Cricket Australia will seek the ICC's permission to use disinfectants on match balls to understand if it can help reduce the health risk to players as the game gears up for a new normal amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Cricket Australia's Sports Science and Sports Medicine Manager Alex Kountouris said they have drawn up a set of overall guidelines for players to safely return to training though competitive cricket is likely to be played only later this year.
With the ICC's Cricket Committee proposing a ban on players using saliva to shine the ball, Kountouris said testing will soon commence on whether disinfecting the ball during a match will also be an effective way to minimise the health risks.
"Disinfecting the ball is a consideration," Koumtoris was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.
...we'd have to speak to the ICC and get permission, there's a lot of things (to consider). And whether it's effective or not. The ball being leather, it's harder to disinfect because it's got little ...

Using disinfectants on match balls is under consideration: Kountouris

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Actor Daniel Radcliffe says he felt "super weird" when he found out that his "Harry Potter" co-star Rupert Grint became a father recently.
Grint welcomed a baby girl with actor-girlfriend Georgia Groome early this month.
Radcliffe, who along with Grint and Emma Watson achieved global popularity as child actors from "Harry Potter" films, said the news hit him that he and his co-actors were growing up.
"I texted him the other day and said I was so happy for him and it's very very cool. It's also like super weird, for me, to think that we are all at the age where we are all having children, but we definitely are," the 30-year-old actor said on "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen".
He also joked how their trio, including Emma Watson, were "terrible yardsticks for how old people are".
"It's weird for all of us. I remember when I turned 30 I remember a lot of people in my life were really depressed to find out that they're lapped," Radcliffe quipped.

Daniel Radcliffe finds Rupert Grint's baby news 'super weird'

Cuban spy drama "Wasp Network", starring Penelope Cruz and Edgar Ramirez, is set to start streaming from June 19, Netflix has announced.
According to Variety, the political thriller, directed by Olivier Assayas, will be available across the globe, except for China, Eastern Europe, Greece, Portugal, the Middle East and France.
The film revolves around Cuban spies in American territory during the 1990s, as it reveals the tentacles of a terrorist network based in Florida, with ramifications in Central America and with the consent of the US government.
Assayas, best known for directing Kristen Stewart-starrer "Personal Shopper", has also penned the screenplay based on Fernando Morais' book, "The Last Soldiers of the Cold War".
Ana De Armas, Gael Garcia Bernal, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Wagner Moura round the cast.
"Wasp Network" had its world premiere at the 2019 Venice Film Festival.

Penelope Cruz-starrer 'Wasp Network' to debut on Netflix in June

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp believes his runaway leaders will cope without the "best kick in your ass" of their Anfield crowd should the Premier League season resume.
English top-flight players are set to be back in training this week after a Premier League meeting on Monday gave the go-ahead to the first stage of the return to play protocols.
If matches do eventually take place again this season, they will be behind closed doors and possibly at neutral venues.
Liverpool were left 25 points clear at the top of the table when the coronavirus saw the season suspended in March.
They now need just two more wins to claim a first English title in 30 years and German boss Klopp, having watched his native Bundesliga resume last weekend without spectators at matches, is confident his players can motivate themselves without a crowd.
"The competition will make the intensity," he told Liverpool's website.
"So it's not about 'oh, Liverpool have to win two games'.
"By the way, we have to win two 

Klopp backs Liverpool to manage without 'Anfield boost'

German FA president Fritz Keller and Bayern Munich chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge want to propose a salary cap to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, it has been revealed.
"There are absurd salaries and transfer fees that are no longer credible," Keller, boss of the German Football Association (DFB), told reporters.
"We have to talk about salary caps. I am glad that I agree with Karl-Heinz Rummenigge on this point.
"Therefore we will write a letter to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin." Rummenigge touted the idea at the weekend in an interview with broadcaster Sky.
"(Former UEFA president) Michel Platini had the idea years ago to introduce a salary cap in Europe based on the American model," Rummenigge said.  While the Frenchman allegedly had the support "of all the big clubs in Europe. However, we were told from the outset that this could not be brought into line with competition laws," Rummenigge added.
Now Keller wants to write a combined letter to persuade Ceferin.  The restricting 

German FA, Bayern want salary cap for 'credible' football

Hollywood veteran Arnold Schwarzenegger has opened about his daughter, author Katherine Schwarzenegger who is expecting her first child with actor Chris Pratt, and he says he is looking forward to becoming a grandparent.
The news of Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger's pregnancy broke last month. The couple tied the knot in June 2019 after dating for over a year.
The "Terminator" star revealed that the baby is due "sometime this summer" during Monday's at-home episode of "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon".
"That is really exciting news that Katherine now, you know be pregnant and have a baby... And, inevitably, I'm really looking forward to playing around with whatever it is, she or he, and have some fun," he said.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, 72, said his future grandchild comes will have an impressive lineage.
His former wife, journalist Maria Shriver is the daughter of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a philanthropist and a member of the Kennedy family.
"I think this is kind of a unique ...

