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Not sure about the Bogota mascot Most WTA events don't have a mascot to begin with...

2 hours ago, hckošice said:

Playing the final 2 hours after winning the semifinal is not the best schedulling neither, but, oh well, whatever

Bencic only had to play a tie-break today so it didn't make any difference. Her SF was stopped at 6-6 in the second set.

Jon Rahm wins 2023 Masters (-12)   Koepka & Mickelson four shots back.

Impressive performance after he was one of those who had to finish the third round today after all the rain. He started the final round two shots behind Koepka.

Four holes to go and Rahm leads by four after Koepka bogeyed the 14th (Mickelson in clubhouse 2nd has finished at -8).

Six holes to go and Jon Rahm leads by three shots over Koepka, Spieth & Reed.

This week's tourmament finals:

Charleston 500 (green clay)

Ons Jabeur def. Belinda Bencic 7-6(6) 6-4

Bogota 250 (clay)

Tatjana Maria def. Peyton Stearns 6-3 2-6 6-4

Next week is for BJK Cup and then we go to Stuttgart 500 indoor clay (Istanbul 250 cancelled after the recent Earthquake).

Mavericks will miss the playoffs. They didn't even want to compete for the play-in as Doncic played 13 mins in a must-win game vs Bulls They still needed to win their last game and count for Oklahoma loss but why bother? Kyrie Irving can and probably will leave after the season so this mini-experiment turned out to be a complete failure. Zero defense still means minimal chances for success in modern NBA, just ask the Rockets...

Even a Yordan Alvarez Grand Slam can't stop the Twins who beat Astros 9-6

Rays still unbeaten at 7-0, Brewers at 6-1 the second best team through the first week. Angels lead AL West despite losing the home opener to Blue Jays yesterday (in vintage Angels fashion, only Trout & Ohtani with hits and the bullpen sucks).

Meanwhile Michael Johnson has a plan how to make athletics better. Diversity? Neah, not when field events are in town

What a load of bull crap here...

Play halted on Day 2 of the Masters after some storms and tree fell down. McIlroy down & out at 5 over so he won't even make the cut. The media hype gone for naught again

Poland beat Latvia in ice hockey for the first time since 1938

Women's friendly beat 2-1 in Łódź today. I have no idea why Costa Rica came to Poland in early April, it was still snowing here yesterday

I can only wonder how much the media hype McIlroy to win the Masters to complete the Grand Slam. I suppose the hype is even bigger this year since he's stayed on the PGA side

The renovated Trampolino Dal Ben ski jumping complex is projected to have HS 143 which would make it the second biggest large hill in operation (after Willingen HS 147). I assume they want to push the 150 meter jumps if possible. Normal hill will be HS 109.

LH record on the current/soon old HS 134 is 138.5 meters by Eric Frenzel (nordic combined).

Laguta and Sayfutdinov had Polish citizenship for a while now and there was a debate last year whether we should treat them as Poles anyway. Obviously speedway is a niche sport nobody cares about in the big picture

Zelensky & his wife with an official state visit to Poland today

Horrendous idea. Van der Leyen really is that much power-thirsty?

@Vektor@BiathlonfanYeah, the World Cup in Poznań has been cancelled. Apparently FIE send a message to the organizers that "Polish authorities can't decide which Russians should take part in the event or not and that is FIE's decision". After that the Polish organizers cancelled the event.

If FIE is sending such a message to everyone else opposing the Russians then I'm no longer surprised why everything gets cancelled. This is quite a hideous blackmail for lack of better words.

Sandy Alcantara had to pitch a CG shutout to deny the Twins and Marlins escaped with 1-0 victory.

Meanwhile Brewers beat Mets 9-0 which included Max Scherzer giving up 3 HR in one inning

After Lakers got rid of Westbrook they predictably got better. The Kyrie Irving experiment in Dallas is a complete dumpster fire (also predictable) and Mavericks could even miss the play-in Three games to go and they can only finish 40-42 IF they win all three...

Sacramento Kings made the playoffs to snap the longest post-season drought in all US major pro leagues (since 2006). The new masters of futility are NY Jets of NFL (last playoffs in 2010).

A landlocked country bidding to host an event named after a sea?

Paris bans the e-scooter rentals after 90% people voted for the ban. This e-scooter crap is truly heading the same path as Segway. Totally unneccessary crap that people don't want to buy in the big picture. How shocking

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/02/parisians-vote-on-banning-e-scooters-from-french-capital

Carlos Carrasco season debut is down the tank, pulled in the 5th down 0-3, then reliever Hunter pours gasoline giving up a Grand Slam to rookie Turang and it's 10-0 Brewers Mets learn there are better teams in the league than Marlins the hard way...

Yeah, it was the post-Olympics year and some expected top performers started slow and never found turbo (mainly Kobayashi who still showed up to win a medal at World Champs though and Geiger who really had a poor season overall). Lindvik also had a very disappointing season IMO. On the flip side Wellinger has found life almost out of nowhere when may people thought he was done as serious competitor after his injuries (i.e. Severin Freund deja vu).

Yeah, there are only a handful of SP who really sustain top level for several years in a row. I do have a feeling there's a biger group of guys who have one or two great seasons and then tail off yet carry a reputation of being great for a while (without me looking at this WAR stats or whatever the analytics say). Betting on deGrom at this stage is 50/50...