two seconds covered the W40 top two

The quickest half-marathon times belonged to Italian M35 Alessandro Marangi (68:55) and German Bettina Englisch (78:30).

10km

M35: 1 N De Nicolo (ITA) 31:02; 2 R Pinto (POR) 33:35; 3 I Parju (ROM) 34:14

M35 race winner Nicolas de Nicolo

TEAM: 1 ITA 99:49

M40: 1 M Muro Ferrer (ESP) 31:36; 2 R Diz Diaz (ESP) 32:21; 3 A Doherty (IRL) 32:54; 30 Lee Llewellyn (GBR) 55:06

TEAM: 1 ESP 1:37:10

M45: 1 J Diaz Carretero (ESP) 32:52; 2 K Nedregard (NOR) 33:37; 3 V Puccio (ITA) 33:41

TEAM: 1 ESP 1:42:58

M50: 1 D Figueiredo (POR) 32:50; 2 F Lupinetti (ITA) 33:21; 3 D Toal (IRL) 33:34; 8 Richard Jones (GBR) 35:37

TEAM: 1 ITA 1:41:32

M55: 1 J Figueiredo (POR) 33:30; 2 A Quaglia (AUT) 36:15; 3 M Silva (POR) 36:20; 12 Steven  Worsley (GBR) 39:55; 17 Paul Smith (GBR) 42:50; 27 Alan Roberts (GBR) 49:39

TEAM: 1 POR 1:52:40; 6 GBR 2:12:24

M60: 1 F Garcia Lopez (ESP) 35:44; 2 F Torresani (ITA) 35:47; 3 C Werion (BEL) 39:36; 16 Steven Doxey (GBR) 46:04

TEAM: 1 ITA 1:55:56; 5 GBR 2:34:44

M65 10km winner Virginio Trentin

M65: 1 V Trentin (ITA) 38:11; 2 S Dunlop (SUI) 39:26; 3 W de Weerdt (NED) 39:54; 14 Brian Martin (GBR) 45:49; 20 David Proffitt (GBR) 53:41; 22 Andy Murray (GBR) 58:06; 24 R Sargent (GBR) 65:01

TEAM: 1 UKR 2:04:47; 2 ITA 2:05:33; 4 GBR 2:37:36

M70: 1 A Viroli (ITA) 41:05; 2 A Accalai (ITA) 42:08; 3 Ron Cattle (GBR) 43:39

M70 10km podium

TEAM: 1 ITA 2:11:59

M75: 1 A Peragine (ITA) 46:28; 2 H Wiedemeier (SUI) 48:57; 3 M Capponi (ITA) 49:39

TEAM: 1 ITA 2:53:23

M80: 1 A Jonson (SWE) 52:04; 2 P Widmer (SUI) 55:45; 3 L Serena (ITA) 55:56

TEAM: 1 ITA 3:15:46

M85: 1 G Sablone (SUI) 59:39; 2 I Hecico (ROU) 81:21

M90: 1 A Squadrone (ITA) 89:38

W35: 1 M Facciani (ITA) 34:44; 2 A Santos (POR) 35:09; 3 V Giustino (ITA) 36:43

TEAM: 1 ITA 1:51:04

W40: 1 S Santini (ITA) 36:22; 2 A Llorens (ESP) 36:35; 3 F de Sanctis (ITA) 37:49

TEAM: 1 ITA 1:56:25

W45: 1 M Mohamed (ITA) 36:38; 2 S Conceicao Lopes (ITA) 37:05; 3 S Raatz (GER) 37:20; 24 Barbie Ahearn (GBR) 73:15

W45 10km winner Mohamed Mohamud

TEAM: 1 ITA 1:51:50; 5 GBR 2:51:04

W50: 1 M Municchi (ITA) 41:17; 2 E Ghioc (ROU) 44:42; 3 Val Woodland (GBR) 44:52

TEAM: 1 ITA 2:13:20

W55: 1 C Elms (GBR) 41:09; 2 D Koller (SUI) 41:51; 3 S Ridley (GBR) 44:58; 4 Cathy Flitcroft (GBR) 45:26; 9 Sharyn Ramage (GBR) 49:31; 12 Sandra Martin (GBR) 60:25

