One journalist believes that Liverpool could offer what Alexis Mac Allister considers ‘the most important thing’ to him in what he seeks in a manager, amid a warning that a Premier League rival could do the same.The Reds are reported to have agreed personal terms with the Brighton midfielder (Ben Jacobs) and are set to pay in the region of £55m-£60m to sign him after activating his release clause (Football Insider).However, Manchester City still hold out hope of an 11th-hour hijack for the Argentine (The Mirror), with him and Pep Guardiola sharing a warm embrace after their respective teams’ recent…
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Former West Indies captains Carl Hooper and Floyd Reifer have been appointed as assistants to new white-ball head coach Daren Sammy ahead of West Indies’ three-match ODI series against UAE and the World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe. Former New Zealand allrounder James Franklin has also joined the staff as an assistant coach.Hooper, who played 102 Tests and 227 ODIs, has worked at various levels of coaching in the Caribbean and Australia, where he is now settled. He was assistant coach of Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League (BBL) during the 2022-23 Australian summer, and has previously worked with Antigua…
Australian basketball world champion and two-time Olympic silver medallist Penny Taylor will be inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame later this year.Key points:Taylor was a member of the Opals squad that won the 2006 World CupShe won three WNBA championships with Phoenix MercuryTaylor competed at three OlympicsThe former Opals captain and three-time Olympian will join Chinese legend Yao Ming among 10 players recognised by the sport’s international governing body at a ceremony in the Philippines during the men’s World Cup in August.Taylor claimed two Olympic silver medals but her crowning moment came when she won tournament MVP honours in the…
CNN — More than 200 people have been killed and hundreds injured in a collision involving two passenger trains and a goods train in the Indian city of Balasore, in one of the worst rail crashes in recent history. At least 233 people have died and 900 are injured, state chief secretary Pradeep Jena said on Twitter following the disaster in eastern Odisha state on Friday. The death toll is expected to rise as teams carry out a colossal rescue operation, Jena told a press conference. Images from the scene showed rescuers attempting to find survivors in a damaged rail…
Kenya’s world record breaker Faith Kipyegon has helped Australian star Jessica Hull post a new national benchmark in the women’s 1,500 metres at the Diamond League athletics meet in Florence.Key points:Kipyegon posted a world record with a time of 3:49.11Hull was third in the race, running 3:57.29She broke her national and Oceania record set at the Tokyo OlympicsKipyegon put in a blistering last lap to obliterate the world record with a time of three minutes and 49.11 seconds on Saturday AEST.After running solo at the front in the final lap, two-time Olympic gold medallist Kipyegon smashed the previous world mark of 3:50.07 set…
Stat-padding days are hard to come by, even for an England team that plays a lot of Test cricket. But on Friday at Lord’s, it seemed everyone who made it out to the middle were able to touch up their personal statistics at the expense of a willing but lacking Ireland attack.Ollie Pope registered a maiden double-hundred in his first official innings as vice-captain, which also happened to be the fastest made in England. Ben Duckett marked his first appearance at home in 27 international caps with not only a second century but beating Don Bradman’s 166-ball record for the…
When Narges Mohammadi was just a little girl, her mother told her to never become political. The price of fighting the system in a country like Iran would be too high.That warning has proved prescient.Ms. Mohammadi, 51, Iran’s most prominent human rights and women’s rights activist, is now serving a 10-year jail sentence in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison for “spreading anti-state propaganda.”Her current imprisonment is hardly her first encounter with Iran’s harsh approach to dissent.Over the past 30 years, Iran’s government has penalized her over and over for her activism and her writing, depriving her of most of what she…
70 This Saturday, Manchester United will face rivals Manchester City in the FA Cup Final. It is the first time a Manchester Derby is taking place at this stage of the competition and is bound to be a fiery affair as City aim to be only the second English team to win the Treble, after United did the unthinkable back in 1999. United will enter the contest as underdogs if betting sites and the media are anything to go by but research released today suggests otherwise. OLBG have compiled stats to help predict who will walk away with silverware. Research…
By 10am, the queue for entry at Lord’s North Gate was quite frankly eye-popping. It stretched past the Wellington Hospital, past the BP garage, down towards the road that provides a shortcut to the Beatles’ zebra crossing. But for the buses tiptoeing past those punters who had spilled off the pavements, it would have wormed all the way across the road to the aisles of Panzer’s delicatessen, from whence more than a few of today’s Nursery Ground picnics are sure to have been picked up.And to view the splendid scene that lay beyond those gates – with near-packed stands on…
Liverpool’s transfer talk of late has very much centred around the name Manu Kone and whilst a lot of focus has been on trying to learn more about the player, this latest update may well be the most significant of all.As reported by German outlet Kicker (translated): ‘Nils Schmadtke is to become sporting director of Borussia Mönchengladbach’ and that name might well ring a bell, as he is the son of our very own Jorg Schmadtke.Having the child of our sporting director holding the same role at the club of a player we are trying to sign in this window, should only point…
