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DALLAS, Texas – TKS Motorsports and Austin McCarl have mutually decided to part ways, bringing an end to their three-year run together.

In three years together, TKS Motorsports and McCarl earned four victories and the 410 sprint car track championship at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway in 2018.

This season ended with the team sitting third in points at Knoxville after racking up five top-five finishes and 10 top-10 finishes.

“We struggled to get into a good routine this season, largely due to the large number of rainouts early in the season,” said car owner Troy Renfro. “It was an okay year, but Austin and I decided it was time to go our separate ways. Tammy and I think the world of Austin and will do whatever we can to help him going forward.”

“It was great racing for Troy and Tammy and working with the crew,” said McCarl. “Winning a championship was a huge accomplishment and I’m thankful I had the chance to win it with this team.”

Mike McKenna isn't sure where to start on the craziest stories from his long and winding road of a career.

"We could be here forever," he said. "I mean, do you want to talk about me, or do you want to talk about when the bus caught on fire? Or do you want to talk about swiping a Volvo on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge? These are things that have happened. You can't make that up."

McKenna's path through hockey looks stranger than fiction. The journeyman goaltender announced his retirement Tuesday after stints with 15 NHL organizations and 22 professional teams in all, enough material to fill a novel.

"I never expected this, and it turned into my career path, and that's just the way it was," McKenna said in an interview during the Stanley Cup Final earlier this year. "To me, yeah, it was crazy. There has been a lot of stops along the way. But I just made so many friends, I've been in so many places and got to experience so much, I feel like I've had a pretty full life in the game with 15 organizations to go through."

McKenna said his eldest daughter being in school changed the equation. The 36-year-old had been open to playing another season but wanted to be rooted in one place and joked that he would've been the only No. 3 goalie in the league with a no-movement clause.

Instead, he will move on after playing 15 games for the Lightning, 10 for the Senators, four for the Blue Jackets, two each for the Stars and Devils, and one apiece for the Coyotes and Flyers. Since being a sixth-round pick of the Nashville Predators in 2002, he played in the NCAA, East Coast Hockey League, American Hockey League and NHL.

McKenna spent the vast majority of that time in the AHL, which gave him some colorful stories. He thinks it's hard to top the Portland Pirates' bus catching on fire on the way to a game.

"We had a right rear [tire] blow, and I don't why it happened, but something lit up a hydraulic line or something," McKenna said. "Next thing you know, the right rear of the bus was on fire, and the flames were licking over the side of it, and our bus driver got off and told us in the middle of the road in Rhode Island or Mass. or whoever we were: 'Everybody off! We're on fire!'"

McKenna and his teammates had to play that night and lost. He blames it on smoke inhalation.

All the stops along the way provided McKenna with 18 masks, all of which he still has. The jerseys? Well, that was more difficult.

"You don't get to keep jerseys from teams. They don't give you those," McKenna said. "I have most of my jerseys, and I've probably been given a jersey by a half-dozen teams I would say, but the other ones I've either had to pay for or have traded to get."

It takes time just to list the teams McKenna has played for professionally: Las Vegas, Norfolk, Milwaukee, Omaha, Portland, Tampa Bay, Lowell, Albany, New Jersey, Binghamton, Peoria, Springfield, Columbus, Arizona, Syracuse, Texas, Dallas, Belleville, Ottawa, Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley.

Last season, a trade and subsequent waiver claim by Philadelphia gave him three teams in four days.

"I've never done that before," McKenna said. "With goalies, this can happen. You order some white gear and hope it shows up soon."

McKenna and his family have had a house in St. Louis for a decade and will make it home. The need for white gear and a new mask is over -- but not before he could indulge in some self-professed "dark comedy" about bouncing around like a puck on choppy ice.

"There's probably a lot of punch lines out there associated with what I've done, and you have to be able to laugh at yourself in life," he said.

