ST. LOUIS -- Carpets were still drying out from a champagne bath and a few players looked bleary eyed after a workout at Busch Stadium. A day after advancing, there wasnt much time to rest for the St. Louis Cardinals. The Los Angeles Dodgers dont have home-field advantage in the NL championship series, but they got a few extra days to savour early post-season success. No telling which side will benefit, the team on a roll or the team coming off a break, entering Game 1 Friday night. Joe Kelly, who flourished as a replacement starter with St. Louis, opposes Zack Greinke in the opener. The staff aces wont go until later in the best-of-seven series, with the Dodgers Clayton Kershaw set for Game 2 and the Cardinals Adam Wainwright ready for Game 3. The Cardinals will again be without cleanup man Allen Craig, who was out of town Thursday seeing a specialist for his foot injury. . Western and the second-ranked Laval Rouge et Or (7-0) once again received 20 and 10 first-place votes from the Football Reporters of Canada panel, respectively. Rounding out the Top 10 are the Calgary Dinos (7-0), Queens Gaels (7-1), Guelph Gryphons (7-1), Montreal Carabins (5-2), Bishops Gaiters (5-2), McMaster Marauders (5-3), Manitoba Bisons (4-3) and the Saskatchewan Huskies (4-3) Western crushed York 50-10 last Saturday in its league finale to secure first place in the OUA standings and a bye in the first round of the conference playoffs. . The 26-year-old Redditch, England, native played three of his past four seasons under Rennie with the Carolina RailHawks of the North American Soccer League.
http://www.official76ersproshop.com/kid ... rs-jersey/. Hicham Khalouas late goal improved Almerias chances of avoiding relegation in a match dominated by contentious calls, including three penalties. One day after Barcelonas 4-3 win at Real Madrid featured three penalties, referees again dominated a wide-open game that saw Almeria ultimately move out of the relegation zone and one point ahead of Getafe which took its place. . The 20-year-old Inoue landed a series of combinations and the bout was stopped 2 minutes, 54 seconds into the sixth round. Inoue, the first Japanese boxer to claim a world title in just his sixth professional fight, improved to 6-0 with five knockouts. . The 27th-ranked Austrian underwent surgery on a torn tendon in October and needs more time to recover, the Austria Press Agency reports on Saturday.Barcelona, Spain (SportsNetwork.com) - FC Barcelona will not be allowed to sign any players in 2015 after the clubs appeal against a transfer ban was rejected by the Court of Arbitration for Sport on Wednesday. The Catalan side was handed a 14-month ban in April after being found guilty of breaching FIFAs rules governing the transfer of players under the age of 18. Barcelona also had an appeal rejected in August, but the pending appeal allowed the club to complete the signing of striker Luis Suarez from Liverpool for $128 million. The panel found in particular that FC Barcelona had breached the rules regarding the protection of minors and the registration of minors attending football academies, the court said in a statement. Accordingly, the FIFA decision is confirmed in full and the sanction remains in force. In view of the need to issue a decision before the opening of the next transfer window, the panel has issued its decision without the grounds. The full arbitral award, with the reasons for tthe panels decision, will be issued as soon as possible.dddddddddddd The errors that the club might have committed, and which have been recognized and argued before the corresponding authorities, are, in all cases, of an administrative nature and to a large extent have been caused by the existing conflict between the FIFA regulations and Spanish legislation, along with the clubs conviction that it was acting correctly, the club said in a statement. Therefore, FC Barcelona considers the sanction to be completely disproportionate as it supposes an excessive punishment for the club, when considering its trajectory and the circumstances of this specific case. Barcelona went on a spending spree in the summer while the suspension was on hold during the appeals process, splashing out more than 117.5 million pounds on Suarez, forward Ivan Rakitic, goalkeeper Marc-Andre ter Stegen, defender Thomas Vermaelen, goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, defender Jeremy Mathieu and midfielder Alen Halilovic. ' ' '
