WELLINGTON SAINTS STROLL PAST RANGERS

The Wellington saints are two games away from a perfect regular season after another comfortable win.The defending champions moved to 16-0 in their National Basketball league campaign following the 105-96 win over the supercity Rangers at trusts Arena in Auckland on Sunday afternoon..

It was the epitome of a complete team performance as every player who saw meaningful court time shone at some stage,in the first quarter it was Corey Webster he hit three -pointers in the first five minutes as his side jumped out to a 20-11 lead..

He would eventually end with a game high 26 points with eight rebounds and four assists but his saints team went cold soon after and flurry of points in transition from the rangers saw them go on a 9-0 run ,which led to a one point lead at the end of the first quarter(23-22).

The saints shrugged off their 30 per cent shooting effort in the quarter to come out strongly i the second,Webster hit a long range which was followed by a three-point play to Jordan Ngatai and a two to Tai Wesley as they quickly leapt out to a seven point lead..

LEBRON JAMES AND KYRIE IRVING PUSH CAVALIERS PAST CELTICS TO VICTORY

Kyrie Irving took over in the second half and finished with 42 points,Lebron James added 34 and the Cleveland Cavaliers moved within one win of an almost inevitable third date in the finals with Golden state by rallying to beat the Boston Celtics 112-99 on Tuesday night in game 4 of the Eastern conference finals.

Irving stayed on the floor despite rolling his left ankle in third quarter,when he scored 19 in less than five minutes and James shook off early foul trouble as the cavaliers opened a 3-1 lead in the series.The cavaliers meanwhile wouldn't be on the cusp of the finals without Irving with Cleveland in Jeopardy of dropping its second game in a row after James followed an 11-point game 3 by picking up four first half fouls,Irving put on a breathtaking one man show in the third quarter.

Freezing Bosto  defenders with his dribble and driving to the basket whenever he wanted ,Irving made six layups,two 3-pointers and a free throw in a dizzying span of 4:48..

He capped his blistering 19-point outburst with a 3 in the final second of the quarter and celebrated at mid-courtt by pretending to put two pistols back in his holster.

FIJI DEFEND RUGBY WORLD SEVENS

Fiji won succesive rugby sevens titles when it beat Australia 26-0 in its last pool match to reach the london quaterfinals at Twickenham on Saturday.Fiji neeeded only to make the playoffs,which it hasn't missed this season,but put it in doubt after losing a nervy opening pool match to England 31-10.

The Fijians took out their frustrations on Wales 42-5 then swatted aside Australia,fourth overall in the standings that ensured they finished second to unbeaten England in their pool and could'nt be caught by second place South Africa in the season standings,Fiji clinched its  third crown in the series 17-year history..

With nine points against Australia captain Osea Kolinisau became the 14th man to pass 1000 points in series history,and the second Fijian after Waisale Seresi.

On sunday, Fiji will play France in the quaterfinals France won its pool,and knocked Kenya the Singapore winner,out of quaterfinals contention 29-12 but in consolation,Kenya's Collins Injera scored his 231st try to become the series all-time leading try scorer.

SPANISH FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX

Lewis Hamilton won a strategic spanish Grand prix thriller on sunday to cut Sebastian Vettel's overall lead in the F1 championships to six points with a quarter of the season completed..The mercedes driver's 55th career win was hard fought and tense,with Ferraris vettel seizing the lead from Hamilton at the start and in the hunt all the way as the tyre strategies played out..

Hamilton took the cheque red flag 3.4 seconds clear of the German,who did all he could to beat him with a thrilling to pass.The Briton,who made the move stick seven laps later and then made his tyres last to the finish had sounded strangely breathless dumping the race when fretting about a strategy that turned out to be spot on

                                 POOR START

The win was Hamilton's second in Barcelona and ended a run of 10 different winners in 10 years, Ricciardo was the only driver not lapped by the top two in a race after inheriting third,and his first podium of the year frm Bottas  after the Finn's engine expired.

On a day of Finns failing to finish,Ferraris Kimi Raikkonen went out at the start after a collision with Red Bulls 2016 winner max vastappen.

Bottas,who celebrated his first career victory in Russia two weeks ago,made glancing contact with his compatriot and the impact pitched Raikkonen into verstappen on other sides smashing the suspension on both cars

EUROPEAN RUGBY CHALLENGE

Gloucester survived a nail biting finale to the European challenge cup final to beat Edinburgh 19-13 on a highly charged night at the stoop on friday.The premiership side were in control thanks to a Billy Twelvetrees try and 14 points from the boot of former Edinburgh halfback Greig laidlaw but some ill-discipline nearly allowed the scottish team to snatch an unlikely victory.