Manchester United have agreed a loan deal for Alexis Sanchez with Inter Milan, sources have told ESPN FC.

Sanchez is set to spend the season at the San Siro after the two clubs reached an agreement that will see United pay a portion of the Chilean's wages.

He is set to fly to Italy to undergo a medical and will be confirmed as an Inter player before the European transfer deadline on Sept. 2.

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United have agreed to loan Sanchez for 10 months while contributing around £6 million of his £391,000-a-week salary. Inter are set to pay £9.46 million of the 30-year-old's wages plus a loan fee to United. The deal does not include an option to buy.

Sanchez has endured a miserable 18 month at Old Trafford since arriving from Arsenal in January 2018. He has managed just five goals in 45 games and is yet to feature this season after suffering a hamstring injury playing for Chile at this summer's Copa America.

His last United goal came in the FA Cup at Arsenal in January and he has not completed 90 minutes for the club since the opening day of last season more than a year ago.

Manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer suggested Sanchez could have a key role at United this season after the departure of Romelu Lukaku, but instead the former Barcelona forward will join the Belgian in Milan under the guidance of Antonio Conte.

Sanchez has had a taste of Serie A before after a spell at Udinese before his move to Camp Nou in 2011.

The MLS Disciplinary Committee has handed D.C. United forward Wayne Rooney an additional one-game suspension.

The Washington Post was the first to report the news.

According to sources, Rooney had the option of appealing the decision, but declined to do so.

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Rooney was initially suspended after getting red-carded in DCU's 2-1 defeat to the New York Red Bulls on Aug. 21, when he appeared to land a forearm to the face of Red Bulls midfielder Cristian Casseres, Jr. He sat out last weekend's 3-1 defeat to the Philadelphia Union, and now he will miss this Saturday's match at the Montreal Impact.

After leading D.C. to the playoffs in his debut season in MLS, Rooney has found life more difficult in 2019. While he leads the team with 11 goals and seven assists, the club hasn't been able to build on last year's success. DCU are fifth in the Eastern Conference, five points ahead of eight-place Montreal. The top seven teams in each conference reach the postseason.

Rooney is already slated to depart D.C. United at the end of this campaign, when he will take on a player/assistant coach role at English second-tier side Derby County.

Atlanta United wasted little time in taking control of the U.S. Open Cup final by securing two early goals Tuesday, while the defense did just enough in a 2-1 victory over visiting Minnesota United.

Atlanta United won despite playing the final 16-plus minutes down a man after defender Leandro Gonzalez Pirez was sent off because of a red card that followed two quick second-half yellow cards for dissent and unsporting behavior.

Atlanta United won its third trophy in the past nine months after winning last season's MLS Cup title and then taking the Campeones Cup earlier this month over Club America in a matchup of champions from MLS and Liga MX. The team also earned an automatic berth into next year's CONCACAF Champions League.

The U.S. Open Cup, which had its first edition in 1913-14, is a single-elimination tournament that was contested in 2019 among 84 teams from MLS, the second-tier USL and amateur sides throughout the country. It is the 20th consecutive year an MLS team has won the title.

The 35,709 in attendance at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium was a record for a U.S. Open Cup final, and the fans were treated to a productive opening 16 minutes.

Atlanta United took a 1-0 lead in the 10th minute on a gift own goal when Gonzalez Pirez's cross from the right side deflected off the right foot of Minnesota United defender Chase Gasper and over the head of Minnesota United goalkeeper Vito Mannone.

In the 16th minute, Atlanta United increased its lead to 2-0 when Gonzalo "Pity" Martinez scored with his left foot from the left side of the penalty circle after a centering pass from Justin Meram.

With the Loons missing leading scorer Darwin Quintero, after head coach Adrian Heath left the inconsistent forward out of the game for all but the final 15 minutes, Minnesota United still managed to make a game of it 62 seconds into the second half. Robin Lod redirected a centering pass from Kevin Molino off the left post and into the goal past Atlanta United goalkeeper Brad Guzan.

