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Nick Compton admits his England future hangs in the balance after his three-ball duck in the first Investec Test against Sri Lanka at Headingley. England thumped Sri Lanka by an innings and 88 runs to take the lead in the three-match series, but for their No 3 batsman, it was only a continuation of his run drought.The grandson of the legendary Denis Compton scored a battling 85 in the series opener with South Africa in Durban, but in his last six innings he has been out for 15, 26, 0, 19, 6 and 0. That puts him under big pressure ahead of Fridays second Test at Chester-le-Street, which is live on Sky Sports. Comptons top score in his last six international innings is 26 Yeah, sure. Definitely, Compton said when asked if he thought his England career was on the line.I dont know the actual answer to that but youve got to score runs. I want to score runs but I want to do it because I want to feel good. England will be looking to seal the series against Sri Lanka with a win at Chester-le-Street, which is live on Sky Sports 2 on Friday I want to feel good about my batting and I want to feel good about contributing to the England team. Those are my driving motivations. If you dont play well enough you get dropped. Thats fundamentally how it works.The Middlesex man admits his old-fashioned grafting is in stark contrast to the belligerent batting of someone like team-mate Ben Stokes. Watching Ben Stokes 200 is better than watching Comptons 80, he said. If I was sitting on the couch Id rather watch Stokes 200 as well. The way the games going - I think people are drawn towards a certain glamour and some players provide that and people want to see more of that. Jonny Bairstow column Batsman blogs on his Headingley ton and Steven Finns batting Thats great, were in the entertainment business, its about getting bums on seats...Im by no means unaware of that. Thats what people want to see.I know deep inside me theres a player in here who could change all those opinions very quickly, but unfortunately until you do it and people see it in real life theres no point in me saying anything else.Captain Alastair Cook praised Compton for his honesty, and backed him to produce the goods in the second Test. Compton was out for a duck at Headingley Its quite refreshing that he has come out and said it in one way, said Cook. Youre always under pressure when youre playing for England.He played some good innings in South Africa, certainly at the start of the tour - that 80-odd, he battled hard and set up a good win.And he has scored two [Test] hundreds already. So he can play at this level. Like all of us, hes only a score away, and he needs a score, but hes in a really good place to do that. 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With their top three point guards and Kobe Bryant all sidelined by injury, the Lakers signed Marshall out of the D-League on Friday before their home game against Minnesota. Hydro Flask 20 Oz Coffee . On Tuesday, Ottawa placed forward Cory Conacher and defenceman Joe Corvo on waivers as trade rumours swirl around the Senators. DETROIT -- The Detroit Red Wings are on a three-game winning streak and the San Jose Sharks are fresh off of being stunned by the team that beat them in the Stanley Cup Final last season.The teams are scheduled to play at 7 p.m. Saturday at Joe Louis Arena. Both are 3-2-0.After losing its first two games of the season, Detroit has reeled off three consecutive wins, the latest a 5-3 decision over the Nashville Predators Friday night at Joe Louis.In that game, two players who have to produce a lot of offense for the Red Wings to be successful scored their first goals of the season.Right winger Gustav Nyquist had a goal and an assist and left winger Tomas Tatar had a goal.Tatars goal, 1:10 into the third period, broke a tie and put Detroit ahead for good and Nyquist scored later in the period to make it 4-2.Im just worried about one game at a time and Im worried about getting better every day and I thought we took a step in getting better today, Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said after Friday nights game. I thought we did a real good job of spending time in their end. We did a real good job of winning puck battles. We did a real good job of reloading hard and getting back above people and when we do that, were a real good team.I thought we transitioned well, I thought a lot of guys were playing. I thought we took a step forward. Now we got to take another step forward tomorrrow.ddddddddddddVeteran fourth line left winger Drew Miller scored his second goal in two games Friday.We definitely had some times in the first couple of games here where we didnt play the way we wanted to play, Miller said. Were cleaning that up and trying to play a 60-minute game. I think thats the biggest thing, just moving forward and finding the positives and continuing to build off of those.Defenseman Ryan Sproul made his season debut for Detroit and had an assist on Justin Abdelkaders power-play goal in the second period. In his second NHL game, Sproul was even in 14:57 of ice time.San Jose, which closes out a five-game road trip Saturday, lost 3-2 on the road to the Pittsburgh Penguins Thursday night after leading 2-0 going into the third period.It was the first time under coach Pete DeBoer that the Sharks had lost in regulation time when they held a lead after two periods. They were 28-0-2 in the 2015-16 regular season, and 9-0 in the playoffs, when leading after 40 minutes.The biggest thing is we were playing for a 4-1 record going into that third, captain Joe Pavelski said. Not because it was the Penguins. Its early in the year. Its not easy to start coming on the road with all of these games. Now were staring at 3-2 and we move on. ' ' '