It's exciting: Arnold Schwarzenegger reacts to daughter Katherine's pregnancy

Whenever Joey Logano doesn't cross the finish line first at a NASCAR Cup Series race, he says he tends to have the same thought: Golly, I wish I could do that again.
The 2018 NASCAR champion and rest of the field will get to do it again: They will run the Toyota 500 (that's kilometers, not miles) on Wednesday night at Darlington Raceway just three days after the sport got back to racing after 10 weeks away due to the coronavirus pandemic.
NASCAR teams are creatures of habit with a well-worn routine of mechanical sessions, strategy meetings and track breakdowns and tendencies for wherever they're headed.
While each season typically sees a Monday race due to bad weather, the pandemic has forced NASCAR to add a couple of weeknights into its schedule as it tries to make up the eight races it missed.
This will be NASCAR's first Cup Series race on a Wednesday night in 36 years  and that one was pretty historic as Richard Petty won his 200th career Cup race at Daytona International ...

Primetime: NASCAR set for first Wednesday start since 1984

Slovenia's Football Association (NZS) has announced that top flight matches will resume on June 5 after a two-month interruption caused by the coronavirus epidemic.
"The NZS expects all the measures to prevent the spreading of COVID-19 will be put in place before the competition resumes," the NZS said in a statement, without specifying if first league matches will be played behind close doors.
It added a detailed calendar of the remaining matches will be published next week.  The Slovenian federation interrupted the league on March 12 as the country of two million moved into a coronavirus lockdown.
At that point 25 rounds out of 36 in the season had been played.
Currently Ljubljana's Olimpija is at the top of the league table with 50 points, ahead of Celje and Aluminij who have 45 points apiece.
The NZS also announced that the cup competition will resume in June with the final to be held behind closed doors on June 24.
Slovenia declared last week the epidemic in the country was over ..

Slovenia's football league to restart on June 5

Several races will be staged in the run up to the rescheduled Tour de France which starts at the end of August, an updated cycling calendar revealed.
As the ban on the sport is lifted the first race in France will be the Route d'Occitanie between August 1-4 followed by a one day mountain challenge at Mont Ventoux and then the Tour de l'Ain from August 7-9.
Also packed into the programme is the shortened Criterium de Dauphine between 12-16 August and then the four-day Tour du Limousin from August 18.
The International Cycling Union insisted the dates would be constantly evaluated according to the health situation regarding the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
The Tour has been rescheduled to embark from Nice on August 29 from its original June start date in an attempt to make sure the sport's central financial pillar can be staged this season.

Tour de France preceded by several warm up races

Actor Will Ropp, best known for featuring in Ben Affleck-starrer "The Way Back", is set to join high school drama film "The Fallout".
According to Deadline, Ropp will play the role of Nick in the film, written and directed by actor Megan Park.
"The Fallout" also stars Jenna Ortega and Maddie Ziegler.
The movie follows Vada (Ortega), a high schooler who is navigating the emotional fallout she experiences in the wake of a school tragedy.
Ropp will also be seen in the forthcoming indie drama "Silk Road" alongside Jason Clarke.
He will also serve as a writer on the series "FanGirl".

'The Way Back' actor Will Ropp to star in 'The Fallout'

With the German Bundesliga having become the first major European league to resume following the two-month coronavirus shutdown and more and more countries now planning to follow suit, AFP Sport casts a glance at the situation across the continent:
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The German Bundesliga returned at the weekend to play out the final nine rounds of the season with all matches going ahead behind closed doors.
It was not the first European league to return, however. That honour went to the Faroe Islands, which resumed its league a week earlier. Not forgetting Belarus, which was the only European country where football carried on throughout the last two months.
On Tuesday football also returned in Estonia, with the top-flight Meistriliiga making its comeback behind closed doors.
Here are confirmed restart dates elsewhere: Czech Republic -- May 23
Denmark -- May 28
Serbia -- May 30
Austria -- June 2
Portugal -- June 4
Slovenia -- June 5
Croatia -- June 6
Turkey .

