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TORONTO -- Kory Sheets has his sights set firmly on Mike Pringle. The sophomore running back rushed for 178 yards and two TDs on Thursday night to power the Saskatchewan Roughriders to a 39-28 win over the Toronto Argonauts. It was the third straight week Sheets has rushed for more than 100 yards. With a league-best 442 yards, Sheets is on pace for over 2,600 yards this year, which would smash Pringles single-season mark of 2,065 recorded in 1998. And Sheets is well aware of Pringles record and his standing as the best running back in CFL history with a league-record 16,425 career rushing yards. "Yes, that was the first thing I did when I came up here two years ago, look at the league record for rushing and thats been my goal ever since," Sheets said. "Someone wants to say Im being cocky because I want to be the best, then so be it, thats their opinion. "In everything I do I try and be great." Sheets, who had three 100-yard games last year, has rushed for career highs in the first three weeks of the season. "Kory Sheets has it set in his mind he wants to be the best back in the league and I think hes doing those things to become the best back in the league," said Riders coach Corey Chamblin. "The play-calling was good and our O-line was phenomenal ... he (Sheets) knows for him to be the best back he also has to have the best O-line and those guys are giving good push up front." And earning their keep as Sheets treats his offensive linemen to hamburgers every time he rushes for over 100 yards. "Well have to do something special if we get to 1,000 yards kind of early," Sheets said with a chuckle. Riders quarterback Darian Durant was pretty good, too, completing 14-of-19 passes for 245 yards and three TDs -- including two long ones to Taj Smith -- before leaving with a foot injury with 9:52 remaining. But Durant had cemented the win before a disappointing Rogers Centre gathering of 18,211 with a 70-yard TD strike to Smith at 6:51 of the third. Durant had found a wide-open Smith on a 61-yard touchdown pass in the opening half as Smith finished with a game-high 141 receiving yards on three catches. "Im not sure exactly what happened, I just know I got rolled up on it," Durant said. "Its pretty sore." The good news is Saskatchewan (3-0) doesnt play again until July 21 when it hosts Hamilton. But the Riders also got lucky when Torontos Jamie Robinson returned a Durant interception 88 yards for the TD at 6:43 of the second that wouldve given the Argos an 18-7 advantage. However, it was negated by a pass interference call on Robinson. That gave Saskatchewan possession at the Toronto 14 and set up Sheets two-yard TD run at 7:30 to put the Riders ahead 14-11. Saskatchewan took a 21-11 lead on Durants first TD pass to Smith at 14:10 en route to a 21-14 half-time advantage. "It was huge, it was a momentum swing," Durant said of the penalty on Robinson. "Whenever they make mistakes you want to make them pay." Toronto (1-2) made it interesting early in the fourth when Ricky Ray hit Chad Kackert on a 48-yard touchdown pass to cut its deficit to 32-21. But despite passing for 334 yards and two TDs, Ray was also sacked five times as as the defending Grey Cup champions suffered their second straight loss. "Part of it was them getting a two-touchdown lead," said Toronto head coach Scott Milanovich. "They can grind it out and its easier to call his (Sheets) number in that situation. "Clearly they did a nice job with it." Saskatchewan, the CFLs lone undefeated team, has been dominant at Rogers Centre, winning seven of its last eight games there and eight-of-11 overall against the Argos. The Riders also scored more than 30 points for the third straight game. But Saskatchewan opened last season with three straight wins before finishing third in the West Division standings with an 8-10 record. Rob Bagg had Saskatchewans other touchdown. Chris Milo added the converts and a field goal while Ricky Schmitt booted a single. Andre Durie and Zach Collaros scored Torontos other touchdowns. Noel Prefontaine kicked the converts, two field goals and a single Ray started smartly, connecting on his first 12 passes, the third-highest total in club history and five short of the franchise record. Included was a 10-yard touchdown pass to Durie to end the first that put the Argos ahead 11-7. Durie was Torontos receiving leader with seven catches for 100 yards. "We got off to a good start and then just lost our rhythm," Ray said. "We just couldnt get back into it. "They did a lot of things that we saw on film but they did a lot of bringing guys and pressure . . . and I didnt have time for a good enough look (downfield)." NOTES: Durant has yet to throw an official interception this season and the three TD passes give him 102 for his CFL career ... Bagg scored his first TD since 2010 after missing all of 2011 and all but three games in 2012 with knee injuries ... Former Argo defensive lineman Ricky Foley received his Grey Cup ring from Toronto GM Jim Barker prior to the game. Foley spent three seasons with the Double Blue before signing with Saskatchewan as a free agent. He earned his first sack of the season in the first, tackling Ray for a 10-yard loss ... Prefontaine played a day after his wife delivered the couples third child, a daughter ... Mike Rae holds the Argos record for most consecutive completions at 17. Wholesale Bucks Jerseys . Pierce was ejected in the third quarter of Indianas 103-86 win Monday. George Hill stole a bad pass and was going in for a layup, and Pierce hustled back and appeared to be trying to wrap him up. Milwaukee Bucks Shirts . 