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Doctors found the 30-year-old was suffering from blood clots in his lung and shoulder and needed to be hospitalized overnight in Detroit while the Royals traveled to Kansas City. Yost said Gee is expected to return to Kansas City Tuesday, but will need further treatment and won’t pitch again this season. MORE: Ranking Most Influential People in Sports | Fernandez honored Blood clots are nothing new for Gee, who dealt with the issue in his pitching shoulder in 2012 as a member of the Mets, where he spent the first six seasons of his big-league career, going 40-37 with a 4....

Well, it’s happened. Kansas City will represent the American League in the 2014 World Series, thanks to yet another game in which the offense scored just the right amount of runs to allow the defense and pitching to take care of the rest. That’s been a common theme for what’s been a string of close games. “Right from the beginning of the playoffs, I don’t know what clicked for them, but something clicked and they were totally used to the atmosphere,” Royals manager Ned Yost said....

When there’s a day game after a night game, the clubhouse is generally a pretty quiet place, so this scene is hardly unusual. A few minutes later, everything is different. The defending American League champions’ team bus has gotten to the Bronx, and into the locker room comes a boisterous group, full of chatter. MORE: Royals’ World Series odds | AL Central is MLB’s best division The Royals are on a three-game losing streak, their worst of the season....

Final Fantasy is well known for its use of this as all player characters start off as a blank slate that can then pursue a job class of their liking as well as unlock new ones. Many other RPG titles have taken inspiration from this or created their own job systems which makes these games very exciting to play. 10 Yakuza: Like A Dragon Shying away from the franchise’s beat ’em up mechanics for a real-time turn-based RPG, Yakuza: Like A Dragon received positive feedback from its players when it first released in 2020....

The Portugal international has been one of the most impressive players in the Championship this season, as Nuno Espírito Santo’s side became the first team to confirm their promotion the Premier League last week. The 21-year-old surprised many when he made a £16 million move from Porto to the Championship club last summer and there have been rumours that he may look to move onto a bigger club after his excellent displays in 2017-18....

Rose gave a statement on her departure from the show; “I have made the very difficult decision to not return to Batwoman next season. This was not a decision I made lightly as I have the utmost respect for the cast, crew and everyone involved with the show in both Vancouver and in Los Angeles.” No reason has been given from Ruby Rose or the show about why she has departed....

Dabblebet is offering odds at the ICC It has emerged that £354,000 has been split between the three clubs (SV Tasmania Berlin, 2002–2005), (Neukollner Sportfreunde 1907, 2005–2006), (Hertha Zehlendorf, 2006–2008) Rudiger played for at youth level. This payment is known as “ausbildungsentschädigung” in German which means “education compensation.” The money may not seem like a lot, when compared with the main transfer, but it will go a long way in amateur football and the clubs get a proportion of the share for each year that they trained the 24-year-old....

Giuliani is named in the intelligence whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump’s conduct towards Ukraine. In a call with Ukraine’s President Zelensky, Trump urged him to investigate former vice president Joe Biden, a leading candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2020. Trump also said he wanted Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr to call Zelensky, describing his lawyer as a “very capable guy” who “very much knows what’s happening.” Zelensky acknowledged that one of his officials had spoken to Giuliani already....

The 23-year-old Italy international has also been mentioned as a possible makeweight in a move by the Bianconeri to take Sergej Milinkovic-Savic from Serie A rivals Lazio. Again, though, the centre-halves’ representative is adamant that no transfer discussions have taken place. David Torchia was recently spotted meeting with Juve’s director of sport Fabio Paratici in Milan, but he maintains that the future of Rugani never came up. He told Sportitalia on the mounting exit talk surrounding Rugani, who previously worked under Chelsea-linked Sarri during a loan spell at Empoli: “I know that nobody will believe me, but I met with Paratici because it was already scheduled....

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Alex Davis has been ruled out of the Olympics after suffering an ankle injury in training and will be replaced by Ruaridh McConnochie in Britain’s Rugby Sevens squad, team officials said on Wednesday. Davis sustained the injury at the Team GB preparation camp in Belo Horizonte. McConnochie, one of two travelling reserves, steps in to the 12-man-squad while Charlie Hayter will fly to Rio to provide replacement cover alongside Luke Treharne....

