Ten Super League teams will be in action on Friday night, including Saints v Warrington on Sky Sports 3. Saints come into the clash needing a win to keep their top-four ambitions alive, while second-placed Warrington will be hoping to keep the pressure on leaders Hull FC.Hull beat Saints last Sunday to keep the chasing Super League pack at bay, and this week they face Widnes, who are looking to build on their victory over Huddersfield. Barrie v Terry podcast Super League round 17 preview Huddersfield face the resurgent Castleford, who recently completed the league double over Leeds before beating Warrington. Leeds themselves have a tough task, as they host third-place Catalans at Headingley.Salford, eyeing the top eight with seven rounds remaining, are visited by Shaun Wanes Wigan, who are in a good position to challenge for the League Leaders Shield, currently two points behind Hull. St Helens v Warrington Wolves (Sky Sports 3 from 7.30pm)Full previewSt Helens: Kyle Amor, Jack Ashworth, Matty Dawson, Theo Fages, Joe Greenwood, Morgan Knowles, Jonny Lomax, Louie McCarthy-Scarsbrook, Jack Owens, Greg Richards, James Roby, Adam Swift, Lama Tasi, Luke Thompson, Jordan Turner, Atelea Vea, Alex Walmsley, Calvin Wellington, Jon Wilkin.Warrington: Ryan Atkins, Ryan Bailey, Daryl Clark, Jordan Cox, Ben Currie, Brad Dwyer, Rhys Evans, Kurt Gidley, Chris Hill, Benjamin Jullien, George King, Toby King, Tom Lineham, Gene Ormsby, Joe Philbin, Stefan Ratchford, Chris Sandow, Joe Westerman, Sam Wilde.Huddersfield Giants v Castleford Tigers (8pm)Huddersfield coach Paul Anderson must decide whether to recall Ryan Brierley after naming an unchanged squad, with forward Sebastine Ikahihifo set to make his home debut. Brierly was left out of last weeks loss to Widnes, with Scott Grix preferred ahead of the 24-year-old.Castleford, on the other hand, welcome back loose forward Nathan Massey, who missed the home defeat to Wigan with a concussion and takes the place of on-loan forward Larne Patrick, who cannot play against his parent club. Castlefords Nathan Massey makes a return to the team Huddersfield Giants: Ryan Brierley, Danny Brough, Jake Connor, Eorl Crabtree, Leroy Cudjoe, Jamie Ellis, Scott Grix, Ryan Hinchcliffe, Sebastine Ikahihifo, Josh Johnson, Michael Lawrence, Nathan Mason, Jermaine McGillvary, Aaron Murphy, Sam Rapira, Oliver Roberts, Ukuma Taai, Joe Wardle, Kyle Wood.Castleford Tigers: Matt Cook, Ben Crooks, Luke Dorn, Paddy Flynn, Luke Gale, Ryan Hampshire, Lee Jewitt, Will Maher, Nathan Massey, Mike McMeeken, Paul McShane, Grant Millington, Adam Milner, Joel Monaghan, Junior Moors, Denny Solomona, Gadwin Springer, Danny Tickle, Jake Webster.Hull FC v Widnes Vikings (8pm)Hull coach Lee Radford also has a decision on his hands, with second-rower Frank Pritchard ready for action after missing the win over St Helens with a dead leg, while late replacement Dean Hadley is still available.Widnes coach Denis Betts has stuck with the side that returned to winning ways at the expense of Huddersfield, with new signing Jack Buchanan retaining his place after making his debut at the Select Security Stadium last week. Hull FCs Frank Pritchard has recovered from injury Hull FC: Josh Bowden, Gareth Ellis, Mahe Fonua, Dean Hadley, Danny Houghton, Sika Manu, Mark Minichiello, Curtis Naughton, Frank Pritchard, Leon Pryce, Jamie Shaul, Marc Sneyd, Fetuli Talanoa, Scott Taylor, Jordan Thompson, Carlos Tuimavave, Danny Washbrook, Liam Watts, Kirk Yeaman.Widnes Vikings: Chris Bridge, Kevin Brown, Jack Buchanan, Hep Cahill, Jay Chapelhow, Chris Dean, Gil Dudson, Rhys Hanbury, Chris Houston, Macgraff Leuluai, Manase Manuokafoa, Stefan Marsh, Joe Mellor, Charly Runciman, Setaimata Sa, Corey Thompson, Brad Walker, Lloyd White, Matt Whitley.Leeds Rhinos v Catalans Dragons (8pm)Leeds have centre Joel Moon back from a two-month injury absence, but they have lost their first and second-choice full-backs, Zak Hardaker and Ashton Golding, as well as hooker Rob Burrow and prop Adam Cuthbertson to injury. Brad Singleton serves a one-match ban for his part in a clash with Ashton Sims last week. Front-row pair Anthony Mullally and Beau Falloon are back to help plug the gaps. Phil Clarke previews this weeks Super League fixtures as he rules out a late Leeds Rhinos surge Catalans coach Laurent Frayssinous brings in Willie Mason, Morgan Escare and Thibaud Margalet in place of injured trio Louis Anderson, Greg Mounis and Dave Taylor as the Dragons look to complete the double over the reigning champions.Leeds Rhinos: Mitch Achurch, Luke Briscoe, Rob Burrow, Adam Cuthbertson, Brett Delaney, Beau Falloon, Brett Ferres, Keith Galloway, Mitch Garbutt, Ash Handley, Jamie Jones-Buchanan, Jimmy Keinhorst, Jordan