LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts enjoys challenges. Roberts couldnt agree more with the old cliche to be the best, you have to beat the best.Roberts is hoping the Dodgers can bounce back from defeat Saturday when they host the Chicago Cubs again. The Cubs rallied for a 6-4 victory in 10 innings Friday night at Dodger Stadium.Kris Bryants two-run homer, his second long-ball of the game, was the difference as the Cubs improved to a major league best 82-45.This is fun. This is the class of the National League this year and theyve got a lot of talent, Roberts said of the Cubs. Theyre playing good baseball and have all year. I think weve been playing pretty well ourselves. Every day is a test, but to play these guys weve got to play well.Dodgers rookie Julio Urias will be tested again against the Cubs. Urias (4-2, 3.95 ERA) made his second career start against the Cubs on June 2 at Wrigley Field and it wasnt a good outing. He allowed six runs (five earned) on eight hits in five innings. Urias served up three home runs.However, Cubs manager Joe Maddon believes younger pitchers mature and deliver a better game at home as they gain more experience.Its a maturation process, honestly, Maddon said. Ive seen that with young pitchers that pitch well at home but then not on the road. Then, they pitch good at both places. Its just a matter of time. Its a comfort thing. You go to some place new youre uncomfortable. Youre playing at home all of the time, youre much more comfortable with the environment.As youre moving along, even as a manager and coach, you become more comfortable in your environment.Jason Hammel (13-6, 3.07 ERA) will get the start for the Cubs. Hammel got shelled in his last outing, serving up a season-high 10 runs (six earned) in 3 1/3 innings in an 11-4 rout by the Colorado Rockies.Hammel is 2-6 with a 4.80 ERA in 17 games (13 starts) against the Dodgers. He is winless in eight games (five starts) at Dodger Stadium. Hammel last faced Los Angeles on May 30 at Wrigley Field but was forced out of the contest after two scoreless innings with cramping in his right hamstring.Hammel has allowed three fewer runs in 20 of his 24 starts and held batters to a .184 average with runners in scoring position.Chicago has beaten the Dodgers (71-57) in four of five games this season. The Cubs took three of four when the two teams met Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.The Cubs are 5-2 on their nine-game road trip. They have captured 20 of their last 24 games since July 31 and are 8-2 in the last 10 road games.Another challenge for the Dodgers is slowing Bryant, who leads the National League with 35 home runs and 107 runs.We have many guys that are having really good years, Maddon said, adding that he believes Bryant has prospered because of a more compact swing. Zapatillas Salomon Baratas España . 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The parade and rally were held to celebrate the Saskatchewan Roughriders 45-23 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Sunday in the CFLs championship game. Theres a shootout possibly going down in Tughlaqabad soon. That might be a bit too dramatic but the early rounds of the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI)s investigations of the shooters Rio Olympics performance suggest a standoff of some sort is on the cards.By picking Abhinav Bindra, Indias greatest shooter, to head its fact-finding panel, the NRAI - headquartered in the shadow of the gorgeous 14th century Tughlaqabad Fort in Delhi - has opened itself to a scrutiny of its operations. It has also potentially set itself up in opposition to Bindra, who has publicly voiced his differences with part of the NRAIs brief for the panel.It is not yet pistols at dawn because rifle shooters are not emotionally charged, tantrum-throwing divas. Like he does with his equipment, Bindra is given more to carefully putting together and taking apart arguments of several kinds. What is clear, though, is that the shooting contingents adventures or misadventures in Rio are being looked from two diverse sights.The shooters went to Rio swathed in superlatives. India was sending out its biggest contingent to an Olympics. The NRAI was the most handsomely supported national sporting federation between London and Rio (receiving Rs 43.36 crores in government funding between 2012-12 and 2015-16), and as many as 14 shooters were given special sports ministry grants for their Games preparation and training. However, only two shooters made the finals and the contingent returned home empty-handed.The NRAI would like the panel headed by Bindra to look at that fiasco through the prism of the shooters Olympic meltdown. As NRAIs president Raninder Singh told ESPN, it seeks to identify, in a cold and ruthless manner, the causes of our poor showing. Its approach is more a forensic audit of sorts, an examination of possible external factors rather than the pain of introspection.Bindra has a different view. You cant change what has happened. We have to look at how the future is being prepared and nurtured. The problem, to him, needs to be treated by looking at Indian shooting in general as a competitor who had failed when he had been expected to succeed. Bindra wants the competitor put back on its feet and competing again. He wants to?inspect junior-level structures, the competitive calendar and the expertise at hand and cut down variables that led to errors.Among the specific issues Singh has clearly identified as hhaving caused the disappointing results is the NRAIs decision to allow the shooters their choice of personal coaches.dddddddddddd Singh called this a tactical blunder by the NRAI. Bindras response was to suggest that there was always going to be multiple layers of coaching. This, he pointed out, is not a team sport, its an individual sport and so the view of the athlete is very important - they have a good idea of what they need and they are the ones to deliver the results.More contentious would be Singhs finger-pointing at shooters seeking individual help or being contracted to what the NRAI considered non-benign private sponsorship organisations. What irks the NRAI, it appears, is their ability to act independently without any form of coordination with the ruling body and the conflict it induces with the NRAI/SAI- driven programmes.The birth and growth of these non-benign organisations have taken place over the last decade in response to the inability of most Olympic sports federations to do their fundamental duty: build the grassroots base and support their elite performers with competitive calendars and training schedules. The efficiency and speed of these private organisations in providing expertise to the athletes in training and medical intervention along with the goodwill they generate has not gone down well with either the federations or the sports ministry, which provides a bulk of the financial support to every Olympic sport. It has, in some ways, reduced the dependence of the athlete on the federation.Bindras opinion on these bodies, who have worked with him, is pragmatic: Until and unless those resources and know-how are available not only to the elite but also to the grassroots, we will always struggle and the role of such organisations cannot be thrown away.Curiously, assisting Bindra on the panel is Manisha Malhotra, the former tennis player who had driven the first of these non-benign private organisations, the now-defunct Mittals Champions Trust.To give the NRAI credit, it could not have found two more independent thinkers in the business to be part of a panel to look into the shooting performance in Rio and, from there, into its own functioning. Whether it will appreciate their approach and heed their advice is another matter altogether. ' ' '