#PlaybyPlay: Tour de France Riders Caught in Tear Gas, FIFA Best Men’s Players Shortlist Announced, Ryder Cup Captain Furyk Ambivalent About Woods and Swimmer Ryan Lochte Banned from Competition

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Tour de France Riders Caught in Tear Gas, FIFA Best Men’s Players Shortlist Announced, Ryder Cup Captain Furyk Ambivalent About Woods and Swimmer Ryan Lochte Banned from Competition

Riders in the Tour de France were affected with tear gas today, according to a report in the Associated Press. Bales of hay obstructed the road 30km into the 218km stage 16, as protesting farmers demonstrated against the reduction of European Union funding. To disperse the protesters, police fired tear gas which riders Chris Froome, Geraint Thomas and Peter Sagan had the misfortune of passing through as they rode. French cyclist Julian Alaphilippe went on to win the stage, his second of this year's Tour.

BBC Sport reports the 10-man shortlist for the Best FIFA Men's Player award for 2018:

• Cristiano Ronaldo - Juventus & Portugal
• Kevin De Bruyne - Manchester City & Belgium
• Antoine Griezmann - Atletico Madrid & France
• Eden Hazard - Chelsea & Belgium
• Harry Kane - Tottenham & England
• Kylian Mbappe - Paris St-Germain & France
• Lionel Messi - Barcelona & Argentina
• Luka Modric - Real Madrid & Croatia
• Mohamed Salah - Liverpool & Egypt
• Raphael Varane - Real Madrid & France

The ceremony for the awards is in London on September 24, while voting for best player is held on August 10.

Ryder Cup captain Jim Furyk is ambivalent about Tiger Woods' chances of being on the U.S. team according to a report on golfchannel.com. Woods to No. 20 from No. 31 in the Ryder Cup standings with two tournaments remaining before the top eight qualify for the Sept. 28-30 matches in Paris.

''I'm going to handle him the way I do everyone else,'' Furyk said Monday before boarding a flight for the Canadian Open. ''I'll ask my top eight guys. The way he's playing, he might be one of them. I'll ask the vice captains, collectively, and I think we'll do the best we can to round out the team. We want the guys playing the best.''

U.S. swimming star Ryan Lochte has been banned from competition until July 2019 by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, according to the AP. Lochte and his wife got intravenous vitamin injections to bolster their immune systems in May, which they posted on social media, and because the dosage exceeded 100 millilitres, it broke anti-doping rules. Lochte cooperated with the Agency, but cautioned other athletes not to make the same mistake.

"A rule is a rule and I accept that there is a technical violation. I am hopeful other athletes will learn from my mistake and be mindful of this rule, as well as others."

Madison Square Garden Partners with PepsiCo, Take-Two’s 2K to Publish NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 and WWE Announces First-Ever All-Women Evolution® Event for October

Stocks discussed: (NYSE:MSG) (NasdaqGS:PEP) (NasdaqGS:TTWO) (NYSE:WWE)

Madison Square Garden (NYSE:MSG) has announced a partnership with PepsiCo, Inc. (NasdaqGS:PEP) have announced a new, multifaceted partnership, making the beverage and food company one of MSG's official signature marketing partners, beginning Sept. 1, 2018.

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.'s (NasdaqGS:TTWO) 2K has expanded their video game repertoire with their announcement that they will publish NBA 2K Playgrounds 2. The game will be released in fall 2018.

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE:WWE) has announced the first-ever all-women wrestling event, Evolution®, to air as pay-per-view on October 28.

Sam Mowers, Investorideas.com

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