News Streak is understood to have facilitated approaches by a corruptor to people within teams he was coach at Former Zimbabwe captain and legend Heath Streak has been banned for eight years after being charged with – and accepting – five breaches of the ICC’s anti-corruption code. Streak, one of Zimbabwe’s greatest fast bowlers, has
News Becomes only fourth Pakistan player to attain top ranking, after Zaheer Abbas, Javed Miandad and Mohammad Yousuf Pakistan captain Babar Azam is now the No.1-ranked ODI batsman, ending India captain Virat Kohli‘s long reign at the top of the charts. Babar’s match-winning 82-ball 94 in the third ODI against South Africa helped him gain
Preview Good news for Capitals with Rabada and Nortje likely to be available, while the Royals face selection dilemma with injured Stokes out Big picture These teams are fire. Delhi Capitals once struggled to find an identity for themselves. Now they are the home of young Indian batting geniuses. Rajasthan Royals see-sawed from one extreme
Usman Khawaja was a world away the last time Queensland hosted the Sheffield Shield final – and had their stride to the title rudely interrupted by the Newlands scandal. In the last week of March, 2018, Khawaja was part of the Australian team pilloried for egregious ball tampering and an even worse cover-up in South
One of the most famous sporting victories of recent history was the curse-breaking campaign of the 2016 Chicago Cubs to win the Major League baseball club’s first World Series in more than a century. It was built largely upon a formula of marrying up a young and dynamic batting and fielding line-up to a seasoned
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma City Thunder have signed Gabriel Deck to a multi-year contract, the team announced on Tuesday. Deck’s deal is for four years and $14.5M, sources tell ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Deck, a 6-foot-8 forward who played for Argentina at the 2016 Olympics, spent the last three seasons with Real Madrid of the
Serena Williams has signed a deal with Amazon Studios under which she will create scripted and non-scripted programming, including a docuseries that follows her exploits on and off the court, the tennis star said Tuesday. Williams made the announcement during a conversation with actor Michael B. Jordan that was part of a charitable event organized
ELMONT, N.Y. — The New York Racing Association said two horses died as the result of a fire Tuesday night on the backstretch at Belmont Park. NYRA said it responded to a barn fire at 6:05 p.m. and that 58 of the 60 horses under the care of trainers Wayne Potts and Jeffrey Englehart were
April 13, 2021 21:22 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin Aguero wanted by Barcelona on a free transfer Barcelona are reportedly planning to step up their interest in signing Manchester City striker Sergio Aguero this summer. The Argentine will pursue a new club when his contract with the Cityzens expires in June, and he won’t be
Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid has been charged with felony driving while intoxicated for his involvement in a car crash earlier this year that left a 5-year-old girl critically injured. The Jackson County (Missouri) Prosecutor’s Office filed the class D felony charge Monday, stating that Reid “operated a motor vehicle while under
April 13, 2021 21:02 GMT (UK), by Sri Aswin Varane back on Man United radar Manchester United have identified Real Madrid defender Raphael Varane as a potential candidate to partner Harry Maguire. United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has regularly gone with Victor Lindelof and Maguire in the central defence, and they have impressed as a
The Chicago Cubs placed infielder Matt Duffy on the COVID-19-related injured list, the team announced Tuesday. Also, pitcher Kyle Hendricks was scratched from Tuesday’s start vs. Milwaukee “out of an abundance of caution” after the right-hander wasn’t feeling well, the team said. Duffy joins relievers Brandon Workman, Jason Adam and Dan Winkler on the list
A star on the social media platform TikTok said that YouTube-star-turned-boxer Jake Paul forced her into a sex act without consent in the summer of 2019. Justine Paradise said in a 20-minute video posted on YouTube last Friday that she didn’t say anything about the alleged attack sooner because she signed a nondisclosure agreement and
Patriots star receiver Julian Edelman, who helped New England win three championships and was the MVP of Super Bowl LIII, announced his retirement in a video posted on social media Monday. The NFL transaction wire released Monday stated that Edelman had his contract terminated by the Patriots, but the roster move is expected to be
The UFC has added a lightweight matchup between Diego Ferreira and Gregor Gillespie to an event on May 8, according to multiple sources. The 155-pound bout will take place at UFC Fight Night, expected to take place in Las Vegas. The card is headlined by a bantamweight fight between T.J. Dillashaw and Cory Sandhagen. Ferreira
DAVID RAYMOND’S PILGRIMAGE to the happiest pantheon in sports always begins rather drearily. After a flight from Philadelphia to Chicago’s Midway Airport, he takes a 40-minute drive in a rental car southeast, down the construction-plagued Skyway toll road, across a bridge that spans one of the nation’s most polluted waterways (the Calumet River), through the
The PGA Tour will no longer require players and caddies who are fully vaccinated to take weekly COVID-19 tests at tournament sites as a condition of competition. The tour sent a memo to players that was obtained by ESPN that lays out the broad details, with more information to come. “As the COVID-19 vaccine is
COLUMBUS, Ohio — General manager Jarmo Kekalainen sees the overhaul of the Columbus Blue Jackets as “an opportunity to reload” rather than a rebuilding job. Whatever he wants to call it, the Blue Jackets already look different after the trade deadline. The offseason could bring even more big changes. When a March swoon made it
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