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Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Giants and Diamondbacks meet in series rubber match
Arizona Diamondbacks (22-21, fourth in the NL West) vs. San Francisco Giants (25-18, third in the NL West) San Francisco; Wednesday, 3:45 p.m. EDT PITCHING PROBABLES: Diamondbacks: Eduardo Rodriguez (1-3, 6.86 ERA, 1.67 WHIP, 48 strikeouts); Giants: Jordan Hicks (1-4, 5.82 ERA, 1.41 WHIP, 40 strikeouts) Advertisement BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Diamondbacks -117, Giants -102; over/under is 7 1/2 runs BOTTOM LINE: The San Francisco Giants and Arizona Diamondbacks meet on Wednesday with the three-game series tied 1-1. San Francisco has a 25-18 record overall and a 13-6 record in home games. The Giants have the eighth-ranked team slugging percentage in the NL at .385. Arizona is 22-21 overall and 11-9 in road games. The Diamondbacks have hit 58 total home runs to rank fourth in MLB play. Wednesday's game is the third meeting between these teams this season. TOP PERFORMERS: Michael Yastrzemski has nine doubles and five home runs for the Giants. Willy Adames is 11 for 41 with four doubles and three home runs over the past 10 games. Advertisement Josh Naylor has a .296 batting average to lead the Diamondbacks, and has 11 doubles and five home runs. Corbin Carroll is 12 for 39 with five home runs and eight RBIs over the past 10 games. LAST 10 GAMES: Giants: 5-5, .257 batting average, 3.43 ERA, outscored opponents by 12 runs Diamondbacks: 5-5, .265 batting average, 5.40 ERA, outscored by nine runs INJURIES: Giants: Tyler Fitzgerald: 10-Day IL (ribs), Casey Schmitt: 10-Day IL (side), Jerar Encarnacion: 60-Day IL (finger), Thomas Murphy: 60-Day IL (back) Diamondbacks: Justin Martinez: 15-Day IL (shoulder), A.J. Puk: 60-Day IL (elbow), Jordan Montgomery: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Walston: 60-Day IL (elbow) ___ The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
India Gazette
08-05-2025
- Sport
- India Gazette
Pat Cummins turns 32: A journey of rise from prospect to one of Australia's most successful skippers
New Delhi [India], May 8 (ANI): One of Australia's most successful captains, Pat Cummins, turned 32 on Thursday and celebrated the occasion with his Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Sunrisers Hyderabad teammates. Sunrisers Hyderabad shared glimpses of Cummins' birthday celebrations on X and captioned the post, 'How it started, how it ended. Pat Cummins | #PlayWithFire'. In one of the pictures, the people around the Hyderabad skipper poured drinks on him. Cummins, who had been tipped to be a future star since his youth, made his Test debut for Australia at 18 but had to wait six years for his next appearance. Injuries struck him during that phase when he struggled to handle the workload. When he burst onto the scene in 2017, the towering right-armer emerged as a thoroughbred quick with the potential and tools to become the best in the world. He kicked off his fairytale career with a sizzling total of seven wickets, which helped Australia square the series against South Africa at the Wanderers. Under dramatic circumstances in late 2021, Cummins was handed Australia's Test captaincy, and two years later, he had led Australia to the World Test Championship mace and the ODI World Cup title. On both occasions, Cummins tactically outclassed India in the final to walk away with the trophy in his hands. With the deadly arsenal at his disposal, he staged India's downfall with the ball after a swashbuckling display from Steven Smith (121) and Travis Head (163), which powered Australia to a daunting 46. In reply, India folded on 296 and never recovered from it as Australia lifted its maiden WTC title with an emphatic 209-run victory. In the ODI World Cup final in Ahmedabad, Cummins silenced the entire nation by removing India's batting maestro Virat Kohli and then the in-form Shreyas Iyer to break the backbone of India's middle-order. India limped to 240, which Australia gunned down with a six-wicket win and seven overs to spare, courtesy of Head's rollicking 137. With Cummins at the helm, Australia reclaimed the Border-Gavaskar Trophy for the first time in a decade. After a record-shattering defeat in Perth, the Baggy Greens regrouped and blazed their way to a 3-1 series win. His record remains unblemished as a captain in cricket's most decorated rivalry against England, the Ashes. In nine fixtures, Cummins has steered Australia to five victories and boasts a win percentage of 71.42 per cent. While looking at his format-wise influence, the 32-year-old has 294 wickets under his belt in 67 Test appearances. In 57 T20Is Cummins has scalped 66 wickets at 23.57 while striking at 19.00. In the ODIs, the Australian Test skipper has 143 wickets in 90 appearances. (ANI)