Gloucester were 19-6 to the good just before the hour mark when Flanker Ross moriasty was yellow-carded for recklessly putting his knee into the back of prone Edinburgh lock Fraser Mckenzie at a scrum.

2017 ICE HOCKEY WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

The IIHF world championships for the year 2017 are being held in Paris, France and Cologne, Germany for the 5^th to the 21^st of May. The United States is in group A of the championships other countries include Denmark, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia and Sweden. All preliminary round games will take place at Laxness arena in Cologne Germany. All semifinal, bronze medal and gold medal games will take place at the main host location of Cologne, Germany.

Today we address USA vs. Italy, the United Stated took their third win of the ice hockey world championship with a 3 – 0 defeat of Italy yesterday. The star player was Brock Nelson from the United states who scored twice against Italy. “He broke the deadlock with a wrist shot to the top right corner early on, then scored another in the second period minutes before Anders Lee completed the scoring on a power play”. Nelson who’s a player for the New York islanders was named player of the game. Nelson fired one off the right post and into the back of the net from the hash marks to open the scoring 5:17 into the game after he picked off an errant clearing pass. The U.S held Italy without a shot on goal for the first 15 plus minutes of the contest and finished the first period with a 9-2 shot on goal advantage.

Nelson Brock's scores against the Italian team

"The American Coach Jeff Blashill stated that Italy was tough to play against but “our guys kept with it and made enough plays to win the game and that’s the important thing”. Team USA has two days off before putting its three-game winning streak on the line against Latvia this Saturday May the 13^th. Team USA out shot Italy 32-9 the U.S. was 1- for-2 on the power play while Italy finished 0-for-2, the U.S. have the day off today before returning to practice tomorrow in preparation for the game against Latvia at 12:15 p.m.

Dylan Larkin extended his point streak to four games with his two assists yesterday, he’s the only U.S. player to have at least one point in each of team USA’s first four games of the world championship."

Italy's Marco Insam, left, and US forward Brock Nelson.

FRIDAY THE 12^TH GAME SCHEDULE:

CZECH Republic VS. SLOVAKIA at 16:15 GMT the games will be held at Accor Hotels Arena.

DENMARK VS. GERMANY at 20:15 GMT, at the LANXESS Arena.

SWEDEN VS. ITALY at 16:15 GMT, at the LANXESS Arena.

FRANCE VS. BULGARIA at 20:15 GMT, at the Accor Hotels Arena.  

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Wayne Rooney

Wayne Rooney is a professional footballer who captains and plays for Manchester United and the England national team.

He has played both as a forward and a midfield.
He is a record goal scorer for Manchester United
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Wayne started his career by joining the youth team of Everton at the age of nine years from where he made a professional debut in 2022 at the age of 16 years.

Being in Manchester United Rooney has helped the team win the premier league five times, the UEFA champions League once, FIFA Club World Cup once, FA Community shield four times, The football league cup thrice and the FA Cup once.

Wayne is Manchester United top goal scorer of all time having scored 200 goals for the club.
He is currently at 250 goals in all competitions.

He became England's youngest goal scorer in the history of the European championship.

Monaco gets beaten at home 0-2 by Juventus

Monaco got to host Juventus last wednesday in the champions league semi finals in their first-leg clash.

The man of the match was Gonzalo Higuain who managed to score both goals one in the first half and the second one in the final with a little help from Dani Alves which led to a 0-2 victory for the Italians.

Juventus put on a very impressive defensive performance which has done well in their favour holding  the opponent goalless in 9 of  11 matches.
Juventus could do better though because the attack was lacking in the early going until Dani Alves stepped in.

However this result does not ensure that Juventus goes through to the final although it puts them on a better spot where they only need to score one goal to do so.

This will put Juventus on the verge of its second champions league final appearance in three years after the brilliant win over Monaco.

NETBALL

Netball is a ball sport played by two teams of seven players.Its development derived from early versions of basketball,began in England int the 1890's.
Games played on a rectangular court with raised goal rings at each end..

Each teams attempts to score goals by passing a ball down the court and shooting it through its goal ring.,players are assigned specific positions which define their roles within the team and restrict their movement to certain areas of the court

                                                                                                                                                                    Netball is a fast,exciting sport.and even though netball has been played in the USA for 30 years several organizations have failed to get Americans playing the sport or help expose Netball to get the attention it deserves