Australia A 373 all out & 0 for 12 (Harris 12*) beat Sussex 263 & 120 all out (Kapil 33, Pattinson 3-12) by 10 wickets

Winning momentum is a priority for Australia A and Test captain Tim Paine after the A side needed just six balls on day four to wrap up a 10-wicket thrashing of Sussex at Arundel.

Australia A required just 11 runs to win after Sussex were bundled out for just 120 in their second innings at stumps on day three.

Marcus Harris, fresh off a century in the first innings, blasted three boundaries in the first over of the day to send everyone home early.

Paine, who is captaining the Australia A team in preparation for the Ashes, said there was only one goal in these tour matches.

"Winning, that's what we're here to do," Paine said. "Great to get the tour off to a winning start. All our bowlers were quite impressive by the end of the game and we saw some great hundreds from Harris and Joe Burns.

"It's what we want to see. I think we're in a really good position at the moment as a Test team where we've got a lot of guys who have had good summers and some others are over here playing county cricket and playing well and obviously this game we've had two guys score hundreds. So we've got plenty of options and plenty of guys in really good form so that puts us in a really good place."

Five of Australia's top seven from their last Test match are in the Australia A side. Incumbent Test openers, Harris and Burns put on 214 in the first innings to set up the win as the pair continue their battle to see who will partner David Warner in the first Test.

The batting did fall away thereafter with Australia A losing 10 for 159 against the second new ball. Travis Head (34) and Paine (20) were the only other players to get decent starts. Paine said there was room for improvement in the match against the England Lions starting on Sunday at Canterbury.

"We didn't quite nail it after that big partnership but there are guys here who haven't played a game of cricket for months and there's still a bit of rust and lack of time in the middle and that can happen," Paine said.

"Now we've got a game next week and what we want to see is continuing improvement coming into the first Test."

The international experienced attack of Josh Hazlewood, James Pattinson, Jackson Bird, Michael Neser and Jon Holland excelled against Sussex. Australia A also has Chris Tremain available and may rotate one of their quicks against the Lions.

"(The bowlers) had a light second innings I guess, so if required they'll be good to go again," Paine said. "We'll have to manage them and see what best suits and what guys we need to have a look at."

Paine is eyeing off an opportunity to claim some early bragging rights ahead of the Ashes.

"We expect the intensity to go up next week and our intensity will be going up next week. We want to come on this tour and win every game we're playing in. Potentially there's going to be guys in that team that play in the first Test so any opportunity we get to put some doubts in their minds, we've got to take."

Dom Bess, the offspinning allrounder who played two Tests for England in 2018, has re-joined Yorkshire on loan for bulk of the Vitality Blast.

Bess will play the first 10 of Yorkshire's 14 group stage games in the Blast, before returning to Somerset in time for their four-day game away at Warwickshire on August 18.

After first breaking into the Somerset side in 2016, and taking five wicket-hauls in five of his first six Championship games, Bess has found his opportunities at Somerset limited over the past twelve months - by Jack Leach in red-ball cricket, and Roelof van der Merwe and Max Waller in the shorter forms.

He joined Yorkshire on loan in May, after struggling for playing time this season, and took seven wickets in his four Championship games for them. He has since found his way back into the Somerset side alongside Leach, taking 11 wickets in his two recent Championship appearances.

Coincidentally, the two counties play each other in a crucial Championship game on Saturday, and Bess is likely to be picked for Somerset with Leach on England Lions duty.

Bess admitted last winter that he would be open to a loan move in order to gain more white-ball experience, and after playing only twice in Somerset's victorious Royal London Cup campaign, was deemed surplus to requirements for the Blast. Over the course of his short career, Bess has played more List A games for the Lions than for his county.

Yorkshire's first-team coach Andrew Gale told the Yorkshire Post that the club would do "everything we can" to secure Bess' signature on a permanent basis after his initial loan.

But Somerset remain hopeful of keeping him, and coach Jason Kerr said he could "not envisage Dom going anywhere in the near future" after their win against Hampshire.

The club hope that the situation with their spinners does not begin to mirror that of their wicketkeepers in 2013. Jos Buttler had left his boyhood club back then after becoming increasingly frustrated by a lack of opportunities behind the stumps, with Craig Kieswetter taking the gloves ahead of him in all formats.

"I've got to look at my personal development and I think it's a great opportunity for me," Bess said about the move. "I'm very thankful for Yorkshire for taking a punt on me. I've done some good stuff in red-ball [cricket] but recognise that T20 is a completely different game.