News.com.au
01-05-2025
- Automotive
- News.com.au
Ferrari 296 Speciale unveiled: The Prancing Horse's fastest, ‘most extreme' car yet
Common rule of thumb for extreme track-focused supercars is the uglier they are the faster they are when hot lapping. Function over form dominates and if engineers can get away with bolting a wing onto the back of a handsome coupe, you can bet they'll screw on the biggest, ugliest appendage they can find in pursuit of precious downforce. So you might expect the latest, most extreme 648kW Ferrari 296 Special to have fallen from the very top of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. Except in the flesh the lighter, more powerful hard-core 296 is still somehow as handsome as ever and, if anything, benefits from all the enhancements required to efficiently manage the air around its svelte body to boost high-speed stability needed for hot lapping. There's a tweaked nose and a revised lower front bumper that sports larger air intakes. Aerodynamicists have also added a scalloped bonnet that now packages a new S-duct-style intake that both reduces dive under braking and then does the opposite and reduces lift under acceleration. At the rear, Ferrari has pinched the fender flares from the 296 Challenge racer but resisted the temptation to borrow its big wing. Sure, some might miss the racer-for the road look, but Ferrari claim that the 296 Speciale produces 435kg of downforce at 250km/h – 20 per cent more than the standard car, although that figure is a long way off the incredible 860kg maximum the 911 GT3 RS can muster. The modest boost is easy to explain, says Ferrari. If you want to go fast on track feel free to buy one of our race cars, but if you want to have fun behind the wheel you'll want the 296. Originally rumoured to ditch its electrification in pursuit of maximum kilo-cutting, the 296 Speciale keeps its ultra-compact plug-in hybrid twin-turbo 3.0-litre V6 but winds up power to a dizzying 648kW. The power comes from new internals lifted from both the inbound F80 hypercar and Prancing Horse's two-time Le Mans-winning 499P racer. There's also tweaks to the electric motor that now pushes out 132kW and 315Nm and, combined with a 7.45kWh battery, can still drive the Ferrari in near-silent EV mode at speeds of up to 135km/h for 25km. Off the line from 0-100km/h the hotter 296 takes just 2.8 seconds – 0.1sec faster than the standard car, while 0-200km/h is dispensed in seven seconds flat. Emphasising the sense of thrust is the faster-shifting eight-speed dual-clutch transmission, the fact that all its power is channelled to the road via the rear wheels and the fact that engineers have carved away 60kg. Improving the way the 296 drives on road and track, engineers have revised the suspension and introduced stiffer springs and new trick damper that are said to reduce roll by 13 per cent which leads to 4 per cent harder cornering. That might sound hard to get your head around. But all that extra power, less weight and new-found downforce the 296 Speciale is now faster round Ferrari's Fiorano home circuit than any modern Ferrari you care to name, including the LaFerrari, with it posting an identical time to the near million-dollar SF90 hypercar. Which brings us to the thorny issue of cost and availability. On sale in the first quarter of next year in both coupe and roadster body styles we think the Ferrari 296 Speciale will be priced from $700,000 (plus on-roads) for the Berlinetta coupe and $800,000 for the Aperta droptop – a huge sum of money but a significant saving over an SF90. The problem is, despite Ferrari not capping volumes, the famous Italian car brand says to be eligible to buy you first need to currently own a Ferrari and the next is you need to have already built a relationship with your local dealer. So unless you have current 296, Roma or SF90 tucked away in your garage and are godfather to the dealer principle's firstborn even if you have the cash, odds are, you'll still miss out on what could be the fastest, most capable and prettiest supercars money can buy.
