The last 2a hours or so have rocked Major League Baseball, and now there has been a further twist. The Boston Red Sox have fired manager alex cora, a day after baseball commissioner rob manfred implicated him in the sports sign stealing scandal. This comes after the Houston Astros were heavily sanctioned after being found guilty of cheating on their way to the 2017 world series. The teams manager and coach were banned and then sacked. Adam wild explains the run up to this latest sacking. It isa it is a moment the Houston Astros will never forget. The Houston Astros are world champions but now it is also a moment that baseball will always remember, for the wrong reasons. More than two years on, that historic theory is being cast into the shadows. Astros found to have broken the rules. Into the shadows. Astros found to have broken the rulesli into the shadows. Astros found to have broken the rules. I was very upset. We want to be known as playing by the rules. We broke the rules. We accept the punishment. What they did was steal signs. Put simply, they decoded the hand signals made by the opposing catcher before relaying that to the batter, and crucially, they use technology to do it. The ruling from Major League Baseball explains. One or more players watched the live feed of the centrefield camera on the monitor, and after decoding the sign, a player would bang a nearby trashcan with a bat to communicate the upcoming pitch type to the batter. I have made the decision that to dismiss ajay hench and jeff lew now, we need to move forward with a clean slate, and the astros will become stronger. In response to his sacking, astros manager ajay hench says while the evidence consistently shows i didnt endorse 0 consistently shows i didnt endorse or participate in the sign stealing practices, ifailed to or participate in the sign stealing practices, i failed to stop them, andi practices, i failed to stop them, and i am deeply sorry aj hinch. The general manager, for his part, apologised for the shame and embarrassment this has caused, but insisted i am not a cheater. Still, there are many who will now look back on those 2017 astros celebrations and feel deeply aggrieved, none perhaps more so than the la dodgers, the team that lost at 2017 world series. The front page of the Los Angeles Times today proclaimed dodgers officially robbed of 2017 title. The dodgers, though, have more than that to feel angry about. The astros bench coach in 2017 was this man, alex cora. The following year, he was manager of the Boston Red Sox when they won the world series, beating the la dodgers. The red sox are now also being investigated. But for now, the focus is on the astros, and that when he 17 victory, celebrated, rewarded in the highest Office Office in the land. But now that victory is painted. Baseball will try to recover, but there may be more punishments before it does. Victory is tainted. Now to football, and the english fa cup, where Tottenham Hotspur survived a late scare to secure their place in the fourth round after seeing off middlesborough 2 1 in their replay at Tottenham Hotspur stadium. Patrick gearey was watching. This was an evening spurs could have done without a replay squeezed in after a relentless run of games. Still, as good hosts, they put on the mood lighting and sent out a strong team. And middlesbrough came with a gift a stray pass from tomas mejias, and the perfect chance for giovani lo celso to settle any early spurs nerves. There has been criticism of tottenham this season for lacking energy, for not doing often enough what erik lamela did here. His recent career has been punctuated by injury frustration, evident in the celebration. There really ought to have been more. What a moment this would have been for 20 year old japhet tanganga. His first tottenham goal flashed before his eyes. Maybe next time. He is a centre back by trade, but a right back by command, and here he did everything he could to set up ryan sessegnon, who will never have been more thankful that he was offside. Middlesbrough were somehow still in this. They hadnt lost a game in a month, and you could see that belief personified in george saville. 2 1, seven minutes to go. Boro had given themselves too much to do. Tottenham added another to their remarkable collection of chances spurned, but by now the evening was over, thejob done. They worked so hard against such a dominant team, in the end, so we did lots of things well, conceding a goal is a bit frustrating, but i am more frustrated that we didnt score three, four, five. The crowd deserved it, a full stadium. In these cup matches, with this emotion. League one shrewsbury in the third tier of english football scored in the 89th minute to knock out bristol city, and earn themselves a glamour tie in the next round in the process. Defender aaron pierre came up with the winner, the goal that has secured a fourth round tie, again at home, against the mighty liverpool. Never was the customary fa cup pitch invasion more deserved. Well, shrewsbury already knew they would be facing liverpool with a win. But what happens when you are a team in the third tier of your countrys football league, and you find out on live tv that youve drawn a cup tie against one of the countrys big guns . Thats exactly what happened to spanish third tier Football Club unionistas de salamanca. They went wild on tuesday after being drawn against giant real madrid in the last 16 of the copa del rey. The squad of the Segunda Division b club was watching the draw on television, and the players clearly quite pleased when Zinedine Zidanes team was shown. Imagine the celebrations if they end up imagine the celebrations if they end up winning that game. It was goals galore in italy for the coppa italia round of 16. Three matches on tuesday, 11 goals in all. There were comfortable wins for lazio, who thrashed second tier cremonese 4 0. And inter milan who eased past fellow serie a side cagliari, 4 1, Romelu Lukaku with a brace. Lorenzo insigne also scored twice as napoli beat perugia. It has been a whirlwind 2a hours at barcelona. The spanish champions have a new manager in position. Quique setien says it is beyond his wildest dreams to have