Leah Williamson says England’s focus is on completing their task after the Euro 2022 hosts secured a place in Sunday’s final. The England captain, who has played every game after just eight minutes of football at the 2019 World Cup, will lead the team out at Wembley in front of a sold-out crowd.
After goals from Beth Mead, Lucy Bronze, Alessia Russo and Fran Kirby enabled them to power to a 4-0 semi-final victory over Sweden at Bramall Lane, the Lionesses are in their first major tournament final since Euro 2009.
Germany or France will be the opponents as they look to get their hands on major silverware for the first time.
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Mauricio Pochettino refused to comment on whether managers should have more power at Chelsea amid growing questions over Conor Gallagher’s future at the club.
Pochettino said that “I am the coach that needs to be in my place” when asked whether he would try to persuade Gallagher, whose contract expires next year, to stay. The Argentinian, who wants to keep the midfielder, said it was down to the player and Chelsea’s owners, who have handed responsibility for recruitment to the co-sporting directors, Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley.
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When the subject was raised again, it was pointed out to Pochettino that the Premier League’s top four – Li…
College football is in a state of chaos ahead of the 2024 season. Conferences span from coast-to-coast; if they survived realignment, the transfer portal completely flipped many rosters, and head coaches responsible for all but four national titles since 2006 are no longer head coaches.The anarchy ruling the sport offers opportunity for bettors seeking high-value futures wagers. As Billy Napier said in his time as head coach at Louisiana, “Scared money don’t make money"—just as long as you don’t confuse that with a recommendation to take Napier’s current Florida Gators team to make the playoffs at +2000. That’s tied with USF for the Sunshine State’s fourth-longest odds to make the 12-team field. Alabama to Win the National Championship (+1500): BetMGM, BetESPN, FanDu…
Look, I had to pick someone. This division is sadness. If the NHL had relegation, at least three-quarters of the league would probably be booted before the season started, just to save the time and travel costs. So, really, no one has expectations that I can bust. Vegas doesn’t even really have to be good, or awake, or even ambulatory, and still could sleepwalk to the conference final here. People think the Kraken will be good simply because the Knights were, but no one who actually looks at the roster and discovers there’s barely a top six there thinks so. Meanwhile, anyone outside of Anaheim and San Jose is probably sketching out a way their team could make the playoffs, and that includes Vancouver. I’m guessing. Canucks fans can be a pretty morose bunch, and whatever optimism the…
Yes, it's the 2011 bracket, and yes, it's taken a year. But life happens sometimes, you know? It's up to you, the voter, to decide whose name reigns supreme. Will it be Delorean Blow or Courvoisier Winetavius Richardson? Neptune Pringle III or Taco B.M. Monster? Vote now, because the 2012 tournament begins in like a week. [ Name of the Year] …
Originally published in Bloomberg View. The Champions League final, the biggest soccer match of the year—and, for that matter, the most watched sporting event on the planet—will be played this weekend at Wembley Stadium in London. In a sense, though, the winner has already been declared: Germany. The Champions League, for Americans unfamiliar with it, is a round-robin tournament featuring 32 of Europe’s top clubs. Think of it as the very rough equivalent of the NCAA’s March Madness basketball tournament, only it unfolds over the course of 10 excruciating months. (This is soccer, after all.) Matches are wedged between the various teams’ league games until there are just two clubs left. This year’s finalists are Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. Both teams are German, an…
ESPN dropped a huge feature this morning that attempts to answer the eternal questions about the Kings: Can DeMarcus Cousins win in Sacramento, and who is to blame for the team’s ever-present dysfunction? You should really go read the entire thing. The piece gives good background on Cousins’s ever-fluctuating relationship with Kings brass, makes a fairly convincing argument that the “Boogie Tax”—the handful of plays a game Cousins completely blows because he’s mad about something—is high enough to offset much of his value, and reveals a few of his absolute worst behind-closed-doors eruptions. It’s January 2015, a few weeks after Malone’s firing, and new coach Corbin is presiding over a film session. The team has fallen off a cliff in recent games, and Corbin has cu…
Conference realignment is definitely confusing these days, but we're pretty sure Florida State is still in the ACC. In fact, yes, Florida State is still in the ACC; the Seminoles beat Georgia Tech 21-15 last year to win the ACC for the first time in seven years. According to this ring FSU won the SEC for the first time in ever. Menelik Watson, a second-round pick of the Oakland Raiders and former Seminole just tweeted a picture of the championship ring meant to commemorate Florida State's status as 2012 ACC Champions but unfortunately, it commemorates Florida State's status as 2012 SEC Champions, a claim Alabama may dispute. Update: Thanks to reader Jeff, we have evidence that suggests at least one player had the correct conference designation on his ring. Another lo…
Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas is probably not going to win this third-round match against Rafa Nadal at the Paris indoors. But he’ll always have this between-the-legs passing shot to look back on as a career highlight. [Tennis Channel] …
data-mm-id=”_o8dzxh4vu”>Those who have already written off the Cleveland Browns' 2019 season just found more reason to do so today after an almost unbelievable – yet totally Cleveland Browns – sequence in the first quarter of their game against the Buffalo Bills.Holding a 6-0 lead over the 6-2 Bills, the Browns looked to extend it with a touchdown, and were in prime position to do so from Buffalo's one-yard line. The following sequence may well be replayed in Freddie Kitchens' mind for the rest of his life.On first down, Baker Mayfield threw an incomplete pass to Odell Beckham Jr., which was wiped out by a defensive pass interference penalty on Jordan Poyer. The line of scrimmage is advanced half a yard.On first down…again…Nick Chubb went right tackle but lost two ya…