By Rune Gjerulff @runegjerulff Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen and VfB Stuttgart have two players each in the running for the Bundesliga Player of the Month award for September. Photo: Steffen Prößdorf, CC BY-SA 4.0 The six candidates for the Bundesliga Player of the Month award for September have been announced. Bayern Munich have two players in the mix, with Harry Kane and Leroy Sané both nominated. The same goes for Bayer Leverkusen, who are represented by Victor Boniface and Alejandro Grimaldo. Stuttgart also have two players in contention, with both Serhou Guirassy and Chris Führich in the running. Victor Boniface was named Bundesliga…
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Former Chelsea, Inter and Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte has no intention to return to football as Napoli’s new boss, 90min understands.Conte has been out of work since leaving Spurs under a cloud in March and is taking stock before he decides what the next move of his career might be.The Italian, who has won league titles in both his homeland and England, has been the subject of interest from reigning Serie A Napoli amid disappointment over their start to the season.Last season’s scudetto winners hired ex-Lille and Roma coach Rudi Garcia in the summer after Luciano Spalletti decided to…
Former Liverpool defender Stephen Warnock has urged the Reds to sign Napoli star Khvicha Kvaratskhelia to replace Mohamed Salah next year. The Egyptian has been linked with a move away from the Anfield club since last summer. Saudi Arabian side Al-Ittihad expressed a firm interest in signing the 31-year-old in the recently concluded window and even submitted an official proposal worth around £150m. But, the Merseyside club weren’t willing to sell their star man so they rejected the offer and eventually managed to keep hold of him. However, it has been suggested that despite failing to purchase Salah this summer,…
Following the unpredictable UFC Vegas 80, the world’s leading MMA promotion returns with UFC Vegas 81 and an unheralded fight card from the Apex, headlined by a featherweight tilt between Sodiq Yusuff and Edson Barboza. That’s not the real main event this weekend though as influencer boxing returns with arguably the biggest event of the month, featuring matchups between KSI and Tommy Fury, and Logan Paul and Dillon Danis. Conner Burks is out this week for travel so the esteemed Mike Heck once again comes to the rescue to chop it up with Jed Meshew about both major events this…
On Wednesday, Kansas added their third high school recruit from the class of 2024 when Rakease Passmore committed to the Jayhawks live on the 247Sports Youtube channel.A 6-foot-5 wing at Lincolnton (N.C.) Combine Academy who currently ranks No. 48 nationally on 247Sports, Passmore joins a high-powered class that already includes five-star center Flory Bidunga and combo guard Labaron Philon who ranks No. 27 overall. The addition of Passmore will move Bill Self’s class to No. 3 overall in the industry generated composite team rankings for the class of 2024.Jayhawks fans are used to highly ranked classes and they know that…
MINNEAPOLIS — Target Field had never seen an October like this one, and the walls of Minnesota limestone strained as a once-tortured fanbase poured into the building and rose as one, working to will this magical month to last just another day — or even an hour, or even a minute. This was the long-awaited team that finally resurrected the faded fervor of postseason baseball in Minnesota, the one that finally wrested off the burdensome cloak of unwanted history, the one that found the spark to ignite the voices of a region and a state that once again remembered what…
The 2023-24 Golden State Warriors retain the bulk of their dynastic core, primarily in the form of two-time league MVP Stephen Curry, all-time shooter Klay Thompson and former Defensive Player of the Year Draymond Green. Behind those three, the Warriors will always be championship material, at least until Father Time starts to play a factor. Former No. 1 overall pick Andrew Wiggins provides the team with a huge two-way presence while big man Kevon Looney has quietly developed into a solid starting center in the NBA. The team will also have future Hall-of-Fame point guard Chris Paul in the fold this year, giving the team…
NFL Nation, ESPNOct 11, 2023, 06:22 AM ETThe Miami Dolphins hosted the New York Giants on Sunday, one day after the Miami Hurricanes hosted Georgia Tech on the same field — in the rain — at Hard Rock Stadium. In past years, depending on the weather, that kind of doubleheader sometimes led to tough field conditions for the NFL teams.Multiple tenants is just one of the challenges facing NFL teams as they try to ensure optimal playing surfaces.Hard Rock Stadium is one of 15 NFL stadiums that uses natural grass, while the other 15 feature various types of synthetic turf.…
New Zealand’s Rugby World Cup success in 2011 came 24 years after they won the first staging of the tournamentEveryone remembers their first day at school or in a new job; that feeling of being scared to either look out of place, or make a mistake.Everyone has those days. But not everyone becomes an All Black.In 139 years, just over 1,200 men have worn the shirt of one of rugby’s most fabled and dominant teams.They have won more than 77% of their Test matches – more than any other men’s side. They have won three Rugby World Cups; no men’s…
The Men’s 2023 ODI World Cup is underway in India and runs from October 5 until November 19. Each morning we will round up the latest action and news from the event and bring you the insights from our reporters on the ground.–Top Story: Rohit and Bumrah headline fiery India displayIndia 273 for 2 (Sharma 131, Kohli 55*, Rashid 2-57) beat Afghanistan 272 for 8 (Shahidi 80, Omarzai 62, Bumrah 4-39) by 8 wicketsIndia vs Afghanistan was one of the closer encounters of the 2019 World Cup, but a blistering hundred from Rohit Sharma ensured there would be no double…