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One of the world’s most famous condiments, Tabasco, celebrates its 150th birthday this year. Edmund McIlhenny created the famous pepper sauce in 1868 on Avery Island, Louisiana. The US company still has its headquarters there and it is still run by McIlhenny’s descendants. Whether or not you’re one of those pepper fiends who shakes Tabasco on everything from eggs to burgers, Avery Island is a fun destination with a neat history. READ MORE....

fter 17 rounds of the regular season, the Vitality Superleague goes into the final weekend with Team Bath and benecos Mavericks chasing the final top-four place. The equation is simple and starts early for  Mavericks ,  who get the final round of the campaign underway on Thursday night with a trip to Scotland to face  UWS Sirens  knowing they must win to have any chance of a return to the final four. READ MORE....

Shannon Frizell is set to cap a momentous week for his family by being included in the All Blacks team for the third Test against France. Highlanders flanker Frizell should be the beneficiary of injuries to others in his position, handing him an international debut at his Super Rugby home ground in Dunedin. The match on Saturday falls a day before older brother and NRL star Tyson Frizell tries to help wrap up a State of Origin series win for New South Wales in game two against Queensland in Sydney. READ MORE....

Brazil midfielder Fred is expected to be confirmed as a Manchester United player later this week, Sky Sports News understands. The club have been waiting on a work permit for the Shakhtar Donetsk star but that is expected to go through imminently. Earlier this month United announced they had  reached an agreement  with Shakhtar and that “a further announcement will be made in due course”. READ MORE.....

Sabrina Vitale has heard several stories from women who have had bad experiences with male taxi drivers. So the taxi driver of 15 years welcomes Swan Taxis’ move to introduce female-friendly taxis. “I hear the stories, it’s innuendo, the hand on the knee,” she said. “I don’t think it is as bad as it used to be.” READ MORE......

Labor denies it is taking comments by Malcolm Turnbull about aged-care workers out of context, fuming over the remarks and calling for an apology. The opposition took umbrage when Mr Turnbull on Tuesday suggested aged-care workers could always aspire to “a better job” during income tax cut debate. “We were there. We didn’t put the words in his mouth,” Labor leader Bill Shorten told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday. READ MORE.....

Vinatieri, 45, has 559 career field goals and needs just seven more to become the NFL’s career leader, but if he has his way, he will be around long enough to put a lot of distance between his mark and Morten Andersen’s 565. The four-time Super Bowl winner spent 10 seasons at New England before joining the Colts in 2006. “I love it as much today as I had when I started 23 years ago,” Vinatieri told the Colts’ website. “I’m not looking to hang them up anytime soon, unless something happens that needs to be that way. READ MORE......

Perth will get its annual fix of Thursday night footy tomorrow as the league makes the most of the opportunities presented by the bye rounds to tinker with the fixture. Fans are accustomed to the standard fixture with one Friday night match, three games split during Saturday afternoon, two on Saturday night and three on Sunday. Many people argue that removing one of the Saturday games and replacing it with a Thursday fixture would be a better schedule. READ MORE.....

A man has been remanded in custody and charged with drug trafficking after police raided his Beechboro address on Thursday June 14 as part of an ongoing investigation. Police allegedly seized 485 grams of Methylamphetamine , several rounds of ammunition and drug paraphernalia from the house. READ MORE.....

Thousands of exuberant Mexican soccer fans took to the streets Sunday to cheer their national team’s long-shot win against Germany in Mexico’s first match of the 2018 World Cup soccer tournament. The 1-0 stunner, with Hirving Lozano scoring the winning goal, has given Mexicans hope that their team might win the tournament for the first time ever. Mexico has competed in the FIFA World Cup since the sporting event kicked off in 1930. The highest it has ever advanced is to the quarter-finals, placing sixth in both 1986 and 1970. READ MORE..... http://brandsauthority.com/world-cup-2018-mexico-fans-trigger-earthquake-detectors-celebrating-german-win/

WATC Derby placegetter Media Baron and Arcadia Prince will both miss Saturday’s Belmont Guineas (1600m). Media Baron, who loomed as one of the major Guineas hopes after running a close second to Roganella at Belmont Park last Saturday week, has a sore foot. The Written Tycoon gelding, who also ran third to Action in the WATC Derby (2400m) in April, was found to be sore on Saturday morning. READ MORE.....

An 11-year-old boy has been taken to hospital after being knocked from his bike by a car in Shelley this morning. The low speed crash happened about 8.30am after the boy rode onto Holmes Street in front of oncoming car, according to police. READ MORE....

Clive Palmer has launched his new party under the wave of a rogue parliamentary sprinkler while fending off questions about his financial dealings. Mr Palmer, who held a seat in Parliament between 2013 and 2016 and whose self-named party held three Senate spots, this morning re-started his political career. Former One Nation senator Brian Burston has left the party and is now officially the parliamentary representative of the United Australia Party. READ MORE....

A man has died when the car he was driving hit trees and rolled in rural Western Australia. The 30-year-old was travelling along the Cunderdin-Minnivale Road in Watercarrin sometime after midnight on Sunday when his car left the road and crashed, and police say he died at the scene a short time later. READ MORE.....

Christian Horner is optimistic Max Verstappen’s form and fortune are changing after he returned to the podium at the Canadian GP – a race weekend the Dutchman attended without his father or family members for the first time. Verstappen’s sequence of accidents and incidents in the opening six races of the season had put the 20-year-old under renewed spotlight on media day in Montreal, but he went on deliver a measured performance over the weekend to prove the faster Red Bull driver in qualifying and the race and finished third on Sunday. READ MORE.....