"I'm always pushing to be a three-dimensional cricketer, to do well with the ball, bat and in the field. I think T20 in particular brings all three of those skills in. For me as a player, I've definitely got something to bring and also a point to prove as well.

"It's a great opportunity for me in a different competition and group stage. I've come back here, done well for Somerset and I've got a year left. I've got to see how things go.

"A lot of things can happen within a year, as I know. Probably the greatest example I can give is that I got to the top of Mount Everest with the Test stuff and then fell off and then came back again. So I think it will be a very similar answer to last time, I just want to play my 10 games, contribute and push hard and then see what happens."

Yorkshire will hope for an improved showing in the Blast this year, after finishing one win short of the quarter-finals in both of the last two seasons. They have signed Nicholas Pooran, the explosive middle-order hitter who starred for the West Indies during the World Cup, for the first five group games, and hope to have Adil Rashid available if he misses out on Ashes selection.

Director of cricket Martyn Moxon admitted that signing Bess was "tough on our back-up spinners" - notably Josh Poysden, the legspinner who signed from Warwickshire last year - but said: "When someone of Dom's ability becomes available, then if we're serious about trying to win the competition, we've got to look at it".

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Former Tennessee Titans star defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, 38, is suffering from kidney failure and has taken to Instagram to announce that he is in "dire need" of a donor for a transplant.

"Well, this is hard for me to say, but my doctors said I should reach out to my family, friends and fans," Haynesworth wrote. "Some of you may know I've been battling kidney disease for a few years ... now the time has come family, friends and fans, I'm in dire need of a kidney ... mine have finally failed me on July 7 2019. It's hard to believe from being a professional athlete to only 8 season in retirement that my body has taken another major blow.

"First with the brain aneurysm 3 seasons out of the NFL to now my kidneys failing me," the post continued. "But the bright side of this latest ordeal I can ask for help by asking for someone to generously donate a kidney. If you are interested in giving this precious gift please call Vanderbilt at 615-936-0695 and hit option 2. GOD BLESS thank you for your prayers and thanks for sharing this message."

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Well this hard for me to say but my doctors said I should reach out to my family, friends and fans Some of you may know I've been battling kidney disease for a few years now the time has come family, friends and fans I'm in dire need of a kidney mine have finally failed me on July 7 2019. It's hard to believe from being a professional athlete to only 8 season in retirement that my body has taken another major blow. First with the brain aneurism 3 seasons out of the NFL to now my kidneys failing me. But the bright side of this latest ordeal I can ask for help by asking for someone to generously donate a kidney. If you are interested in giving this precious gift please call Vanderbilt at 615-936-0695 and hit option 2. GOD BLESS thank you for your prayers and thanks for sharing this message. #VFL #TITANUP

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Haynesworth was selected by the Titans with the 15th overall pick in the 2002 NFL draft after a standout career at the University of Tennessee. He played seven seasons for the Titans and was named first-team All-Pro in 2007 and '08. In 2009, Haynesworth signed a seven-year, $100 million contract with the Washington Redskins.

Haynesworth played two seasons for Washington before being traded to the New England Patriots in 2011. The Patriots released him after six games, and he finished his 10-year career having played seven games for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2011. In his career, Haynesworth posted 30.5 sacks, six forced fumbles and 347 tackles.

This isn't the first health problem Haynesworth has faced since leaving the NFL.

Haynesworth told a Nashville radio station in 2016 that he dealt with a brain aneurysm in November 2014 that caused him to spend time in intensive care. Haynesworth referenced that issue in his Instagram post.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

DeMarcus Cousins knows what he can do alongside Anthony Davis after being teammates on the New Orleans Pelicans.

But throw LeBron James alongside the big man duo, and Cousins is excited about the possibilities for the Los Angeles Lakers.

"That's part of the reason why we wanted to become teammates again," Cousins said of teaming up with Davis on a conference call with Lakers media Wednesday. "We realized how much better we made one another and how much we made the game easier for each other. We both appreciate each other's presence.

"To add LeBron James to the mix, his résumé speaks for itself. One of the greatest players ever to play the game, added to that, it should be an exciting season."

Cousins signed a one-year, $3.5 million deal with the Lakers in free agency and is reunited with former Pelicans teammates Davis and Rajon Rondo. With the Lakers surrounding James and Davis with the likes of Kyle Kuzma, Danny Green, Avery Bradley, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, JaVale McGee, Rondo, Quinn Cook and Jared Dudley, Cousins sees a powerful squad.

