Author: Rebecca Williams

Carli Lloyd’s tremendous performance and 2 goals lead U.S. to a comprehensive win over Mexico on Friday night in a CONCACAF championship semi-final. With this victory U.S team also earned its ticket to FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 .the U.S. team defeated Mexico by 3-0 in their semi-final in Chester, Pennsylvania.

The U.S. women team will now face Costa Rica in final on Sunday. For the first time Costa Rica has qualified for its maiden World Cup appearance by defeating Trinidad and Tobago in an interesting match which ends on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw on Friday.

Without Wambach, and injured forward player Alex Morgan, the U.S. had few problems generating attacks. But Lloyd scored in the eighth minute on a header off a bouncing cross from Tobin Heath to give the United States the early lead. She added a goal on a penalty kick in the 30th minute. Christen Press hit the last goal in the 56^th minute and finally Wambach entered in the game in 62^nd minute when the team was in safe position.

The future of Hope Solo is still in dark as she faces two counts of fourth-degree domestic violence assault against her nephew and sister in Kirkland. if Solo is found to be guilty or cops a deal, she is likely to be suspend through the World Cup next year.

U.S. Soccer president Sunil Gulati said “U.S. Soccer takes the issue of domestic violence very seriously”. “It’s hard because we’re in a tricky position because we’re teammates with Hope and we also are role models so we know how massive and we know how big of an issue this is,” Wambach told USA Today this past week.

Although Solo has apologized for the incident on Facebook  in June, while pleading not guilty in court. With or without Solo in team the future of American soccer is in doubt.

The badminton star Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia gets doping suspension for apparent anti-doping violation by BWF. The Badminton World federation said that he was banned due to unfavourable logical finding of a sample taken at the world championship.

BWF said that, “Malaysian star was banned from competing until its panel determines whether he has committed a violation after he failed a drugs test at the BWF world championship in August.

Lee Chong Wei is 32 year old Malaysia’s most prominent athlete has said that he never cheated and will fight to clear his name after a second test last week confirmed the banned anti-inflammatory dexamethasone in his sample.

The Lee Chong Wei posted messages on his official Facebook and Twitter accounts thanking fans for their support and denying using drugs to take a benefit.

He also wrote that, “I just want to thank every one of you who had faith in me during this critical time. There are several unanswered questions and I hope to clear my name soon.”

“I never cheated nor will I ever rely on banned substances.”

This matter has traumatized the sport, which has seen few doping scandals. Malaysia’s officials have said that they believe Lee is innocent and will do all they can to help him present his case.

Should Lee be unsuccessful with his plead, the Malaysian experiences a two-year ban and will be exposed of the silver medal he won at the world championships in Copenhagen in August, the location of his affirmative test.

He would also be likely to lose the two bronze medals he prevails at the Asian Games in September in the individual and team events.

Sophomores Troy Williams and Stanford Robinson were suspended for failing drug tests but they both were expected to be key players for Hoosiers this year.

Hoosiers coach Tom Crean said on his radio show Monday night that Williams and Robinson will sit out four games each. Hoosiers coach Tom Crean consequently inveterate the postponement but congested short of elucidation the root of them, apparently because of student-privacy laws. He publicizes Williams and Robinson will miss four games each. IU opens the exhibition fraction of its schedule on Thursday night against Northwood University.

These three players will be entitled to return for Indiana’s Nov. 20 home game against SMU.

“We’ve got to get our team to comprehend that there is nothing normal about being a college athlete,” Crean said during radio show, his first public comments since this weekend’s accident. “We had a couple guys make bad choices.”

This is the recent in a rough series of off season incidents for Indiana, the most critical of which came this weekend when sophomore Devin Davis was sent to the hospital in critical state with a wound on head after being hit by a car driven by freshman team-mate Emmitt Holt, who was also suspended four games. Police said Davis was at fault for the incident, and both players were drinking.

Earlier this year, IU sophomore Hanner Mosquera-Perea was alleged with OWI, and junior Yogi Ferrell and Robinson were both cited for juvenile use of an alcoholic beverage, meaning Indiana coach Tom Crean has had six players involved in some sort of headline-grabbing, off-the-court issue in the past 10 months.

Celtic’s Bulgarian international winger Aleksandar Tonev was banned for seven matches on Thursday by Scottish FA for racially abusing. He was hit with this suspension after the Scottish football association found him guilty of racial abuse.

Celtic Winger Tonev, on loan from Aston Villa, had been stimulated by the SFA subsequent an incident involving Aberdeen defender Shay Logan during a Scottish Premiership match last month. The Bulgarian was regimented to come out before the SFA’s legal panel, which ruled he had staunch “excessive misconduct by the use of offensive, insulting and abusive language of a racist nature”.

This was really an unfortunate case, but the club has accepted Aleksandar’s justification that he did not say the words that were suspected to have been said and that he is not a racialist.  The punishment was imposed by their disciplinary tribunal which recognized that the grievance in opposition to Tonev on sept.13 was confirmed, SFA said.