New Straits Times
30-04-2025
- New Straits Times
Former Dungun Municipal Council officer, wife charged over RM4.9mil corruption
KUALA TERENGGANU: A former assistant quantity surveyor at the Dungun Municipal Council and his wife were charged separately in court here with abuse of power for soliciting bribes and submitting false documents involving a total value of RM4.9 million. According to BuletinTV3, Mohammad Hanif Ahmad, 41, and his wife, Maimunah Syahbudin, 47, pleaded not guilty before judge Mohd Azhar Othman at the Sessions Court here. Hanif was slapped with four charges of abusing his position as a public servant at the council to secure public cleaning and related work contracts worth RM4,984,296. He was accused of recommending companies owned by his father, brother, and friend to obtain the contracts between Dec 16, 2018, and March 9, 2021, in Jalan Yahaya Ahmad in Dungun. The charges were filed under Section 23(1) of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of no less than five times the amount of the bribe or RM10,000, whichever is higher. Maimunah, a former contractor, was charged with 10 counts of using false documents, bank statements and company registration certificates from three different companies submitted to the municipal council. She allegedly committed the offences between Dec 17, 2020, and Jan 10, 2021, at the same location. The court set June 12 for mention of the case. The prosecution was led by MACC deputy public prosecutor Ezuain Farhana Ahmad, while both accused were represented by lawyer Ghazali Ismail.
The Citizen
30-04-2025
- Automotive
- The Citizen
Lightweight, track-focused Ferrari 296 Speciale revealed
Prancing Horse's still entry-level offering remains a limited edition, but now produces over 600 kW from its plug-in hybrid V6. Speciale name returns after last being offered on the 296's predecessor, the 488. Image: Ford Ferrari has taken the wraps off the most hardcore iteration of its hybrid V6 supercar yet, revealing the 296 Speciale and its open-top sibling, the 296 Speciale Aperta. PHEV twist Both models serve as spiritual successors to the 458 Speciale and 488 Pista, delivering better performance and sharper driver engagement while tipping the scales significantly less than the standard models. At the heart of both lies the now-familiar 3.0-litre V6 twin-turbo engine producing a 515kW/755Nm. Paired with Ferrari's hybrid system though, the combined total system out comes to 648 kW. Revised aerodynamics results in the Speciale producing 435 kg of downforce at 250 km/h. Image: Ferrari Handling shifting duties is an 8-speed dual-clutch transmission that delivers power to the rear wheels. The claimed all-electric range from the 7.4-kWh battery pack, which produces 113 kW, is 25 km. ALSO READ: WATCH: Ferrari 296 GTB introduces a new breed to South Africa As expected of a car bearing the Speciale badge, weight-saving measures have been a major focus. The coupe tips the scales at 1 410 kg. Unlike the standard 296, the cabriolet adopts the Aperta name rather than GTS. Image: Ferrari Ferrari's 40:60 front-to-rear weight distribution continues and performance figures claim a top speed of 330 km/h, 0-100 km/h in 2.8 seconds and 0-200 km/h in seven seconds. Braking from 200 km/h to a standstill takes 106 metres. The 296 Speciale's dimensions haven't changed significantly from its standard counterpart. Its length measures 4 625 mm, width 1 968 mm, height 1 181 mm and wheelbase 2 600 mm. Interior has undergone subtle changes. Image: Ferrari Aerodynamic changes abound, from a reprofiled front with an S-duct-style intake and larger cooling apertures to a reworked rear diffuser and active aero elements. Downforce is up by 20% compared to the standard 296 GTB, generating 435 kg at 250 km/h. The open-top Aperta shares the same mechanicals and performance but brings the retractable folding roof hard-top roof. Not yet for us Both models are due for global rollout from early 2026 and while Ferrari hasn't pegged the Speciale and Speciale Aperta as limited editions, production will be shorter than usual to ensure exclusivity. Italian pricing starts at €407 000 for the coupe and €462 000 for the Aperta, which amounts to R8 607 073 and R9 770 191 when converted directly into Rand. NOW READ: Ferrari 296 GTB retracts its roof, becomes 296 GTS