"The roster is incredible," said Cousins, who could start at center with Davis at power forward. "I think we got a lot of talented pieces on paper. On paper we look legit, we look like we have a great chance of competing for a title. It's obvious that the game isn't played on paper. It's our job to come together and mesh and get on the same page and build a chemistry and go out and win games. As far as on paper, we look great."

Cousins knows all about how incredible a team can look before the season starts. The big man signed a one-year, $5.3 million deal with the Golden State Warriors last summer to form what many thought would be an unstoppable superteam once Cousins recovered from an Achilles tendon tear suffered Jan. 26, 2018.

He returned from surgery this past January and averaged 16.3 points and 8.2 rebounds in 30 regular-season games. He began to hit his stride in March and April. But in the second game of the first round against the Clippers, Cousins suffered another setback, tearing his left quadriceps while going after a loose ball.

"Actually, the game that I tore my quad ... that day [I was] saying how amazing I felt," Cousins said. "I really started feeling like myself again, and some unfortunate things ended up happening that night. I was really feeling good at the time. That is kind of a good thing because I know it's possible to get back to that place. That is the positive I took out of it."

Despite the initial fear that he would miss the entire postseason, Cousins returned to play in the NBA Finals in a limited role. He had 11 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists in Game 2 and 14 points and 6 rebounds in Game 5 -- both victories for the Warriors.

"I'm working my tail off every single day," Cousins, 28, said of his health. "My quad is 100 percent healed. I'm building it up every day and building up my lower body every single day, and I'm getting stronger, getting in better shape. My plan is to come into training camp in tip-top shape. My goal is to play 82 games this season. I want a full season of health and going to the playoffs, and whatever happens happens."

Cousins is excited to be reunited with Davis. Cousins was traded to New Orleans from Sacramento during the 2016-17 season. During the 2017-18 season, he averaged 25.2 points, 12.9 rebounds and 5.4 assists in 48 games playing alongside Davis before tearing his Achilles.

During that season, Davis and Cousins played 1,095 minutes together before Cousins' season-ending injury, and the Pelicans outscored their opponents by 5.3 points per 100 possessions when both were on the floor, according to NBA Advanced Stats.

Cousins said he doesn't know what his exact role will be, but he will do whatever head coach Frank Vogel asks of him. Cousins is ready to prove himself all over again and establish a market for the big man next summer after trying to do that last season on a one-year deal with the Warriors.

"I've kind of been doubted my whole life, and I use that as fuel to continue to push every single day," Cousins said. "One of my biggest fears is to be proven wrong by somebody that doesn't agree with me or doesn't have my best interest in heart.

"So with that being said, I'm always seeking to prove those type of people wrong."

Lamar Odom's attempt to reboot his basketball career lasted one game.

The two-time NBA champion, whose career and life unraveled due to drug addiction, was one of four former NBA players "deactivated" for the season Wednesday by the Big3, the 3-on-3 league created by Ice Cube.

Per those with knowledge of the situation, Odom, Jermaine O'Neal, Bonzi Wells and Baron Davis were all deactivated for competitive reasons and not due to any off-the-court issues. Odom was not "up to it from a competitive standpoint," per a source.

Last year, Odom announced that he would play in this year's edition of the Big3. The 39-year-old last played in the NBA for the LA Clippers during the 2012-13 season. He was hospitalized after being found unresponsive at a Las Vegas brothel following a drug overdose in 2015. By then, his high-profile relationship with reality TV star Khloe Kardashian had fallen apart.

Per Odom, he had six strokes and 12 heart attacks while he was in a coma following the overdose.

The Big3 did not specify a reason for the deactivations, saying only that the moves were tied to the league's desire to "maximize competition, protect the health of the players, and to raise the level of the professionalism of the Big3."

Entering the season, Odom said he was a ready for a comeback after being named a co-captain of The Enemies squad. But after struggling in his first game, Odom said in a televised interview that "once I got my rhythm back, it should be no problem." He didn't play again.

In its third season, the Big3 has increased the level of competition and graduated from being a pickup league for over-the-hill former pros to an organization that's giving players such as Royce White, a former first-round pick, a possible springboard back into the NBA.

Joe Johnson, a seven-time NBA All-Star, has been a force this season, leading the league in scoring.

Restricted free agent Kelly Oubre Jr. has agreed to a two-year, $30 million deal to stay with the Phoenix Suns, agent Nima Namakian of BDA Sports told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

The deal gives the 6-foot-7 small forward financial security now, with an opportunity to return to the marketplace as a 25-year-old unrestricted free agent in 2021. The Suns had the right to match any offer he received from another team.

