Welcome to the ‘Beverly Hills of Britain’, where the only thing missing is sunshine. There are luxury cars, fancy restaurants, gated mansions and enough high-level professional footballers to create the United Kingdom’s most dominant five-a-side league. ‘Elmbridge Borough Council welcomes you to Cobham’, the sign reads as you enter the …
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Those who knew him talked about the man and the putt he sank on the final hole. “I did it, lovey,” he whispered to his wife. A few months later, he died in a plane crash. Source link
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The NFL kicked off the 2024 regular season in dramatic fashion, with the Kansas City Chiefs beating the Baltimore Ravens by a toe on Thursday night in a rematch of the AFC Championship Game. Friday, the Green Bay Packers and Philadelphia Eagles met in the first NFL game in Brazil. …
Read More »Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Georgia, Ohio State and Texas at the top. After that, guess again
And now, 18 thoughts on an early September Saturday that dared AP voters to just blow up their ballots and start over. 1. Two weeks in, I feel confident that Georgia, Ohio State and Texas are the correct top three teams. After that, I’d be guessing just the same as …
Read More »Aryna Sabalenka’s U.S. Open win confirms battle for supremacy with Iga Swiatek
NEW YORK — By winning the U.S. Open, Aryna Sabalenka established herself as the preeminent force in women’s tennis of the moment — but world No. 1 Iga Swiatek will have something to say about that. Sabalenka’s gritty 7-5, 7-5 win over Jessica Pegula felt like a landmark victory for …
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The NFL’s 29-3 approval Tuesday of new kickoff rules creates one of the league’s most radical changes ever, with the hope of bringing excitement back to the play while reducing injuries. With it comes intriguing possibilities for strategy and personnel decisions as teams will have to figure it out on …
Read More »Notre Dame’s stunning upset loss to NIU: What went wrong for Irish? Are Playoff hopes gone?
By Pete Sampson, Stewart Mandel and Justin Williams No. 5 Notre Dame suffered a shocking upset against Northern Illinois, losing 16-14 on Saturday in South Bend after missing a 62-yard field goal on the last play. The Irish were 28.5-point favorites, per BetMGM, and it’s the first time NIU has …
Read More »Dismal USMNT lacked pride and intensity against Canada – that’s on the players
It was just two months ago in the tunnel of a stadium on the other side of Kansas City that the U.S. men’s national team players filed through the mixed zone talking about the disappointment of a group-stage exit from the Copa America. The message that night was one of …
Read More »Lee Carsley lives for coaching – but anthem furore shows England job has another side to it
Lee Carsley was one of the first men out from the England dressing room, almost an hour before kick-off. He only had the England goalkeepers for company and he stood arms crossed in the middle of the pitch watching them work. Eventually, the outfield players and the rest of the …
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