Westbrook silences the United Center with some individual brilliance.
Oriol Romeu is a Clint Eastwood fan, but not in the way you might expect. Forget 'Dirty Harry': the Southampton midfielder is more taken with the veteran actor’s view on the environment, and one quote in particular: "Everyone talks about how to leave a better planet for our children, but we should try to leave better children for our planet."
The Blues boss refused to criticise Romelu Lukaku for his performance against Manchester City on Saturday
"He’s quite generous with his money and time to help," says Johanna Konta.
Rodgers was delighted to welcome back James Justin, who has been out since February with a knee injury.
Edouard Mendy was named the best goalkeeper in the world at Fifa’s awards ceremony on Monday night. The ceremony for The Best awards for 2021 saw Chelsea scoop three honours, including Thomas Tuchel and Emma Hayes as the coaches of the year. After backlash against his snub from the Ballon d’Or award longlist, Senegalese shot-stopper Mendy was named The Best Men’s Goalkeeper, beating Gianluigi Donnarumma and Manuel Neuer in the vote.
Tampa Bay completed a one-sided 31-15 victory against the Philadelphia Eagles on Super Wild Card Weekend.
Everton have sacked Rafael Benitez after six months in charge. Benitez leaves Goodison Park after Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at Norwich left Everton 16th in the Premier League after nine defeats in their past 12 games. Everton’s travelling fans demanded that Benitez “get out of our club” during the Norwich defeat.
The multi-format Women’s Ashes series is set to get under way on Thursday with the first of three T20 internationals.
Hopes that Cameron Norrie would begin 2022 where he left off last season were dashed as the British No1 suffered a 6-3 6-0 6-4 defeat to Sebastian Korda in the opening round of the Australian Open. Korda, the son of former Australian Open champion Petr, is seen as one of the rising stars of the game but No12 seed Norrie never got into the match. At one point, the Briton lost nine consecutive games in a thoroughly one-sided contest.
There is hope for Novak Djokovic to compete at the 2023 Australian Open.
Whether we are talking bushfires or banishments, every Australian Open has its own unexpected drama. Back in 2019, the big story was Andy Murray and his wobbling bottom lip.
Julien Stephan's side move into fourth with victory at the Ligue 1 strugglers
Raducanu battled through injury to force a deciding set but could not complete the comeback
The Blues parted company with Benitez on Sunday after just 22 games in charge.
Oxford United have held talks to sign Jermain Defoe until the end of the season.
David Moyes has hit out at the Premier League for their decision to make West Ham play two games in five days after fatigue played a big role in their defeat to Leeds United. The West Ham boss says those at the Premier League deciding when games should be played lack the understanding of what is required to prepare and play games at this level. The Hammers had the chance to open up a gap over their top four rivals Arsenal and Tottenham after Sunday’s north London derby was postponed at the Gunners’ request, but after facing Leeds in the FA Cup last Sunday and Norwich on Wednesday - with their own Covid and injury problems - Moyes’s men could not cope with the energy of the visitors, who had the benefit of a full week’s preparation despite having two games called off themselves.
The parting thoughts from the two captains after Australia win the Ashes 4-0
British No 1 will make her Australian Open debut against Sloane Stephens.
There were nine pre-season friendlies this weekend, including Championship club Bradford beating Hull in Danny Brough's testimonial match.
On January 14, Novak Djokovic's Australian visa was canceled for a second time, just days before the start of the Australian Open. Australian immigration minister Alex Hawke exercised his personal power to cancel Djokovic's visa on the grounds that his presence could, "excite anti-vaccination sentiment".
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