TEAM: 1 GBR 2:11:33; 2 ITA 2:29:08

W60: 1 T Schultz-Lorentzen (DEN) 41:56; 2 G Toccafondi (ITA) 44:13; 3 M Ruzafa Manchon (ESP) 44:43; 13 Jacqui Maxwell (GBR) 52:57

TEAM: 1 ITA 2:22:13

W65: 1 B Minayo (ESP) 46:09; 2 M Hernaiz Del Campo (ESP) 47:22; 3 Mary Mackin (GBR) 47:46

W70: 1 E Kenny (IRL) 46:49; 2 A Galbani (ITA) 43:55; 3 I Illi (SUI) 55:25

W70 10km podium

W75: 1 M Nittel (GER) 60:03; 2 M Rocnakova (CZE) 69:57; 3 D Bruno Di Clarafond ((TA) 81:14

5km

M35 men: 1 A Malfagia (ITA) 16:04; 2 R Pinto (POR) 16:06; 3 L Benini (ITA) 16:12; 4 Richard Waldron (GBR) 16:25; 7 David Coak (GBR 16:56

TEAM: 1 ITA 49:01; 3 GBR 58:27

M40: 1 A Liuzzo (ITA) 14:50; 2 M Lang (GER) 15:19; 3 R Diz Diaz (ESP) 15:23; 21 Lee Llewellyn (GBR) 25:06

TEAM: 1 ITA 46:26; 3 IRL 61:20

M45: 1 J Diaz Carretero (ESP) 15:37; 2 V Pena Martinez (ESP) 15:46; 3 D Papoccia (ITA) 15:47; 30 Scott Armstrong (GBR) 21:44

TEAM: 1 ESP 47:51

M50: 1 D Figueiredo (POR) 16:05; 2 A Burlo (ITA) 16:14; 3 A Boumalik (ITA) 16:15; 6 Richard Jones (GBR) 16:37

M50 5km race won by Davide Figuiredo (526)

TEAM: 1 ITA 48:53

M55: 1 M Biglione (ITA) 16:32; 2 D Caporale (ITA) 16:45; 3 JP Julien (FRA) 17:28; 16 Steve Worsley (GBR) 19:05; 17 Paul Smith (GBR) 19:42; 24 Alan Roberts (GBR) 23:13; 25 Dave Flitcroft (GBR) 24:44

TEAM: 1 ITA 51:28; 5 GBR 62:00

M60:  1 F Garcia Lopez (ESP) 17:13; 2 C Nottolini (ITA) 17:17; 3 M Leonardi (ITA) 17:37; 16 Steven Doxey (GBR) 21:22

TEAM: 1 ITA 53:46; 2 UKR 60:05

M65: 1 l Moser (ITA) 18:22; 2 A Adamo (ITA) 18:28; 3 V Trentin (ITA) 18:35; 19 Phil Jones (GBR) 24:32; 24 Andy Murray (GBR) 26:56; 25 Rob Sargent (GBR) 27:54; 26 Kevin Dillon (GBR) 28:03

TEAM: 1 ITA 55:25; 3 GBR 79:22

M70: 1 John Skelton (GBR) 19:37; 2 B Sarale (ITA) 20:25; 3 L Fernandez Suarez (ESP) 20:55; 5 Ron Cattle (GBR) 21:26

TEAM: 1 ESP 66:33

M75: 1 F Dossena (ITA) 21:48; 2 L Vannini (ITA) 23:48; 3 G Bianchi (ITA) 24:24

TEAM: 1 ITA 70:00

M80: 1 A Jonson (SWE) 25:37; 2 P Widmer (SUI) 26:39; 3 L Serena (ITA) 26:44

TEAM: 1 ITA 94:05

M85: 1 G Sablone (SUI) 27:11; 2 I Hecico (ROU) 36:40

M90: 1 A Squadrone (ITA) 42:48; 2 S Liverani (ITA) 45:26

M90 Angelo Squadrone

W35 women: 1 A Santos (POR) 17:00; 2  M Facciani (ITA) 17:19; 3 V Giustino (ITA) 17:40; 5 Katy Roy (GBR) 18:17

TEAM: 1 ITA 52:45; 2 GBR 58:10

W40: 1 F Durante (ITA) 17:29; 2 S Santini (ITA); 3 M Kenny (IRL) 17:49; 4 Bethany Thompson (GBR) 18:33

TEAM: 1 ITA 54:19

W45: 1 M Mohamed (ITA) 17:22; 2 S Conceicao Lopes (ITA) 17:58; 3 M Velazquez (ESP) 18:02

