Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was surprised to hear one reporter refer to the Community Shield as a pre-season friendly. The Toe Poke Daily is here every day to bring you all the weirdest stories, quirkiest viral content and top trolling that the internet has to offer, all in one place. Jump to: Daniel James moonlights
Month: August 2019
10:24 PM ET Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. — Jake Beber-Frankel, the 17-year-old son of Academy Award-winning director David Frankel, shot a 10-under 60 on Wednesday for the lowest score in the history of the Boys Junior PGA Championship. Beber-Frankel, from Miami, closed with a par on the ninth hole at Keney Park Golf Course, missing
10:00 PM ET NEW YORK — They might have been forced to put their pencils down, but the New York Yankees‘ real test is about to begin. It’s going to be a tough one. Thanks in large part to the gargantuan, buzzer-beating undertaking pulled off by the Houston Astros in the closing seconds of Wednesday’s
The FC crew examine the public spat going on at Bayern Munich between Karl-Heinz Rumminegge and Niko Kovac surrounding Leroy Sane. The European transfer window is open. Click here to review all the latest transfers and keep up to date with the latest gossip below. Top free agents in 2020 | What do Europe’s elite need?
9:49 PM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers didn’t make a big move at the trade deadline, but they’ve got reinforcements coming: Dustin May, their top pitching prospect, will make his major league debut Friday against the San Diego Padres, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. May, 21, is 3-0 with a 2.30 ERA in five starts
9:57 PM ET BJ Penn is a UFC Hall of Famer, a former two-division champion who has had many glorious moments inside the Octagon. But those moments happened long ago. Penn, 40, has lost his last seven fights and has just one victory in his last 11 bouts, a skid extending back to 2010. When
With Nigeria finishing third in the recent Africa Cup of Nations, not a bad result though also not what Super Eagles fans were after, the lack of transfer interest in their players is glaring. Europe’s big leagues appear to have little interest in African football’s biggest team, and with the transfer window slowly closing, there’s
9:15 PM ET Heavyweight Chris Arreola, whose three stoppage losses all came in world title fights, is aiming for one more shot in the twilight of his career, but he said if he cannot defeat rising contender Adam Kownacki in their crossroads fight Saturday, he will retire from boxing. “No disrespect to anybody, no disrespect
9:16 PM ET NEW YORK — Yankees general manager Brian Cashman stood firmly behind his organization’s inactivity during Wednesday’s trade deadline, saying that despite his best efforts, he had trouble finding fair offers with the potential trade partners he spoke to in recent weeks. “We didn’t get close to anything,” Cashman said a couple hours
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was surprised to hear one reporter refer to the Community Shield as a pre-season friendly. Our banker bet won again in midweek and we also tipped Tottenham to beat Real Madrid, but Los Blancos failing to find the net in that one cost us a potential 4/1 winner. The EFL season