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With the lure of Champions League football proving too strong to resist, United States forward Alex Morgan is joining European champion Lyon in a move she hopes will help her become the worlds best player.Lyon announced on Tuesday that Morgan is arriving from Orlando Pride on a six-month deal, with an option for her to play a further season.The 27-year-old Morgan wants to make the most of her career as she enters her peak years.I hope that this change will help push my game to another level, she said. I want to be the best player in the United States . the best player in the world.Morgan has made 120 appearances for the U.S. womens team and scored 73 goals, winning the Olympic gold medal in 2012 and the World Cup last year in Canada.But she has never sampled European club footballs intense rivalries, and this was a chance to good to miss, especially considering three-time European champion Lyon is among the best teams around.Training with these incredible athletes each day, and learning a unique style of play, is exactly what I need, Morgan said in a long letter on The Players Tribune website. I will also be immersed in a soccer culture that I believe is precisely what I need at this point in my career. It has always been a dream of mine to `live soccer and to compete in the Champions League.Lyon is in second place in the league this season, three points behind unbeaten Paris Saint-Germain. A 1-0 defeat to PSG on Saturday was Lyons first league loss in more than two years.Morgan will form what looks on paper like a devastating attacking partnership with France striker Eugenie Le Sommer, who has 16 goals in 12 games this season and 186 overall since joining Lyon in 2010.Morgan explained further on The Players Tribune that she made the decision during a belated honeymoon that I recently took with my husband, Servando, in Europe. After a few weeks of deliberation Morgan said the decision to join Lyon became evident.Lyon is a team thats world-renowned for excellence, with a roster that includes many of the greatest players in the world. In fact, Lyon won all three possible titles last season: Champions League, French League and the Coupe de France, she wrote. They are committed to growing womens soccer and provide the women with first-class facilities and an unparalleled training environment on par with the mens team.Long-serving Lyon president Jean-Michel Aulas has overseen considerable success with both the mens and womens teams.The men won seven straight French titles from 2002-2008 while the women have won the league 14 times.Alex Morgans arrival demonstrates Lyons will to invest in the highest level, starting with the women, Aulas wrote in a Tweet.The womens squad has 26 players, all of them internationals, representing France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Japan, New Zealand and the U.S.Morgan starts playing next month and will return to play for the Pride after Lyons season ends in June.Im committed to Orlando. Just as Im committed 100 percent to the National Team, she said. Those things wont change, but right now I need to follow my heart.Morgan and other players from the U.S. national team are allocated to the National Womens Soccer League teams by the U.S. Soccer Federation, which pays their salaries. The players labor contract expires Dec. 31, leaving either side in position to call for a work stoppage.Alleging wage discrimination, Morgan and four other U.S. national team players filed a complaint in April with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against the USSF.Her move to club football in Europe will have a short-term effect on the Pride.We are obviously disappointed that Alex will miss the beginning of the Pride season but understand her wishes to play in Europe and we look forward to her rejoining her teammates after Lyons season, said Phil Rawlins, president of Orlando City SC, the MLS club affiliated with the Pride.This in no way affects our plans or commitment to growing Orlando Pride and we will continue providing the team the best available players, training resources and staff to become a championship contender in the NWSL and a leader in womens professional soccer.Morgan is used to playing at the highest level of the game.At the 2012 Olympics in London, she scored a dramatic winner against Canada in the semifinals. A year earlier, she scored in the 2011 World Cup final, which the U.S. lost to Japan on penalty kicks.A star in the NWSL, Morgan previously played for Western New York Flash and Portland Thorns. She was named U.S. female soccer athlete of the year in 2012.Lyons first league game following the winter break is away to Guingamp on Jan. 15, although she could make her debut in a French Cup game the week before at Evian. Cheap Air Max 97 Wholesale . Oaklands loss to Seattle clinched the ALs best record for the Red Sox with one day to spare in the regular season. "I think everybody was kind of watching," catcher David Ross said. "Demp (Ryan Dempster) came out before he went to the bullpen and was just yelling that they lost. Air Max 90 Outlet Clearance . A lawyer for MLB, Matthew Menchel, confirmed Wednesday the league dropped its case against Biogenesis of America, its owner Anthony Bosch and several other individuals. 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SAN DIEGO -- A tourist is coming to town, which generally is not big news in San Diego.However, when that visitor is Zack Greinke, the San Diego Padres take notice.Greinke leads the Arizona Diamondbacks against San Diego on Friday night in the second contest of this three-game series. The Padres won a 9-8 in the series opener Thursday.Both teams are playing out the string on disappointing seasons, but Greinke, no matter what team is on the front of his jersey, does well at Petco Park.The right-hander, who left the Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent in the offseason, is 3-1 with a 1.69 ERA in eight career starts in San Diegos downtown digs. That includes winning his only decision in two starts against the Padres this year, and it came at Petco.Overall, Greinke has dominated the Padres to the tune of 7-1 with a 1.91 ERA.San Diego could be the soothing tonic Greinke seeks after getting blistered in his last outing. He lasted only 1 2/3 innings against the Boston Red Sox, as they ambushed him for nine runs, 10 hits and three home runs on Sunday.It just happened so fast, I didnt realize how bad it actually was, Greinke said.It was the second-most runs ever allowed by Greinke, falling short of the 11 he yielded to the Arizona Diamondbacks in a 2005 game while he was with the Kansas City Royals.Greinke pitched like royalty before the Boston massacre. In his previous 10 starts, he was 8-0 with a nifty 2.47. That is why Arizona manager Chip Hale expects Greinke will find his groove again while battling a lineup consisting mostly of rookies iinstead of proven hitters who litter the Red Soxs order.ddddddddddddWell, they just hit everything he threw up there, Hale said after the Sunday game. It was good pitches they hit. He obviously had some bad locations on some that they hit also. But it was one of those days. Weve all been there. Weve all been on the good side, and weve all been on the bad side.The Padres are looking for the good side from their Friday starter, Jarred Cosart, who was acquired in July from the Miami Marlins.Cosart (0-1, 5.03 ERA overall) is making his fourth start as a Padre and his eighth in total this year. The right-hander pitched well his last time out on Saturday, although he didnt figure in the decision. In six innings, he allowed one run on three hits and two walks while striking out two as the Padres dropped a 3-2, 11-inning decision to the New York Mets.Cosart recorded 15 of his 18 outs via groundballs.Thats usually the kind of pitcher I am, Cosart told MLB.com. Ground-ball guy -- thats what Ive been in the past, going all the way back to the minor leagues.Earlier this year and my last two starts, I was up in the zone a little bit, a little sporadic. If you pitch up in the zone to any big league team, youre going to get hit.The Padres (51-70) and Diamondbacks (50-71), battling to avoid the NL West cellar, will be familiar with each other down the stretch. Over the final 41 games, they will play each other nine times. ' ' '