Guzan made three saves in the victory, including a diving stop on a shot from Ike Opara in the first minute of second-half stoppage time. Minnesota United's Michael Boxall missed a point-blank shot over the top of the goal that would have tied the score just two minutes before the final whistle.

Raul Sanllehi lights up a cigar. It's the evening of Aug. 9. Arsenal's head of football has spent the whole day at the club's training ground in London Colney. He arrived extremely early on site and will almost certainly be one of the last one to leave.

Aug. 9 was, for those concerned, another successful day in Arsenal's transfer window. On deadline day, and right at the wire, the Gunners signed two more players who illustrate perfectly the talent of the man the club hope can be their long-term football mastermind.

The first one was a target for a long time. To recruit Celtic and Scotland left-back Kieran Tierney, Sanllehi and his team, consisting of chief negotiator Huss Fahmy and sporting director Edu, had to work really hard. It was a long courting process that lasted all summer, with multiple offers, a lot of conversations with Celtic and a lot of brainstorming to find the right way of convincing the Scottish giants to let their best player leave. With the window hours from closing, Arsenal finally made a breakthrough, emerging with a well-structured deal and the feeling of a job well done.

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By contrast, the second one was a short, well-drilled coup. Arsenal had been looking for a centre-back all summer. They secured the signing of French prodigy William Saliba but loaned him back to Saint-Etienne. They pursued various options, some more intensely (Dayot Upamecano of RB Leipzig, Juve's young defender Daniele Rugani) than others. They were offered some players before learning that David Luiz could be available.

Despite Chelsea's reluctance to let him join an immediate rival, Sanllehi used all his negotiating skills to get the deal done in little over 24 hours. Tierney and Luiz joined Brazilian forward Gabriel Martinelli, Saliba, Dani Ceballos and Nicolas Pepe as the new players in the squad.

Six incoming players for a grand total of £45m spent.

Arsenal didn't have much money to spend -- the owner's son and Arsenal director Josh Kroenke even quipped in July that Arsenal "have a Champions League wage bill on a Europa League budget" -- but they budgeted their money wisely. "Sanllehi is a very intelligent man. His social skills, his charisma, his ability to be liked by people wherever they come from or whatever their background or role is are amazing. He has the gift of the gab," explains one influential French agent who engaged with Arsenal this summer. "He makes you feel at ease. You warm to him, in confidence, and you trust him very quickly."

Sanllehi is indeed a great talker with a commanding presence. He's also a football man. He spent 11 years at Nike, then left to go to Barcelona as a marketing director in 2003, before being promoted to director of football in 2008. He joined Arsenal in February 2018 and became CEO in charge of football after Ivan Gazidis left for AC Milan in October 2018, with Vinai Venkatesham taking on the CEO role specifically in charge of running the club.

But more than charisma, Sanllehi's biggest asset is his address book. Arsenal has been crying out for someone like him in recent years. Players, agents, sporting directors, CEOs: he has an incredible network of contacts. For the Pépé deal, he had a big advantage over every other club because he knew Marc Ingla, the Lille CEO, so well. They had worked together at Barcelona and Ingla's friendship with Sanllehi meant that he was able to engineer the conditions necessary for Arsenal to successfully recruit the Ivorian international over other suitors around Europe.

Furthermore, his excellent relationship with Petr Cech since their time together at Arsenal helped him signed David Luiz from Chelsea. There was never any panic -- or at least none he was showing outwardly -- even with only a few hours to go before the end of the transfer window and the moves for Tierney and Luiz still not completed.

Arsenal had a very clear idea of the kind of players they wanted this summer but the genesis of this very successful transfer goes back to a few months earlier.

