Spurs wait for Van der Vaart, Liverpool failed in double raid, Schwarzer denied Gunners move & Santa Cruz in Eastlands limbo Tottenham Hotspur boss Harry Redknapp is still hoping to bring Real Madrid midfielder Rafael Van der Vaart to the Premier League in an £8 million deal. Spurs are awaiting ratification from the Premier League [...]
Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise has been suspended from the newspaper for one month over a “horrendous mistake” he made on Twitter. On Monday, Wise tweeted that suspended Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger would be suspended for five games instead of the six games he had initially been suspended for. “Roethlisberger will get five [...]
Valentino Rossi has spoken publicly for the first time about his decision to sign a dream deal with Ducati for next year’s MotoGP world championship. The Italian’s two-year deal with the Bologna factory was confirmed on Sunday night in the Czech Republic after MCN exclusively broke news of the deal in late June. Rossi had [...]
Chael Sonnen’s pre-fight hype, delivery in the Octagon and comportment after snatching defeat from Anderson Silva at UFC 117, deserves high praise. He lost 23 minutes 50 seconds into a middleweight title fight he should have won, and which he had dominated up until that point, against a champion in Anderson Silva against whom he [...]
North Korea’s football team has been shamed in a six-hour public inquisition and the team’s coach has been accused of “betraying” the reclusive leader’s heir apparent following their failure at the World Cup, according to reports. The entire squad was forced onto a stage at the People’s Palace of Culture and subjected to criticism from [...]
Howard Webb has launched a vigorous defence of his handling of the World Cup final, claiming he had no choice but to issue a record 14 yellow cards in order to “keep control” of the Holland and Spain players. Webb has been the subject of stinging criticism from the losing Dutch players and sections of [...]
News of George Steinbrenner’s death on Tuesday left me with the sobering feeling that part of my life had come full circle. In some ways the announcement was anticlimactic, as if I had witnessed the Boss’s life fading away, bit by bit, through my bedroom window. Since 1989 I have had a bird’s-eye view of [...]
In the here and now, LeBron James probably did the best thing for himself. By joining Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami to form an NBA superpower squad, James, who announced Thursday night that he was bolting Cleveland via free agency, will more than likely win a championship — or two or three — [...]
As the international tug-of-war between Germans wanting to eat him and Spaniards wanting to protect him to the death does something less than rage on, Paul the Oracle Octopus has continued with his charlatan ways and picked winners of both the third-place match and the World Cup final. Given Paul’s perfect record in picking his [...]
CLEVELAND, Ohio — LeBron James may not be ready to commit to what he’s doing in free agency, but he may be willing to make his opinion known on the Cavaliers’ coaching search. According to a high-level source, James would endorse the Cavs’ hiring Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo. Cavs owner Dan Gilbert said [...]