League-by-league guide to the return of football around Europe

Burnley assistant manager Ian Woan was named as one of six individuals at three Premier League clubs to have tested positive for the coronavirus.
The results came after the Premier League announced earlier Tuesday that it had tested a total of 748 players and club staff for COVID-19 on Sunday and Monday.
Premier League officials did not name the individuals concerned but a Burnley statement said: "Burnley Football Club can confirm that after completing a COVID-19 test on Sunday, 17th May, assistant manager Ian Woan has tested positive."
"In line with strict Premier League requirements and following a positive test, Ian will now self-isolate for a period of seven days, with a view to being tested again week commencing Monday, 25th May.
"Ian is asymptomatic and is currently safe and well at home. He will remain in close communication with club personnel regarding his re-engagement in training once he is clear of the virus."
Premier League clubs began returning to training in small ...

Burnley's Woan among six positive COVID-19 tests at Premier League clubs

Women's World Cup star Megan Rapinoe, long an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, says she wouldn't rule out running for America's highest office herself one day.
In excerpts from an interview with Vice TV that were released on Tuesday, Rapinoe branded Trump a "white nationalist" and said she didn't think his policies had helped Americans.
"Now, obviously, we have a white nationalist -- I think -- in the White House and the spewing of hate and the 'othering' of the rest of the country has only led to more rift between people and more despair and more anxiety and more fear going forward," Rapinoe said.
"There's been no sort of path forward." Rapinoe, who starred in the United States' 2019 World Cup triumph, said inclusion -- of racial minorities and women -- is key to progress.
She has been a vocal advocate for women's and LGBTQ rights and has joined in the demonstrations of kneeling for the US national anthem to protest racial inequality.
Asked if she would consider running ...

US World Cup star Rapinoe blasts Trump, doesn't rule out run for office

Marseille have offered coach Andre Villas-Boas a two-year contract extension, the French club announced, amid widespread reports that the Portuguese is set to leave after just one season in charge.
A Marseille statement said the club wished to put right "erroneous" media reports about a new contract offer and confirmed Villas-Boas -- whose existing deal runs until the end of next season -- had been offered the extension which would tie him to the Velodrome until 2023.
It would also carry the option of a further season if they qualify for the Champions League in that campaign.
It comes after the 42-year-old led the former European champions to second place behind Paris Saint-Germain in the Ligue 1 season which was ended early because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Marseille, who are owned by American tycoon Frank McCourt, are therefore set to feature in the Champions League next season for the first time since 2013/14.
The statement said the contract offer showed "the club's willingness .

Marseille offer coach Villas-Boas new contract amid doubts over future

Major League Soccer's All-Star Game has been canceled for the first time in its quarter-century history because of the coronavirus pandemic.
MLS All-Stars had been scheduled to play counterparts from Mexico's Liga MX on July 29 at Banc of California Stadium in Los Angeles. MLS said Tuesday that the 2021 game will take place at Banc of California Stadium, most likely against All-Stars from Liga MX.
The third Campeones Cup between the MLS and Liga MX champions also was canceled, along with the second edition of the Leagues Cup between teams from those two leagues.
MLS was stopped two games into its season in mid-March because of the pandemic. The league is considering having all 26 teams resume play with a tournament at Walt Disney World outside Orlando, Florida.
The league and the MLS Players Association have exchanged proposals on how to resume play. The union estimates the league's offer would cost players USD 220 million over time and that its proposal would cut USD 100 million from 

MLS All-Star Game in LA canceled due to pandemic

Former World Wrestling Entertainment pro Shad Gaspard was still missing after he was swept out to sea in Southern California last weekend while swimming with his young son.
Gaspard's 10-year-old son, Aryeh, was rescued and several other swimmers made it out of the water safely after they were caught in a rip current Sunday afternoon at Venice Beach in Los Angeles.
"When last seen by the lifeguard, a wave had crashed over Mr. Shad Gaspard and he was swept out to sea," Los Angeles police said in a statement Monday.
Gaspard, 39, was about 50 yards (46 meters) from shore when he was last spotted, police said.
His wife, Siliana Gaspard, issued a statement Tuesday thanking authorities and fans.
"We would like to express our gratitude to the first responders who rescued Aryeh and to the lifeguards, coast guard, divers, fire and police departments for their continued efforts to help find our beloved Shad," the statement said.
The statement added: "Shad is a fighter, a warrior and a magical ...

