Paris kicks off Olympics closing ceremony after an extraordinary two and a half weeks of sports
SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — Paris kicks off Olympics closing ceremony after an extraordinary two and a half weeks of sports.
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Evening StandardMan City 115 charges punishment: Expulsion to non-league an option but titles and trophies likely to remain
A hearing for the case is due to start on September 16
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Enzo Fernandez to escape FA charge as Rodrigo Bentancur risks ban for Son Heung-min racist abuse
Chelsea midfielder Enzo Fernandez is not facing punishment from the Football Association for racist and homophobic chanting, despite Rodrigo Bentancur being charged with aiming a racist slur at his Tottenham Hotspur team-mate Son Heung-min.
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PSG refuse League order to pay Mbappe disputed €55 million
Paris Saint-Germain refused Thursday to pay departed striker Kylian Mbappe a disputed 55 million euros ($60.6m) despite a French league (LFP) order to do so earlier in the day.The 25-year-old striker says PSG owe him 55 million euros in wages and bonuses, but the Parisians say Mbappe agreed to waive the money in August 2023.
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Bring back ONE Championship to Malaysia! Jojo Ghazali says raring to fight No. 2-ranked ‘The Bosnian Menace’
DENVER, Sept 12 — Kuching-based muay thai fighter Johan “Jojo” Ghazali Zulfikar has expressed his desire to take on seco...
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Watch: Sven-Goran Eriksson’s funeral takes place as David Beckham joins mourners
Watch as Sven-Goran Eriksson's funeral took place, with David Beckham and Roy Hodgson amongst mourners, in his hometown in Sweden on Friday, 13 September. The former England football boss, who became the first foreign manager to lead the team, died aged 76 on 26 August surrounded by his family following a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. Eriksson was laid to rest at Fryksände Church in Torsby.
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ESPN’s Shannon Sharpe issues apology after accidentally live-streaming sex act on Instagram
Super Bowl champion blamed his lack of technology skills on the ‘embarrassing’ incident
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Mikel Arteta turned Raheem Sterling into a lethal predator – now to repeat the trick at Arsenal
Hour after hour and day after day, Mikel Arteta and Raheem Sterling would stay behind on the training pitches after the other Manchester City players had gone inside. This was a time before Sterling had established himself as one of Europe’s great goalscoring wingers, and these were the sessions that helped him to become a true predator.
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Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and a strange Diamond League final reveal the future of athletics
The American world record holder competes in Brussels in two exhibitions, with the sport braced for seismic change in 2025 as Michael Johnson’s Grand Slam Track begins
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Shohei Ohtani tracker: Dodgers star reaches 47 HRs, 48 SBs in quest for 50-50 season
The Dodgers star has a new career high in homers.
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Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend
A clash of colours in north London, Manuel Ugarte getting the Ten Hag call and more new faces featuring
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Premier League team news: predicted lineups for the weekend action
Manchester United visit Southampton at Saturday lunchtime while Sunday sees Arsenal visit Tottenham in the north London Derby
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People are expecting Manchester City to be found guilty, says Pep Guardiola
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is ‘happy’ the Premier League case is starting, while the La Liga president says rival clubs think City should be punished
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Arsenal depleted for Tottenham trip, Ten Hag under scrutiny at Southampton
An under-strength Arsenal face a huge test of their Premier League title credentials at rivals Tottenham, while Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag desperately needs a response from his side at Southampton.Ten Hag pleads for patience Just three games into the new Premier League season, Erik ten Hag is under pressure once more after consecutive defeats for Manchester United.
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Afghanistan-New Zealand Test abandoned without ball being bowled
The one-off Test between Afghanistan and New Zealand was washed out on Friday after five days of rain, just the eighth Test in history to be abandoned without a ball being bowled.The last time an entire Test match was washed out was in December 1998, when New Zealand hosted India in Dunedin.
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Calm before derby storm for Inter as dark fan underbelly revealed
Inter Milan head into a huge week with the Champions League and Milan derby looming large over Sunday's trip to Monza, while the killing of a mobster revealed disturbing links between organised crime and the club's hardcore supporters.While everything looks rosy for Inter on the pitch the same cannot be said in the stands after the reputed heir of a powerful crime family was killed by one of the leaders of the club's hardcore "ultras".
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David Lipsky shoots 65 to take 1st-round lead at Silverado in FedEx Cup Fall opener
David Lipsky shot a 7-under 65 on Thursday at Silverado Country Club to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Procore Championship. Winless in 104 events since joining the PGA Tour in 2022, Lipsky went out with the early groups and had eight birdies with one bogey to kick off the FedEx Cup Fall series at the picturesque course in the heart of Napa Valley wine country. After missing the cut in his three previous tournaments, Lipsky flew from Las Vegas to Arizona to reunite with his college coach at Northwestern to get his focus back.
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Ben Chilwell hopes to make Chelsea’s Premier League squad with no Turkey move available
Ben Chilwell is hoping to be included in Chelsea’s 25-man Premier League squad, with the left-back not expected to move on loan to Turkey.
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Rangers call-up Kumar Rocker strikes out 7 in electric MLB debut
Rocker's slider already looks like an elite pitch.
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Sean Dyche brushes off talk over future as Everton respond to Textor comments
Sean Dyche said he was concentrated on the Everton team, rather than his future, after comments from the club’s prospective new owner
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Nottingham Forest’s ‘Geordie Maradona’ who Eddie Howe never wanted to sell
He was ambitiously branded as the ‘Geordie Maradona’ at Newcastle United, and Elliot Anderson is the homegrown star Eddie Howe never wanted to sell.