Author: Sports News UK
One of the more amusing sights at the Queen’s Club tournament each year comes before even entering the grounds. On the first day of play on Monday, a deluge of spectators invariably descend on Barons Court station, just 150 metres from the entrance.So many people passing through a tiny London Underground station naturally means long queues at the barriers. That congestion is not helped by many of them comically pausing in front of the gates to frantically search for their debit cards or desperately try to unlock their phones.The Queen’s Club crowd may not exactly be the target audience of…
Winger Jeremy Doku has been criticised for saying he wants to leave Belgium’s World Cup camp to be with his wife when she gives birth to their first child.Doku’s wife Shireen is due to give birth during the second week of July and he intends to return home even if the Red Devils are still in the tournament, which would then be at the quarter-final stage.”It’s my first child, so I would definitely want to be there,” the Manchester City forward, 24, told Reuters, external.”If you ask me what I want, my answer is that nobody wants to miss the…
Ryan Garner achieved a childhood dream in his hometown of Southampton with a dominant win over Michael Magnesi in an action-packed fight to claim the WBC interim super-featherweight title.The 28-year-old was the aggressor in the early stages at St Mary’s Stadium and came out on top in a number of brutal close-quarter exchanges.After 12 rounds of action, all three judges scored the fight in favour of ‘The Piranha’ – 116-112, 118-110 and 119-109.In holding the interim belt, Garner is now the number one contender to fight O’Shaquie Foster who holds the full WBC title in the division.”If it wasn’t for…
Kemp played in that dismal Ashes defeat but soon after her back troubles returned. It meant months of frustration, but time to work on her batting. She played a full summer for Hampshire, solely contributing with willow in hand.Gibson, meanwhile, missed the Ashes entirely. She, too, had a back injury and the inability to bowl allowed more time to work on her batting through the winter. In particular, she looked to improve her off-side game and in the final over on Saturday she twice slammed Scotland’s Priyanaz Chatterji through the covers.”I was very leg-side dominant in the past so trying…
A big title match is now set for WWE Night of Champions after Ricky Saints picked up a huge win on the June 19 episode of SmackDown. By defeating Carmelo Hayes, Saints earned a shot at Trick Williams and the United States Championship next week. Last week, WWE announced that the winner of Ricky Saints vs. Carmelo Hayes would get a US Title match against Trick Williams at Night of Champions. Meanwhile, Trick Williams has continued his impressive run on SmackDown. Since winning the United States Championship at WrestleMania 42, he has established himself as the fan favorite. Because of…
Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson continued to work on her first-lap speed by competing in the 400m.Charlotte Henrich won her heat in a personal best of 51.20 seconds but Hodgkinson’s time of 51.62 was enough for her to also qualify for Sunday’s final (16:06 BST).Matthew Hudson-Smith, the 2024 Olympic 400m silver medallist, won his heat in 45.24 to become the fastest qualifier for the men’s final (15:48 BST).One of the stands has been named after the US-based Wolverhampton native for the national and European Championships.”I love being here,” he said. “I put the bat signal out yesterday, ‘I’m back in…
WWE Before his pairing with Paul Heyman on “WWE SmackDown” during the mid-2000s, Jon Heidenreich was almost a cautionary tale. That’s because he was actually let go from WWE in the early 2000s while being under a WWE developmental deal in Ohio Valley Wrestling. Appearing on “Insight with Chris Van Vliet,” Heidenreich explained why he feels he was let go at the time. “I hurt my shoulder…I separated my shoulder, and it took awhile to heal,” Heidenreich said. “I got surgery, then I got released, and I went to Japan.”…
As Northampton skipper Furbank lifted the trophy on his final appearance before joining Harlequins, he leaves a Saints side who have become the team to beat in recent years.Just three league defeats this season saw Saints top the table as they reached their third final in as many seasons, having won the Prem two years ago and made last season’s Champions Cup final.While Furbank may be departing, Saints fans will hope that with stars such as Smith, man-of-the-match Pollock and Freeman forming the backbone of their side they will be coming back to Twickenham in the not too distant future.For…
Ryback is calling out the LAPD after a family dog named Jameson was shot and killed during what should have been a celebration. The former WWE star took to Instagram after watching bodycam footage from the Canoga Park incident. He said his heart goes out to the family and made it clear this one hit hard. Ryback did not say all police officers are bad, but he said this situation shows why better training is needed when cops deal with family pets. “My heart goes out to the family of Jameson, the dog shot by the LAPD. After watching the…
Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, Banks Homes Riverside (day two)Northamptonshire 450: Vasconcelos 187; Raine 3-63Durham 183-3: Stokes 95 (118), Rhodes 58*; Conway 2-23, Sanderson 2-64Match scorecardBen Stokes made 95 for Durham against Northamptonshire as England slipped towards defeat by New Zealand at The Oval.The England captain, absent from the second Test having been made unavailable pending an investigation into an incident in a London nightclub, was bowled five runs short of a century by seamer Harry Conway just after tea at Chester-le-Street.It would have been Stokes’ first century in first-class cricket since hitting 141 against India in the fourth Test…