Lilley, Danny McGuire, Joel Moon, Anthony Mullally, Liam Sutcliffe, Josh Walters, Kallum Watkins.Catalans Dragons: Lucas Albert, Jason Baitieri, Thomas Bosc, Julian Bousquet, Jodie Broughton, Todd Carney, Rémi Casty, Vincent Duport, Morgan Escaré, Tony Gigot, Justin Horo, Thibaud Margalet, Antoni Maria, Willie Mason, Romain Navarrete, Eloi Pelissier, Pat Richards, Glenn Stewart, Fouad Yaha.Salford Red Devils v Wigan Warriors (8pm)Salford have winger Justin Carney back from suspension to take the place of an injured Niall Evalds, in the only likely change to the team that beat Wakefield. Red Devils hooker Logan Tomkins will be going up against both his older brothers Joel and Sam for the first time. Justin Carney has completed his suspension Wigan coach Shaun Wane has named an unchanged squad as the club continue their investigation into a town-centre incident thought to have involved two unnamed senior players.Salford Red Devils: Jake Bibby, Justin Carney, Michael Dobson, Mark Flanagan, George Griffin, Weller Hauraki, Josh Jones, Phil Joseph, Craig Kopczak, Olsi Krasniqi, Ryan Lannon, Rob Lui, Ben Murdoch, Gareth OBrien, Junior Sau, Logan Tomkins, Daniel Vidot, Adam Walne, Jordan Walne.Wigan Warriors: John Bateman, Joe Bretherton, Greg Burke, Josh Charnley, Dom Crosby, Ben Flower, Oliver Gildart, Willie Isa, Dom Manfredi, Lee Mossop, Sam Powell, Dan Sarginson, Matty Smith, Ryan Sutton, Taulima Tautai, Lewis Tierney, Joel Tomkins, Sam Tomkins, George Williams. 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Discount Adidas Shoes Online .com) - Following a late-game loss to the reigning NBA champs, the Toronto Raptors will look to sustain their recent high-level play as they travel to Indiana to take on the Pacers. It is not as if Monica Abbott blended in with the crowd before she signed her groundbreaking $1 million contract. While such compensation put an appropriately specific figure on it, her left arm has been uniquely invaluable for quite some time.Nerissa Myers, Abbotts teammate with the Scrap Yard Dawgs, a Houston-area expansion team in National Pro Fastpitch, knows well the special kind of misery awaiting opposing batters. Facing Abbott for the first time, something Myers did two years ago in an otherwise nondescript regular-season game, brought on the kind of nervousness she compared to playing in the World Series.In my head, Im thinking I have to stay short [with her swing], but nothing can really prepare you for actually getting in the box, Myers recalled of the 2014 game between her Akron Racers and Abbotts Chicago Bandits. I got in there and she threw the first pitch, and in my head Im like Oh crap. I was thinking about how I was going to play this off and pretend like Im super confident when I didnt even see the ball come out of her hand.It wasnt Abbotts paycheck that had Myers sweating.That same old Abbott is exactly who her new employer hopes it signed. The landmark contract isnt akin to a venture capitalist investing money to develop an idea. What the new franchise invested in were the services of the best pitcher in the world, established excellence able to make instant contenders of a roster with more rookies than veterans. Rookies like Taylore Fuller. Just weeks removed from playing at the University of Florida, Fuller has been behind the plate for the majority of Abbotts innings for the Scrap Yard Dawgs. And if hitting against Abbott is the most nerve-racking experience in softball, catching her might be next on the list.The other night I told her I thought she hit 80 [miles per hour] because it felt so hard, Fuller said. What amazes me the most about her is her control on her fastball. She can pinpoint that pitch anywhere she wants, and it still feels like its coming at you 80 miles an hour.So some things never change. Abbott will be Abbott.Scrap Yard began the last week of June in third place and with a winning record in the six-team league. That success contrasts with the fate of most of the leagues new franchises in recent seasons. It was celebrated a season ago when the first-year Dallas Charge slipped into the playoffs with a 17-33 record. But after a rough start this season without Abbott, who was completing professional obligations in Japan, Scrap Yard is on a roll. Not coincidentally, Abbott began the week with a 5-1 record, the leagues second-best ERA and nearly twice as many strikeouts as any peer.The contract that I received, part of it was based on what I had already done, Abbott said. And then, obviously, an expectation of what I will continue to do over the course of my career. So Im trying to remember that and just separate regular business from softball business.Yet the familiarly invaluable ace is inescapably now