American Football: NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says interest in the league is so strong in London that the city could end up having a team of their own before the decade is out. “It depends on if we continue to see that growth and how fast it goes,” Goodell told the NFL Network. “We couldn’t be happier with what we are seeing. We actually couldn’t be more surprised by the tremendous demand for NFL football in London and the UK in general, and frankly even Europe. It’s not something I think is 15 or 20 years away, it could be five or 10 years away.” For the new season, the NFL is staging three regular season games in London, the most contests ever held overseas during an NFL campaign.

Golf: Scotland’s Bob Torrance, father of 2002 European Ryder Cup-winning captain Sam and long-time golf coach, has died at the age of 82. “Sad day, my dad just passed away peacefully in his sleep, #reallygoingtomisshim,” said Sam on his Twitter account yesterday. Torrance senior was mentor to a host of top golfers including triple major winner Padraig Harrington of Ireland. “Really sad news Bob Torrance just passed away. An amazing man who coached so many great players. He will be missed,” said European Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter.

Basket, NBA: Chicago Bulls officially an-nounced the signing of power forward/centre Pau Gasol and forward Nikola Mirotic. Terms of the Gasol’s contract were not released by the team, but Yahoo Sports reported the deal is for three years and $22 million. Last season, Gasol averaged 17.4 points and 9.7 rebounds per game with Los Angeles Lakers. Yahoo Sports reported Mirotic’s deal is for three years and $17 million. Last year with Real Madrid CF, of the Liga ACB, Mirotic started all 31 games and averaged 12.4 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 24.0 minutes per game.

Cricket: A defiant half-century by India opener Murali Vijay kept alive his side’s hopes of setting England a tough fourth-innings chase in a tense second test at Lord’s yesterday. The second match of the five-test series remains finely poised heading into today’s fourth day, the visitors finishing at 169 for four. Vijay (59) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (12) will resume with India 125 runs ahead with four second-innings wickets left as they aim to extend England’s run without a test victory to 10 matches and go 1-0 up in the five-match series. The surface at Trent Bridge was so poor it has since been reported to the ICC by match referee David Boon.

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