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For years now West Ham United have been the Premier League’s proverbial sleeping giant, but technical director, Tim Steidten, is waking the East Londoners up in a big way.A battle of wills that developed between the German and David Moyes last season was only going to see one winner and, for once, the Hammers made the right decision.For all of Moyes’ success at the London Stadium – lest we forget he brought the club its first major trophy in over four decades – his was a style of play that had begun to look stale and moribund in today’s game.Tim…
The Penarthian could be making his first impression this weekend.
It was a record-breaking semi-final Wimbledon will not forget.Two hours and 51 minutes of brilliant sporting drama as Italian seventh seed Jasmine Paolini defeated unseeded Donna Vekic 2-6 6-4 7-6 (10-8) in the longest women’s semi-final in the tournament’s history.Paolini had never won a match here before July. She has now won six in a row, but none more nerve-wracking than this.After losing a bruising opening set, Paolini was in trouble. At 4-3 and a break down in the final set, Vekic was two games from glory, despite being hampered by an injury to her right arm.Paolini fought back and…
By Elliot Foster Lucas Biswana has been rewarded with a lucrative promotional deal after winning an ABA title. The Liverpool fighter struck gold in this year’s senior elite tournament in the unpaid code and will now be given the chance to showcase his talents on the biggest of stages. Biswana, who was a national amateur champion with Gemini ABC in his home city before joining the Everton Red Triangle gym, will be trained and managed by the club’s head coach Paul Stevenson. And he is set to be thrust into the spotlight early on in his paid career after signing…
American Peter Uihlein shot one of the rounds of his life today, a course record 10-under-par 61, to surge into the lead at the halfway stage of International Series England – being played at Foxhills Club & Resort, in Surrey. His round, made up of an eagle, nine birdies and one bogey, was remarkably 10 shots better than his first round and saw him move to 10-under for the US$2million event. The LIV Golf star leads by one from Belgium’s Thomas Pieters – his RangeGoats GC team-mate on the LIV Golf League and joint-first round leader – and surprise-package Robert…
The Denver Nuggets received a disabled player exception worth $1.53 million on Thursday for rookie DaRon Holmes, who suffered a torn Achilles during the fourth quarter of his first NBA Summer League game against the Los Angeles Clippers on July 12. Holmes, who turns 22 on Aug. 15, is expected to miss the entire 2024-25 NBA season. Per Spotrac, the exception is worth precisely $1,532,820, half of the rookie’s $3,065,640 salary for the 2024-25 campaign. The Denver Nuggets have received a disabled player exception for 1.53 million, league sources tell The Athletic. This is in the wake of losing rookie…
Tom Aspinall wants Stipe Miocic to take a lesson from the 46th President of the United States. Despite extensive calls for UFC to scrap Miocic’s expected title challenge against UFC heavyweight champion Jon Jones, UFC CEO Dana White tripled down on his promotion’s plans to proceed with the bout this past week, arguing that Jones and Miocic “both deserve it” and that he’s “showing both of these guys the respect” of rebooking the matchup after it fell through in November 2023 at UFC 295 due to a Jones shoulder injury. Aspinall instead stepped up at UFC 295 and captured the…
Paris Olympics: Chen Yiwen Keeps China 7 for 7 in Diving China continued to dominate diving at the 2024 Paris Olympics with yet another gold-medal performance. Chen Yiwen earned the gold medal on the women’s 3-meter springboard as the Chinese went 1-3 in the competition. Chang Yani took the bronze. Australia’s Maddison Keeney split up the Chinese divers with a silver-medal performance. It was China’s seventh gold medal in diving in Paris as the country is aiming for a sweep of all eight events, something that has never been done before. China has won 54 of 71…
Jack Carlin brought home the bronze medal in the Paris Olympics men’s track cycling individual sprint event on Friday, but he did so to a mix of cheers from the Union Jack-waving British fans and boos from the orange-clad Dutch supporters of his rival in the final, Jeffrey Hoogland.Carlin had faced a warning in his quarterfinal match when he defeated Japan’s Ota Kaiya in the third head-to-head, and the memory of the incident was fresh in the mind of the Dutch coach, Mehdi Kordi, when Carlin faced Hoogland for the bronze medal.Carlin won the first match sprint, while Hoogland claimed…
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