TEAM: 1 ITA 54:38

W50: 1 M Federici (ITA) 19:01; 2 S Faustini (ITA) 19:27; 3 T Sportelli (ITA) 21:02; 7 Val Woodland 21:20

TEAM: 1 ITA 59:30

W55: 1 Clare Elms (GBR) 18:41; 2 M Massa (ITA) 19:14; 3 E Carrara (ITA) 19:36; 5 Sue Ridley (GBR) 21:10; 6 Debbie Matchett (GBR) 21:35; 7 Cathy Flitcroft (GBR) 21:35; 13 Sharyn Ramage (GBR) 23:38

TEAM: 1 ITA 59:32; 2 GBR 61:26

W60: 1 A Gratton (ITA) 20:30; 2 M Ruzafa Manchon (ESP) 20:56; 3 A Mazzoli (ITA) 21:05; 9 Jacqui Maxwell (GBR) 24:48; 14 Wendy Doxey (GBR) 30:36

TEAM: 1 ITA 63:01

W65: 1 B Minayo (ESP) 21:59; 2 O Mathys (SUI) 23:50; 3 C Barletta (ITA) 24:41

TEAM: 1 SUI 84:55;

W70: 1 E Kenny (IRL) 22:20; 2 A Galbani (ITA) 25:18; 3 I Illi (SUI) 25:30; 4 Ros Tabor (GBR) 26:25

TEAM: 1 LAT 1:40:00

W75: 1 M Nittel (GER) 27:12; 2 I Liepa (LAT) 38:53; 3 D Bruno Di Clarafond (ITA) 42:24

W80: 1 M Fragiacomo (ITA) 35:41

Half-Marathon

M35: 1 A Marangi (ITA) 68:55; 2 U Persi (ITA) 69:04; 3 M Idrissi (ITA) 71:12; 15 Mark Hayter (GBR) 1:33:03; 17 Gregory Mimms (GBR) 1:45:01

Half-marathon leaders around halfway

TEAM: 1 ITA 3:29:11; 3 GBR 4:47:54

M40: 1 M Ferrer Muro (ESP) 69:25; 2 P Rutigliano (ITA) 71:42; 3 C Mouelhi (FRA) 72:23

TEAM: 1 ESP 3:35:00

M45: 1 J Nshimirimana (ITA) 69:07; 2 J Diaz Carretero (ESP) 73:07; 3 W Mancuso (ITA) 73:34

TEAM: 1 ITA 3:37:03

M50: 1 D Figuiredo (POR) 71:54; 2 S Politi (ITA) 73:14; 3 G Calcaterra (ITA) 73:53

TEAM: 1 ITA 3:44:08

M55: 1 F Berardi (ITA) 77:57; 2 F Casagrande (ITA) 78:28; 3 A Quaglia (AUT) 78:43; 7 Robin Bentley (GBR) 80:47; 9 Pete Clough (GBR) 82:23; 19 Andy Parkin 89:50; 31 Alan Roberts 1:58:01

TEAM: 1 ITA 3:57:06; 2 GBR 4:13:00

M60: 1 M Vagnoli (ITA) 79:25; 2 C Nottolini (ITA) 79:40; 3 G Mattacola (ITA) 79:48; 4 P O’Grady (IRL) 80:10

TEAM: 1 ITA 3:58:53

M65: 1 V Trentin (ITA) 83:16; 2 R Rico (ESP) 84:35; 3 D Ruggero (ITA) 85:09; 6 Brian Martin (GBR) 89:26; 24 David Proffitt (GBR) 2:00:58; 25 Andy Murray (GBR) 2:05:59; 28 Phil Jones (GBR) 2:11:40

TEAM: 1 ITA 4:20:29; 4 GBR 5:36:23

M70: 1 Anthony Martin (GBR) 89:50; 2 E Toselli (ITA) 96:41; 3 R Bassani (ITA) 99:11

TEAM: 1 ITA 4:56:58; 2 UKR 5:34:03

M75: 1 H Wiedemeier (SUI) 1:49:10; 2 K Traub (SUI) 1:57:35; 3 V Sucha (CZE) 2:14:57

