Women’s World Cup: How brands are embracing the sport through sponsorship June 6, 2019 The World Cup arrives tomorrow at an opportune moment for women’s football. After a season punctuated by record attendances, greater exposure and successes both on and off the pitch, there is an air of optimism engulfing the sport. While the feeling is inspiring confidence that Phil Neville’s Lionesses could make good on their No3 world [...]
Canadian Grand Prix is Ferrari’s best chance to stop Mercedes’ streak after error-ridden start to season June 6, 2019 As they head into the seventh round of the Formula One season in Canada this weekend, Ferrari are already 118 points behind rivals Mercedes in the constructors’ standings. Pre-season expectations of competing for the world championship quickly came shuddering to a halt while an engine upgrade was fast-tracked to the Spanish Grand Prix last month. [...]
Bob Bob Ricard City review: This bonkers restaurant is the Square Mile’s new best place to eat June 6, 2019 There are many laudable things about Soho’s Bob Bob Ricard: the fancy Titanic-meets-Orient-Express interiors, the no-nonsense Franco-Anglo-Russian menu that turns a fish pie or a chicken kiev into a minor culinary event. But the thing everybody remembers is the “Press for Champagne” button on every table, a gimmick that perfectly encapsulates the personality of the [...]
Rafa Nadal’s Roland Garros reign shows no signs of letting up ahead of Roger Federer clash June 6, 2019 If Rafa Nadal is to claim a 12th French Open on Sunday he will first have to beat old foe Roger Federer in Friday’s semi-final, as one of sport’s great rivalries gains yet another chapter. What was once a regular occurrence on the ATP Tour has now become a rare occasion, with the two titans [...]
Games round-up: Observation and Heaven’s Vault reviews June 5, 2019 Observation Platform: PC, PS4 Observation is one hell of a proposition: a follow-up to the superlative indie horror game Stories Untold, set in a space station designed by alumni of Alien: Isolation, in which you control a rogue AI inspired by HAL from 2001. And for the most part, it lives up to that promise. [...]
Johanna Konta reaches French Open final four in style with remodelled clay game June 4, 2019 Sloane Stephens said that her two defeats to Johanna Konta earlier this year were “out of mind” ahead of their quarter-final clash at Roland Garros today. But as Konta raced to a 6-1, 6-4 win in just one hour 11 minutes, it appeared as though they were anything but. This is the first year that [...]
How Holland bounced back from World Cup and Euro qualification misery with the aid of their football talent factory June 4, 2019 Every so often a Dutch player capable of setting the world alight announces themselves on the international stage. And even more rarely a crop of them come through the ranks at the same time.
Sam Torrance: Patrick Cantlay back to winning ways with a little help from Jack Nicklaus June 3, 2019 Patrick Cantlay and Jack Nicklaus go back a long way, to when a young Cantlay earned the award named after the great man for the best player on the American college circuit eight years ago. Nicklaus has continued to look out for his protege, watching as Cantlay set a new record for the most weeks [...]
Stevenage FC launch share offering as they seek £1.2m boost to promotion ambitions June 3, 2019 For clubs scrambling to scale the ultra-competitive English football pyramid it can pay to go against the grain. Ambitious Stevenage FC are doing just that with an innovative equity offering designed to give them a leg up into League One and, later, the Championship. Chairman and majority owner Phil Wallace hopes to raise £1.2m by [...]
England v Pakistan: Hosts set to unleash Mark Wood and Jofra Archer in all-out pace barrage June 2, 2019 Trent Bridge has in recent years become a cricket ground associated with one thing and one thing only: runs, and lots of them. Over the last four years it has been the highest-scoring venue in England and Wales, with an average one-day international run-rate of 6.98 per over, its true, even-paced pitch and short boundaries [...]