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Atalanta manager, Ivan Juric has confirmed in a pre-match press conference that Ademola Lookman will be back in the squad for their Serie A clash against Torino on Sunday. The last time Lookman featured for Atalanta was on May 25th last season. Since July, he had stopped training with the team after openly expressing his […]

Former NFF Technical Committee chairman, Barrister Chris Green, has criticized FIFA for what he described as an “unfortunate” delay in addressing South Africa’s breach of player eligibility rules related to the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. Seven months after the incident, FIFA announced that it had launched disciplinary proceedings against the South African Football Association […]

Former Super Eagles captain, Austin “Jay-Jay” Okocha has opened up on the struggles Nigeria’s U-23 team endured before making history at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. According to Okocha, the ‘Dream team’ faced major challenges in camp due to neglect from the NFF. He revealed that during their training camp in the United States, […]

Eastside Golf and Nike have done it again. A new collaboration between the two brands is here and golf fans are going to benefit greatly from it. The “Take Flight” collection features two new Eastside Golf x Nike footwear models – the Nike Air Max Plus G, featuring spikeless integrated traction, and Eastside Golf’s second […]

Friday’s pair of practice sessions at the Formula 1 Grand Prix saw the Visa Cash App Racing Bulls pair of Liam Lawson and Isack Hadjar in the middle of the pack. Hadjar finished in P10 in FP1 and then in P13 in FP2, while Lawson finished ninth in the first hour and seventh in the […]

The United States was always going to have a great pro basketball league, but it didn’t have to be the WNBA, or at least WNBA history didn’t have to unfold exactly as it did. When the WNBA began play in the late 1990s, there already existed another (and many said better) women’s pro basketball association […]

It’s really difficult not to have empathy for Mike McDaniel. On Thursday night he lost again, with the Dolphins now falling to 0-3 in a game that could have existential implications on his future as an NFL head coach. It was a familiar refrain from McDaniel’s team, where they were on the precipice of actually […]

When the Miami Dolphins extended quarterback Tua Tagovailoa in 2024, it was part of a much larger trend of QBs getting paid that offseason. With the rapidly rising price, teams were incentivized to get a deal done before the next domino fell somewhere else and raised the price again. The Dolphins secured Tua for the […]

The games always come thick and fast for the top sides, but having beat Burnley last Sunday before taking on Atletico Madrid on Wednesday and now with an early Saturday kickoff against Everton to prepare for, Liverpool are dealing with an especially compressed schedule. Fortunately for Liverpool manager Arne Slot, the return of Curtis Jones […]

LIVERPOOL VS. EVERTON | Saturday, September 20th |Premier League | Anfield12:30PM BST/7:30AM EST Liverpool head into matchweek five the only undefeated side remaining in the Premier League. Despite that, the general consensus is that despite that perfect domestic record along with a victory over Atletico Madrid in their Champions League curtain raiser this week for […]

Somehow, someway, the Indiana Fever did it. With Caitlin Clark, Sophie Cunningham, Aari McDonald, Sydney Colson, Damiris Dantas, and Chloe Bibby all sidelined, the Fever defeated the Atlanta Dream 87-85 to advance to the semi-finals. It was a team-wide effort, headlined by All-WNBA candidate Kelsey Mitchell, who poured in a game-high 24 points, as she […]

The Indiana Fever cleared many seemingly insurmountable hurdles this season on their way to the WNBA playoffs, but Thursday’s felt like the tallest yet. Not only were they matched up against the No. 2 seed Atlanta Dream, they were tasked with facing them on the road in a do-or-die Game 3. But after being counted […]