TEAM: 1 SUI 6:02:40

M80: 1 A Jonson (SWE) 2:08:40

M75 winner Ake Jonson

M85: 1 G Sablone (SUI) 2:04:10

W35: 1 E Manenti (ITA) 81:10; 2 I Gorban (FRA) 1:24:57; 3 S Grasselli (ITA) 1:31:17

TEAM: 1 ITA 4:37:38

W40: 1 B Englisch (GER) 78:30; 2 S Tamburi (ITA) 78:32; 3 E Orru (ITA) 82:45; 4 Beth Thompson (GBR) 1:22:45

TEAM: 1 ITA 4:07:09; 2 GBR 4:41:25; 3 UKR 5:06:16

W40 team podium

W45: 1 N Ciortan (ROU) 82:17; 2 S Conceicao Lopes (ITA) 1:23:13; 3 F Battachi (ITA) 83:49; 4 C O’Connor (IRL) 83:53

TEAM: 1 ITA 4:15:02

W50: 1 C Gelsomino (ITA) 80:42; 2 G Ungania (ITA) 86:51; 3 C Addonisio (ITA) 90:30

TEAM: 1 ITA 4:18:03

W55: 1 Clare Elms (GBR) 87:48; 2 C Brady (IRL) 90:41; 3 D Koller (SUI) 91:49

TEAM: 1 ESP 4:54:10

W60: 1 A Gratton (ITA) 94:23; 2 M Ramos Leon (ESP) 96:23; 3 E Toccafondi Grunwald (ITA) 96:53

TEAM: 1 ITA 5:00:23

W65: 1 C Frontespezi (ITA) 1:40:11; 2 M Heraiz del Campo (ESP) 1:45:18; 3 Margaret Martin (GBR) 1:48:58

TEAM: 1 SUI 5:48:00

W70: 1 L Illi (SUI) 2:02:33; 2 B Hellmark (SWE) 2:06:58; 3 G Pellegrino (ITA) 2:59:12

W75: 1 M Nittel (GER) 2:12:10

Walks events
There were also some well-supported walks with Italy again showing their long-standing walks tradition and why they had double success in Tokyo.

W40 Rosetta La Delfa won the overall women’s 20km walk in 1:51:53 while Latvian M50 Normunds Ivzans was the best of the men’s 30km walk in 2:46:11.

Ivzans was fourth in the 10km won overall by M45 Vincenzo Magliulo (48:00) though La Delfa (49:27) was a class apart in the women’s 10km.

Britain’s only individual walk medal was picked up in the 10km walk by 1980 Olympian (at 50km) Ian Richards  who won bronze in the M70 event in 59:43 just 41 seconds down on winner Alberti Pio (59:02).

Cath Duhig, who won European gold for Britain in 2019 is now based in Spain and won the W65 20km gold and silver in the 10km for Spain.

Britain’s only woman competitor was Italian-born Grazia Manzotti and she came fourth in the 10km having been in a medal position until the final lap.

The only Briton in the 30km was Ian Torode who was fourth M65 but he did pick up a M60 team bronze in the 10km together with Richards and M60 Colin Harle.

Ian Richards in Grosseto

Italy also dominated the Nordic walk events.

