Author: Sports News UK
Somerset pair Craig Overton and Sophie Luff have won the top prizes at the Professional Cricketers’ Association awards.Overton, the men’s player of the year, had a stellar season across formats as Somerset just missed out on a first County Championship title and reached the semi-finals of the T20 Blast.Luff becomes the first winner of the women’s player of the year award not to have played international cricket since 2021. As well as superb form in county cricket, the 32-year-old was part of the Trent Rockets team that won The Hundred.Pace bowler Sonny Baker and left-arm spinner Tilly Corteen-Coleman won the…
Major League Wrestling is heading back to pay-per-view. MLW announced on Wednesday that it will present MLW Saturday Night SuperFight on November 7, marking the promotion’s first pay-per-view event in seven years. The show will stream live worldwide on Live Nation’s VEEPS from Cicero Stadium in Chicago. The PPV return comes after MLW recently moved its flagship MLW Fusion series to Tubi. New episodes air Thursday nights. Saturday Night SuperFight will bring together the championship stories and rivalries that have been developing on the weekly program. MLW founder and CEO Court Bauer commented on the promotion’s return to pay-per-view. He…
A revamp of the points system for 2025 was welcomed by Evans; it also brought his tightest title race yet. After second place to Ogier in the Monte Carlo curtain-raiser, the re-energised Welshman won in Sweden and Kenya – rallies the Frenchman sat out.With a 36-point advantage, Evans had opened up the largest championship lead ever recorded after three rounds of a WRC campaign.But he would not win again that season and though he never finished lower than sixth, Ogier gradually whittled away at his lead until it came down to just three points with one round to go.That race…
CNBC/YouTube In January 2024, Vince McMahon resigned from WWE and TKO following accusations of sexual assault, emotional abuse, and sex trafficking. In July 2026, the civil case was officially closed, but McMahon remains outside of WWE. Some have been surprised by this, and according to Dave Meltzer during “Wrestling Observer Radio,” he doesn’t think McMahon is happy about his current reality. “Vince’s life was WWE, his whole life, and it was taken away from him. And he absolutely is not happy about it, even though he is probably more wealthy,”…
American Emma Navarro says she has gained her “life back” after opening up on long-running health problems that caused significant weight loss, fatigue, dizziness and left her “feeling deep internal anger” on the court. Navarro, who claimed her first title in more than a year at the Strasbourg Open in May, is currently ranked 24th in the world. The 25-year-old was as high as eighth in 2024, the year she reached the quarter-finals at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and the last four at the US Open in her native New York. But towards the end of 2025 she was…
Second one-day international, GuwahatiWest Indies 405-7 (50 overs): Jangoo 114, Hope 104, Campbell 101India 406-2 (43.3 overs): Gill 223*, Rohit 101India won by eight wicketsScorecardShubman Gill scored a career-best 223 not out as India sensationally chased down West Indies’ record 405-7 with 39 balls to spare in the second one-day international in Guwahati.West Indies looked to be favourites at the interval having posted their highest ever total in the format, with John Campbell (101), Shai Hope (104) and Amir Jangoo (114) all hitting centuries.India captain Gill, however, was in sublime form – bringing up his century off just 62 balls…
A report put out by POST Wrestling has indicated that NXT talent, Keanu Carver, has an order of protection filed against him by an unnamed fellow NXT talent. The report states – WWE NXT wrestler Keanu Carver, whose legal name is Kevin Robertson, is under an order of protection to stay away from and not contact another NXT talent who filed a petition against him. That NXT talent filed the petition in a Florida court earlier this month, alleging that Robertson stalked and harassed that person. POST Wrestling is choosing not to identify the petitioner unless that person chooses to…
Britain’s George Staines stopped Loai Abushaar in stunning fashion to earn a UFC contract in Dana White’s Contender Series.Staines, 26, took just 61 seconds to rubberstamp his spot in MMA’s leading promotion.The lightweight, who hails from Hull but trains alongside UFC star Paddy Pimblett in Liverpool, slammed Abushaar to the floor before finishing with ground-and-pound.He was one of four fighters to be handed a contract and was cheered on by Pimblett and fellow UFC fighter Luke Riley as he closed out the show in Las Vegas.”George, you were up against a massive guy at 155lb and you absolutely destroyed him,”…
LA Knight speaks about Roman Reigns defending his WWE World Title by himself, noting that it could be the OTC’s downfall. Since capturing the WWE World Championship at WrestleMania earlier this year, Reigns has taken a different route to defending his championship than his previous Universal title reign, largely retaining his title without assistance from the rest of The Bloodline. For his next challenger, this is believed to be what his downfall will be. While speaking to Sporf’s James Sweetnam in a new interview, LA Knight spoke about what it would mean to finally defeat Roman Reigns at Money In…
This weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix in Malaysia has been declared a heat-hazard race, the third time the designation has been used this year.A heat hazard is an official status for an event where it is forecast that temperatures will be more than 31C at some point during the race.The Sepang track, near Malaysia’s capital Kuala Lumpur, is close to the equator and has long been known as one of the most demanding for drivers.Temperatures are forecast to be in the 31-33C region across the race weekend, with a high humidity level and chance of rain every day.This weekend’s event is…