Women’s Super League
Arsenal have signed the Japan forward Mana Iwabuchi from Aston Villa after a lengthy courtship of the 2011 World Cup winner. Iwabuchi was going to join Arsenal in the summer window in 2019 and then in January but with the Japan FA wanting to wait until after the Tokyo Olympics the deals were scuppered. With the Games delayed she joined Villa last January before finally arriving at Arsenal. The Gunners have also added England’s Nikita Parris from seven-time European champions Lyon.
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Rehanne Skinner’s first transfer window as head coach of Tottenham has begun with the capture…
Michael Skubala was not joking when he suggested Sean Dyche might struggle to recognise him were they to bump into each other in the street. “I’ve met Sean a couple of times,” said the Leeds caretaker manager. “But he probably doesn’t remember me.”
He and Dyche should be rather better acquainted by the end of Saturday afternoon’s Premier League fixture at Goodison Park, where the latter is hoping his new Everton side can leapfrog Leeds and, for the moment at least, escape the bottom three.
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It promises to be an intriguing tactical duel between the alpha male Dyche and the former England futsal coach who readily acknowledges he is very much a…
The Premier League has acted like a “bully” in its dealings over extra money for the football pyramid, Gary Neville has said. Talks over a new deal on television money between the Premier League and the EFL have been on hold since March, with no sign of imminent resumption.
Football’s independent regulator is very likely be given “backstop” powers to settle the dispute, with the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy, stating on Monday that the legislation to bring forward the regulator would be introduced to parliament “within a matter of weeks”.
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The Premier League is committed to investing £1.6bn in solida…
Of the 58 players selected in the 2023 NBA Draft, 46 went the traditional route: They played collegiately. NBA teams have drafted a handful of players outside of that pathway for years, especially in the second round. Nearly 80 percent of players selected coming through the college ranks might appear normal. Except for the fact that four of the top-five selections, and half of the top 10 in 2023, never set foot on a college basketball court. That is the highest number of non-Men’s College Basketball players selected in the top five since 2001, when players were still allowed to enter the NBA Draft out of high school. Pau Gasol was drafted out of Spain while Kwame Brown, Tyson Chandler, and Eddy Curry went straight from the prep section of the sports page to the Association. Even with …
We can't say we're all that disappointed, considering we are current residents, that New York City has abandoned its quixotic attempt to host an Olympic Games. After its 2012 bid fell flat on its bagel, the city is sitting out the next round; it is not among the three U.S. cities applying for the 2016 Summer Games. So, who's going for it? • Chicago. For heaven's sake, keep Steve Bartman away from the javelin! • Los Angeles. We will be actively disappointed if Tom Cruise doesn't end up lighting the Olympic flame. This city could never work, though; we'd end up accusing half the athletes of illegally immigrating. • San Francisco. Hey, we know they don't care about the doping. With the finalists announced, the United States Olympic Committee el…
The MLS players’ union, as it does every year, released the salaries for all of its current players today. Former Real Madrid legend and Orlando City SC midfielder Kaka once again topped the list for highest paid players with $7.17 million in guaranteed compensation. Just behind him is Toronto FC’s Italian star Sebastian Giovinco making $7.12 million. Giovinco’s teammate and USMNT captain Michael Bradley is in third at $6.5 million. Rounding out the top five are NYFC’s Andrea Pirlo with $5.9 million, and Spanish star David Villa at $5.6 million. LA Galaxy’s Mexican star Giovani dos Santos is right behind Villa at $5.5 million, while newly minted Chicago Fire player Bastian Schweinsteiger comes in at seventh, earning $5.4 million. USMNT and Toronto striker Jozy Altidore makes …
Here it is, the song that you are going to be so damn sick and tired of hearing by the time the 2014 World Cup is over. Wrap your ears around Pitbull and J. Lo's "We Are One (Ole Ola)." I'm not here to pass judgement on Pitbull's abilities as a rapper (Pitbull is Pitbull, whaddya want from him?), nor the quality of this song (It's a lowest-common-denominator anthem for an international sporting event, whaddaya want from it?), but I do take issue with all that damn whistling. I plan on watching a lot of World Cup games, which means that whistle is going to crawl its way into my ear canal and stay there for the whole summer. That's going to be a huge bummer. Having said all that, ¡Daleeeeeee! …
Football season is upon us, which means that thousands of angry, horny, feisty pretend fans will converge upon this great nation's red cup-littered parking lots to participate in traditional tailgating revelry. We do not want those stories. Not at all. • I do not want to hear about the tricked out party bus you fashioned out of an ice cream truck and painted blue and red for your beloved Buffalo Bills. • I do not want to hear about how your uncle's truck has a thirty-foot smoker attached to the hitch to he drags to each Texas Tech game to smoke a live pig. • I don't want to hear about corn-holing — unless there's a unique angle to it and/or someone gets hospitalized. So, to sum up, no obvious stuff you'll see every dopey local low-level sports anchor …
Canada—a country known planet-wide for its legendary rudeness and treachery—is denying foreign athletes access to Olympics sites in the run-up to the Vancouver Games, in order to protect their precious home-snow advantage. Oh….it is on, hosers. The dirty Canucks have decided that since their country is 98% uninhabitable ice, that somehow entitles them to all the gold medals at the Winter Olympics. Their maple-soaked organizing committee wants HockeyWorld to not only claim the most medals in its history, they want to win more medals than any other nation next year. (A laughable notion, of course.) Their only hope for that to happen is to deny innocent, non-moose riding athletes much-needed training runs on the unique and dangerous courses for sports like bobsled and downhill skiing…
data-mm-id=”_lpmosom41″>You might need some extra peanuts and cracker jacks. The 2019 World Series begins tonight in the Lone Star State (8:08 p.m. ET, Fox) and it promises to be a good one. Houston's Astros will seek their second title in three seasons, while the Artists Formerly Known as the Montreal Expos play their first Fall Classic under the Washington Nationals moniker.After two, or, in Washington's case, three, rounds of playoff action, we've seen the typical heroes rise to the occasion, as Jose Altuve, Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg, and Justin Verlander have each made their impact felt across the postseason. However, this World Series could bring about heroes and happenings you never saw coming…Jake Marisnick Will Get a Big Hit At Some PointIf anyone's …