Amid the clatter of studs and the shouts of encouragement, the players of Racing Santander filed out of the home dressing room and into the tunnel to face their opponents. All of them, that was, except two. The broad-shouldered centre-forward Aitor Aguirre and the winger Sergio Manzanera lingered furtively. “We said that if we could…
England’s captain Ben Stokes (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard) England captain Ben Stokes has urged his side to dig deep and show greater fight as they head into a must win third Ashes Test against Australia, with the series slipping away at 2-0. Speaking ahead of the Adelaide Test starting Wednesday, Stokes said his players must respond…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! LeBron James got the last laugh on Sunday night as he sank two free throws in the final 3.9 seconds to lift the Los Angeles Lakers over the Phoenix Suns, 116-114. James may be in the twilight of his career, but he showed he still had some…
Brendan Rodgers is in talks over a managerial return at Saudi Arabian side Al-Qadsiah. Rodgers resigned from Celtic in October, a move that proved the trigger for a stinging attack from the club’s main shareholder Dermot Desmond. The 52-year-old is yet to address Desmond’s sentiment but is known to have been attractive to Saudi clubs…
Nathan Lyon has conceded no one has a given right to selection in Australia’s Test side but he does not think he has a point to prove as he prepares to return after being left out for the second time in the last three Tests. Lyon, 38, is expected to return for the third Ashes…
Ben Stokes has called on his England players to summon up the rage witnessed against India in the summer and show some “dog” as they look to keep their slim Ashes hopes alive in Adelaide. After going 2-0 down in Brisbane, Stokes spoke of Australia being “no country for weak men” and stressed the same…
Pakistan’s Shaheen Shah Afridi (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed) Shaheen Shah Afridi had a challenging introduction to the Big Bash League on Tuesday, as his debut for Brisbane Heat against Melbourne Renegades at Simonds Stadium turned into a testing evening. The trouble began in the 18th over of the first innings, when Afridi delivered two dangerous waist-high…
Harry Brook has pledged to temper his approach against Australia after a frantic start to the Ashes, after Joe Root warned Australia that Brook is a “generational player” who “is going to deliver at some point” in the series. Brook, who is on his first Ashes tour, made 52, 0, 31 and 15 in the…
Williamson makes first appearance since Euro 2025 Leah Williamson returned to competitive action for the first time in 139 days on Saturday as she made a return from a knee injury late in Arsenal’s 3-1 victory against Everton. The England captain was brought on to replace Steph Catley as an 82nd-minute substitute at Goodison Park,…
“The reality is different to the narrative,” declared Cristian Chivu in his press conference just before a 2-1 win away to Genoa sent Inter top of the table. Fresh off back-to-back Champions League defeats, albeit in controversial circumstances, and having lost four Serie A games in the first 14 rounds, his approach to criticism was…