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After a monumental 9-0 victory at Virtue Field to start the long weekend, Vermont Green FC must now prepare for a road trip to Nashua, New Hampshire on Wednesday to face Black Rock FC. HISTORY Vermont Green FC and Black Rock FC have played eight matches in their history, including Vermont’s first ever home match in 2022. The Champions secured six important points from the two fixtures last summer, but the Granite Staters have always proved to be one of the more difficult opponents in the Northeast. The Green won 2-0 in Nashua with goals from Marcell Papp and Joseph…
Basketball legend Michael Jordan has paid tribute to Pep Guardiola as the departing Manchester City manager was given a final sendoff during an open-top bus parade and after-party featuring an on-stage contract announcement by one of the club’s top players.After the parade through the streets of Manchester on Monday, a sellout crowd of 19,000 inside the Co-op Live arena near City’s Etihad Stadium witnessed a video message from Jordan to Guardiola on the big screen.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“Hey, Pep, this is Michael Jordan,” the six-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion said. “I just want to congratulate…
Overeagerness and impatience could ruin a team’s NFL Draft. The 2026 NFL Draft was no different, with anxiousness having derailed certain classes around the league. Some teams reached for prospects or positions that led to questionable decisions.Appropriately navigating the NFL Draft includes letting the board fall and taking advantage. Various organizations struggled to successfully do that in 2026. Making mistakes could have multi-year impacts.We’ve identified five teams that displayed their overeagerness during the 2026 NFL Draft. Whether they reached to appease personnel packages or positional needs, committing to a strategy before the draft begins is an error in judgment. These…
A growing clamour for greater cricket representation at the top saw the permitted number of former players increase from two to four, with 73 per cent of members voting in favour of the change. Club legend David Lloyd was among those present at Old Trafford to see the vote pass. However, the rule change, which refers to former employees rather than players, still leaves the club’s nominations committee in control of deciding who to put forward. Lloyd, along with other former players, is reported to have lodged a complaint with the ECB over chief executive Daniel Gidney’s remarks dismissing the…
Oisin McConville feels “100% there will be” further sanctions imposed following the ugly half-time scenes from Donegal’s All-Ireland SFC win over Kerry on Saturday and believes the GAA will “go after Jim McGuinness”.After the hooter sounded to signal half-time, an altercation between both sets of players broke out with Kerry’s Micheal Burns striking Ryan McHugh, leaving the Donegal man with a cut over his eye, which enraged the Donegal boss who appeared to step in.The Kingdom forward was shown red by referee Sean Hurson after the teams returned to the pitch for the start of the second period.Dublin manager Ger…
Virginia Tech football underwent a plethora of changes during and after the 2025 season. The Hokies stumbled to an 0-3 start, fired head coach Brent Pry a day after a 45-26 blowout loss to Old Dominion, hired James Franklin just under two months later and ended the season with a 3-9 (2-6 ACC) record — their lowest winning percentage since the 1992 season.With that in mind, here are my top three individual performances from the 2025 season, which still saw its fair share of highlights amid an often dim season:No. 3 — Kemari Copeland vs. California — Oct. 24, 2025On…
WWE Superstar Danhausen chimed in after the New York Knicks defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers 130-93 in the Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals on Monday to sweep their way into the NBA Finals.Danhausen posted a photo of himself holding up a Knicks towel on X with the caption, “UNCURSED.”In recent weeks, Danhausen has been synonymous with the Knicks’ success due to his cursing and subsequent uncursing of the franchise.Last month, Danhausen appeared on ESPN’s First Take and cursed the Knicks because he didn’t like the way ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith was treating him.The Knicks fell behind 2-1 to…
Alright everybody, your resident beacon of hope is here who has brought you such hits as the worst deals of free agency and worst potential fits for remaining free agents. Today, I build the worst possible team ahead of the 2026 season.Now, we won’t be going player-by-player to build a 53-man roster. Instead, we’ll go by position groups on offense and defense to construct a unit that could potentially go 0-17. And don’t worry, I’ll be building the best team in the coming days. Enjoy.Quarterbacks: Cleveland BrownsWhat an interesting bunch of apples the Browns’ quarterback room is. One apple has…
Benafsha Hashimi’s calling is cricket. She was contracted by the Afghanistan Cricket Board when a women’s national side was in development, just before the return of the Taliban in 2021. She subsequently fled as an 18-year-old to Australia where most of her teammates also went, forming a team in exile. Hashimi was part of the Afghan Women XI that played their first game last year in Melbourne. While the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan continue to disappear, Hashimi and her teammates have defied the regime from abroad.The exiled cricketers were joyous last month, celebrating the transformative news for…
Like Wales, Romania missed out on World Cup qualification after losing their play-off semi-final in March.The match in Bucharest will be the first meeting between the teams since 1993, when Wales lost at home to Romania to agonisingly miss out on the 1994 World Cup.This will also be a first home match in charge for the great Gheorghe Hagi, the former Barcelona and Real Madrid playmaker who scored in Cardiff 33 years ago.Hagi was appointed Romania’s manager for the second time in April, taking over from Mircea Lucescu, who died at the age of 80 following a heart attack.Ghana, meanwhile,…