During a regularly scheduled meeting, manager Unai Emery and Sanllehi identified the profiles of the men they needed to attract to Arsenal: young, with the ability to increase in value over time and with the right combination pace and ball skills to play on the counterattack away from home. Dani Ceballos and Pepe satisfied those requirements to the extent that Emery and Sanllehi believe they are much better equipped to challenge the likes of Manchester City and Liverpool

No club can work all their miracles in one transfer window, of course, but Arsenal seem to have rediscovered their touch when it comes to making shrewd signings, just like they did in the early years of the Arsene Wenger era. But this is only the beginning: Sanllehi already has plans for the January and next-summer windows.

Back in March, for his 50th birthday, Raul Sanllehi could not have wished for a better year in terms of recruitment. Five months later, a cigar has never felt as sweet to him as the one he enjoyed at the training ground on Aug. 9.

Surrey 158 for 4 (Finch 102*) beat Somerset 157 for 9 (Banton 47, Tahir 4-25) by six wickets

Aaron Finch clattered a remarkable nine sixes in a brilliant 102 not out from 53 balls at the Kia Oval as Surrey kept alive their slim hopes of reaching a Vitality Blast quarter-final by severely denting Somerset's qualification ambitions with a barnstorming six-wicket victory.

Chasing Somerset's 157 for 9, in which openers Tom Banton and Babar Azam put on 80 in 8.2 overs before the innings fell away dramatically against the spin of Imran Tahir and Gareth Batty, Finch's assault emphatically settled matters and brought Surrey their fifth win of the campaign.

They now have 12 points and Somerset, in fourth place with 13, need to beat Middlesex in their final group game on Friday if they are to have a chance of making the last eight.

Tahir's 4 for 25 from four overs, each wicket wildly celebrated as is the South African leg spinner's wont, and Batty's 2 for 24, were as important to Surrey's cause as Finch's power-hitting. The two Surrey spinners totally changed the impetus of the Somerset innings, after they had been given a flyer by Banton and Babar after choosing to bat first in front of a 25,000 sell out crowd - Surrey's fourth full house in six home games so far.

But Somerset might still have defended their eventual total if Craig Overton had managed to cling on to a boundary-edge catch in the eighth over, with Finch on 33, when the Australian pulled a short ball from leg spinner Max Waller to deep mid wicket and saw the ball bounce through Overton's upstretched hands and go over the rope for his fourth six.

Finch did not give any other chances, however, as he followed up that blow, two earlier straight sixes off Tim Groenewald and an opening pulled maximum off Overton, with further sixes off Roelof van der Merwe (both in the ninth over), Waller (spectacularly reverse-driven over long off in the tenth over) and two off Tom Lammonby's left arm seamers in the 11th over.

By then, it hardly mattered that Sam Curran had skied Van der Merwe's left arm spin to Tom Abell in the ring, having contributed just 9 to a second-wicket stand of 61 in a mere 5.1 overs, following Mark Stoneman's departure for 18 to the last ball of the sixth over, or that Ollie Pope was run out for 7 in the 15th over.

Finch completed his 52-ball hundred, his seventh in T20 cricket, in the same over with his fifth four - whipped wide of mid on off Groenewald, and Will Jacks smacked two successive fours before being caught and bowled for 9 by Van der Merwe with just eight more runs wanted. Jordan Clark then hit Jerome Taylor into the pavilion for the evening's final six as victory arrived with 3.3 overs to spare.

Somerset, earlier, were flying along at ten runs per over until the two veteran Surrey spinners began to exert their stranglehold.

Banton's 28-ball 47 was by far the most fluent of the Somerset batting efforts, with legside sixes off Curran and Clark and five fours besides - the pick of them a reverse flip for four off Tahir in the game's very first over. Babar hit only three fours, but played his part too in an opening partnership which hinted at an eventual Somerset total of around 200.

Once Banton had fallen in the ninth over, however, the innings lost all its forward momentum and soon James Hildreth followed, stumped off Batty in the next over for 1 when he advanced to a well-flighted delivery outside off stump and yorked himself.