Oubre thrived in Phoenix after a December trade sent him and Austin Rivers from the Wizards to the Suns for Trevor Ariza. In 40 games (12 starts) for Phoenix, Oubre posted career highs in points (16.9), field goal percentage (45.3), rebounds (4.9) and assists (1.6).

He was even better after moving into the starting lineup following the All-Star break, averaging 20 points, 5.7 rebounds and a league-high 2.1 steals.

The only negative for Oubre in his stint with the Suns was a thumb injury that required a minor procedure and ended his season in March. 

That didn't temper Phoenix's feelings for the 23-year-old ahead of free agency. 

"I've said before: We love Kelly," Suns general manager James Jones told reporters in April. "We want Kelly here."

Oubre, the 15th overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft, spent his first four seasons in Washington, posting averages of 8.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 0.7 steals per game. 

The Boston Red Sox released pitcher Tyler Thornburg on Wednesday, putting an end to his disappointing career with the team.

Thornburg, 30, was acquired at the 2016 winter meetings in a trade with the Milwaukee Brewers for infielder Travis Shaw and minor league prospects Mauricio Dubon, Josh Pennington and Yeison Coca.

The Red Sox envisioned Thornburg as a key piece, a set-up man for closer Craig Kimbrel, and were willing to part with Shaw, who had shown power as a versatile infielder for the Red Sox in 2016.

Thornburg missed the entire 2017 season after being sidelined for thoracic outlet syndrome surgery. He pitched in only 41 games over the next two seasons because of injuries and ineffectiveness. His career with the Red Sox ended with 42 2/3 innings pitched, a 2-0 record and a 6.54 ERA.

Shaw, meanwhile, became the Brewers' everyday third baseman, slugging 31 homers in 2017 and 32 in 2018. He has struggled this season, hitting .164 with six homers in 57 games before being sent down to Triple-A on June 28.

Dubon, a middle infielder, made his first major league appearance on Sunday. Dubon was hitting .307 with 14 home runs and 42 runs batted in over 83 games for Triple-A San Antonio this season.

YORK, Pa. -- "Robot umpires" have arrived.

The independent Atlantic League became the first American professional baseball league to let a computer call balls and strikes on Wednesday at its All-Star Game. Plate umpire Brian deBrauwere wore an earpiece connected to an iPhone in his pocket and relayed the call upon receiving it from a TrackMan computer system that uses Doppler radar.

He crouched in his normal position behind the catcher and signaled balls and strikes.

"Until we can trust this system 100 percent, I still have to go back there with the intention of getting a pitch correct because if the system fails, it doesn't pick a pitch up, or if it registers a pitch that's a foot-and-a-half off the plate as a strike, I have to be prepared to correct that," deBrauwere said before the game.

It didn't appear that deBrauwere had any delay receiving the calls at first, but players noticed a big difference.

"One time I already had caught the ball back from the catcher, and he signaled strike," said pitcher Daryl Thompson, who didn't realize the technology was being used until he disagreed with the call.

Infielder L.J. Mazzilli said a few times that hitters who struck out lingered an extra second or so in the batter's box waiting on a called third strike.

"The future is crazy, but it's cool to see the direction of baseball," Mazzilli said.

The umpires have the ability to override the computer, which considers a pitch a strike when the ball bounces and then crosses the zone. TrackMan also does not evaluate check swings.

Former big leaguer Kirk Nieuwenhuis doesn't like the idea of giving umps veto power.

"If the umpire still has discretion, it defeats the purpose," said Nieuwenhuis, who batted .221 with 31 homers in 978 at-bats with the Mets, Angels and Brewers.

About 45 minutes before first pitch, the public address announcer directed fans to look up at the black screen hanging off the face of the upper level behind the plate and joked that they could blame the computer for any disagreements over calls.

"This is an exciting night for MLB, the Atlantic League, baseball generally," said Morgan Sword, MLB's senior vice president of economics and operations. "This idea has been around for a long time, and it's the first time it's been brought to life in a comprehensive way."

The experiment with radar-tracking technology to call balls and strikes was originally expected to begin at the start of the season but experienced some delays.

Atlantic League President Rick White said it's going to be implemented league-wide over the next few weeks.

"After that, we're relatively confident that's it's going to spread through organized baseball," White said. "We're very excited about what this portends not only for our league but for the future of baseball. What we know is technology can help umpires be more accurate, and we're committed to that. We think the Atlantic League is being a pioneer for all of the sport."

Sword said MLB hasn't received much pushback from umpires.

