By Ben Sully @SullyBen Werder Bremen will attempt to clinch a third consecutive away win when they face FC Köln on Friday. FC Köln Köln are currently sitting in the relegation playoff spot after winning three, drawing seven and losing 11 of their 21 home matches this season. Die Geißböcke were agonisingly close to claiming their fourth league win of the season against Hoffenheim last weekend. Max Finkgräfe thought he had claimed all three points with his 79th-minute effort, only for Andrej Kramarić to equalise in the fourth minute of stoppage time. Although they have now won just one of…
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Barcelona have reached out to former Bayern Munich and Germany manager Hansi Flick over a move to Camp Nou, according to a report.Current boss Xavi will step down from his post at the end of the campaign and so Barcelona have started searching for a replacement. But there is expected to be significant competition for top candidates as Liverpool are also on the hunt for a new boss.Trying to steal a march for one of the biggest free agents available, The Athletic state Barcelona have reached out to Flick to gauge his interest in taking the job.There has not been…
Chelsea are keen on signing Frenkie De Jong and could be ready to pay a premium price to agree a deal with Barcelona this summer, according to a report from Mundo Deportivo (h/t SportWitness). The 26-year-old has established himself as one of the best central midfielders in world football and he could improve the Blues immensely. Although Chelsea have players like Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo at their disposal, they could certainly use a technically gifted midfielder like De Jong who will add craft, drive and flair in the middle of the park. Chelsea are certainly missing someone with his…
Paulo Costa has bigger things on his mind than running back a fight with Khamzat Chimaev. As he prepares to take on former middleweight champion Robert Whittaker in the UFC 298 co-main event, the one-time title challenger addressed Chimaev after a nasty infection in Costa’s elbow forced him to drop out of their previously scheduled matchup this past October. With Costa unavailable, Chimaev earned a razor-close decision win over Kamaru Usman, who accepted the fight and made his middleweight debut on just 10 days’ notice. Costa admits that there’s no love lost with Chimaev — a fighter he nearly got…
The 2024 college football recruiting class is firmly in the rearview mirror. As coaches shift their focus to 2025 and beyond, we decided to look back at how several of the nation’s premier programs recruited this cycle compared to past years. We averaged out class rankings from the previous three cycles (2021-23) and compared them to our 2024 team rankings to determine which teams are trending up and down.Georgia and Alabama battled for the No. 1 overall class for a second-straight year, with the Bulldogs pulling ahead of the Crimson Tide late. Fellow SEC teams, Texas (No. 6), LSU (No.…
Eric Koreen @ekoreen ‘Topes lose. 127-125. RJ misses a turn-around jumper after Ben Sheppard plays some great defence. 29/12/8 for Barnes, 23 and 9 for for Barrett. 23/7/5 for Siakam, 21/12/4 for Haliburton. Good night for the Raps’ own pick, bad night for the Pacers pick. – 9:57 PM
Brady Henderson, ESPNFeb 15, 2024, 02:13 PM ETCloseBrady Henderson is a reporter for NFL Nation at ESPN. Henderson covers the Seattle Seahawks. He joined ESPN in 2017 covering the team for Seattle Sports 710-AM. You can follow him via Twitter @BradyHenderson.RENTON, Wash. — Seattle Seahawks quarterback Geno Smith, who has $12.7 million on his contract that is set to become fully guaranteed Friday, was informed Thursday that he will remain on Seattle’s roster through this week, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter.Smith’s contract calls for his $12.7 million base salary for next season to become fully guaranteed Friday provided he’s still…
Georgia want to join the Six Nations after beating Wales and Italy in 2022Senior Six Nations – in the men’s and women’s game – remains a closed shopGeorgia are under the guidance of former England assistant Richard Cockerill By Alex Bywater For Mailonline Published: 13:22 EST, 15 February 2024 | Updated: 13:22 EST, 15 February 2024 The Six Nations has been urged to commit to further and long-term expansion at all levels after it confirmed Georgia and Portugal had been invited to join its Under-18 Championship.Georgia and Portugal will play alongside the tournament’s established nations England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France and…
A number of the world’s leading short-form cricketers will stay in North America after June’s T20 World Cup, with Rashid Khan, Trent Boult, Heinrich Klaasen and Haris Rauf among the players retained by their franchises for the second edition of Major League Cricket (MLC) in July.The season will start on July 4, Independence Day in the USA and five days after the T20 World Cup final in Barbados, with a significant number of players expected to feature in both tournaments. Justin Geale, MLC’s tournament director, had said late last year, “We expect to see even more world-class players taking part…
By Henrik Petersen Deniz Undav has won the Bundesliga Player of the Month award for January. VfB Stuttgart forward Deniz Undav has been voted the Bundesliga’s Player of the Month for January. The 27-year-old saw off competition from Alejandro Grimaldo, Piero Hincapié (both Bayer 04 Leverkusen), Jamal Musiala (Bayern Munich), Niclas Füllkrug (Borussia Dortmund) and Niels Nkounkou (Eintracht Frankfurt). ”I’m delighted to have been voted as Player of the Month again,” Undav, who also won the November award, told VfB Stuttgart’s website. ”The trophy doesn’t just belong to me, though. It’s just a lot of fun to play and perform…