10km Walk

M35: 1 R D’Ascanio (ITA) 53:29

TEAM: 1 ITA 2:41:03

M40: 1 L Latorre(ITA) 49:26

TEAM: 1 ITA 2:36:45

M45: 1 V Magliulo (ITA) 48:00

TEAM: 1 ITA 2:34:08

M50: 1 N Ivzans (LAT) 49:57

TEAM: 1 ITA 3:08:05

M55: 1 M Carvajal Ortega (ESP) 48:49

TEAM: 1 ESP 2:31:00

M60: 1 A Lopetuso (ITA) 54:31; 3 P Murphy (IRL) 58:38; 5 Colin Harle (GBR) 64:05

TEAM: 1 ITA 3:03:01; 2 GBR 3:13:35

M65: 1 E Alfieri (ITA) 56:14; 11 Ian Torode (GBR) 69:47

TEAM: 1 ITA 2:51:06

M70: 1 A Pio (ITA) 59:02; 3 Ian Richards (GBR) 59:43

TEAM: 1 ITA 3:13:06

M75: 1 E Formentin (ITA) 64:35; 2 J McMullin (IRL) 69:00

TEAM: 1 GER 3:41:01

M80: 1 A Michieletto (ITA) 82:38

M85: 1 A Jordana (FRA) 76:50

TEAM: 1 ITA 4:27:06

W35: 1 M Ambrosio (ITA) 56:31

TEAM: 1 ITA 3:01:07

W40: 1 R La Delfa (ITA) 54:54

TEAM: 1 ITA 2:43:01

W45: 1 V Pedetti (ITA) 52:26

TEAM: 1 ITA 2:43:08

W50: 1 K Bodorkos-Horvath (HUN) 55:55; 4 Grazia Manzotti (GBR) 56:55

Grazia Manzotti

TEAM: 1 ITA 2:51:50

W55: 1 M Ioele (ITA) 60:39

TEAM: 1 ITA 3:05:09

W60: 1 J Luniewska (POL) 62:18

W65: 1 D Ricciutelli (ITA) 63:28

W70: 1 M Mendes (POR) 64:20

TEAM: 1 FRA 3:44:01

W75: 1 U Klink (GER) 73:44

30km walk:

M35: 1 C Bouele (SUI) 3:32:07

M40: 1 V CastroMateo (ESP) 2:54:27

TEAM: 1 ESP 8:48:21

M45: 1 M Giachetti (ITA) 2:52:34

TEAM: 1 ITA 9:22:08

M50: 1 N Ivzans (LAT) 2:46:11

TEAM: 1 GER 9:22:12

M55: 1 J De Lucas Pasalodos (ESP) 2:56:24

TEAM: 1 ITA 9:56:19

M60: 1 J Munoz Belmonte (ESP) 3:03:52

M65: 1 E Alfieri (ITA) 3:15:04; 4 Ian Torode (GBR) 3:45:53

M70: 1 S Lehmann (GER) 3:32:33

M75: 1 J McMullin (IRL) 3:42:25

20km Walk:

W40: 1 R La Delfa (ITA) 1:51:53

TEAM: 1 ITA 6:20:17

W45: 1 V Pedetti (ITA) 1:54:27

W50: 1 K Bodorkos-Horvath (HUN) 1:58:19

TEAM: 1 ITA 6:11:10

W55: 1 P Furegon (ITA) 2:15:34

TEAM: 1 ITA 7:14:22

W60: 1 C Triebl (AUT) 2:41:45

W65: 1 C Duhig (ESP) 2:14:38

W70: 1 C Anxionnat (FRA) 2:32:40

W75: 1 U Klink (GER) 2:30:44

Medal table:

1 ITA 105 – 58- 46

2 ESP 24 – 27 -17

3 SUI 10 – 15 – 9

4 GER 9 -10-10

5 FRA 7 – 6 – 5

6 GBR 6 – 5- 9

7 POR 6 – 5- 2

8 LAT 4 – 2- 1

9 IRL 3 – 4- 9

10 SWE 3 – 1- 0

Andy Murray will begin his Wimbledon preparations at the Surbiton Trophy in May before playing at Queen's Club.

The Briton, 35, has opted to skip the French Open to prepare for the grass-court summer.

It will be the first time Murray has played the Challenger Tour event since 2004, when he was just 17-years-old.

British number one and last year's finalist Cameron Norrie will also play at Queen's alongside compatriots Dan Evans and Jack Draper.

Three-time Grand Slam champion Murray has won the singles event at Queen's five times and also triumphed in the doubles with Feliciano Lopez in 2019.

Rising teenage star Carlos Alcaraz and defending champion Matteo Berrettini are also in the Queen's draw.

Britain's Joe Salisbury, ranked number one in doubles, has entered that event, as have Jamie Murray and Neal Skupski.

Elsewhere, Emma Raducanu has entered next month's Birmingham Classic and is therefore set to play in front of a British crowd for the first time since winning the US Open.

"To see so many of our British players thriving at the top of the game highlights the progress our sport has made in recent years," Leon Smith, head of men's tennis at the Lawn Tennis Association, said.

"It will be fantastic to see so many of them taking to the grass courts for the summer events."

The Surbiton Trophy takes place from 29 May-5 June, followed by Queen's between 13-19 June.

First staged in March 2008, after a three year break the Al-Watani Para Championships return to the international stage, the tournament being held in the Jordanian capital city of Amman from Thursday 19th to Saturday 21st May.

Always the name Al-Watani has been used as the prefix, the meaning “patriotism”; no doubt that will be a major motivating factor for Osama Abu Jame, the 32-year-old from Zarqa, some 15 miles north-east of Amman, leads his country’s aspirations.