also the million-dollar arm. That is change. For all that is the same, pitches speeding plate-ward and batters seeking solace in even making contact, this is Abbotts summer in a manner unlike any summer before. It is her league. In addition to a new uniform, new city and new teammates, she returned to a new role in the story of softball.And not just as the daughter who, while scarce free time has allowed for little in the way of splurges, reached for the check when she and her parents went out for a celebratory dinner.It definitely felt like I was starting something new, Abbott said of her return stateside. I was so grateful to play for the Bandits for so long, and I have so many great memories there of such a great organization to play with, so I felt like I was kind of embarking on a new adventure a little bit. It was a little bit nerve-racking, a little bit of you dont know whats going to happen or what to expect.But at tthe same time, I felt like I was being led in the right direction.dddddddddddd Im trying to create something bigger for other girls in the league and for other women, whether theyre in softball or in another sport or just in the office.The middle chapters in that story, let alone its resolution, are years from being written. Only months have passed since she signed the uniquely structured contract that will pay her a million dollars over five seasons in a league in which teams operate under a $150,000 annual salary cap. Only weeks have passed since she first took the field for a franchise that hopes not to follow in the footsteps of the Carolina Diamonds, New York-New Jersey Comets, Rockford Thunder, Washington Glory and other franchises now defunct or relocated and rebranded.It isnt time yet to predict how the story ends, but there is definitely a sense of a distinct beginning. As much as batters are settling in for another summer of trying to solve Abbott, she is also a surrogate for every player in the league. If the league can support the investment in her skills, what promise might it hold for others? That was part of what came to mind when Myers first heard about the contract.It was more of a general happiness, Myers said. Everybody is a competitor and we all compete, but when that happened, it was like a relief. Like were doing something, were making a difference -- and shes going to make a difference for this sport. ...Were all just super excited. Of course you want to be like Howd you do that? But it was just general excitement that the people coming up after us are going to be able to make a decent amount of money and play this sport without having two or three other jobs on the side.How to get from here to there is, not unlike the Dawgs themselves, a work in progress. Abbott described an ongoing process of figuring out how best to use the bully pulpit, how to pick her spots to speak up with the same precision as she picks the spots to place her pitches. She brought up salary transparency as an issue of note. Her contract was unique not just in its size but in its public specificity. Unlike Major League Baseball, NPF salaries arent readily available. If players had access to a clear delineation of market value, Abbott suggested, it might better empower them in negotiations.At the other end of the business spectrum, Fuller almost couldnt believe it when she held her first paycheck in her hands recently, more amazed that she was being paid to play softball than conscious of an amount that rarely adds up to more than four figures for a summer of work. The hard part comes when, as in the case of a four-year veteran like Myers, a person wants to keep playing beyond that first summer.For now, both Fuller and Myers said the contract is rarely a topic of conversation with Abbott, the ground still too new to feel comfortable teasing her about it yet and more serious questions still unformed. Fuller was initially unsure at first how to act around Abbott, intimidated by the intensity and detail that the pitcher brings to the job, every pitch to every batter scouted and planned. But the intimidation wasnt born of a difference in salary. It was born of having watched Abbott pitch for a decade, first at Tennessee and then with the U.S. national team and the Bandits.Then you get to know her as a person and shes just another teammate, Fuller said. Shes awesome as a person. Shes really nice. You would think shes a 13-year-old girl, honestly, because she gets along with everyone so well. Shes ditzy, shes clumsy and shes hilarious. Theres no barrier there once you get to know her, and I think she makes sure of that. She doesnt want that barrier there.She wants to be the same old Abbott, even as a new summer begins to reshape what that means. ' ' '