Worse was to come for Somerset, though, with Babar chipping a return catch to Tahir to go for a 31-ball 37 and, in the same 11th over, Ed Byrom also giving the South African leg-spinner a simple caught and bowled off a looping leading edge.

Four wickets had gone in 17 balls, for the addition of only 13 runs, but from 93 for 4 a mini-recovery was quickly stifled as Batty removed Abell for 14, stumped as he attempted a reverse sweep and Tahir had Van der Merwe leg before for 2.

That was 114 for 6, in the 15th over, and from there, the lower order did its best to get Somerset up to a defendable total with Lammonby reaching 19 before being caught behind in a nine-ball Jade Dernbach over, the 18th, costing 12 runs.

Clark and Curran grabbed the wickets of Overton and Groenewald in the closing overs and Somerset needed their tenth wicket pair of Taylor and Waller to make sure they batted through their 20-over allocation.

Birmingham Bears 153 for 3 (Pollock 77) beat Durham 151 for 5 (Short 50) by 7 wickets (DLS method)

A blistering innings of 77 from Ed Pollock guided Birmingham Bears to a seven-wicket victory over Durham via the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method in their Vitality Blast North Group clash at Emirates Riverside.

The Bears were set a challenging total of 153 from 19 overs after rain interrupted the host's innings, with D'Arcy Short top scoring for Durham with a half-century. However, Pollock was outstanding on his return to the Birmingham line-up, allowing the visitors to control the tempo of their chase.

The 24-year-old dismantled the Durham bowling attack with ease before he was dismissed. Matthew Lamb and Will Rhodes saw their side over the line in the final over, lifting them off the bottom of the table, ending Durham's hopes of reaching the quarter-finals of the competition in the process.

The home side were inserted by Bears skipper Jeetan Patel, who put faith in George Garrett to open the bowling on his T20 debut. He had a first over to forget as Short dispatched him for five boundaries. Chris Green shared the new ball and made the breakthrough with his off-spin, bowling Scott Steel for a duck. Short and Harry Adair kept Durham moving to reach their fifty in the powerplay, which included a six from Adair that had just enough to clear the rope.

The weather intervened to halt the Durham innings, with play resuming 35 minutes later and the loss of one over. The two batsmen struggled to find the boundary after the break, although it did not stop them putting a partnership of 70 for the second wicket. Adair tried to attack the spin of Alex Thomson, but could only send a leading edge back to the spinner.

Short worked his way to his half-century from 38 balls - his fourth of the competition. However, a change in ball resulted in his dismissal as Patel turned one through the gate, narrowly avoiding a front-foot no ball. Durham needed an injection of pace and it came from their skipper Peter Handscomb scoring a brisk 25, including a six down the ground off Patel, taking his final over for 17 runs.

Graham Clark also played a useful knock of 26, adding late boundaries before he was caught on the fence. As a result of their striking, Durham surpassed the 150-run mark at the end of their 19 overs, setting Birmingham a competitive total after being adjusted to 153.

Birmingham opened with attacking intent, putting the pressure on Liam Trevaskis. Pollock and Dominic Sibley scored five boundaries between them from the left-arm spinner's opening two overs. Pollock continued to provide an early onslaught, dispatching Matty Potts for a six over the leg-side and a boundary in back-to-back deliveries, pushing the run rate above 10 per over.

The home side had no answer for the power of Pollock. James Weighell's introduction into the attack resulted in a 19-run over, including another maximum from the left-hander. Short broke the opening stand for 83 when Sibley chipped tamely into the deep, but Pollock stayed calm at the other end, reaching his half-century from 24 deliveries.

Short notched his second wicket as Sam Hain played on to his stumps, attempting a reverse sweep. However, Pollock was undeterred and continued to find the boundary, whittling down the total. Pollock was finally out in the 17th over, smashing a drive straight back to Steel to set up a closer finish than expected. However, Lamb and Rhodes did enough to secure the victory with one ball to spare.