Moreover, he will be seeking to defend the title won in 2019 when he succeeded in men’s singles class 3.

He is one of three players aiming for a repeat success; the others are Sandra Mikolaschek and Zanab Farttoozi.

Sandra Mikolaschek, in 2019, the women’s singles class 1-4 winner, is a member of a strong German contingent that includes Marlene Reeg (class 10) alongside male colleagues, Björn Schnake (class 7) and Jan Guertler (class 3).

Seemingly, Björn Schnake appears to be improving like a good wine.

Last year the 50-year-old gained partnered Thomas Rau to men’s team class 6-7 bronze at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Additionally, he won men’s singles events in the Czech Republic and Costa Rica.

Likewise, last year, there was the top prize for Marlene Reeg, she struck gold on the Costa Brava; as for Jan Guertler, there was not the same level of success in 2021 but in 2019 he prevailed in Argentina at the prestigious Copa Tango.

Somewhat differently, for Zanab Farttoozi, the 2019 win in Amman is her only international title; the player very much to note in the Iraqi entry is Najlah Imad Lafta Al Dayyeni. Earlier this year she won women’s singles class 6 in Egypt.

Also, enjoying success in Egypt, Frenchman Alan Papirer (class 1) competes in Amman as in the men’s singles does Egypt’s Mohamed Eid Saleh (class 4), time and again the African champion.

Worthy adversaries, as in the women’s singles is Turkey’s Ümran Ertis (class 10) but if there are female names that attract the attention, they are those of India’s Bhavina Patel (class 4) and Sonalben Patel (class 3).

Recently, Sonalben Patel won in March in Egypt; more significantly, Bhavina Patel stole the show at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, contrary to expectations, she emerged a silver medallist.

Exeter boss Rob Baxter says the absence of several of his top players through injury has been a contributor to their poor Premiership season.

The Chiefs are sixth in the Premiership and could will miss out on the play-offs for the first time since 2016.

British and Irish Lions players such as Sam Simmonds, Luke Cowan-Dickie and Jonny Hill have played just a handful of league games this season.

"We had lots of challenges in the first half of the season," Baxter said.

"We had an incredible injury list, we had players away for all kinds of reasons.

"It was interesting looking through some stats yesterday and we've had a lot of players that haven't played double-figure games for us, and influential players," he told BBC Radio Devon.

England and Lions hooker Cowan-Dickie has played just four Premiership games, Hill six and Simmonds nine, while Scotland lock Jonny Gray has made just six league appearances, England winger Jack Nowell nine and centre Henry Slade 12.

Simmonds, Cowan-Dickie and Hill all missed the first three weeks of the season after going on the Lions tour to South Africa last summer, and all are currently out with injuries.

Back-up players such as Jacques Vermeulen and Will Witty have also missed significant periods with injury.

Exeter have finished first or second in the top flight in every season since 2016, but know they must beat Bristol and champions Harlequins in their final two games - and hope Northampton and Gloucester slip up - if they are to have any chance of a return to Twickenham for a seventh successive season.

"There's quite a big tale to the season around those kind of things, but at the same time we were in some games that we lost by just a few points through the course of the season, and we only need a handful of those to go in and it's a different tale," added Baxter.

"We are where we are, that's our making and now we've just got to make the best of it."

Scotland centre Huw Jones will rejoin Glasgow for the start of next season after agreeing a multi-year contract with the Warriors.

The 28-year-old will join Danny Wilson's squad following a season with reigning English champions Harlequins.

Jones, who has 13 tries in 32 games for his country, said: "I'm really looking forward to going back to Glasgow.

"I'm excited to return and show how I've developed as a player, and to pull on the Glasgow Warriors jersey again."

He added: "I lived there for five years and I made a lot of friends and memories, and I'm looking forward to making more both on and off the field in the seasons ahead.

"There's a great core group of players at Glasgow that want to take the club forward and I'm really keen to be a part of that.

"I've gained a lot of valuable experience playing for Harlequins."

The versatile back initially arrived at Scotstoun in the summer of 2017 and is one appearance short of a half-century in Glasgow colours.

His first try for the club came in December 2017 against Edinburgh in the 1872 Cup first leg at Murrayfield and he crossed four times in 13 appearances during the 2020-21 campaign under the guidance of head coach Wilson.

