Laurinaitis announces retirement
Jaguars release veteran linebacker Skuta
WASHINGTON, April 12, (RTRS): Former St Louis Rams standout James Laurinaitis announced his retirement on Tuesday, stating he can no longer physically play the game.
Laurinaitis, 30, racked up 853 tackles and 10 interceptions in seven seasons as middle linebacker of the Rams before playing his final campaign with the New Orleans Saints.
“I still love the game but the body says it’s time to move on,” Laurinaitis wrote in announcing his retirement on Twitter.
Laurinaitis started all 112 games during his stint with the Rams and topped 100 tackles in each season. He also compiled 16.5 sacks and recovered eight fumbles.
The defensive end
acquired from the in exchange for a conditional 2018 seventh-round draft pick. Smith recorded 4.5 sacks in 19 games over three seasons with the Jaguars.
The with Jacksonville.
Skuta had just 18 tackles while appearing in 13 games, including two starts, in 2016. In 2015, he played in 13 games and had 31 tackles and 1.5 sacks. Skuta signed a five-year, $20.5 million free-agent contract with the Jaguars in March 2015, with $8.1 million guaranteed. He was scheduled to earn $4.1 million in 2017.
released veteran linebacker
after two seasons
linebacker was arrested Friday night and charged with disorderly conduct and failure to comply with police orders after getting into a fight and running away during a spring break festival in Biloxi, Miss.
Galette, 29, was attending a concert during Biloxi’s annual Black Beach Weekend, the Biloxi Police Department told ESPN.com. He was released
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after posting a $500 bond.
is returning to the on a three-year deal after the team originally terminated the safety’s contract on March 10, the Ravens announced.
The deal is worth a maximum of $10.5 million, per the Baltimore Sun.
Webb, 31, has spent his entire eightyear career with the Ravens after being selected by the team with the No. 88 overall pick in the third round of the 2009 NFL Draft, totaling 436 tackles, 13 interceptions and 89 passes defensed in 111 games.
HONG KONG, April 12, (RTRS): Defending champions New Zealand beat the Netherlands to take gold in the men’s team sprint at the world track championships on Wednesday, as Britain, who dominated the Rio boards at last year’s Olympics, endured a disappointing day.
Russian duo Daria Shmeleva and Anastasiia Voinova also defended their title in the women’s team sprint final, beating Australia’s Kaarle McCulloch and Stephanie Morton, with Germany holding off China to take bronze.
Britain’s Elinor Barker was pipped to gold by Italy’s Rachele Barbieri, who overhauled the Welsh rider with metres to go in the 10km women’s scratch race, while Jolien D’Hoore of Belgium finished third at the Hong Kong Velodrome.
“I went ever so slightly too soon and that probably cost me the race,” the 22-year-old Barker told the BBC. “I was just not fast enough. Congratulations to her but I’m really disappointed.”
Britain, who won six track golds in Rio, also suffered disappointment in the men’s team sprint, with the young trio of Jack Carlin, Ryan Owens and Joseph Truman finishing third-fastest in qualifying but failing to get past runners-up Netherlands in the first round.
In the men’s team pursuit, Britain’s Andy Tennant, Mark Stewart, Ollie Wood and Chris Latham will go headto-head with Italy in Thursday’s race for the bronze medal, while Australia and New Zealand vie for gold.
Britain bagged gold medals in both the men’s and women’s team pursuit in Rio, but Australia’s Sam Welsford, Cameron Meyer, Kelland O’Brien and Alexander Porter came within a whisker of breaking the world record set by the British men at the Olympics.
Australia qualified in 3:50.577, just outside the world record time of 3:50.265 that Ed Clancy, Owain Doull, Steven Burke and Bradley Wiggins managed last year.
Britain’s new-look women’s pursuit team of Eleanor Dickinson, Emily Kay, Manon Lloyd and Emily Nelson remain in the hunt for a bronze medal after finishing fifth in qualifying, and face Poland in the first round on Thursday.
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is From left: New Zealand’s Edward Dawkins and Ethan Mitchell celebrate after winning the gold medal in the Men’s Team Sprint at the World Track Cycling Championships in
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suffering from the Epstein-Barr virus, commonly known as glandular fever, and has been ordered to rest, his team Dimension Data said on Wednesday.
“Recent blood work has revealed that Mark Cavendish suffers from infectious mononucleosis caused by the Epstein Barr Virus,” team doctor Jarrad Van Zuydam said in a team statement.
The 31-year-old has not raced since Milan-San Remo on March 18 after picking up what the team described as “an overuse injury”, and underwent tests after suffering unexplained fatigue during training.
Blood tests revealed the virus, for which the only cure is rest, the statement said.