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Powered by big man DJ Burns Jr., N.C. State muscles past Oakland in overtime to reach Sweet 16
Powered by big man DJ Burns Jr., N.C. State muscles past Oakland in overtime to reach Sweet 16
Video from the incident shows tournament officials watching Chinese athlete Zhang Zhijie for around 40 seconds before medical help arrives.
Martina Navratilova has led a backlash against a “regressive” campaign featuring Team GB’s Olympic rugby players in lingerie.
By now the routine is familiar around the world, from Turin to Riyadh, Lisbon to Manchester. Team of Cristiano Ronaldo wins promising free-kick, Ronaldo steps up to take it, sets ball down carefully, strides back with purpose, adopts power stance, puffs out cheeks and begins his run up. Meanwhile, fans prepare for a forthcoming goal-kick.
The most boring and ponderous team to watch but you have to be in it to win it and Southgate’s side are still there somehow. Being fun to watch is great but playing badly and winning is not a terrible habit to have in knockout football. Might be wishful thinking but surely they have to play better at some point. Then they might still be dangerous.
Real Madrid teenager embraced pressure of occasion to orchestrate team’s raucous victory against Austria
Neeraj Chopra returned home to India a national hero after winning Olympic javelin gold in 2021 but the farmer's son has never forgotten his humble roots.In a nation that usually only hails cricket players as heroes, boys and girls in rural India were seen hurling wooden sticks as javelins in the aftermath.
Phil Foden says the England players need to shoulder the blame for their disappointing performances so far at the European Championship and that he feels “sorry” for Gareth Southgate.
LEIPZIG, July 3 — It’s day 19 of Uefa Euro 2024 action. Here is a quick look at the two matches played earlier today. T...
Half an hour before England’s European Championship begins, the DJ at Trabrennbahn Gelsenkirchen gets serious. There is space for 40,000 fans at this racecourse-turned-fanzone but punishing rain and an exodus to the stadium has thinned the crowd. Perhaps 2,000 remain and the site now resembles Glastonbury on the Sunday of a wet year.
“Inexplicable moments,” declared Cristiano Ronaldo, as portentously as you would expect from a man who earns £2.5 million for each Instagram message sent to his 633 million followers. It was perhaps the politest way he could have described his own performance during Portugal’s victory over Slovenia. A more fitting label, as you watched him designate every free-kick for himself and throw his arms about in disgust as Petar Stojanovic had the temerity to dispossess him, was “inexcusable”.
Netflix's docuseries 'America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders' has sparked conversations about the salaries of NFL cheerleaders
What a difference a year makes. Twelve months on from triumphing on the hallowed Centre Court turf in balmy temperatures, Marketa Vondrousova struggled to shake off the pressure that came with being a defending Wimbledon champion.
Demiral scored the second-fastest goal in European Championship history and then got another in the second half as Turkey held off Austria to win 2-1
Bayern Munich have agreed to sign the Fulham midfielder Joao Palhinha in a deal worth up to €56m
After a week of soul-searching, the Netherlands emerged from defeat in their last group game to give a vivid display of their potential on Tuesday in outclassing Romania and booking a quarter-final place at the European Championship. The Netherlands swept into their first European Championship quarter-final since 2008 as Donyell Malen scored twice in a 3-0 win over Romania in the last 16 on Tuesday.Cody Gakpo gave the Dutch an early lead but they were unable to convert pressure into a crucial se
JJ Redick is a first time head coach, but he'll have plenty of experience backing him up.
Newcastle United’s journey since the takeover by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) had not encountered anything like this before. For the first time, the wheels were in danger of coming off and the club was heading for the most severe of punishments for breaking Premier League rules.
As the pressure mounts on US President Joe Biden, football icon Cristiano Ronaldo and British tennis knight Sir Andy Murray to step back or step down from the top, Garfield Myrie considers why is it so hard to say goodbye?
The German midfielder has spoken about his plans beyond football and said he is confident of making it to the Euro 2024 final
Title rivals Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz reached the Wimbledon third round on Wednesday as Japanese superstar Naomi Osaka was demolished on her return to Centre Court after a five-year absence.Four-time major winner Osaka, playing on Centre Court for the first time since 2019, went down 6-4, 6-1 to America's Emma Navarro in just 59 minutes.