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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…
It took Harry Kane four games and 269 minutes to even manage a shot on target at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.He looked tired early in that tournament and I felt he needed a rest after England’s first two matches.Things could not be more different this time – he will be on top of the world after scoring twice in the 4-2 win against Croatia.As a striker, the one thing you desperately want to do at any major tournament is get off to a good start.I was lucky enough to do that myself for England when we beat Tunisia…
Friday Night SmackDown aired this week from inside the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri, eight days away from Night of Champions. Cathy Kelley interviewed Jade Cargill, B-Fab, and Michin. Wondering where The Storm’s focus lies next, Cargill said that the three of them do what they want and that they run the women’s division, so best believe that they’re going to make a pit stop at Tiffany Stratton since she doesn’t know how to mind grown folk’s business. B-Fab adds that Stratton wasn’t even in the Queen of the Ring tournament, but decided to go out there and screw…
As the clock ticked towards the final quarter hour of Switzerland’s match against Bosnia and Herzegovina, the two teams were locked in a stalemate.Then everything changed. Substitute Johan Manzambi came off the bench and needed only three minutes to score. By the final whistle he had two goals, Switzerland had scored four times after the 70th minute, and Bosnia became only the third team in World Cup history to concede four or more goals from the 70th minute onwards.It was an extreme example of a trend that has emerged across World Cup 2026.Of the tournament’s 96 goals so far, 28…
In the end, it was try-scoring highs that convinced Grace to keep going.”It’s a bit of an addiction because the feeling of playing and scoring is something that you want to keep experiencing again and again,” said the wing.”One day I will be too old to even think about doing it again, so that’s why I am giving it everything to come back.”I am confident I will get back to my best. I have rehabbed with some of the best in the world and know what I need to do and where I need to get myself.”Grace is a realist.…
Ronda Rousey and Jake Paul have taunted the UFC and Dana White for failing to break Most Valuable Promotions’ MMA record audience figure with the White House event last week.US broadcaster Paramount said UFC 250 Freedom on Sunday reached 7m people in the US on Paramount+.Netflix said Rousey’s 15-second demolition of Gina Carano in May had a US average audience of 9.3m and a US “peak audience” of 11.6m.Paul, who co-founded MVP with Nakisa Bidarian, wrote on X: “As a boxing promoter it feels good waking up today being the biggest MMA promoter.”Paul has a history of taunting UFC president…
Charlotte Flair’s journey to the Queen of the Ring finals ended on the June 19 episode of SmackDown. The 14-time Women’s Champion was scheduled to face Liv Morgan in a semifinal match, but a backstage attack left her dealing with a badly injured knee before the match even started. Before the match, Flair spoke with Cathy Kelley backstage and pointed out that she hasn’t held a singles championship in several years and said she plans to win Queen of the Ring before chasing her 15th world title at SummerSlam. But things quickly took a turn for the worse. As Flair…
“Tennis is in a good place, but I think it could be better,” says Tim Henman when asked about the state of the sport that has consumed most of his life. He will soon outline ways tennis could be improved but, first, it helps to remember that the 51-year-old played in six grand slam semi-finals, including four at Wimbledon, won an Olympic silver medal and became No 4 in the world despite constant gripes from part-time tennis supporters who wrongly said he lacked the grit of an elite player.Yet grit filters through Henman’s memories and explains why he loves tennis…
Philadelphia was painted yellow as Brazil fans flooded into the city in their tens of thousands. There were many ticketless supporters who travelled large distances to watch the game on television in bars, just happy to be in the same city as their heroes played on the World Cup stage.Ancelotti struck a defiant tone at his post-match news conference, where the first question was: This was an improvement on Morocco, but what didn’t you like about the match?”We were much better first half. In the second half, they had little bit more control, but we had opportunities to score more…
WWE On “SmackDown”, Liv Morgan defeated an injured Charlotte Flair to advance to the Queen of the Ring finals. Prior to the match, Flair was attacked by Jade Cargill, B-Fab, and Michin, who focused on her surgically repaired knee. Nick Aldis and Alexa Bliss tried to convince her to forfeit, but she refused. Morgan chopped her knee before the match started. Once the bell rang, Flair connected with a clothesline. Morgan focused on attacking Flair’s knee in various ways. Flair rolled her up and went for a Figure Four, but…