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The F1 boys had a fun filled weekend in Texas. Extra points were on offer on Saturday in the form of a sprint race. After being right, royaly miffed at being poked from behind in the last race by his team mate in Riga, you'd have thought a calm head was order of the day for Oscar Piasri. So on the first bend in the Sprint he trid to cut behind his team mate only to discover there were other drivers on the track. Oo'd a thunk eh? He got himself pretty much t-boned by Hulkenburg who lauched him into Norris, taking them both out. McLaren spun that as Piestri getting hit from behind, when it was clearly his own dumb fault. Crash laughed all the way to banking another 8 points with nowt being scored by the two above him.

He also qualified first for Sundays race and whilst most of the fun and games went on further down the pack he once again went lights to flag to pick up a full house for the weekend. Norris eventually got 2nd after passing Leclerc twice with Piastri 4th in front of The Hamster, who apparently picked up a puncture on the last lap. A few more points eaten into Piastri's lead. If Piastri was hoping for an easy ride I think he just blew it. On to Meccico next weekend.

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Whilst we're on that side of the pond, the Fat Boys of Summer Rounders inched closer to the World Series. I left you on Friday with a cliff hanger and what was looking like a banger. Well the cliff hangar in the AL continues. Seattle became the first side to win a home game when they made it 3-2 on Friday with a 6-2 defeat of the Blow Jays. Back to tornto last night and Da Jays bounced back with a 6-2 home win of their own. Fingernail shredding starts around 20:10 EDT or well past bed time over here unless you're on happy pills. Tickets if you want one "2nd hand" are more expensive than a flight over there so stay at home.

The witches broomsticks and yard brooms in the hands of the LA Dogers fans (you'd never get them into a stadium over here) will tell you that they swept The Brewers 4-0 with a 5-1 win in the final game. Sweeps in the play-off's are rare. They are putting their feet up watching tonight's decider.

The NHL Egg chasers aren't far enough into their season to be bothered, unless you're Taylor Swift apparently, and their Canadian counterparts sort out thier play-off teams next weekend. The peach basket guys get going on Tuesday, we'll pick up on that for next season when we have to along with the skater boys.

There's cricket that we aren't really interested in going on in hot wet countries and some wet and mild countries. When England tun up in Aus we'll start to show some real interest. Still no more points for a while yet.