The 22-year-old right-hander is the latest top pitching prospect to debut for the Braves this season. Toussaint follows Mike Soroka and Kolby Allard, who were both 20 when promoted to Atlanta. Toussaint is 2-0 with a 2.01 ERA in five starts for Triple-A Gwinnett. He began the season at Double-A Mississippi, posting a record of 4-6 with a 2.93 ERA in 16 starts. Toussaint was designated at Atlanta’s 26th player for the doubleheader....
Format All matches are a best of 5, with each set being one of the 3v3 game modes of the game. The game modes and the maps played in order are: Set 1 - Gem Grab on Minecart Madness Set 2 - Brawl Ball on Centre Stage Set 3 - Heist on Rolling Rumble Set 4 - Bounty on Layer Cake Set 5 - Seige on Junk Park All were best of 3 and all the matches were played on the same maps....
Brazilian Serie B club Guarani has rejected reports it is interested in signing troubled former Brazil striker Adriano. Guarani president Alvaro Negrao denied a secret meeting had taken place between the club’s football director Tinoco and the former Inter Milan striker, reports Xinhua. “Adriano and Tinoco are good friends and maybe that’s how the stories began,” Negrao told Brazilian daily Estado de Sao Paulo Tuesday. “There are no negotiations taking place with Adriano....
The forward had to sit out his team’s 2-0 win over Italy in Manchester on Friday, Messi revealing before that fixture at Etihad Stadium that he has been carrying the issue “for some time”, although it has not prevented him from impressing for Barcelona in LaLiga and the Champions League. Jorge Sampaoli confirmed Argentina had prepared a game plan heavily focused on Messi, and the coach was hopeful the 30-year-old would recover to face Spain at Atletico Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano....
Reports on Wednesday suggested the trio would face severe sanctions after being identified as the players involved in a pre-meditated plan that saw Bancroft attempt to alter the condition of the ball during the third Test. Having been charged with breaches of the CA code of conduct on Tuesday and removed from Australia’s Test squad, Smith, Warner and Bancroft have now had their punishments determined by the governing body’s board....
Microsoft announced its intention to purchase the game development and publishing juggernaut Activision Blizzard in January of 2022, a deal that would make it the third-largest gaming company in the world. In the months following the announcement of the planned acquisition, Microsoft has faced regulatory hurdles as it seeks the necessary approval in multiple countries to proceed with the deal. This approval by CADE means the proposed deal is now one step closer to becoming a reality, though European and UK regulators still have concerns about Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard....
Gabriel Barbosa broke the ice in the 26th minute after receiving a pass from left winger Douglas Santos. Premier League side Manchester City’s newcomer Gabriel Jesus made it 2-0 in the 40th minute with a shot from close range on Wednesday, reports Xinhua. Brazil created many chances in the second half, thanks to their great technical skills. Luan and Barbosa each scored once and sealed the victory for the hosts....
Both fighters made weight Friday for the 135-pound title fight at Jeunesse Arena, a fight that had to be rescheduled from December when Pennington broke her left leg in an ATV crash. Brazilian fighters will fight Americans up and down the rest of the card. Kelvin Gastelum takes on a crowd favorite, Ronaldo “Jacare” Souza, whose nickname means “the Alligator.” Unbeaten Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist Mackenzie Dern will also fight American Amanda Cooper in the strawweight division....
Last week, Rio’s finance secretary said the state’s missed payments to international development banks had blocked the release of a loan for 1 billion reais ($286 million) from the Brazilian government development bank BNDES to finish the line. ($1 = 3.49 Brazilian reais) (Reporting by Rodrigo Viga Gaier) 0 votes
Tite’s side opened their campaign in Qatar with an impressive 2-0 win over Serbia, which was only soured by an injury to star forward Neymar, who will now miss this match as a result. Switzerland weren’t quite so impressive against Cameroon but did manage to walk away with a crucial 1-0 win. On paper, this is tightest game of Group G and Brazil will be hoping to use it as a way to build confidence and book their spot in the knockout stages....
