Ever wanted to know who the form players at UEFA EURO 2016 will be? Thanks to a new EURO2016.com application you can – and it will come as little surprise to anyone that Cristiano Ronaldo is top of the pile of the SOCAR Player Barometer.SOCAR Player BarometerThe Real Madrid forward's scintillating recent form puts him ahead of Zlatan Ibrahimović at the top of the Player Barometer rankings, the top ten of which features seven players who appeared in Saturday's UEFA Champions League final. Ronaldo is joined by his Madrid club-mates Sergio Ramos (seventh) and Toni Kroos (eighth) while Atlético Madrid are represented by Antoine Griezmann (third), ...
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Ramírez, Odendaal and Scheib to defend their leads in Aragon
Marcos Ramírez currently leads the Moto3™ Junior World Championship, as he has done since winning the first race of the season in Valencia, although Lorenzo Dalla Porta (ITA-Husqvarna) is now only six points adrift. The Italian, on pole in both Valencia and Le Mans, took his first win of the season in France while the Leopard Junior Stratos team rider failed to make the podium for the first time this year. Kaito Toba (JPN-Honda) holds third place, just one point behind Lorenzo Dalla Porta, so the outcome of Sunday's Moto3™ race in Alcañiz could bring big changes in the overall standings. Jaume Masia (SPA-Honda) returns at MotorLand after missing the second race in Valencia and
High School Basketball Team’s Early Celebration Leads To State Title Loss (Video)
Some of the hardest, most important lessons are learned in high school, some of our most transitive years. Just ask Burrillville High School, who learned the hard life lesson that you don’t celebrate until you’ve actually won something. The Broncos thought they had won a Rhode Island state championship in basketball, and one BHS player celebrated in kind. The only problem, of course, was that time hadn’t actually expired. The premature celebration was, just that, premature. The referees added time back on the clock after ruling Chariho High School had retrieved the ball thrown in the air as part of Burrillville’s celebration and called timeout...
Daniel Murphy Leads Mets To NLCS With Sneaky Steal, Clutch Home Run (Videos)
Murphy’s Law states that if something bad can happen, it will. Daniel Murphy plays for the New York Mets, but it was the Los Angeles Dodgers he haunted Thursday night in Game 5 of the National League Division Series. With the Mets trailing by one run against Zach Greinke, the odds-on favorite to win the NL Cy Young Award, Murphy created a run when he took an extra base on a walk. He later scored to tie the game. A few innings later, Murphy again took things into his own hands, this time roping a line drive into the right field sears to put the Mets ahead for good. New York
Laidlaw leads Edinburgh to shock win over Munster
Updated: Saturday, 12 Oct 2013 15:50 | Comments Captain for the day Paul O'Connell saw his team fall to a shock defeat in Murrayfield Munster were shocked 29-23 by Edinburgh at Murrayfield as Tim Visser grabbed a late try to register their first Heineken Cup win in 18 months. The Scottish side lost all six of their pool games last season but opened up this year's campaign with their first success since beating Toulouse in the quarter-finals of the 2011-12 competition. Matt Scott had given the home side the lead just six minutes in but tries from Casey Laulala and Mike Sherry handed the advantage to Munster. Greg Laidlaw was his ever reliable self with the boot and four penalties before the break had
Bond leads as McGinley in hunt at Celtic Manor
Updated: Friday, 30 Aug 2013 19:28 | Comments Paul McGinley is leading by example at the Wales Open on the 2010 Ryder Cup course Liam Bond is ranked 1,528th in the world and only got into the tournament at the last minute, but the 43-year-old Welshman found himself holding the halfway lead in the ISPS Handa Wales Open at Celtic Manor. Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley is leading by example in the first tournament that counts towards next year's Gleneagles event as the Dubliner shares fourth place on three under, two shots behind the leader. Bond received a phone call telling him he was in the £1.8million event on Wednesday afternoon, but made the most of his opportunity with rounds of 69 and