Since swapping the Linfield blue for the red and white of Sunderland, Hume has embedded himself as a key figure at the Stadium of Light. The defender played a crucial role in the club’s promotion to the Premier League before signing a new five-year deal at the club in 2025. This season, he has been…
A record-breaking defensive performance from Victor Wembanyama was not enough to prevent the Minnesota Timberwolves taking a 1-0 lead against the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA’s Conference semi-finals. Wembanyama made 12 blocks – a record for the NBA play-offs – but Minnesota, sixth seed in the Western Conference, upset second seed San Antonio by…
A record number of people have applied to participate in the 2027 London Marathon via the public ballot. In total, 1,338,544 people have applied for the event which will take place on 25 April, breaking last year’s record of 1,133,813. The 2026 marathon had a record 59,830 finishers and was the biggest annual one-day fundraising…
3. Tonton Zolo Moukoko (Championship Manager 01-02) “We went to a small village in Malaysia,” Tonton Zola Moukoko told me. “I gave my passport to the officer. He was shocked. ‘Are you really Tonton Zola Moukoko?’ he asked. ‘You can’t be the one that was playing at Derby!’” Moukoko’s legend travelled far and wide, carried…
While John Higgins reached the last four in Sheffield and the final of the Masters this term, O’Sullivan’s win at Alexandra Palace in January 2024 was the most recent occasion that a member of the sport’s fabled ‘Class of 92’ won a Triple Crown event. “There is a finite amount of time that a player…
Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury are expected to fight in a matter of months and now Joshua’s former trainer Robert Garcia has laid out his prediction for the clash, believing that a statement stoppage could be on the cards. Joshua continued with amateur trainer Rob McCracken when he made the switch to the professional scene,…
LAS VEGAS — T-Mobile Arena sits just off the Las Vegas Strip, not far from a faux Manhattan skyline, a pyramid and a casino made to look like a castle. The line separating illusion from reality can be a thin one in Sin City, where the Ducks opened the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs Monday…
Munetaka Murakami hit his 14th homer and Miguel Vargas also went deep as the Chicago White Sox beat the Angels 6-0 Monday night. Murakami’s two-run blast in the fourth inning kept the Japanese rookie tied with New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge for the major league lead in home runs. Murakami also hit his first…
Eddie Hearn has given a knockout prediction for Fabio Wardley vs Daniel Dubois, which takes place this Saturday at Manchester’s Co-op Live Arena. Wardley will make the first defence of his world title after being elevated from ‘interim’ to full WBO champion towards the end of last year. This followed his 11th-round triumph over Joseph…
Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather may rematch in just a few months’ time, eleven years on from their first record-breaking contest. Shane Mosley, who faced both, gives one man the edge. Mosley faced Mayweather in 2010 and made a fast start, buckling Floyd’s knees in the second round thus becoming the first man to truly…