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Glamorgan Cricket has announced a one-year deal with Brains Brewery, which will run throughout the 2026 season, making the brewer the club’s official ale partner. The agreement includes matchday sponsorship and gives Brains pouring rights at Sophia Gardens across matchdays as well as the venue’s year-round conference and events programme. Ed Rice, commercial director at Glamorgan Cricket, said: “We’re delighted to welcome Brains as our Official Ale Partner for the 2026 season. “As a Cardiff-founded brand with such a proud heritage and deep connections to the Club, this partnership feels like a natural fit. “We’re particularly excited for supporters to…

Arsenal demand £20m for Gabriel Jesus, Manchester City prioritise move for Elliot Anderson and RB Leipzig adamant Liverpool target Yan Diomande is going nowhere. Arsenal are demanding up to £20m for Brazil striker Gabriel Jesus, 29, this summer. (Athletic – subscription required) , externalManchester City are prioritising a move for Nottingham Forest and England midfielder Elliot Anderson, 23, as they look to kick-start the post-Pep Guardiola era. (Mail), externalBut City have no interest in signing Chelsea’s wantaway Argentina midfielder Enzo Fernandez, 25. (Sky Sports), externalRB Leipzig are adamant Ivory Coast winger Yan Diomande, 19, who is a target for Liverpool,…

One of the biggest developments coming out of the SEC Spring Meetings in Destin, Fla., is that the conference is doing away with the oft-derided “cupcake weekend” of scheduling during the college football season.For those unaware, a “cupcake weekend” was generally the slate of games right before rivalry weekend, typically during the penultimate week of the season.Fans of other conferences are likely cheering this news, as they have viewed this week of games as a slap in the face to competitive college football late in the season, but for diehard SEC fans such as myself, it’s just the death of…

After spending the 2025 campaign with the Atlanta Falcons and New York Giants, Younghoe Koo has found a new team. Per SNY’s Connor Hughes, the veteran kicker is signing with the New York Jets for the 2026 campaign. Koo started his career with the Los Angeles Chargers before a stint in the AAF. He returned to the NFL in 2019, first as a member of the New England Patriots’ practice squad before signing with Atlanta.He found success with the Falcons, earning a Pro Bowl nod in 2020 after he had a 94.9 percent field goal rate and led the NFL…

Lance Pugmire has been a full-time boxing writer for nearly 20 years, serving now as BoxingScene’s U.S. Senior Writer and assistant producer for ProBoxTV’s “BoxingScene Today.” Pugmire capped a near 20-year career at the Los Angeles Times (sports investigations, NHL/MLB beat work, law enforcement/courts and boxing/UFC) to join The Athletic, and then USA Today. Pugmire’s stint at The Times started with the first Israel Vazquez-Rafael Marquez fight and the Oscar De La Hoya-Floyd Mayweather Jnr then-record pay-per-view, leading through a slew of ringside assignments at major bouts, including Mayweather-Pacquiao, Mayweather-Canelo and the Canelo-Golovkin trilogy. Lance’s appreciation for boxing is rooted…

Martin Andersson took six wickets as Derbyshire Falcons thrashed Leicestershire Foxes by 85 runs to record their first win of the T20 Blast season. The seam-bowling all-rounder backed up a half-century with the bat by taking a career-best 6-23 with the ball, the best bowling figures by any Derbyshire bowler in T20 history.The Foxes, for whom Australian all-rounder Ashton Turner top-scored with 53 from 22 balls, suffered a third defeat, bowled out for 145 in 15.2 overs.Derbyshire capitalised on a lightning start to hammer a formidable 230-5 – just one short of their record in the format – after Caleb…

Jakub Mensik collapsed on court after his second-round win and Novak Djokovic sweltered for almost four hours as players were made to work hard on another hot Paris day at the French Open.Temperatures reached the mid-30s in Celsius as the heatwave in France continued.Mensik, 20, was overcome with emotion and cramp as he fell to the floor after beating Argentina’s Mariano Navone 6-3 2-6 6-4 1-6 7-6 (13-11) in four hours and 40 minutes.The Czech – whose flashes of brilliance in his young career have been beset by injury – was struggling to move and needed eight match points to…

The Georgia Bulldogs will open their season at home against the Tennessee State Tigers on Saturday, Sept. 5 at 3 p.m. ET. This year, Georgia is looking to return to the College Football Playoff for a third consecutive time and to win their fourth SEC championship in five seasons.The Bulldogs will be heavily favored against Tennessee State. Georgia opens the 2026 college football season against a pair of non-Power Four opponents before playing their SEC opener in Week 3 against the Arkansas Razorbacks.Georgia’s 2026 schedule features nine SEC games for the first time in conference history. Georgia will play four…

A reporter asked New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye at his press conference Wednesday during offseason team activities whether he was “thicker” with two c’s this year.Reporter: “To follow up, rude question, are you thicker with two C’s? Is that the way you’re supposed to say it? Kinda like the hip thing.” Maye: “Say that one more time?” Reporter: “Are you thicker with two C’s? Is that how it’s supposed to be, or…Maye: “I think that’s pause, if that’s anything. I think that’s not the way to put it…um.”The reporter then clarified that he was asking whether Maye felt better…

Brendon McCullum has promised to use “a firm grip” to eradicate issues with alcohol and attitude among the England squad, admitting that “there were some mistakes made” by his players during last winter’s tours of New Zealand and Australia.In his first interview since returning to England for the start of the international summer, with the first Test against New Zealand starting at Lord’s next Thursday, McCullum conceded that his team had proved unable to handle the pressure of an away Ashes series.He also admitted that there had been “differences of opinion” with his Test captain, Ben Stokes, a player whose…