WWE pro Shad Gaspard missing in ocean off California

Italy's Serie A teams have been given the green light to resume group training but will have to wait until May 28 to know whether the season can resume, Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora said.
Spadafora told Italian television that government scientists had accepted the Italian football federation's (FIGC) revised health protocol.
"The Scientific Technical Committee have approved the FIGC protocol for the resumption of team training," Spadafora told Rai.
"It is excellent news, collective training can now resume." Spadafora said he has scheduled a meeting on May 28 with FIGC president Gabriele Gravina and Lega Serie A chief Paolo Dal Pino to decide on the return to competition.
"We will then decide if and when Serie A will restart," he said.
"The important thing will be to restart with the firm intention of completing the championship, then the federations will decide the modalities and formats to be adopted."
The minister said that a controversial measure of isolating team members ...

Serie A group training gets all clear, season decision May 28

Former men's basketball coach Dan Majerle has filed a lawsuit for breach of contract after being fired by Grand Canyon earlier this year.
In the lawsuit filed in Superior Court on Monday, Majerle seeks the full amount of a contract that ran through 2022-23 before he was fired after seven seasons on March 12.
The lawsuit claims GCU breached the employment agreement with Majerle by not honoring the contract's severance provision after firing him without written grounds for dismissal.
"Dan is disappointed that GCU has decided not to honor their contract," Majerle's attorney Dana Hooper said in an email.
"He simply wants what is fair and proper under the contract and the law."
Majerle was a fan favorite during seven seasons with the NBA's Phoenix Suns and was hired by Grand Canyon in 2013 on the recommendation of former Suns owner Jerry Colangelo.
Majerle was brought in to guide the Antelopes in their transition to Division I. Grand Canyon won at least 20 games its first two Division I ...

Fired coach Majerle sues GCU for breach of contract

China has reported 16 new coronavirus infections, including 15 asymptomatic cases, in the first COVID-19 epicentre Wuhan, where all the 11.2 million population is being tested for the virus, health authorities said on Wednesday.
China's National Health Commission (NHC) said five confirmed case and 16 asymptomatic cases were reported on Tuesday.
Four locally transmitted cases were reported in Jilin Province.
Jilin city is under lockdown after clusters of infections were reported last week.
By Tuesday, Jilin province had reported a total of 133 confirmed locally transmitted cases, including two deaths and 106 who had been discharged from hospital after recovery.
There are still 25 patients receiving treatment in hospital, with three in severe condition, all in the city of Jilin, and 1,181 people in close contact with the locally transmitted cases under medical observation, the local health commission said.
Also 16 new asymptomatic cases were reported on Tuesday, including 15 in Wuhan. ..

China reports 16 new coronavirus cases

Joe Biden on Tuesday night deflected questions about President Donald Trump's allegations of improper behaviour during the Obama administration and other conspiracy theories pushed by his top allies, saying, I don't want to get down in the mud with these guys.
Speaking at a Yahoo News virtual town hall, Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said Trump is trying to distract voters from his inadequate response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 90,000 Americans.
Trump has said the virus will disappear like a miracle.
Broadly dubbing his allegations Obamagate, Trump has pointed to the legal case of his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, suggesting that the unmasking of Flynn's name as part of legal US surveillance of foreign targets was criminal and motivated by partisan politics.
There is no evidence of that, and Trump's accusations misrepresent the facts of the case.
Unmasking of people in surveillance reports is a routine, legal ...

Biden on Trump hits: 'I don't want to get down in the mud'

The coronavirus pandemic has underscored the need for the United States to move away from its reliance on communist China, Indian American Republican politician Nikki Haley said on Tuesday.
While Beijing has abused the free market in order to destroy it, America must harness the free market to protect our freedom and national security, Haley, a former Governor of South Carolina and US Ambassador to the United Nations said in an op-ed on Medium.
The United States, she said, should start by setting up stronger guardrails to prevent China from exploiting America's economic openness and punish it for its predatory actions.
It involves pushing back against Beijing's manipulation of international forums like the World Trade Organization. It means ensuring that our most important security-related industries  from essential medicine to semiconductors  have American-friendly supply chains, instead of depending on an authoritarian rival state, she wrote.
Americans, she wrote, have always ...

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