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The Queens Park Oval is hosting its 60th Test, and Kingsmead its 42nd. These games are the grounds first ever Tests played in August. Both matches have been ravaged by rain and the inability of the grounds to cope with its effects.Only 22 of the scheduled 360 overs have been possible on the first four days of the Port-of-Spain Test between West Indies and India. Allowing for the loss of two overs for an innings break, only 102 of a possible 270 overs have been possible on the first three days of the Durban Test between South Africa and New Zealand.Overnight rain in Durban meant no play was possible on Sunday, the scheduled third day, despite uninterrupted sunshine. In Port-of-Spain, rain ended play 22 overs into day one, and no play has been possible thereafter, even though days two, three and four have been mostly sunny. Both venues have struggled to deal with staging a Test match at an unusual time of year for them.It is the middle of the wet season in the West Indies, but it is becoming increasingly common for cricket to be played in this period here. Traditionally West Indies have played their home Tests in the first five months of the year, but they are increasingly being squeezed out of having a proper home season. January, February and March clash with home seasons in Australia, India, New Zealand and South Africa, and most of the worlds top players now play the IPL in April and May.The IPL has affected the early part of Englands home summer, with touring players often arriving just in time for the Tests, having had no time to transition from T20 to five-day cricket. But it has not affected the July-September period, which is when England play the bulk of their home Tests, including the more prestigious ones.West Indies, on the other hand, have had to move their home Tests into the most unfavourable months of the year. Until 2008, only four of West Indies 48 home series had started after 1 June. Since the start of 2008, eight of their 15 home series have begun in June or later, in the rainy months. In the ongoing series against India, rain has washed out 90 overs or more in three of the four Tests.South Africas home Test series, meanwhile, have almost always begun between November and March. They have played one series that started in April - in 2006 - and one, now, in August. Both times New Zealand have been their opponents, suggesting a scheduling compromise between two southern-hemisphere teams reluctant to travel overseas during their traditional home seasons.Where West Indies would have known fully well they were in for rain when they scheduled the India series in July-August, South Africa may have been caught off guard by the weather. On average, August is the driest month in Durban, and July isnt far behind, but the city withstood severe flooding in late July, and the wet weather has continued into August.The ground certainly hasnt shown itself to be fully prepared for the possibility of rain. Only the pitch and the rest of the square went under covers when it rained in Kingsmead, and the outfield was exposed to the elements. It did not help that the outfield had only just undergone an extensive re-laying process, and was perhaps not in the best shape in terms of drainage.Members of the Queens Park Oval ground staff, meanwhile, reckoned its outfield has been among the quickest-draining in the Caribbean, ever since it was re-laid in the lead-up to the 2007 World Cup. When asked how it was still unfit for play despite all the sunshine it hhad basked in, they said the humidity and lack of breeze could have slowed down the evaporation, but mostly they blamed the scheduling: it had rained almost every day in the week leading up to the Test.ddddddddddddStill, knowing that the ground was due to host a Test in the wettest month of the year, the authorities could have been better prepared. There was no Super Sopper at the ground, and until day three, by which time the damage had already been done, the run-up areas had been left mostly uncovered. On Sunday, members of the Queens Park Cricket Club - which owns the Oval - met to discuss the events of the first four days. They said they would wait until the end of the Test match before releasing their official statement. It should make for interesting reading. At a wider level, the events of Port-of-Spain and Durban point to a disregard, from all the boards concerned, for common-sense scheduling. The WICB should have known August was a particularly bad month to stage a Test in Port-of-Spain. CSA should have known it was probably unwise to stage a Test match at a venue that had only finished re-laying its outfield seven weeks previously. They could possibly have given Durban an extra couple of weeks by scheduling the first Test in Centurion, where the outfield was re-laid in April. They may not have anticipated the rain, but they would probably have known overs would be lost, with bad light a definite possibility, given the earliness of South Africas winter sunsets.Really, the lesson ought to be to schedule Test cricket only within its traditional seasons. Perhaps that is no longer possible, given the unmanaged jumble of three formats and franchise cricket all over the world. In that situation, the least the boards could do would be to equip their grounds to a basic minimum standard.Should that basic minimum standard include a Super Sopper? Its a debate for another day, but as things stand, the ICCs Standard Test Match Playing Conditions do not mention mopping and drying facilities at all. As for covers, Law 11 only mandates that they totally protect the pitch and also the pitch surroundings, a minimum 5 metres either side of the pitch and any worn or soft areas in the outfield, and also for the bowlers run-ups to be covered in inclement weather, in order to keep them dry, to a distance of at least 10 x 10 metres.Fast bowlers run-ups are usually longer than 10m. In an interview with the Guardian in 2002, for instance, Brett Lee said he had shortened his run-up to 21 metres and 30 centimetres. The covers at the Queens Park Oval certainly protected the last 10m of the run-up areas, but in a belated recognition that this may have been inadequate, the ground staff brought in new covers on day three to lengthen the covered portions. Perhaps the ICC could increase the minimum requirement too. Perhaps it could even mandate that the entire ground - as at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata and at certain Sri Lankan venues - be covered, or at least a larger portion than just the square be covered.If the stadium authorities cannot afford this, their national boards probably can, and it should be the boards responsibility to ensure the best possible facilities for Test cricket. The WICB and CSA definitely have fallen short at Queens Park Oval and Kingsmead. At a time of declining interest in Test cricket in both regions, it feels like neither board has done as much as it could to support the format. ' ' '