OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER has hinted Donny van de Beek could take up a new position in the side following his classy performance in the win over Brighton. The £39million summer signing from Ajax brilliantly assisted Juan Mata in United's 3-0 victory, sending them into the last eight of the Carabao Cup. Van de Beek, 23, has yet to make a […]

OISIN Murphy faces a SIX month ban after failing a drugs test in a bombshell for racing. The champion jockey tested positive for cocaine after undergoing screening at a race meeting in France. Murphy, 25, provided the positive urine sample after a race meeting at Chantilly in July but strongly denies that he took cocaine. He has been providing hair […]

Not long ago, false positives were the NFL’s biggest COVID-19 testing problem. In early August, one failure forced Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford into a brief and wholly unnecessary quarantine, ultimately proving it was possible a healthy player could miss a game due to a last-minute testing mistake. Just a few weeks later came the tidal wave of 77 positive […]

Fantasy football rankings for Week 4 are based on the point-per-reception (PPR) scoring used in most seasonal and daily fantasy football formats. One point is awarded for every 10 rushing and receiving yards and one point for every 20 passing yards. Six points are awarded for touchdowns scored, four points for passing TDs and one point for receptions. Rankings are […]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The Miami Heat, a long-shot title hope at the start of the season, have already exceeded expectations. The Los Angeles Lakers are still trying to meet them. Nearly a full year after the 2019-20 season began, two teams remain. And the N.B.A. finals, which start Wednesday night inside the league’s bubble at Walt Disney World […]

CAL ‘PACINO’ ELLENOR is determined to put the most testing 18 months of his life behind him by shutting up Bellator arch-rival James Gallagher. The bantamweight clash between them has been scheduled and scrapped three times through injury, a wrong medical diagnosis and the Covid-19 pandemic. Also during the period since the Sunderland-born ‘English Gangster’ defeated former Cage Warriors flyweight […]

THE Champions League is back for a brand new season. Just a few short weeks after Bayern Munich lifted Big Ears in Lisbon, the group stage draw sees 32 sides begin their journey to the final. Four Premier League clubs are taking part this season, with Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd and Chelsea set to learn their fate. When is […]

JOHN Gosden will still have to watch Enable’s historic Arc bid from the comfort of his sofa despite new exemptions brought in. On Tuesday, the BHA announced that professionals travelling to Paris could be exempt from full quarantine on their return to the UK. But it means Gosden would still have to miss the sales in Newmarket the following week […]

CLEVELAND — Shane Bieber was the best pitcher in baseball this year, and it wasn’t close. Even in an abbreviated 60-game regular season, his numbers were eye-popping: In his 12 starts, Bieber never allowed more than three runs, nor did he fail to complete at least five innings. Perhaps that was because he had yet to face an offense like […]

AIDAN O'BRIEN has supplemented Derby hero Serpentine for Sunday's Arc at Longchamp. The Epsom ace is one of sixteen potential runners in the Group 1 showpiece, with the Ballydoyle maestro responsible for five. Serpentine has tasted defeat since his Epsom heroics, when he could only manage fourth behind stablemate Mogul in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris. And the […]