Rhauderman, 22, who began his career alongside Neymar in the Santos youth academy, agreed to join the Rio de Janeiro club for an undisclosed fee on Tuesday, Xinhua news agency reported. According to the Globoesporte newspaper, Rhauderman is “trying to establish his professional career” after failing to impress during spells with Santos, Bangu and Cianorte. Duque de Caxias also announced the signing of 29-year-old forward Flavio Caca-Rato from Guarani....
Brazilians angered by Bolsonaro’s bizarre comment from last December, as well as other anti-vaccine remarks he has made, have been lining up to be inoculated while wearing crocodile and other reptile costumes, according to a Friday report from The Guardian. Some of the would-be reptiles say that Bolsonaro, whose populist style and conservative rhetoric has often earned comparisons with former U.S. President Donald Trump, is to directly to blame for the deaths of their loved ones....
The Catalans have completely dominated Spain’s top flight this season and completed the job with four games to go thanks to a goal from Philippe Coutinho and a Lionel Mess hat-trick at the Riazor. It marks a LaLiga and Copa del Rey double in Ernesto Valverde’s first season in charge and completes a remarkable turnaround in fortunes over the past eight months. Last August, Barca had been battered 5-1 over two legs by Clasico rivals Real Madrid – who triumphed in Spain and Europe last season - in the Supercopa de Espana and had seen one of their MSN triumvirate depart following Neymar’s lucrative sale to Paris Saint-Germain....
Boca snapped up De Rossi on a free transfer in July after the expiration of his contract with Roma, whose first team he played for across 18 seasons. The 36-year-old midfielder made a goalscoring debut for the Buenos Aires giants in a Copa Argentina victory over Almagro but only made six more appearances. However, De Rossi has cancelled his contract with Boca and will return to Italy to be closer to his family....
Andreescu sustained the injury at the WTA Finals in Shenzhen in October, from which she withdrew after retiring in her match with Karoliona Pliskova. The Canadian, who stunned Serena Williams in the final of the 2019 US Open, explained that she and her doctors decided she had not made enough progress in her rehabilitation to play at the year’s first grand slam in Melbourne. In a post on Twitter, she wrote: “Hey guys, just wanted to give you a little update on my knee rehab after I got injured at the WTA finals in Shenzhen....
Jackson is in the vanguard of what may turn out to be a crucial repositioning of the civil-rights movement. In the past that movement has focused primarily on questions of access, equality and economic empowerment–with law-and-order issues ceded to the political right. Even when civil-rights leaders did address the problem of violent crime, they preferred to talk of white violence against blacks–the bombing of a church in Birmingham, the lynching of Emmett Till....
The move was announced by team president John Schuerholz, who called it a “cumulative” decision based on the team’s performance and troubling signs in player development. Former Cleveland and Texas general manager John Hart replaces Wren on an interim basis. While the 66-year-old Hart said it wasn’t his desire to take the job permanently, Schuerholz said it’s possible he would be considered. “It is our goal and our emphasis to find that Braves’ way again, to reinvigorate it and make it better than it’s ever been before,” Schuerholz said at a Turner Field news conference....
Bravo missed Chile’s 2-1 loss to Paraguay and 0-0 draw with Bolivia last month due to personal problems, while Valdivia has not been selected since November last year, reported Xinhua. “I am confident in the players that I have at my disposal,” Chile coach Juan Antonio Pizzi told a news conference on Tuesday, adding that his side “are going to be well-prepared for these matches”. The Chile team, nicknamed La Roja by their fans, will meet Ecuador in Quito on October 6, before hosting Peru in Santiago five days later....
Brazil have won eight consecutive games since Tite replaced Dunga following last year’s Copa America Centenario to sit atop the CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying standings. Neymar was on target as Brazil routed Uruguay 4-1 in last week’s top-of-the-table clash to open a seven-point advantage and the 25-year-old revealed his Barcelona team-mate is impressed. “Not only his [Lionel Messi] attention. The Brazilian team has been attracting the attention of many people, because we are a team that has played really good football,” Neymar told reporters....
Brazil have enjoyed a impressive revival since Tite replaced Dunga as their national team coach last year, winning all nine matches they have played under his leadership including eight World Cup qualifiers. They continued their run in March with a 4-1 win in Uruguay and 3-0 win over Paraguay to become the first side to book their place at next year’s World Cup in Russia with four games to spare....
