The Australian Olympic Committee has named a 15-strong shooting team for the Tokyo Games, with defending trap champion Catherine Skinner overlooked. Skinner, responsible for one of Australia's eight gold medals at the 2016 Olympics, was outgunned by fellow Victorians Penny Smith and Laetisha Scanlan in selection trials. Rio gold medallist Catherine Skinner has missed out on the team for the […]

STEVEN GERRARD drew on the likes of Roy Keane, Didier Drogba and Lionel Messi when naming his best-ever XI – with a tricky twist. Sky Sports asked the Liverpool legend and Rangers boss to select his side without using any two players from the same club or country. That would mean selecting Zinedine Zidane, for example, ruled out any fellow […]

The plan to start the Major League Baseball season after the coronavirus shutdown is lifted seems a little fishy to the sport’s biggest star. Los Angeles Angels outfielder and reigning AL MVP Mike Trout sounds skeptical about the proposal being discussed to play games in Arizona without fans while sequestering players and staff in nearby hotels and testing them regularly […]

Media playback is not supported on this device New Kick It Out chair Sanjay Bhandari clearly remembers when he encountered “tourist racism”. In 2015, he was in the away end at Arsenal with his beloved Manchester United 3-0 down at half-time. Cue a frustrated fellow United supporter pointing towards him and his nephew. “How have they got tickets?” the man […]

THE 2003-04 season wasn't the finest of Sir Alex Ferguson's Old Trafford reign – but the emergence of Cristiano Ronaldo still made it one to remember. Manchester United came third in the Premier League and crashed out of the Champions League at the round of 16 stage to Jose Mourinho's Porto. They did manage to comfortably overwhelm second-tier Millwall to […]

The New England Patriots are preparing for next Thursday’s virtual NFL draft with 12 picks to choose from. Or it could be less. That is the scenario hovering over the team as it awaits the punishment the NFL might deliver for a rules violation — taping the Bengals sideline without permission in a game on Dec. 8. Because the Patriots […]

DESPITE trying to fight on, the UFC is now on hold. Kingpin Dana White tried everything within his power to make sure UFC 249 went ahead during the Covid-19 pandemic, including moving the event across America after New York went into lockdown. Ultimately though it was all in vain with Disney and ESPN putting their foot down and ensuring the […]

Amanda Staveley is the fixer who helps Middle Eastern billionaires buy football clubs… Now the former model – and Prince Andrew’s ex – is heading up a £300m deal for Newcastle for the Saudi royal family Amanda Staveley’s PCP Capital Partners are in advanced talks to buy Newcastle She reportedly earned £10m from the Abu Dhabi takeover of Man City […]

Tottenham and England legend Jimmy Greaves leaves hospital after a week as he returns home to recuperate with his wife Jimmy Greaves went into hospital on April 7 due to concerns over his health Greaves is 80 and has struggled to maintain his health since a stroke in 2015 But the Tottenham hero was welcomed home by his wife on Tuesday […]

MLB commissioner: Baseball won’t return until public health improves MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred discusses how coronavirus has impacted the league as a business and a pastime. Arizona Governor Doug Ducey says his state is willing to host all 30 major league teams at the time public health concerns allow, which eventually could lead to the start of the baseball season […]