Author: Sports News UK
This already feels like a very different summer for Newcastle.Whereas the Alexander Isak saga dragged on until Newcastle buckled and sold the Swede to Liverpool for £125m on deadline day, this time around, the club agreed to let Gordon go to Barcelona before the window even officially opened.Similarly, whereas Newcastle spent £55m to make Anthony Elanga their first signing of last summer, this time around, the club have pivoted away from the Premier League proven market with their opening moves of the window.Newcastle have always targeted players from the continent, as well as those with top-flight experience, but Jaouen’s arrival…
Serena Williams’s first tournament since coming out of retirement has ended prematurely after her partner Victoria Mboko was forced to withdraw from the Queen’s Club tournament after injuring her knee when slipping on the grass in her singles match on Wednesday.Williams made a sensational return to competition at 44 after a four-year absence on Tuesday alongside Mboko as the pair defeated the third seeds Nicole Melichar Martinez and Erin Routliffe 7-6(2), 6-2. The pair were scheduled to face Leylah Fernandez and Laura Siegemund on Thursday afternoon.Mboko, the third seed at Queen’s Club, played her opening singles match a day later…
In 2024, Evans sacrificed the 500 ranking points he had won at the Washington Open the previous year to partner fellow Briton Andy Murray for his final tournament at the Paris Olympics.The pair lost in the quarter-finals in what was the last match of Murray’s illustrious career.”Representing Great Britain in both Davis Cup and the Olympics remains the greatest honour of my career and something I will cherish for the rest of my life,” added Evans, who played 28 Davis Cup ties for Great Britain.Evans, who was suspended for a year after testing positive for cocaine in 2017, thanked his…
Wimbledon has announced the biggest prize money increase in the history of the Championships, but the rise may not appease the top tennis players in dispute with the grand slam tournaments.The All England Club revealed a prize money purse of £64.2m, a 20% increase from last year and a £10.7m rise. The increase represents, according to the players, roughly 15% of the revenue generated by the Championships.This figure is unlikely to appease the player group, which had pushed for a 16% revenue share in meetings with the All England Club during the French Open, which would have translated to slightly…
Shaun Edwards’ departure from France’s national team is being negotiated, with the fabled defence coach set to be without a role a year out from the Rugby World Cup.The 59-year-old’s exit is complicated by the 18 months remaining on his contract and France’s desire to protect confidentiality around tactics.France have won the Six Nations three times during Edwards’ stint, but they conceded more tries than any other team apart from bottom side Wales en route to the 2026 title.Edwards has been absent from France’s training camps since the tournament, while relations between the Wigan and Great Britain rugby league legend…
Outside of his playing days in football, former NFL player Lyle Alzado once starred in a sitcom about a teacher who moonlights as a masked pro wrestler. Alzado, who had a highly successful 18-year career in the NFL, turned to the world of acting following his playing days. In 1988, the former pro starred in a sitcom titled Learning the Ropes. In it, he played a high school teacher who moonlighted as a masked professional wrestler, and had to keep his identity secret. The show featured various NWA stars at the time as guest stars, and ran for one season,…
Their relationship transcends the sport but they share the goal of qualifying for the Olympics together in 2028.Jake has been down this path before, narrowly missing out in an Irish internal race-off for one place in the C1 event at the Paris Games two years ago.”I’d say Tokyo [Olympics in 2021], I was sort of on the edge of being in it then. I felt like I had an outside chance,” he said.”Then Paris was the one that I was really pushing for and was pretty disappointed then that I didn’t make it.”In terms of keeping going, I’d say, love…
When Chris Jericho came back to AEW in April, I figured I’d give him a shot. He had been gone for nearly a year at that point, so his booking was going to feel fresh no matter what, right? Well, he’s entering just his second feud since his return, and it already feels like a new Jericho Vortex. The New Jericho Vortex of Bald, if you will, and it already feels pointless and redundant. I’m sure it’s because Jericho loves his catchphrases and attempting to get goofy things over, and now, he’s trying to overtake the sickos’ love of chanting…
Christie isn’t the only one to have such hopes. A nation is waiting patiently.It’s down to the standards set by Christie, his team-mates and head coach Steve Clarke – who “completely changed the set-up” of the national team.”When I first joined international football, I know I was a bit younger and probably a bit quieter, but I was counting down the days until I could go back home,” the 31-year-old explained. “It’s the polar opposite now. If we’re meeting up on a Monday, everyone flies up on the Saturday night to spend an extra day with each other – it’s…
The stand-off between Ten Hag and Sancho lasted four months, before Sancho joined Dortmund on loan for the remainder of the season and helped them reach the Champions League final.But they could not afford to keep him and, although United sporting director Dan Ashworth was credited with brokering the truce that allowed Sancho to join up with United in the pre-season of 2024, it was a temporary situation, which Chelsea seemed to solve by agreeing a loan that committed them to a permanent transfer at the end of the season.Yet, after five goals in 41 appearances, Chelsea preferred to pay…