A narrator for Tonev’s parent club Aston Villa added: “The place of the club is that racism or any other form of favouritism is distasteful and has no place in football. Tonev, 24, who has played 16 times for his country, stirred to Celtic on loan from Aston Villa in August and the has played eight times in all contests for the Scottish champions.

Logan indicted Tonev, who was creating his unveiling, of ethnically abusing him when the teams met in the game Celtic won 2-1 at CelticPark.

Andey Murray won his third title in last three months and also saved five match points when he defeated Tommy Robredo by 3-6, 7-6 (9/7), 7-6 (10/8)  in a lengthy Valencia open final on Sunday. Murray had done it earlier also when he bet Robredo in the final in Shenzhen in last month.

Murrey appeared a bit travailed when he dropped the first set. But later he managed to position the victory when he saved the points in both tie-breakers and achieve the 31^st title of his career in the longest ATP final of the year which last for 3hours and 20 minutes.

“Unbelievable match, (he’s a) great fighter,” Murray said “Unbelievable match, (he’s a) great fighter,”  “He’s 32 now and in unbelievable shape, he’s still improving. I don’t know what else to say, but I have a lot of respect for you and I’m sorry about today.”

Meanwhile Robredo praised to Murray’s never say die attitude. Robredo added, “He is so tough, he has more lives than a cat. Players like him don’t gift you anything, to beat them you have to play a spectacular match,”

Robredo got two vital chances to close the match with the 2 match points when he was leading the match by 6-5 and 7-6, but Murray fought back and ultimately level the game. The match was again to slip when Murray cramped in the deciding set and played fault twice but soon the Champion recovered and finally defeated the Robredo. With this victory Andey Murray secured valuable points for his World Tour finals bid.

The match-fixing news comes into the highlight after revelations by Danish Broadcasting Cooperation is that two top fasten Danish badminton players were offered to match-fixing in June this year as Japan exposed few days ago. Malay who offered match fixing fees to the Danish badminton players alleges he formerly fixed matches in two of the most prominent tournaments.

It was reported that two players- singles star Hans Kristian Vittinghus and double specialist Kim Astrup were approached by a Malaysian to fix their matches at Japan in June. Both the badminton players rejected the offers and informed the matter to Badminton World Federation (BWF). The first player Hans Kristian Vittinghus rejected the offer and asked the BWF for enquiry. In order side, the second player Kim Astrup planned to get detail of the offer before rejecting the proposal from the match fixer.

The match fixer offered to pay about 3,000 euro per game to Kim Astrup where he also encouraged him for higher money for other proposals for match fixing. At this moment, Norza said that, “We hear of match fixing in order sports, but to hear the match fixing report in badminton is really shocking.”

“It is adjacent to everything I stand for as a badminton player. I was never in doubt that the BWF should be informed instantaneously, and today I`m happy that we had him report,” Hans Kristian Vittinghus said.

The talk instantaneously moved to the prospect of the world No. 1 finishing the Career Grand Slam next April at the masters when the Rory McIlroy had succeeded the Open Championship in last July.

The McIlroy triumph the PGA Championship, grossing the fourth foremost title. While selecting his second Wanamaker trophy in three years, McIlroy ratched up the denotation of the Masters even more. He will have great chance to grip entire the four majors at once with U.S. Open win at Chambers Bay if McIlroy trips on a green jacket next April.

McIlroy recognized the prospects of the Mcll-slam where it may all seem a slight impulsive.

McIlroy said that, “If the Masters triumph was to ensue, there could be even more buildup going into the U.S. Open and demanding to seize all four majors at the same time. The Ulsterman, however, brought himself back from thinking too far into the outlook.

Rory McIlroy will be the title for story into the 2015 Masters as he is making efforts to do what merely five other men have done: finish off the Career Grand Slam. But McIlroy mentioned the other day that there might actually be more hype on him at chambers bay in June for US open.

At this the Rory said that, “If that was to happen, there could be even more hype going into the US open and trying to hold the four majors at same time.”

CHILLICOTHE – In the golf tournament that was held on Monday 30 Sep, there was no local teams or players who can participate in this tournament golf action were capable to move on to the next round.

Chillicothe carded a 396 to cease 12th as Marietta won with a 310 in the Division I golf sectionals at Lakeside Golf Course. The Cavaliers were led by Sean McCorkle’s 95 and Payne Wissler’s 96.

When it was time of Division III district at Pickaway Country Club then there was merely Huntington junior Jacob Pugh was the golfer from Ross County is participating. The golfer Pugh got off to great start, shooting a 41 on the abut nine, but resist to a 53 on the back for a 94 total and a 66th-place finish.

In Division II girls’ district feat at River Greens Golf Course, Westfall has completed 11th and had scored 460, well back of Dover’s first-place 347. There was only the Kaitlynn Sandstrom to break 100, shooting a 95.

Division II boys region play will seize position today at Pickaway Country Club with Unioto and Piketon having qualified out of sectionals and Zane Trace’s Caleb Arnold, Adena’s Hunter Miller and Westfall’s Andrew Pettenski is participating in individual antagonism.