Month: April 2021

9:20 AM ET Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has said it was “great” the Super League didn’t happen as he defended the club’s owners over the shelved plans, but also launched a stinging attack on the new-look format of the Champions League. Klopp, speaking ahead of Liverpool’s key Premier League match against Newcastle on Saturday, was
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5:40 AM ET Ligue 1 club Bordeaux have been placed in administration after their American-based owners King Street said they no longer wished to support the club financially. The former French champions have been struggling financially due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the premature end to the 2019-20 season also resulted in
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1:44 PM ET Several hundred Arsenal fans protested outside Emirates Stadium before the team’s English Premier League match against Everton on Friday to call for owner Stan Kroenke to leave the club over its bid to join the Super League. – Marcotti: How Super League fell apart– Hamilton: How fan revolt helped end Super League
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12:04 PM ET Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs has been charged for assault. Mark Hawkins / Barcroft Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images Wales manger Ryan Giggs was charged on Friday with assaulting two women for incidents from 2017 to 2020, Greater Manchester Police said. The former Manchester United midfielder was accused of causing “actual
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9:31 AM ET Rob DawsonCorrespondent Ed Woodward never recovered from the summer of 2013. Thrown in at the deep end when legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson and CEO David Gill left Manchester United within months of each other, he wanted to make a splash. Instead, it was a flop. The transfer window, his first as
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11:46 AM ET After an all-virtual 2020 NFL draft, commissioner Roger Goodell and the league are ready to embrace a return to normal. Goodell has been vaccinated and given the go-ahead to hug, high-five, shake hands and dap up players selected in next week’s draft. Last year, the COVID-19 pandemic forced players to celebrate the
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12:59 PM ET CHICAGO — Steve McMichael, the charismatic former Chicago Bears Super Bowl champion defensive lineman and ex-WCW professional wrestler, revealed in an interview with the Chicago Tribune that doctors diagnosed him with ALS three months ago. “I promise you, this epitaph that I’m going to have on me now? This ain’t ever how
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12:46 PM ET Associated Press BARCELONA, Spain — Rafael Nadal brushed aside Cameron Norrie 6-1, 6-4 to ease into the semifinals of the Barcelona Open on Friday and moved closer to a record-extending 12th title at the event. After Nadal breezed through the first set, Britain’s Norrie won back a break in the second. Nadal,
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