Final Score: Japan 30-10 Russia So without further ado, let’s come to the result and highlights of the match. Match #1, Japan vs. Russia Highlights Nigel Owens, who was the referee of the match, blew his whistle, and the game started. Japan failed to claim kick-off. Russia’s hooker, Stanislav Selskii, grabbed the ball and rumbled in the hosts. Russia earned plenty as Japan failed to roll away. Golosnitsky picked the first try of the tournament as Japan failed to collect the ball from him and Yury Kushnarev added another two points....

Klopp last week celebrated masterminding Liverpool’s first Premier League title triumph, having won the Club World Cup in December and the Champions League last season. Bayern chief executive Rummenigge has spoken of his admiration for the charismatic 53-year-old, who the Bundesliga champions did battle with many times during his tenure as Borussia Dortmund boss. He told Sport Bild: “I bow and say: Congratulations to Liverpool! “Jurgen Klopp is a great coach and a very respectful person, he does not put himself above of others or talk about what a great guy he is....

According to the listing on the Activision Careers page, the Call of Duty: Warzone maker is looking to fill up a Manager and Influencer Marketing role for Call of Duty. In it, the post mentions a “line up of innovations in curated player experiences, multi-platform game play, subscription-based content, mobile game development, and a move to always on community and player connectivity.” Dubbed as “CoD 2.0,” fans could likely expect Call of Duty’s own subscription service for future content before the end of 2022 as per the job posting....

With the score locked at 2-2 late on in Juventus’ match at Chievo Verona, Ronaldo collided with Stefano Sorrentino in a chaotic penalty area. Sorrentino was knocked out cold briefly and there were an anxious few minutes as he received immediate treatment before being substituted. The 39-year-old goalkeeper was immediately taken to the hospital and released on Sunday morning with a fractured nose, bruising to his left shoulder and whiplash....

MORE: Stephanie McMahon: WWE would welcome Ronda Rousey ‘with open arms’ Rousey has been posting a series of beefed-up photos to Instagram ahead of her Dec. 30th showdown with Nunes. If Nunes REALLY wanted to check out Rousey’s Instagram posts, all she has to do is head on over to Google. The account is public. A photo posted by rondarousey (@rondarousey) on Dec 19, 2016 at 5:13pm PST A photo posted by rondarousey (@rondarousey) on Dec 22, 2016 at 11:05am PST...

Rousey last fought in February at UFC 184 when she defeated Cat Zingano in 14 seconds. The win was the quickest finish in a UFC title fight. MORE: Ronda Rousey you can’t miss | Rousey rips into Mayweather | Why Rousey is a better fight than Mayweather Correia last competed in August in beating Shayna Baszler by second round TKO at UFC 177. Both women are undefeated and should be an amazing title fight....

LONDON (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic’s delayed fourth round match against France’s Adrian Mannarino will be played under the retractable roof on Wimbledon’s Centre Court, officials said on Tuesday. Light rain at the All England Club caused a delay to the start of matches on outside courts but the Serb’s contest was expected to start on time at noon (1100 GMT) thanks to the roof. Second seed Djokovic’s test against Mannarino was postponed until Tuesday after the marathon battle between Rafa Nadal and Gilles Muller concluded late on Monday....

According to Ian Rapoport of NFL.com, cornerback Johnthan Banks is the player in question, although the team declined to identify the player. MORE: Week 6 in photos | Nicks again dealing with MRSA From the team's statement: "Over the past two months the Buccaneers organization has been working with the world-renowned DICON and other infectious disease specialists to treat and educate its players, sanitize its training facility and install new health and safety protocol....

Amid little expectation in Russia, manager Southgate steered an inexperienced side to fourth place, its best World Cup finish in 28 years. The performance surpassed that achieved throughout Rooney’s 13-year international career, which was often marked by a tense relationship with supporters. The former Manchester United and Everton man famously criticised England’s travelling fans for booing the team after a 0-0 draw with Algeria at the 2010 World Cup, but believes 2018 has set the scene for a bright future....