Jones has scored seven tries in his 27 appearances for the London-based Premiership side and Wilson is delighted the Edinburgh-born back is returning.

"We're really excited to bring Huw back to the club," he said.

"Huw has shown for both Glasgow, and more recently for Harlequins, he is a real attacking presence at both 13 and 15."

Iconic sports rivalries are built to stand the test of time.

No matter the players. No matter the coaches. No matter the standings. No matter who won the last game -- or the last 10.

It's a seed planted between two teams that can't be uprooted. The bad blood is merely transfused, one generation to the next.

The Battle of Alberta -- featuring the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames -- is that kind of rivalry. Like a fine wine, it has only gotten better with age. And the latest vintage (Game 1, 9:30 ET, ESPN) could be a classic.

On opposite ends of a 300-kilometer -- or 186-mile -- stretch of Alberta's provincial highway sit dueling hockey markets rife with passionate fans. They've been waiting more than 30 years to see the long-simmering enmity between these teams peak in a postseason series.

The time, at last, is here.

Calgary knocked off the Dallas Stars in a first-round series. Edmonton jettisoned the Los Angeles Kings. The reward in victory: a second-round clash against each franchise's biggest adversary.

If you're new to the Battle of Alberta -- or you just need a refresher -- here's a history lesson on how one of hockey's rancorous rivalries was written.

What is the Battle of Alberta?

It all started in 1980.

Edmonton had just joined the NHL when it merged with the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1979. Shortly after, the NHL's Atlanta Flames relocated to Calgary. One professional team in each of the province's most populous hubs. Their hatred came naturally.

The early 1980s began a general feeling-out process. And it didn't take long for Calgary and Edmonton to establish themselves among the NHL's elite. The Oilers had Wayne Gretzky coming into his own, which included swiftly shattering every milestone known to hockey. By 1983, Edmonton was constructing a dynastic team boasting not just Gretzky but future Hockey Hall of Famers Glenn Anderson, Paul Coffey, Mark Messier, Grant Fuhr and Jari Kurri. The legendary Glen Sather was behind their bench.

It's no wonder then that the heat got turned up with Calgary, a team uninterested in playing second fiddle to anyone -- least of all Edmonton.

That bitterness fueled both teams to greatness. From 1983 to '90, the Flames and Oilers were darlings of the Campbell Conference, with eight conference titles between them (six for Edmonton, two for Calgary). And during that stretch, an Alberta-based club won six out of the eight Stanley Cup championships (one by Calgary in 1989, the other five by Edmonton in a feat of dominance unmatched in the time since).

The 1989 season was the Flames' real time to shine. Hall of Famers Lanny McDonald, Al MacInnis, Joe Mullen, Doug Gilmour and Joe Nieuwendyk went on the run of their lives.

Since that first 1980-81 campaign, Edmonton and Calgary have played each other 256 times in the regular season. Calgary holds the overall advantage, with 128 wins to Edmonton's 110 (18 meetings ended in a tie).

So how did two excellent, championship-caliber teams come to despise each other so deeply?

Playoffs, baby. Playoffs.


How did the feud really get going?

Let's start with how the NHL postseason was structured.

Back in the 1980s, the top four teams in each division made playoffs. Winners of the divisional rounds went on to the conference finals.

Edmonton and Calgary were both in the Smythe Division. Their most likely progression was consistently through each other at some point. From 1983 to '91, the Oilers and Flames met in five postseason series. Edmonton won four (1983, 1984, 1988 and 1991) and went on to win two of its five Cups afterward.

Calgary topped the Oilers in 1986, via a Game 7 that would take the simmering animosity to new heights. The pivotal matchup was tied 2-2 in the third period when Oilers rookie defenseman Steve Smith -- on his 23rd birthday, no less -- banked a pass off Fuhr's leg and scored an own goal. It stood as the game winner for Calgary.

The real bad energy picked up further in 1991. Edmonton led the best-of-seven series 3-2 going into Game 6, where Theo Fleury stole a pass from Messier and beat Fuhr on a breakaway to seal a 3-2 overtime win for Calgary and force Game 7. That would be the Esa Tikkanen Show, where he completed a hat trick for the Oilers in overtime that put a dagger into Calgary's chances.

And that was the last time Edmonton would see Calgary in a postseason series. Until now.


What happened next?

