Kieron Pollard among Hundred draft movers as David Warner misses out April 5, 2022 West Indian star Kieron Pollard has joined London Spirit in today’s Hundred draft as David Warner is among those who miss out. The men’s draft saw over 550 players register for just 42 places after many of the spots were already filled with players from last season. Aussie Warner joins the likes of world No1 [...]
Masters 2022: Bryson DeChambeau vows to play major against doctors’ advice April 5, 2022 Former US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau says he is risking injury by playing the Masters this week. The big-hitting American injured his hip and hand in a table-tennis accident in February and said he had returned early against the advice of doctors. “This comes around once a year and I got to give it a [...]
No more lucrative betting side gigs for top footballers as they can no longer feature in gambling ads April 5, 2022 Leading footballers will be banned from advertising gambling products under new rules to be introduced to curb their appeal to young people under the age of 18, a UK industry body has announced. In a statement this morning, the Committee for Advertising Practice (CAP) revealed the tough new restrictions, which include all top-flight footballers because [...]
Liverpool FC NFT sale: Reds raise £1.1m but 95 per cent of digital artwork left unsold April 4, 2022 Liverpool have closed their controversial NFT sale after selling just over five per cent of the available digital artworks of players such as Mohamed Salah. In the biggest project of its kind from a Premier League football club, Liverpool partnered with Sotheby’s to sell up to 171,072 NFTs for $75 (£57) each – $12.8m (£9.8m) [...]
Sam Torrance: Jon Rahm is due another major as magical Masters week rolls around April 4, 2022 Masters week is always one of my favourites and I am really looking forward to watching the best players in the world, hopefully including Tiger Woods, grace Augusta National. Five-time winner Woods is set to make a last-minute decision on whether to play in his first 72-hole tournament since almost losing his leg in a [...]
Cameron Norrie: British tennis men’s No1 enters world top 10 for the first time April 4, 2022 British tennis player Cameron Norrie has entered the top 10 of the men’s world rankings after continuing his fine form into 2022. Norrie became British No1 last year after winning the biggest title of his career at Indian Wells and reaching the third round of three of the four Grand Slam events. This year he [...]
Premiership talking points: Stealthy Saints, flying Falcons and Euro race April 4, 2022 Harlequins earned London bragging rights while Newcastle managed to get their first win on the board since September. As the league heads into a two week hiatus while the next European fixtures are played, here are the talking points from round 22 of the Premiership. Premiership champs gonna champ Yesterday’s showpiece match saw third-placed Harlequins [...]
Tottenham Hotspur throw down gauntlet to Arsenal with Newcastle thrashing April 3, 2022 Over to you, Arsenal. On a weekend when Manchester United lost more ground in the race for the Champions League places and West Ham United moved to within a win of the top four, Tottenham Hotspur threw down the gauntlet with a 5-1 rout of Newcastle United. Spurs dislodged the Gunners from fourth place on [...]
Christian Eriksen: How January gamble on Denmark midfielder saved Brentford’s season April 3, 2022 Brentford owner Matthew Benham made his fortune from shrewd gambling but even he couldn’t have foreseen how emphatically the club’s punt on Christian Eriksen would pay off. The Bees took a chance on Eriksen in January, just weeks after his release by Inter Milan and seven months on from his near-fatal on-field cardiac arrest at [...]
EP: 122 Ayr, Newbury & Hong Kong April 1, 2022 The Scottish Grand National & Scottish Champion Hurdle are two of the highlights at Ayr on Saturday, while the veteran chasers line up under conditional jockeys at Newbury on the same afternoon. Trainer Michael Scudamore sends a couple of runners to Ayr on Saturday and he joins us today to discuss their chances. City A.M. [...]