Great Britain’s showjumpers qualified for the Tokyo Olympics after claiming the bronze medal at the European Championships in Rotterdam. The British quartet of Ben Maher, Scott Brash, Holly Smith and Amanda Derbyshire claimed GB’s first European podium finish since 2013. They secured a place at the Games next year alongside European champions Belgium and Rio gold medallists France. European champions […]

Conor McGregor has finally realized that the UFC has moved on without him. McGregor has not actually won a fight since 2016. Since then, he’s been stopped by Floyd Mayweather in 2017 and submitted by Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018. The former UFC champion knows he must work his way back up the rankings, rather than go straight back to a […]

The third preseason game is the so-called dress rehearsal. Teams are more likely to play starters into the second half. That’s how it has always been. In recent years teams seem more willing to sit their key players for most if not all of the preseason, and we all saw why when Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton left Thursday’s game […]

Essex Eagles and Hampshire kept their Vitality Blast quarter-final hopes alive with wins over Sussex Sharks and Middlesex sides, who currently occupy top-four spots in the South Group. Dan Lawrence’s unbeaten 59 and Ravi Bopara’s 45 from 24 balls guided Essex to a winning total of 168-5 against table-toppers Sussex during a nine-run victory at Hove. SCORECARD David Wiese’s 66 […]

How Stuart Broad’s brilliance and Jofra Archer’s ‘medium pace’ turned day one of the third Ashes Test on its head… The Report Jofra Archer claimed a maiden Test five-for as a late flurry of wickets saw England bowl Australia out for 179 after an otherwise frustrating, rain-filled first day of the third Ashes Test – writes David Currie at Headingley. […]

A lawyer for ex-Mets infielder Luis Castillo has demanded his client receive an apology from authorities in the Dominican Republic after he was implicated in a massive, international drug-trafficking ring. Darren Heitner has insisted that the former MLBer did not have any involvement in the cocaine and opioid empire of César Emilio Peralta. “At this point, we want clarity,” Heitner […]

ANTHONY YARDE has defended his controversial training methods ahead of his world title shot against Russian powerhouse Sergey ‘Krusher’ Kovalev and looked to The Greatest for inspiration. Flying in the face of boxing tradition and training textbooks, the 28-year-old Hackney ace and trainer Tunde Ajayi do not believe in sparring. Almost every other fighter on the planet uses practice fights, […]

BOLTON WANDERERS have "reluctantly" accepted the resignations of manager Phil Parkinson and assistant Steve Parkin. The duo decided to quit the crisis-hit club just 24 hours after the game with Doncaster Rovers was due to be played. The experienced boss had been at Wanderers for just over three traumatic years. However he reached breaking point when a new takeover bid […]

U.S. figure skating coach Richard Callaghan, who led Tara Lipinski to the 1998 Olympic gold medal and Todd Eldredge to the 1996 world championship and six national titles, Wednesday was declared “permanently ineligible” by the U.S. Center for SafeSport for “sexual misconduct involving (a) minor.” The banishment of one of the nation’s most legendary skating coaches comes 12 days after […]

The scenario hasn’t changed since the July 31 buyout of Kevin Shattenkirk. Indeed, one might argue that the scenario hasn’t changed since the final week of June when the Rangers submitted one-year, $874,125 qualifying offers to Tony DeAngelo and Brendan Lemieux, who are restricted free agents without arbitration rights. And who remain unsigned 22 days before the Blueshirts are due […]