After Gretzky was traded to Los Angeles in 1988, the Oilers were -- understandably -- not quite the same (for reasons other than just Gretzky's departure, but that was kind of a big deal). And after Calgary's run to the Cup in 1989, the Flames retooled -- and cooled.

It would take almost a decade for either side to rebound. Calgary eventually reached another Cup Final in 2004, falling in Game 7 to the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Flames continued to make regular playoff appearances until 2009, and then went six years without one. Meanwhile, Edmonton faced the Carolina Hurricanes in the 2006 Cup Final, and fell in Game 7, too. The Oilers wouldn't be seen in the playoffs again until 2016-17.

During those years, the Oilers and Flames continued to wail on each other (even if they were no longer dominant by league standards). Calgary swept their regular season series in 2009-10 and 2014-15; Edmonton did the same in 2016-17.

Amid all of that were some star-studded lineup additions making their own mark on the rivalry:

  • Jordan Eberle came on board for Edmonton and scored his first NHL goal against Calgary on Oct. 10, 2010, toe-dragging through the Flames' defense and backhanding the puck past Miikka Kiprusoff as he flew (Bobby Orr-style) into the boards. Mythical.

  • Connor McDavid has scored brilliant goals against basically everyone, but the ones he has potted against Calgary -- recording a hat trick against the Flames in their 2017-18 season-opening tilt for example -- have a little more cache than others.

But it was Calgary's young phenom who really brought the Flames-Oilers rivalry into a new era.

Because in case you haven't heard, Matthew Tkachuk has a bit of an edge.


What's the latest?

It was Jan. 11, 2020. Calgary and Edmonton battling on a Saturday night. The feisty Tkachuk has his eye on Oilers tough guy Zack Kassian, landing two hits early that Kassian said afterward felt "predatory" (one did knock his helmet off). Kassian responded by grabbing Tkachuk and tossing a punch, hoping to get him engaged in a fight.

Tkachuk didn't go for it, Kassian received a double-minor penalty for roughing and a game misconduct, and Calgary scored the winning goal on that ensuing power play.

Wild.

Tkachuk was dubbed "Turtlechuk" by Oilers fans after that. Kassian got a two-game suspension for his actions. Boom. Rivalry re-explodes.

Fast-forward to Jan. 29. Kassian finally got his fight with Tkachuk in the first period, and even thanked him for it afterward.

But that wouldn't be the week's biggest headline out of Edmonton-Calgary. Not by a long shot.

On Feb. 1, a late-game scramble in front of Flames' goalie Cam Talbot led him to punch Oilers' forward Sam Gagner in the face. That started a full-blown line brawl. Talbot was tangled up with several players, but spied Edmonton netminder Mike Smith headed toward center ice. Talbot met him there, and they threw down in an impressive goalie fight for the ages:

Ironically, Talbot had played for Edmonton the season before, when Smith was playing for Calgary. The tension was real.

And it still is today. The last time Calgary met Edmonton was on March 26, and the Flames blew open a 4-4 tie to win 9-5.

That night didn't matter much in the grand scheme of either team's season. Now every shift, of every period, in every game of this series will carry more weight than ever before.


What's on the line this time?

Well, one of Edmonton or Calgary are going to the Western Conference finals. That's a big deal under regular circumstances. The fact this bid will come against each side's most hated rival? Glorious.

The mayors of Edmonton and Calgary have a side wager going, too, honouring their counterparts of the past.

Back in 1991, those cities' mayors -- Jan Reimer and Al Duerr -- said the person whose team lost would ride an ice resurfacing machine onto rival ice wearing the sweater from the other team in a properly humiliating process.

And so it was for Calgary's Duerr, who had to pay the piper dressed in an Oilers sweater as he told the crowd, "I look terrible in these colors!"

The current mayor of Calgary, Jyoti Gondek, issued a similar challenge to Edmonton's Amarjeet Sohi. The losing side's councillor will attend the first council meeting after the series in their rival team's jersey, and the mayor will do so wearing full face paint to commemorate the opposing team's win.

It doesn't matter who you're cheering for; I think we all want to see that.

As the 2022 Stanley Cup playoffs reach the second round, it's time to check in on the race for the Conn Smythe Trophy for playoff MVP.

Keep in mind that the Conn Smythe is based on a player's performance during the entire postseason, not just the championship round.

Here's a look at the field at the start of Round 2:

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