"One of our focuses is not to replace the umpire," Sword said. "In fact, we're trying [to] empower the umpire with technology. The home plate umpire has a lot more to do than call balls and strikes, and he's going to be asked to do all of that. We're in touch with our umpires union, and this is the first step of the process."

DeBrauwere had no issue with it.

"This is just another plate job, and I just get a little help on this one, so I feel very relaxed going into this one," he said.

Strike zones are determined according to the average for players of that height, unless there's already information on a player's strike zone from his play in the majors at some point.

Pitcher Mitch Atkins noticed that pitches higher in the strike zone were called.

"Technically, they're strikes, but umpires never called them," Atkins said.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said there's no timeline for when the technology will be used in the majors.

"We need to see how it works, first in the Atlantic League and then probably other places, meaning other parts of minor league baseball, before it comes to Major League Baseball," Manfred said. "Kind of gets back to the question that I was asked earlier about the baseball. We hear all the time from players: Why don't we have an electronic strike zone, why don't we have an electronic strike zone? We try to be responsive to those sorts of expressions of concern. We have spent a lot of time and money on the technology. It's not just to address player concerns. It obviously has broadcasting uses. That same technology can be used in our broadcast, which has value to our fans. But we feel it's incumbent upon us -- people that play the game raised this as something that could make the game better. We kind of feel it's incumbent on us to figure out whether we could make it work. And that's what we're doing."

Crews started work this week to extend the protective netting to the foul poles at Guaranteed Rate Field and were expected to complete the project Wednesday, ahead of the Chicago White Sox's next home game July 22.

The White Sox and Illinois Sports Facilities Authority, which owns the ballpark, said in a news release that the work started Monday and the bulk of it was to be wrapped up Wednesday and in place when the team's next homestand begins in 12 days with three games against the Miami Marlins.

The White Sox will become the first major league team to extend netting to the foul poles after a couple of high-profile injuries this spring increased the focus on fan safety at ballparks.

During a May 29 game in Houston, a 4-year-old girl was struck and injured by a line drive off the bat of Cubs center fielder Albert Almora Jr, who was visibly distraught. Then on June 10, a woman was hit by a foul ball off the bat of White Sox slugger Eloy Jimenez in Chicago. Each of the incidents occurred in the stands beyond the dugout on the third-base side, sparking several players to call for expanded netting and accelerating the White Sox's plans to extend the netting at Guaranteed Rate Field.

White Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf spearheaded the plan to extend the netting, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan last month, and high-ranking officials from other teams expect it to have a cascading effect, with teams around the league pledging to extend netting.

One source with knowledge of installing netting told ESPN that other teams could retrofit their stadiums before the end of the 2019 season.

One such team, the Washington Nationals, announced on June 20 that they would extend their protective netting during the All-Star break with more transparent netting and extend it to just short of the foul poles in the left- and right-field corners.

At the urging of Major League Baseball, all 30 teams expanded their protective netting to at least the far ends of the dugouts at the start of the 2018 season. Several fans were injured by foul balls in 2017.

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. -- Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book "Ball Four," has died. He was 80.

Bouton's family said he died Wednesday at the home he shared with wife Paula Kurman. He fought a brain disease linked to dementia and was in hospice care. Bouton also had two strokes in 2012.

Published in 1970, "Ball Four" detailed Yankees great Mickey Mantle's carousing, and the use of stimulants in the major leagues. Bouton's revealing look at baseball off the field made for eye-opening and entertaining reading, but he paid a big price for the best-seller when former teammates, other players and executives across the big leagues ostracized him for exposing their secrets.

Throwing so hard that his cap flew off his head, Bouton was 21-8 with six shutouts in 1963 -- his second season in the majors -- and went 18-13 with four more shutouts in 1964. The Yankees lost the World Series both years, with Bouton losing his lone start in 1963 in New York's loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers, and winning twice the following year in the Yankees' loss to the St. Louis Cardinals.

Bouton injured his right arm in 1965, going 4-15 that season, and saw limited action the next three seasons with New York. He worked on "Ball Four" in 1969, a season spent with the expansion Seattle Pilots and Houston Astros, his fastball replaced by a knuckleball as he tried to prolong his career.

Bouton also pitched for Houston in 1970, and made a comeback with the Atlanta Braves in 1978, going 1-3 at age 39. He finished his 10-year career with a 62-63 record and 3.57 ERA.

Bouton was a television sportscaster in New York City with WABC and WCBS, wrote other books and starred in a 1976 CBS sitcom based on "Ball Four" that lasted only five episodes. He and a former teammate developed Big League Chew, a bubble gum alternative to chewing tobacco.