Braintree to City of Angels: NZ veteran's unlikely World Cup journey
Veteran New Zealand defender Tommy Smith admits there's only one reason he toiled away all last season in an English football backwater -- a ticket to his second World Cup.Smith's club Braintree Town were relegated to the sixth tier of English football at the end of the season, but the 36-year-old centre-back still earned a shock call-up to New Zealand coach Darren Bazeley's World Cup squad.
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Offseason trade acquisition has quickly become the Pirates' MVP
This trade could not have worked out better for the Buccos.
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Yordan Alvarez homers twice for 2nd consecutive game to help Astros beat Rangers 4-3
Yordan Alvarez homered twice for the second consecutive game, including a tiebreaking solo shot in the eighth inning of the Houston Astros' 4-3 victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night. Alvarez's fifth homer in three games put him at 20 on the same night Munetaka Murakami reached that number for the Chicago White Sox.
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