England players and staff are presented with bread and salt ahead of their first training session in Russia England have been given a traditional Russian welcome at their World Cup training base with Gareth Southgate taking part in a bread and salt ceremony. England arrived in Russia on Tuesday after landing at St Petersburg airport and are staying in the village of Repino, in the northwest of the country. READ MORE.....

League Two side Oldham Athletic have appointed former player Frankie Bunn as their new manager on a one-year deal. The former Latics striker, who made 88 appearances and scored 35 goals for the club between 1987 and 1990, replaces Richie Wellens, who was sacked after the club were relegated. Club owner Abdallah Lemsagam told the club’s website “We are delighted to welcome Frankie Bunn to the club as first team manager. READ MORE.....

Charlie Hills feels Equilateral can handle the step up to Group One level in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot.The Khalid Abdullah-owned colt has won two of his three starts and made a big impression when winning at Doncaster on his return this season. His sole defeat came at York last September, but he suffered with sore shins following that run. READ  MORE.....

Charlie Hills and his team are working on a strategy to try to keep the lid on Battaash before the stalls open in next week’s King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot. The four-year-old was an impressive four-length winner of the Prix de l’Abbaye at Chantilly at the end of last season and his clash with last year’s King’s Stand winner, the Wes Ward-trained Lady Aurelia, is set to be one of the highlights of the week. READ MORE....

Liverpool transfer target  Timo Werner is Bayern Munich’s favoured choice to replace Robert Lewandowski, should the Poland international be sold. Former Bayern technical director Michael Reschke first made contact with Werner in 2014 when he was a teenager at Stuttgart but his agent was concerned a move to the Allianz Arena was too soon in his career. Lewandowski declared last month, via his agent, he wants to leave Bayern.  (Sport Bild) Bayer Leverkusen goalkeeper Bernd Leno has agreed to join Arsenal after turning down a move to Napoli. Leno, 26, will be sold for a fee around €25m with an announcement on his future “imminent” as Arsenal are keen to finalise the transfer quickly. Leno told Leverkusen he wanted to leave the club in April with the Bundesliga side signing Lukas Hradecky, 28, on a free transfer from Eintracht Frankfurt as his replacement.  (Sport Bild) READ MORE.....

The United States, Canada and Mexico will host the 2026 World Cup after beating bid rival Morocco, FIFA has announced. The North America bid received 134 of the 203 votes, while Morocco polled 65 in the vote of the FIFA Congress in Moscow which saw one member vote for “neither bid.” The 2026 World Cup will be the first expanded tournament featuring 48 teams, up from the current 32-team competition. READ MORE.......

Trainer Charlie Appleby (left), jockey Brett Doyle (centre left), winning jockey William Buick (centre right) and groom Saeed pose with Masar Derby hero Masar will drop back in distance for next month’s Coral-Eclipse at Sandown rather than bid for a Classic double in the Irish Derby at the Curragh. Trainer Charlie Appleby has confirmed the Godolphin colt will drop back to 10 furlongs for the Group One on July 7, with the son of New Approach already having won at the Esher track as a juvenile. READ MORE....

Team Sky’s Chris Froome will be aiming to win a record equaling fifth Tour de France this July, and you could win the chance to be there in Paris thanks to Sky VIP. Enter our prize draw for your chance to join Team Sky on the Champs-Élysées on 29 July for the grand finale of the biggest race in cycling, the Tour de France. As a guest of the team in the exclusive finish-line hospitality area, you’ll have the best vantage point to cheer on the riders battling it out in the final sprint of the 21-stage race. You’ll also enjoy food and drink alongside the team’s friends and family and a two-night stay in the Team Sky hotel in Paris. And, there’s some amazing runner-up prizes up for grabs. READ MORE.....

The clubs will continue to share current levels of international revenue equally, but any increase from 2019-20 will be distributed based on where each team finishes in the top flight. However, total broadcast revenues will be capped at 1.8 times the amount earned by the bottom team – a rise on last season, which was 1.6 times. Additional income will be shared so that the 1.8 cap is maintained. Premier League Executive Chairman Richard Scudamore said: “When the Premier League was formed in 1992 nobody could have envisaged the scale of international growth in the competition which exists now. READ MORE...

Will Griezmann & Alisson shine at World Cup? What can Man Utd expect from Fred? Listen to the latest episode of Transfer Talk Real Madrid and Barcelona are eyeing 17-year-old Brazilian starlet Rodrygo from Santos. Barca have been watching the player for quite some time and are prepared to pay €30m – but Real Madrid are prepared to quash that offer and pay up to €45m, and their plan would be to buy Rodrygo but send him back out on loan to Brazil. It is believed the player himself would be happy to do that, too.  (AS) READ MORE.....

Who should England field for their final World Cup warm-up game against Costa Rica? Gareth Southgate will have one last chance to experiment with his line up ahead of Russia 2018 at Elland Road on Thursday. But would you use the friendly with Costa Rica – who drew with England during the 2014 World Cup – to give some fringe players a chance or play your strongest side to build on familiarity? READ MORE.....

Steve Bruce is confident he can guide Aston Villa back to the Premier League – despite the club’s perilous financial position. Villa  reached an agreement  with HMRC on Wednesday, staving off the immediate threat of administration after it emerged they had an upaid tax bill of £2m. But the club also needs to find £40m to comply with Financial Fair Play rules after failing to win promotion back to the Premier League. READ MORE.....

Danni Wyatt is all too familiar with the saying “good things come to those who wait”. Having made her debut in 2010 at the age of 20, the opening batter had strived away in over 100 matches for England without scoring a half-century. Despite playing in the opening five group matches in last year’s World Cup , including hitting a crucial 47 in win the against Australia, Wyatt was dropped as the hosts went on to lift the trophy. READ MORE....