taken over at the nou camp. The former real betis boss took training for the first time on tuesday after barca sacked Ernesto Valverde on monday, the man who had led them to back to back league titles, and also leaves them top of la liga. Translation things went by very fast. Yesterday, i was walking with the cows in the countryside outside my village. And today, i was at fc barcelonas sport centre, coaching the best players in the world. An extraordinary team. One team i will never be able to better, because this is as good as it gets. The Cleveland Browns introduced Minnesota Vikings offensive co ordinator kevin stefa nski as their new head coach on tuesday. Stefanski agreed to accept the position on sunday, a day after minnesota were beaten by the San Francisco 49ers in the nfc playoffs. The 37 year old has never been a head coach before, at any level. He is the sixth coach hired by browns ownerjimmy haslam since he bought the team in 2012. First and foremost, success starts with people, and i know we will talk a lot about culture, but it is absolutely about the people. And Everybody Knows that harry truman quote, its amazing what you can accomplish when no one cares who gets the credit. And thats what i believe we have in our building. We have great people, and were going to add to it. We will hirejim here in the next week or two, and we are going to add to this culture that we are building here, and we have the right people. Tens of millions of american football fans worldwide tuned into one of the biggest annual events in the us sporting calendar, which saw lsu tigers cap off a perfect season by winning the College Football championship in new orleans. Widely tipped to be the top pick in the upcoming nfl draft, joe burrows threw five touchdown passes and ran for another to score himself in the 42 25 victory over last seasons champions, the clemson tigers. The win means lsu finish the season with 15 wins out of 15, and end clemsons 29 game winning streak in the process. Have you ever fancied flying . Well, thats what frenchmen fred fugen and vince reffet did in theirjet suits as part of mission human flight, a programme that aims to achieve 100 autonomous human flight, jumping out of a helicopter in china with carbon fibre wings and zooming through heavens gate, watched by excited crowds and some rather confused fishermen they flew through the break in the rocks on tianmen mountain. According to the organisers, they reached speeds of 400 km h, and did admit it was a bit scary. Thats all the time weve got now. But, from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. Hello there. Tuesday was another very windy day across the board, particularly england and wales, which saw another area of low pressure move up from the south. Early on wednesday it looks like the strongest of the winds, heaviest of the rain, becoming confined to the south east corner of the country. Elsewhere, clearer skies to start wednesday, but it will be another blustery one, very windy for scotland, with further heavy showers here, some snow on the hills. So wednesday looks like being a bright day for many. Lots of sunshine around, but there will be plenty of showers, particularly across scotland, close to this area of low pressure. And you can see the isobars closer together here, so it will be another windy day for scotland. Less so for england and wales, but well have this weather front, which will continue to bring some rain through the morning across east anglia and the south east. So a bit of a wet start here, but then that should clear away into the afternoon. It should brighten up nicely, and there should be quite a bit of sunshine around across the country. But Western Areas see a few showers, most of these, though, across the north west of scotland, where some will be heavy with snow on the hills. Temperatures range from seven or so in the north, 8 9 in the south, a little bit cooler across the south than what we had on tuesday. So it is a brief window of fine weather. The next area of low pressure is hurtling into thursday. You can see lots of isobars on the chart, but the strongest of the winds we think will tend to be further west once again, where well see some of the heaviest of the rain, too, here. Elsewhere, a bit of early brightness, but then the clouds will tend to build in. Could see a few showers across eastern areas, but generally speaking, its going to be another windy day across the board, and i can mention the strongest of the winds perhaps around some irish sea coasts. 50 to maybe 60 mph in some of the worst affected areas, and some of that rain will be quite heavy and persistent too. The milder air returns with this wet and windy weather. 10 12 degrees for england and wales, single figure digits in the north. That area of low pressure sweeps northwards. We see a tangle of weather fronts move in for friday, but friday is a transitional day to something cooler, and something thats gradually going to become more settled as we head on into the weekend. So well start to see some sunshine for scotland and northern ireland, turning colder here, england and wales, thanks to those weather fronts, but also a scattering of showers, some of which will be quite heavy. But notice the temperatures. The single figure values will even be across the south and the south east too, so 5 9 degrees. That cooler air invades across the whole country, then, late on friday and into the weekend. But, with High Pressure building in, it looks like conditions will settle down. So the weekend really will feel colder, but at least itll be largely dry, thanks to High Pressure, with light winds. Some sunshine around, but also a return to some overnight frosts. Im mike embley. Our top stories britain, france and germany trigger a formal dispute process over irans violations of the International Nuclear deal. We believe it makes sense to save this nuclear dealfor the we believe it makes sense to save this nuclear deal for the future because it prevents iran from getting a nuclear bomb. The impeachment charges against President Trump will be sent to the senate on wednesday. A trial could start within days. 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